The Travel Show: Best cruise advice; Busiest airline routes in the world; Oldest restaurant in the world

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Greetings to travelers all around the world and the fruited
playing the Crossroads of the West Salt Lake City. Yes
it's the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, that get away guru,
and yes I'll be getting away. You know, I travel
just about every month. I'm joined in studio today by
none other than Pluto himself. John Potter. John, welcome back

(00:27):
to the Travel Show. Thank you. It's great to be here.
It's just like old times. It is. We've got a
really wonderful show today and we're gonna be talking about
the best cruise advice. I got a email from one
of our listeners asking me to repeat the best San
Francisco Sarado in the world, Hawaii and Mexico is on sale.

(00:49):
Will be headed to the Middle East, to Scotland, a
spring break escape cruise, and the biggest mistakes that people
make when they a book a hotel room or at
check in. And John's gonna take us to Paris and Normandy.
A lot of fun things today here, John, Yeah, listen,

(01:10):
there are wonderful cruises. You know. Cruises really are the
best travel value. They really are.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Why everything's included, you have you know your price, you
know your price. You've got your food included, You've got
your entertainment included. Best part is you go several different
places and you don't have to keep packing in unpacking
or live out a suitcase.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, cruises are selling, uh just in warp speed right now.
But there are two cruise tour programs offered by Morris
Columbus Travel as escorted programs with private activities, exclusive shore excursions. Hey,
no offense to the shore excursions offered by a cruise line.

(01:55):
They're good. Yes, they're overpriced, yes, but they're well managed.
But the pace and I'm going to offend somebody here,
but the pace is set for the nearly dead. Yeah,
I mean it really is. Now. You don't want the
baton death March, No, but you want to get it.
You are in a port sometimes eight to ten hours.

(02:18):
You want to see as much as you can because
for a lot of people, particularly international cruising, that probably
is the only time you'll ever get there. That's right,
you know. Later this month I will be in Australia,
New Zealand and for most people that's probably their only trip.
They want to see as much as they can. Well,

(02:38):
let me tell you the two that are selling. I
like your comments on first of all, is the Tahiti
Hawaii cruise May fifteenth to the twenty seventh of next year. John,
What is it about Polynesia that just captures us?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I think it's a couple of things. I think it's
the beauty. I think it's the spirit you feel when
you're there. They call it the spirit of aloha. Even
in the French Polynesian islands, you feel it. It's you're
at peace, you feel the love. It's just an amazing feeling,
plus the beauty all around you.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Doesn't it seem to be a romantic experience. It does. Yeah,
you know you talked about the feeling in Hawaii. It's
the spirit of aloha. The Polynesians actually have a word
for this now, for example in the Samoan language, very
similar in Tongan ocul Ley No, I didn't swear there.

(03:38):
I just said I can speak enough Tongan to get
by cec pay. But in Samon they have they have
two words for this feeling, this spirit. One is angangla,
and that is a religious connotation, like the Holy Spirit,
the holy ghost. It's anganga. But this feeling that captures you,

(04:03):
that ties you to the islands, that a Polynesian man
or woman can be anywhere in the world and they
feel a connection back to their home island, to their culture,
to their ethnicity. In Simon they call it mannaa, and
that is there's no equivalent in English. But it's what

(04:27):
you're talking about, John, This connection, this dream, this romantic
experience that we all want to have, that is unlike
anything else in the world. Robert Lewis Stevenson, the Scottish writer,
put it this way. He wrote this in eighteen eighty
eight whilst in French Polynesia, where we won't be sailing.

(04:50):
He said, quote, few men who come to the islands
leave them. They grow gray where they alighted, the palm shades,
and the trade wind fans them till they die, perhaps
cherishing to the very last. The fancy of a visit home,
which is rarely made, more rarely enjoyed, and yet more

(05:13):
rarely repeated. No part of the world exerts the same
attractive power upon the visitor. With some sense of its seduction.
The first experience can never be repeated. The first love,
the first sunrise, the first south Sea island are memories
apart and touched by a virginity of sense pose quote.

(05:38):
You know, that's that's what it does. You know, my
wife says that I'm white on the outside and brown
on the inside. I'm Polynesian through and through.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Knowing you yep, either that or Tahitian I mean from Thailand.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, I could be either one. Do you know what
a lava lava is? Yes, that's the male wrap around. Well,
women wear them too in Polynesia. I have what they
call the formal ones that you know. They come but
typically between the knee and the ankle, about the calf,

(06:15):
and they have pockets. You'd wear them to church. When
I'm in Polynesia, I wear my it's called a pocket lava.
That's what I wear to church or to meetings, business meetings.
But the casual lava lava is the flower print. I
have a whole bunch of those. I wear them at
home and in the summer months, if I'm working in
the yard, that's what I wear I'll wear. I wear

(06:38):
it to the store with my flip flops and a
T shirt on. And the neighbors have become very accustomed
to seeing me in the lava lava around the neighborhood. Well,
we have got a program that I'm so excited about.
It's this Tahiti to Hawaii. Now they don't do this
every year. No, this is kind of a one off.

(06:58):
We did it a few years yars ago, and Kathy
and I will be your personal host and tour guide.
It's Tahiti to Honolulu, May fifteenth to the twenty seventh.
We start in the island of Tahiti. Now tell me
if this is a correct or incorrect statement. I'm going
to visit the islands of Tahiti. That is a false statement.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Why there's only one island of Tahiti exactly.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Captain James Cook, on his voyage in the Pacific seventeen
seventy eight, visited that area and he he talked about
it and he said the island looks like a woman's
hand mirror. Now you have Tahiti Iti and Tahiti Nui

(07:45):
Nui is big, Eti is small.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
New He is also the airline, well, the Air Tahiti
Newi is the national a very very good one.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, when they formed some years ago, they wanted to
call them some selves Air Tahiti. But there was already
a little puddle jumper that's still going. The propeller planes
between the islands Air Tahiti, so they called themselves Air
Tahiti Nui n Ui, meaning the big air Tahiti that

(08:17):
flies jets all over the world. Yes, anyway, so the
and if you look at a map, there's like a
handle on a woman's hand mirror. So we'll start on Tahiti.
We visit Morea or improperly pronounced Morea. That's my favorite.
Why the beauty just cooks Bay? I mean, oh, my goodness,

(08:40):
is it beautiful. It is beautiful. I really like right
next to it, open Nohu Bay because at the back
of it is that mountain that was used as an
inspiration for the forbidden island island of Bali Bonnie High
in the nineteen fifty eight Mitzigame movie South Pacific. That

(09:02):
was Bally High. It's very interesting. On Molorea. One of
the excursions we do that the ship doesn't is swim
with the sharks and the rays. Now that sounds awful,
but it's not. They're great. They are afraid of you,
but they're swimming around and the stingraiser there and you
can hold them all of that so you don't have

(09:24):
to get in the water. But it's about waist deep.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, and the sharks are little sharks. They're not the
great big ones that'll eat your legos. They're no bigger
than thirty feet. Yeah, no, not at all, about four footers.
But yeah, it's the great tips and the black tips
very docile. And then we go to a private motu
or island, have a barbecue.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
That's entertainer. It's a wonderful ship doesn't do it, but
we do. And we've already got spaces reserved. So we
will be visiting Tahiti Morea Bora Bora, which James Mishner
said was the most beautiful island in the world. Right Eetaya,
the Temple Island. Sailing through the Tuamotu Archipelago, eighty two islands.

