A Canadian observer of America's malaise offers what he calls an "intervention" to his friends in the USA. Plus, we'll explore Spain's civil war with a pair of Spanish tour guides whose families still feel the after-effects of the Franco era decades later. And we make time to find beauty in the Gothic stained-glass marvel of Saint-Chappelle in Paris and the photogenic landscapes of Scotland.

• University of British Columbia anthropologist Wade Davis
• Federico García Barroso, tour guide from Madrid
• Francisco Glária, tour guide from Pamplona, Spain
• Art history expert Gene Openshaw, co-author of Rick Steves Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces (Avalon Travel)
• tour guide/nature photographer James Macletchie, from Uist, Scotland 

• Wade Davis wrote a commentary piece on "The Unraveling of America" for the August 2020 edition of Rolling Stone.
• Tour guide Francisco Glária specializes in the Navarra region of northeast Spain from his home base in Pamplona.
• Tour guide Federico Garcia Barroso is based in Madrid.
• NPR reported on the removal of Gen. Franco's body from the Valley of the Fallen monument at El Escorial, in October 2019.
• Rick filmed a video of the stained glass interior of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.
• Rick and co-author Gene Openshaw recently released Rick Steves Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces: Art for the Traveler.
• James Macletchie posts photographs of the Scottish Hebrides on his jmacletchiephotography.com website.
• Fairy pools are a scenic feature on Scotland's Isle of Skye.