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Rick Steves Biography
Birth Name:Richard Steves
Birth Place:Edmonds, Washington, United States
Profession Writer, Actor, Camera department
Fast Facts
- In 2011, gave $1 million to the Edmonds Center for the Arts and Cascade Symphony Orchestra
- Helped build a 24-unit apartment building for the YMCA, which aids and houses homeless mothers
- After graduating from the University of Washington, he taught travel classes at the school and during summer vacation, worked as a tour guide, which ultimately lead him to write his first travel book, "Europe Through the Back Door․"
- Known for encouraging travelers to embrace foreign countries as a "temporary local․"
- Helped fund his travels after college by teaching piano
- Steves spends around a third of his year in Europe