(10:07):
It's kind of Chris Cars crossing the equator, and then
into Hawaii, the big island Maui, Oahu, Kawaii, and we
disembark in Honolulu May fifteenth to the twenty seventh. With NCL.
We have a free airfare offer which is really second
person flight. Yeah bogo. The first person pays discounted and

(10:32):
the second person goes free. Well, when we come back,
I'll give you the second cruise that is selling like crazy.
You won't want to miss it here on the Travel Show.

(10:57):
Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gill, the
getaway Guru. Love to have you join me here on
the show Triple eight five to seven oh eight oh
one Oh that's eight eight eight five seventy eighty ten.
Your questions comments, See if you can stump Pluto on
all Things Disney, because I'm gonna try that later in
the show. I've only succeeded one time when you had

(11:19):
a brain freeze. You knew the answer, John, but you
had a brain freeze. Yes, So it's Larry gets one
point and all the times John has about three hundred. Hey,
I'm joined today by John Potter, one of the wonderful
travel advisors with Morris Columbus Travel, the good sponsor the show.

(11:39):
Check out their website Morriscolumbus dot com. That's Morris Coolumbus
dot com. If you'd like to look at any of
the escorted tours, scroll down on the homepage. It's about
the third item down and click on Morris Murdoch. That's
the brand name Horace Murdock Escorted Tours. If you'd like
to talk to John direct one four eight three fifty two,

(12:03):
fourteen eighth one four eight three fifty two fourteen. Hey,
just to finish up our discussion about the Tahiti to
Hawaii cruse next year May fifteenth to twenty seven. It
is something that everybody wants to go and go back
to Polynesia? Can you go to Hawaii too many times? Never? No,

(12:24):
there are places you know that I call one and done,
like Cleveland. I'm glad I went and don't ever have
to go back, But Hawaii. I can't wait to get back.
Alaska is that way? Not speaking of Alaska? Well, first,
let me give you the price for a it's thirteen days,
so I'm gonna call it two week crews. Yeah. The
lead price, that's an interior cabin including all taxes and

(12:48):
fees one thousand, eight hundred and seventy nine dollars per person.
So you know that's a great price for a two
week two week crews. Yeah. Ocean View is only about
another five hundred and fifty bucks more, and that gives
you a window. Yeah, reporthole that's twenty four to thirteen.

(13:08):
The balcony is about four thousand bucks. But it's a
two week cruise. Now, let's compare that Compeople say, oh,
that's a lot of money. Remember you got a free
airfare promotion, the Bogo Buy one, get one. Yeah. But
if I were going to Alaska, very very popular, sells
out every year. What would I expect to pay for

(13:29):
an inside cabin to Alaska depending on your date? To
nine hundred dollars to twelve hundred person. Yeah, so I'm
going to cut the Tahiti cruise in half. Okay, the
equivalent for one week's nine hundred and forty dollars. It's
priced really kind of below Alaska and we're in Polynesia.
Oh yeah, ocean view. What would I expect on an

(13:51):
Alaska cruise? Fourteen fifteen hundred cutting the Tahiti cruise in half?
Twelve hundred bucks and for a balcony? What will I
spend for one week in Alaska? Right around two thousand
of person and that cutting the balcony half. That's about
what it is. So it's not it's not wildly priced.
It's a two week cruise again, thirteen days. Love to

(14:13):
have you join me, yes, I will have my lava
lava with me. I'll bring several of them. We did
that cruise together a few years Ago. I know, it
was so much fun. Yeah, we had such a great
group of travels. Yeah. Now I said there were two
cruises that are selling at warp speed. That's the first one.
The second one is Australia and New Zealand. It's South Pacific.

(14:35):
It's a two week cruise, thirteen days. I seem to
be fixed on thirteen day cruises. Yeah. I like that
because on a one week, about day three or four
I kind of get settled in and then they're talking
about disembarkation. Yeah, it's just not right. Well, this is Australia,
New Zealand February February of next year February fifteen to

(14:58):
March the first twenty twenty six, and again Tahiti's next year. Also.
We board the ship in Sydney, We visit Melbourne, Tasmania,
then to New Zealand, sailing across the Tasman Sea, named
after Abel Tasman, the first European to see New Zealand,
and they named it an indigenous name out de Roa,

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which means land of the Long White Clock, because when
they saw New Zealand they thought it was a cloud.
They kept going, oh there's land there, so we'll visit
Milford Sound, Fjordland National Park that's Lord of the Rings Country,
and then several stops Dunedin, Timaru, Wellington, Napier, Taranga and

(15:44):
roe rote to u Is the home of the Maoris,
and then the Bay of Islands and then on to Auckland.
You really see the north in the South Island. Now
we put this out for sale at Expo. We already
have some sixties people who have signed up because I
mean it's an incredible deal. You want to see Australia

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and New Zealand. We will offer a pre cruise three
days in Sydney, the Blue Mountains, everything in that area,
a couple of days in Auckland post cruise and we'll
see Auckland, Hamilton, photostop at the LDS Temple in Temple View.
And then the highlight is Hobbiton Oh yes, what is well?

(16:28):
Just tell me about it. I want to go see it.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
It's from the movie The Hobbit and they actually said
you they build a movie set into the side of
the mountain and it's still there. Yeah, and so I
want to get there.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Love to have you join us. Check out all the details.
Morriscolumbus dot com click on Morris Murdoch Escorted tours, then
click on cruises. Both are twenty twenty six. Call any
of our Morris Columbus Travel advisors or give John to
call eighth one four eight three fifty two fourteen. We're
talking about cruise and I know that most of your

(17:02):
cruise experience is on State Street in Salt Lake City
being cool. But you've cruised a lot. Oh yeah, what
is some of the best advice you'd give cruisers?

