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 ...

“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.