The Travel Show: Alaska; Samoa

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, that get
away guru, and do we have a great show lined
up for you today. We're gonna be talking about believe
it or not? What can you steal? And that's okay
to take from your hotel room. The CDC has just
rated the cleanliness of different cruise lines. We'll be headed

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to the Cook Islands, one of my favorite places in Polynesia,
and Israel and Holyland. Update. I'm gonna take you to
Samoa and we're gonna be talking about positive impact travel
and what show would be complete if I didn't teach
you how to talk like an Aussie. Yeah, let's throw
another shrimp on the barbie. The Travel Show is sponsored

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by Morris Columbus Travel, where you always travel more and
pay less. Take a look at their website Morriscolumbus dot com.
That's Morriscolumbus dot com. And if you'd like to look
at any of the escorted tour programs, go to the
homepage Morriscolumbus dot com and the third item down as
you scroll is Morris Murdoch Escorted Tourist. Click on that

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and then you'll see a menu of geographic destinations Africa, Europe,
South Pacific, Asia, or if it's a cruise, simply click
on cruise and you're going to see good heavens. So
many great programs with great tour directors. I'm pleased to
welcome to the show today my good friend, Emily States,

(01:32):
director of marketing for Morris Columbus Travel. Emily, welcome to
the show.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Thank you, sir, and say welcome back to the show.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Welcome back to the show. I understand that you're in
line for a gold medal because you have to work
with me and you survived. Is this true?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know? I hope so, I hope someone is recognizing
the effort that goes into.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Oh the pain. Now, what you folks probably don't know
about Emily, but you've probably seen and heard Emily is
she is a singer. She's also in a lot of musicals.
What's the last musical you did?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Last musical?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Or where you sang of a play? A stage production?
Little Mermaid? Were you the Mermaid?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
It was Ursula?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Ursula? See which can I how appropriate? No, no, no,
I didn't say that. I didn't say that.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
We're going to talk about that all right.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Now you're out as director of marketing for Morris Columbus Travel.
You are out and about your meeting people all the time,
sometimes new people that you've never met before. When you
meet someone for the first time, what are the things
you notice about them?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
You see, the biggest thing I noticed when I meet
someone for the first time is smile. And whether or
not they have a smile, is ever present or you know,
if they're genuinely generally, eyes are a big one, hair.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, do you know what I look? Are they engaging?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Are they? You know? My wife taught me a great lesson.
If you really want to know what someone is like,
there's a little test. That's probably the wrong word, but
you can't fake this. If you want to know what
someone is really like, watch how they treat people. They

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don't need. Now that sounds cold, don't need, but this
is a narrow definition that someone, by this narrow definition
that you don't need is someone who can't do anything
for you. They don't have anything that you want. How
do you treat them? Maybe it's the clerk at the store,

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Maybe it's the server, the flight attendant, Maybe it's people
at your school or work. You don't even know their names,
and that doesn't mean that they're a bad person. They
don't have anything that you want, But if they have
something that you need, like the cop who pulls you
over Emily constantly for speeding you're when you interviewed at

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Morris Columbus Travel, I remember that. You know, how easy
is it to laugh at branch jokes?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
So easy?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
So easy because he has something that you want. You're
applying for a scholarship, some you're taking something to the
store and you want them to fix whatever it is.
You want to know what someone's like. Watch how they
treat people that can't do anything for them, you know.
And you can't be best friends with everyone. You can't,

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you know, invite everybody over for Christmas dinner and let's
go hot tubbing together. You don't do that.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
But kind free kindness, it's free.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah. Well, when boarding on airplane, have you ever won
what the flight crew is thinking as you say hello
to them and them to you. Turns out they're probably
sizing you up. That's why I always flex, you know. Yeah,
you know, I just wear a tank top and I

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give them the bicep. Are guns allowed on this flight?
And I flex for them? Well, when boarding an aircraft,
flight attendants are happy to smile, according to an airline
survey and greet you, but they are analyzing a number
of important factors that could contribute to the in flight experience.

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They're identifying passengers who may be able to help assist
in an emergency, as well as passengers who may need
additional help. Emily's always said Larry needs additional help in
an emergency, or an elderly person, an injured person. Crew
Members are also looking to identify passengers who maybe nervous,

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nelly flyers, or maybe they just need some words of encouragement. Overall,
the number one thing running through the flight attendant's mind
at all times is how to keep each and every
passenger safe from the moment they step on the plane
until they deboard. So some of the things that flight

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attendants in this international survey said they are looking at
behavior and attitude seating arrangements, are people going to the
correct seats? Last week, Wendy Fracki, a group department manager
for Morris Columbus Travel, was on the show and we
talked about seat swappers that just sit in your seat

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because they want it and try to shame you to
go somewhere else. They're looking at carry on items, health
and safety issues, also a demographics, you know, families, business travelers,
special needs, punctuality, and in engagement with a crew. Now
Here is a bit of trivia that you don't know

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about me. I applied to be a flight attendant for
PanAm World Airways. PanAm was the US You know what
PanAm is. You know they're no longer, but they flew
international all over the world, and I applied. I didn't
get hired because it was back in the early seventies,

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right with the first big oil crisis. Pilots were being
laid off, airlines were laying off flight attendants. They just
cut down all their flights. And in the interview process
they said, Larry, you were like the perfect candidate. We'd
love to hire you. Come back when we get out
of this oil crisis. Well, by that time I was

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kind of on with school. I had met the most
beautiful girl that ever walked on the face of the earth,
the young Kathy Hales, who is now Kathy Hales Gelwick's.
And I thought, you know, but anyway, what I want
to do is not make a career as a flight attendant.
I since a little kid, have been a hopeless travel junkie.

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I wanted to see the world. I figured I'd worked
for three years. They completely see the world and get
paid to do it.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, you know, yeah, so I thought you were going
to say you didn't get the job because you lost
it to Leonardo DiCaprio in that that's.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Right, that's right. I should have flexed for them when
they did.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now you couldn't have his hair.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, listen, what items is it okay for you, Emily
States to steal from your hotel room?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
This feels like entrapantly.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I'm going to bring down the light, you know, don't
dim the room and bring what can you steal from
a hotel?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
You know, you've got your little packaged soaps and things.
That's the first thing that comes to mind.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Shampoo bottles. Here you notice that hotels, many of them
are taking them away from that ballpoint pens and pencils. Oh,
because people don't take a pencil, and many hotels have
gotten away from the shampoo bottles or the little soaps.
I think if there's a pen or a shampoo bottle,

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not the big one on the wall in the.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Shower, would be a little conspicuous.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
I think it's Okay, to help yourself, I really do.
I have no issue.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Are reuse it?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
That's right now. Pillows, blankets and things like that's another story,
you know. A new study showed that guests at five
star hotels are more likely to steal high value items
such as tablet, computers, artwork, TVs, even mattresses. Now here's
what they found. A survey categorizes theft behavior and hotels

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by nationality. Germans and Brits mainly take towels, bathrooms and toiletries.
Austrians preferred dishes and coffee machines, Americans steal pillows and batteries,
Italian favor wine glasses, and the French target the television.
They're taking the television and the remote control anyway. So oh,

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there was a Sheraton hotel where they stole the grand piano.
They distracted the front step and walked off with the piano. Hey,
when we come back, I'm going to tell you the
cleanest and the dirtiest cruise lines out there. Welcome back
to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gallowicks, that getaway Guru.

