The Travel Show: Celebrity Cruises; San Francisco is Back!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gelwick' the getaway Guru, and we have a great show
planned for you today. San Francisco is back and we're
gonna talk about why you should check the validity of
your passport and how many empty pages do you have?
The key account manager for Celebrity cruise Lines will be
joining us. There is a new I should say, I

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have a new Thailand and Legends of Siam tour this winter,
a brand new tour. And can you really fly if
you lose your ID? How about a legitimate free airfare
offer with your next cruise? And Italy, one of the
most popular cities in Italy, has passed some new tourist

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laws that will hit you with heavy fines if you
break their new laws. Dan Hone will be calling in
for a Middle East update. All that and more on
today's travel show. You know, I don't know where time
goes here. We are in the last Saturday in September,

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and I think fall is efficiently here. We're headed into
October and just three months Christmas is here, two months
Thanksgiving is here, one month it's Halloween. Well, I mentioned
that my hometown, San Francisco, was born and raised in
San Francisco, went to school there. I have a complete

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love affair with the city by the Bay. Used to
be called Baghdad by the Bay, and that's a whole
nother story for another day.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
But you know, San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Really took a downward trend with crime, with homelessness everywhere
and kind of a dirty city. Well, San Francisco really
is back. It's not the same old city by the Bay.
After hitting rock bottom in twenty twenty four, San Francisco's

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long awaited tourism recovery is finely materializing now. The city
has seen a strong hotel performance so far this year,
even as major US destinations struggle with softening demand. Indeed,
the city's turnaround comes on the heels as I said

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of very rocky twenty twenty four, when San Francisco ranked
dead last among the top twenty five US markets for
hotel rate recovery coming off twenty nineteen and the pandemic. Well,
the positive momentum reflects changing perceptions about the city, which

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have made significant efforts to crack down on issues related
to crime and public safety, including increasing police presence in
key commercial districts and introducing entertainment zones designed to encourage
foot traffic and business activity now in early September. Earlier

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this month, the office of the San Francisco Mayor, Daniel Lurie,
reported that crime in the city was down thirty percent
year to date. And you look at the Airport San
Francisco SFO. The tourism recovery is also reflected in the

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higher air traffic at SFO, which reported a seven point
two percent increase in the total airport passengers to approximately
thirty one point six million people passing in and out,
some connecting, some what we call O and D origin
and destination. And that's just year today through July the

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last numbers that we have. Interestingly, domestic air travel to
SFO San Francisco International was up nine point three percent,
but international traffic remains far behind at a modest two
point three percent growth rate.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, you know, I'm feeling good.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I've been real honest with you guys that I had
grave concerns about San Francisco over the last few years.
It was dirty, there was too much crime, particularly smash
and grab. You have a car, even a rental car,
and you never never leave anything out that'll even pop trucks.
Just don't leave anything in your car. They'll smash the windows.

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That's still a concern of mine. If you rent a car,
take full coverage or have through a third party full coverage.
You know, there was a story reported a while back
that because the smash and grab was a real concern,
and you really don't need a rental car if you're
just staying in the city, But we real concern.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
A woman.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Everybody leaves the car unlocked and the window kind of down,
but she left the window down and there was a
plate of cookies on the dashboard and with a note
that said, there is nothing in this car you can

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steal except one of these cookies. And people help themselves
to the cookies in their car didn't get vandalized. Well,
there's so many things to do and see in San Francisco.
Here's one of the suggestions I have. You know, what
does everybody want to do when they hit the city?
By the way, the proper name that locals call San

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francisco's either San Francisco or the city. If you're anywhere
in the Bay Area, say I'm going to the city.
It's not Santase, it's not Oakland, it's not Millbray. It
is San Francisco. San fran not We locals don't like that.
It's San Francisco or the city. Well, when you're in

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the city, what is something that everybody wants to do?
You want to ride a cable car. Well, I'm telling
you don't buy a ticket. Oh I want you to
ride the cable car, but don't buy a one way
ticket for nine dollars. So maybe you're down at Fisherman's Wharf.
Do you want to go to Chinatown or you want

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to go to Union Square or down to Soma or
Market Street.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's going to cost you eighteen bucks round trip.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
There's no on and off, there's no transfers allowed, it's
just down and back. Well why do I say don't
buy a ticket? Because San Francisco MUNI, the Municipal Transportation Board,
has what's called a visitor passport.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Locals can buy it too.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Now there's three modes of public transportation in San Francisco.
The famous cable cars. At one time there were twenty
three routes. Andrew Holliday in the eighteen hundred started that's
that's a story I've told you in the past. And
they're originally pulled by horses and then an underground cable

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that's why they're called cable cars. And there were twenty three.
Now there's just two east west along California Street up
to van ass In the north south from Fisherman's Wharf
to Union Square and Market Street. But you got the
cable cars, then the historic street cars. They're electric and

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even the brand new ones looked like they're nineteen thirties
out of Italy. And then you have the municipal bus.
So you're going to pay eighteen bucks round trip for
a cable car Fisherman's Wharf, say, to Market Street or.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Union Square and back.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
You can buy a one day passport for fifteen dollars
that includes the cable cars, includes the street cars, includes
the municipal buses. One day fifteen bucks, Three days thirty
five dollars. A full week forty seven dollars. You buy
it key at kiosks and sales locations throughout the city. Now,

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if you want more information, go to sf MTA dot
com SFMTA dot com. I'll be telling you more on
the show about where to get the best saraday, the
best restaurants, and things you may not know about Alcatraz
and Chinatown when you're planning international travel one of the
best websites is maintained by the US State Department Travel

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dot state dot gov. Travel dot state dot gov. Now,
when you visit a foreign country outside the United States,
the each country has a requirement of how much validity
is on your US passport. I'm talking about you US,
all right. So your passport, for example, going to some

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countries has to be valid for three months beyond your
return date. To other countries, it's six months, some one month,
some it's one day. It has to be valid on
the day end of the country. So it's hard to
keep track of this. So go to travel dot state
dot gov, Travel dot state dot gov and click on

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international travel. Then on the follow up page on the
kind about on the right hand side, you type in
the country that you're going to be visiting now long
in take one country at a time, of course, so
if you're visiting multiples, you'll just do it over and
over again. You type in the country that you're planning
to visit. It will tell you how how long your

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passport has to be valid. For example, I'll be headed
to Thailand and Vietnam next month in October. My passport
has to be valid for six months. Beyond my return date.
The other thing it will tell you is how many
blank pages. A woman was just flew to Indonesia, which

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requires two blank pages. She didn't have them. She travels
all the time. She never got out of the airport.
They put her on a plane and came right back.
So what you want to do is how much validity
and how many blank pages you have to have on
your passport. Hey, we're going cruising when we come back.

