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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, that get away Guru, joined
today in studio by Wendy Frakiet, Group Department manager with
Morris Columbus Travel. The Travel Show is sponsored every week
by Morris Columbus Travel, where you always travel More and
pay Less, and Norwegian Cruise Line, the home of freestyle cruising. Wendy,
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welcome back to the Travel Show.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning. I'm so happy to be with you. You're marry.
It's always good to see you when you're in town.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I thank you when I'm in town. You're like a
regular feature.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I just keep showing up. I'm going to be the
new Carlos.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, I didn't even Carlos is having a siesta today.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
And just don't tease me about my age like you
do him. I'm a little more sensitive.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Thank you very much. Anyway, you know, I have a
very exciting month of November ahead of me.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're insane, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well for many reasons. But that's another story for another day.
But next week I'll be leaving with a group of
Travel Show listeners, one hundred and ten of them, one
hundred and ten.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of just a few of your best friends.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, of my new best friends, and we are going
to do something that I in all of my travels
one hundred and fourteen countries, forty six years in the
travel industry, I'll be doing something I have never done before,
and it's legal. I mean, some of the other things
I'm not going to even talk to verify, thank you
very much. But I am going to completely circumnavigate the
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globe in one trip. Now I've been just about anywhere,
but in one trip, completely circumnavigate. We're doing the Secrets
of the Spice Rotten. So next week we'll be flying
to Dubai, will fly Salt Lake to Paris, Paris to Dubai,
which is part of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai is
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a city. The country is the UAE or United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's such a popular place right now too.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh, it really is. And so it's a wonderful city,
perfectly safe. Everybody's saying, Larry, aren't you concerned about the
trouble in the Middle East.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, it's one thousand, six hundred and sixty three miles
from Gaza. And if I really want to avoid dangerous places,
I'm not going to Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles to New York, Detroit,
Baltimore's Chicago. Those are dangerous, But the UAE on the
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Arabian Peninsula is, in my view and according to the
US State Department, one of the more safe and friendly
places for tourists. What's interesting about Dubai is that ninety
percent of the population in the city is a very
modern city, are foreigners. We call them expats or expatriots.
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They were citizens of other country they've moved there. Only
ten percent of the Dubai population is what we would
call locals. Well, after spending three days in Dubai, we
will be jumping on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the
Anthem of the Seas. That's a really nice ship. It's
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one of the more modern ships, and we'll be sailing
the Indian Ocean, no doubt. I'll be on the bridge
guiding the captain and we go to that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
You're going to say at the buffet like you normally do,
but I think the bridge is that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I just haven't put a roll away bed up there
in the buffet in time for my afternoon feeding. But
we'll go to Mumbai. More people know it as Bombay.
Bombay was the colonial name. Mumbai is the more indigenous
native name. And we'll spend three days in India. We'll
see Mumbai, Delhi, Agra which is the taj Mahal, and
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then to coach and down south. It's going to be
a wonderful trip. Then we sail out into the Bay
of Bengal, part of the Indian Ocean, to one of
my favorite places, my second home, Thailand in Pouquet, and
I've got a wonderful tour. Some of you have been
with me. You remember Pungong. By Pungong, I wasn't choking there.
That's of course the getaway Guru fluent in Thai, kapkun
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Kap and all languages. And from Thailand we go to
Malaysia Penang. It's a one just wonderful, colorful area of Malaysia,
and then down to Singapore. When we disembarked the ship,
we will be spending two days one night in Singapore,
one are the great cities of the world, and then
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fly home across the Pacific. So in one trip, Wendy
I will have completely circumnavigated the globe by air and
by sea, and I guess some by land. And it's
gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It is going to be fun.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That is something that you will be able to always
remember your first that doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, you know, and people, people are always looking for
something unique and different.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Perfectly, when you saw this itinerary, I still remember you
jumped on this so fast. I can't remember if you
were in the office or not, but you were like,
this is going to be amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh, this is going to be crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And you you just you fell in love with it
the minute you saw the itinerary.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Hawaii, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, They're kind of always there
and wonderful, absolutely wonderful. But I'm always looking for something unique.
In fact, I've got a couple of unique ones. We'll
be talking about it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And I was gonna say, show and this spice one,
as wonderful as it is, is not when that real
Caribbean does on a regular basis. This is a unique
one off itinerary.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, Uh, too bad, Pluto's not with us today, the
lovely and talented John Potter, because i'd have him talk
about this. Disney is debuting a new skip the line
service Lightning Line excuse me, Lightning Lane Premiere Pass will
enable guests to utilize lightning Lane attractions. Those are the
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most popular on the matterhorn and other stuff. So this
new pass will allow guests to use the lightning Lane
attractions without scheduling a time. You just show up and
they take you to the front of the line. But
I really I'm troubled concerned, as much as I love
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Disneyland and Disney World, with the cost, it's getting expensive.
So you got your plugging cost now a one day
pass at Disneyland California. I've been to let's see, five
of the six Disney theme parks. Can you name all six?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I could, but I don't think I take the time right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Thank you very much, Paris. The foreign ones are Paris,
and oh, I guess there's five, not six of them, Paris,
Hong Kong, Shanghai, China, and then of course Anaheim, California.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Eighty for that's a foreign one.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah. The only one I haven't been to is Shanghai.
Been to Hong Kong, and of course Disneyland. It opened
in nineteen fifty five. In my very first trip Becaurse
we grew up in San Francisco, was in nineteen fifty eight.
I have some pictures of myself as an eight year
old at Disneyland California anyway, a cost of a one
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day pass, and they have what's called dynamic pricing, meaning
the time of year and all of that holidays remarks.
A day pass, not including parking, meals or anything, ranges
anywhere from one hundred and three dollars to two hundred
and six dollars a day. I will tell you that
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because of a lot of kickback on how expensive Disneyland,
and I'm talking about Disneyland California is running a Kid's
Special ticket offer for children ages three to nine can
visit for as low as fifty dollars a day January
seventh through March twentieth, twenty twenty five. The adult prices
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are the standard pricing. Now you do get a discount
if you had a second, third, or multiple days. But
back to the new line skipping Lightning Line Premiere pass.
So you've already paid the entrance fee, this pass, which
allows you to jump the line, will cost are you've
got your seatbelt on, between one hundred and twenty nine
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and four hundred and forty nine dollars per person plus tax,
depending on the park and the day purchased. The Lightning
Lane Premiere passes will be available in very limited quantities
at first. Now they've already begun the rollout. It started
October twenty third, So what about a week and a
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half ago at the Disneyland resort in California and at
Disney World Resort in Florida.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, with these being skipped the lines, they have to
limit the number of these each day because if everybody's
skipping the line, there's still no line to skip, there
really is, so you have to limit those.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And I mean, that's just really incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Now, Wendy, you've heard me say, if it weren't for
my kids and grandkids, I.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Would live where in Thailand?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I would live in Thailand. I love Southeast Asia. And
coming up in our next segment, the marketing director from Thailand,
a dear friend of mine or named adorable. Yes, I
see for the Tourism the Tourism Authority of Thailand or
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tat Tip. You'll be joining us and we're going to
talk about Loy Kratong. It is the most colorful, exciting
festival anywhere on the face of the earth. And the
good news is this month I will be in Thailand
with a group you know that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yes, yes, with the cruise right, yeah, with.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That cruise group will be down there. So I've got
a new program that we've never done before. And it's
almost fault.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I was gonna say, you're talking about it like a set.
We cut it out for a few weeks and it
is almost fault. It really is Thailand in Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
We're headed to Thailand. In the next segment. Here on
the Travel Show, I'm selling you up and welcome to
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwick. Get Away Google join
in studio today by the lovely and talented I love
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that Wendy.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I can take it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Wendy Frakire, Group department manager at Morris Columbus Travel. Now,
as I said in the last segment, I have said
publicly it's a true statement. If it were not for
my kids and grandkids, my wife Kathy and I would
live in Thailand. Well, we don't live there because of
kids in grand.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You haven't been able to convince them to go, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That would be an easy conversations. All of my children
except one, we have five kids, have been to Thailand
and are begging me to go take them back. And
they love it because I pay for it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Hey, you know, there are is so much color in Thailand,
and you know it's the land of smiles. It's the people,
the food, the culture. It is a place that I
feel at home. And I've welcome to the travel show
a dear friend of mine, Tippy, the marketing director for
that the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Tippy Saudi cup soa
(12:07):
yah sawadi of course is the native greeting A man
adds cop a woman cap. So you knows, I said,
sawadi cup and then uh, Tippy added sowadi cop. Tippy,
welcome back to the Travel show. You've been with us before.
I asked Tippy to join us and talk about what
I consider my favorite festival, and I tell you that
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Thai people love parties and festivals. My favorite Loi Kratong.
Tippy introduce our listeners to the Loy Kratong Festival.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Hi, thank you Larry and also the show for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know, I'm Tippy and the marketing manager of the
Church and Matoria of Thailand. A basical offriend list, and
you know we've been working together closely and to try
to introduce, you know, Sero Festival and actually this in Thailand,
Uh my grat home that rarely just mentioned is a
very unique festival and it is considered as a world festival.
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That is among the few festival that Thailand is recognized
on a on a global basis. So it is a
big celebration throughout the country. Uh people would you know
be the locals and the travelers who are happened to
be in thattical times which is through moond of November
every year, and they will float the kratong. So kratong
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is like a small buoyant made of region, made of
you know, yes, and then they're created with flowers in
sinton cando and then they would meet incenstant cando and
float those kratons, those buoyant into the river, the lake,
you know, all the short things like that. So it's glittering,
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you know, you know, very beautiful throughout the country.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
At the same time, yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You know. The According to a well known story, Louri
Kretong originated in the ancient Suko Thai kingdom somewhere in
the fourteenth century. Now. The popular local legend says that
a lady called non Nopamas, a consort of the king
of Sukotai made the first decorated kretong, which she presented
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to the king as a gift. And Tippy, here's how
I describe it. You know, it's a mesromized, mesmerizing spectacle
of candlelight floats floating on waterways. Now, it's been some years, Wendy,
since I took a group of travel show listeners to
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loy Kretong, because it's on the lunar calendar and it's
been too close to Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeap will next year.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It falls on November the fifth, and so we yes,
we are going taking a group. It's almost sold We
put it out about two weeks ago. It's almost sold out.
But here's how I describe it, Tippy, is that it's
a combination of Christmas, Eastern Ramadan Uh, the Day of Atonement, Thanksgiving,
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New It's everything rolled into one. And what you do
is letting go of our troubles, negative thoughts and bad luck.
So this c yeah, this, this cretong, as Tippy mentioned,
will have some incense and maybe some flowers and candles,
and you push this out on a waterway and let
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go of your bad luck.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Just sounds so therapeutic.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, Now, And It is also the way that you
ask the forgiveness from the goddess of the water the river,
whatever you're done wrong, and also float the sadness and briefness,
whatever bad that happened to your life.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You know, Yes, now Tippy, I want Tippy, I wants
you to on one other thing. And we have just
about two minutes left.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Is uh huh the.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You know, it's like compared to Christmas. Christmas is one day,
but the celebration goes before and after, and so it
is with Lloyd Kutong In next year, it's November the fifth,
but after our visit in Sukkotai, we will be headed
up Tippy to Chang Mai and talk about the lanterns
that everyone let's go in the sky.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah, so lantern is the way anting people celebrate the
library and festival. And so in addition to floating the
bounce into the river, the Northern Tie people would float
the lantern up, but it would have to be only
specific day because nowadays it would affect the aviation and
you know air princess flying. So at that time, and
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they allowed floating the lantern on the same day to
celebrate the full moon of November then at that particular time,
do it. No, there'll be no aircraftic to say in
ChIL Min. So it's a political time, very special. But
if you're talking about small lander that you know, really
local people, kids do Yeah, you could see those celebrations
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including ChIL Min.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, it really is exciting. Now, Wendy, you look up
in the sky, particularly in Chiang Mai, and it's like
the whole sky is illuminated. They'd light these candles and
it lifts the lantern up. We've been speaking with Tippy,
my friend, the marketing manager for tat the Tourism Authority
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of Thailand, and you can join me in Thailand at
Loi Kratong. Next year we have a tour going to Thailand,
I think so and Vietnam. I'm October thirtieth to November fifteenth.