(10:54):
The travel show is sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel, who,
for the fifth year in a row, won the Covenant
Best of State as the number one the best of
most informed travel company travel agency in the Great State
of Utah. Some years ago, we were awarded as one

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of the top ten travel companies in the nation by
the Mark Travel Corporation, which is a multi billion dollar,
multi national travel company like Funjet and things like that
that they own and they have secret shoppers, you know,

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the blind shoppers that they'll call and they run they
you know, ask questions how to resolve problems, and you
don't know you're talking to someone from Mark Travel. And
they came out with the top ten, not rank order,
just these are the top ten, and we are pleased
to be named. And you know, Emily, I think one

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of the things that's so great about Morris Columbus Travel
is you're speaking with experienced and professional travel advisors.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Absolutely, I personally, just even working for the company, I
feel that way. Everybody that we work with is so
intelligent and so experienced. They speak so articulately and have
that experience base to what they're talking about. I will
ask some random question about an airline and they're like, oh, yeah,
they do these flights, football blog, they do these itineraries,

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foot football this cruise line that just the amount of
knowledge that's in their head is staggering to me.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
And why do our travel advisors refer to me as
the Great Oz? Why is that?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
You know, I wasn't aware that that was happening. But
if I had to make.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
A guess, well, you know, I love cruising. You know,
I got the greatest job in the world for Morris
Columbus As and I'm one of the owners there. I
do the radio, I do the TV, and I take
as many or as few tour groups as I want.

(13:07):
Kathy and I love traveling with our travel show listeners.
Just got back a couple of weeks ago from Europe
and we had a wonderful cruise from Iceland to London
and everything in between. But when I get on a
cruise ship, I maybe I'm different. Well I know I'm different,

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but that's another story. I look for the cleanliness of
the ship.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
I look at the corners, you know, are things worn
or tattered or frayed? Yeah? And is there dust and
things in the corners? And by and large, I think
cruising is one of the cleanest of activities vacations that

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you can be on. You know, it's very interesting. The
Center for Disease Control has a research They have an
inspection they called the Vessel Sanitation Program VSP, and they
rate the cleanest and the dirtiest, the dirtiest ships, the

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cleanest cruise lines. Now, I don't want to gross anybody out,
but you may remember in twenty thirteen where there was
a Carnival I think it was the Carnival Triumph that
lost power. They were sailing from Cancun back to the
US and they lost power. They even had a fire
in the engine room. Nobody was hurt, nobody was killed,

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but they drifted and the toilets didn't work and helicopters
had to bring in food. Netflix did a documentary called
The Poop Cruise, and I watched that the other day
and it was shocking. Now, Carnival is a very good
cruise line, you know, they appealed to a certain segment,

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things like that. Well, the CDC said the dirtiest cruise
line was actually a upscale, luxury German style voyage, the
Hoppog Lloyd Cruise Line, and it's a very but they

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found so many problems. The ship scored a dismal sixty
two out of a hundred. But let's go to the
good Let's go to the good news. Let's go to
the good news. Which cruise lines? Now, this is the
whole line out of top the cleanest list. Well, the

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gold stars go to those who scored one hundred. Here
is five ships, the Carnival Spirit, Celebrity Ascent, the Disney Fantasy,
Brilliance of the Seas with Royal Caribbean and MSc. They
all scored one hundred. So I think cruise lines do

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a fantastic, fantastic job with that. Now, we love cruising.
We love ocean cruising, we love river cruising. And on
a river cruise, I love it because you're usually looking
at one hundred and fifty to two hundred people. It's
usually about one forty to one sixty. You visit the

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big cities, the small cities. You can be sailing in Europe, Africa, Asia. Well,
here's some questions that I think everyone should ask before
you book your next river cruise. Number one, how many
passengers on the ship? Now? I know in in Egypt,

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when I've done the Nile with on the waterways, it
can be they have two ships.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
No.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
One is sixty two passengers. The other is seventy passengers.
In Southeast Asia with Armor Waterways, it's about seventy seventy five.
Now in Europe, most of them are in that one
forty one fifty. Some go as high as two hundred.
But I want to know how many people are there.
I want to know the square footage of the cabin.

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Is it an all inclusive experience meaning drinks at any time?
Most cruise lines will offer soft drinks, beer and wine
included with your meals, but if you want spirits then
that's often an additional charge. Is it adults only or

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family friendly? Viking cruises? Both Osha well on the River
Cruise is adults only eighteen years of age and older.
I think Alma Waterways they discourage anyone less than four
that they don't prohibit kids, but there is nothing for
the kids to do. Also, what additional activities? For example,

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on Alma Waterways that have bicycles, they have organized bicycle tours,
but they all you could also take them out. Now
when we come back, we've got an exclusive discount on
top of the discount certificates on river cruises. Welcome back

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to the travel show. I'm Larry Gelwicks. The Getaway gourlu
Joins Today by Emily States, Director of Marketing with Morris
Columbus Travel. By Emily, we were talking about river cruises,
and you know, an eight bragging. If it's true, Morris
Columbus Travel is the largest seller of ocean and river

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cruises in the entire Inner Mountain States, Inner Mountain ere
And as a result, you know, you buy one pencil,
you buy a caseload of pencils, you pay a different price.
I tell people, do all the research you can online,
then bring it to Morris Columbus Travel and I'll bet
you we can add to it. Let's talk about Alma

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Waterways and Viking. Now these are exclusive promotions. You can't
get this at every Tom Dick and Harry travel company.
Let's start with Viking. I mean excuse me, Yeah, These
Morris Columbus specials are in addition to, on top of
any and all discounts promotions, free airfare, discounted airfare, you know,

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price reduction, prepaid gratuities, all these things that come and go.
This is on top of that.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I'm glad you clarified that, because this is also in
addition to all of the experience that you're getting when
you work with a travel advisor and the insider knowledge
that they have and the relationship that we have with
Viking or Alma, but with Viking specifically, when you work
with one of our MOR's Columbus travel advisors to make
your initial booking, you can get up to two hundred
dollars off per cabin. So if you you know you've