Speaker 2 (17:12):
One question that I get all the time is a
lot of people think since all the cruises now have
specialty restaurants that you can eat at, they think if
you don't pay to go to those specialty restaurants, you
have horrible food or have to eat in the buffet
the whole time. And that is so not true. The
food on the cruise is great if you don't pay
for the upgraded restaurants. The upgraded restaurants are a step

(17:34):
up the high high end food.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
You know, what about deposits, there's non refundable and refundable
and sometimes there's a price difference.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, Usually the non refundable deposits you get a lower
cruise price. But if you wind up canceling, you've lost
all your deposit. If you pay a little bit more
and then something happens and you have to cancel, then
I would do the refundable, especially if you're looking at
it a year, year and a half out.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Who knows what's going to happen in that time. You know,
cruise deposits typically run two hundred to four hundred, sometimes more,
sometimes less, but we see some specials with all the
cruise lines. Maybe a twenty five dollars non refundable deposit.
That's what you want to jump on. Yeah, Hey, when
we come back here on the Travel Show, I'm going

(18:22):
to answer the San Francisco Sardo question. You're listening to

(18:43):
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwiz, the Getaway Guru, joined
in studio today in the great city of Salt Lake,
where we broadcast John Potter, one of our best travel advisors.
And John, do you know that we're syndicated now on
nineteen different stations, including stations in Texas and Florida. Yes,
it's have a lot so exciting. You know, we really

(19:06):
appreciate the comments and feedbacks we get from listeners. Love
to have you join us here on the show. Triple
eight five, seven eighth one. Oh. Just this last week
we got an email from one of our listeners. I
had talked last week or the week before about my

(19:26):
love of soaradough bread. I overdose on it and growing
up in San Francisco, that's what we ate. None of
this wonderbread below it. You know, it was souradough for sandwiches,
for breakfast, for dinner, it was always sourdough. And you know,
San Francisco saradough is different. And what makes it different

(19:48):
The yeast is different. Some of the yeast goes back
to the gold Rush days. Saradau is a staple in
the gold Rush. Some of the yeast used today is
one hundred and seventy years old and it keep multiplying
and replenishing itself. Well, you know, it's it's the temperature,

(20:08):
the water, the humidity of that environment of San Francisco
that makes it different. So some weeks ago I gave
my three favorite sourdough breads in San Francisco. Absolutely. Number
one is the Tartan Bakery. It's out on six hundred
Guerrero Street now in the Mission Dolores District. People line

(20:31):
up waiting for it to open. Now it's a bakery.
They'll have pastries, other breads, but Sarado. The New York
Times did an article on the Tartan Bakery and said
they said, quote as bread recipes go, it's nearly perfect.
Close quote speaking of the Sarado. Now two others. It's
not like number two number three. There's two other really

(20:53):
good brands. There's Beaudine, which has outlets all over the
Bay area, but kind of the head quarters the bakery
is right there on Fisherman's Wharf with a huge window.
You can watch them making it and baking it taking
it out. Bodeine Bakery started with sourdough bread in eighteen

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forty nine. It's been around a while, so their starter
is one hundred and seventy hundred and eighty years old.
I also really like Acme Acmy bread. The bakery is
actually in Berkeley, but you can buy it at different
stores and outlets in the San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley Bay area.
Why do I picture the road runner eating that bread?

(21:38):
Why do you you know a good sourdough loaf or
even a French loaf to me, has to have a
crusty exterior. You know, the crust has to have a
little crack to it, not dried, but the interior has
to be dense, moist and full of flavor. So any

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of those tartan bakery, acme or bodine, the crunchy bread
can be dangerous. I found that out after four stitches.
Oh my slicing bread and my finger. There we go,
there we go. Okay, we have joining us on the
line none other than the lovely and talented Dan Home, say, talented,

(22:24):
I would call your wife, Shirley lovely Hey for just
a couple of minutes, Dan, some big news happened yesterday
and today with the release of more hostages in Israel
and Gaza very quickly. You are as connected as any
man I know to what's going on in the Middle
East on both sides of the dispute. Dan, of course,

(22:48):
god his graduate degree from an Israeli university, founding member
of the BYU Jerusalem Center, thirty two years with the
BYU Department of Ancient Scripture and Travel, and has studied
sixteen different languages, including most of them being the ancient languages.

(23:08):
And so with that, roll up, Dan, what are you
hearing about the Middle East and the prospects of tourism
returning to the Holy Land.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Oh ex really exciting, you know. I just noticed this
last week that, for instance, many of the institutions that
were closed to students have opened up their three week
programs beginning in April May June. One of them, Drew
some university college that I got a graduate from, is

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opening up about six three week programs for all ages.
Just an example. Tourism is beginning to come back. Delta
Airlines has announced that in April they'll be opening up
their direct flights. Right now, you can get there through
Delta in United, Luftonsen other European carriers. So you've got

(24:02):
the air coming back, you've got students and so forth
coming back. YU hasn't changed their policy on the students
going this spring summer program, leaving the twenty eighth of April,
so things are looking up. I expect to be there
the second of March with a family group of ten

(24:25):
to check things out as well. And so I'm expecting
that by this fall when I actually have a tour
with Murdoch Morris Murdoch escorted tours will be going to
both Jordan and Issel again in the fall, so this

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is an exciting time. About fifty percent of the hostages,
according to Netanyahu, have been released. Some of the ones
that need to be released are actually the body of
those who didn't make it in during this time. But
that's exciting news.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
It really is. You know, jan you mentioned that BYU
is scheduled to take students back spring and summer. I
don't know of a more conservative and I say this
as a compliment group than Brigham Young University and it's
religious sponsor, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.

(25:28):
I don't know any of that. It's more cautious. And
if BYU and the Olds Church are feeling good about
sending people back, I'm feeling. Hey, we got just a
couple of minutes with you, Dan. I want you to first,
you have three programs, two of them can be combined.
I'd like you just to give us some of the highlights.

(25:49):
The first is August twenty third to September first this
year Turkey and Greece and the Footsteps of the Apostles.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yes, it's really a unique tour that I'm doing to
visit these areas of the Seven Cities the Apocalypse. On
that first one, you mentioned. Actually we visit six of
those and if you join for the cruise afterwards in Athens,
then then we'll also hit Ficis on that one. That's
a standard stop for most cruise lines. The crews added

(26:24):
with these two are just exciting programs. But if you
just want to cover the portion of John and Peter
and Paul and their journeys and so forth, we do
that on the Turkey and Greece Christian and Western Heritage Tour.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
So just very quickly August twenty third September first, I
call it Footsteps of the Apostles are Christian and Western
Heritage Tour Turkey and Greece. You will visit the religious site,
but the historical sites also. Then if you want, you
can join in Athens to roam cruise September first to

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the eighth and let's touch on headed back to the
Holy Land October eighteenth to the thirties. But by the way, Dan,
that is a fantastic time to go weatherwise, and right
now the crowds haven't come back. Touch very quickly in
about a minute.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, this will be an exciting time. Press then too,
as we go over there, we won't have We're not
expecting the large crowds that came after the COVID, and
so this will be a time period in which we'll
be able to be in many of the sites without
any crowds, such as get se Me and other places.
I was just there last April, and you know, it

(27:48):
was really pleasant to be there. We tend to have
more time when we can go at this year on
sites and location.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I'm hearing Dan, was that you? I heard feedback in
my headset. Maybe we lost Dan home. Anyway, you can
check out Dan's tours Turkey and Greece, the Athens to
Rome cruise, and the Holy Land. If you go to
Morris Columbus dot com click on the Morris Murdoch escort

(28:28):
a tourist, click on Holy Land. John Hawaiian Mexico is
always popular, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (28:33):
They really are. That's where we do a lot of
our bookings. What does that all inclusive really mean?

