My Last Lecture. The week before the coronavirus shut down our world, I was on a lecture tour: San Francisco, Sacramento, Phoenix, Chicago, and Minneapolis. It was a typical Rick Steves road trip: five cities in six days, with lectures to full theaters and public television station fundraising visits in each stop. It’s simply what I love to do the most...share the joy of travel with happy crowds. For some odd reason, two minutes before showtime, I did something I’ve never done before: Having no