(20:12):
got a couple of cabins books you're traveling with friends,
that applies to each cabin.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
That's right. So it's up to two hundred dollars again
on top of an it's like a discount on top
of a discount on top of a discount.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Just because you worked with them, that's right.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
You know. One of the things I like about Viking
Cruises on the River cruises is this promotion comes and
goes right. Sometimes it's free airfare, sometimes it's discounted airfare,
and sometimes there's it's just a good airfare.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
They're celebrating a holiday or whatever it may be.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
And let's talk about Alma Waterways.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
With Alma, you can get five percent off of the
cruise fair when you're working with and.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Again that's on top of any other discount on top.
Now these you just can't get everywhere else. I will
say that the discounts are for new bookings and we
charter ships for example, in November of next year, we
have the riches of the Maykong. You know, I would

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live in Southeast Asia if it weren't for the kids
and grandkids. My grandkids are bankrupting me and Kathy. But
we are willing participants. You know. Actually, my grandson Oscar,
he loves to hang out with us, and he rides

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his bike over to our house. They live a couple
of blocks away, and his mother asked him, why do
they call me papa? Why do you like to hang
out with Papa so much? And he said this word
for word and this inflex he goes, well, Papa, he
breaks all the rules. Now he's he's nine years old

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to be ten in September, and he's already got me
figured out on that one. But anyway, back to this,
the riches of the Maykong, it's November ninth to the sixteenth,
will have a pre cruise option to visit Anchor Watt
and Bangkok and then to extend our stay in Saigon
or Ho Chi Minh City. Now that Alma Waterways five

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percent does not apply to that cruise. Why you ask, Well,
I'm glad you asked, because we have chartered well half
the ship. We bought half the ship, and what we're
gonna save you is much more than five percent. The
discounts range anywhere from four five hundred dollars to over

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one thousand dollars per person because we bought it, we've
took an inventory risk.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I love that bulk pricing.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
See it is it is now that is up. You know,
over one thousand dollars, depending on the cabin less than
what you on the very same cruise the very same
dates you were buying directly from Alma Waterways or some
tom Dick and Harry travel agency in Lizard Nose, North Dakota.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
All right, and you get to trouble with the getaway
even better. Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
You know. One of our stops is the capital of Cambodia,
PanAm Pin.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Now.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
I had a group in Panan Pens some years ago
and they have this this activity called a cyclo. Now,
it's kind of like a rickshaw, but it's with a pedal.
So think of two wheels in the back, one wheel
in the front, and the local guy is like bicycling

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and you sit in the front, all right, you got that.
So it's three wheels and we're there and we're going
to do you know, it's a colonial city, French architec
Actually ever are beautiful. I love Cambodia. And I say
to the man in charge, I say, now, is it
one or two persons per cyclone? He looks at the group,

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He looks at the cycloes. He looks at the group,
He looks at the cycloes, and then he says, two Americans,
one Cambodian. Excuse me because two Cambodians, one American. Two Cambodians,
one American. Now you know the other part my wife.

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So I'd love to have you join me. The actual
cruise is November the ninth to the sixteenth of next year.
But do look at the pre Anchor Wat one of
the great wonders of the world, you know, the most
the most enlightened, educated city in the twelfth of the
fourteenth century. In that area, there are over eight hundred

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Kimmer temples. Only two hundred have been recovered, but Anchor
Watt never was recovered because it's been a working temple
for almost one thousand years. You can go there. It's
mind boggling. And then of course Bangkok. I love Bangkok
so and then in Saigon. Go to Morriscolumbus dot com,

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scroll down to Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours, click on Asia
and then find the details and call your favorite Morris
Columbus travel advisor. If you have an advisor you've worked with,
you have the direct line. But if you don't, it's
real easy number to remember. Eight hundred triple nine forty

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six forty six. That's eight hundred triple nine forty six
forty six. Now, Emily, I'm gonna let you in on
a secret. My wife says, I'm white on the outside,
brown on the inside because I have an affinity, a
love for the South Sea, South Pacific Polynesia. I've spent
good part of my life in that area of the world.

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And okup I just said I can speak enough Tongan
to get by fluent no conversational. Yes, I just love.
I just love that part of the world. Now, you
were recently in the South Pacific to a place A

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lot of people perhaps haven't visited, the Cook Islands.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yes, it's certainly gets a lot less press than somewhere
Lake Tahiti or Bora Bora, but it is absolutely on
par I mean, it's so beautiful of the people that
are so love it's the spirit of Polynesia right where
everyone is just so loving and kind. And the Cook's
population wise are so small that everybody knows everybody. The

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islands are also a lot smaller in comparison to like
the Hawaiian islands. So we went to two different ones
in Aitutaki, which is just stunning. It's fifteen minutes across.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
It's like almost an atoll.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
The main island of Cooks is roor Tonga. I've been there,
of course, I've been there. Beautiful island, wonderful people, yes,
but it often gets confused with Tonga, the Kingdom of Tonga,
because it's called Rora Tonga. It has i mean, other
than being Polynesia. It's not part of the Kingdom of Tonga,

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which actually has a king. Yeah, you know, I should
be King.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Of Tonga, but Cooks does not have a king.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Tell me some of the highlights of you visit. You
went to Rora Tonga, then I think maybe one of
the most beautiful places on earth is Aitutaki.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Absolutely, And we were lucky enough to do a lagoon cruise,
which the water is just an unreal Yes, you just
you don't think that that kind of blue exists.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Here's what you find when you visit Polynesia, the clarity,
the blues and the greens. You'll take photos on your
HD high death and you'll bring them home and show
them to people. They go, oh, that is so beautiful.
And you're looking at that photo.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Saying it's not enough.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
It doesn't capture the depth of the colors, the hues
of green and blue.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yes, it looks so much better in person, and the
pictures look stunning, but when you're there, it's just it's otherworldly.
We went snorkeling with some travali fish. They're like two
to three feet long. They're not aggressive, but that was
pretty That was pretty shocking. We did some mud buggying,
which is not something that I.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Usually as a mud buggy girl.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
You must not know me very well. But really the
highlight was anything we got to do with the locals.
They encouraged us to go to any church church going
people in the Cook Islands. We did a progressive dinner
where we ate in locals homes. They prepared the food
and told us some other personal stories and their family

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history and ate Ikamata and other local dishes, and it
was just anything where we got to work with the
people with my fast.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, you can visit the Cook Islands. It's a step
back in time. Yes, contact your favorite Morris Columbus travel
advisor and if you come into the Salt Lake office
you can talk to Emily Happily right there. Are you
a beach girl?

