The Travel Show - Brazil Pauses Visa Requirement; How to Get Best Currency Exchange; The Wonders of Moorea

Episode Transcript

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Yurana and welcome to the travel showUrana the native greeting here in French Polynesia.
Yes, that's where the Getaway Guruhas gotten away to French Polynesia.
Landed in Tahiti on Wednesday, spentThursday on Bora Bora, Friday on Raiatea,

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which has significance to some of ourlistening audience. That's where the city
of Utuoa is and a recently announcedElds temple there. What's interesting about that
island is only twenty eight hundred inhabitants, but it's centrally located to much of
the society islands. And today Saturday, I am on Morea. Now it

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is seven am here in Morea.We are four hours earlier than Salt Lake.
Yes, I'm Larry Gelwicks. Toget Away Guru joined back in studio
in Salt Lake City through the miracleof electronics none other than the Argentinian gaut

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to himself, Carlos Carlos s muigrdito. No you are, I'll let some
of you translate that mugrdito or smuigappo. Well questionable. Also, I

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have to ask your wife. Shewould have tell me the trouble okay anyway,
No, Carlos is back at ourstudio. We broadcast from station k
n r S a mega station,and we broadcast as a syndicated radio program
all the way to Florida and theAtlantic coast. It's a great travel show

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listener audience. And that's who I'mhere on morea with properly pronounced morea,
morea. Each vowel is a syllablein the Polynesian languages, so for Tahiti,
morea. For example, in Hawaii, waikiki should be waikiki, properly

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pronounced because every vowel is a syllable. So a lot of fun here.
I'll be talking more about morea duringthe show. We'll be leaving in let's
see a couple of hours just asthe show finishes. One of the greatest

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shore excursions, and here at MorrisColumbus Travel, we organize our own cruise
shore excursions. Carlos, it's theswim with the sharks and rays. No,
I'm not talking about the irs orLas Vegas casinos. And we go
out to a motu that is theTahitian word for an island. It's a

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morning and after excursion, and wego to this area where it's a beautiful
sand bottom in the crystal clear waterup to about I'm five foot nine,
extremely muscular and don't lie, andthat's why I go to the beach.
They asked me to put my shirtback on. But water's about waist deep,

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and the stingrays and the reef sharkscome and uh the local attendance.
They will fit. You can feedthem if you want, not the sharks,
but the stingrays. You get apiece of fish and you put your
fingers together and kind of arch yourpalm and they just suck it right out

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of your hand. You don't haveto do that. You stay away from
the tail, but you can petthem and they'll come right up to you
there. And the reef sharks areso accustomed to humans they are more afraid
of people than people are afraid ofthe reef sharks and the gray tips.
You know, there's no tiger sharksor hammerheads or great whites or anything like

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that. So I've been doing thisfor years and years and years. We've
never had an incident. Who knows, maybe today will be the first.
No, I'm just kidding. Andthen we continue on to a private,
uninhabited either think of Gilligan's Island orsomething like that. And we have local
entertainment, a big barbecue, youcan go beachcombing, shell collecting, snorkeling.

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It is a wonderful activity that thecruise line does not offer, but
we do. And you know,cruise line short excursions are good. They
are more geared for the nearly dead, and they're very expensive, so we
tend to pack more in absolutely wonderful, wonderful experience. Well, the travel

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show is sponsored by Morris Columbus TravelYou're always travel more and pay less and
Norwegian Cruise Line the home of freestylecruising. You know, I have lived
a national geographic life. I reallyhave. I have done this. I
think next week I will tell youabout when I lived this, when I

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was a young man just out ofcollege, you know, eighty years yeah,
eighty and I look good in theloincloth and that's been generations. But
I'm going to tell you next weekabout living with an Aboriginal family, hunting
with yes, I hunted with aspear. I did the dream time walks.

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You know almost you're almost in atrance. Oh yes, in Australia
and I you know, covered inwhite eight pay. Basically, you know,
it's not paint gray. It's aclay base. It's not paint you'd
put on your house. But itlooks that way. And I ate what

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they ate. We ate what wekilled. And I've eaten kangaroo this one
time. I don't want to takeit away. We killed the wild boars
about two hundred pounds. I'll justtell you this story and I'll repeat it
next week. And it was We'reabout a mile from our camp. We
just slept out in the dirt.This was not a tourist activity. I
knew a real crocodile, Dundee,a real thing up in Kakadu country up

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north, and he knew a family. I said, this is what I
want to do. I was introducedto him by a rugby teammate of mine
at Byu from South Africa, andhe put me in touch and you know
good I might and I said,this is what I want to do.

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So he lined the whole thing up. I flew to Australia. I went,
I'm a diver. I went divingon the Great Barrier reef for a
while, then went up to Darwinand anyway, we went about one hundred
and fifty two hundred miles inland onfour wheel drive, off road part of
it, and he left me withthis family. There's so much more.

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And then I left the family andI was on my own for days on
end. He said this, we'reall pick you up on such and such
a mate. I had to crosscrocodile waters and I hunted with a spear.
So we killed this wild boar.And I actually became a dentist.
Did you know I'm a dentist?Really? Oh? Yes. I took

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an axe and chopped the big tusksout of the wild boar. And it's
probably a better job than some ofthe dentists I've been to. Not my
current one. Nikola Fever in SaltLake fabulous dnnis fabulous to anyway, But
we're too far from from camp totake it. It was dusk and so

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we'll come back and get it thenext morning. We come back, the
next morning, it's gone. Didyou know that there is a restaurant that
service wild boar here? My wifewas telling mother yesterday, how boring,
And I want to see that.How boring? No, no, no,
he's really the meat of the wildboar. If well prepared and sea

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perfect. Yes. So he looksat it and sees the tracks and says
about a twelve footer. One ofthe crocs out of the Billabong dragged it.
They can smell it for miles.Anyway, I'm going to tell you
all the details. I got someother great stories. Maybe I'll tell you
about the time I had to bribemy way out of with bribe the Russian

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army to get out of Russia.That's how you get your uniforms. So
you know, what are the benefitsof travel? What do we get out?
I've lived in national geogra Yeah,I've done the five star hotels,
the all inclusive resorts, the cruisers. But I have I have crawled on
my hands and knees in the Pyramidsof Egypt to the inner chamber. I've

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gone sailing in the archipelago of Islands, in Vavatu deep in the South Pacific.
You know. I've been on thefloor of the House of Commons in
Parliament. You can't get there anymore. But I knew an MP and he
took me down there, right rightwhere Winston Churchill stood. I stood and
he said, you know, wewill fight them in the beaches. We

