On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves

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Such a nice little story about why travel is the best thing you can do. Young or old. Rick Steve’s really hits on all the right points and doesn’t sugar coat his naivety as a 23 year old on the hippy trail. 
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Written in the perspective of a 22 year old traveler. Interesting.

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He acknowledges being Eurocentric, but gosh, he is so very much so. Also bougie. The descriptors for the people and places come across often as condescending, and he repeatedly talks about the importance (to him) of not paying folks what they haggle for "on principle" (sometimes just slapping down an amount of money he thought fair for a service already rendered and simply walking away from the person who served him) even though he admits he had more money and could afford it. I grew up watching his PBS shows, but his tone here makes me feel as though I'd have the ick being on this trip with him. His utter disrespect at some of the times he took photos, too, was alarming.