Speaker 2 (29:29):
You know I like a beach. I'm actually more of
a rocky beach kind of a gal. I love Alaska.
I guess well, I loved the beach.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
I love the beach. Of course at Waikiki, I simply
strut up and down.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Sure you do, and then they tell you to put
your shirt.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
They tell me that I was gang dressed at Waikiki Beach.
Put a shirt. Well, this beach was just named as
the best in the United States. It's famous for clear waters,
powdery soft sand, and beautiful sunseight. Trip Advisors twenty twenty
five Travelers Choice Awards. That's people voting for the best

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beaches in the US and in the world. The CSTA
Beach in Csta Key, Florida was rated the number one
in the United States and number four globally. CSTA Beach
is located on an eight mile barrier island, famous for
its sugarsoft sand comb gulf waters and frequent golf in

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sidings and the nice thing. It's an enormous beach. Now.
The best times to visit Csta Key, keep in mind
it's Florida, are between April and May, or later in
the year September and October. You can avoid July and
August where the crowds are there and the humidity is stifling, right,

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but then you're in a bathing suit and you got
the water, so that would be good too. So Csta Beach,
Hey listen, So when we come back, we're going to
visit a update on Israel and the Holy Welcome back

(31:20):
to the travel Sean Larry Gelwick to get Away Guru
joined in studio today with the lovely and talented Emily States,
director of Marketing at your number one travel company, Morris
Columbus Travel. Nice to have you here, Emily. By the way,
I'm going to talk about the Holy Land. We did

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have a group return in March and they had a
wonderful time, and you know, things were waiting to see
how things are with the ceasefire. Right now, we're all
anxious to get back. But you may have heard about
recently a man and his wife were in the and

(32:02):
the family, his mother in law and family members. We
do this all the time, family vacations to the Holy Land.
They were there recently and it was very sad. While
they were there, the mother in law passed away. I mean,
that's a tough thing, not from any bad actor, just

(32:22):
old age. Well, you know, they took it to the
morgue there, and the undertaker told them that they could
ship her back and take care of everything, but it's
about five thousand bucks. It seemed a little high to me.
Or they can bury her in the Holy Land a
simple burial for one hundred and fifty dollars. Now, the

(32:44):
man thought about this and told them, let's just have
my mother in law shipped home and the morgue. The
undertaker was rather surprised. He says, well, why would you
spend five thousand dollars to ship your mother in law
home when you're here in the Holy Land. Wouldn't it
be wonderful to have her buried here and spend only

(33:07):
one hundred and fifty dollars. Well, the man thought about
it and replied and said there was a man who
died here two thousand years ago. He was buried here.
Three days later he rose from the dead. I just
can't take any chances.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Oh fucked right here, that one.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
I got you on that one. I just can't take
any chances. Listen, I set you up so good on
that one. Let me give you a real update.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, let's do that.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
It's to me, it's a wait and see right now.
I am hoping we have some wonderful Holy Land programs
going this Christmas, you know, six months away. But it's
a wait and see. And I've said to people, if
you're nervous about going anywhere, maybe just hold off that destiny.
There's so many you can go to the Cook Islands

(34:08):
and not be nervous. You know, you can come with
me to Thailand. You know, the US State Department has
ranked Thailand as one of the safest countries in the world,
and it is. It's just I mean, don't be stupid anywhere.
I said, you know, there's no law against stupid, but
stupid has consequences for that. But I would do a

(34:29):
kind of a wait and see. Hopefully we'll be back
there if the ceasefire lasts I'm hoping we have we
have a couple groups there at Christmas time. You know,
in my graduate school studies, I grew up in San Francisco,
went to school there growing up, and everything I've told

(34:50):
the story of missus Leeber, a Russian Jewish immigrant woman
who completely changed my life. I would attend synagogue there
because my graduate studies included Hebrew Coptic. Coptic is one
of the Egyptian languages and religions, and also first century

(35:11):
Christian literature and history. And I've just became fascinated with
Jewish culture, and I would attend. You I think back
home in San Francisco, I would attend synagogue. It was
perfectly appropriate for a non Jew to. I have my
own I have a half dozen yamicas, you know, I

(35:32):
have the prayer shawl. Again, perfectly appropriate, and I would
attend synagogue there. One of the questions, and first of all,
I don't profess to be an expert on anything except
travel and loving my grandkids. One of the questions I'm
often asked is do observant Jews wear a religious undergarment? Well,

(36:00):
some do. Originally the fringe you may have seen like
four tassels under a man's shirt or a young man shirt,
a child's shirt. Originally, these fringes or markings, these sit zoit,
were attached to the four corners of the outer garment
following Deuteronomy chapter twenty two. But it became somewhat inconvenient

(36:25):
and too cumbersome to wear an overgarment throughout the day,
so observant Jewish Men began to wear an undergarment, as
some other religions do, an undergarment that reminds them of
God's covenants. Began to wear an undergarment with the fringes
or markings attached to the four corners. It was like

(36:49):
a large talit, but it could be more easily worked.
The undergarment is known as a talit katan. This undergarment's
it's well an undershirtur with markings on it to remind
one of God's promises. It's telite catan worn under the
clothing now, but many you can see the fringes hanging out.

(37:13):
There's tassels, four tassels five knots in each eight strings.
You'll find it eventually six hundred and thirteen knots, because
that's how many commandments they believe. But some men take
numbers fifteen thirty nine literally, which calls for the markings
to be seen. So yes, observant Jewish men under their

(37:36):
shirt have an undergarment with markings and tassels to remind
them of the commandments, the covenants, and God's.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Promises to them.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
I found that rather plastic, because other religions do the
same thing. Stay tuned for our number two of the
travel shoot. Welcome back to our number two of the
travel show. I'm Larry Gelwicks. Then get Away Guru. Join

(38:08):
today in studio by Emily States, director of Marketing at
Morris Columbus Travel, where you always travel more and pay.
Let's check out their website Morriscolumbus dot com. If you
currently have a favorite Morris Columbus Travel advisor, call him
or hurt on their direct line and you can skip

(38:29):
the recording and all the propaganda. Or if you don't
have a favorite yet, call this number. It's so easy
to remember when Emily eight hundred triple nine forty six
forty six, eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six,
What what does travel do? I mean you were just

(38:50):
talking about last hour going to the Cook Islands. I
think you went to Hawaii recently. I'm the one that
does nothing but work, you know I am. I am
actually outside the country, outside the US over half the year.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Oh I know, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
What does travel do for you? What are the benefits
of travel to our soul?