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will fight them on land, we'llfight them at sea. We will never
surrender. Yes, So what arethe benefits of travel to you, Carlos,
I think it is the unknown.I like to prepare myself and I
study a lot before I go offso I can have experience that that unforgettable.
I mean, where are you goingto find that? In a resort

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in in in in Mexico. Andthat's a wonderful vacation. It is a
vacation. But these are the onesis experience, experience, experience. I
always tell the client, we aregoing to go there to have experiences.
Some of them are new ones thatI tracked before I go, so I
can offer to the clients in safety. And you know, I need good

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and a good time and with timeto roll and do more. You know,
I think of my travels working ata Cambodia school as a volunteer with
these desperately poor kids, wonderful.Uh. My friend Letty sailing in western

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Samoa is sleeping in his hut onthe floor. What a great experience.
Hey, when we come back,we got more on the Travel Show.
And you're listening to the Travel Showon talk radio one oh five nine kN
rs just listen and you'll know welcomeback to the travel or should I say

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urana, which is hello, Alohabuenos dias in Tahitian. You know,
it's interesting how it's spelled. It'stwo words I A and O R A
O r a urana, but phoneticallythat doesn't make any sense. But English

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letters are pronounced differently, so urana. And it's interesting how you say thank
you Maruru spelled m a. Areyou apostrophe? Are you maruru? It
almost sounds like I'm slurring it,but I'm not. Hey, listen,
uh you I have been talking getso many interesting travel requests. What are

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you seeing as the number one traveldestination vacation request? Cruising? Yeah,
it really is, isn't it.And here's some questions that I think everybody
should ask before they book or deposittheir next cruise. First of all,

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is it a destination or an experiencedcruise? And what I mean is I
want to see Galapagos. Yes,I'm not going to book a cruise to
the Mediterranean. I want to seeAlaskan. By the way, I got
a great Alaska cruise I'll tell youabout for twenty twenty five. Well,
I've got one in July twenty twentyfour, but I'm kind of promoting the

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twenty twenty five. If I wantto see the Norwegian Fjords, I'm not
going to book a Mediterranean or Caribbeancruise. So that's my primary interest is
a destination. I want a goodship. I want a good itinerary,
but then there's an experience cruise.Now I want a good destination. I
want a good ship, but Ican go to the Caribbean, I can

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go to Alaska, I can goto the med The destination is less important
than the experience I want. Forexample. Seven. By the way,
Kathy and I just on April thefifth, you'll want to write this down
send us a gift. April fifth, we celebrated our forty seventh wedding anniversary.

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How long have you and karendon Mary? Yesterday it was forty six years.
We got you by one, Yeah, forty seven years. And you
know the amazing thing, Kathy hasnot thrown me out of the house yet.
And believe me, she's had causeshe really has counselor I'll talk to
her. Yeah. Anyway, Sofor our fortieth wedding anniversary seven years ago,

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we said we're going to go ona cruise and we're not going to
have a group with us. It'sjust going to be us for reflection,
romance, good times together, notworrying about anybody but ourselves. You have
food, good food, and sowe picked on a brand new Norwegian cruise
ship, an Eastern Caribbean cruise outof Miami, and it was a wonder

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and it was a great price,so it was an experienced cruise. Now
the cruise I'm on right now witha group of travel show listeners is Tahiti
to Honolulu, a twelve day cruise. We boarded and departed this past Wednesday.
This is a destination cruise. Peoplewant to see the South Pacific,

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So make that decision. Are youlooking for a destination or experience? Remember
the experience still needs a good destination. But your primary driving factor is it
adults only like Virgin voyages or familyfriendly, which most of them are.
I'm a Waterways for example river cruises. Yeah, Viking river Cruises is adult

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only. Alma Waterways, which isfrankly my favorite. Vikings are a great
company. Avalon's you know where they'reyou have a wonderful time. I just
prefer Armah. They I think they'rea step up. Those were sailing an
Alma on the Rhine River with thegroup in August first of the eighth and
the Christmas markets December fourth of theeleventh. And what are the port times,

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because sometimes they're really messed up.You know in the national parks in
Alaska you can have one cruise shipin front of a glacier at a time.
Well, I saw one itiner Ithappened to be on Princess Cruises,
the very good line. The viewthe glacier was at six am. Who's
up at six am? So beaware of that. What is the age

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of the ship? Nothing wrong withthe older ships, but the newer ships
have more options, more dining opportunities, more entertainment, more retail. They
have more whistles and bells than theolder ships. And Carlos, Yeah,
size does matter, It really does. The size of the ship makes What

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are you talking? Why are youlaughing? Why knowing you so well?
No, I can see where you'recoming from. I think celestial or thank
you. I'm talking about the sizeof the ship. Now, there's nothing
wrong. You're smaller. Well,you can get to the smaller ships.
That whole eight hundred. I'm talkingabout a real ocean liner is about twenty

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five hundred up to six thousand.Now, there's nothing wrong with either one.
But some people don't want the megashipwhere you have the size of a
small Colorado town on board the ship. They want a smaller ship. Colland
America tends in that twenty five hundred, two thousand to three thousand, So

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just make that decision now. Inyour cabin category, if you get an
ocean view, which is a windowporthole in the older ships, or a
balcony sometimes called a veranda, makesure you determine is it an obstructed view
or unobstructed view, and you've gotboth. Even in balconies. You may

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go out in your balcony and allyou see is orange. You know it's
not the sunset, it's the sideof a lifeboat or through your window.
And then find out what is reallyincluded, what is extra? And then
the last one is the target audience. Every good, every product, every
service has a target audience and they'llsell to anybody. But who is the

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target audience on cruises? Here's howand it varies. Here's how you determine
it. Look at the photos intheir brochures or online website this, Are
you comfortable with this group? Forexample, let's take Crystal Cruises, which
is an ultra del LUs. Theirphotos are relaxed resort casual couples fifty five,

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sixty seventy and I love Crystal Cruises. Then you take what do you
think photos are appearing on the Disneycruise level children everywhere? Will they take
older couples just alone? Well,of course they will, but that's not
their target audience. So look atthe target audience. Am I comfortable with

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this group? And enjoy your cruise? Hey, when we come back,
I want to give you some ofthe highlights of where I am today on
the island of Moria Yrana, Andwelcome to the travel show. I'm Larry

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Gelwenz to get Away Gurus. Standinghere in my grass skirt with a coconut
shell top. It's quite a Itis quite a sight, Carlos. I
can't see you later my swaying hipsin the gentle breezes and trade winds coming
in across the Pacific. Anyway,I'm Larry Gelwick's I am on the island

