Rick Steves
@ricksteves.bsky.social
Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
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Friends, @ricksteves.bsky.social will double your donation to @bread4theworld.bsky.social now. Consider joining me in giving to this amazing group.
Multiply Your Impact to Help End Hunger
Your gift today will go further to support our advocacy to end hunger with Rick Steves' matching gifts up to $500,000! Choose a thank you gift from Rick Steves' if you give $100 or more.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Friends, @ricksteves.bsky.social will double your donation to @bread4theworld.bsky.social now. Consider joining me in giving to this amazing group.
Thank you, Jennifer!
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Thank you, Jennifer!
When you make your gift of $100 or more to Bread for the World, I’ll match it dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $500,000, and send you a special Xmas package.
Imagine, as an extended family of caring (and traveling) people, together we can empower Bread's work with $1,000,000!
Imagine, as an extended family of caring (and traveling) people, together we can empower Bread's work with $1,000,000!
Multiply Your Impact to Help End Hunger.
Your gift today will go further to support our advocacy to end hunger with Rick Steves' matching gifts up to $500,000! Choose a thank you gift from Rick Steves' if you give $100 or more.
give.bread.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
When you make your gift of $100 or more to Bread for the World, I’ll match it dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $500,000, and send you a special Xmas package.
Imagine, as an extended family of caring (and traveling) people, together we can empower Bread's work with $1,000,000!
Imagine, as an extended family of caring (and traveling) people, together we can empower Bread's work with $1,000,000!
In these challenging days, the needs of those experiencing hunger and poverty are particularly great — and that means that the rewards of helping out right now are great, as well!
Multiply Your Impact to Help End Hunger.
Your gift today will go further to support our advocacy to end hunger with Rick Steves' matching gifts up to $500,000! Choose a thank you gift from Rick Steves' if you give $100 or more.
give.bread.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
In these challenging days, the needs of those experiencing hunger and poverty are particularly great — and that means that the rewards of helping out right now are great, as well!
To add meaning to the holiday season, every Christmas I help raise funds for Bread for the World through my traveling friends and network at @ricksteveseurope.bsky.social: give.bread.org/page/87677/d...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
To add meaning to the holiday season, every Christmas I help raise funds for Bread for the World through my traveling friends and network at @ricksteveseurope.bsky.social: give.bread.org/page/87677/d...
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Are you team Barcelona or team Lisbon?
The Monday Night Travel team is back tonight at 6pm PT with the popular "Destination Duel" series to determine which incredible city should inch ahead on your itinerary: spirited Barcelona or charming Lisbon.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Monday Night Travel team is back tonight at 6pm PT with the popular "Destination Duel" series to determine which incredible city should inch ahead on your itinerary: spirited Barcelona or charming Lisbon.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Are you team Barcelona or team Lisbon?
The Monday Night Travel team is back tonight at 6pm PT with the popular "Destination Duel" series to determine which incredible city should inch ahead on your itinerary: spirited Barcelona or charming Lisbon.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Monday Night Travel team is back tonight at 6pm PT with the popular "Destination Duel" series to determine which incredible city should inch ahead on your itinerary: spirited Barcelona or charming Lisbon.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Keep on travelin', Carol! #Pluribus
The @ricksteves.bsky.social shoutout in tonight’s episode of #Pluribus 😆
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Keep on travelin', Carol! #Pluribus
This is just one entry in a 16-part series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala.” The full hour is streaming free and ad-free on the @pbs.org app and at www.ricksteves.com/hunger
Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala
In his new hour-long special available February 1, 2020, Rick Steves travels through Ethiopia and Guatemala to learn about extreme poverty — the more than 700 million people who struggle to live on le...
www.ricksteves.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
This is just one entry in a 16-part series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala.” The full hour is streaming free and ad-free on the @pbs.org app and at www.ricksteves.com/hunger
The world’s poorest people want the opportunity to work in order to break out of poverty — but capitalism requires capital. As you’ll see in this clip from my travels in Ethiopia, providing new ways for the poor to access banking & small loans unleashes entrepreneurial energy and stokes development.