Speaker 2 (39:17):
I think my favorite part, my favorite thing about traveling
is that it expands my worldview. It just opens The
world we live in is incredible. It's full of incredible
people doing incredible things, who have done incredible things for
a very very long time and built incredible things. And
I love being able to see that. I love being

(39:37):
able to taste all of the food around the world,
Thank you very much, meet locals, and just that's my part,
is the expansionary aspect.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
That's right. You know, when I come back from a trip,
and let's say I just got back a couple of
weeks ago from that Iceland to London cruise Group one
hundred and four of our Travel show listeners, I always
I'm thinking, who's going to make my bed, Who's going
to clean up my room, Who's going to pick up
the towels on the floor, who is going to cut

(40:09):
my fruit and fix my food? I look at Kathy,
and she says, are you familiar with the expression fat chance?
Because she's asking this the very same thing for me travel.
I mean, sometimes it's just get away and have fun.
You just need to recharge. But travel allows me to
see the world through new eyes and gain an appreciation

(40:33):
for what I have. As I said, I'm outside the
US slightly over half the year, but every time I fly.
And I've been in the travel business forty seven going
on forty eight years now, and I traveled a lot.
I mean, there's a young kid. My very first big
trip was at age eleven. My grandparents took my brother

(40:56):
and I on a two and a half week trip
of the East Coast historic sites at age sixteen. Of course,
I grew up in San Francisco. I used to cut
school and go surfing at Steamer's Lane, the surfing area
of Santa Cruz. And you know, I had the surfer haircut,
I wore the surfer jams, all of that. Well, I

(41:18):
would get well, you know, it was the time of
my life that I looked really, really good in the
bathing suit. Now that was decades and decades ago. Now
they asked me to put my shirt back on, but
there was a time. There was a time I could
have made the cover, and I used to cut school
and go surfing. So at age sixteen, I took off

(41:40):
sixteen years old and went to Hawaii, and that's where
I fell in love with Hawaii. I have this great
shot of me sitting on Waikiki beats, playing a guitar
in my bathing suit and with friends around. Just you know,
I thought I was sol being sixteen years old. I

(42:01):
wasn't cool, but I thought I was sixteen years old
sitting on a beach in Hawaii. You know, it's just
so much fun. When I was a few years older,
just a few I hitchhiked to Mexico, hitchhike, and I
went with a friend. He and I just hung out.

(42:23):
We stayed in these dive hotels in Mexico, and we
didn't get sick. Amazingly better. I gotta tell you one
funny story. So we're in the middle of nowhere on
the Mexican or excuse me, on an Arizona highway. We
came back. You know, we hitchhiked all the way down
to Mexico. Back then, we hitchhiked. I in high school

(42:46):
hitchhiked everywhere. As a young missionary, I hitchhiked. So anyway,
I was just a few years later from my Hawaii trip.
We go to Mexico, we finally come back. We're hitchhiking everywhere.
We're in the middle of an Arizona desert because they
were taking a different highway. Use this as we'll go
wherever you're going, as far as you're going. But we're

(43:08):
standing there and I had I know in southern Arizona's
a lot of LDS people, So I had a handheld
sign that said LDS. And this car pulls over and
these two men in suits say they roll the window
down and the LDS and I said, well yeah, and
they said get in. Where are you going? I said,

(43:29):
We're going wherever you're going. We're trying to get back home.
And so but you know, I just say things. I
have fun with people. And so we're driving along. He says, well,
what what priesthood do you hold? It's kind of like
a quiz. Are you guys really LDS? And I go, oh, oh, well,
I'm an altar boy at the parish and these things

(43:53):
are what have we got? The Texas Chain saw serial
killers in our in our in our car. You know
what you always say, if they think you're a serial killer,
say there's no chance, Like, what are the odd if they?
If they if somebody is suspecting you of being a
serial killer, when you jump in their car, you simply

(44:14):
say it's no, it couldn't be, because what are the
chances there'd be two serial killers in the same car.
It'll absolutely freak them out. But that's how I got around,
and that was a very funny time. I said, no,
I'm just kidding, you know, And I told about my
church membership. So what are the benefits we talked about

(44:36):
of travel to you? When you come back? Are you
my experience? I want to get out and kiss the
ground when I land back in the US. As much
as I've enjoyed my trip, I want to kiss the ground.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I'm so grateful to live in this country. I'm grateful
to travel the world. I'll be in Africa in Europe
later this month, but I'm so great ful to be
in America with all of our problems, the greatest place
on earth. What's your emotion when you come back?

Speaker 2 (45:07):
First of all, I'm thrilled to be in my own bed.
It's so fun to its hotels and cabins and things
like that. That's a lot of fun, but there's a
relief factor when you come and you everything is familiar
and you lay in the bed that you're very familiar with.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
What are the benefits of using an experienced and professional
travel advisor as they are at Morris Columbus Travel.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
The world is huge, right, and there's if you if
you know anything about any place, there's so much to know.
I don't even know what I'm saying, but well that's helpful,
I know right now. The point is that when you
work with a travel advisor, they have the experience with
the destinations that you want to go to, so they

(45:56):
they know the great local gems and where you want
to eat. But they also have the partnerships with the
travel providers that you're going with. So we have because
we have those relationships at Morris Columbus Travel, we can
get additional perks, whether that's well.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
We talked about the Viking and Viking that are on
top of any other promotion discount. You can't get those
everywhere else.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Right, and you know, maybe it's not monetary, maybe it's
weak and liaise with the concierge and get you some
chocolates on your pillow or something fun like that.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Why don't you put chocolates on my desk?

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Well, Larry, I have never gone.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Dark chocolate from seas Candies is my favorite California brittle.
It's my favorite seased chocolates. But it's got to be
dark chocolate. Okay, I will expect some.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
When I get if you're ever in the country.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
That's right. Well, you know, I think what an experienced
professional travel advisor can do is save time and money. Now,
in theory, I think of my taxes. I have a
CPA firm that does my taxes. In theory, I could
do everything they do right, But then that would take

(47:11):
to learn all the ins and outs, learn the exemption laws,
learn the tax laws would be overwhelming. But in theory
I could do it. In practice, there is no way
I could do it. So I think when you come
to Morris Columbus Travel, you'll be talking to travel advisors
who are speaking from experience rather than well, let me

(47:33):
google that and see what it has to say.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Right, And they talk amongst themselves, so even if they
haven't been to that destination recently, the person sitting next
to them has and we talk every single week about Oh,
by the way, there's construction going on at Logan International Airport,
so avoid La La La.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
By the way, Logan internationals Boston, not Logan Utah.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
No love Boston. They also can keep all of your
information in one place, so you're going to one source
instead of having to contact the airline and the cruise
line and of this end of that. So yeah, it's
just ease ease of access.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Check out Morris Columbus websites. You can also see photos
and the little bio on many of our travel advisors
Morriscolumbus dot com, Morriscolumbus dot com, and for group tours,
scroll down on the homepage to the third item, Morris
Murdoch Escorted Tours. If you have the direct line of
one of our expert advisors, call him or her directly.