Speaker 1 (28:39):
And include?

Speaker 2 (28:40):
All inclusive is all of your meals, drinks, both alcoholic
and non alcoholic. It includes all of the non motorized
water sports is not motorized pretty much anything without a motor.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
That's kind of why it's called non motorized. You want
a speedboat or a jet ski, you're gonna pay that.
They have boogie boards, little sunfish, sailboats and things like that.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, sometimes the big bicycles that float out on the
water and tennis and yeah, all kinds of fun things.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well, what we know is that if you buy your
air and hotel separately, you'll pay more than if you
buy a package. Airlines have what they call a tour
operator fair. I call it the secret airfare because if
you call the reservation department they know nothing about it, right,
And the airlines have appointed a handful of tour operators,

(29:35):
including Morris Columbus Travel, one of the few in this
whole Western States area where we get deeply discounted AirFish.
But we can't sell it air only. We have to
package it, maybe with a car rental, maybe with a hotel.
Let me give you a couple examples. Now, rates do
vary by departure date and are subject to change and availability.

(29:59):
At the time of booking. For Owahu five star Deluxe Hotel,
I'm looking at the romar Waikiki March sixth to the eleventh,
So what three weeks away or something like that. Yeah,
one thousand and forty eight per person. That's air, hotel
and taxes. You do have to pay the resort fee

(30:21):
direct to the hotel. Now going down to can Kun
at a solid first class hotel the ground paradise. I'm
also looking at March sixth to the eleventh, one thousand
and two dollars. Now this is everything. Yeah, you could
literally go without a peso and have a first class hotel,
all meals, everything included for one thousand bucks. And Mexico

(30:45):
does not charge those evil resorts. Amen. Can I get
an amen on that? Amen? Thank you? Port of Iarcha
again a first class hotel. This is the Malia Port
of iart Malia is a great Chaine. Yes, one thousand
and seven. I'm looking at March twenty seventh to April first.
You know, it's just a great time to buy it is.

(31:07):
Give Morris Columbus Travel a call. You can reach any
of the travel advisors or give John a call direct.
When we come back, we have the most important, special
and beautiful guest I've ever had on the Travel show.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
And no it's not you John, Oh you're listening to
the Travel show.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
I'm Larry Gelwicks. They get away at Guru May I
just give you my personal thanks and appreciation for joining
us every weekend at this time on this very station
to talk travel. We all love travel. Now John Potter
is joining me today, and John, we have a very
special guest. She's actually been on the show before. She's

(31:56):
talked about Africa and some other citing adventures, and she's
the most beautiful, sweet, talented guest we've ever had, In fact,
the greatest person in the world. Yes, my wife, Kathy
always Kathy, Welcome to the Travel Show, and thank you
for daring to share this with me, because I didn't

(32:17):
give you a list of questions that I was going
to ask you, did.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
I, Larry, are you sure you're talking about me? Or
is it the other wife in Thailand?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
You know, I'll have to tell that story in the
next year. I will. I'll explain that my family is
convinced John that I have another wife and children in
Thailand because I spend so much time there. I understand that,
I understand. Well, I'll tell it very briefly. What was
it about. I made nine trips to Thailand over I

(32:51):
think about a eighteen month period some years ago, and
so Kathy is driving me to the airport. I was
meeting a national insurance company. They're going to do their
big company event, two hundred and fifty people. They're in Thailand,
and I was going with the president and the vice
president and their spouses, and so she's driving me out

(33:13):
to the Salt Lake Airport and she said to me, well,
is this your ninth trip? And I said, yes it is.
And of course, in the Gelwick's family, we never miss
an opportunity for cheap and shameless humor. I've noticed that,
Thank you very much. And what did you say to me? Kathy?

Speaker 5 (33:32):
Okay, who is she?

Speaker 1 (33:35):
What's her name? And I quickly responded and I said
fong Ling. Now, fong Ling is one of my favorite
restaurants in Hong Kong, and so to this day it's Chinese,
and it's Chinese, but it's all that I could think of,
and just immediately I said Fongling. Into this day, the

(33:56):
kids say to me, hey, Dad, how's the other family?
And Kathy says, how's your other wife? And I said, oh,
they're doing great. The kids are growing up. And I
think you rew the day you ever said that, dear.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Well, it is a good laugh on you, it is,
And that's a hard one.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
To pull off. Thank you very much too. We just
have a few minutes to talk. And I invited Kathy
because you are over the top excited. You and I
travel the world constantly, but you're over the top excited
about a tour that you and I'll be hosting that
we have never done before.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
Roll it out, Kathy, Well, I will tell you when
you told me you had tickets to the military tattoo
in front of Edinburgh Castle, where you sit and you
watch the music and the dance and the bagpipes and

(34:56):
the drums, and do you know they even have mock there.
I about came out of my chair. This is one
I have always wanted to do, and I'm so excited
that we get to.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
This year August eleventh to the twenty first at Scotland,
Wales and England. But I have to explain things. When
we say the Tattoo Festival has nothing to do with
body art. Goes back to the sixteen hundreds where the
military corps would come out and what they would do
is late at night, a bagpiper, a drummer would They

(35:35):
would walk the streets and yell tattoo tattoo which and
then play their drums and that was a signal to
the pub owner to turn the taps off, send the
soldiers back to the barracks. So, over four hundred years,
tattoo tattoo has become tattoo. Tattoo had nothing to do
with body art. Well, that's one of the highlights. But Kathy,

(36:00):
we're also going to be visiting Wales. Do you remember
the movie How Green was My Valley Black and white Field? Well,
Wales is still that way, those rows of coal miners' homes. Now,
I remember when you, of course you and I visit
everywhere but York. You were captivated by York England. It's

(36:22):
like everything that you dream England to be. Do you
remember walking the ramparts?

