A few weeks ago, I had the chance to interview travel legend Rick Steves (!) for a Q&A in The New York Times. Steves was literally walking around a Tuscan town when I reached him on his cell phone, and he told me that his endorphins were doing "little flip-flops" to be back in Italy. It was a fun conversation, and Steves was just as endearing as you would expect. He would finish answering a question, then stop and ask me: "Did that make sense? What do you think? Should I do it again?"
Steves talked for a long time about what his company is doing to reduce the climate emissions of their trips, but my limited word count meant that I could include only a tiny sliver of that part of the conversation in the final version of the Q&A. I'm hoping to find another way to share more of that, though, so watch this space...
(And by the way, I've "unlocked" my Q&A with Steves, so you can read it at this link for the next two weeks even if you don't subscribe to the NYT!)
I have two more stories in the works: one on train travel in Europe, and another on how to fly without using any fossil fuels (see the above pic for a hint). Very excited for both of those.
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