(48:31):
If you don't eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six.
When we come back, I want to have Emily introduce
us to positive impact travel. It will change everything about
your travel experience here on the Travel Show. Thank you

(48:54):
for listening to the Travel Show. I'm Larry GELLIWICKX. Let's
get away Doober and I'll be getting away again. It
seems to be all I do, is it in the
one hundred and fifteen countries, most of them many times over,
and I'll be adding a few more this year. Yeah.
I have the greatest job in the world. I work
with people in the world, and I married the greatest

(49:16):
woman in the world. You know what's amazing, Emily, is
we Well, our next anniversary, which actually be next April,
is forty nine years. We're coming up on fifty. Kathy
has not thrown me out of the house yet, and
believe me, she's had cause, I promise you. Kathy and
I were speaking to a large young single adult group,

(49:41):
you know, a regional get together, a couple thousand people there,
and both Kathy and I spoke. And Kathy, my sweet wife,
is a very very accomplished woman. You know what attracted
me to her is that one she was so smart,
but two she wasn't some wallflower pushover.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
She had an opinion.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
She still has an opinion. Well, to explain her opinion,
she is a descendant of the Wallace clan in Scotland,
think of William Wallace. Well that explains a lot about Kathy. Okay,
but anyway, so I introduced her. You know, graduated from
University of Utah in computer science when women didn't do that.

(50:26):
It was part of the College of Engineering. You know,
flat tops and slide rules and pocket protectors. You don't
even know what I'm talking about. You're too young. But
Dale Anderson out there, he knows what I'm talking about.
The gardeners know what I'm talking about. Anyway, So I
went through all her accomplishments, which are many. But then

(50:47):
I said, if you really want to understand what Larry
and Kathy are all about, there are two statements that
you have to accept. You have to understand. Both statements
are absolutely one hundred percent true. Statement number one, I
seriously married above myself. That's a true statement. Statement number two.

(51:09):
Kathy agrees with statement number one. Anyway, I love you. Kathy. Hey, listen,
you were talking to me about a new concept in
travel that's really exciting called positive impact travel.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Yes, so you were talking in the earlier early in
the show about how we in this country are so blessed.
We just we have a lot more than most of
the world, and as we have the opportunity to travel
to the rest of the world, it's important to give
back and it feels fantastic when you're able to. So
a lot of the travel vendors that we work with

(51:48):
have their own programs, and your travel advisors will know
about those as you're going to specific destinations or working
with specific cruise lines. But I wanted to highlight we have.
We've partnered with a with an organization called Pack for
a Purpose Pack pac K Pack Pack for a Purpose
that makes giving back super super easy.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Oh wouldn't you say giving back? What are we talking about?
Give some examples.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Well, there are so many different ways. So sometimes it's
physical supplies. Pack for a Purpose generally focuses on physical supplies,
but it can also be you go and you help
in the community there like physical labor.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
We did that. I've done that with some groups in Cambodia.
We go to a school, yes, and we help fix
their lunch. We always bring some donations of paper and
pencils and clothes, you know. One of the most touching
things at this school in Cambodia. We fix a nice lunch.

(52:47):
I mean we pay for it and they gather all
the stuff. You know, the school right and you see
kids ask for a zipper locked bag and they will
put usually half of their lunch. They're hungry, and they'll
put half in their bag and take it home to
their little brother or little sister. It absolutely breaks your heart. Yeah,

(53:10):
but it's a wonderful thing.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
It is. Anytime you can give back, whether that's local
or whether it's while you're traveling, that feels so good. Right,
And when we as human beings can help each other, well.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
You give an example. You know, I love can Kun.
If I were planning a trip to can Kun, what
is some pack for purpose things that I could do?

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Yeah, it's the easiest thing in the world. So on
Pack for a Purpose's website. They have the different programs
they have available listed because they don't want us flooding
local organizations down there, so what they have is just
you pick your destination. So if you're going to Cancun,
you click on Cancun and they tell you that the
programs that they have available and it's a drop off

(53:51):
where they say, at this drop off, we would love
for you to bring school supplies whatever, or children's shoes.
They have it listed what the needs are down there,
so you just say, okay, I can absolutely bring rulers
and construction paper and some sneakers for kids and just
throw it in a bag that you know I'm already
bringing in carry on. It's no imposition really, and then

(54:14):
you just swing by and you drop it off. And
that's making a huge impact for the kids down there
who don't have ready access to that stuff.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
You know, I would live in Thailand if it weren't
for my kids and grandkids. And I love going there,
you know and looking at this pack for a purpose.
In Thailand, they're looking for school supply, sports equipment, toys, books, shoes, maps,
very similar approach in Cambodia.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Yeah, and musical instruments. Sometimes they're looking for, you know,
recorders and kazoos and things that will help with their education.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Well, is there a website that we go to?

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Yes, you can. The easiest way to do it is
to contact to your Morri's Columbus travel adviser about it
because we.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Have coordinated with your trip.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Yes, not every location has programs associated with it, but
there are a lot in Mexico, there are a lot
in Thailand.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
No, what a great thing for a family. I have
done service projects from I remember painting a small school.
We had a whole group of us and we had
to take these little longboats in the jungles of Guatemala
up the river with a paddle. And there's a jungle

(55:27):
school where Spanish was not their first language. The indigenous
language was their first language. And it was a school
about the size of this studio, which I would say
is probably about seventeen feet by seventeen feet. That was
the whole school. And we had arranged and we brought

(55:51):
paint with us and had some things. Anyway, we painted
that school. We did some projects for school for the
Blind in America. It warms your will. Contact your favorite
Morris Columbus travel advisor ask for pac pack pack for
a purpose. Now when we come back, I want to

(56:12):
tell you some things to do before your next flight.
And it'll say to you a lot of great peer
on the travel show. You're listening to the Travel Show.

(56:40):
I'm Larry Gelwicks to get Away Guru, joined in studio
today by the famous singer and performer from Broadway Emily
Stage is also the director of marketing. Actually Geez is
a singer and performer on stage. And you know we
all have to start announcing your.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Performance on the radio.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Yes, yes, could you sing us a song?

