787 Twenty Years; The Vanishing Point; Martin Sheen's Travels

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Rick Steves

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🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Rick marks 20 years of his radio show by revisiting some memorable guests and what they've taught us about travel. Then author Paul Theroux celebrates his 84th birthday as he contemplates the passage of time in his new short-story collection, "The Vanishing Point." And actor Martin Sheen describes how his experiences filming overseas have come to influence his political activism.

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0:00.0	I love how the prophet Mohammed said,
0:03.0	don't tell me how educated you are.
0:04.9	Tell me how much you've traveled.
0:06.6	Hey, I'm Rick Steves, and I think it's true,
0:09.2	even if it's just the vicarious adventures
0:11.2	we've shared here on the radio.
0:12.9	Yeah, there are plenty of times.
0:14.2	I stop because I see something,
0:16.2	but I most often stop because I hear something first.
0:19.0	Today, to mark 20 years of weekly travels together,
0:22.1	let's look at what the years have taught us while getting to know the world. As author Paul Theroux
0:26.6	puts it, you suddenly have arrived at the vanishing point, something you couldn't see ahead. You've
0:31.2	arrived at that point, and you have a point of view, you have a perspective on it. Actor Martin Sheen
0:36.6	tells us how the sensory overload of India affected him.
0:40.3	Finally, when I did surrender to where I was and what was going on, it had a profound effect
0:46.3	on me, and particularly no place greater than India.
0:48.3	And I'll flash back on how I started out as a teenage traveler in the summer of 73.
0:56.2	Celebrate with us for the hour ahead.
0:57.8	It's Travel with Rick Steves.
1:02.8	Author Paul Theroux has been keeping busy with a new collection of short stories he's written
1:04.8	set in Hawaii, New England, and Africa.
1:07.7	He tells us about The Vanishing Point in just a bit.
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