I'll be giving you some more details. Tippy, we have
about thirty seconds left quickly. What is it about Thailand
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that is so exciting and pulling people in?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, Taian And you know, I would say the only
one where is the hospitality of the people. The type
people are very friendly, very hospital and that is one
of the most important reasons.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Why people come back.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Once you be there. You will come back again.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Tom kun Cop Dippy More when we come back with Christmas.
Just a few days. Here we go. Welcome back to
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwick's to get Away Guru,
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and I'm about to get away in this next week.
In one trip, I'll be completely circumnavigating the globe, something
I've never done before. I've been to all these countries before,
but I've never done around the world in eighty days. Well,
actually it'll be less than that in one trip. I'm
joined today in studio by when Group department manager with
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Morris Columbus Travel. Do check out all of the group
offerings that Morris Columbus Travel, the good sponsor of the show,
will offer. Simply go to Morriscolumbus dot com. That's Morriscolumbus
dot com. That's the homepage, and I think it's about
the third item down that says Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours.
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So the name of the company is Morris Columbus Travel,
but the brand name for our escorted tours is Morris
Murdoch Escorted Tours. So we're glad to have Wendy here.
You know, we're just talking the last segment, Wendy to Tippy,
the marketing director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand. And
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you know the passion, the absolute passion I have for
oh yeah, Southeast As, but particularly Thailand.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I think anybody who's been there shares that.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They really do. And I go there three or four
times a year and I can't wait to get back.
I'll be back this month. I'll be back in January.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
We have to pull you back with a lasso.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I know, I know it's but I'd love taking people
there and showing them. I'll call it my Thailand. Did
you know it's a kingdom with a king?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Are you the king?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I am? You are the SECO point King. From here,
I'll mention this tour. It is so cool Thailand and Vietnam.
Now we have never done We've done Vietnam tours. We're
on Thailand tours. We haven't done one that combines the
best of both worlds. We'll leave the US October thirty.
It's aid night flight, so you can even work that
day if you want. It's you know, about midnight out
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of Los Angeles. Of course, is fly down there a
little bit before coming back November fifteenth, but we'll see
all of Bangkok, make our way to Sukotai, the ancient capital,
and there's a sound and light show at the at
the Ancient Temple. We'll do the Loy Kertong festival. It
is the biggest, most exciting, colorful festival in all of Thailand.
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And then make our way up to cheng Mai. We'll
see the lanterns and that is where the famous night
bazaar is and it's just so much. It's overwhelming, and
of course up to what doysutep what is the Thai
word for temple. So we have a LDS temple here
in Salt Lake. You'd call it what salt Lake is
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how they would refer to it. It's my favorite. It's
a gold temple in the National Force on top of
a mountain.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Now on that tour, are you going to go to
the White Temple?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No, that's up in cheng Rai. We'll do the White
Temple in the January tour.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That is a that is a place nobody ever forgets.
Oh it's yeah, it's so bizarre.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Then from cheng Mai, we'll fly to Hanoi spend a
couple of days there. It's a fascinating city. We'll visit
the prison where John McCain was held for five years,
and then out for three days two nights at Halong Bai,
a UNESCO World Heritage.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
We have chartered a live aboard boat and we're keeping
our tour to just thirty six guests plus Kathy and
I and the boat holds that many. And I've sailed
on this boat before. It's ultra deluxe. We'll have activities,
will visit villages in this area.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I think one of the things that I'll just mention
about Morris murdock escorted tours with Morris Columbus is that
people think about groups being big numbers and you get
lost in the number and you are just a person
on there. I'm so glad that you mentioned the size
of this group, simply because it's so important for people
to know that we keep our groups to these wonderful,
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manageable numbers. And it's such a comfortable, wonderful experience.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It really is. And this tour, and you know the
tours that we do, I'm speaking of all of our tours,
but let's focus on Thailand. I take a deep dive
into culture, the locals, the dining, the cuisine, the food,
great hotels, visiting the what I call the expected places,
but it's the unexpected events too.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Those are the things that people will remember and when
they're telling their friends about it and they go, oh,
I've been to Thailand, it's like, guess, but have you
been here? And those are I call them your bragging points.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
They really are. So then we'll come back. We'll fly
down to Saigon now known as hochschi Min City for
a couple of days, see everything there and what a
difference between Hanoi and Saigon. Saigon is much more cosmopolitan.
Hanoi is still a step back in time now. The
dates again is October thirtieth to November fifteenth next year.
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I would just look at We put this out for
sale about a week or ten days ago. It's two
thirds sold out. We have fourteen seats left on the
whole thing. I anticipate it's going to sell out very
very quickly. Contact your favorite Morris Columbus travel advisor or
call the Group Department Direct. How how do they get
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hold of the Group Department.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
They can call the Group Department Directed at eight to
one for eight three six three six ' three. That
rings to the first available person who can answer questions
for or your favorite or their.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Favorite Morse Columbus travel agent because they're fantaus.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
To go to the website and you can also look
at the details book there if you want a lot
of really really fun things. Well, you know, we have
just fifty three days until Christmas. Fifty three.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That gives me a little anxiety.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I trust you've been out shopping for my Christmas present.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, my grandkids are started.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What is a favorite Frakia family Christmas tradition?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You know you said it right there.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
It's all about family and it has been a tradition
on both my family as well as on the Frakiest side.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Of course, I'm married into that. They are my family.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
It's about spending time with family, and it's the Christmas parties.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It's the.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Opportunity to now that everybody's older, to just get to
spend time laughing and memory and having sharing these memories
together a.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Lot of fun. When you were a kid or when
your kids were growing up, did you leave milk and
cookies for Santa?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Of course and for the grandkids we still do.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, you know the oldest story about leaving treats for
Santa actually goes back to ancient Norse mythology. The god
Odin had an eight legged horse named Slepner, and during
the holiday season, kids would leave food out for Slepner,
hoping that the god Odin would stop by their homes
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and leave gifts. Now to this day, the tradition exists
in places like Denmark and the Netherlands, where the story
goes that it's that pull the sleigh, not reindeer well,
and they would leave carrots for the horses who are
undoubtedly exhausted.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I was just going to say that is a fun
tradition that I think that a lot of people do,
is they leave those carrots out for the reindeer. They
don't call them the horses, but the reindeers, and it's,
you know what, you can't forget that they're working hard.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well. The tradition of moving from carrots to milk and
cookies for Santa, and now it's carrots for the reindeer.
I guess reindeer like carrots really skyrocketed as an American
tradition in the nineteen thirties, amidst the Great Depression. Parents
wanted to teach their children even during such difficult times,
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the importance of giving back and being thankful, so they
set out milk and cookies to show their gratitude. You know,
I think that would be a nice thing rather than
just Santa might like a treat. Is teaching our kids.
It's a way to say thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I did not know that. That is where that originated.
And that just makes me very happy, it really does.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Let me suggest three wonderful Christmas gifts. The first one
is a Morris Columbus travel gift certificate. What's nice. You
can pick a specific tour or cruise. But what I
like to do is suggest buy a dollar amount in
any amount and a beautiful certificate and then give that
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as a gift. Now, when I've done that, I've always
gotten out a globe and say, here's your gift certificate
for a dollar fifty I'm going to give you as
a christ No, it's more than that. Here's a quarter, no,
whatever amount, hundreds or thousand, whatever you want to put there,
and say where would you like to go now? The
second one is cash to me it envelopes, mark bills.
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I always appreciate that you love it with the bow, okay.
But the third one is I'd like to welcome to
the show our dear friend Dan Hone.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
He's got a fantastic book out, The Foundations of Spiritual Understanding. Dan,
welcome to the Travel Show to say thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I love that I did not.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I'm getting some feedback. Do you have a radio on, Dan? Okay, yes,
we're getting there's a slight delay, about a six second
delay from when we speak to when you hear it.
In case Wendy, you know, starts swearing or something. I
told you, you said you'd be a good girl, and
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so far you've don't. Dan, Welcome to the Travel Show.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
We announced you were here at studio last week and
we announced a book signing for volume one of an
eight volume set, The Foundations of Scriptural Understanding. And I
understand it was a smash hit home run out of
the park.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Oh, I'll tried. I sold out of everything I had
on hand, so people have to order it.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
We actually got a call. I don't think you even
know this, Larry. Somebody called into the office and wanted
to know where they could order the book.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well, I'm going to tell you there's a website. It's
Travel Studies. That's plural. Stu d e. S. Travel Studies
Institute dot org. Travel Studies Institute dot org. And if
you'll click on shop, there's kind of a horizontal toolbar
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at the top. Click on shop you'll see the book there. Dan,
we have about one minute remaining. Introduced this to volume
one that is out there now, and I have a copy.
I've started reading it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Well thanks Larry. And of course they give the description
of man's relationship with the cosmos or the universe, covenants,
their composition and purpose, also the ordinances and how they
attend with the covenants. It also gives the prelude of
the distensation of the Mosaic Law, along with great detail
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on the concept of Messiah. All of these are coming
from sources, not just LDS sources and things. But this
book is available to anyone, which means that it's not
even though it has a lot of LDS references in it,
it also pulls from many more other references. Right, It's
got four indexes in it, many other things.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You know. What's interesting about this is the publisher is
not Deseret Book or something like that, but the publisher, Wendy,
is the largest Christian publishing company in the world and
so it has his historical citation, some lds of Catholic, Protestant,
all of that. Dan, I'm anxious to see how this goes.
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Great Christmas Present. Go to Travel Studies Institute dot org more.
When we come back, we're headed to Costa Rica on
the Travel Show. Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm
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Larry Kelwick's then get Away Guru. Now we're going to
be flying to Costa Rica. But Wendy, there are seven
things you should never wear on an airplane, according to
Travel That's right. First, this is I guess for men too,
wearing flip flops. I've actually done that on a plane
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on a short flight, like from Maui to Honolulu or something.
But open towed shoes. Even if you keep your shoes on,
what's the problem You're.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Exposed You're still exposed to.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Well, they don't clean the carpets, and you know, going
into the bathrooms, that's just always of.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
You know, how do I say this politely? My wife
Kathy has got me properly trained. But let me say
that men seem to leave their mark on the floor
of any restroom.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, yeah, you know, there's there's that, there's the kids,
there's the you know, there's there's there's lots of things that.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Happen in their plane. They don't shampoo and clean regularly.
So even if you have shoes on, flip flops, are
open toe, your feet are experienced.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And then there's offensive clothing. Now that's a no brainer.
And we talked about what last week. Delta Airlines in
the Hall of Shame, and they're a great airline, kicked
a flight attendant kicked a woman off. She had a
T shirt that said stop Veteran Suicide. That flight attendant
of Delta Airlines deemed it offensive and made the woman
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get off, took her out in the jetway and said
you have to change. She didn't have a jacket and
so she made her take it off. The woman was
not wearing a bra, had to take the T shirt off,
turn it inside out. I don't find stop Veterans Suicide offensive.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I find it the flights action was offensive.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
As Dela said, well we're looking into it. Well, shame
on Delta Airlines for that one. You know, as you're
an adult, don't wear pajamas on a plane. There's nothing
illegal about it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Thank you for clarifying the att Yes, but we want
to be comfortable.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
This is interesting because it is an issue people showing
up in swimsuits. Ah Hawaiian Airlines is one of the
few airlines that actually publishes a dress code, and it
specifically bands swimming.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I think they're going on an excursion.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
The last I checked, I've never seen a swimming pool
inside of an airplane, so it's donna cover up or
something like that. You know. The other thing I recommend
is not a single layer of clothing. You never know
what the temperature will be.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Always gets cold.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
One of the low cost, super dirt, cheap, crummy airlines
in Europe that only fly in Europe, they would incentivize
their flight attendants to sell food and blankets. And what
came out is they were turning the temperature way down, freezing,
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seriously freezing people out so they could sell them a blanket.