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Oh, I do. I do. The medieval architecture, medieval architecture,
the york Minster. It just has that feel of old
England and you know, delving into the history and Richard
the third and yeah, And I will tell you I've

(36:50):
never been to Wales. And that is another reason that
I'm excited about this. You know, so many of us
here in Utah have our room roots in England and
Scotland and for me Wales and to be back there
and see these rugged people these pioneers who were willing

(37:16):
to leave what they had there after having you know,
established themselves. I will tell you the first time we
went to Edinburgh and stood up on that hill with
our guide in his kilt, and he pulled out his
own bagpipes.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
I will never forget.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
I will never.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Forget that were speaking to Kathy Gelwick's and were coming
to the end of this segment. I will tell you
Kathy that the heather one of the symbols of Scotland,
along with the thistle. It blooms early summer to late summer.
The peak of the heather.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
Season is August and that's when we are August eleventh
and twenty first GT You Babe, talk to you.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Welcome back to the Travel Show, Hour number two, the
best two hours in radio. I'm Larry Gelwicks, They Get
Away Guru, joined by John Potter, one of our excellent
travel advisors at Morris Columbus Travel, the sponsor of the show.
If you'd like to talk to any of our advisors,
you know they each have a direct line and if

(38:34):
you have that, stay with that travel advisor. If you'd
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(38:57):
you will be directed to an advisor in your area.
You know, John. In that last segment, we're talking to Kathy,
my wife, about the Scotland, Wales and England tour, including
the International Bagpipe and Drum Corps. You know, bagpipes are
associated with Scotland. I mean, that's pretty evident. But the

(39:21):
earliest records of bagpipes in Scotland date back to the
fourteen hundreds, and it was believed that bagpipes at an
earlier date were brought to Scotland by Roman legions and
had their origin in Rome. Some historians believe that bagpipes

(39:44):
actually originated in Egypt. You know, interesting stuff. Now you've
heard of the Luckness Monster. Of course, Jessie NeSSI a
mythical creature in Scottish folks. I've been the lock ness
is a lake. The monster is NeSSI. Some claim you

(40:05):
can talk to people who've seen NeSSI raise her head.
They've also done some documentaries with Sonar and they find
something moving down there. Of course it would be a
lousy documentary if they found nothing. They've got to find something. Well,
you know, a lock is a lake. In Scotland, they

(40:28):
are over thirty thousand fresh lakes or lock. And the
reason they call them a lock is it really depends
on where it's located. So what you have in Scotland
and Ireland lakes are called a lochlcch and this is
because the word lock comes from the Gaelic languages which

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were historically used in these parts of Britain, Ireland and Scotland.
Everywhere else they're called a lake. So here in the
United States, the Great Lakes would be the Great Locks,
you know, and here in Utah, Utah Lake would be
Utah Lock. How does he do it? I'd mentioned when

(41:12):
I was talking to Kathy, you often talk about the
heather that you know, Scotland is rugged mountains, a history.
I didn't dare say this with Kathy live, but she's
I know she's listening. She's a descendant of the Wallace clan.
Think William Wallace his clan. Now when Kathy gets angry

(41:36):
with me, that genealogical line explains a lot it's not
that she's angry with you a lot. Yes, it's it's
sometimes a daily event and the problem is I deserve it. Yeah,
you know, this is always the problem with Kathy. When
she gives me advice or correction, it just bugs the

(41:58):
daylights out of me. But what really bugs me is
she's right, and I know she's right. Hey. What there
are two symbols of Scotland. We mentioned, the heather and
the peak of the peak. It only blooms twice a year,
early summer and later on in the summertime. But the
peak of all of the blooming of the heather which

(42:19):
dots the hills of Scotland, is August, and that's when
we're there. The other symbol of Scotland is a thistle.
You'll see it everywhere displayed. And the legend, well, the
thistle is the national flower of Scotland. And because of
a legend when an invading Norse army was alerted to

(42:44):
the presence of the sleeping Scottish warriors, when one of
the norsemen, they were walking barefoot so as not to
make noise, and guess what he stepped on a thistles,
cried out in pain, and that alerted the Scots. They
came up and beat the daylights out of the Norsemen.

(43:06):
But do you know the best part of Scotland But
the people, well, all the people are so great. It's
the national sport of rugby. Oh thank you guessed. And
the tour goes to Wales the national sports rugby. It
goes to England where you've got soccer and rugby. The
dates again, we'd love to have you. It's well over

(43:28):
half sold out August eleventh and twenty first. It's almost
impossible to get tickets to the I told you what.
The Tattoo Festival. It's not body art, it's the International
Bagpipe and Military Drum Course. People come from all over
the world these shops. It's viewed by over one hundred
million people worldwide on television and it's only in the

(43:52):
month of August.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
We think people out of Google it and hear what
it's all about. You're going to want to go.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Go to YouTube and pick up some vid of it.
Let's play stump the dummy. Why do you keep looking
at me when you say that you can figure it out? Potter? Uh,
now you know my only claim to fame. I don't
know anyone who knows more about all things Disney than
John Potter? Only once? How long have we been friends?

(44:19):
Twenty five years? We've worked together about that only once
in twenty five years, however, stumped him and he knew
the answer, but he had a brain feest. And so
that'll be my first question today. What does the word
EPCOT stand.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
For Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Why did you forget? Well, I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
It was a few couple of years, yeah, years ago
or something like that. Well, I mean experimental prototype. That's
not words you use a lot.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Okay, you could fit right in and make it The
Eight Dwarfs? Okay, okay, thank you very much. There's already
a dope. How about you'd be happy? True? Okay?

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (45:01):
I would be sleepy anyway? Uh? For the seven Dwarfs?
What is the famous marching song they're known for? Hi Ho,
Hi ho, It's off to work week? Would you like
to sing that for us? I want to keep listening.
Thank you very good? All right? What was the first
full length and animated film to be produced by Disney?

(45:22):
Where are the hard questions? Snow White? All right? Who
won the Rugby World Cup last year? The last time.
It wasn't any of the Dwarfs. No, it was South Africa,
all right? Two more, two more listeners at home, see
if you know this, who is the only dwarf of
the seven Dwarfs not to have a beard? Thank you

(45:44):
very much. Probably can't grow on. He's a he's a
smooth He's a smoothie. Yes, he's a smoothie. When Bambie
encounters as skunk for the first time, what does Bambi
call the skunk flower? I got to get some hard stuff,
Yes you do. Hey, you know I'll tell you a
program I'm really excited about. We've talked about cruise programs. Grandparents,

(46:08):
are you listening? Parents? Are you listening? Next year twenty
twenty six, most, not all, most of the Utah and
Southern Idaho school districts their spring break is, of course,
Monday to Friday, April six to ten, twenty twenty six.
And it's a great time to take a vacation, do
things with the kids, get out of town, and I

(46:31):
have a spring break escape cruise Monday to Friday, April
sixth to the tenth, twenty twenty six. Now that's nice, John,
because you have the weekends on each side in which.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
You can go to Disneyland on both ends, and thank
you very much.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
April sixth to the twenty. I love this itinerary. April
sixth to Monday. We sail in the afternoon from the
Port of Los Angeles. Tuesday is Catalina Island. That is
so much fun. It's like it's Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara,
Santa Monica, Newport Beach, San Diego, all rolled in. It's

(47:09):
a beach community on an island. Wednesday we have a
full day at sea and so many activities. A full
blown water park, the flow Rider, which is the artificial
surfing wave. They have what else they have on board?