The Extremely Poor Need Capital to Develop
Capitalism requires capital. Providing new ways for the poor to access banking and to get small loans unleashes entrepreneurial energy and stokes development.
classroom.ricksteves.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The world’s poorest people want the opportunity to work in order to break out of poverty — but capitalism requires capital. As you’ll see in this clip from my travels in Ethiopia, providing new ways for the poor to access banking & small loans unleashes entrepreneurial energy and stokes development.
I recently enjoyed a fascinating conversation with theologian Lee Camp about travel as a political act, the role of faith in my life and work, the responsibility that comes with privilege, and how I approach life as a celebrity.
Check it out on Lee's public radio show & podcast, No Small Endeavor:
Check it out on Lee's public radio show & podcast, No Small Endeavor:
Rick Steves: Travel as Spiritual Practice, Political Act, and Global Kinship
Lee and Rick discuss travel the moment at which Rick Steves life changed on a boyhood trip with his family to Europe; beginning to see travel as spiritual practice and political act; and how travel fo...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I recently enjoyed a fascinating conversation with theologian Lee Camp about travel as a political act, the role of faith in my life and work, the responsibility that comes with privilege, and how I approach life as a celebrity.
Check it out on Lee's public radio show & podcast, No Small Endeavor:
Check it out on Lee's public radio show & podcast, No Small Endeavor:
This is just one entry in a 16-part series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala.” The full hour is streaming free & ad-free on the @pbs.org app & at www.ricksteves.com/hunger.
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Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala
In his new hour-long special available February 1, 2020, Rick Steves travels through Ethiopia and Guatemala to learn about extreme poverty — the more than 700 million people who struggle to live on le...
www.ricksteves.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is just one entry in a 16-part series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala.” The full hour is streaming free & ad-free on the @pbs.org app & at www.ricksteves.com/hunger.
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Smart modern development aid (which used to be funded by USAID) creates small-business owners like Pedro and Ana, who are proud and hardworking capitalists.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Smart modern development aid (which used to be funded by USAID) creates small-business owners like Pedro and Ana, who are proud and hardworking capitalists.
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Embracing globalization, Pedro and Ana grow peas not to eat, but to sell — exporting them to London, where, unlike in Guatemala, people love their peas. As I walked with Pedro through his family’s abundant fields at harvest time, he declared, “It’s like I’m walking through money.”
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November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Embracing globalization, Pedro and Ana grow peas not to eat, but to sell — exporting them to London, where, unlike in Guatemala, people love their peas. As I walked with Pedro through his family’s abundant fields at harvest time, he declared, “It’s like I’m walking through money.”
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Travel with me now to the Guatemalan Highlands to meet Pedro and Ana: classroom.ricksteves.com/videos/small....
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Small Farmers are Going Global
In the Guatemalan Highlands, Pedro becomes a businessman. Embracing globalization, he grows peas not to eat, but to sell in London.
classroom.ricksteves.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Travel with me now to the Guatemalan Highlands to meet Pedro and Ana: classroom.ricksteves.com/videos/small....
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This is just one entry in a 16-part series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala.” The full hour is streaming free and ad-free on the @pbs.org app and at www.ricksteves.com/hunger.
Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala
In his new hour-long special available February 1, 2020, Rick Steves travels through Ethiopia and Guatemala to learn about extreme poverty — the more than 700 million people who struggle to live on le...
www.ricksteves.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is just one entry in a 16-part series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala.” The full hour is streaming free and ad-free on the @pbs.org app and at www.ricksteves.com/hunger.
Globalization in the Developing World—Lessons from My Travels in Guatemala
Smart modern aid programs (many of which were once supported by USAID) recognize that small farmers in the developing world can be empowered to join the free market. Guatemala's sugar & coffee industries are good examples:
Smart modern aid programs (many of which were once supported by USAID) recognize that small farmers in the developing world can be empowered to join the free market. Guatemala's sugar & coffee industries are good examples:
Globalization in the Developing World
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November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Globalization in the Developing World—Lessons from My Travels in Guatemala
Smart modern aid programs (many of which were once supported by USAID) recognize that small farmers in the developing world can be empowered to join the free market. Guatemala's sugar & coffee industries are good examples:
Smart modern aid programs (many of which were once supported by USAID) recognize that small farmers in the developing world can be empowered to join the free market. Guatemala's sugar & coffee industries are good examples:
You can listen in our 2016 conversation about the book here: www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-l...