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Right here on the Travel Show.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're listening to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks Stays
get Away a Guru.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
The Travel Show is sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel, where
you always travel more and pay less. To be sure
to check out their website Morriscolumbus dot com. That's Morriscolumbus
dot com. You know I love cruising. Just earlier this
month I cruised the Norwegian Fjords on the Celebrity Apex,

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and I've cruised with Celebrity Cruises before. They are a
premium line. And I'm pleased to welcome to the show
my friend Chris Sizemore, key accounts manager with Celebrity Cruises. Chris,
welcome to the Travel Show.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Thank you for having me, Larry, I'm glad you just
got back from a celebrity cruise. I think you could
probably talk a little bit more about our experience than
I Canada.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Well, you know that shift the Apex built in twenty
twenty renovated in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
I never felt crowded.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
I like the vaulted ceilings, and as I've sailed with
celebrity before, you guys just knock it out of the
park in in cuisine. I mean, it's a step above
all of that. So let me ask you this, what
makes celebrity which is different from other cruise lines. And

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that's no diss on other cruise lines. There's a lot
of good choices out there, but seems to me celebrities
in a class of its own.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Why absolutely, And you've said it perfectly. There's a cruise
for everybody. If you like destination as you said Norwegian Fiords,
you know we have sixteen beautiful ships, all mostly brand new,
that sale all over the world. You can do Europe
as you did. We have a beautiful culinary. Daniel Blud,
world famous chefs, actually curates several of our restaurants and menus.

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He actually has two restaurants on board a couple of
our ships somewhere you have to go to Manhattan and
wait six months for a reservation. You can actually eat
on board a Daniel Blue restaurant and celebrity cruises. However,
you don't have to just have that specialty experience every
single aspect of the ship. You know, we are known
as the foody cruise line view that enjoy food, those
seniors all the way down to young kids, we take

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care of you. We are one of the only Forbes
rated service five and four star cruise lines. So those
of you that want that premium experience that you had
when you're on board Apex, you'll have that on board
our entire fleet. I think you can probably speak to
the design, just something unique and contemporary, not so much traditional.
And then of course those that enjoy well being or fitness,

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we have just absolutely amazing spots and we just continue
to increase those beautiful spot experiences on board as well.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
You know, I found the dining in the main dining
room just top notch.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's a cut above.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
One of the criticisms that I have of some cruise
lines no offense to anyone, is the buffet gets very
what I call tired. I have never had that experience
on celebrity cruises. I mean your dining experience is a

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cut above. Now the things you give people a choice
of how to cruise with you, what do you mean
by that?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
So some cruise lines, when you're in the premium space,
will only give you a rate where you've got everything included.
So those of you that might not want to have
all of that beverage package included and such, you don't
want to pay the rate all day. You might want
to actually experience that particular cruise line. We give you
the ability to book for Morris Columbus Travel and just
ask for a cruise only. Now, when we say cruise only,
it's not only a cruise only. It means you have

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some of the basic beverages included, you have all of
the dining options. We have several restaurants on board the ship,
some that you can opt in specialty if you wish
as well, and then meal things like the Wi Fi,
the gratuity something like that you could pay for extra
if you wish to use it, and of course you
set the gratuity if you wanted to just go into
the suite class. We have something called our Retreat that

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is really that ship within a ship. We have a
very small amount of suites on board. You have your
own special area, sort of like a concierge level on
a specialty.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Hotel or something like that.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
So we give you a different opportunity. And then, of course,
if you wish to just have it all included, you
want the beverige packtorgs and the Wi Fi, we'll take
care of that for you too, and you one and
done before you even cruz.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
We're speaking with Chris Sizemore, key accounts manager with Celebrity Cruises.
Now you have how many ships are in your fleet currently.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
There's currently sixteen. We're adding one more, the beautifully the
Beautifully Appointed Celebrity Excel. It's a sister to your Apex
that you sailed. She actually is a little bit larger.
She has one deck more and she's about seventeen meters longer.
She's going to sail the Caribbean. And another benefit of
being with Celebrity Cruises it's even though we do not
have the water slides on board or a little more

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premium than maybe our parent company, Royal Caribbean, we can
still take your families two perfect day that special island
specifically only for Royal Caribbean Group. We can do that
as well.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
That's the perfect day in Cocoka. Now here is a
great announcement. It's my understanding that celebrity cruises will be
hitting the rivers in twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
What's up with that.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
I've got to tell you it's so exciting. It's absolutely
been a game changer in the entire travel industry because
we're bringing that celebrity cruies experience to the rivers of
the world. We will start with two ships sailing in
twenty twenty seven, so just tool ships of one hundred
and seventy guests. I've got to let you know that.
Actually we put that on sale two days ago and

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it entirely sold out the season. Thank you to travel
professionals like Morris Columbus travel in five hours. So I've
actually got to say we have a great river cruise experience. However,
you can't sail us the first season in Europe. That
being said, we're going to have ten ships that we're
going to build all the way through twenty thirty and
you can actually probably book twenty twenty eight. Yeah, twenty

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twenty eight season starting in early next year. However, if
you still want to try to get on board, if
we have any cancelations, you can get on a wait list,
So contact the Morris Columbus Travel Advisor and they can
do that for you.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
We have about two minutes, Chris, and I'll just mention
that Celebrity Cruises sales in Alaska Europe.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
By the way, Celebrity has.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Been voted the top cruise line in Europe for the
last ten years. Of course the Caribbean, Asia, Australia, South
Pacific Areas, Galapagos Islands, and of course the River Cruises.
Now we've got about a minute left, and you have
the most fantastic fall sail give.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Us the highlights.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Absolutely, it's real simple. We actually offer seventy five percent
off the second guest.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Have you lost your mind? What is the CFO?