Speaker 2 (47:25):
A rock walling, rock climbing wall. They've got the ice
skating rink with ice capade type show.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
They've got the Great Kids program.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah, the Central Promenade I think they call it where
they've got parades at different times.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
And it's really on Wednesday. Thursday we stop in Mexico.
That's always fun. Friday back to La Now what's nice
about this is you know all rates are subject to
change in availability at the time of booking. It's Saturday here,
I'll give you the rates as of today. I don't
know what they'll be Monday, but they should be similar

(48:00):
or the same. Yeah, for a family of four, two adults,
two kids, rates start at three hundred and sixty three dollars.
And that's your cruise fair for five days, four nights,
all taxes and fees. What do you gotta do? You
gotta get yourself there. You can drive back, you can
park right in a private lot right across from the ship.

(48:20):
You get out, and it's about a three minute, two
minute walk to the cruise ship. A rate for two
adults three ninety nine. That's what it starts at. So
Kathy and I gave this to our five adult married
children and all of our grandkids. We're going to be
on board. You'll see the Gelwicks hoarde heard. That's entertainment

(48:43):
in itself. You won't need any entertainment. Hey, when we
come back, I want to talk about Ireland and the
biggest hotel mistakes we make. You're listening to the travel show.

Speaker 7 (49:06):
I'm Larry Gelwicks, that get away guru joined in the
studio to day by John Potter Ata Pluto with Morris
Columbus Travel John, you know earlier in the.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Show, last segment and in the first hour we talked
about Scotland. My wife's just loves everything British, but particularly
Scotland because that's where her family ties go. Yeah. There
are approximately six point nine million people in Ireland, yet
worldwide eighty million people claim to be Irish or Irish heritage.

(49:44):
You know that Saint Patrick's Day is a bigger celebration
in the United States and is in Ireland. I believe
that it really is. What is it about the appeal
of Ireland?

Speaker 5 (49:56):
What?

Speaker 1 (49:56):
What? What? Why do we love Ireland so much?

Speaker 2 (50:01):
I think it all starts with an old movie, The
Princess Bride. Everybody knows that was filmed there, and uh,
I think that's the big appeal, and then the beauty
and then the unenix of it. Here's an island, but
part of it's British, a small part is British and
the other part is their own country of Ireland.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Yeah, now lepre cons. You know, when we think of Ireland,
we think of green, and it is green year round. Yeah,
it really is. Which is you can go in the
middle of the summer it's brown here in utah's green.
In Ireland we think of a four leaf clover did
you ever find a four leaf clover as a kid? Yes,

(50:43):
I did too, and I mean that's a pretty big
hostelumer III. But yeah, thank you very much. Of course
the national sport is rugby, thank you very much. They
have a great rugby team. And then we think of
leper cons. Now, leper cons can be traced back to
ancient Celtic beliefs and they were pre Christian deities in Ireland.

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Now here's some fun facts about leprechauns. First of all,
they're fairies. They're not really people. There are They're about
three feet tall, and there are no female leprechauns. It's
a male society. How do they not die off? How
do they keep reproducing? I'm not going to even go there.

(51:30):
The word leprechaun means small bodies and sometimes they they
have a red skin. You know. They are no reference
to Native Americans or the old Washington football team. And
there is reported near Portland, Oregon, a leprechaun colony. Well,

(51:57):
you know you, and they're they're deceitful. They will take
your stuff, they'll swipe it, but promise you there's gold.
They put gold at the end of that rainbow. Oh,
I can think of a cereal and you stole me
lucky charms. That's right, that's right. Ireland is a special place.

(52:19):
Mark Folbo, who is a about a six foot leprechaun.
Yeah he is. He loves Ireland the way I love Thailand,
the way you love Disney. And from time to time
he will take a group there. And this fall September
twenty sixth to October third, he'll be taking a small

(52:40):
group on the castles of Ireland's quite completely Start in
Dublin and you'll see I mean the Dingle Peninsula. You'll
be in Killarney. The Cliffs of More that's muggedge, the
Princess Bride. What is it? The Cliffs of Insanity? Uh

(53:02):
huh they call we go right there. You do what
I understand about the Cliffs of More. It's about an
eight hundred foot drop straight down. There are no fences.
There's one little barrier. It's a wooden railing about one
foot off the ground, but the signs say do not
go past this foot. Really, they don't have a fence

(53:22):
because they don't want to obstruct the view. What does
some real boneheads do across the fence? Yeah? And every
year some people make the plunge, they lose their balance,
there's a gust of wind. I mean, that's tragic. I
don't make fun of that. And it's rocks and ocean
down below. They hit the rocks and its lights out

(53:44):
for them. I mean, it's just a tragic thing, you know.
I guess there's no law against stupid, but there are consequences, yes, stupid. Yes.
One of my favorites is staying at the Droumolin Castle.
It's a two nights there. It's a real castle, sixteenth
century and it has a huge estate. They have a

(54:07):
championship golf course, there's equestrian falconry, archery, bicycles, you can
go all and it's like the size of a city
the estate. They have, skeet shooting, I mean, it goes
on and on, canoeing. It's a great stay there, and
it's a real castle that's been turned in to one

(54:31):
of the most luxurious five star resorts. It is rated
in the top three resorts in all of Europe.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
I believe it, and I know Mark Voldemol. He just says,
I love to beat everybody in and just watch their
faces as they walk into this beautiful place.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Hey, listen. Some of the biggest mistakes we make at
hotel reservation and check in. One is explained to me
what a resort feear destination fee. It's evil.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
It's money that they charge you for use of the facilities,
like the swimming pool, they Wi Fi, they charge you
for it, and they charge you at the time you
check in instead of just adding it to the price.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Typically, for you know, a four or five star hotel,
you're going to be looking at thirty to fifty dollars
plus tax a day, and that's on top of anything.
So one of the big mistakes is not asking about
resort fees. I think another mistake is not asking about
a complementary early check in or late checkout. You can

(55:37):
what's the worst they can say no no with that. Also,
if you're a light sleeper, asking for a specific room,
you know, away from this busy street or something now there.
The other thing is be sure to do a final
sweep of your room, wallet, phone, keys, Do I have everything?