The other thing is, come on, bulky metal jewelry. First
of all, it's going to hold you up at TSA,
but it's clink clink, clatter clatter. Put it in your care.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Why would you do it?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
I guess if you're worried about the weight limit and
you're pushing it and you've got to put all your
jewelry on.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I guess that's a packingly.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I take off my big gold chain with a ten
pound golden cross that I like to wear.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I thought you would wear the money sign.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Uh that one too, That's the other one that I wear.
And the last thing, don't wear this on a plane
is a lot of fragrance. I've been on planes where
I thought I was in a gas chamber with someone's perfume.
It's usually perfume, a few times with men's fragrance. Usually
the men's fragrance. You want a spray to.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Take what you yes, But on the other hand, please
don't forget your deodorant because that is a whole different
fragrance you don't want to deal with.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Hey, we were talking about one of our favorite countries,
Costa Rica. You know, you really divide the country into
three regions. We have the north, which is Guana Coste,
the mid which is Arnall. You've been to Ronall and
the tabacaon hot springs and crocodiles. In the south, the
beach and jungle. I like, you know, one third of
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the whole country are national parks. My favorite one, it
is so beautiful, is Manuel Antonio. I like the Haco
Beach area. I always stay at the Marriotte at Haco Beach,
but the beach at Haco Beach, Jaco is more gray sand.
It's okay, but the resort is unbelievable. There's a marina
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there with shops, restaurants and boats. But the pool at
the Haco Beach Marriott is one of the best. I've
ever been to. Championship golf for course. And just a
very short way ways away is the town of Kipos.
It's about, oh, I would say, about an hour from
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San Jose, the capitol.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Now that National forest.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
When I was there on the star Clipper cruise, I
thought it was really interesting that it's not a rainforest.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
It's a humidity forest.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Some of them are, and there are rainforests.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Down at Manuel Antonio it's white sand beaches, uncrowded coral reefs,
jungle hiking trails, rainforest truck.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
That's where you get to see the sloths.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yes, and you're talking about me, Oh, the rain sloth.
I thought you said slab. One of my great stories
is when my youngest son, Keaton, was about fourteen, I
took him to Costa Rica. We got on a four
wheel ATVs and went to a waterfall and pool, went swimming,
had a picnic lunch just the two of us.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
These are the things did you do the ziplines? Because
that's also my very favorite, the ziplines.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Hey, when we come back more on the Travel Show
the Highlights of London places you've never heard of. Welcome
back to the Travel Show, our number two of the
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greatest two hours in radio. I'm Larry Gelwicks. They get
Away Guru, joined in studio by Wendy Frakiat Group Department
Manager at Morris Columbus Travel. Be sure and check out
the Morris Columbus Travel website. It's easy to remember Morriscolumbus
dot com. That's Morris Columbus dot com. And if you're
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looking for an escorted tour, just scroll down on the
homepage and click on Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours. That's the
brand name for the escorted tour programs offered by Morris
Columbus Travel. And then you click on a geographic era
could be Africa or Europe, Asia, or if it's a cruise,
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click on cruises.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Did you know that you had a Facebook page, Larry.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Well, I have a face built for radio. What is
my face? No, I don't because you guys put it
together and probably embarrassing photographs of.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Me, I wish.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
So we have been asked about our social media because
that is such a big thing growing while it's been
growing forever. But both Morris Columbus Travel and Morris Murdock
Escorted Tours both have both Facebook and Instagram pages, and
we felt that you, of all people, deserve to have
his own Facebook page. Well of course, so on Facebook
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you can find the getaway guru Larry Gelwicks on your
Facebook page and we try to put some fun things
out there. But we are really going to try to
promote that page a little bit more with your specific
tours and as well as what people see on the
Morris Columbus page on Facebook as well as the Morris
(39:58):
Murdock Escorted Tour page. So they're just a fun place
to see some fun details travel information and tours when
they get released.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Well, very good. So I have a Facebook page, I
guess I should send you some flattering photos.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
You know, I will take any photos you said, and listeners,
please if you take pictures of Larry while you're on tour,
tag his Facebook page and those will show up there.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
In sober setting.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Yes, that would be very much, so much fun.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
You know a well known but little known man in
English history with Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Doctor Johnson.
He was an English writer born in seventeen oh nine
and died in seventeen eighty four after we kicked King
George out at age seventy five. But he was a
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English ride who made a lasting contribution as a poet, playwright, essayist,
more or less literary critic, a sermonist, biographer, editor. I
mean he was perhaps England's most famous man of letters. Now,
he said something in his lifetime that is often attributed
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to Winston Churchill, but this was in the seventeen hundreds,
and of course Carlos was alive then, but Winston Churchill
was not. He said this, when a man is tired
of London, he is tired of life. And that's I
absolutely loved London. You know, I was in London this
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summer and I'll be back in London next year. London
is such a diverse city. Did you know that over
three hundred languages are spoken in London regularly?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Absolutely that it is a melting pot it is. I
think it's Europe's New York City.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
It really is. Now here's an interesting trivia. Worldwide, there
are seven thousand, one hundred and fifty one languages and
dialects spoken. You know, almost seventy two hundred seventy one
fifty five, but three hundred are spoken in London. The
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number oh, let's let's play space. I can't even remember.
Let's play stumped dummy.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Oh boy?
Speaker 5 (42:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (42:27):
What is the most frequently or widely spoken language in London?
Speaker 2 (42:32):
English?
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Well, yes, I see, you got it? Okay, Now it
gets interesting. The number two.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Chinese?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yes, Chinese man? Now yes, Now I'm going to give
you a hint on the third most frequently spoken language
in London. Oh, yes, have I got the deal for me?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
I was going to say French. Well, that was not French,
that was not French, but you came with that accent.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I was going to say, from India. That's why there's
Indian restaurants.
Speaker 6 (43:07):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
I'll be in India in what about ten days? No,
nine days, I'll be in India anyway. Number three is Indian,
and Spanish and French are widely spoken there. Now you've
heard of big Ben. Of course it's part of Parliament.
Most people think it's the clock tower, but it's not
Big Ben. Is the bell in the clock tower. It's
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the Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth clock Tower. And still on the
books today it is illegal to enter the houses of
Parliament if you're wearing a suit of armor.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Well that is just smart law right there.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Okay, And then you know what's interesting that the black
taxi drivers must pass a rigorous test calling It's called
the knowledge. You have to memorize every street and so
without notes, they'll tell you pick me up here. This
is the test to be a cab driver, pick me
up here and drop me off here. And the applicant
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to get a taxi license has to tell them what
they are going to how they're going to get them there.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
And that's the iconic black taxis that you see?
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Do you know what I think the taxi test is
for a driver in New York City?
Speaker 2 (44:31):
How fast can you get your app working?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (44:33):
It is?
Speaker 1 (44:34):
You don't bathe or speak English. Hey, oh, Denny, did
we have a phone caller? I'm Denny's our producer. Yeah,
go ahead and bring our caller on the line. Oh
excuse me, excuse me, that's the next segment. That's reed.
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I'm sorry for that. Going back Piccadilly Circus in sixteen twelve,
Robert Baker was very wealthy man from the sale of piccadial's.
Piccadials are those starch collars that men would wear in
the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth century. And his mansion was
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called the Piccadill Hall. It's where Piccadilly circuses, which is
a roundabout, and the area was called Piccadilly because of
the Piccadill's callers.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
And I bet you're sorry that those went out of style.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
I do. And then the circus was the roundabout. Has
nothing to do with Barnum and Bailey anyway. London is
such a great city. We have some tours going to London.
Two of them that I will just briefly mention that
I'd like you to jump in there. Wendy is the
British Isles. Now I will be your personal host and
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tour guy. This is a fantastic one. We'll depart the
US July the seventh, you can go earlier. We will
have a pre cruise London option for several days, but
we visit England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland which is different
than Ireland, Northern Ireland still part of the UK, and
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then to France. The ship will dock at Lehave it's
a cruise and we'll have a tour to Normandy, the
d Day Beaches, the American Cemetery.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
This is one of the most famous cruises, the ones
that people love the most. So much genealogy, so much connection,
just iconic places.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
It really is so again July seventh to the twentieth,
and you can go early, stay late if you'd like.
England and Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and France, including Normandy
and the D Day Beaches. The other one I've done
before that I'm so excited about is July twelve to
twenty two. We fly to Rekiavik, Iceland, and then we
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make on La Cruz. Then make three stops in Iceland,
one of my favorite countries in the world. On to Norway,
will stop in Ulisend and Bergen, two of the most
beautiful cities, and then the Norwegian Fjords. They are overwhelming.
Sailing down to the Netherlands, we'll spend some time in Amsterdam,
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onto Bruges, Belgium. Now Bruce rivals Old Town Prague in
Paris as the single most beautiful city in all of Europe.
And for our ladies, it is world famous for lace.
You'll see lace shops everywhere and the intricacy of their
artwork is overwhelming. And then over to Southampton, we'll offer
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a post cruise stay there. In London, you can get
all these details at Morriscolumbus dot com go to the
group department.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Absolutely, you know, London is just one of those iconic
cities and you just have to spend a little bit
a time there, doesn't matter how many times you've been
to London. Like you said, Now, we have a couple
of other tours that are the land tours. You've talked
about two cruise options, Well yeah, two cruise options. So
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next segment we're going to be talking to one of
our tour hosts about a fantastic tour he's going to
be doing that starts in London. And then we have
another tour that's going next year that is really going
to stay in Scotland and in the UK, which is
an LDS Church History tour, which is about the missionary
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efforts that went over and all the converts that they've
brought over.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
It'll be amazing.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
We're headed to Europe here on the Travel Show with
Reid Robinson and some interesting, unique tours. You're listening to
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks. They get Away at Guru,
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joined today in studio by Wendy Frack here, Group department
manager at Morris Columbus Travel. Be sure to check out
all the escorted tours offered by Morris Columbus Travel at
their website Morriscolumbus dot com and on the homepage just
scroll down. I think it's the third item there on
the homepage it says Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours, which is
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the brand name for escorted programs offered by Morris Columbus Travel.
And Wendy's the big boss there.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
I am the big boss, you know.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Then you click on the basing graphic area or if
it's a cruise, you click on cruises right there. Well,
we were talking about London. When when a man or
woman is tired of London, one is tired of life.
And we'd like to welcome to the Travel Show. Read Robison,
a who has been a host of me Tours, but read,
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welcome to the travel show.
Speaker 6 (50:04):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Well I got it with you, thank you. Read. I
got to explain to our listeners it's been decades since
I last spoke to Reid, but I knew him. We
were both students at BYU, and as I recall, Read,
you were the student body president. I spent most of
my time before the Honor Code Committee. Not seriously, but read,
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you and my sister Diane were in the same student ward.
It's been a long time, it has it's good to
catch up. It's good to catch up with you and
Read and Wendy. This tour April seventh to the eighteenth,
i'd like Read you to introduce it to us and
Wendy invite your comments. Is a London, Paris and Rome.
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Not only all the sight scenes from Big Ben, the
Westminster Abbey, the Eiffel Tower, the Louver in Paris, the
Sistine Chapel, the Colisseum. You'll see everything offers an opportunity
to go to temples in these areas. Read.
Speaker 6 (51:16):
Yeah, we call this to come and see Europe Temple Tour.
So we'll start out in London and we'll have a
couple of days there. Unrushed we'll be visiting Westminster Abbey
and learning about the similarities between some of the things
that happen in temples and the traditions in Westminster Abbey.
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It's just fascinating. But we'll be doing the sites you
mentioned like Big Ben and Saint Paul's. Hyde Park will also,
you know, dine on fish and chips. That's about the
only thing that Londoners are known for.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Well, that and Indian restaurants. I gotta tell you, I
love fish and chips. Read but it's not the same
because they outlawed wrapping it in newspaper and I always
believe that publisher's ink added something to the tast Now,
if you're there on the right day in Hyde Park,
you can go to Speaker's Corner and where it is
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total free speech. You can slander people, you can say
the King wears army boots. So this was mostly it's
the crazies there now, But some years ago I was
in Hyde Park and the audience is encouraged to heckle
the speaker. That's considered okay. So this one nutcase, total
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whack job was going off on the United States. Was
the Great Satan and he was an Englishman responsible for
every problem in the world. And I spoke up and
I said, say what you want about my country, the
United States of America. Yeah, we got some problems. We're
trying to fix him. But just remember this, dude, if
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it weren't for the United States, you'd be speaking German
right now. And the crowd went wild. So it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (53:11):
I think we will probably keep people more in Nice
on that trip, though I know well.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
I like to stop there.
