The Road Less Traveled Blog

Almost thirty years ago, Jim and Donna sat at their kitchen table with a yellow legal pad of paper and a dream — to create a one of a kind, life-changing experience for youth that would transform people’s lives around the world. From that single page, decades of indelible memories have been created and thousands …

The Road Less Traveled’s founders and Directors, Jim and Donna Stein, have been offering summer travel and adventure programs for teens for the past 28 years. However, many years before Jim and Donna sat down at their kitchen table with a yellow pad of paper to start The Road Less Traveled, Jim discovered his lifelong …

Reflection by RLT Alumni Parent Allison Kimmich:
My husband Nik and I sat in the hotel lobby, leaning over his cell phone listening to our son Sameer on speaker from his Road Less Traveled program in Tanzania.
“Hi son, how are you?!” Nik exclaimed.
“Hi honey, we miss you!” I chimed in.
“Hi guys, I’m great!  This is the …

Though many of today’s teens have grandparents who fought in the Vietnam War, it is surprising how little most students learn about the war in school, let alone Vietnam itself. On our Vietnam: Ban Than program, students spend 25 days immersing themselves in Vietnamese culture, visiting markets and museums, trying dishes like pho and …