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of properly pronounced morea frequently and commonlypronounced morea deep in the heart of French
Polynesia, Miamigo. Carlos Feda isback in studio in Salt Lake City,
and through the miracle of technology,we can chat with you, but we
can't take phone and calls, sowe apologize. We'll do that in a

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future show because you really are thebest part of it, you know,
Carlos, French Polynesia is there's amystique about it. There's a mystery about
French Polynesia. French Polynesia consists ofone hundred and eighteen islands and five island

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groups, the Society Islands, theMarquesas Islands, the austral Islands, the
Gambier Islands, and the Twomotu Archipelagoof islands. In fact, in the
Twomotu most of them are uninhabited.I told you earlier a little bit about

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Maria and the excursion will be goingon with We have a group of travel
show listeners here that came with me. You know, I do this.
I take a number of tours everyyear and I just say, hey,
who wants to go with me?And people sign up. I've got you
know, later in the show,I'll tell you about some of the twenty
twenty five cruise tours. We doindependent activities both on board the ship and

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off the ship that are just amazing. And this shark swim with the sharks
and rays and private island a motuare something the cruise lines just don't do
it. Everybody says it was theirnumber one favorite thing to do. And
this is the third time I've donethis cruise with a group of travel show

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listeners. Anyway, so you know, over half of these one hundred and
eighteen islands are uninhabited, and yeah, you can go out to them and
have Adam and Eve experience if youwant. They have lots of leaves,
nothing but no the leaves, whichis the long Anyway, who is your

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favorite author that wrote about it?Oh, James Mishner? Who else?
Well? Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote aboutthe South Pacific Somerson Mom wrote a less
right he did? You know?James Mishner said that Bora Bora was the
most beautiful island in the world.I have to agree to it. What's

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nice about these these French Polynesia islandsis most of them have a reef encircling
the island with a opening out tothe open ocean, which means you're not
getting shore breaking waves like you doin Hawaii. And I love going out
there on Bora Bora. My favoriteactivity is to get on a jet ski

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and completely encircle the island inside thereef, the big passage of water from
the reef to the island proper.And I'll stop at a moto, maybe
we'll have a picnic lunch, Kathy, and I'll get back on our jet
ski. This is marvelous. Orgoing out on a catamaran. The water
is crystal clear. They're in BoraBora. You know, I've been diving

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with the giant rays of twelve footwingspan, unbelievable. I also went diving
outside the reef in the open ocean, and the shelf from the reef drops
very steep down thousands of feet,you know. And I was down,
and I was there about eighty feetdown, and I noticed that I was

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I counted thirteen sharks in my vicinity, and the rock sharks, not the
one in Jaw, No, notthe Jaws. It was bigger in Bora
Bora. It was bigger than Jaws. No, it wasn't. No,
No, I'm kind of so Iback up I back up to where my

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back is close to the shelf orthe land, the you know, going
down from the reef, so Iwas protected from the back. And one
shark got a little bit too closeand I punched it right in the snout.
Now you want to punch it inthe snout from the side so that
your hand doesn't slip into the mouth. You know. It just takes one

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shark chomp to ruin your whole dayand lose you weight. Yeah, lose
my hand anyway. Just great experiencesthere, you know. Bora. Bora
is kind of a sleepy island.It's ideal for R and R rest and
relaxation. You go to the fourseasons. Obscenely expensive, but I love

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it. Uh but Morea is myfavorite island because it has all of the
things that you dream of a tropicalparadise, and just across the bay from
the island of Tahiti. See there'sa misnomer. There is no such thing
as Tahitian islands. There is oneisland whose name is Tahiti, and that's

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where mutiny on the Boundary took place. You can visit the very place where
they landed, you know. Uh. Captain blygh and missed a Christian.
Uh, the whole thing took place. Of course, when they finally sailed
away, they landed at pitt KarenIsland and burned their ship. And for

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because pitt Karen was miss uh what'sthe word miss uh? He was the
map. Yeah, it was mismapped. I guess it didn't appear on any
charge and was not on sailing.So for generations they remained unknown. And
that's a great story in of itself. Well you know that many of the

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descendants of Christian Well yes, yes, yes, So back to Morea.
You have everything, you know,some of the favorite activities is uh.
You can take a four x fourvehicle into the here jungle and waterfalls.
There are only two roads on theisland, one that completely encircles it.

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A couple of just offshoots down tothe beach, but they don't count what
you go completely around the island andthe mountain there, the dominating mountain is
Mountain Belvidere, and there's one roadthat goes up. You can stop on
the way up to an ancient madaithat was a temple, a Tahitian temple,

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and the foundations are still there andthey have a chart. You can
read the history of it, longbefore Captain Cook arrived in Tahiti or any
Europeans. What's fun to do,but you gotta be careful. If you
haven't ever ridden a scooter, don'trent one. It's just too dangerous.

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Every day they have neophytes who getin an accident. You know, they
go too fast, they break,they lose control. You can rent a
car, but drive around the island. And you know, James Mishner said
that Bora Bora was the most beautifulisland in the world, and I agree.
But for me, the most beautifulplace, and we will be there

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in a couple of hours, ishunt a copy iye bay. There's two
bays there and one is Cook's Bayand the other bay is where Captain Cook
actually landed. And you know it'sjust to see. Now. You remember

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the the nineteen fifty eight movie MitziGainer. I'm going to wash that man
right out of my hair, thankyou very much. You see, people
often wonder what do by the way, I just said a copy eye that
that is a beach in Hawaii.It's open, no hubay, I don't

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know. Hey, it's early morninghere and I haven't had my cold coffee,
which is diet coke. You no, it's open No. I apologize
that hanakopy I Bay is on Kawhitiand you have to hike into it or
take a boat into it. Hanacopy eye falls a four hundred waterfall.
But anyway, you've got Cook's Bayand Open no Hubay. Now, Captain

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Cook actually anchored in open Nohu Bay, but they named the other one after
him. I don't know why,but you remember in this nineteen fifty eight
Mitzigaina South Pacific movie, the legendaryBali Hi Bali Bali Hi. Okay.

