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Rick Steves is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on May 10, 1955 in Barstow, California, United States. American television personality and author who is an expert in European travel. He is the host of Rick Steves’ Europe on PBS.
T.R. is his travel writer. Threston.
Steves spends about a third of every year in Europe researching guidebooks and filming TV shows. His home is still in Edmonds, Washington, where he has lived since 1967.
Richard John Steves Jr. was born to parents Richard John Steves, a high school band director and piano technician, and June Erna Steves (née Fremmerlid). He has two sisters, Jan and Linda. The family moved to Edmonds, Washington in 1967.
He is the father of two children, Anne and a daughter.
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In his 20s, Steves started teaching travel classes through The Experimental College, a student-run program of non-credit classes at his alma mater, the University of Washington, and working as a tour guide in the summer. At the time, he also worked as a piano teacher. In 1979, based on his travel classes, he wrote the first edition of Europe Through the Back Door (ETBD), a general guide on how to travel in Europe. Steves self-published the first edition of his travel skills book ETBD in 1980. The book contained a page that said “Anyone caught reprinting any material herein for any purpose whatsoever will be thanked profusely.” Unlike most guidebook entrepreneurs, he opened a storefront business. Initially, this was both a travel center and a piano teaching studio. He held travel classes and slide show presentations, did travel consulting, organized a few group tours per year, and updated his books. He did not provide ticket booking or other standard travel agency services. He incorporated his business as “Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door.” The store was in Steves’ hometown of Edmonds, north of Seattle. The company’s headquarters is still in Edmonds. Steves’ first television show, Travels in Europe with Rick Steves, debuted on public television in April 1991 and ended production in 1998. His second show, Rick Steves’ Europe, debuted in September 2000, and has aired episodes through 2019, though because he does not produce a season every year, this accounts for 10 seasons.
