Comments on: 10 reasons why Rick Steves and I are soulmates.

By: Everywhereist

Everywhereist — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:21:10 +0000

Aw, thanks, Laura! Candice is pretty damn amazing.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:10:09 +0000

I followed a link from Candice Does The World to get here, and I’m glad I did. Thanks for the laughs. I’ll be following you from now on

By: Trisha Miller

Trisha Miller — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:07:32 +0000

I cannot WAIT to hear the story about the Eastern European Whore mixup….I will be watching for that one in my feed reader!

And I don’t know about you, but I suspect that Jonathon is a thinly disguised pseudo-identity of Rick’s.

By: Everywhereist

Everywhereist — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:04:13 +0000

Damn it, Jonathan – your earnestness and warm heart make me feel like a heel.

Deanna – that kid must be awesome.

By: Deanna

Deanna — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:19:15 +0000

It’s entirely possible that there’s a child named DeRuiter in my playgroup. But seriously, I’m glad you mentioned the khakis and denim shirts. Those be oogly.

By: jonathanwthomas

jonathanwthomas — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:12:38 +0000

I may be in the minority here but Rick Steves has always had a special place in my heart. Now, hear me out. I watched him from a young age on PBS before there was a Travel Channel and he really inspired me to travel and see Euopre. I loved his folksy guided tours of far away places and I dreamed of going there one day myself. He is quite lame, but it’s a comforting lameness.

You can bet his book about London was in my pocket on my first visit 9 years ago. Sure, a mention in his books brings hordes of confused Americans to many a quant European villages. But look at the bright side – they’re Americans who’ve actually left the USA and traveled somewhere. If that’s not a good thing, I don’t know what is.

I also greatly admire that he managed to turn something he had a passion about – traveling in Europe – into a VERY successful business that allows him to spend a large part of his year doing what he loves, traveling throughout Europe and writing about it. It’s something I’m trying to do with Anglotopia and we’ll get there one day.

By: Everywhereist

Everywhereist — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:43:43 +0000

I fully intend to write about that experience. When I stood up and stared at the guy and said, “CHE COSA?!” he sort of freaked out and back-away, apologizing.

It was tre, tre funny.

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:33:50 +0000

So does this make you Maude Flanders to Rick Steves’ Homer Simpson? “And the wife has a thing for me, but she hides it behind a mask of low-key hostility.” Sorry, 90% of everything I think is based on Simpsons re-runs.

In re: baby DeRuiter; Had a college professor named DeWitt Henry. I imagine he spent every day of his life explaining that, no, Henry is his last name.

And I believe using “Eastern European whore” in this post is going to do wonders for your Google search results.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:32:14 +0000

The thing about your mother is hilarious. We once met him in a tiny Swiss village that, due to being featured in one of his books, is now overrun by loud, obnoxious, tourists. My parents both fussed at him and told him to think about the consequences of featuring a location in his books may have on said location.