Touring a destination for the first time is a deeply rewarding experience, but all that sightseeing isn't without challenges. Tired legs, travel-weary feet, and sore shoulders from hauling a backpack ...

Tour guide and author Rick Steves has spent decades traveling Europe and talking about it. He's even become the trusted name behind "Rick Steves' Europe." Plus, Steves knows a thing or two about ...

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 ...

For Americans of a certain age and income bracket, Europe is synonymous with Rick Steves, a one-man travel impresario whose guidebooks and tour groups have introduced the continent to thousands of ...

Rick Steves has built a business around his love of travel. Particularly travel to Europe. It’s hard not to run into Steves’ work: He hosts a TV show on PBS, produces a radio show, writes a travel ...

LONDON — Rick Steves was not walking like a tour guide. He powered down the sidewalk, mechanical pencil in hand, script tucked under the arm. He was not paying attention to the bustling British ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with travel writer and host Rick Steves about "overtourism" — when some locales prove too popular — and how not contribute to it. Summer travel season is ready to take off.