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That's that's worse. You wonder whatI did with the money my mother gave
me for singing lessons? I okay, thank you. On the beach.
I'm gambling at the beach anyway.So there there, the mountain there at
open no Hubay, at the veryback of the bay is what they patterned
in the nineteen fifty eight movie asvally. They look just identical. Now

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in the movie it was an island, but in real life it's a mountain
at the back of Open no Hubay. And to me, that is the
single most beautiful place on earth becauseYou've got the mountain, and then on
each side there are these mountain wallscovered in greenery and palm trees that explode
straight up from the water a thousandfeet or more. And then the fourth

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side opens up to the Pacific Ocean, and of course the bay there incredible.
Hey, I want to I'll tellyou more about morea I want to
attend turn our attention to Italian cuisine. Is that gonna be just about everybody
loves Italian food, and you areactually of Italian ancestry, although you grandparents

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you grew up in Guadalajara. Okay, wrong country. What about geography?
I think I need to teach yousome jokes. Okay, you grew up
in Argentina. They actually served inthe Argentinian Navy. But you were not
in the navy when Argentina tried tosteal the Falkland Islands from Mother England.
Don't you even go there, Larry? Why are you telling me that again

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and again? Ru rules no waves. That's even worse. The tabernacle choir
will never invite me to sing.Okay, uh, what what are your
favorite Italian dishes? You know mostof the Italian dishes I like to cook

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myself. For example, lasagna isthe best because they los ango. Don't
you make your own noodles? Imake my own normal what's that? When
are you gonna bring me some?You bring me empanadas all the time.
Yes, esmu delicioso. But I'venever had your lasagna? What are you
in the best of friends for almostforty years? Shame on you, chame

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on you think I'm gonna cook somethingfor you because these lasagna is to die
for. I mean because of theingredients that I use. It's not just
the American thing. Open a canand put the sauce on, cooking them
in the oven. No, whenwe come back, we're gonna talk about
the difference between American Italian food andItaly Italian food. And if you're going

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to cook for me after the hardtime I give you, I will have
the lasagnia, but I'm gonna havea taste and heat at first. All
that more and we come back onthe Travel Show. You're listening to The
Travel Show on talk radio one ohfive nine knrs. Just listen and you'll
know Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru,

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joined back in studio in Salt LakeCity. My good friend of what
all almost forty years, Carlos feeda director of Latin American sales for Morris
Columbus Travel. He is not aSouth America Encyclopedia. No, he is
a South America Google Google. Heis because of the encyclopedia has a limit

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to it. Hey, listen,we're talking about our favorite foods. You
know, I like, I lovepizza, a really good pizza, although
I will say I think the bestvalue pizza is probably from Costco ten bucks.
It's good, it's not my favorite. I like, you know,

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a good well, yes, that'sthat's what we love. Yeah, Napoli
with that, you know, butif you're only feeding kids, probably Little
Caesar is the best value. No. I don't eat that stuff. No,

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no, But if you got likemy eight year old grandsons, they
love it and I can get offfor what five or six bucks or something
like that. But but pizza,you know, number one fast food it
is. You know, there's otherthing is Humburgers. It's not Humnger.
It's pizza for New York style.Here in Salt Lake City, I like

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Big Apple Pizza on thirty third Southit's really great. So what is the
big difference between America Italy food andItaly Italy food. I think that America
has taken a little a little corneraround the thing and made up something different

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than the people are used to.This kind of food that is prepared here.
You go to any restaurant could bethe best restaurant and I'll stay heah.
It could be a restaurant, anItalian restaurant, and everything is a
little bit different from what they servein Italy. And I have been to
Italy no long ago and I remembertasting the food there and I said,
wow, yeah. You know.One of the big differences that I notice

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is that in America now this isthere's some very authentic yes, I mean
Vaulters in Salt Lake City is veryvery, very good. And some they're
in Little Italy in New York City, they're on Mulberry Street. There's some
incredibly good Italian restaurants. But thebiggest difference overall is that in America we

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tend to sauce the pasta way muchand you taste the sauce, not the
pasta. In Italy, tasting thepasta is critically important. You have pasta
regionally different and they use different flourfor it. And I've never had a

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pasta overcooked in Italy and here inAmerica. Sometimes it comes al dante,
but other times it's just mushed becauseit's been cooked. You know, Larry,
if you go to Tonica Putto,for example, you can have the
best pasta that you cannot ruin thepasta when you are boiling it, and

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it tastes because it's important from Italy, so they come from Italy. Pack
you get what you pay for,you know. You often hear the term
restaurante, tratatoria, trattoria excuse me, and osteria, and there's a big
difference. You know. The restaurantestill uphold their reputations as a formal restaurant

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or establishment. You usually will findtables dressed in linen and nice china,
a good extensive menu. The waitstaff is always well versed in Italian food
and they're usually very knowledgeable when itcomes to Italian wines, desserts and entrees,
where a tractoria traditionally has been asmall family run business with several dishes,

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not an extensive menu. And youknow what's interesting in some tractorias the
recipes have been handed down for generations, so it's like a family Italian dinner
experience. The core can change fromunique and intricate to more subtle. It's
a family run established or osteria.Now this has changed because in the past

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and osteria started out as a placewhere locals would play cards and drink wine
and they served a little bit offood, but it was like bar food.
Although that has now changed and osteriashave become more upscale. As I
mentioned Walters and he died shortly,it said, great restaurant. You'd never

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call Olive Garden a osteria. I'mjust gonna leave it at that. But
it is an incredible difference. Now, what's really interesting is there is the
difference between Italian cuisine and Roman cuisine. When it really comes to it,

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there is no such thing as Italiancuisine because Italy is made up of twenty
region and each region has its ownculture, cuisines, some even different languages
that differ from region to region.People up in Tuscany can hardly understand people
from Sicily. Well, the peoplein the south, you know, like

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in the boot of Italy. Atthe very end, Calabrea, especially,
the cooking is completely different. Doyou know that they have these little tiny
pepper hot pep and they do alot of cooking with hot peppers, while
in other places in Italian or farthernorth, they don't do that. Pasta

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yeah, well, as food asconcerned, you'll usually find pasta throughout Italy,
but the type of pasta the toppingsvary from region to regions. So
the pasta in Rome is typically longspaghetti fechini, tagalite or for folly.
It difference wherever it goes. Staytuned for our number two of the travel

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show Jorana and greetings from the islandof Moorea, deep in the heart of
the South Pacific Polynesia, French Polynesia, beautiful island Moorea. Just across the

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bay you can see the island ofTahiti. We've already been with a group
of travel show listeners on the islandsof Tahiti Bora, Bora uh right Yeta,
and today on Moorea commonly pronounced Morea, but properly pronounced Moorea. And
then we set sail tonight four dayscruising north through the deep reaches of the

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South Seas, crossing the equator.Our next landfall will be in four days
on the Big Island of Hawaii.He will be landing at Hilo and we
have a you know, we alwaysdo our own shorts cursions, and I
told you about the one we're goingto do today. Swim with the sharks
and the rays and go to aprivate island with whatever body parts are left.