Speaker 1 (17:38):
What does the CFO think about seventy five Okay, seventy
five percent off the second guest on select sailings exactly.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
And actually I can see on most sailings, for example,
you won't have that on a Golopa Ghost experience on
a small shift such but yes, pretty much most all
of our sailings we offer that, but on top of that, actually,
depending on when you book, we'll have what we call
a special limited offer that you can add to that.
You can actually have up to five hundred dollars additional
savings per stateroom, and you can actually, depending on when

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you book, possibly get an additional five hundred and fifty
dollars on board credit.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Very good, Chris, We're coming to the end of the segment.
I'll finish the fall sale when we come back on
the Travel Show. Chris Sizemore, key accounts manager Celebrity Cruise,
is here on the Travel Show. Thank you for joining

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me every week at this time, on this very station
on the Travel Show. You know, I get giddy just
looking forward to Saturdays spending this time with you. Thank
you so much. We have a lot of fun, a
lot of jokes, but I never lose focus on how
grateful I am for each of you joining us on

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If you have a favorite Morris Columbus Travel advisor, you
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on to me. But hey, we're very gentle with you,
but not a fun interview talking to Chris size More,
I'll tell you. Celebrity cruise lines, it's fantastic. Here we

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ran out of time, but here is their fall sale
and these are applicable on most of their sailings. Seventy
five percent off the second guest, plus a discount up
to an additional discount up to five hundred dollars on
the whole cabin. And then what we call an OBC

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on board credits like money you can spend on board
up to four hundred and fifty dollars and on select
sailings now through May the tenth of twenty twenty eight.
Come on, guys, I mean that's two and a half years.
The third, fourth, and fifth guest sale free. You just

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pay the taxes now. The booking window is now through
November the sixth, So you want to give Morris Columbus
a call and get those celebrity discounts.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
In the first segment we talked about San Francisco, I
would break into song I left my heart there, but
you'd probably turn the radio off. My mother always asked me,
what did you do with the money I gave you
for singing lessons? Well, I'm a sour dough addict. I
have to admit it. If I could take it intravenously,

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I would. We grew up on sourdough bread, and you
know I even living in Salt Lake City, we would
go down. I'd get down to San Francisco several times
a year. I would bring back boxes, usually about a
dozen loaves, and we'd freeze them because on Saturday mornings.

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In the Gelwick's family, we would have with our kids.
Growing up, we had five children. You know, they're all
married now doing so well. Blessed us with thirteen grandchildren
ages two months excuse me, yeah, two months to twenty years.
But we would have sourdough breakfast and have to have
real butter and real maple syrup or coconut syrup, which

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I'd bring from Hawaii. Now you cut the sour dough
thick and you make a batter of course, with eggs,
whole milk, a little bit of vanilla, and a little
bit of cinnamon. It is fantastic. So one of my
daughters is at a sleepover with a friend and she's
about ten years old, and she has a sleepover in

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the neighborhood. They wake up the next morning and the
mom made breakfast French toast with like wonderbread. My daughter
had never seen French toast with sandwich bread. She looked
at it and said, what's this And the mom said, well,

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it's French toasted, my daughter, So no, it isn't. It's
got to be about three times as thick as this.
It's got to be sour dough bread. Anyway, that we
just do that. You know, I promise to tell you
a little bit about saraedou. You know, it was a
staple in San Francisco and during the gold Rush days.

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But people say the San Francisco Sarado is different, and
it really is. You know, I've had some good breads
here in Utah. They just aren't the same. But what
makes saradough bread from San Francisco different than other saradas.
The yeast is different, and it's the temperature, the humidity,

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the water, all of things going. Now, a San Francisco
saraedo is defined by very pleasant. But you have that
hint of sara not offensive, just that hint in the
in the flavor. San Francisco Sarado yeast is one hundred
and seventy years old. Well, here's the best places in

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San Francisco. In my humble opinion, a character trade I've
never been accused of. I'll save the best for last.
The first two. I like Bo Dean and now their
flagship bakery is right there at Fisherman's Wharf. You can
watch them make it. It was established in eighteen forty nine.

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It has a really good sour dough flavor. Now they
cook it on a rack rather than a hearth. I
much prefer the hearth. It gives that bottom, just that crust. Now,
Acme bread Acme is. The inside is dense and soft,
but it's hearth baked, so you get a better crust

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on it. The bakery is actually over in Berkeley, but
they have a location there at the Ferry Building. And
then they have two locations in San Francisco where you
can pick up acme.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
But the absolute.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Number one best sour dough bread in San Francisco and
maybe in the world is the Tartan Bakery ta are
Ti Any. It's out on Guerrero Street six under Guerrero Street.
The New York Times said, quote as bread recipes go,
it's nearly perfect close quote. Now that's out in the

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Mission Dolores District, out in Guerrero near the Castro and
just off Market Street.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
It is.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
People line up. Now It's more than just saraedough bread.
It's a bakery, pastries and other good treats. People line
up for that. So I have a favor to ask
of you. Do you know a really great suray dough bread.
I only know of one in Utah, and that's baked
by my daughter in law, Samantha. It's the best saradough

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I've ever had here in Utah. Do you know a
great saradough bakery here in Utah? I'd love to have
you tell me. By the way, let me give you
my email address you can tell me about Saradough. If
you have a suggestion uestion of something we should talk
about on the show, would you send that to me.
It's simply Gelwick's G E l w I X at