Speaker 6 (53:20):
In fact, I make it a stop and tell them
the story of Elder Ballard, who his mission president challenged
him to get on the soapbox and speak there the
first day of his mission.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
He was quite frightened. Well, it's shaped him. Moving on
to Paris, read.
Speaker 6 (53:38):
Well, the fun thing about Paris is we will be
taking the Channel from London over to Paris. Now that's
an experience on its own to go underneath the Channel,
and then we will visit Versailles, the louver Dorse, Eiffel Tower,
chanz Lise. But we neglected to say that in London
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the highlight is to see the London Temple and then
we will see the Paris Temple.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
When we're in Paris, we're speaking with Raymond Robinson who
he and his wife will be leading our Come and
See London, Paris and Rome LDS Temples tour April seventh
to the eighteenth. Read. We have about two minutes left
take us on the rest of the tour.
Speaker 6 (54:26):
The last thing we do is fly over to Rome
and we will not only see the Rome Temple and
that fabulous visitor center with the statues of the twelve
including Paul, and then go to the Vatican, the Coliseum,
Trevy Fountain, Spanish Steps and gelatto every step of the way.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
I love that you added the gelata. I was going
to say we were working on this tour. He came
to us with the idea. He's been doing tours for
quite a while, I think since you got off your mission.
But you have this vision, read, and we put this together,
and you were so so worried about making sure that
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people had enough time to enjoy these iconic cities as
well as have those spiritual experiences in the uh temples.
That's right, and we feel like we have got just
an amazing winner of a tour.
Speaker 6 (55:28):
Well, we're excited to introduce people the bucket list places
in Europe.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
You know, one thing when you're in Rome. Did you
know that they are? The police are now handing out
tickets with a fine if you sit on the.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Spanish steps and heaven forbid you do anything that they
could trace back as damaging because of that, and.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
They'll get you. They'll retire their national debt. This is
the come and see London, Paris in Rome with read
Robinson and his wife and read you served as you
and your wife as mission leaders in the Caribbean and
speak yeah right and then MTC President in Ghana. You
can get all the details April seventh to the eighteenth
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at Morriscolumbus dot com. Click on Morris Murdoch escorted Tourist.
Click on Europe Day. Good to catch up with you
all the best more when we come back to you
on the Travel Show. Welcome back to the Travel Show.
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May I just say thank you for joining us this day,
I should say this day and always and the crossroads
of the West. Now, thanks for joining us here on
the Travel Show. Thirty three years I've hosted the Travel Show.
Now like this camp, I was thinking about my body
(57:06):
and I get giddy and excited just thinking about coming
down to the studio on Saturday. Now you know, I'll
be talking to you from somewhere in the Indian Ocean
next week. Through the miracle of technology, I will be
uh in the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
Not in the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 1 (57:26):
Pair the how things go, Kathy may just throw me overboard.
But uh, you know, I've traveled to one hundred and
fourteen countries in my life. I've got some more I
want to do. And I'm a hopeless travel junkie. Oh,
I mean everything about it. It it opens your understanding.
(57:49):
It's a recharge, It's real. Some tours are you know,
in travel is more fast paced. Others is let's just
kick back by the pool or the beach. But I've
told you I grew up in San Francisco and I
used to go down to the marina and as a kid,
walk down there and just watch these big ships. There
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was a passenger line. It was the Mattson Line, the
Lurelin and the Mariposa Cruise ships. That's when they throw
streamers off the side. And they had regular passenger service
between San Francisco and Honolulu. Just you know, one would
leave San Francisco whilst the other one would leave Honolulu,
and you know cross in the middle of the night somewhere,
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but watch them sail under the Golden gate Bridge, dreaming
that maybe someday I could go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
I think a lot of people have that experience just
from watching the Love Butt Larry.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
I think I think they do.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
And then when I got my driver's license, I used
to hang out at SFO San Francisco International Airport, no security.
I'd walk around the airport see where planes were coming
in from, you know, most of them. We had some jets,
a lot of propeller planes. And at night I would
read the World Atlas in National Geographic Well going up
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in San Francisco. You know, Kathy and I have a
lot of things we like to do, but dining out,
going to restaurants is one of our favorite activities. And
when my son worked for Delta Airlines in Atlanta as
a revenue analyst, I had the parents pass. It's a
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free card fly anytime on Delta stand by space Gosh.
I just about knocked him out when he said he
was going back to graduate school. Give me the pass back,
He said, son, do you have any idea what you're
doing to a travel job?
Speaker 2 (59:42):
Can you do what you're doing?
Speaker 1 (59:44):
Kathy and I would fly down to San Francisco for
the day, the first flight out, the last flight back,
and just spend the day and just go to a restaurant.
We flow. We flew for free. That's called the golden
handcuffs in airline termin knowlogy, it's the flight benefits. So
the parents of a Delta employe, and this is true
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with all airlines. You get to fly on that airline
free of charge. Maybe some taxes involved, particularly international, but
you have it's like a credit card. Hey, I think
I'll go. But in San Francisco there are four thousand,
four hundred and fifteen restaurants. Fifty four of them have
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a Michelin Star. Now, Wendy, if you were to dine
at one restaurant a day, it would take you twelve
years to dine at every San Francisco restaurant.
Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
If you wanted to go to each of them.
Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Yeah, some of them. I don't want to go to
some of them.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Some have the Michelin Stars, some have less than one star.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Now, I love Chinese Fortune cookies, and I'm going to
risk being inappropriate, something I never am, of course, but
it's something that Kathy and I do, and she's gonna
kill me for telling you this, but fortune cookies are
kind of dumb.
Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
You will find you will find good times. You know
there are fun Well. The fortune cookie was invented in
San Francisco in the late eighteen nineties by a Japanese immigrant,
Mokoto Hagiwara, and he served it at the Tea Garden.
(01:01:29):
It's a little restaurant now. They don't really serve food.
They serve tea with in Golden Gate Park. By the way,
there's one day a month where it's free of charge.
You could look that up Golden the Tea Garden in
Golden Gate Park. I remember it as a kid. But
he started serving them now what Kathy and I did,
and it's hysterical. You have to read them out loud,
(01:01:53):
particularly in a group, and add the words in bed Oh.
So you open it up and say you will find
in good times. Isn't dead to our listeners. You apologize, Dale,
I know that you are just appalled at that. Dale
and Mary are two of our dear friends that listen.
(01:02:13):
I know you're a paull that I would ever tell
a joke like that, but that's true. We do it
to this day. So you and art.
Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
I'm going to start that when that is funny.
Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Well, the Golden Gate Bridge, you know you can walk
across it. They have a pedestrian lane. And the Golden
Gate Bridge was not it's international orange. But originally it
was intended to be black and gold, black and gold,
but Irving Morrow, the bridge consult of architects, said that
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a reddish orange primer coat would complement the gray fog,
the green hills and the blue water below. So the
Golden Gate Bridge, it's not really gold but international orange range.
Maybe it should be the Orange Gate Bridge. It was
completed in May of nineteen thirty seven. Now, how did
(01:03:08):
we get the name Golden Gate. It was Captain John's
Freemack Fremont, who romantically christened He sailed into the entrance
of the bay. And by the way, you don't see
him now, but when I was a kid, the land
on both sides was covered with golden poppies. But he
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didn't name it the Golden Gate because of the flowers.
He named it because of the gold rush was there. Now.
He sailed in actually before the gold rush started, but
there were rumors of gold. He sailed in eighteen forty
six and he called it. You come into a gate
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and entrance. It was the Golden Gate for New Fort.
There were rumors and they were mining or painting some gold,
but it exploded, of course with the gold rush us.
From the bridge to the water seven hundred and forty
six feet people have committed suicide. Twelve people have jumped
(01:04:10):
and lived. Now. I've often wondered the moment you jumped
off the bridge because of whatever's going on in your life.
There had to be this epiphany moment, what have I
just done?
Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
You would hope, You would think, Actually, I don't know
if you'd hope, because at that point it's too late.
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
Yeah, there's been over eight hundred suicide attempts, only twelve
have lived through it. Right now, on the pedestrian they
have like a big netting that goes out so you
can actually jump off the bridge. You have to jump
into the netting and then crawl to the end and
off you go. The bridge itself is one point seven
miles long and a clear span that's very important, doesn't
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have supports in the middle, a clear span of forty
two one hundred feet about two thirds eight It really
is San Francisco, my hometown, oldest China Town in North America.
They really start. They were brought over for constructions and
horribly abused. But the Chinatown as a community started in
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eighteen forty eight. Well, I will be in San Francisco
next year. Well, I'll be there. I'll be there in
January two, but not with a tour group. We have
a Pacific This is one of my favorite cruises, Wendy.
Pacific Coast Canon and Golden Gate is a nine day
cruise September twenty sixth to October fourth. Catch this itinerary.
(01:05:39):
We'll sail from Vancouver, BC SO and then we'll follow
that rugged Pacific coastline to Astoria, Oregon, which is Lewis
and Clark Country. What's interesting, Wendy, is a story is
not on the coast.
Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Now, I was going to say, it's inland, nine miles
up the cruise ship going on a river.
Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
So we'll be up the river with a paddel, and
then we'll sail to San Francisco and right under the
Golden Gate Bridge. And what's interesting when you come in
in the morning, you want to be out on the
bridge because they have these buoys that have like a
little a bell and a little fog Horn Sound and
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you'll see the green lights on both sides and it's
like an airport runway because it's guiding the ships when
it's foggy or something, and you just got to have
a green light on both sides and you know you're okay.
The channel is deep enough. We'll spend two full days
in San Francisco. I will be taking you on my
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own tour doing all the commentary in San Francisco of
the neighborhoods and the history. Then we'll have two relaxing
days at sea as we follow the California coast past
Santa Cruz, Big Sir, Half Moon Bay, Monterey, and Carmel
down to Cattle Island. Now that's a fun place, you.
Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Know, it really is a fun place.
Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
So many of our listeners I know, have either seen
or been to Catalina, and you think about the casino
on the point, or the quaintness of the village, or
I learned to scuba dive there.
Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
That is a true thing.
Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
They have a huge scuba diving business that they do
right off through there, so.
Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Good bicycles in they go. Santa Catalina, the island of Romance, Romance, Romance, romance.
Now you wonder what I did with the money my
mother gave me for singing lessons. Finally, from Santa Catalina,
we go to San Diego. Here's the best part of
the deal. Now, this is a nine day cruise rate
(01:07:45):
start for just a cruise fair. You got to add
tax four hundred and seventy four dollars for that's an
inside cabin for a nine day cruise. California has never
met a tax. They didn't like two hundred and eighty
seven dollars of tax. So if you combine it for
a nine day cruise seven hundred and sixty one dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
It is a great deal.
Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
And like you mentioned on this one, it's got several
at CE days and you love cruising. You just love
that time on the water.
Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
You know what a cruise that I really like you'll
be taking them so jealous is on star Clipper out
of Venice.
Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
I was just going to say, cruising is an experience,
whether you're on a big ocean cruise or this experience
with Star Clipper where we are on a selling ship.
This one that I'm taking out next year out of
Venice is on the Royal Clipper, which is the out
of their three ships, the largest one with the largest mass,
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the drop down sports deck off.
Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
The bag fantastic ship.
Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
You can join us on this cruise for just over
twenty one hundred dollars a person. Where we are going
to be cruising down the Croatian coast. But the most
important thing is we begin to end in Venice, Italy.
Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
You know what's nice about star Clippers is you have
a true sailing experience. But they also got propellers.
Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
They do if anything were to happen. But honestly, when
they inferral those sales and you hear that and the pageantry,
it's something you'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
How would you like to visit the oldest restaurant in
the world. Okay, when we come back,
The Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, that get away Guru, joined
today in studio by Wendy Frakiet, Group Department manager with
Morris Columbus Travel. The Travel Show is sponsored every week
by Morris Columbus Travel, where you always travel More and
pay Less, and Norwegian Cruise Line, the home of freestyle cruising. Wendy,
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welcome back to the Travel Show.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning. I'm so happy to be with you. You're marry.