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I just can never had a problem, you know, just here,
chomp, chomp, chump. Buthe is a little bit scary when they
start going out, because they're goingup and you see these fiends going around
surrounding you, and oh, mygoodness, what is going to happen.
But they're no bigger than twenty sevenfeet right, No, No, they're

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like three and four feet five feet. You know. They're they're reef sharks.
They're timid, and they're so accustomedto humans. I've never been aware.
I asked a local operator if they'veever had someone bitten by a shark.
There's no. He's been doing it, what thirty years, he said,
never had an incident. You know. Anyway, you know, we'll

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sail through the Tuamotus, past theMarquesas Islands, one of my favorite islands
up north in the Marquesas where thatprobably the second wave in about nine hundred
a d. It was the secondwave of migration to what is now the

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Hawaii and the first way came fromprobably the right Eyetea where we were.
But they're on the island Nukuheva Hevaor these beautiful islands. I've been to
a Nukuheva. You have a thousandfoot waterfall, one thousand feet only he

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got a small population there. It'sa beautiful island. Anyway, Senor Carlos,
I'd like to turn my attention toSouth America and Brazil made a huge
statement about travel to Brazil. Well, you know, I think it was
in October of last year. Thepresident of Brazil, who is leaning towards

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almost he's a new prison. Wellno, he's not new. He has
been voted out on the first timebecause of who knows what, and then
he was voted in again recently andthe first I mean relatively new. Yeah,
as a president years. This iswhat happened there. Because we charge

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eVisa for anybody that come from Brazil, and many other countries do the same.
Key said, okay, you willhave to get a very to come
from Brazil to come to Brazil intoBrazil. So in October of course,
we tried to fill out the form, but it is online. You can't
do it. Because I think thatthe system didn't work very well. But

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then the parliament decided why why dothis and hurt the travel industry. So
very recently the president had to announce, okay, there will be no more.
No, it's called a reciprocity.There's visa will be reinstated. Maybe

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maybe next next April fifteen, twentytwenty five, which I'm sure it's on
two days, No, two daystwenty five. It won't happen. It
will really not happening. The travelindustry. The big operators are pushing the
government because it's destroying. How aboutyou go from Argentina and cross over to
Brazil, which we have a lotof these clients going there, and you

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have to pay one hundred, onehundred dollars to get a visa. You
have to put in the in thein the system, your credit card.
See, this is the thing thatwas so troublesome. In their wisdom,
they thought, well, we're goingto make a lot of money. But
what the opposite has happened us tourismto Brazil has tanked because of the visa

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requirement. They catch this. Wouldyou go to Brazil under this? To
our listening audience, you not onlyhad to pay what one hundred bucks,
you had to buy credit card,and then you had to give your bank
account number and a bank statement showingthat you had at least two thousand dollars

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cash in the bank. Are youreally going to send to some South American
dictator, which he basically is,he's a communist in my view, your
bank account number, your everything aboutyour bank, and your a card.
No. And that's why tourism hastanked. The tourism industry. The airlines

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and hotels are saying, do youreally have stupid tattooed on your forehead?
Yeah, so they're going to changethat, at least they say they are.
Yeah. Well, I think it'sgonna It's not gonna happen because Obama
was the first person that came thereand said novices, please novisa requirement if
you want to increase the tourists here. Argentina had the same thing. RACI

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prosided attacks. I think it wasabout one hundred dollars and then cheated did
the same. It just is uphere. Everything. Well, I'll go
back to Brazil, which I loveparticularly we talked about Italian food, Brazilian
cuisine, Mocheca. Oh yes,yes, yes, yes, hey listen.

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You can see this on the MorrisCoolumbus dot com website. You and
I are teaming up on yet anotherSouth America together, this one I don't
think we have ever done. It'sMarch of next year and it is Peru,
Chile and Easter Island Rapanui. Youknow, this tour has never been

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on any website. I've never seennobody has done this, and this is
interesting. I had a group thatwent to Easterdada and a few weeks ago.
It was wonderful, what an experience. And we have two and a
half days there now not enough.No, no, that's why for this
particular tour that you and I willbe going with. Kathy can take care

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of all the ladies. You takeall the hard clients and I will take
the easy ones. So yes,I want to be nice to you today.
So the change the March eleventh throughthe twenty third, VI said Cousco
Machu Picchu, the sacred valley.We haven't experience there in Nawas Calientes,
you know, with those mountains surroundingthe little town. Then we fly very

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interesting all the time. We haveto fly from Cusco and then more no,
only once a week you can flyfrom Cusco to Santiago, Chile,
which is a very short fly bythe way, So we are going to
do that. So I have tochange everything on the tour. Finally,
it is posted on the website.Some people want to talk about that and

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want to sign up. I thinkthat I have about six or seven couples
ready to sign up for this tour. Even though we put that in there,
I can enjoy Santiago Chile. It'sit's almost sits in a bowl with
the mountains surrounding it, you know, because you have the mountains that are
on the coast, and then themountains the andle so it is in a

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valley. It's like in a bowl. You're right. If my friend Edward
dou Diaz, who you've met,I hope he's listening. He regularly listens
to the show is from Chile,you know much you pitch you is a
place that you don't go to justonce. If you've been, there's there's
a drawing power and that little villageof Agua calientthis is overwhelming. It's it's

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at the base of the mountains.We take the dome train down and what's
interesting about you know, the rockymountains and the Himalayas roll up. The
Andes don't roll up, they explodestraight up, and it's just overwhelming.
We've talked before about the Inca Empireand Francisco Pisaro, h Santiago is has

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a wonderful small downtown area. We'vegot just a couple of minutes left in
this segment. Let's talk about EasterIsland Rapa Nui. It's actually Polynesia.
It's closer to Tahiti than it isto Chile, which has now governmental control
over. Now that you're practicing there, the greeting, what is the greeting

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in It's spelled the same, butit's pronounced slightly differently in in Tahiti,
now spelled i a than o ra. In Tahiti it is pronounced urana,
but in Easter Island it's ea aurah. That's right, but it's spelled
to say, you know, theyhave a different language. Is there still

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it is a politician, you know, language different, but that is wonderful.
The guys are such experts, andmany of them are descendants of kings,
of the islands in former times.That's a very interesting You know what
what I'd like you folks to dois go google Moi, mo o Ai,

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Moai, Easter Island and those thoseelongated heads and most of it's underground.
There's over nine hundred MOAIs and theorigin and meaning is is unknown.
There's different theories about it. We'dlove to have you join us. Go
to Morriscolumbus dot com more Truscolumbus dotcom, click on Escorted Tours and then

