Why do posters have so many "complaints" about Rick Steves? If you don't like his TV shows and books, why are you so well versed on them? And, what is wrong with others who choose to do the "mired in the Europe on $5 a day" thing, as one poster pointed out? If a person can't spend more, they should never be allowed to fulfill dreams of traveling?I'm sorry, but what the heck is one poster saying about "do you think he gives all his money to charity"? So, he shouldn't reap a profit like Arthur Frommer or any other COMPANY? I don't understand why people outside of the US are so baffled that they haven't heard of every travel writer, either. I don't see a lot of travel shows about the US, but it doesn't shock me to know that there are popular travel writers in Sweden or Russia that write about our country.