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Art Beat Q&A: Rick Steves shares how life ‘On the Hippie Trail’ led him into the travel business
Book on Sale Feb. 4, preorder here In 2020, in the thick of the pandemic, travel writer and Edmonds local Rick Steves found himself in an unusual place: stuck at home. House-bound, Steves embarked on a different kind of journey: an anthropological dig into …