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morriscolumbus dot com.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Lots of fun. Oh listen, I.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Told you in kind of the opening teas of a
New Thailand tour. Now you guys know that I have
a love affair of Thailand. People ask me all the time, Larry,
what's your favorite destination. I've been to one hundred and
eighteen countries, most of them many many times over, and
I'm going to answer that right now.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
For sheer physical.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Beauty that overloads the census, French Polynesia, Tahiti, Bora, Bora,
Morea right Eetaya nukuhevahva oh, the Marquesis, the Tuamotu Archipelago.
It is beyond description for physical beauty, but for something exotic, exciting,

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great value, a perfectly safe, fantastic people and food. This
is where I would live if it weren't for my
kids and grandkids. And that is Thailand for history. It's
hard to beat Europe in the Middle East for something
that's adventurous. Oh man, that's an easy one. An African

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safari only in the months of July, August and September
on the so called Great Migration, world's largest land migration,
and only in the countries of Kenya and Tanzania. And
by the way, Morris Columbus Travel offers a African safari

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usually a couple of dates for the Great Migration every year.
If you want to go to Morriscolumbus dot com Morriscolumbus
dot com and on the homepage click on more Morris
Murdoch Escorted Tours, then click on Africa. So let's get
back to Thailand. You know, kind of interesting. I have

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a I'll be leaving with a group January the fourth.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I am so excited.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
We put that up for sale the end of January
last year. It literally sold out in one week and
I keep it to you know, about thirty six thirty
seven people one bus. And I don't want it to
be a convention. This is a deep, deep dive into culture.

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Most of your meals are included great dining, seeing the
expected things like the Grand Palace, what po, what roon
the night market in chang Mai, the Golden Triangle. But
then we do the unexpected things perfectly safe, but these
are just mind blowing excursions and activities. I've used the

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same guy for over twenty years.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Kat.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Many of you who've traveled with me, you remember Kat,
don't you? And that sold out in one week and
a waitlist of people. So here's what I'm gonna do.
And this was just put on the market with our
wait list people yesterday. So I'm doing the January fourth.

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I'll be back in Salt Lake January twenty second. Then
we have the expo, the Utah Travel Expo, the Winter one,
don't forget. October eighteenth, we have the Fall Utah Travel
Expo at the Davis Conference Center in Leyton. Admission to
the Layton and Saint George is free. It does require

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a ticket for Salt like all the details at Utah
Travelxpo dot com. Anyway, So I'll get back January twenty second.
January twenty third and twenty fourth is the Monster a
fantastic travel Expo at the America West Conference Center there
in Sandy. And then I turn around on July thirty first,

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I'm going to take a second.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Girl.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
I've never done this taking a second group back to back.
We're going to exactly the same itinerary in Thailand with
an option which you want to do to Anchor what Cambodia. Well,
it's two thirds sold out after one day. If you're
interested in joining me on Thailand and the Legends of Siam, Bangkok,

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chang Rai, then the Golden Thai Triangle, Chang My Pouquette,
and up to Cambodia and Anchor Wat, you got to
call first thing Monday morning, first thing Monday morning, because
in one day two thirds is gone, is booked. Maybe
should I do a third now? I'll do a third

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next year or actually in twenty twenty seventh. Anyway, I'd
love to have you join me. It's January thirty first,
we're flying Delta Airlines. Can you tell me skymiles you're
gonna get January thirty first to February thirteenth is Thailand.
If you want to extend into Cambodi. What you want
to do that'll bring you home February sixth six All

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the details at Morriscolumbus dot com. When we come back,
can you really fly if you lose your ID? Thank
you for joining me on the travel show. I'm Larry Gelwicks,
the getaway Guru. Let me give those dates again on Thailand.

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You know, we have what we call bump music, which
you can hear right now. So the second Thailand tour,
it's already two thirds sold out after one day. It's
going to go quickly. Those last few rooms and spaces.
We will leave with Delta Airlines flying non stop to Soul,
Korea and then fly down to Bangkok. That's interesting is

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Bangkok is the only major Asian city with no NonStop
service from the United States. Thai Airways used to fly
it and they pulled that some I don't know fifteen
twenty years ago, and I've flown Tieways. They are a
really good airlines. So we're going to leave January thirty
first on the new NonStop de Soul and then connect

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to Bangkok. If you only do Thailand, you'll be home
on February thirteenth. If you do Cambodia, and in the
strongest possible terms, ad Cambodi, like, what are you ever
going to get back there? It will be a five

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days and you'll be home February sixteenth. You'll leave Thailand
on the twelfth anyway. All the details at Morriscolumbus dot com.
Click on Morris Murdoch Escorted Tourist, click on Asia and
contact your favorite Morris Columbus travel advisor. If you don't

(33:04):
have one, simply call eight hundred triple nine forty six
forty six. Well, you know what the nightmare is for
any travel. You're headed to the airport. Oh no, I
can't find my government issued ID. Can you still fly?

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Maybe? So, here's what you do. If you find yourself
at the airport.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Maybe your wallet was lost or stolen, maybe you just
forgot it, you don't have your driver's license or passport
or other acceptable forms of ID. Get there early, Go
straight to a TSA officer and explain the situation. They
may they don't have to, so be polite, but they

(33:48):
may ask you to complete what's called an identity verification
process to confirm your identity and allow you to enter
the screening area. Well, what they're going to do is,
according to the TSA website, is ask you for additional
information that confirms your identity to the TSA officer. Usually

(34:13):
a lot of informations in public databases about yourself, family members,
where you live now, if you have other documents, maybe
you have something with your photo on it, credit cards,
utility bills, whatever, take whatever you can that can back

(34:34):
up who you are, and then the TSA officer will
make a decision. And you know, I find them reasonable people.
I tell you, I think the TSA folks out at
Salt Lake International are some of the best in the country.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
I haven't run into a rude one.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
I've run into some real rude ones in other airports,
starting with Lax and JFK salt Lake. I just got
to hand it to you right there now, once you
get on the plane, if you have a aniseptic wipe.
Here are the five dirtiest parts of an airplane. One