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click on if you put your curseover the America's click on South America.
March eleventh to the twenty fourth,twenty twenty five. Carlos and I will
be there on the wonders of SouthAmerica and Easter Island more when we come
back. You're listening to the TravelShow on Talk Radio one oh five nine
knrs. Just listen and you'll knowWelcome back to the Travel Show. I'm

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Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru,Joined in studio back in Salt Lake City.
I'm on the island of Moorea,Joined in studio back in Salt Lake
is Carlos fied and by the way, earlier this week on Monday. What
was that the eighth I think,yeah, the eighth of April, the
day of the solar eclipse. MoreUs, Columbus Travel was honored as the

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winner of the Best of State Awardas the number one best professional travel agency
in the great state of Utah.And we hope that carries over our boarders.
But it's a tremendous honor. Whatmakes it unique, Carlos, is
this is the fourth year in arow professional creative. You know what I

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see the difference is is the peoplethe travel advice is. You know,
I wish I could say that wenever ever make a mistake. We do,
but I'd like to think that weown up to it and we try
our best to make it right.But you've got I mean, between you

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and me, we have how longhave you been in the travel business?
Forty five years? That's the samefor me forty five. You've got ninety
years of experience between just the twoof us. And we have well over
one hundred travel advisors throughout our system. We have offices in multiple states,

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and I'm just so proud of them. You know. Brent Jensen, the
president Morris Columbus Travel, does agreat job Brian Holeen the co chairman.
David Simmons and Brian Helen are cochairs. They do an incredible job of
just pointing the direction steering the ship, which Brent Jensen does too. And

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then down to the office managers,the individual travel advisors. What you learn
in this business is you can't justhire someone and throw them in the lions
den. It's not like getting abarcode reader. And you know an attempt
job. You get one call onSouth America, the next call in Hawaiian,
the next car and a river cruise, the next car call all inclusive

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Mexico. So I want to saycongratulations to all of the leadership and staff
of Morris Columbus Travel four years ina row as the best of state.
Now go ahead. It's very interesting, Larry, because we are not order
takers. We are not. Weprepare an itinerary according to the what they

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were the client wants to see,and we accord inspire them with ideas,
new, ideas new. Ultimately theclient makes all the decisions. Yes,
I mean it's their credit card,their checkbook, but we try to give
I see myself as an option giver, an information giver, and this is
what I would recommend merchant of dreams, there we are, or a merchant

(52:43):
of Venice that I was in Venice. My mother's there we go, she
was near Guadalajara. Hey listen,may I take a moment of unashamed self
promote unabashed that's new, Oh LUCIENTO. I want to I love going out

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with our travel should listeners just asyou do. And of course you and
I are going to do that Wondersof South America and Easter Island next March.
That will fill up quick. We'regoing to keep it to a relatively
small group. I am currently onour Tahiti to Hawaii group. We're now
on day one, two, three, four of a twelve night journey,

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and it is just mark. Weget together for our own activities. We
have our own shore excursions. Youknow, I told you we're gonna be
eaten by the sharksday now We're notgoing to. But we have so much
fun together. And the joy ofgroup travel is you can be as involved
or uninvolved with the group as youwant it. No one ever feels like

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they're hurdy cattle or something like that. But you know, if there's something
comes up, you have your tourhost and other group members there to help,
and both you and I have helpedin many situations. I remember one
tour that we have. We hadeighteen passengers on a little sheep around the

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Galoppo's Island. Oh what was that? Nineteen eighty one? Okay, okay,
let's tell that story right now.This is a good one. So
Carlos and I are hosting a travelshow listener group, but we only can
take eighteen people. And Carlos andI shared a cabin. I got in

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first, so I took the bottombunk and him climbed to the top.
Doubt yeah, And I thought ourtrain was coming through the ocean with you
with your snoring anyway, So wehad a wonderful group of people, but
we had this one elderly woman.And I got to say this, twenty

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nine percent of our tour members.I think they're the most wonderful people.
Kathy and I, as you andKaren have done, have formed friendships.
Yes, friendships I think of forexample, Dale and Mary Anderson. We
met themselves. I think in twentysixteen was it on a Hawaii to Tahiti

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cruise just like the one I'm onnow. And I had Themarcos that we
have visially we have in I thinkif the Kings, and I mean the
Palmers, the Millers, I couldgo on and on and on, and
we socialize with them now we gettogether at each other's homes anyway, So
we've only got about a minute anda half. So this one woman,

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lovely woman, she was in hereighties, and she had her sister or
a traveling companion. Yeah, andI get awoke in one night at two
a m. We're sailing, andthe crew wakes me up and says,
this woman is in her her negligewandering around and I don't mean this unkindly

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in a daze. If she felloverboard, she is dead. And so
I escorted her back. I said, you can't do this. I talked
to her traveling companion. You can't. You can't walk around at night.
It's two o'clock. It's too dangerous. And the problem is she was unsteady.
As it turned out, she haddementia. I mean, God bless

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her. But so then the secondnight they wake me up at three a
m. And she's doing the samething, and she's leaning over back and
forth on the railing and they don'tknow what to do. They get me.
I take her back to her room. Carlos says, what are you
going to do? And I said, well, I couldn't do this in
the US. Oh, she wouldarrest me. But I asked the ship

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for a piece of rope because Ican't lock the door from the outside.
I tied a knot, a boyscout knot around the handle, and I
tied it to a post and wetied them in their room. And I
said, I gotta do this.I gotta keep you safe. We'll let
you out for breakfasts. Welcome backto the travel show. I'm Larry Gelowick's

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the Getaway Guru, joined by CarlosFieda, director of Latin America Sales,
and me and Migo back in studioin Salt Lake City. I send you
greetings, Yorana from the island ofMoorea, deep in French Polynesia. I
said at the start of you know, I get off topic all the time,
don't I. You know, maybeI have dementia. I can't remember

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what I've forgotten. Thank you verymuch, Thank you very much, Celeni.
Anyway, I opened the last segment, I said, in a moment
of unashamed a bashed self promotion,and we didn't get to that, but
I love that story. You know, she was a delightful woman. She

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did have some dementia, was constant. She kind of come in and out.
But it was so when I whenI grabbed her on the deck,
there was almost a glaze. Shedidn't know where she was and has she
gone overboard? This was at night. We would never find, we would
we would never Yeah, we wouldnever have found. The see was pretty

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rough because the wind came up aswe sailed between it. Now I wonder
at the islands, it was verycalm. We're in the sheltered bay.
But my unabashed moment of self promotionis I love going out with our crews
and tour groups of travel show listeners. It's so much fun to meet you.
May I say always thank you,thank you, thank you for listening

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to the show. Whether you're anarmchair traveler or a frequent traveler or ear
uh say, reverent, that's me, infrequent traveler. Thank you for listening
to the Travel show. Without you, we wouldn't have a show. What
I want to do, my unabashedmoment is just review very quickly some cruise

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tour opportunities now most of them havea pre cruise and post cruise land option.
We do all our own tours.I have carefully selected what I think
are the ultimate experience. Even ifyou've been there, the way this is
done, you'll want to go back. So these are twenty twenty five.

