Rick Steves Opens Up About Lifes Regrets’ After Cancer Diagnosis [Video]

Travel guru Rick Steves is getting candid about his experience with prostate cancer.

Steves, 69, reflected on the disease, sharing that it has imbued him with “an awareness of what you might regret when you’re wrapping up your life,” during the Dec. 14 episode of The New York Times’ podcast The Interview, hosted by David Marchese and Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

“There’s regrets,” admitted the Rick Steves’ Europe star, who was diagnosed with cancer in August. “[A career in travel] has not been good for my family. I got divorced. It’s not been great for relationships with loved ones.”

“I would love to be the person I was before I was a travel writer,” he continued. “I would have had a very, very beautiful life being a piano teacher, coming home every night for dinner and mowing the lawn, and joining clubs, and, you know, being regular and reliable. But I’ve chosen a different path, and this is a path that …