778 Pura Vida; Morocco's Best Cities; More Travel Pursuits
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The author of a guidebook to Costa Rica discusses what the phrase "pura vida" conveys amid the tropical abundance of her adopted Central American eco-paradise. Then a Morocco expert and fellow guidebook writer recommends the best cities for immersing yourself in the Old World atmosphere of Morocco's intimate, car-free medina neighborhoods. And fellow listeners call in to share how their passions and hobbies have provided a framework for memorable overseas travels.
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| 0:00.0 | To find a less stressful life, complete with a warm climate, exotic wild life, and neighbors who care about their environment, Costa Rica has become a popular vacation and retirement destination. |
| 0:12.3 | Canadian Nikki Solano married a local man and tells us what it's like, live in the Puerto Vida now with a big extended family. |
| 0:19.9 | So usually if we're spending time together, |
| 0:21.5 | we're either cooking or we're eating or dancing or singing. |
| 0:24.8 | For a drier climate, |
| 0:26.2 | American-born Lucas Peters settled in Morocco more than a decade ago. |
| 0:30.4 | He shares his favorite things about the atmospheric old-world neighborhoods of Fez and Marrakesh, |
| 0:35.1 | and tells us where you can find some of the best Roman ruins anywhere. |
| 0:39.3 | Large, ornate, decorative mosaics, still in situ, in the ground, exposed to all the elements, |
| 0:46.8 | and they've been there for like 2,000 years. |
| 0:48.8 | Plus listeners share their favorite reasons to plan a getaway. |
| 0:52.1 | Come along for a fun hour ahead. |
| 0:54.0 | It's Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.4 | Growing up under the flight path for Seattle's International Airport, |
| 1:03.9 | Lucas Peters dreamed of all the places those airplanes could take him. |
| 1:07.9 | A bit after college, he left the U.S. for Morocco. |
| 1:12.4 | Now he and his Moroccan wife are raising a family as he operates a tour and photography business out of Tangier. Lucas tells us about |
| 1:18.2 | his favorite places to visit in Morocco in just a bit. And listeners share some of the things they |
| 1:23.8 | like to design their travels around. Let's start today's travel with Rick Steves |
| 1:27.9 | with a fresh look at a warm weather getaway, |
| 1:30.4 | not really that far away in the middle of Central America. |
| 1:34.8 | Costa Rica. It's a surf destination, |
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