(35:16):
is the instruction card. It's in the seat pocket. That
doesn't get wiped down. Trade tables often will get wiped down,
no how many thousands of people have been handling, maybe
with their grimy little hands, that instruction card. The overhead

(35:38):
bind does not get wiped down, and so a lot
of tables they're trade tables, and a lot of airlines
will do the trade tables, but often in a rush
they get overlooked. Seat covers aren't always replaced or cleaned.
You know, if you find some foreign substance it's on

(36:00):
your seat, let the flight attendant know.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
And lastly, it's.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Kind of gross, but bathroom handles, you know, don't. I
mean I always use a tissue when I do that. Hey,
you know, all foods are either invented or first recorded.
Here are some popular foods that were invented in America.
These are American foods. Just peanut butter and jelly, sandwich,

(36:30):
chicken fried steak. I love chicken fried steak with potatoes,
and that sausage gravy, sweet potato casserole, corn dogs. How
about a sloppy joe grits jello salad. Now there's a
popular one here in Utah, the green jello salad with
shredded carrot in it. I mean, I'm salivating at the

(36:52):
very thought. How about biscuits and gravy meat loaf. Now,
this next one is really cool. A root float. That
is a total American food item. Spam. And here's one.
How about girl Scout cookies. I love the Girl Scout
cookies anyway. Oh, here's a couple more tater tots and

(37:16):
cheese with These are all American foods. Listen, we've got
our number two of the Travel Show coming up, and
I'm gonna tell you as soon as we come back
after top of the our news about a legitimate free
airfare offer with your cruise booking. I'm also going to

(37:38):
tell you what city in Italy in the second hour
has got some tourist laws and if you step across
the line, you got a massive fine. And of course
Dan Hohne will be joining.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Us for a Middle East up bach.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Stay tuned right after the news for our number two
of the Travel Show. Welcome back to our number two
of the Travel Show.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
I'm Larry Gelwiz, the getaway Guru.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Thank you for joining us every weekend as we just
love to.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Talk about travel.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Now, I promised you i'd tell you about a legitimate
free airfare offer. On most cruises of three days or more,
Norwegian Cruise Line will give you a free airline ticket.
It's really what we call bogo bo go o and

(38:40):
it's buy one, get one free. So the first person
in the cabin will buy from NCL a discounted airfare
and I've found them to be either the same price
that you would pay United or Delta if you bought
it yourself, but in almost every case it's actually lower,

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and then the second person flies absolutely free. It even
includes the taxes. Now, the one thing you have to
understand with that is you don't pick the airline. You say,
I'm going to go here on this cruise. They pick
the airline, and of course be a major certified carrier.

(39:22):
But imagine, I don't know how many people they have
traveling every week, you know, seventy eighty ninety thousand.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Can you imagine if people were saying, well, I don't
want to change planes in Dallas, or I want to
fly Delta, or I want to do this I want.
You can't do that. They couldn't handle it. So if
you accept this, you have to understand that you cannot
request an airline, you cannot change an airline. But to
save pretend potentially thousands of dollars is an incredible deal. Now,

(39:57):
Norwegian Cruise Lines also has a promotion they call More
at Sea. It's not free, it is an additional charge
to your cruise fair but once you get out of
it is you get some free WiFi, the drink package
for both alcohol and non alcoholic drinks. You get a

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shore excursion credit, you get some other benefits and amenities
that come along with it. Did I mention? I think
I mentioned the Wi Fi. Anyway, there's a lot of
good things that come with it. You just have to
is it worth what you pay?

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Now?

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Sometimes I've seen the up charge way too much for
my comfort level. Other times it's nominal. And of course
I'm going to grab all these other freebies, so I'd
like you to join me with a free airline ticket
to the South Pacific. You know why is it that
we are so fascinated with the South seas Well? It's romance,

(41:00):
it's a warm tropical weather, the sunrise and sunsets. Did
you ever be saying the first hour when people ask
me my absolute favorite place to go? I said, it
depends on the purpose of the trip. For sheer, absolute
physical beauty that overloads the senses. French Polynesia, Tahiti, Moorea,

(41:23):
Bora Bora, which the famous author James Mitchner said was
the most beautiful island in the world. Do you remember
the nineteen fifty eight Mitzi Gainer movie South Pacific? You
remember it, I'm going to watch that and right out
of my hair. And you remember the legendary Bali High
off the Forbidden Island. Well, that inspiration for that mountain.

(41:50):
The real bally High Mountain is on the island of Moorea.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
You have Opunohu Bay and Cooks Bay.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
What's interesting, and it's right at the back of openo Hubay,
and so you have four sides to the bay.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
At the back is the bally High Mountain. On the two.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Sides are sheer tropical cliffs and vegetation that explode thousands
of feet straight up. And of course the open side
it opens up to the lagoon and the Pacific Ocean,
the South seas. It is jaw dropping to be looking
at that mountain now. James Mishner said that Bora Bora

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was the most beautiful.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Island in the world.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
I might agree with him, but for me, the most
beautiful place in this part of God's Green Earth is
Open No Hubay and the bally High Mountain. You know
what's interesting is Captain James Cook, the first European to
visit this area. He dropped anchor in open No Hubay.
But right next to it's another bay right around the corner.

(42:54):
And they think that one after I've never figured that
one quite out. You know, photos don't capture the South Seas.
They really don't. You'll you'll take these high deaf photos
back and show them to your friends and family and
they'll say, oh, that's so beautiful, and you say, no, no,

(43:15):
it doesn't capture the depth of color the shoes of
green and blue. I'd love to have you join me.
We'll be sailing next year in May, a great time
to visit the South Seas, by the way, and it's
May seventeenth, excuse me, May fifteenth. We leave Tahiti to

(43:36):
the twenty seventh. It's a twelve day, thirteen day, twelve
night cruise and we finish in Honolulu. So we're going
to visit the island of Tahiti, Moorea, rite Yetaya, where
the ancient temple of Hawaiki is located, and the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints has pics of

(43:58):
right Yataya for one of their new temples. It's a
very short distance from where the cruise ship docks, and
of course Bora bor Then we sailed through the Tuamotu
Archipelago of some eighty islands and then cross the equator
and then sail the islands of Hawaii, finishing in Honolulu.