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Maybe would you like to hear. Oh anything, you usually sing.
I'm going to wash that man and right out of
my hair.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
That's right. People wonder what I did with the money
my mother gave me for singing glasses. Hey, here's some
things on your next flight, particularly in international flight. But
it applies to a domestic too, but I've geared it
for international. That some of the requirements. First of all,

(57:31):
before your next flight, check your passport validity many countries.
Most countries require your passport to be valid for at
least six months beyond your return date to the United States.
Some countries are three months, some countries are less than that.

(57:52):
Mexico has simply got to be valid when you go in.
By the way, you cannot drive or fly in or
out of Mexico and the United State States without a
valid passport. You also want to check a travel visa.
I'm not talking credit cards. I actually had a China
group where we talked about the travel visa required on

(58:13):
a group tour. And this guy, because you can get
it on your owner will get it for you. And
this guy we kept saying, now do you have your visa?
And goh, yeah, yeah, I got it myself. Yeah yeah,
he shows up at the airport and gets turned away
and they said you have you have a visa and
he pulls out his credit card. As true story.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
He was in my group. Oh, that was sad.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
It was sad. So Also, a lot of countries have
what they call an ETA. It's not estimated time of arrival.
It's electronic travel authorization. I mentioned that I'm going I'll
be in Kenya, Africa on the Great Migration later this month,
and Kenya has an ETA. You fill out online, pay
a fee. It's a travel authorization that is required. Australia,

(59:03):
the UK. Yeah, the UK has a since January the eighth,
and there's there's i think sixteen British sterling in the price. Now, yes,
it did. You can find out the requirements most of
what I'm talking about at the State Department US State

(59:24):
Department website Travel dot State dot gov. Travel dot State
dot gov. Click on get International Travel Informations right in
the middle of the page. On the follow up page,
type in the country. You only type in one country
at timeship visiting four countries, You'll do it four times.
The country you plan to visit, let's say Kenya, like

(59:46):
I'm going to and then a wealth of information comes up,
including validity, passport requirements, currency, the embassy. There's even information
on that website site on if you're going to adopt
a child, LBGTQ information, all sorts of things, travel, dot state,

(01:00:07):
dot gov.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
I actually sek your advice and go to the UK
in September and I just went on their website, so
it's like, do I need an international driver's license? Went
a fifth, I'm going to drive over there. And it's
a great resource.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
You know, one thing on visas and the ETAs. There's
all these companies out there. It's legal, but I call
them scammers. Where it's a third party and you type
in uk ETA and it's a company, I'll just call
it XYZ. They may charge fifty bucks, one hundred bucks.

(01:00:39):
I've seen it as high as two hundred dollars, and
you think you're dealing with the British government, but you're not,
and it's simply a third party takes your money then
shoots your application to the government site. So they may
have collected upwards of two hundred dollars. They will pay
your sixteen British pounds, which is about twenty three dollars.

(01:01:00):
They'll pay that for you out of the whatever fee
they have. You want to make sure you're dealing with
the official government site. Number Two, confirm the spelling. Exact spelling.
You know, if one letter is off in some parts
of the world Asian Europe, you'll be died boarding of
your flight. So check the spelling and dates on all

(01:01:23):
travel documents. And you want to confirm your flight details
when you purchase it. Look at your itinerary very carefully.
Is everything spelled right? Are the times? Are the dates correct?
And then also for flights, you want to reconfirm the

(01:01:44):
day before you travel, you know, within within twenty four
hours because flight numbers change, flight times change, and you
can do this with your reservation number at the airline
web site check in online. You can check in for
flights twenty four hours prior. Check your seat assignments. Sometimes

(01:02:07):
they'll change the aircraft which means the seating configuration is different.
Kathy and I flew to rekuvict Iceland last month and
we're on Delta Salt Lake to Minneapolis, Minneapolis to rekuvic
and they changed the aircraft type, the equipment type, Minneapolis

(01:02:28):
to recuvic. We had originally booked ourselves seated next. When
they changed it for whatever reason, we're now in separate seats.
And you know that was okay for a six and
a half hour flight, but we would have preferred. Just
check your seat assignments. It's a good idea to download
the airline app, like I have the Delta dot com.

(01:02:50):
I could do on my PC, but I have the
Delta app where I can check everything on my flight,
the flight details, gate assignments. I even get a note
that my check in luggage is now loaded on the plane,
a schedule changes, if any. It's a good idea to
weigh and measure your luggage. You can get put it

(01:03:12):
on a scale or a handheld scale. Most airlines are
fifty pounds, but in Asia and Europe intra Asia inter
Europe it's often forty pounds and they kill you with
the excess fees. It's a good idea to bring along
snacks and an empty water bottle. Why empty water bottle.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Because you can't take the liquors through TSA, but you
can fill it up on the other side generally, and
bring some snacks.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
And now if you're traveling with kids, brings diversion games, iPads,
but stay away from any game that has small.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Pieces or loud sounds.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Yeah, loud sounds unless your seat MAT's irritating you then
turn the kids, but you want to keep them busy.
And if you're traveling with infants, take extra everything diapers, wipes,
food formula. Assume your flight will be delayed and you'll
need this for the small children. And that's where snacks

(01:04:16):
are a really really good idea. Dress comfortably and smart.
Notify your bank and credit card company for change where
you're going, so that your credit card is not frozen
by the fraud department of your credit card or bank.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
That's a way to put a damper on the vacation
real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Just a couple more. I encourage travel insurance and what
you want to read what's included and what is ex going.
We see claims made and the policy clearly said this
is not included. Will I bought travel insurance? I like
to have at least five hundred thousand in emergency evacuation

(01:05:00):
you have a serious event. I remember we had a
client in French Polynesia that had a very serious medical
event that they really couldn't treat. In French Polynesia, he
and his wife had comprehensive medical and evacuation insurance. He

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was put on a plane in first class. He had
been in coach class first class with the life flat seats.
His wife the same with a doctor from French Polynesia,
traveled with him all the way to La. An ambulance
met them at the airport. They brought him right from
the plane to the ambulance. The doctor went with him

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and the ambulance to the hospital, and a doctor was
with him until he was turned over to the er
at the La hospital. Why because he had this proper
insurance things One is watch your step step Smart Traveler
enrollment program. You can go to step dot state dot govern.

