Program 286b: Mother's Day: Sweet Home Croatia; An American Mother in Paris

On our Mother's Day edition, we hear what it was like to relocate a Midwestern family to the Croatian village their great-grandparents came from. An American who married a Frenchman tells us what it’s like raising a child in Paris. We go on a sentimental family trip to San Francisco, and hear how mamma is center stage in Sicily. Plus Rick pays tribute to his late mother, who influenced him to become a traveler.

• Jennifer Wilson, author of Running Away to Home (St. Martin’s Press)
• Mary Bouron, Paris-based mother and tour guide
• Feature includes Alfio DiMauro and Tommaso Pante, tour guides based in Sicily
• Closing essay from former Travel with Rick Steves producer Sarah McCormic

• Rick included the tribute to his mother June Steves that he read for this week's program in his blog in January 2012.
• Jennifer Wilson's book about her family adventures in Croatia is called Running Away to Home. Her latest work is a novel called Water, about issues and controversies protecting water sources in the Midwest.
• The village of Mrkopalj, where Jennifer and her family lived, has its own Facebook page.
• Click on the link to "Mamma's Recipes" on Tommaso Pante's website to find out how to make many of his mother's Sicilian family favorites.
• More about Alfio Di Mauro, who helped write the Rick Steves Sicily guidebook, first released in April 2019.
• Mary Bouron's archived blog from 2012 is called How To Marry A Frenchman.