(44:18):
And by the way, with that free airfare offer, you
can extend your stay at no extra charge in most
cases up to two days coming home. You know you're there,
why not spend a couple of days in Oahu. I'd
love to have you join me. You can get the
details Atmorriscolumbus dot com. Click on Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours

(44:42):
and then click on cruises. If it's a land tour,
you click on the geographic destination. If it's a cruise,
you click on cruises, go to twenty twenty six and bam,
there I am. Don't we love Hawaii and Mexico. I'll
tell you Hawaii start has been pricing themselves out of

(45:03):
the market, and we've talked about that here on the
Travel show. But the travel experts at Morris and Columbus
Travel are using what I call the secret airfares, the
unpublished airfares for an air and hotel package. Rates do
vary by departure dating are subject to change and availability
at the time of booking. But here's some for Hawaii

(45:24):
and Mexico. I was looking at some winter dates when
we're likely to have snow and ice, so I arbitrarily
picked December third. These are by the way, these are
six day, five night programs. You can extend it and
of course the price is adjusted. But at December third,
departure at the Romerhouse, Waikiki. Now that's between the Alii

(45:46):
Canal and Waikiki Beach. A great location, first class four
star hotel. Catch this round trip air hotel, all your
hotel taxes, the destination or sort fee does have to
be It'll be additional has to be paid in person
right to the hotel. How about rates starting with air,

(46:08):
hotel and taxes nine hundred and ninety bucks for six
days in Hawaii. I'd add a few days to it.
Let's head south to Mexico. I consider cruising the number
one best travel value and the Mexico all inclusives as
the best travel values out there.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
How about these?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
These are a great four star hotel at the Crystal
Grand Cancun, all inclusive. That's meals, drinks, tips, gratuities, taxes, transfers, airfare. Oh,
I'm getting exhausted just thinking about I better go get
a taco. This is next year during the wintertime, February nineteenth.
Are you sitting down? You have your seat belt on

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nine hundred and eighty five bucks for six days in Mexico,
all inclusive, and by the way, the Crystal Hotel chain.
It's a really good when. This is a four star
first class one more at a beautiful Porto are Now.
I've been to this one. It's rated three and a
half and I think it's rated too low. It's the
Hacienda Buena Aventurs. It is a great location, just at

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near the beginning of the Molcon, that one mile walk
that is pedestrian only with cantinas and entertainment and restaurants
and shopping. The Hussienda Buena Aventur, all inclusive. This is
December third, just one thousand and thirty two. All the

(47:37):
details at Morriscolumbus dot com. Now listen when we come back.
I wanted to give you the updates on cruise promotions.
There's some really good stuff out there, and I want
to take you with me next year on the Christmas

(47:57):
markets of the Rhine. And let's talk about those new
laws in Italy that are really going after the tourist.
Don't you just love Italy and don't you just eat
the food in Italy? I mean, give me a break
with that Anyway, there's some good travel promotions out there.
We'll be talking about what cruise cabins you should avoid

(48:18):
with that. Well, let's hit one real fast, Princess Cruises.
Princess Cruises has a promotion right now. You have to
book not travel booked by Monday, September twenty ninth. You
get up to three hundred dollars on board credit to
spend forty percent off up to two hundred dollars additional savings,

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and third and fourth guests sail absolutely free with Princess
of Slight Cruise.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Oh that was a mountain work. Come back to the
travel show. I'm Larry Gilwist get away Guru. Yes, I'm
feeling my caffeine fix.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
I told you every Saturday morning I'm down here. I
stopped at that fine Scottish restaurant McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
For my egg McMuffin and.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Free Refield diet coke. I think I told you a
couple months ago. My daughter Emily said to me once, Dad,
I can always tell when you've had your double diet
coke before the radio show. And I said, how do
you know that? She says, this is her words, you're
more peppy. So I don't know. You can tell me
if I'm peppy today. Hey, I just talked to you
about some great cruise promotions. In the first hour we

(49:38):
talked about celebrity cruises. I just gave you that fantastic
promo with Princess Cruises. Royal Caribbean has an exclusive did
you hear what I said? Exclusive Morris Columbus promotion out
there right now with the first two guests in a cabin.

(50:00):
When you book a balcony stateroom only with Morris Columbus
Travel sailing November one this year to June thirtieth next year,
you will get a soda package, soda drink package absolutely free.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
And the balcony is on any three night sailing in
the Bahamas, Bermuda, Caribbean, West Coast or Mexico.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
And yeah, that's a good one. That's a really good one.
You know.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
The other thing that Morris Columbus and Rural Caribbean have
is some promotions on sailings two ships Navigator of the
Season Quantum of the Seas from Los Angeles, where with
this promotion with Morris Columbus you can get up to
eight hundred dollars off plus sixty percent off the second guess,

(50:57):
and on select cruises the kid now they define kids
is twelve and under sale absolutely free.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
You just pay the taxes, you know.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
The pricing on cruises is interesting because most cruise lines
have evolved to two levels of pricing. There's one price
if you allow the cruise line to book your cabin.
It's called a guarantee. I want a balcony, I get
a balcony guarantee. What I don't know is where will

(51:31):
that be on the ship. I want an inside or
interior cabin. I get an inside guarantee. I'm guaranteed to
be on the ship. I'm guaranteed the ocean view, inside
or balcony, whatever I book. But I they picked the cabin,
he usually get that shortly before that you sail. The
other price point is where you pick the cabin, and