It's always good to see you when you're in town.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I thank you when I'm in town. You're like a
regular feature.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I just keep showing up. I'm going to be the
new Carlos.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, I didn't even Carlos is having a siesta today.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
And just don't tease me about my age like you
do him. I'm a little more sensitive.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Thank you very much. Anyway, you know, I have a
very exciting month of November ahead of me.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're insane, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well for many reasons. But that's another story for another day.
But next week I'll be leaving with a group of
Travel Show listeners, one hundred and ten of them, one
hundred and ten.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of just a few of your best friends.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, of my new best friends, and we are going
to do something that I in all of my travels
one hundred and fourteen countries, forty six years in the
travel industry, I'll be doing something I have never done before,
and it's legal. I mean, some of the other things
I'm not going to even talk to verify, thank you
very much. But I am going to completely circumnavigate the
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globe in one trip. Now I've been just about anywhere,
but in one trip, completely circumnavigate. We're doing the Secrets
of the Spice Rotten. So next week we'll be flying
to Dubai, will fly Salt Lake to Paris, Paris to Dubai,
which is part of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai is
(01:57):
a city. The country is the UAE or United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's such a popular place right now too.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh, it really is. And so it's a wonderful city,
perfectly safe. Everybody's saying, Larry, aren't you concerned about the
trouble in the Middle East.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, it's one thousand, six hundred and sixty three miles
from Gaza. And if I really want to avoid dangerous places,
I'm not going to Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles to New York, Detroit,
Baltimore's Chicago. Those are dangerous, But the UAE on the
(02:35):
Arabian Peninsula is, in my view and according to the
US State Department, one of the more safe and friendly
places for tourists. What's interesting about Dubai is that ninety
percent of the population in the city is a very
modern city, are foreigners. We call them expats or expatriots.
(02:59):
They were citizens of other country they've moved there. Only
ten percent of the Dubai population is what we would
call locals. Well, after spending three days in Dubai, we
will be jumping on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the
Anthem of the Seas. That's a really nice ship. It's
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one of the more modern ships, and we'll be sailing
the Indian Ocean, no doubt. I'll be on the bridge
guiding the captain and we go to that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
You're going to say at the buffet like you normally do,
but I think the bridge is that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I just haven't put a roll away bed up there
in the buffet in time for my afternoon feeding. But
we'll go to Mumbai. More people know it as Bombay.
Bombay was the colonial name. Mumbai is the more indigenous
native name. And we'll spend three days in India. We'll
see Mumbai, Delhi, Agra which is the taj Mahal, and
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then to coach and down south. It's going to be
a wonderful trip. Then we sail out into the Bay
of Bengal, part of the Indian Ocean, to one of
my favorite places, my second home, Thailand in Pouquet, and
I've got a wonderful tour. Some of you have been
with me. You remember Pungong. By Pungong, I wasn't choking there.
That's of course the getaway Guru fluent in Thai, kapkun
(04:22):
Kap and all languages. And from Thailand we go to
Malaysia Penang. It's a one just wonderful, colorful area of Malaysia,
and then down to Singapore. When we disembarked the ship,
we will be spending two days one night in Singapore,
one are the great cities of the world, and then
(04:45):
fly home across the Pacific. So in one trip, Wendy
I will have completely circumnavigated the globe by air and
by sea, and I guess some by land. And it's
gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It is going to be fun.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That is something that you will be able to always
remember your first that doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, you know, and people, people are always looking for
something unique and different.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Perfectly, when you saw this itinerary, I still remember you
jumped on this so fast. I can't remember if you
were in the office or not, but you were like,
this is going to be amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh, this is going to be crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And you you just you fell in love with it
the minute you saw the itinerary.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Hawaii, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, They're kind of always there
and wonderful, absolutely wonderful. But I'm always looking for something unique.
In fact, I've got a couple of unique ones. We'll
be talking about it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And I was gonna say, show and this spice one,
as wonderful as it is, is not when that real
Caribbean does on a regular basis. This is a unique
one off itinerary.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, Uh, too bad, Pluto's not with us today, the
lovely and talented John Potter, because i'd have him talk
about this. Disney is debuting a new skip the line
service Lightning Line excuse me, Lightning Lane Premiere Pass will
enable guests to utilize lightning Lane attractions. Those are the
(06:17):
most popular on the matterhorn and other stuff. So this
new pass will allow guests to use the lightning Lane
attractions without scheduling a time. You just show up and
they take you to the front of the line. But
I really I'm troubled concerned, as much as I love
(06:38):
Disneyland and Disney World, with the cost, it's getting expensive.
So you got your plugging cost now a one day
pass at Disneyland California. I've been to let's see, five
of the six Disney theme parks. Can you name all six?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I could, but I don't think I take the time right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Thank you very much, Paris. The foreign ones are Paris,
and oh, I guess there's five, not six of them, Paris,
Hong Kong, Shanghai, China, and then of course Anaheim, California.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Eighty for that's a foreign one.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah. The only one I haven't been to is Shanghai.
Been to Hong Kong, and of course Disneyland. It opened
in nineteen fifty five. In my very first trip Becaurse
we grew up in San Francisco, was in nineteen fifty eight.
I have some pictures of myself as an eight year
old at Disneyland California anyway, a cost of a one
(07:38):
day pass, and they have what's called dynamic pricing, meaning
the time of year and all of that holidays remarks.
A day pass, not including parking, meals or anything, ranges
anywhere from one hundred and three dollars to two hundred
and six dollars a day. I will tell you that
(08:01):
because of a lot of kickback on how expensive Disneyland,
and I'm talking about Disneyland California is running a Kid's
Special ticket offer for children ages three to nine can
visit for as low as fifty dollars a day January
seventh through March twentieth, twenty twenty five. The adult prices
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are the standard pricing. Now you do get a discount
if you had a second, third, or multiple days. But
back to the new line skipping Lightning Line Premiere pass.
So you've already paid the entrance fee, this pass, which
allows you to jump the line, will cost are you've
got your seatbelt on, between one hundred and twenty nine
(08:45):
and four hundred and forty nine dollars per person plus tax,
depending on the park and the day purchased. The Lightning
Lane Premiere passes will be available in very limited quantities
at first. Now they've already begun the rollout. It started
October twenty third, So what about a week and a
(09:06):
half ago at the Disneyland resort in California and at
Disney World Resort in Florida.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, with these being skipped the lines, they have to
limit the number of these each day because if everybody's
skipping the line, there's still no line to skip, there
really is, so you have to limit those.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And I mean, that's just really incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Now, Wendy, you've heard me say, if it weren't for
my kids and grandkids, I.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Would live where in Thailand?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I would live in Thailand. I love Southeast Asia. And
coming up in our next segment, the marketing director from Thailand,
a dear friend of mine or named adorable. Yes, I
see for the Tourism the Tourism Authority of Thailand or
(09:56):
tat Tip. You'll be joining us and we're going to
talk about Loy Kratong. It is the most colorful, exciting
festival anywhere on the face of the earth. And the
good news is this month I will be in Thailand
with a group you know that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yes, yes, with the cruise right, yeah, with.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That cruise group will be down there. So I've got
a new program that we've never done before. And it's
almost fault.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I was gonna say, you're talking about it like a set.
We cut it out for a few weeks and it
is almost fault. It really is Thailand in Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
We're headed to Thailand. In the next segment. Here on
the Travel Show, I'm selling you up and welcome to
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwick. Get Away Google join
in studio today by the lovely and talented I love
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that Wendy.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I can take it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Wendy Frakire, Group department manager at Morris Columbus Travel. Now,
as I said in the last segment, I have said
publicly it's a true statement. If it were not for
my kids and grandkids, my wife Kathy and I would
live in Thailand. Well, we don't live there because of
kids in grand.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You haven't been able to convince them to go, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That would be an easy conversations. All of my children
except one, we have five kids, have been to Thailand
and are begging me to go take them back. And
they love it because I pay for it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Hey, you know, there are is so much color in Thailand,
and you know it's the land of smiles. It's the people,
the food, the culture. It is a place that I
feel at home. And I've welcome to the travel show
a dear friend of mine, Tippy, the marketing director for
that the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Tippy Saudi cup soa
(12:07):
yah sawadi of course is the native greeting A man
adds cop a woman cap. So you knows, I said,
sawadi cup and then uh, Tippy added sowadi cop. Tippy,
welcome back to the Travel show. You've been with us before.
I asked Tippy to join us and talk about what
I consider my favorite festival, and I tell you that
(12:31):
Thai people love parties and festivals. My favorite Loi Kratong.
Tippy introduce our listeners to the Loy Kratong Festival.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Hi, thank you Larry and also the show for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know, I'm Tippy and the marketing manager of the
Church and Matoria of Thailand. A basical offriend list, and
you know we've been working together closely and to try
to introduce, you know, Sero Festival and actually this in Thailand,
Uh my grat home that rarely just mentioned is a
very unique festival and it is considered as a world festival.
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That is among the few festival that Thailand is recognized
on a on a global basis. So it is a
big celebration throughout the country. Uh people would you know
be the locals and the travelers who are happened to
be in thattical times which is through moond of November
every year, and they will float the kratong. So kratong
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is like a small buoyant made of region, made of
you know, yes, and then they're created with flowers in
sinton cando and then they would meet incenstant cando and
float those kratons, those buoyant into the river, the lake,
you know, all the short things like that. So it's glittering,
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you know, you know, very beautiful throughout the country.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
At the same time, yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You know. The According to a well known story, Louri
Kretong originated in the ancient Suko Thai kingdom somewhere in
the fourteenth century. Now. The popular local legend says that
a lady called non Nopamas, a consort of the king
of Sukotai made the first decorated kretong, which she presented
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to the king as a gift. And Tippy, here's how
I describe it. You know, it's a mesromized, mesmerizing spectacle
of candlelight floats floating on waterways. Now, it's been some years, Wendy,
since I took a group of travel show listeners to
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loy Kretong, because it's on the lunar calendar and it's
been too close to Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeap will next year.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It falls on November the fifth, and so we yes,
we are going taking a group. It's almost sold We
put it out about two weeks ago. It's almost sold out.
But here's how I describe it, Tippy, is that it's
a combination of Christmas, Eastern Ramadan Uh, the Day of Atonement, Thanksgiving,
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New It's everything rolled into one. And what you do
is letting go of our troubles, negative thoughts and bad luck.
So this c yeah, this, this cretong, as Tippy mentioned,
will have some incense and maybe some flowers and candles,
and you push this out on a waterway and let
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go of your bad luck.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Just sounds so therapeutic.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, Now, And It is also the way that you
ask the forgiveness from the goddess of the water the river,
whatever you're done wrong, and also float the sadness and briefness,
whatever bad that happened to your life.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You know, Yes, now Tippy, I want Tippy, I wants
you to on one other thing. And we have just
about two minutes left.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Is uh huh the.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You know, it's like compared to Christmas. Christmas is one day,
but the celebration goes before and after, and so it
is with Lloyd Kutong In next year, it's November the fifth,
but after our visit in Sukkotai, we will be headed
up Tippy to Chang Mai and talk about the lanterns
that everyone let's go in the sky.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah, so lantern is the way anting people celebrate the
library and festival. And so in addition to floating the
bounce into the river, the Northern Tie people would float
the lantern up, but it would have to be only
specific day because nowadays it would affect the aviation and
you know air princess flying. So at that time, and
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they allowed floating the lantern on the same day to
celebrate the full moon of November then at that particular time,
do it. No, there'll be no aircraftic to say in
ChIL Min. So it's a political time, very special. But
if you're talking about small lander that you know, really
local people, kids do Yeah, you could see those celebrations
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including ChIL Min.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, it really is exciting. Now, Wendy, you look up
in the sky, particularly in Chiang Mai, and it's like
the whole sky is illuminated. They'd light these candles and
it lifts the lantern up. We've been speaking with Tippy,
my friend, the marketing manager for tat the Tourism Authority
(17:35):
of Thailand, and you can join me in Thailand at
Loi Kratong. Next year we have a tour going to Thailand,
I think so and Vietnam. I'm October thirtieth to November fifteenth.
