If you could take a road trip with your younger self, how well do you think the two of you would get along? Would you have an admiration for each other? Would you even recognize each other?
Rick Steves, the one-man brand behind a European tour company, dozens of travel books, and some of the most soothing content on PBS, has, of late, been getting reacquainted with the person he once was — and the fork in the road that set him on a path he’s remained on ever since. Before marriage, before children, before divorce, before cancer, before becoming, in his words, “filthy rich,” Steves was just a 23-year-old heading off on an adventure with a buddy.