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I am confident I will be addingsome more, but right now, no
you will. Here's what I have. I have Sidney to Auckland, Australia
and New Zealand. This is Februarytwelve. Excuse me, February fifteen to
twenty eight. It's the two weekcruise thirteen thirteen days actually, and we

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sailed from Sydney. We stopped inMelbourne and then down to Tasmania, the
island of Tasmania, and then sailacross the Tasman Sea, named after Abel
Tasman, the Dutch explorer that firstsaw in New Zealand and named it autta
Aroa, the indigenous Maori name asLand of the Long White Cloud. We

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visit Fjordland National Park now this isLord of the Rings country where it was
filmed, you know. And thento Dunedin up to christ Church. You
think you are in England. JollyOld England and then the Bay of Islands.
Seen it grandeur, a whole baydotted with islands. And then down

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to Tarhang. I think of SantaMonica. You know it's it's a delightful
beach community. And then into Aucklandand again we'll have a Sydney pre cruise
seeing all the sites, and apost cruise in Auckland. We'll see Auckland,
we'll get down to Waitomo area.But the highlight we'll get down to

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Hobbiton. It's where the Hobbits werefilmed and their homes, their dugouts are
all there. We get to visit. Absolutely spectacular again February fifteenth until the
twenty eighth. Now in June.I am going crazy about this one because
last year I did this. Thisis June twelfth to the twenty second.

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Iceland to London. It's on abrand new ship, the Norwegian Prima.
I've sailed on. It is fantastic. So we'll make we start in rekuvic
Iceland. We make three port stopsin Iceland. I love Iceland. You
know what's interesting is over half thepopulation actually believes in elves and trolls.

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I am not disparaging them. Everybody'sentitled to their own reality. You could
talk to people who've seen them afterdrinking a lot of other well, I
don't know about that. I'm notgoing to disparage them. You know,
you've only got about three hundred thousandpeople. When you get married, you
can actually look at a book tosee if you're marrying your cousin or something
like that. You know, whenyou make you could have construction in Iceland.

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You have to get a permit thatstates they've they've done a study on
your land that there's no under earthelves or trolls living there. This is
real. And you know, Kathyand I've been to Iceland a number of
times and the like the gulfhist waterfallsis just overwhelming. And we went we

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went snowmobiling in October. You cando it year round. It's a year
round. It's a glacier, snowmobilingon glacier. Now, tell me how
cool this is. And I learnedthat Cathy drove faster than I did.
She did the same thing on thejet ski in Bora Bora. She's a

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crazy woman when it comes to speed. She is one that accelerates on the
driveway. I love you, Kathy, don't divorce me anyway. We sail
from island to Norway. We'll seesome of the fjord Land, Olissen,
beautiful city Bergen and fjord Land.Then on to Amsterdam. I love Amsterdam.

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You know the Anne Frank House andthe canals. Yes, we'll do
a canal trip there, the palacethere, and then on to Bruce.
I think Bruce maybe maybe the mostbeautiful city in Europe. It's not a
major city like Paris. Yeah,and it's famous for lace. And then
on to London. Actually, Southamptonis where we will. We will you

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land and it's hour to half driveinto London. We'll have a post cruise
option to London. Let's move onto the British Isles July seven to twenty
one. All this itinerary is insaneas insanely cool. We arrive in London,
we'll go down to the coast,of course, but here we visit

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England, Ireland, Northern Ireland,which is a different country, Scotland and
France. I'm doing that in October. No, not in October, next
May. In May I'm doing thatwith Karen to celebrate our forty five wedding
anniversary. Did you see the movieDunkirk, Yes, of course. Well

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some of that was in La Hove. They're in France. Some of the
troops we dock in La hof Andyou have access to Normandy. You want
an emotional go to the Landing Beachesof Normandy. You can still see the
Nazi bunkers, but we'll visit andyou can take an excursion into Paris.

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It's a short train ride from thehome down there. We'll go to Edinburgh
to inver Gordon, Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
Liverpool. You can still go tothe Cavern Club where the Beatles got their
starting. I will sing she LovesYou, Yeah, yeah, yeah for
you, maybe nobody will go withyou. Cork. You know what's fun

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for Cork is the Blarney Castle andyou can kiss the Blarney Stone. Mark
Folbo made the comment because the traditionis if you kiss the Blarney Stone you
are given the gift of gab andhe said, if that's true, Larry
made out with the Barney. Imade out with it. That's why I
could do this show. And ofcourse at Portland, England anyway, it'll

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be a wonderful experience. July sevento the twentieth. Then the I am
so excited about this next cruise.It's Alaska, but it's a north south.
We'll leave from Vancouver, sail throughthe Inside Passage, visiting Juno,
Ketchikan, Skagway, but on thenorth south, and we'll make our way
to Anchorage. On the north south. We have two glacier days. The

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first is at the Glacier Bay NationalPark, the granddaddy of the mall.
Now we've already visited Juno, greatfor whale watching, Mendenhall, Glacier,
Skagway. I like the train upinto the Yukon Territory where the miners follow
the trail of the miners, andof course Ketchikan. We visit the There's

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two great totem parks there, andI liked the one at Potlatch. I
think it's the better one. It'smore authentic, a less touristy, and
it's a beautiful drive. We doa tour. We go out to Harry
and if you're gonna see this isa great time to see bear. There's
a salmon processing plant just up theriver. The bears and the salmon migrate

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up there. During spawning your return, the bears gathered. Now, of
course there's no guarantee it's a wildanimal, but it's a great place to
see bears. On recent trips wesaw six or seven bears. There no
guarantees they're wild animals anyway, Sowe'll visit self in Victoria. Go a
couple of days early, get upto Whistler. Now I remember driving up

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to Whistler and there's this big sign. It said bear Country as in B
E A R. Bear Country,had a big picture of a fierce grizzly.
Do not get out of your car. It was a park there.
What do you think I did?Of course I got out of the car

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with my camera. I didn't seea bear, but I was prepared.
I thought, all right, there'san open area. How much time will
I have to run and jump inthe car. And that's as far as
I went. My favorite place iswhen I visited Alaska on a cruise and
there was a big sign in frontof the restaurant and he says, we

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do not serve Chilean seafood. Weeat don't serve Chillian fish, And I
thought, why would they say that? And then later on I discovered because
the Chileans have these big places inthere is like a cage, you know,
in the sea, and they growall of these things like a farm.

