Where is that "Back Door"

Almost anywhere not in his book. There are lots of them.

Preparing the popcorn, sitting back and enjoying the show about to begin;)

Haha, in thumbing through a 1982 copy of ETBD I see there's a chapter on "Eighteen Back Doors-Complete with Keys". There are such obscure and undiscovered locales as Dingle, Ireland, and some place called "Italy's Cinqueterre", with an opening sentence: "A quiet, romantic and inexpensive town on the Riviera without a tourist in sight"

In other words, back doors disappear, sometimes completely.

Herr Jung, our favorite local guide in Bacharach on the Rhine, used to take credit for that concept. More than an actual place, it referred to using local approaches and resources, like going to visit a neighbor and arriving at his back door. In a big city, that can mean taking the local bus instead of the tourist sightseeing bus.

I remember Herr Jung, standing on the vineyard hill above Bacharach--the Rhine Valley guru of the older RS videos.

Just wondering . . . Somewhere I read that Rick had the "Through the Back Door" idea somewhere in Germany. Where is that "back door."

Crossing the Bavarian border and venturing into Thuringia was brave and "backdoorsy". And he immediately found his new Rothenburg (completely without foreign tourist hordes)... after 20 years of searching (in Bavaria).

;-)

The Back Door is anything you see that looks interesting to you that isn't in the book... which means, almost the entire country.