Rick Steves’s 1978 journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu reflects a spirit of edgy wanderlust at odds with his image as a folksy ...

We went to the original site of the Woodstock festival in VW’s new hippie bus. We learned a bit in the process.

Steves and his friend travel mostly by local buses, including an epic journey from Istanbul to Tehran that he described as ...

Short of cash but looking for adventure? For carefree 1960s and ‘70s Western kids, that meant clambering onto a ramshackle bus to head east on a mind-blowing journey through new cultures ...

No, you can do a hippie trail today. You can't go from the exact same pudding shop in Istanbul to that chai spot in Kathmandu with a bunch of hippies on a bus like that, but you can have your ...

(In this exclusive excerpt from Rick Steves’ “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu ... so I hopped onto a crowded bus and rode it to its end. I ended up just where I wanted to be ...

“The bus made good time, considering its age and ... marked the end of the “hippie trail.” “It was the end of the rainbow for hippie travelers back then,” Steves recalled.