We are not alone

As a guidebook and review fanatic (must...prepare...obsessively...for travel...), I've read my fair share of Rick Steves. And Frodor's, and Lonely Planet, too. But I never really favored one over the other until now.

I really like this guy, his interview is thought-provoking and insightful - exactly what you would expect from one of the most widely traveled people on the planet. The interviewer describes Steves:

Steves wants Americans to get over themselves. He wants us to please shed our geographic ego. "Everybody should travel before they vote," he has written. We should be represented by politicians who want America to act as a good global neighbor.

Gotta love this. Let's hope that sticking a Canadian flag in your backpack becomes an old joke amongst Americans. Because, you know, who wants to be confused for those crazy maple loving hockey heads, eh?


And because I know you just can't live without it, one final poetry post.