PBS travel guru Rick Steves (whom I had the pleasure of meeting, and interviewing for my newspaper group, last fall) says that, within budget constraints, Americans should keep on traveling, and preferably abroad.
If you missed his PBS special about Iran last month, you missed something great. Steves admits that even he needed a dose of Mark Twain’s aphorism about travel as mind-broadening before he went to Iran, a step beyond his normal Euro-based travel.
That said, from the amount of time he’s spent in Europe, Steves knows what works in drug decriminalization, and isn’t afraid to talk about it.
He’s so unafraid, in fact, that he’s on the board of directors of NORML, something not mentioned in the article, but which he did discuss here in Dallas last fall.
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