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What you do is you register with the US State
Department the country, your countries that you're planning to visit,
and then the embassy in those selected companies will send
you information on if there's civil disobedience, natural disasters, strikes,
anything significant. They're not going to plan your trip for you,

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but they'll give you important announcements on changing civic and
civil events and natural disasters. Lastly, know your currency exchange rates.
It's called the BBR banker's buying rate. You know some
years ago. Right now it's about a dollar one euro

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is about a dollar fourteen dollars fifteen. Well, I remember
when it was that one US dollar this couple of
years ago would get you ninety two Europeans eurocents. So
one dollar was ninety two eurocents. Right there at the
Trevy Fountain in Rome, there was a money changer. I

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wish someone had brought a whip and chased him out.
Two thousand years ago he was offering seventy five euro
cents for one US dollar and people were lined up
because people, well, that must be what it is. He
was a total ripoff. So those are the things you
want to do with that. By the way, talk like

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an Aussie to me, good I might good day, mate,
Throw another shrimp on the barbie? All right? What is
a barbie in.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Australia a barbecue?

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
How about in the morning, I have a good brecky
breakfast breakfast. If I just want to thank someone and
I say tah, thank you, thank you, Now, how about
by creaky crikey, crikey, crikey, by crikey, that's that's an
exclamation of surprise. Also an ankle bider, a kid that's

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a little kid. How about a mate, a friend that's
a friend fair dicom everything smooth sailing, Yeah, smooth, It's true,
it's honest, it's now here's one. Do you ever meet
someone you want to tell him to do the Harry
that's disappears.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
It was named.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
After Harry or Harold Holt, the seventh in the seventeenth century,
the prime minister disappeared while swimming along Victoria's coast. I
excuse you, not seventeenth century. It was the seventeenth prime
minister in nineteen sixty seven. He just disappeared. And so
now there's an expression, do the Harry. I'd love to

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have you joined me in Australia February fifteen to March first.
It's a fifteen day, two week cruise from Sydney to
Auckland everything in between, and by Craik it'll be a
lot of fun. Or when we come back. Thank you

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for joining us on the Travels Show. I am grateful
to spend this time with you every weekend. You know,
without you there is no show. And would you do
me a favorite? It happens all the time. People will
stop me and say, oh, you're Larry Gelwicks. That's happened
to me in other countries. I was in Japan last

(01:09:53):
in May. In May and I got stopped by a
total stranger. It was an American that said, oh, you're
the Getaway Guru. I listen to your show that was
in Japan. It is so flattering when people will say hello,
and I always enjoy chatting with you for a bit.

(01:10:13):
I would say several times every week without fail, I'll
be in the store and someone the clerk, someone else
in the store will say, oh, I recognize your voice,
but thank you for doing that. So if we run
into each other, will you please please please say hello
so we can chat for just a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
We can prove that people are listening. We can keep
on the team.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Now. When you travel, Emily, and I'm here with Emily States,
director of marketing at Morris Columbus Travel. You use the
Salt Lake Airport.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Where do you park?

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Parking Jet?

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Parking Jet? You know there are two major off airport
parking There's the spot and parking Jet, and they're both good.
But I love Jet for a couple of reasons. One,
it's a smaller facility, so when they pick you up
at the airport, it's still like a half hour later
you get to your car, but it's locally owned. All

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the spot money goes out of state, all the parking
jet money stays in our economy, and it's locally owned
by real people, not some massive corporation. Ask your driver
for a free car wash coupon. They pick you up
right at the car. They're friendly, they're nice, they'll help
you with your luggage, drop you off at the front

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door of the Salt Lake Airport. Now you can get
a twenty percent discount courtesy of Morris Columbus Travel. Simply
go to the website Morriscolumbus dot com and on that
home page kind of towards the top, you'll see a
horizontal toolbar. Click on resources and then print a half

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print as many as you want. Instead of buying gifts
for people at Christmas, give them a print out of
an airport discount coupon.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Stick it right in their stocking.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
What I say is print a bunch of just keeping
your club box.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
That's a great idea.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
Twenty percent off. I'd love to have you join us
on social media. What are we doing on Facebook and
Instagram everything.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
We possibly can. That's something that I work on I
right now, we're really highlighting our advisors. We want people
to know who they're working with before they even call us,
and so we've got some fun stuff going on there,
some fun destination highlights. Sometimes I put Larry's face on there, so.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
That's why people say, Larry, I saw your face on
the social media, and you really do have a face
perfect for reading.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
I can't do anything about that.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
Hey, we've got a fall travel export Morris Columbus Travel we.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
Sure do up in Leyton at the Davis Conference Center.
It's October eighteenth of this year.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
It's a Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Saturday, single day show. Unlike our usual January show, We're
still doing the January show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Saint George and Salt Lane in January.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
This one is up in Laighton. We just want to
make sure that those of our our northern clientele gets
some love as well. And it's gonna be a more
intimate show. We're going to have up to fifty travel
vendors there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Travel vendor, airline, cruise line, safari companies, tour companies, resorts
and hotels.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
The experts.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
I believe we will be broadcasting live.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
We better be.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
Will I'll be in the green room waiting for my.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Call and yours in your diet.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
That's right, that's right October eighteenth at the Davis Conference
Center in Leyton. And you know what's fun is all
of the vendors but will have information seminars that you
can just get some more detail on destinations on cruises.
I'll be there in my trademark in one. I'm about

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fifteen a Looha shirts in one of my trademark Aloha shirts.
I hope that we'll have a chance to chat. But
they'll be hourly free travel prize giveaways. It could be
free airline tickets, a free cruise, a hotel stay. Why
don't we do lunch with me or something like that. Oh,
my choice of restaurants in Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
I think people would like that, Oh in Hawaii.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
Okay, all right, okay, righting, But you know it's gonna
be fun. Now, somebody's gonna win these prizes. You don't
have to buy anything, You just have to show up
and register.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
Yeah, and on top of that, if you're booking a
vacation at the show, all of our travel providers are
going to have show discounts as well. So even if
you don't win a grand prize, you're still getting a
better deal. If you're looking with our travel advisors at
the show.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Saturday, October eighteenth, twenty twenty five Davis Conference Center. We'll
be talking about that between now and then. Now, what
is some of your best travel advice?

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Well, you were talking about things to do before you fly.
I all, I have the app for the airline on
my phone, but I also take a screenshot of my
boarding past just in case, for whatever reason, the internet
goes out. Yes, it's good to have multiple copies. You know,
you talk a lot about having multiple copies of your
passport just in case, because you never know. I recommend

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packing two wall converters for plugging things in. If you're
going internationally, make sure that you've got something that you
can plug all of your stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
I also like to take a screenshot of Google Maps. Yeah,
in case I can't have exit, I'm going to give
you the absolute best travel advice of all time. Yes,
it's the Getaway Guru doctor, getaway Google. The night before
you leave, put your empty suit case on your bag

(01:15:47):
and pile all your clothes next to it. Then put
all your money on the bed, cut the clothes in half,
double the money, and you'll be in a good show. Hey,
thanks for joining us on the Travels Show. God bless you,
God bless the United States of America will see you soon.