I'll be giving you some more details. Tippy, we have
about thirty seconds left quickly. What is it about Thailand
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that is so exciting and pulling people in?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, Taian And you know, I would say the only
one where is the hospitality of the people. The type
people are very friendly, very hospital and that is one
of the most important reasons.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Why people come back.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Once you be there. You will come back again.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Tom kun Cop Dippy More when we come back with Christmas.
Just a few days. Here we go. Welcome back to
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwick's to get Away Guru,
(18:39):
and I'm about to get away in this next week.
In one trip, I'll be completely circumnavigating the globe, something
I've never done before. I've been to all these countries before,
but I've never done around the world in eighty days. Well,
actually it'll be less than that in one trip. I'm
joined today in studio by when Group department manager with
(19:02):
Morris Columbus Travel. Do check out all of the group
offerings that Morris Columbus Travel, the good sponsor of the show,
will offer. Simply go to Morriscolumbus dot com. That's Morriscolumbus
dot com. That's the homepage, and I think it's about
the third item down that says Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours.
(19:23):
So the name of the company is Morris Columbus Travel,
but the brand name for our escorted tours is Morris
Murdoch Escorted Tours. So we're glad to have Wendy here.
You know, we're just talking the last segment, Wendy to Tippy,
the marketing director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand. And
(19:44):
you know the passion, the absolute passion I have for
oh yeah, Southeast As, but particularly Thailand.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I think anybody who's been there shares that.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They really do. And I go there three or four
times a year and I can't wait to get back.
I'll be back this month. I'll be back in January.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
We have to pull you back with a lasso.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I know, I know it's but I'd love taking people
there and showing them. I'll call it my Thailand. Did
you know it's a kingdom with a king?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Are you the king?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I am? You are the SECO point King. From here,
I'll mention this tour. It is so cool Thailand and Vietnam.
Now we have never done We've done Vietnam tours. We're
on Thailand tours. We haven't done one that combines the
best of both worlds. We'll leave the US October thirty.
It's aid night flight, so you can even work that
day if you want. It's you know, about midnight out
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of Los Angeles. Of course, is fly down there a
little bit before coming back November fifteenth, but we'll see
all of Bangkok, make our way to Sukotai, the ancient capital,
and there's a sound and light show at the at
the Ancient Temple. We'll do the Loy Kertong festival. It
is the biggest, most exciting, colorful festival in all of Thailand.
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And then make our way up to cheng Mai. We'll
see the lanterns and that is where the famous night
bazaar is and it's just so much. It's overwhelming, and
of course up to what doysutep what is the Thai
word for temple. So we have a LDS temple here
in Salt Lake. You'd call it what salt Lake is
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how they would refer to it. It's my favorite. It's
a gold temple in the National Force on top of
a mountain.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Now on that tour, are you going to go to
the White Temple?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No, that's up in cheng Rai. We'll do the White
Temple in the January tour.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That is a that is a place nobody ever forgets.
Oh it's yeah, it's so bizarre.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Then from cheng Mai, we'll fly to Hanoi spend a
couple of days there. It's a fascinating city. We'll visit
the prison where John McCain was held for five years,
and then out for three days two nights at Halong Bai,
a UNESCO World Heritage.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
We have chartered a live aboard boat and we're keeping
our tour to just thirty six guests plus Kathy and
I and the boat holds that many. And I've sailed
on this boat before. It's ultra deluxe. We'll have activities,
will visit villages in this area.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I think one of the things that I'll just mention
about Morris murdock escorted tours with Morris Columbus is that
people think about groups being big numbers and you get
lost in the number and you are just a person
on there. I'm so glad that you mentioned the size
of this group, simply because it's so important for people
to know that we keep our groups to these wonderful,
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manageable numbers. And it's such a comfortable, wonderful experience.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It really is. And this tour, and you know the
tours that we do, I'm speaking of all of our tours,
but let's focus on Thailand. I take a deep dive
into culture, the locals, the dining, the cuisine, the food,
great hotels, visiting the what I call the expected places,
but it's the unexpected events too.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Those are the things that people will remember and when
they're telling their friends about it and they go, oh,
I've been to Thailand, it's like, guess, but have you
been here? And those are I call them your bragging points.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
They really are. So then we'll come back. We'll fly
down to Saigon now known as hochschi Min City for
a couple of days, see everything there and what a
difference between Hanoi and Saigon. Saigon is much more cosmopolitan.
Hanoi is still a step back in time now. The
dates again is October thirtieth to November fifteenth next year.
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I would just look at We put this out for
sale about a week or ten days ago. It's two
thirds sold out. We have fourteen seats left on the
whole thing. I anticipate it's going to sell out very
very quickly. Contact your favorite Morris Columbus travel advisor or
call the Group Department Direct. How how do they get
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hold of the Group Department.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
They can call the Group Department Directed at eight to
one for eight three six three six ' three. That
rings to the first available person who can answer questions
for or your favorite or their.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Favorite Morse Columbus travel agent because they're fantaus.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
To go to the website and you can also look
at the details book there if you want a lot
of really really fun things. Well, you know, we have
just fifty three days until Christmas. Fifty three.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That gives me a little anxiety.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I trust you've been out shopping for my Christmas present.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, my grandkids are started.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What is a favorite Frakia family Christmas tradition?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You know you said it right there.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
It's all about family and it has been a tradition
on both my family as well as on the Frakiest side.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Of course, I'm married into that. They are my family.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
It's about spending time with family, and it's the Christmas parties.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It's the.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Opportunity to now that everybody's older, to just get to
spend time laughing and memory and having sharing these memories
together a.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Lot of fun. When you were a kid or when
your kids were growing up, did you leave milk and
cookies for Santa?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Of course and for the grandkids we still do.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, you know the oldest story about leaving treats for
Santa actually goes back to ancient Norse mythology. The god
Odin had an eight legged horse named Slepner, and during
the holiday season, kids would leave food out for Slepner,
hoping that the god Odin would stop by their homes
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and leave gifts. Now to this day, the tradition exists
in places like Denmark and the Netherlands, where the story
goes that it's that pull the sleigh, not reindeer well,
and they would leave carrots for the horses who are
undoubtedly exhausted.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I was just going to say that is a fun
tradition that I think that a lot of people do,
is they leave those carrots out for the reindeer. They
don't call them the horses, but the reindeers, and it's,
you know what, you can't forget that they're working hard.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well. The tradition of moving from carrots to milk and
cookies for Santa, and now it's carrots for the reindeer.
I guess reindeer like carrots really skyrocketed as an American
tradition in the nineteen thirties, amidst the Great Depression. Parents
wanted to teach their children even during such difficult times,
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the importance of giving back and being thankful, so they
set out milk and cookies to show their gratitude. You know,
I think that would be a nice thing rather than
just Santa might like a treat. Is teaching our kids.
It's a way to say thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I did not know that. That is where that originated.
And that just makes me very happy, it really does.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Let me suggest three wonderful Christmas gifts. The first one
is a Morris Columbus travel gift certificate. What's nice. You
can pick a specific tour or cruise. But what I
like to do is suggest buy a dollar amount in
any amount and a beautiful certificate and then give that
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as a gift. Now, when I've done that, I've always
gotten out a globe and say, here's your gift certificate
for a dollar fifty I'm going to give you as
a christ No, it's more than that. Here's a quarter, no,
whatever amount, hundreds or thousand, whatever you want to put there,
and say where would you like to go now? The
second one is cash to me it envelopes, mark bills.
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I always appreciate that you love it with the bow, okay.
But the third one is I'd like to welcome to
the show our dear friend Dan Hone.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
He's got a fantastic book out, The Foundations of Spiritual Understanding. Dan,
welcome to the Travel Show to say thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I love that I did not.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I'm getting some feedback. Do you have a radio on, Dan? Okay, yes,
we're getting there's a slight delay, about a six second
delay from when we speak to when you hear it.
In case Wendy, you know, starts swearing or something. I
told you, you said you'd be a good girl, and
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so far you've don't. Dan, Welcome to the Travel Show.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
We announced you were here at studio last week and
we announced a book signing for volume one of an
eight volume set, The Foundations of Scriptural Understanding. And I
understand it was a smash hit home run out of
the park.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Oh, I'll tried. I sold out of everything I had
on hand, so people have to order it.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
We actually got a call. I don't think you even
know this, Larry. Somebody called into the office and wanted
to know where they could order the book.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well, I'm going to tell you there's a website. It's
Travel Studies. That's plural. Stu d e. S. Travel Studies
Institute dot org. Travel Studies Institute dot org. And if
you'll click on shop, there's kind of a horizontal toolbar
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at the top. Click on shop you'll see the book there. Dan,
we have about one minute remaining. Introduced this to volume
one that is out there now, and I have a copy.
I've started reading it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Well thanks Larry. And of course they give the description
of man's relationship with the cosmos or the universe, covenants,
their composition and purpose, also the ordinances and how they
attend with the covenants. It also gives the prelude of
the distensation of the Mosaic Law, along with great detail
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on the concept of Messiah. All of these are coming
from sources, not just LDS sources and things. But this
book is available to anyone, which means that it's not
even though it has a lot of LDS references in it,
it also pulls from many more other references. Right, It's
got four indexes in it, many other things.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You know. What's interesting about this is the publisher is
not Deseret Book or something like that, but the publisher, Wendy,
is the largest Christian publishing company in the world and
so it has his historical citation, some lds of Catholic, Protestant,
all of that. Dan, I'm anxious to see how this goes.
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Great Christmas Present. Go to Travel Studies Institute dot org more.
When we come back, we're headed to Costa Rica on
the Travel Show. Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm
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Larry Kelwick's then get Away Guru. Now we're going to
be flying to Costa Rica. But Wendy, there are seven
things you should never wear on an airplane, according to
Travel That's right. First, this is I guess for men too,
wearing flip flops. I've actually done that on a plane
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on a short flight, like from Maui to Honolulu or something.
But open towed shoes. Even if you keep your shoes on,
what's the problem You're.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Exposed You're still exposed to.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Well, they don't clean the carpets, and you know, going
into the bathrooms, that's just always of.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
You know, how do I say this politely? My wife
Kathy has got me properly trained. But let me say
that men seem to leave their mark on the floor
of any restroom.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, yeah, you know, there's there's that, there's the kids,
there's the you know, there's there's there's lots of things that.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Happen in their plane. They don't shampoo and clean regularly.
So even if you have shoes on, flip flops, are
open toe, your feet are experienced.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And then there's offensive clothing. Now that's a no brainer.
And we talked about what last week. Delta Airlines in
the Hall of Shame, and they're a great airline, kicked
a flight attendant kicked a woman off. She had a
T shirt that said stop Veteran Suicide. That flight attendant
of Delta Airlines deemed it offensive and made the woman
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get off, took her out in the jetway and said
you have to change. She didn't have a jacket and
so she made her take it off. The woman was
not wearing a bra, had to take the T shirt off,
turn it inside out. I don't find stop Veterans Suicide offensive.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I find it the flights action was offensive.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
As Dela said, well we're looking into it. Well, shame
on Delta Airlines for that one. You know, as you're
an adult, don't wear pajamas on a plane. There's nothing
illegal about it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Thank you for clarifying the att Yes, but we want
to be comfortable.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
This is interesting because it is an issue people showing
up in swimsuits. Ah Hawaiian Airlines is one of the
few airlines that actually publishes a dress code, and it
specifically bands swimming.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I think they're going on an excursion.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
The last I checked, I've never seen a swimming pool
inside of an airplane, so it's donna cover up or
something like that. You know. The other thing I recommend
is not a single layer of clothing. You never know
what the temperature will be.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Always gets cold.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
One of the low cost, super dirt, cheap, crummy airlines
in Europe that only fly in Europe, they would incentivize
their flight attendants to sell food and blankets. And what
came out is they were turning the temperature way down, freezing,
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seriously freezing people out so they could sell them a blanket.
