Program 759: Bowen Island, BC; Alaska Beyond the Cruise Ports; Iceland Summer

Explore the cool vibes of a northern summer on the next Travel with Rick Steves.

We'll hear about the slower pace of life you can find on Bowen Island, just offshore from big city Vancouver, British Columbia.

A guidebook author and hiking enthusiast from Anchorage recommends exploring Alaska beyond its cruise ship ports.

And a creative writing professor from Texas Tech tells us about his summer hike across the backcountry of Iceland.

• University of British Columbia anthropology professor and author Wade Davis
• Lisa Maloney, author of "Moon Alaska" guidebook (Avalon Travel) and "Day Hiking Southcentral Alaska" (Mountaineers Books)
• Kurt Caswell, author of "Iceland Summer" (Trinity University Press)

• Wade Davis is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia and lives on Bowen Island, BC. He writes about his love for the country of Colombia in his recent book "Magdalena: River of Dreams."
• Wade Davis talks to Rick about the Rio Magdalena in Colombia on Travel with Rick Steves program #633 from March 2021.
• Lisa Maloney writes the Moon Alaska guidebook. Lisa also posts articles on hiking in greater Anchorage, even in winter, on her Hiking Alaska website, and is the author of "Day Hiking Southcentral Alaska." She's also found on social media at @hikingalaska.
• Kurt Caswell wrote "Iceland Summer" about his hiking adventure along the Ring Road in Iceland. He also filed dispatches from his trip for McSweeneys.
• Kurt also spoke with Rick on program #731 in October 2023 about his experiences hiking around Iceland and investigating its historic literature, the Sagas.
• The Artangel website has photos from the Library of Water, overlooking a bay in Stykkishólmur on Iceland's Snæfellsnes Peninsula.

• SON_SCDV_0667_00901_Lookout_Mountain_A_APM
• Bruce Cockburn, "A Dream Like Mine," Kicking Up Dust: The Dawson City Music Festival, disc 1 (collection) / (custom)
• SON_SCDV_0690_01501_Green_Forest_APM
• KPM_JM_0275_00901_O_Canada_a_APM
• Cha-Das-Ska-Dum Which-ta-tu (Lummi) and Dean Evenson, "Cry of the Forest," Arctic Refuge: A Gathering of Tribes (collection) / Soundings of the Planet
• Bill Bourne, Shannon Johnson, "The Road to Tokyo," Here and Now: A Celebration of Canadian Music, disc 1 - Music of the First Peoples and Folk Music (collection) / CBC-Sony Special Music Products
• * Morgaine Le Fey, "Swamp Lake," Up She Flew / (self-released)
• MPATH_MPATH_0020_00201_Gentle_Journey_APM
• Hobo Jim, "Athabascan Fiddler," Alaska's Hobo Jim: A Collection / (self-released)
• Alice Gomez, "Sunset," Where the Eagle Sleeps / Talking Taco Music
• Mark Isham, "In the Blue Distance," Vapor Drawings / Windham Hill
• Medicine Dream, "Jalasi," Identity / (self-released)
• Dan Bern, "Alaska Highway," New American Language / Messenger Records
• * Nina Simone, "Summertime," The Very Best of Nina Simone, disc 2 / Disconforme
• MPATH_MPATH_0039_00901_Coveted_APM
• Júníus Meyvant, "Hailslide," Júníus Meyvant / Record Records ("Live on KEXP" performance, used with permission)
• Alex Farhoud, "San Sebastian," Au-Delá du Rubicon (collection) / Disques Rubicon
• Arstidir, "Ljod i sand," Sfvens Og Voku Skil / Arstidir
• Júníus Meyvant, "Hailslide," Júníus Meyvant / Record Records ("Live on KEXP" performance, used with permission)

* Indicates filler music used during internal breaks on the broadcast

• Rick mentions "summer in Iceland" and the midnight sun in this week's billboard. Kurt Caswell's "summer hike across Iceland" is also mentioned in the segment A open, at the end of segment B, and during segment C.