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Rick Steves on "Connecting with the World Through Travel"

Alaska Public Media | By Eric Bork
Published January 15, 2016 at 5:30 PM AKST

Guidebook author and travel TV host Rick Steves is America’s most respected authority on European travel. He advocates smart, affordable, perspective-broadening travel and is outspoken on the need for Americans to fit better into our planet by broadening our perspectives through travel. As host and writer of the popular public television series  Rick Steves’ Europe, and best-selling author of over 50 European travel books, he encourages Americans to travel as “temporary locals.” He helps American travelers connect much more intimately and authentically with Europe — and Europeans — for a fraction of what mainstream tourists pay. He entertained and enlightened a sold out crowd, here in Alaska, to share his views on "Connecting with the World Through Travel."

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Guidebook author and travel TV/radio host Rick Steves

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  • Rick Steves, Guidebook author and travel TV host

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HOST: Alaska Public Media CEO  Steve Lindbeck

BROADCAST ON KSKA: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. (Alaska time)

RECORDED: Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015 at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium at UAA

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Eric Bork
Eric Bork, or you can just call him “Bork” because everybody else does, is the FM Operations Manager for KSKA-FM. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the FM broadcast. He produces and edits episodes of Outdoor Explorer, the Alaska-focused outdoors program. He also maintains the web posts for that show. You may have heard him filling in for Morning Edition or hosting All Things Considered and can still find him operating the soundboard for any of the live broadcast programs. After escaping the Detroit area when he was 18, Bork made it up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he earned a degree in Communications/Radio Broadcasting from Northern Michigan University. He spent time managing the college radio station, working for the local NPR affiliate, and then in top 40 radio in Michigan before coming to Alaska to work his first few summers. After then moving to Chicago, it only took five years to convince him to move back to Alaska in 2010. When not involved in great radio programming he’s probably riding a bicycle, thinking about riding bicycles, dreaming about bikes, reading a book, or planning the next place he’ll travel to. Only two continents left to conquer!
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