(55:58):
I can't tell you. I'm whenever I'm with the tour
group and we're moving, I say you got your wallet,
got your passport, got your camera, your cell phone, And
it's amazing how many people leave it. Don't wait in
line if it's crunch time to check out. There always
is an express checkout. The other thing is get all

(56:19):
the information about the room. Is there a parking fee,
a resort fee? We mentioned what room amenities, is there
a microwave or a refrigerator? And you want to know
your proximity of the hotel to public transportation if you'll
be using it mark when we come back. Welcome back

(56:45):
to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, Think get Away Guru.
Join by John Potter, one of our expert travel advisors
at the show sponsor Boris Columbus Travel. Check out the
website Horascolumbus dot com and call any of our expert advisors,
including mister Potter. His direct line is eight oh one

(57:06):
four eight three fifty two fourteen now John. In the
last segment, we were talking about you know things that
people overlook when booking a hotel or checking out of
the hotel. One of them is Another one is always
check your bill, yes, because sometimes inadvertently they may post

(57:28):
somebody's meal or drinks. I had that recently where I'm
not a drinker, but a bunch of bar tabs were
thrown on my bill and they looked at me strange.
I said, I'm sorry, but you know, a diet coke maybe.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Yeah, it's better to do that at the hotel while
you're still there in person than trying to do it
after you leave.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Amen to that. Now, speaking of hotels, I want you
to take a guess. The oldest hotel in the world
that has been in continuous operation how many years? Just
take a wild guess. Two hundred, two hundred. You're about
eleven hundred years short. The oldest hotel in the world

(58:14):
Nishiyama Ownsen. It's a Japanese resort located near Hayakawa, not
bar of Mount Fuji, where I will be in May.
Has been in business continuously since the year seven oh five.
Oh my goodness. Now an Onsen is a hot pool

(58:36):
traditionally a you know, naturally healing waters thermal pool what
they call it. So it goes back to a long list.
Even the Samurais would come to the inn. It's been
owned by the same family for fifty three generations. Wow,
and in continuous use for thirteen hundred years. That one

(59:00):
of the famous bats Mochitani. Know you say that five times? Quickly. Yeah, okay,
know you was the name of this, this thermal hot
bath that was reported to have hot healing powers, hot springs,
and not only do you sit in it, but they

(59:21):
encourage you to drink from the springs as well. Not
where people are sitting to drinking. But they have another
area upstream, not downstream. I have some hot anyway. That's
the oldest hotel in the world. I hope they've renovated
a time or too. Yeah. Now this is another interesting

(59:44):
The oldest restaurant in the world in continuous operation dates
back to the year eight oh three. It's the stiff
Scalar in Saint in excuse me, the stiff Scaler Saint
Peter in Salzburg, austrias the world's oldest hotel and it's
still housed in its original structure since the year eight

(01:00:09):
oh three, which is Saint Peter's Abbey in Salzburg. Wow,
can you imagine that? I wonder if they serve cheeseburgers. Yeah,
probably not. They built things better in those days than
they do nowadays. John, tell me why travel scams are
just seem to be exploding right now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Everybody wants the quick buck that you know, They all
want your money, and so the Internet and some of
these new technologies have made it easier for them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Uh, you know, it really has. Here's some that I
think are are just just drive me crazy. One is
bogus online travel agents set up a website, offer some
price that's too good to be true. They'll take your
money and you'll never get you will never get the trip.

(01:01:01):
You want to know who you're dealing with. You know
what is the history? Have people reported problems? About a
year and a half ago, KSL Television did a story
on a Utah based travel company that abruptly canceled overseas

(01:01:23):
tours without offering refunds. Now, those in the Utah area
get part and get get part. Thousands of dollars were paid,
which people started calling get get Part. He's like an
ohm budsman, a troubleshooter, and it's on television. Well, this
company under the name of Latter Day Travel. It's a

(01:01:47):
public record, so we're not dissing anybody. We're filed for
bankruptcy protection claiming two point six million dollars in liabilities
with about one hundred thousand dollars in asset. Do you know
what those liabilities were people's deposits money. They interviewed one
woman who had paid six thousand dollars. Her name was

(01:02:11):
Lynette Clark for a tour she booked Latter Day Travel,
but she got an email saying the tour was canceled,
no refund, just a promise of credit if there are
travel opportunities in the future. I know of a travel
company here in Utah that's in business. You want to
read the terms and conditions, the fine print, because they

(01:02:35):
say that the deposit if you cancel is non refundable.
I got no issue with that, if it's fully disclosed. Right.
But then they say, if they cancel the tour, no
refund of your depart It is so not right. They well,
they say, well you can put it to a different trip. Well, okay,
my tour I'm hypothetically speaking, my tour to France was canceled.

(01:03:00):
Well you can put it on a tour to Branson. Yeah.
I don't want to go to Branson. I wanted to
go to France. Read the terms and conditions.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Reportedly, the people involved with Latter Day Travel reportedly have
started up a new travel company. Oh lovely and and
you know anyway, I'll just shut up on that. Beware
of who you're dealing with. Beware of will they really

(01:03:31):
how safe is your money? Will they refund it? Yeah? Now,
I do know what Morris Columbus travel. During COVID, we
refunded over five million dollars of deposits as people couldn't go.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Yep, and those people are still with us booking travel
because they know we are we stand behind our policies.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Yeah. Uh, you know there. Here's another one that is
a real problem with Google Search. If you go on
Google Search and say I want XYZ airlines reservation number,
you may get a bogus number. You know, Singapore Airlines,
which is one of the greatest airlines in the world,

(01:04:13):
they had a toll free number in the United States
for years and then they changed it and a one
of these scammers picked up the number and would answer
it Singapore Airlines. People would want to maybe make a change,
and they'd say, okay, you're rebooked on this, that'll be
three hundred dollars and they'd take their credit card information.

(01:04:37):
But they had nothing to do with the airline. So
when you are looking for an airline reservation number, you
want to put in there maybe Delta Airlines telephone number,
official site, and make sure that you're dealing with the
airline because the scammers are absolutely going crazy out there,

(01:05:01):
and some of the scam travel agencies are even buying
Google excuse me, Google ads. They appear to be legit,
they're not. And I've gotten a bunch of message text messages.
You know, people can buy phone numbers. Yeah, saying I've

(01:05:22):
won a free trip. There's a fifty dollars reservation fee. Yeah,
that's a scam. It's probably a scam. Now, I'll tell
you a great trip that is not a scam is
with Sir Potter and Paris and Normandy. You will be

(01:05:43):
the tour host. This is next year August twenty sixth
to September fifth with Almah Waterways. Run us through what
you're planning to do, Potter, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
This is going to be great. We are going to
fly to Paris, the City of Light, and spend two
days there doing all sorts of fun things. The excursions
are included five star hotel, five star hotel, great location
transfers included. Uh and then on the twenty ninth of August,

(01:06:14):
we are going to board the Alma Dante and it
is a beautiful ship. Alma Waterways just does a wonderful over.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
The top deluxe river cruise company. Alma Waterways all sorts
of awards.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Yeah, and there they dock right near the Eiffel Tower.
You can walk to the Eiffel Tower from that ship.
And we're going to sail down the rin the sind
Sin River, and I'm actually looking forward to seeing it
because they cleaned it up so well for the Olympics,
and it was dirty when I was there before, and
so I may just see what it looks like. But