(51:56):
obviously cruise line pick is at a lower price, So
if you don't care, save the money. But I get
kind of particular about where my cabin is. I don't
want it to be right at the opening of the
elevator and stairs. I like it to be about four
cabins or so down the hall, So I don't get

(52:18):
all the noise, but I don't have to walk these long,
long hallways to get to the elevator or stairs. Now
Here are some cabins. If you're picking your cabin, not
letting the cruise line do it. Here's some cabins. You
might want to avoid. The cabins opposite the elevators. As
I told you, I like a few doors down. When

(52:40):
you have that open space that opens right into the
waiting area of the elevators, you're going to get a
lot of noise people peering in your cabin when you
open the doors. The other thing, unless you enjoy a
standing ovation for your nighttime activities, don't get a cabin

(53:05):
right above the nightclubs because you can sometimes you hear
the base vibrating or some of the noise. The other
is not above the casino either. Now I try to
avoid cabins right below the pool deck. No, it's not
going to be Noah's flood number two coming through your ceiling,

(53:26):
but it can get very noisy people are running around,
particularly with cruises with lots of kids, which we love. Also,
towards the front, stay away from the area or the
anchor or you'll hear that sucker going down and it's very,
very loud, So.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
You pick where it is.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Now, for ocean viewed and balcony cabins, they have three views.
I'll call it unobstructed, partially obstruct obstructed. Now let's start
at the bottom. I get a ocean view, which is
a picture window or porthole, But all I see is

(54:09):
the orange side of a lifeboat. That is an obstruction
o cay. Some natural light comes in, but big deal.
A partially obstructed usually is more on the balconies. Is
I have something obstructing part of it? It could be
maybe a third, it could be two thirds or three quarters,

(54:29):
could be half of your view. Yes, you can go
out on the balcony, but what are you going to
see the side of a lifeboat? And maybe a small
angle towards the ocean. Then the unobstructed is self explanatory. Yeah,
you have an unobstructed view, and of course do your

(54:52):
homework before that you go. So those are some of
the cabins that you might want to avoid. Hey, I'm
going to be sailing on the Rhine River next year.
This one is selling so well, so many people. It's
Christmas markets on the Rhine. The actual cruise dates which

(55:13):
include the Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland. Can you imagine
Christmas time and Christmas shopping in those areas. The Christmas
Markets of Europe are a six hundred year tradition where
they completely lose their mind at Christmas time. I'd love
to have any of you who sailed with me or
independently visited the Christmas markets of Europe to call in

(55:37):
and talk about what your experience has been. Triple eight
five seven oh eight one to oh triple eight five
seven oh eighth one oh what was your experience visiting
the Christmas markets of Europe? Now you see all of
the sight seeing that you'd see in any month of
the year, plus the Christmas markets. December third to the tenth,

(55:58):
we'll offer a pre cruise to Switzerland. We start in Basel,
Switzerland and sail on the Rhine all the way to Amsterdam. Now,
what we did is we bought half the ship, and
the prices that we have for the same date on
Alma waterways run anywhere from four five hundred dollars per

(56:19):
person to over one thousand dollars per person, less than if.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
You buy the same one. Hey, listen, I'd love to
have it, Jarman.

Speaker 5 (56:27):
When we come back, we're headed to Egypt.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Thank you for joining me on the Travel Show.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
I'm wary Gelwiz, the Getaway Guru, and we are having
so much fun. I have really been looking forward to
this next segment, not only for where we're going to Egypt,
but who will be taking us there, none other than
Dan Hone. Dan, welcome to the Travel Show.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Well, thank you, Erry. It's good to be with you.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Dan and I have been the best of friends for
over fifty years. We sat next to each other in
graduate school. Dan's career included over thirty years with the
BYU Department of Ancient Scripture and Travel Study. Got his
graduate degree at an Israeli University in Jerusalem, and he's

(57:34):
too modest to tell you all this stuff. He was
one of the founding members of the BYU Jerusalem Center
and is the author of the fantastic book The Foundations
of Scriptural Understanding, which is volume one of a set.
So let's talk about the book first. Dan, you have
a big media event coming in Monday, just in two days.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
Yeah, the Global Book Network that you can look up
on the internet and so forth with my name or
the name of the book The Foundations of Scriptural Understanding
on Monday evening at five o'clock and thereafter you can
watch a half hour interview that was given to me

(58:25):
there that they asked me a number of questions about
the book and also my experience in the Middle East
as well, and so it'd be an interesting thing for people.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
I just went on Google and typed in Global Book
Network Dan hone and there you are right there, your
handsome face, and it's a YouTube, but the easiest way
and it's I guess on this one. We could watch
it anytime because here it is right here on YouTube.

(58:58):
It was pre record or did so go to Google?
Global Book Network, Dan Holm? What's interesting about this book?
Dan is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter day Saints, but it was published by a
major Christian publishing house.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Tell me about that, Dan.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
Westbow Publishing is an arm of Vondervan and Nelson, the
largest Christian publishers in the world. I purposely chose to
do that because while the book contains a lot of
LDS references and things, and it contains just as much
or more also from other scholars throughout throughout the many

(59:44):
years and archaeology, history, language, other things. The book is written.
I chose to write it in such a way that
a lay person, you know, not necessarily scholar, but interested
in these topics. And the first volume of one of
eight volumes to be published. This first volume is kind
of the foundation of how to study the scriptures themselves,

(01:00:08):
and certain creed key principles you need to apply to
really have an in depth understanding. It's been used for
coursework now by one organization for their students, and it's
being adopted by non Latter day Saints as well as
Latter day Saints now for its us.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
You know, here's the way I describe it. Hugh nibly
was my graduate professor. There were five of us in
this graduate class of first century Christian literature. My graduate
studies also included Hebrew and Coptic, Coptic being one of
the Egyptian religions and languages. The best way to describe

(01:00:51):
Dan's book is the footnotes are humaniblists. They just remind
me of doctor Nibley. But the commentary when I'd read
as a graduate student, there were just five of us
in this class, translating documents and things. We would discuss
we would have to read doctor Nibley's writings. You have

(01:01:13):
to read the same page two or three times, you
know what I mean. Dan, But Dan's book the footnotes
remind me of Hugh Nibley. The text is comprehensive, informative,
but easy to understand.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
I want to change our focus.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
By the way, again, that is Google Global Book Network,
Dan hone and there it is. I'm seeing it on
YouTube right now and you can catch the other times
that they'll be doing it. Let's turn our attention to Egypt,
one of my favorite areas in the world. I can
go to mountain splendor, antiquity, beautiful white sand beaches and

(01:01:53):
palm trees many places around the globe, there is nothing
like Egypt anywhere in the world. What what is our
fascination and draw to Egypt?

