Rick Steves’s 1978 journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu reflects a spirit of edgy wanderlust at odds with his image as a folksy ...

Steves and his friend travel mostly by local buses, including an epic journey from Istanbul to Tehran that he described as ...

So it’s a treat to read his new memoir, On the Hippie Trail, and meet a Steves who is much younger and much more unsure — perhaps in need of a fairy godparent of his own. In 1978, Steves was a ...

He’ll also discuss his new book, “On the Hippie Trail,” a scrapbook/memoir that covers the 1978 Istanbul-Kathmandu trip on which he began to form many of his ideas about travel. It’s on ...

He’ll also discuss his new book, “On the Hippie Trail,” a scrapbook/memoir that covers the 1978 Istanbul-Kathmandu trip on which he began to form many of his ideas about travel. It’s on ...

And in this case, something like this book doesn’t exist. You know, a lesson from that, I think, is in this Hippie Trail book. And there's a photograph in here that I like, which is just me ...

He wrote it in 1978 when, at 23, he put his piano teaching practice on pause to travel on the “hippie trail,” taking a 3,000-mile journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu, Nepal, through areas that ...

(In this exclusive excerpt from Rick Steves’ “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer,” Steves leaves his friend Gene Openshaw at a hotel to recover from ...

In those days, there were no formal guidebooks published on how to take the “hippie trail,” and of course no Internet, either. Travel guru Rick Steves with his 2025 book,” On the Hippie ...