(01:06:47):
we're going to sail down the Sine. The best part
of this whole trip is the visit to Normandy. I
have been to Normandy and I can never get in
it really is what are you going to see Normandy.
We're going to see the Landing beaches where the soldier
gay Beach, the d DA Beaches where the soldiers climbed
up those steep, steep cliffs.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Under machine gun fire.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Yeah, you get to see the dugouts that the Germans
had made to protect themselves. We're going to see the cemetery,
the US cemetery that's got thousands of soldiers buried there
at such a humbling, humbling visit. Plus they've got a
museum right there at the cemetery that we can go through.
It's just unbelievably beautiful but yet sacred and hollow at

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the same time.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Do you know what I like to do when I
visit historical places is go to YouTube and see actual
film of the event. You can see the Japanese surrender
on the USS Missouri and Tokyo Bay and General MacArthur
and his speech. But you can go and I've done
it seeing D Day actual films and the fighting and

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you know that, Terry, there's mostly young men, teenagers. Yeah,
just row after road it it moved you. We've got
about a minute and a half left, John, that will
be one of the highlights. But there's some other spectacular
the whole.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
A lot of people think Paris is the only thing
to see in France, and that's not true. We're going
to Rowan Vernon, We're gonna spend an overnight at the
end in Paris, and then, of course, John Potter style,
we're gonna have an optional Disneyland Paris at the end.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Of course, you are you mentioned Rowan. I love Rowan.
It's a it's a medieval city, cobblestone streets, ancient buildings,
but so much history there, including where Joean of Arc
was burned and then buried there. Also it's a it's
a yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just just absolutely beautiful. Now

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this is this. You don't book through the group apartment.
You're you can book with any of the travel advisors,
but I think you're best calling John direct. Yes, eight
oh one four eight three fifty two fourteen. There is
a web link and when we come back from break,

(01:09:18):
John will give us that web leak. More here on
the Travel Show, and I'm going to talk about what
foods you can take in and out of TSA. Welcome

(01:09:42):
back to the Travel Show. Thank you for joining us.
You know I look forward to Saturday so much that
we can share our love of travel together. I'm Larry Gelwitz.
That getaway Google. The Travel Show is sponsored by Morris
Columbus Travel, where you always travel more and pay. Let's
check out their website Morriscolumbus dot com, Morris Coolumbus dot com.

(01:10:05):
And if you want to look at any of the
tours that we've talked about, including Dan Holmes, on the homepage,
click on Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours. That's the brand name
for the escorted tours, and I liken it to this,
John is you have General Motors and Chevrolet. Right, General

(01:10:26):
Motors is the parent company. Chevrolet is the brand name.
The parent company's Miss Columbus Travel. The brand name for
escorted tours is Morris Murdoch Escorted Tourist. But your Paris
and Normandy River Cruise August twenty sixth, it's September fifth
of next year with Alma Waterways is not on the

(01:10:50):
Morris Murdoch site. And there's a story behind that which
we won't get into. But the best thing to do
is just call John Direct eight oh one for eight
three fifty two fourteen eight oh one four eight three
fifty two fourteen. And that's easy to remember because fifty
two fourteen is right after fifty two thirteen. That's right.

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How about that? Uh huh, we're four fifty two fifteen.
There you go. But there is a link that you
can find if you want to look it up. Tell
us in simplicity of how to find it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Okay, go to Morriscolumbus dot com. There is some lines
right at the top of the screen, right under the
logo it says fine Travel. It's a pull down menu.
You pull it down and it says Morris Columbus Departures
and that's where it will be. It's the very first
one list that it says Paris and Normandy on the

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waterways with John Potter.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Oh well, very good. By the way, Roots Roots Tech
is a big deal here. Oh yes, this year it's
March sixth to the eighth. Morris Columbus will have a
boot there, that's what I've heard, and that's March sixty eight.
Look for us at roots Tech. That's going to be
a lot of fun. Hey, there's always a question, John,

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what can I take through TSA? What can I take
on an airplane? I'll tell you two things that you
buy after security that should be banned. I hope. One
of them's tuna fish egg salad sandwiches and tuna sandwiches. Yes,
I mean you can get a tuna salad sandwich, which
is disgusting at subways right the subway sandwich stop. But

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here's some other things what you can This is TSA
approved these following foods. Now, this is for domestic travel,
importing them as a different story. So just domestic travel,
vacuum sealed meats and hard cheeses. Now you know, right
now for liquids is three point four ounces. If it's

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a creamy cheese, it it's not a liquid, but they
put the three point four limit on it. But if
it's a hard cheese like a cheddar or something. Spices,
if they're dried, they're generally okay in your carry on
or check luggage. Of course, put them in your leg
you're gonna smell. Here's the hot chili powder. Dried goods

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including pasta, dried beans, grains, and other pantryms, provided they
contain no liquid good and carry on or check package snacks.
That's an obvious when candy and chocolates, bread, yeah, you
wanna put it in some wrapping so that crumbs aren't everywhere.

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But now this is one that neither you or I
are likely to carry. Wine well, actually three point four ounces,
I suppose. Breast milk, that's true. It's considered a medically
necessary liquid. Therefore the Tsay's rule does not apply. Ladies.

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You're permitted to bring breast milk and cooling accessories such
as ice packs or jel packs on the airplane, even
if your child is not present. Maybe you're taking it
and going to visit the child. Coffee beans and tea
leaves are good cooked food, non liquid. Yes, you could

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actually take your Thanksgiving turkey, not the gravy, not the
mashed potatoes, but you know, cook it, wrapid in foil,
take it as a carry on. Fresh fruit, you know,
the fresh fruits and vegetables can be a little tricky,
but in their dried form perfectly okay, And this surprised me.

(01:14:53):
Fresh eggs, if you can afford them, I mean they're
like gold. Do you know that the waffle House chain
of restaurants. We don't have him out here in the West,
but Becky, they have a surcharge for any menu item
that has eggs. I don't like it, but I understand it.

(01:15:14):
With that juice formula, food and water for babies. Now,
this is one big Buddha was back in New York
for the premiere of Forever Strong movie. You've told me
this story. This is a good story. He loves raised pizzai.
It's fantastic. He brought an eighteen inch pizza. I offered

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to put it in the overhead myself. He didn't dare
trust me because half of them, our man. He brought
a freshly cooked pizza eighteen inch and put it in
the overhead well. A lot of things sandwiches, pies, and
cakes are okay. The whole thing is liquid. Well. That
brings us to the end of another trap. Will show

(01:16:00):
John great to have you here and uh again Morriscolumbus
dot com and we'll talk to you next week.