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
And well, you know, it was a land of mystery.
And even today, even though we claim to know a
lot of translations of hieroglyphics and so forth, the uh
the language really still isn't completely understood. So it's a
land of mystery. And then you have novels such as
Death on the Nile that you have the taking tests

(01:02:27):
discovery and by the way this last year, they discovered
not only some additional tombs and the treasures Oftmosis the
third and and I have at least ten items. I
did in a seminar just a week or so ago
that talk about uh these newest fines in Egypt. There's
still a land of great discovery. You know. I call

(01:02:49):
the tour I'm taking in uh Uh in February this year,
Egypt Explorations Tour. When I attached the word explorations, that
means it's not just your typical tour, and that's all
the things a typical tour do, but a few additional things.
And for instance, I'll go from Alexandria all the way

(01:03:11):
to Aswan, which means Upper and Lower Egypt, and all
will be part of the discovery routes. Very few do
Alexandria and Oswan. They'll do Cairo and Guizam, Memphisakara and
so forth farther south. But I try and include a
comprehensive and then I'm attached to it another exploration tour

(01:03:33):
that's optional, and that's the Jordan tour that spends nine
days in Jordan, and we do unusual things. We stay
at a Bedouin camp ride the camels and stuff and
see the areas of Lawrence of Arabia. But we also
do and you can take these as separate tours, and
you can take them all at once with it as
an extension. And so both these plus I have a

(01:03:57):
four day Nile cruise on it too.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
You mentioned the tour, the Egyptian Exploration and Nile Cruise
with an option to Jordan. The dates on that are
February fourteenth to the twenty fourth and the options additional
February fourth, fourteenth to the twenty fourth. If you will
go to Morriscolumbus dot com. Then on the home page

(01:04:21):
you scroll down to Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours, click on
holy Lands and go to twenty twenty six. I'm looking
at that online now, so let me get to the
heart of the question and we'll talk about some favorite
things in Egypt. Is it safe. There's a lot of
concern about the Middle East.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Is it safe?

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Well, it's certainly very very safe. And fat groups are
starting to come from the US. We've had European groups.
I was there in March for twenty five days, and
There'sroel four days in Jordan, five days in Jordan. But
in March there you could walk the streets.

Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
The lovely thing about going even this next spring is
I have a group spring in next October as well
as April, and there are other groups coming from Morris
Columbus with excellent faculty, excellent faculty, and they'll be taking
the groups over there beginning. We have one going over
there this month. But BYU has had their students there

(01:05:27):
all through the summer, all through the fall. They've already
promoted taking groups over there. This is the BYU students
have spent three months there. If you have a concern
of going for ten twelve days, this certainly is you know,
you'd think you'd have a greater concern then. And I
trust that BYU is kind of the dared by which

(01:05:48):
you can trust to go over there as far as
safety facts are concerned, because they're very conservative about whether
they'd take the students or not. And my experience there
was its great to go be among the first tourists
going back this year because in going back, I was
in Gathtsemini. Larry, you know how we go then church

(01:06:10):
of all nations are so packed and you can't say
anything and stuff and then you go out and we
go up to the rs and high gardens, you know,
and have a meeting where it's more private, which was
part of the ancient Garden of gaestsemony.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Two.

Speaker 4 (01:06:25):
And anyway, in the Church and Nativity, I mean the
Church of all Nations there guessemone, we were the only
ones in Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
My gosh, let me put this into perspective, folks. First
of all, you have to do what you're comfortable with.
Would I go with my children and grandchildren to Egypt today, Yes,
I really would. Now do any of you have a
concern about, say, traveling to Germany, to Ireland, to Scotland, England,

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the United Kingdom?

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
The US State Department.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Remember I told you in the first hour about the
travel dot state dot govin it's a site maintained by
the US State Department and we were talking about passport
validity and blank pages. Another section on that website is
safety with the US Department. Right now, with the exception

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of you know, the Northern and Middle Sinai Peninsula, which
nobody goes to Egypt, the safety level is the same
as England, the same as France, the same as Germany.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Would I go absolutely now we're speaking with Dan Holne.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Dan, we got less than two minutes left.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
That is just a great tour. Just how do we
sign up for this one?

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
It's February fourteen to twenty fourth, and you will see
Egypt without the crowds in.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
Yes, of course you would go through Morris Columbus through
MME Tours. You can do it if Larry's giving you
the website there and you'll find it listed on there
with the prices everything. Be sure that when you go,
if you want to see the Jordan Extension or separate
Jordan tour, it's on the itinerary schedule. Also if it's

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prices and things in the brochure. You can go to
either one or to both to participate on this program
the way I scheduled it, and you can get the details.
Another thing, Larry, they can contact me personally at Dan
homee d A n n h ny at gmail dot
com because I'm running four seminars and I'll send them

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the dates, times and how to access four zoom seminars
on Egypt itself that they can have before they go,
and if they choose to go, this would be great
preparation for them.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
That's Dan hone at gmail. D A N N double
n d A n N hone h O n e
at Gmail. Dan, thank you for joining us here on
the Travel show again. That tour departs February fourteenth, Absolutely fantastic.
Dan will be your personal host and tour guide. Now,

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when we come back, I'm going to tell you what
you never want to do or say on an airplane.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
You won't believe this one.