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Before Rick Steves was a household name among travelers, he and a buddy traveled the Hippie Trail from Europe east to Nepal. This was 1978, before war and revolution made the trip completely impossible. Steves found his journal and published the exact words his 23-year-old self wrote. He did not censor his dips into cultural insensitivity, but his writing and observations sparkle with the detail that brings his travelogues alive today. Does he transcend all sexism and ethnocentrism? No. But he illustrates a mostly lost era of travel, when young adults rationed their film to 9 shots a day and their parents had no idea where they were on a given day. Worth a read if you enjoy travel writing or Steves' videos.