Rick Steves Likes Travel Haiku

In the course of my recent web wanderings, I came across something that caught my eye. It involved two of my interests: travel and haiku.

Rick Steves, as many of you might know, writes guidebooks for European travel. He also does a travel radio show. On his web site, he's got an open call out for the submission of travel haiku.

If your travel haiku is chosen to be read on the air, you get a $20 gift certificate to be spent in his online store.

Some of the previously submitted haiku are posted on his site.

After taking a look at them, if you think you've got one in you, you can read up on how to submit.

I've got some travel haiku I'm thinking of submitting.

Among them, this favorite, which I composed years ago in Rome . . .

Sticky table top
hot waiter winks and I will
forgive anything

As always, if you're interested in more of my haiku, check out Haiku By Two.


Photo: (c) Rick Steves