The other thing is, come on, bulky metal jewelry. First
of all, it's going to hold you up at TSA,
but it's clink clink, clatter clatter. Put it in your care.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Why would you do it?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
I guess if you're worried about the weight limit and
you're pushing it and you've got to put all your
jewelry on.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I guess that's a packingly.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I take off my big gold chain with a ten
pound golden cross that I like to wear.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I thought you would wear the money sign.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Uh that one too, That's the other one that I wear.
And the last thing, don't wear this on a plane
is a lot of fragrance. I've been on planes where
I thought I was in a gas chamber with someone's perfume.
It's usually perfume, a few times with men's fragrance. Usually
the men's fragrance. You want a spray to.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Take what you yes, But on the other hand, please
don't forget your deodorant because that is a whole different
fragrance you don't want to deal with.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Hey, we were talking about one of our favorite countries,
Costa Rica. You know, you really divide the country into
three regions. We have the north, which is Guana Coste,
the mid which is Arnall. You've been to Ronall and
the tabacaon hot springs and crocodiles. In the south, the
beach and jungle. I like, you know, one third of
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the whole country are national parks. My favorite one, it
is so beautiful, is Manuel Antonio. I like the Haco
Beach area. I always stay at the Marriotte at Haco Beach,
but the beach at Haco Beach, Jaco is more gray sand.
It's okay, but the resort is unbelievable. There's a marina
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there with shops, restaurants and boats. But the pool at
the Haco Beach Marriott is one of the best. I've
ever been to. Championship golf for course. And just a
very short way ways away is the town of Kipos.
It's about, oh, I would say, about an hour from
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San Jose, the capitol.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Now that National forest.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
When I was there on the star Clipper cruise, I
thought it was really interesting that it's not a rainforest.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
It's a humidity forest.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Some of them are, and there are rainforests.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Down at Manuel Antonio it's white sand beaches, uncrowded coral reefs,
jungle hiking trails, rainforest truck.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
That's where you get to see the sloths.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yes, and you're talking about me, Oh, the rain sloth.
I thought you said slab. One of my great stories
is when my youngest son, Keaton, was about fourteen, I
took him to Costa Rica. We got on a four
wheel ATVs and went to a waterfall and pool, went swimming,
had a picnic lunch just the two of us.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
These are the things did you do the ziplines? Because
that's also my very favorite, the ziplines.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Hey, when we come back more on the Travel Show
the Highlights of London places you've never heard of. Welcome
back to the Travel Show, our number two of the
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greatest two hours in radio. I'm Larry Gelwicks. They get
Away Guru, joined in studio by Wendy Frakiat Group Department
Manager at Morris Columbus Travel. Be sure and check out
the Morris Columbus Travel website. It's easy to remember Morriscolumbus
dot com. That's Morris Columbus dot com. And if you're
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looking for an escorted tour, just scroll down on the
homepage and click on Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours. That's the
brand name for the escorted tour programs offered by Morris
Columbus Travel. And then you click on a geographic era
could be Africa or Europe, Asia, or if it's a cruise,
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click on cruises.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Did you know that you had a Facebook page, Larry.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Well, I have a face built for radio. What is
my face? No, I don't because you guys put it
together and probably embarrassing photographs of.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Me, I wish.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
So we have been asked about our social media because
that is such a big thing growing while it's been
growing forever. But both Morris Columbus Travel and Morris Murdock
Escorted Tours both have both Facebook and Instagram pages, and
we felt that you, of all people, deserve to have
his own Facebook page. Well of course, so on Facebook
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you can find the getaway guru Larry Gelwicks on your
Facebook page and we try to put some fun things
out there. But we are really going to try to
promote that page a little bit more with your specific
tours and as well as what people see on the
Morris Columbus page on Facebook as well as the Morris
(39:58):
Murdock Escorted Tour page. So they're just a fun place
to see some fun details travel information and tours when
they get released.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Well, very good. So I have a Facebook page, I
guess I should send you some flattering photos.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
You know, I will take any photos you said, and listeners,
please if you take pictures of Larry while you're on tour,
tag his Facebook page and those will show up there.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
In sober setting.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Yes, that would be very much, so much fun.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
You know a well known but little known man in
English history with Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Doctor Johnson.
He was an English writer born in seventeen oh nine
and died in seventeen eighty four after we kicked King
George out at age seventy five. But he was a
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English ride who made a lasting contribution as a poet, playwright, essayist,
more or less literary critic, a sermonist, biographer, editor. I
mean he was perhaps England's most famous man of letters. Now,
he said something in his lifetime that is often attributed
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to Winston Churchill, but this was in the seventeen hundreds,
and of course Carlos was alive then, but Winston Churchill
was not. He said this, when a man is tired
of London, he is tired of life. And that's I
absolutely loved London. You know, I was in London this
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summer and I'll be back in London next year. London
is such a diverse city. Did you know that over
three hundred languages are spoken in London regularly?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Absolutely that it is a melting pot it is. I
think it's Europe's New York City.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
It really is. Now here's an interesting trivia. Worldwide, there
are seven thousand, one hundred and fifty one languages and
dialects spoken. You know, almost seventy two hundred seventy one
fifty five, but three hundred are spoken in London. The
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number oh, let's let's play space. I can't even remember.
Let's play stumped dummy.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Oh boy?
Speaker 5 (42:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (42:27):
What is the most frequently or widely spoken language in London?
Speaker 2 (42:32):
English?
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Well, yes, I see, you got it? Okay, Now it
gets interesting. The number two.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Chinese?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yes, Chinese man? Now yes, Now I'm going to give
you a hint on the third most frequently spoken language
in London. Oh, yes, have I got the deal for me?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
I was going to say French. Well, that was not French,
that was not French, but you came with that accent.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I was going to say, from India. That's why there's
Indian restaurants.
Speaker 6 (43:07):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
I'll be in India in what about ten days? No,
nine days, I'll be in India anyway. Number three is Indian,
and Spanish and French are widely spoken there. Now you've
heard of big Ben. Of course it's part of Parliament.
Most people think it's the clock tower, but it's not
Big Ben. Is the bell in the clock tower. It's
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the Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth clock Tower. And still on the
books today it is illegal to enter the houses of
Parliament if you're wearing a suit of armor.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Well that is just smart law right there.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Okay, And then you know what's interesting that the black
taxi drivers must pass a rigorous test calling It's called
the knowledge. You have to memorize every street and so
without notes, they'll tell you pick me up here. This
is the test to be a cab driver, pick me
up here and drop me off here. And the applicant
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to get a taxi license has to tell them what
they are going to how they're going to get them there.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
And that's the iconic black taxis that you see?
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Do you know what I think the taxi test is
for a driver in New York City?
Speaker 2 (44:31):
How fast can you get your app working?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (44:33):
It is?
Speaker 1 (44:34):
You don't bathe or speak English. Hey, oh, Denny, did
we have a phone caller? I'm Denny's our producer. Yeah,
go ahead and bring our caller on the line. Oh
excuse me, excuse me, that's the next segment. That's reed.
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I'm sorry for that. Going back Piccadilly Circus in sixteen twelve,
Robert Baker was very wealthy man from the sale of piccadial's.
Piccadials are those starch collars that men would wear in
the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth century. And his mansion was
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called the Piccadill Hall. It's where Piccadilly circuses, which is
a roundabout, and the area was called Piccadilly because of
the Piccadill's callers.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
And I bet you're sorry that those went out of style.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
I do. And then the circus was the roundabout. Has
nothing to do with Barnum and Bailey anyway. London is
such a great city. We have some tours going to London.
Two of them that I will just briefly mention that
I'd like you to jump in there. Wendy is the
British Isles. Now I will be your personal host and
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tour guy. This is a fantastic one. We'll depart the
US July the seventh, you can go earlier. We will
have a pre cruise London option for several days, but
we visit England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland which is different
than Ireland, Northern Ireland still part of the UK, and
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then to France. The ship will dock at Lehave it's
a cruise and we'll have a tour to Normandy, the
d Day Beaches, the American Cemetery.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
This is one of the most famous cruises, the ones
that people love the most. So much genealogy, so much connection,
just iconic places.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
It really is so again July seventh to the twentieth,
and you can go early, stay late if you'd like.
England and Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and France, including Normandy
and the D Day Beaches. The other one I've done
before that I'm so excited about is July twelve to
twenty two. We fly to Rekiavik, Iceland, and then we
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make on La Cruz. Then make three stops in Iceland,
one of my favorite countries in the world. On to Norway,
will stop in Ulisend and Bergen, two of the most
beautiful cities, and then the Norwegian Fjords. They are overwhelming.
Sailing down to the Netherlands, we'll spend some time in Amsterdam,
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onto Bruges, Belgium. Now Bruce rivals Old Town Prague in
Paris as the single most beautiful city in all of Europe.
And for our ladies, it is world famous for lace.
You'll see lace shops everywhere and the intricacy of their
artwork is overwhelming. And then over to Southampton, we'll offer
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a post cruise stay there. In London, you can get
all these details at Morriscolumbus dot com go to the
group department.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Absolutely, you know, London is just one of those iconic
cities and you just have to spend a little bit
a time there, doesn't matter how many times you've been
to London. Like you said, Now, we have a couple
of other tours that are the land tours. You've talked
about two cruise options, Well yeah, two cruise options. So
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next segment we're going to be talking to one of
our tour hosts about a fantastic tour he's going to
be doing that starts in London. And then we have
another tour that's going next year that is really going
to stay in Scotland and in the UK, which is
an LDS Church History tour, which is about the missionary
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efforts that went over and all the converts that they've
brought over.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
It'll be amazing.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
We're headed to Europe here on the Travel Show with
Reid Robinson and some interesting, unique tours. You're listening to
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks. They get Away at Guru,
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joined today in studio by Wendy Frack here, Group department
manager at Morris Columbus Travel. Be sure to check out
all the escorted tours offered by Morris Columbus Travel at
their website Morriscolumbus dot com and on the homepage just
scroll down. I think it's the third item there on
the homepage it says Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours, which is
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the brand name for escorted programs offered by Morris Columbus Travel.
And Wendy's the big boss there.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
I am the big boss, you know.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Then you click on the basing graphic area or if
it's a cruise, you click on cruises right there. Well,
we were talking about London. When when a man or
woman is tired of London, one is tired of life.
And we'd like to welcome to the Travel Show. Read Robison,
a who has been a host of me Tours, but read,
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welcome to the travel show.
Speaker 6 (50:04):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Well I got it with you, thank you. Read. I
got to explain to our listeners it's been decades since
I last spoke to Reid, but I knew him. We
were both students at BYU, and as I recall, Read,
you were the student body president. I spent most of
my time before the Honor Code Committee. Not seriously, but read,
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you and my sister Diane were in the same student ward.
It's been a long time, it has it's good to
catch up. It's good to catch up with you and
Read and Wendy. This tour April seventh to the eighteenth,
i'd like Read you to introduce it to us and
Wendy invite your comments. Is a London, Paris and Rome.
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Not only all the sight scenes from Big Ben, the
Westminster Abbey, the Eiffel Tower, the Louver in Paris, the
Sistine Chapel, the Colisseum. You'll see everything offers an opportunity
to go to temples in these areas. Read.
Speaker 6 (51:16):
Yeah, we call this to come and see Europe Temple Tour.
So we'll start out in London and we'll have a
couple of days there. Unrushed we'll be visiting Westminster Abbey
and learning about the similarities between some of the things
that happen in temples and the traditions in Westminster Abbey.
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It's just fascinating. But we'll be doing the sites you
mentioned like Big Ben and Saint Paul's. Hyde Park will also,
you know, dine on fish and chips. That's about the
only thing that Londoners are known for.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Well, that and Indian restaurants. I gotta tell you, I
love fish and chips. Read but it's not the same
because they outlawed wrapping it in newspaper and I always
believe that publisher's ink added something to the tast Now,
if you're there on the right day in Hyde Park,
you can go to Speaker's Corner and where it is
(52:21):
total free speech. You can slander people, you can say
the King wears army boots. So this was mostly it's
the crazies there now, But some years ago I was
in Hyde Park and the audience is encouraged to heckle
the speaker. That's considered okay. So this one nutcase, total
(52:42):
whack job was going off on the United States. Was
the Great Satan and he was an Englishman responsible for
every problem in the world. And I spoke up and
I said, say what you want about my country, the
United States of America. Yeah, we got some problems. We're
trying to fix him. But just remember this, dude, if
(53:04):
it weren't for the United States, you'd be speaking German
right now. And the crowd went wild. So it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (53:11):
I think we will probably keep people more in Nice
on that trip, though I know well.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
I like to stop there.