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It's like a farm. It it'slike a farm. It's not the
same as wilds, not the same, right, So we leave Victoria.
I say, go a couple ofdays early, visit Chinatown and go up
to Whistler. But we go toJuno Ketchikan, Skagway, Glacier Bay,
and then College Fejord. Now it'sa feord carved out by glaciers millenniums ago

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and whilst in the fjord you willsee thirteen different glaciers, thirteen and it's
called College Flord because they've named theglaciers after Harvard Glacier, Yale Glacier,
Columbia Glacier. I'm waiting for aU of U glacier, a Utah State,

(01:09:24):
a BYU glacier, maybe a ColoradoState glacier, University of Texas glacier.
Then we go up to Anchorage.What's nice. You can end your
cruise there yet two glacier days,but we have a four day Denali option.
We stay in wilderness lodges and bythe way, we're sailing on princess

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crews, wilderness lodges in the parks, we go out animal watching. It
isn't increase. You know what's niceabout this time of year. It's fall
foliage and if the conditions are right, there's a p ssibility of seeing the
northern lights. Jonana, and welcomeback to the Travel Show. Where does

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two hours go? I don't Idon't know, but it's just before nine
am here on the island of Morea, deep in the heart of Polynesia,
where I am today with a groupof travel show listeners and of course Carlos
back in studio in Salt Lake.In case we lose the signal, he

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will carry on the show. You'vebeen trying to take over my show for
some time, haven't you, theyjourney I will, ye, you will.
As you push me down the stairsat the office, Oh, Larry
slipped on a bananapeglociento signor just acouple of things. I want to review
those dates again very briefly. Youcan get the details of the cruise tours

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that I'll be hosting next year.Morriscolumbus dot com. Morriscolumbus dot com click
on cruises, don't click on thegeographic area, click on cruises now for
our South America, The Wonders ofSouth America and Easter Island, you click
on South America. Just put yourcursor over the Americas and then drop down

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menu. Click on that. Goto March of twenty twenty five. Love,
You know that was going to fillup quickly and we'd love to have
you with it. So my cruiseis that I'll be taking again. We
have pre and post land tour optionson all of these Sydney Australia, New
Zealand February fifteen to twenty eight,Iceland to London June twelve to twenty two,

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British Isles July seven to twenty andAlaska with a Denali extension August twenty
third. With the extension, wefly home September three, and again Denali
is an option, but it's it'ssomething you just don't want to miss.

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Hey. You know, every weekwe highlight specials in Hawaii and Mexico,
and I was looking at some stuffthis week. Honolulu continues to have a
good good prices. You know,people ask me, Carlos, which is
better Hawaii or Mexico, And Isaid, I can't compare. They're not
apples. Apples different. Hawaii hasa different vibe. I love Hawaii.

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Mexico frankly is the better value rightnow. Hawaii A solid three star hotel
in Honolulu. Good location at theTwin Finn Hotel. I don't know why
they called it. That's kind ofa dumb name, but it's a good
hotel. I was looking at midMay rates from one thousand and ninety dollars
per person. No, it's airhotel and taxis good price. What is

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not included are the evil resort feesthat can be thirty. I think this
one. Hell, it's about thirtydollars a day, fives, it's fifty.
It's every day. And what doyou get, Well, you can
swim in our pool. It's justan excuse to pick your pocket. But
you can't get around. Everybody doesit. Other places call it a destination
Las Vegas destination fee circus circus inLas Vegas advertises a super low rate midweek,

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but the resort or destination fee ismore than the room rate, and
it jacks it way up. It'sjust an excuse to pick your pocket.
Now. President Biden, seriously threetimes has said he's gonna outlaw junk fees
or these resort fees. Hasn't doneit. He mentioned in the State of
the Universe. Hasn't done it.Maybe he's forgotten. I don't want to

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get into that. That's it.I'm not going to go any further.
But anyway, that's a good deal. That price is plus your resort fee,
which has to be paid directly tothe hotel. But looking at Cancun,
the Catalonia, Yukontan Beach all inclusiveagain mid May rates from one thousand
and seventy nine all inclusive, allinclusives. And then in Puerto Wyarte,

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these are solid first class hotels inMexico. At the Crystal, that's a
very good hotel. Chaine Crystal,Puerto Bayarta, all inclusive. I was
looking in June later June get awayfor the summer, take the family.
But the per person based upon twosharing room rates from one thousand and forty

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one. I mean that is justinsane. Now rates do vary by departure
date on a subject to availability andchange at the time of booking. But
remember all inclusive includes your round tripair round trip transfers from the hotel to
the airport, your resort, allyour meals, all your beverages, both

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leaded and leaded, your taxes andfees, and for you cheap skates out
there, even your tips and gratuities. You will not have that moment of
crisis. Should I really tip hima whole quarter? Hey? Contact your
favorite travel professional at Morris Columbus Travel. Hey, We've got about a minute
left and then I've got to sayMaruru and get off to swim with the

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sharks here on the island of Moorea. I've got two river cruises where we
went in as Morris Columbus Travel andbought over half the ship and as a
result, we got discounts that arelower in some cases one thousand dollars per
person discount depending on the cabin category. That's two thousand dollars a couple,

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and we are lower than buying itdirectly from the cruise line. The first
is the Rhine and I'll be hostingboth of these with Kathy. First is
the Rhine River. This is CastleCountry. We visit the nether Netherlands,
France, Germany and Switzerland. Augustfirst of the eighth, I think we
only got like two cabins left orsomething like that. The other is I

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dearly love Christmas markets on the Danube. This is December fourth to the eleventh,
Germany, Austria and Hungary, Nurembergto Budapest, stops in Vienna,
mil Passau, Regensburg and again thosesame monstrous discounts. And we have a
pre cruise option on the Christmas markets. You see the Christmas markets and all

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the regular site scenes down to Bavaria, No Schwanstein, ober Amagau, Munich
is a pre cruise option. Allof those contact Morris Columbus. Travel well,
listen, have a great week.I'm going to enjoy morea maruru,
which is thank you in Tahitian Godbless