Program 445: Paul Theroux Deep South; More World War I Sites
Author Paul Theroux shares the insights he gleaned about America from the people he met in the small towns and backroads of the Deep South. Then history professor Mark D. Van Ells returns with more su...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
You can listen in our 2016 conversation about the book here: www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-l...
And in 2026, I’ll be bringing my orchestral road show to Buffalo, Detroit, Merrifield, and more — all for the love of travel, history, and live classical music. Stay tuned!
Where’s Rick?
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November 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
And in 2026, I’ll be bringing my orchestral road show to Buffalo, Detroit, Merrifield, and more — all for the love of travel, history, and live classical music. Stay tuned!
If you’re nearby, I hope to see you. If not, you can watch the Symphonic Journey concert we performed in Cincinnati, which was filmed for a public television special, at www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/tv-specials/symphonic-journey.
Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey
Join Rick and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra on a spectacular musical journey through Europe. This unique special blends powerful Romantic-era anthems from composers like Strauss, Grieg, and Verdi with...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If you’re nearby, I hope to see you. If not, you can watch the Symphonic Journey concert we performed in Cincinnati, which was filmed for a public television special, at www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/tv-specials/symphonic-journey.
“Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey” hits the road!
I’m packing my shiny black shoes for an exciting ten-concerts-in-five-cities road trip, and I’m eager to take music lovers in Raleigh, Portland, Columbia, Charleston, and Phoenix on a symphonic journey they’ll never forget.
I’m packing my shiny black shoes for an exciting ten-concerts-in-five-cities road trip, and I’m eager to take music lovers in Raleigh, Portland, Columbia, Charleston, and Phoenix on a symphonic journey they’ll never forget.
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey” hits the road!
I’m packing my shiny black shoes for an exciting ten-concerts-in-five-cities road trip, and I’m eager to take music lovers in Raleigh, Portland, Columbia, Charleston, and Phoenix on a symphonic journey they’ll never forget.
I’m packing my shiny black shoes for an exciting ten-concerts-in-five-cities road trip, and I’m eager to take music lovers in Raleigh, Portland, Columbia, Charleston, and Phoenix on a symphonic journey they’ll never forget.
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You deserve a little joy in your timeline.
🧵: It's almost time for...Rick or Treat!
(Thanks to all the happy travelers who've sent in fun Halloween shots over the years. I’d love to see your own travelin’ costumes here on Bluesky!)
(Thanks to all the happy travelers who've sent in fun Halloween shots over the years. I’d love to see your own travelin’ costumes here on Bluesky!)
October 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
You deserve a little joy in your timeline.
P.S. We provide all the materials you'll need for a viewing party of “Rick Steves' Luther and the Reformation” in this free toolkit: www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/tv-specials/luther-screening
Host Your Own Screening Event
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October 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
P.S. We provide all the materials you'll need for a viewing party of “Rick Steves' Luther and the Reformation” in this free toolkit: www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/tv-specials/luther-screening
If you missed that party and wonder what all the 1517 commotion was about — an event that, along with the Renaissance, helped usher Western civilization out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world — you can watch the show anytime at www.ricksteves.com/luther or with the @pbs.org app.
Luther and the Reformation
Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther kicked off the Protestant Reformation, which contributed to the birth of our modern age. In this one-hour special — filmed on location in Europe — Rick Steves tel...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
If you missed that party and wonder what all the 1517 commotion was about — an event that, along with the Renaissance, helped usher Western civilization out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world — you can watch the show anytime at www.ricksteves.com/luther or with the @pbs.org app.
In 2017, I helped celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by producing the “Rick Steves’ Luther and the Reformation" TV special — my gift to about 10,000 Lutheran churches across the USA that have this in their libraries.
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In 2017, I helped celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by producing the “Rick Steves’ Luther and the Reformation" TV special — my gift to about 10,000 Lutheran churches across the USA that have this in their libraries.
Halloween ghouls can be pretty scary — but 500 years ago, if you were a corrupt Church trying to keep the Bible away from people who didn't speak Latin (in other words, regular people), Martin Luther was scary, too.
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Halloween ghouls can be pretty scary — but 500 years ago, if you were a corrupt Church trying to keep the Bible away from people who didn't speak Latin (in other words, regular people), Martin Luther was scary, too.