Speaker 6 (53:20):
In fact, I make it a stop and tell them
the story of Elder Ballard, who his mission president challenged
him to get on the soapbox and speak there the
first day of his mission.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
He was quite frightened. Well, it's shaped him. Moving on
to Paris, read.
Speaker 6 (53:38):
Well, the fun thing about Paris is we will be
taking the Channel from London over to Paris. Now that's
an experience on its own to go underneath the Channel,
and then we will visit Versailles, the louver Dorse, Eiffel Tower,
chanz Lise. But we neglected to say that in London
(54:01):
the highlight is to see the London Temple and then
we will see the Paris Temple.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
When we're in Paris, we're speaking with Raymond Robinson who
he and his wife will be leading our Come and
See London, Paris and Rome LDS Temples tour April seventh
to the eighteenth. Read. We have about two minutes left
take us on the rest of the tour.
Speaker 6 (54:26):
The last thing we do is fly over to Rome
and we will not only see the Rome Temple and
that fabulous visitor center with the statues of the twelve
including Paul, and then go to the Vatican, the Coliseum,
Trevy Fountain, Spanish Steps and gelatto every step of the way.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
I love that you added the gelata. I was going
to say we were working on this tour. He came
to us with the idea. He's been doing tours for
quite a while, I think since you got off your mission.
But you have this vision, read, and we put this together,
and you were so so worried about making sure that
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people had enough time to enjoy these iconic cities as
well as have those spiritual experiences in the uh temples.
That's right, and we feel like we have got just
an amazing winner of a tour.
Speaker 6 (55:28):
Well, we're excited to introduce people the bucket list places
in Europe.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
You know, one thing when you're in Rome. Did you
know that they are? The police are now handing out
tickets with a fine if you sit on the.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Spanish steps and heaven forbid you do anything that they
could trace back as damaging because of that, and.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
They'll get you. They'll retire their national debt. This is
the come and see London, Paris in Rome with read
Robinson and his wife and read you served as you
and your wife as mission leaders in the Caribbean and
speak yeah right and then MTC President in Ghana. You
can get all the details April seventh to the eighteenth
(56:17):
at Morriscolumbus dot com. Click on Morris Murdoch escorted Tourist.
Click on Europe Day. Good to catch up with you
all the best more when we come back to you
on the Travel Show. Welcome back to the Travel Show.
(56:45):
May I just say thank you for joining us this day,
I should say this day and always and the crossroads
of the West. Now, thanks for joining us here on
the Travel Show. Thirty three years I've hosted the Travel Show.
Now like this camp, I was thinking about my body
(57:06):
and I get giddy and excited just thinking about coming
down to the studio on Saturday. Now you know, I'll
be talking to you from somewhere in the Indian Ocean
next week. Through the miracle of technology, I will be
uh in the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
Not in the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 1 (57:26):
Pair the how things go, Kathy may just throw me overboard.
But uh, you know, I've traveled to one hundred and
fourteen countries in my life. I've got some more I
want to do. And I'm a hopeless travel junkie. Oh,
I mean everything about it. It it opens your understanding.
(57:49):
It's a recharge, It's real. Some tours are you know,
in travel is more fast paced. Others is let's just
kick back by the pool or the beach. But I've
told you I grew up in San Francisco and I
used to go down to the marina and as a kid,
walk down there and just watch these big ships. There
(58:10):
was a passenger line. It was the Mattson Line, the
Lurelin and the Mariposa Cruise ships. That's when they throw
streamers off the side. And they had regular passenger service
between San Francisco and Honolulu. Just you know, one would
leave San Francisco whilst the other one would leave Honolulu,
and you know cross in the middle of the night somewhere,
(58:33):
but watch them sail under the Golden gate Bridge, dreaming
that maybe someday I could go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
I think a lot of people have that experience just
from watching the Love Butt Larry.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
I think I think they do.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
And then when I got my driver's license, I used
to hang out at SFO San Francisco International Airport, no security.
I'd walk around the airport see where planes were coming
in from, you know, most of them. We had some jets,
a lot of propeller planes. And at night I would
read the World Atlas in National Geographic Well going up
(59:07):
in San Francisco. You know, Kathy and I have a
lot of things we like to do, but dining out,
going to restaurants is one of our favorite activities. And
when my son worked for Delta Airlines in Atlanta as
a revenue analyst, I had the parents pass. It's a
(59:27):
free card fly anytime on Delta stand by space Gosh.
I just about knocked him out when he said he
was going back to graduate school. Give me the pass back,
He said, son, do you have any idea what you're
doing to a travel job?
Speaker 2 (59:42):
Can you do what you're doing?
Speaker 1 (59:44):
Kathy and I would fly down to San Francisco for
the day, the first flight out, the last flight back,
and just spend the day and just go to a restaurant.
We flow. We flew for free. That's called the golden
handcuffs in airline termin knowlogy, it's the flight benefits. So
the parents of a Delta employe, and this is true
(01:00:06):
with all airlines. You get to fly on that airline
free of charge. Maybe some taxes involved, particularly international, but
you have it's like a credit card. Hey, I think
I'll go. But in San Francisco there are four thousand,
four hundred and fifteen restaurants. Fifty four of them have
(01:00:26):
a Michelin Star. Now, Wendy, if you were to dine
at one restaurant a day, it would take you twelve
years to dine at every San Francisco restaurant.
Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
If you wanted to go to each of them.
Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Yeah, some of them. I don't want to go to
some of them.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Some have the Michelin Stars, some have less than one star.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Now, I love Chinese Fortune cookies, and I'm going to
risk being inappropriate, something I never am, of course, but
it's something that Kathy and I do, and she's gonna
kill me for telling you this, but fortune cookies are
kind of dumb.
Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
You will find you will find good times. You know
there are fun Well. The fortune cookie was invented in
San Francisco in the late eighteen nineties by a Japanese immigrant,
Mokoto Hagiwara, and he served it at the Tea Garden.
(01:01:29):
It's a little restaurant now. They don't really serve food.
They serve tea with in Golden Gate Park. By the way,
there's one day a month where it's free of charge.
You could look that up Golden the Tea Garden in
Golden Gate Park. I remember it as a kid. But
he started serving them now what Kathy and I did,
and it's hysterical. You have to read them out loud,
(01:01:53):
particularly in a group, and add the words in bed Oh.
So you open it up and say you will find
in good times. Isn't dead to our listeners. You apologize, Dale,
I know that you are just appalled at that. Dale
and Mary are two of our dear friends that listen.
(01:02:13):
I know you're a paull that I would ever tell
a joke like that, but that's true. We do it
to this day. So you and art.
Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
I'm going to start that when that is funny.
Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Well, the Golden Gate Bridge, you know you can walk
across it. They have a pedestrian lane. And the Golden
Gate Bridge was not it's international orange. But originally it
was intended to be black and gold, black and gold,
but Irving Morrow, the bridge consult of architects, said that
(01:02:46):
a reddish orange primer coat would complement the gray fog,
the green hills and the blue water below. So the
Golden Gate Bridge, it's not really gold but international orange range.
Maybe it should be the Orange Gate Bridge. It was
completed in May of nineteen thirty seven. Now, how did
(01:03:08):
we get the name Golden Gate. It was Captain John's
Freemack Fremont, who romantically christened He sailed into the entrance
of the bay. And by the way, you don't see
him now, but when I was a kid, the land
on both sides was covered with golden poppies. But he
(01:03:28):
didn't name it the Golden Gate because of the flowers.
He named it because of the gold rush was there. Now.
He sailed in actually before the gold rush started, but
there were rumors of gold. He sailed in eighteen forty
six and he called it. You come into a gate
(01:03:49):
and entrance. It was the Golden Gate for New Fort.
There were rumors and they were mining or painting some gold,
but it exploded, of course with the gold rush us.
From the bridge to the water seven hundred and forty
six feet people have committed suicide. Twelve people have jumped
(01:04:10):
and lived. Now. I've often wondered the moment you jumped
off the bridge because of whatever's going on in your life.
There had to be this epiphany moment, what have I
just done?
Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
You would hope, You would think, Actually, I don't know
if you'd hope, because at that point it's too late.
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
Yeah, there's been over eight hundred suicide attempts, only twelve
have lived through it. Right now, on the pedestrian they
have like a big netting that goes out so you
can actually jump off the bridge. You have to jump
into the netting and then crawl to the end and
off you go. The bridge itself is one point seven
miles long and a clear span that's very important, doesn't
(01:04:52):
have supports in the middle, a clear span of forty
two one hundred feet about two thirds eight It really
is San Francisco, my hometown, oldest China Town in North America.
They really start. They were brought over for constructions and
horribly abused. But the Chinatown as a community started in
(01:05:16):
eighteen forty eight. Well, I will be in San Francisco
next year. Well, I'll be there. I'll be there in
January two, but not with a tour group. We have
a Pacific This is one of my favorite cruises, Wendy.
Pacific Coast Canon and Golden Gate is a nine day
cruise September twenty sixth to October fourth. Catch this itinerary.
(01:05:39):
We'll sail from Vancouver, BC SO and then we'll follow
that rugged Pacific coastline to Astoria, Oregon, which is Lewis
and Clark Country. What's interesting, Wendy, is a story is
not on the coast.
Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Now, I was going to say, it's inland, nine miles
up the cruise ship going on a river.
Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
So we'll be up the river with a paddel, and
then we'll sail to San Francisco and right under the
Golden Gate Bridge. And what's interesting when you come in
in the morning, you want to be out on the
bridge because they have these buoys that have like a
little a bell and a little fog Horn Sound and
(01:06:20):
you'll see the green lights on both sides and it's
like an airport runway because it's guiding the ships when
it's foggy or something, and you just got to have
a green light on both sides and you know you're okay.
The channel is deep enough. We'll spend two full days
in San Francisco. I will be taking you on my
(01:06:41):
own tour doing all the commentary in San Francisco of
the neighborhoods and the history. Then we'll have two relaxing
days at sea as we follow the California coast past
Santa Cruz, Big Sir, Half Moon Bay, Monterey, and Carmel
down to Cattle Island. Now that's a fun place, you.
Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Know, it really is a fun place.
Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
So many of our listeners I know, have either seen
or been to Catalina, and you think about the casino
on the point, or the quaintness of the village, or
I learned to scuba dive there.
Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
That is a true thing.
Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
They have a huge scuba diving business that they do
right off through there, so.
Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Good bicycles in they go. Santa Catalina, the island of Romance, Romance, Romance, romance.
Now you wonder what I did with the money my
mother gave me for singing lessons. Finally, from Santa Catalina,
we go to San Diego. Here's the best part of
the deal. Now, this is a nine day cruise rate
(01:07:45):
start for just a cruise fair. You got to add
tax four hundred and seventy four dollars for that's an
inside cabin for a nine day cruise. California has never
met a tax. They didn't like two hundred and eighty
seven dollars of tax. So if you combine it for
a nine day cruise seven hundred and sixty one dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
It is a great deal.
Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
And like you mentioned on this one, it's got several
at CE days and you love cruising. You just love
that time on the water.
Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
You know what a cruise that I really like you'll
be taking them so jealous is on star Clipper out
of Venice.
Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
I was just going to say, cruising is an experience,
whether you're on a big ocean cruise or this experience
with Star Clipper where we are on a selling ship.
This one that I'm taking out next year out of
Venice is on the Royal Clipper, which is the out
of their three ships, the largest one with the largest mass,
(01:08:45):
the drop down sports deck off.
Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
The bag fantastic ship.
Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
You can join us on this cruise for just over
twenty one hundred dollars a person. Where we are going
to be cruising down the Croatian coast. But the most
important thing is we begin to end in Venice, Italy.
Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
You know what's nice about star Clippers is you have
a true sailing experience. But they also got propellers.
Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
They do if anything were to happen. But honestly, when
they inferral those sales and you hear that and the pageantry,
it's something you'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
How would you like to visit the oldest restaurant in
the world. Okay, when we come back,
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