A conversation with Rick Steves

Name: A conversation with Rick Steves
Start: 2025-02-19T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-19T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 2121 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134

Schedule

Wed Feb 19 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2121 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134 | Parma, OH

🎫 TICKETED EVENT ($30) 🎫
Join us at our Parma-Snow Branch for a conversation with Rick Steves, author of "On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer."
Get tickets: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/12255655
Since 1973, Steves has spent about four months a year exploring Europe. His mission: to empower Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening. Steves produces a best-selling guidebook series, a public television series, and a public radio show, and organizes small-group tours that take over 30,000 travelers to Europe annually. He does all of this with the help of more than 100 well-traveled staff members at Rick Steves’ Europe in Edmonds, WA (near Seattle). When not on the road, Rick is active in his church and with advocacy groups focused on economic and social justice, drug policy reform, and ending hunger. To recharge, Rick plays piano, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade Mountains, and spends time with his son Andy and daughter Jackie.
Stow away with Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey in "On the Hippie Trail."
In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year-old Rick Steves made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he documented everything along the way: jumping off a moving train, making friends in Tehran, getting lost in Lahore, getting high for the first time in Herat, battling leeches in Pokhara, and much more. The experience ignited his love of travel and forever broadened his perspective on the world.

This book contains edited selections from Rick’s journal and travel photos with a 45-years-later preface and postscript reflecting on how the journey changed his life. Stow away with Rick Steves on the adventure of a lifetime through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal.
FAQs
📕 Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry.
For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual or mobility impairments, please email [email protected].
NO REFUNDS. If you are unable to attend the event, please contact [email protected] to claim the book(s) included with your ticket purchase and schedule pick up from the CCPL branch of your choice. Books not claimed within 7 days of the event will be donated to the Library.
Questions? Email us at [email protected].