On the Hippie Trail Quotes

“Most fundamentally, travelers know that the world is a welcoming place filled with joy, love and good people. Young or old, rich or poor, backpack or rolling suicase, the best way to understand this is to experience it firsthand. To get out there and get to know our neighbors. To build not walls, but bridges.”
― Rick Steves, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

“I believe that if more people could have such a transformative experience-especially in their youth- our world would be a more just and stable place. Traveler understand that the big challenges of the future will be blind to borders, and we'll need to tackle them together- as global citizen and as a family of nations.”
― Rick Steves, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

“Travelers learn that fear is for people who don't get out much; that culture shock is the growing pains of that broadening perspective; that we're all children of God–and by traveling, we get to know the family.”
― Rick Steves, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

“I'm thankful for the whole package-stumbles, frustrations, hard lessons, eurekas, joys and memories. I'm mindful that you can't see experience on a stage. You need to earn them...to really live them. And having completed our trip--eventhough I expect to look back decades from now and consider this the best trip of my lifetime--going home is a celebration. Yes, I was happily packed up and ready to fly home.”
― Rick Steves, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

“I'm an evangelist for the notion that good travel is more than bucket lists and selfies.”
― Rick Steves, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

“A third of the people on this planet eat with spoons and forks like you, a third of the people eat with chopsticks, and a third of the people eat with their fingers like me. and we're all civilized just the same.”
― Rick Steves, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

“Worst of all, the toilet didn’t flush—it just runneth over. We called for help and what we got was a “new” room that was just the same except the lights worked and the toilet flushed.”
― Rick Steves, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer