The Travel Show: Disney World Specials; Paris & Normandy Cruise; Scotland, Wales & England

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Travel show. I'm Larry Kelwicks to get
Away Guru, and we have a great show lined up
for you, including how to get free prepaid gratuities on
your cruise. We're going to be headed on a South
Pacific honysty and Disney, the Happiest place on Earth, is expensive,
but I've got some Disney World specials that will save

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you thousands of dollars. Jim Gee, the ultimate game tracker
and tour leader in Africa, will be joining us in studio.
We're going to be giving you an update on the
devastating earthquake in me and mar formerly known as Burma.
And what did a United Airlines pilot forget when he's

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way out over the Pacific flying to China that he
turned the plane around? And our best travel advice and
how to plan the ultimate spring break. Oh way, well,
I have a very special guest. I've got a great
guest today. You know, I wanted to bring in a

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world traveler who has been just about everywhere in the world.
I've actually traveled with this person. She's dropped dead, gorgeous. Yes,
I'm chasing women all over the world, well one woman
all over the world. The lovely and talented the love
of my life. Kathy Gelwick's Kathy, welcome back to the

(01:30):
Travel Show because you did the show what in December I.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Did, and it's nice to be back here.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Larry.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
You know, I know all of your secrets, so be
really careful about how you set me up.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, you know, I actually I'm trembling about whether I'm
going to be thrown under the bus or not. See
some of these people have kind of a nice opinion
of me. Please don't disrupt that. Okay, okay, very good. Hey, listen,
you know we've got a great show. I've told We're
now syndicated on nineteen different stations, most of them in

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the Inner Mountain West. We also have Texas and Florida.
But we are also heard not only nationwide, but worldwide.
We have actually received telephone calls, emails, and text messages
from a long list of countries. Some that quickly come

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to mind is Japan. We had a guy call us
from istan Bult, Turkey, actually came on the show live
and he said he used to live in Utah. He
was working for a telephone company in istan Bult, Turkey,
and had some questions South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Europe,

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the UK people have actually called into the show, and
if you'd like to call into the show triple eight
five seven oh eight oh one Oh that's eight eight
eight five seventy eighty ten. Well, just today, Kathy, I
haven't even shown this to you. I got a message
from a family in Pakistan, Islamabad that is listening into

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the show. So greetings to Islamabad, Pakistan, Amber and her family,
Greetings from the travel show that is. Isn't that fun? Well, listen,
you love cruising and I want to talk about ocean cruising.
I know we'll talk about river cruising and we both
love river cruising, but ocean cruising. What is it that

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you love about sailing the seven seas Well?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
We always say you pack and unpack once. You have
a lot of freedom as far as what activities you
will participate in. You may choose to do short excursions.
They have crafts on board, they have talent shows, they
have big shows, probably something that will appeal to you.

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Lots of choices. Now, you and I like the rest part.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
The last cruise we were on was that Sydney, Australia
to New Zealand, which was we sailed set sale in February.
By the way, we're doing that again next year. We'll
be talking about Australian New Zealand cruising and the nice
thing you could have a stop overcoming or going or
both in Fiji, in what Tahiti, even Samoa, you can

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have just a great time there. But one of the
things that keeps creeping up are the onboard gratuities. Now
I have no issue with them because these people work
so hard, but they usually are running now about seventeen
dollars a day. Unless you're in the suits, it's about

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twenty bucks a day, so you can usually figure you
out depending on the cruise line, one hundred and five
to one hundred and twenty five dollars for a week,
double that for a two week cruise. Well Boris Columbus Travel,
the sponsor of the travel show, has cooked up an
exclusive emphasize exclusive in our area deal with Norwegian Cruise

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Line to offer free prepaid service charges or gratuities for
the first two guests in a balcony or above cabin
see It's the Larry Balcony or the Kathy pent House
suite cabin. Very good and so the booking window you
don't have to sail, but the booking window is starts

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on Monday, March thirty first, and you have to book
your cruise only with Morris Columbus Travel because it's an
exclusive deal. No later than April the ninth. April the ninth,
I think is a Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Is that any cruise.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Once It's any cruise of seven nights or longer on
all the ships except the Norwegian Aqua and the Norwegian Luna.
Those two are exempted their brand new ships. And by
the way, one of the really cool things in our
profession is when a cruise line comes out with a
new spectacular ship, they have a private sailing, usually for

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three days. It's called a cruise to nowhere, and they
invite media influencers and some of their top travel partners
that can move inventory for them. Kathy and I have
been invited. This will be next month. Kathy and I
have been invited on a three day cruise to nowhere.
But the nice thing about that, you remember is everything

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is included. There's no service charge. You want what everyone
even the specialty dining and what ship is this that's
on the Aqua that's a oh it's a spectacular so again,
free prepaid gratuities only with Morris Columbus Travel and Norwegian
Cruise Line for cruises seven nights or longer. Book by

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March thirty first, which is what this Monday up until
I believe that'll be Wednesday, April the ninth on all
sailings except the Aqua and the Luna. You don't want
to miss that one. I'll save you hundreds of dollars. Now,
you and I were in Maui what two weeks ago?

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What did you love about Maui?

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh my goodness, Can I just tell you it's the
first time in a long time I've actually seen you relax.
I don't relax, not very often. But this we were.
We were in a beautiful setting up Coppolua.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
We were gone what ten days gone?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
And top blue of Maui, and we ate well and
we gasped in the sun and caught up in some movies.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Would you confirm to our listeners that when I go
to the beach and take my shirt off, that people stare.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now, I'm trying to be really nice. You're always nice
about whales and beaching whales.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well, I do I take my shirt off? And people
gasp and then ask me to put my shirt back on. There.
I look at me and say, there, shit blows.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
There was a day, Larry, you were really.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
There was a day when I looked really good in
the bathing suit. But that was decades and decades ago.
You know, we've got some specials to Hawaii and Mexico.
I think the the two best values right now are
cruises and Mexico all inclusive. But there's a different feeling

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in Hawaii and Mexico. I'm not going to say one
is preferable over the other. I think that's a personal choice.
But let me just run through these now. Keep in
mind that rates are subject to change and availability on
the date of booking. I'm going to give you the
price as of today. It may or may not be
the same Monday. When you call Morris Columbus Travel, Let's

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head to Honolulu. I love you know. I call Honolulu
the way Ki excuse me, the Tiawana of the Pacific.
But I do that with affection. I love Waikiki at
the Outriggers, a great chain Outrigger Waikiki Paradise Hotel, a
first class, solid four star. I looked at dates May
first to the sixth one thousand and seventy three per person.

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That includes air, taxes, fees, except the resort fee you
have to pay in person. Let's head south to Mexico
can Kun at the Catalonia Yucatan Beach May eighth to
the thirteenth. Now this is all inclusive. It's the air,
the transfers, the meals, the drinks, taxes, tips, everything, nine
hundred and fifty nine dollars. These are all six day,

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five not you can add to it. And then to
Porto Viyancta, which I dearly love. The Real r Io
is one of the best hotel change in Mexico. The
Reo Jalisco in Porto VIYANCTA solid four star first class hotel.
May eighth, the thirteenth, nine hundred and eighty one dollars.

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When you can go to Mexico for less than one
thousand dollars all inclusive, that's the deal of the century.
When we come back, we're heading to the South Pacific.

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Welcome back to the travel show. I'm Larry Gelwick's a
getaway room and I'm playing to welcome a lovely town
of Kathy gel which is my co host.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Welcome to the cath nice here it is.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
We have a lot of fun. You know, I have
been to one hundred and fifteen countries. Now you have
not been to one. I'm guessing you've been to eighty
or ninety countries to one hundred may Yeah, probably is.
She's well traveled. You know that I and we have

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a deep love for the South Seas Polynesia. What did
you always say about me?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
You have a heart of Apolonies, you.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Said, I'm white on the outside and brown on the inside.
Spend a lot of time in the South Seas, can
struggle and get by in a little you know Tonguan
and I say struggle and get by in conversation. But
what is it about the South Pacific and Polynesia, Kathy

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that just grabs us?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, how do you always describe it? I think that's
a nice way to start. Blue ocean waters.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
White sand beaches, blue ocean waters, and those gentle trade
winds it's blowing in across the Pacific and the spirit
of Aloha.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well, I think you land in Hawaii and things automatically
slow down. You do it in Polynesian time, which is
such a contrast to the way that we live. And
I love that and besides the fact that it's green
and luscious.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
And how about the people throughout Paul.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh my goodness, they are so kind and they will
just do it.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
They want to do anything for you. You know, people
ask me all the time, Larry, what is your favorite
place You've been everywhere? I always have to answer that
with a question, what is the purpose of the trip?
For sheer absolute physical beauty that overloads the census. It's
French Polynesia, Tahiti, Moorea, Righttaa, Bora, Bora, Nukuheva, the Tuamotus,

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all of this, and you know we let's see last
year was it last year? Yeah? Yeah, last year we
did that Tahiti to Hawaii, Cruz where we visit Tahiti,
the Society Islands, Moorea, Bora, Bora, right, Yata, then head
north through the vast open reaches of the Pacific, crossing

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the equator, visiting Hawaii, the Big Island, Maui, Kawaii, Oahu,
and Honolulu.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Well, you get excited.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
I wish people we should have a TV cam on
me during the show. I am grinning ear to ear.
In fact, I'm actually doing a hula right now. I
have a grass skirt with coconut tops on. Okay, maybe not. Anyway,
we would love to have you fulfill your South Seas

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dream and join Kathy and I on the South Seas Odyssey,
the South Pacific Odisty next year. We depart Tahiti on
May fifteenth and disembark in Honolulu on the twenty seventh,
and Kathy, we will visit Tahiti, the Society Islands Moorea

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incorrectly pronounced Morea Moorea, out to Bora Bora, which James
Mishner said was the single most beautiful island in the world.
And then we write Yetea, where the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter day Saints has just announced a new
temple for their faithful. There are ancient temples there. Then

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cruise through the Twomotu Islands, crossing the equator and visiting
the Big Island Kawaii, Oahu Honolulu. And you know, this
is a two week cruise and prices start, including all
taxes and fees and port charges at just eighteen eighty
nine per person double occupancy. I mean, that's like nine

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hundred bucks a week. That's the Caribbean, that's Alaska. But
the best part of this well, I guess the best
part is being with Hugh, but the second the itinerary
is overwhelming. But catch this. How about free airfare? Free
airfare from most major airports, including Salt Lake City in
Las Vegas to Tahiti home from Hawaii. It's really a

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buy one, get one free. The first person pays a
heavily discounted fare right now out of Salt Lake that's
seventeen forty nine. I priced this out on Delton. United
was over twenty two, So the first person will pay
seventeen forty nine. The second person goes absolutely free. That

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gives us an effective rate of about eight hundred and
seventy five dollars round trip.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well, I will tell you the advantage to going to
Tahiti is that it's it's only an eight hour flight
from Los Angeles. You got to get to LA. But
you go into Asia, you've got a much longer flight.
Those I'm going into Asia. You pass the date line,

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it's the same time zone as LA. There are a
lot of this.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
It really is nice. Now LA to Honolulu is about
a six hour flight LA, as you point out, to
Tahiti is an eight hour flight. Now it's still two hours,
but It's not like you're going to the other side
of the moon. Those dates again, May fifteen to twenty seven,
those are the cruise dates. Now you can extend your
stay in Honolulu. You're kind of in the neighborhood. Why

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not let's move from the South Pacific to Disney World.
If we have time, I'd love you to talk about
when your mom was in Disney World, took the family
down there to Disney World. You know we have a
Disney file in our family.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Oh yes, Jenny knows all things Disney. If we have
any questions, and I'll tell you the most fun is
to be there when our daughter Jenny and our daughter
in law Sam are conducting us throughout the park because
they know everything.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
You know.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I had Jenny on the show a couple of years
ago about traveling with a family. Well, you know, family
vacations are fun vacations, and Disney retains the title as
the happiest place on Earth. But I'm telling you Disney
is flat out expensive. Will helps on the way because

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in conjunction with Morris Columbus Travel and the Walt Disney
World Resort, there's four money saving specials at with Disney
and Morris Columbus. First, fifty percent off kids tickets. She
punches a three day or longer standard ticket. Kids are
Agents three ninety fifty percent off. I'll give you the

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other three Disney discounts when we come back here on
the travel show Simbity New Nod, it's a wonderful day
here on the travel show, we were talking about Disney. Yeah,

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Disney is flat out expensive, there's no getting around it.
But there's no other experience quite like Disney. Now, Morris
Columbus Travel, the good sponsor of the show, has teamed
up with the Disney World Resorts in Orlando at disney
World The Magic Kingdom with four money saving specials. The

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first I mentioned as we closed out the last segment,
fifty percent off kids tickets. Now Disney defines kids Kathy
as ages three to nine. I've I have a grandson
who's ten. I love him dearly. I wouldn't call him
an adult yet, but anyway, purchase a three day or
longer kids standard ticket and get a fifty percent discount.

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Then the second promotion, a three day, three part ticket
rate start at just eighty nine dollars a day plus tax. Third,
that popular free dining plan deal returns is backed by
popular demand. Now you get the dining plan with the

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purchase of a non discount out at four night, four
day or longer package that includes a room at select
Disney Resort hotels and a ticket with a park Hopper
option and number four Disney Resort room deals save up
to thirty percent at select Disney Resort hotels. Now all

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of these are date specific. For example, on that last
one the thirty percent off that's for visits August first
through October eleventh. Every one of these has a different
validity date. So what you want to do if you're
planned to head to Florida to Orlando to Disney World,
Cole Morris Columbus Travel and find out the applicability, the details,

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the terms and conditions. So for the best travel deals
on the plant, including Disney discounts, Yeah, give him a
call at Morris Columbus Travel, Mark Folbow. He has a
love for Ireland, Cathy, like I have a love for Thailand.
What do I always say about Thailand?

Speaker 2 (21:06):
We could live there if it weren't for our children
and grandchildren. But I must say, you've never asked me to.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
I'm asking you now. I'm asking you now.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Except for the children and grandchildren. I probably go over
for January, March or October December.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Do you know that April is the hottest month of
the year in Thailand even the locals get uncomfortable. Well,
Mark Foalbo the Love of Ireland and he's got Castles
of Ireland September twenty sixth to October third. It's a beautiful,
comprehensive tour in Ireland with the castle staying actually in

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a real sixteenth century castle September twenty sixth to October third.
And you know who we haven't had on the show
in a while. We need to invite him back. His Pluto.
Pluto is hosting a sen River cruise round trip from
Paris including the beaches of Normandy August twenty sixth to

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September five next year. And if you sign up before
the end of March, that means Monday, there's a two
night free stay in Paris. You know what you got
to do? You really ought to be calling John direct
on that one. Now I want to bring into the
studio one of our favorite people, Jim Gee, who is

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the ultimate game tracker safari guide in East Africa. And
of course you lead tours elsewhere, but Jim, welcome back
to the Travel Show. Thanks thanks Hlarry okay, I got
just got your mic cup. Welcome to the Travel Show, Jim.
Thanks very very good. What is the Great Migration?

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Great Migration is the world's largest mammal migration on the planet.
It's a two million plus animals migrating on a nine
hundred mile journey from the southern Serengetti up to the
Musei Mara, which is the northern Serengeti.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Now, some people think that an African safari is all
lions and Chuckarama for the predators.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Is that the case, No, that's not the case. You're
going to see so many different animals. You're going to
see a minimum of sixty species of mammals.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
You know. One of the things that we do, Morris
Columbus Travels sponsors with Discovery Expeditions in jim Gee for
our Great Migration safaris, is we give the travelers a
booklet with a picture of sixty plus animal most of
the animals you're likely to see and invariably, Kathy, by

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day three, we've seen fifty plus, not including the birds.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Absolutely, it's amazing. Now love the reaction when people get
into the first park and they see their first elephant
or their first draft.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, i'll tell you, I'll tell you what I think
is funny. On that same line, Jim as a Samburu.
There are fifty game parks in Kenya. There are four
what I call the Big four, not the Big five animals,
the big four parks. We visit three of them, Samburu
or Pajeta. The Serengeti also known as Theamara I'm Boselli,

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is on the east and it's a wonderful park. But
you're not going to see anything there that you don't
see with us. It's just a long, long ways away.
So here's what I remember, Jim. We drive up from
Nairobi and we enter in Samburu, and people go nuts.
There's an impala, there's a gazelle. Click click click click

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with their camera. Well then they go about ten feet
there's twenty gazelle. Click click click and buy. By the
afternoon or the next morning is oh and then pala.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yeah, that's right, there's you know, they see the classic five,
which you know we know is the giraffe, the zebra,
the cheetah, your bad boon. And then of course the hippo.
And then you have your big five, which we all
know is the leopard, the lion, and the elephant, black rhino,

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and of course the ky buffalo. But there's so many more. Yeah,
but those common ones that we refer to as common.
After the first day, they say, where are the cats?
That's what they're focused on.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well, we all seem to have a favorite animal. Mine
is the lions. I'll get to Kathy in the minute.
Do you have a favorite animal?

Speaker 4 (25:45):
I would say my favorite and then, because it's usually
the most difficult, is the leopard. Because it's stealthy. It's
only seen when it wants to be seen. If it
doesn't want to be seen, it won't.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Now I'm going to put Kathy on the spot here
because her favorite animal, which I will let her introduce,
is kind of not on many people's bucket list. Kathy,
what is your favorite animal in Africa?

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I love the wart hog. Why well, Jim told me
and you can pick it up from here that they're
probably the dumbest animal on.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Why fire they are. They have the smallest brain and
they forget what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
I coach some of those well, and they start running
and they stop and they forget where they're going and
then they go back where they came from. That happens
to me several times a.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Day walking through that. You know what's interesting about the
wart hogs, Jim, is I mean they're low to the ground,
short legs, they can outrun some of the cats.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
They can.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
It's just amazing. Now, what makes a Morris Columbus Travel
Discovery Expedition Great Migraine Safari different because there's a lot
of good companies out there, but you seem to be
in a league of your own.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
We LUs because we only put four in a Safari vehicle,
and our Safari vehicle are the toil to land cruisers,
especially modified.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
The pop up top. You know, those will see eight
people plus the driver. You're putting four and Kathy, this
is why this is huge. Most of the vehicles we
see will put six or eight. I don't understand it, Jim.
There are companies out there in passenger vans, no pop
up top, and the people don't know what they're getting

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till they arrive. And most people's a one time only visit.
But the reason that we put for now, if a
family says, hey, there's five or six of us. That's okay,
but that's their choice. Kathy. We put four because the
animals have not learned to only come to your side

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of the vehicle we're working with. We're trying to train them.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Jim does that on the off season. No, but you
take your shoes off, you're up on the seat, you
can move over to the other side. You don't feel crowded.
You get a great view and the pictures are amazing.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Now guide us through a typical day, well, a typical
days we leave at six in the morning. Why so early, Well,
because we want to see that sunrise, and that sunrise,
because we're on the equator, is always going to be
right about six point twenty. We want to be there
to watch it come up.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Isn't that when the animals, well some are nocturnal, but
a lot of animals are moving at sunrise.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Now transition, they'll be moving from their night area into
the daytime area, and that's when we want to catch
them and also see what they were up to during
the night.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
So on that morning drive, we come back for breakfast
nine thirty is somewhere around there.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Continue and then we go back out again about what
time lemon is Lemon is Yeah, after a good breakfast,
and then we go out and come back again for lunch.
We have unlimited game drives, and sometimes we're having such
a good time, we'll bring our breakfast with us, which
is a great experience.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's so much fun. Then we have an afternoon drive
that comes back at dust. Now, Kathy, you remember, and
this is one of the great things. Is where you
stay is everything. And your guides talk to us about
the Ashneill Lodge up in the Serengetti were also known
as Themarra.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, we're right on the Mara River where all the
action takes place during the migration.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
The only lodge right there at that point.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Right right on the bend of the river. We have
perfect access. We're out immediately. We're protected, of course, in
an electric fence environment for our tended luxury tenant.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Can I always say, with the electric fence, I'll just
leave this men, don't even think about it. No, don't, Kathy,
Do I need any more detail? Okay, don't even think
about doing that, right.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
But yeah, then we're immediately right out there where all
the and we have two or three lion prides that.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Border right onto that area.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
You can hear them roaring at night, and it's just
a great experience of being right there in the lodge.
We don't have to travel for two hours.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I think here's one of the big deals, and you
touched on it is at the Ashvill Lodge. Once you're
in your vehicle in twenty seconds literally you're out the
gate and looking for animals in twenty six Now there's
some beautiful lodges up there on the Serengetti, but they're
an hour and a half to two hours drive each way.
They missed the early morning and you don't drive at

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night except with a night drive permit, which is rare.
They don't drive at night. They get the middle of
the day, which is the least active time. But they're
beautiful lodges. Jim Gee, you have a group that you'll
be leading July thirtieth, by the way, you'll be on
mine earlier. Also July thirtieth, we leave the USA and

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get back August tenth. We have for about three couples
or three singles. We have three rooms left.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
And we'd love to have people come and sign up.
Where we just got those backs so they're quickly available.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Otherwise you in distrupportunity July thirtieth to August tenth this year,
give Morris Columbus Travel a call.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Jumbo native greeting in Kenya.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Welcome back to the travel Show. I'm Murray Gelwick's then
get Away, and I've gotten away all over the world. Kathy.
I'm joined today the lovely in town, Kathy gll. It's
the love of my life and my travel partner. And
I think you have been to about one hundred countries.
I counted mine about one hundred. It's well, not about

(31:54):
it's exactly one hundred and fifteen. But you've got to
be right up there. There's only a few places I've
snuck away without you. Hey, what do I do every
day when I'm out of the country or even out
of town and you're not with me? You call me?
I do every day every daithfully.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
You call the kids too.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
I call our kids also, and just ditay in touch,
talk to the grandkids. All of that. You know, we
talked earlier that except for the kids and grandkids, we
could live in Thailand. I have a love of that country,
and uh, it's I don't know, I don't even know
how to describe it. It does something to me. I

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feel at home there. I feel comfortable there. Well. As
you folks may have heard, yesterday Friday, a strong earthquake
was hit Me and Mar for that's the indigenous name
formerly known as Burma. You and I have been to Burma.
We've been to Me and Marr. It was hit with

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a seven point seven Rick scale magnitude. Earthquake followed and
there are several tremors afterwards, including a six point four aftershock.
This it fell through much of central and northern Thailand also,
and the tremors were felt as far away as Bangkok. Now,

(33:20):
the last report I got about one hundred and forty
people were killed in Me and Mar and that is
just tragic, you know.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh, it's much more than that. The last report I
read was one hundred and seven one thousand and thousands.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
This reports from yesterday, so a thousand people, and our
hearts go out to them. Now in Thailand and Bangkok,
there was a building under construction that collapsed because of
the tremor.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Well it's about thirty stories.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, it was a high rise. And I actually have
received text messages from people who've traveled with us to Thailand.
Sean texted me yesterday the King's texted me, yeah, and
I called and spoke to our colleagues there. Our guide

(34:12):
Cat is safe. Took key. Other guides are safe. Jeff
whose I do the planning with Jeff Excison. So for
those of you who remember Cat our Thailand guide, she
is okay.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
It still makes sure.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
It really does. It really does. Hey, we've talked before
about if you're going to the UK, the United Kingdom,
which is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, not the
Republic of Ireland, which is most of the island that's
part of the EU, but Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England,
they require an e TA. Now that's not estimated time

(34:51):
of arrival. That is the Electronic Travel Authorization and the
cost is ten pounds, it's about thirteen by effective April ninth,
which is what a week from Wednesday, the price will
We'll be going up. Let's see here, from ten pounds

(35:16):
to sixteen pounds. Now this includes those who are going
to you know, visit the UK. If you're merely changing
planes and never leaving the airport, you still have to
have My egis really yep. Yeah, you know, have you
ever been a government that didn't like a fee or
a tax.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Any any organization that doesn't like a fee or a
tax or an increase.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, I wonder about our home state of Utah. You know,
this conservative state we we seem to the legislature seems
to love taxes and fees.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Well, I think they think we don't see it.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Come, what would happen if I ran for governor? I
wouldn't get elected.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
I think you'd have to have another wife. I don't know.
I don't want to be the I am.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah. Well here in Utah, we can do that. Okay,
stop right there, stop right okay. Now tell me how
embarrassing this would be. You're a United Airlines pilot. You're
in a jumbo jet. You're flying from Los Angeles to
China to Shanghai. But you're out over, you're out over

(36:30):
the Pacific, and you remember that you forgot something. United
Airlines Flight nine one ninety eight departed LA last Saturday
week Go today March twenty second. Two hundred and fifty
seven passers and thirteen crew aboard, headed northwest over the Pacific,

(36:51):
bound for China's largest city, which is Shanghai. Oh no,
they're out there. The pilot remembers what.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
He doesn't have his passport to.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
What do they do? They turn the plane around.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Isn't there a way he could have just landed?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Well, they got what they call Polaris, which is their
business class, the life lat season. Why couldn't he just
sleep on the plane or something like that. Anyway, they
turned the plane around, landed at San Francisco, unloaded. Everyone
had to wait to get a new crew because this
crew would have been timed out. Uh Now, if I

(37:30):
had said, if I was on the plane and I said, hey, guys,
I forgot my passport, do you think they would have
turned the plane around. I'll tell you what you know.
I live on airlines, but I tell you what bugs
me about airlines. Have you noticed when there's a delay
or a cancelation they always say the same thing. We
appreciate your patients and understanding. But when I have a problem,

(37:53):
there is no patience, there is no understanding. Hey more,
when we come back with our number two, we're taking
you too, Kathy's Homeway. Welcome back to our number two

(38:15):
of the travel show, the Best two Hours in Radio.
I'm Larry Gelwiz then Getaway Guru, joined by the Queen,
my lovely wife Kathy Gelwiz, Kathy. I love you so
great to have you here.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Where's my crown.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
I'll get you a Crown Burger. You actually like Crown Burger.
They do a good I like Crown Burger too. Hey,
we'd love to have you join us here on the
Travel Show one triple eight five seven eighth one. Oh
that's eight eight eight five seventy eighty ten. You can
ask me a question about Kathy, or ask Kathy a

(38:52):
question about me. She will tell the truth. I will
tell the t well, if you ask me a question
about me, I will lie. Okay, Josh kidding. Hey, I
want to give a special shout out. I just got
another note. Amber and her family in Islamabad, Pakistan are
listening to the Travel Show. So greetings from the United

(39:13):
States to Amber and her family in Islamabad, Pakistan. You
know I Amber, I said, we're syndicated on nineteen stations
here in the US all the way to the Atlantic Ocean,
but we are picked up by people all literally all
over the world. I told you that story about the
guy in Istanbul, Turkey that called us. I had a

(39:34):
call from Tokyo, Japan, Sydney, Australia. The UK. It's it
is fun. A lot of calls from Canada up there, got.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Your other homelands, it.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Is it is. You know I have dual citizenship both
in the US and Canada.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
And you're very proud.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I am very I'm proud of my Canadian heritage. I'm
infinitely proud of my American heritage. Now you know that
one of my favorite places in the world is Thailand.
What are two or three of your favorite places? You've
been to about one hundred countries. Some would say you're
well traveled.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I enjoy.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Tuila, I like Twill, I do know.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
I like the Black Forest in Germany. Yeah, I enjoy that.
I enjoy all things UK, but particularly Scotland.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Now let me just make let you in on an
insider secret. Kathy is a descendant of the Wallace clan,
as in William Wallace clan.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Okay grandson named.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Wallace who wears a tartan h.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
We perpetuated throughout the family.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
In fact, when our daughter Emily married Matt, he wore
the Maxwell Maxwell Tartan kill. But to explain something about
our life. You know, a week from today, a week
from today, April fifth, will be our forty eighth wedding anniversary.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
I know where you're going.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
I know, and I'm going to go there. Uh listen,
forty eight years we've been married next week April the fifth,
and she's never thrown me out of the house yet.
Certainly she's ad cost I have. But anyway, Kathy is
a descendant of the William Wallace klan, and you could

(41:38):
remember from Brave Heart and from history William Wallace when
he gets upset, he gets after it. So this will.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Explain movers and shakers.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
This will world, This will explain how Kathy gets when
she's upset with me. I just head for the hills.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah you do, that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Okay. Anyway, we have a tour that I think maybe
one of your favorites, Kathy. It's the Scotland, Wales and
England Tour. It's this year. We've only got a few
places left August fourth to the eleventh this year in
the UK. Yeah, you'll need that ETA Scotland, Wales and England.

(42:24):
Tell us about one of the highlights in Edinburgh.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
It is the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. It is performed
on the esplanade outside of the castle.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
The castle built on top of the Big Rock, The Big.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Rock, nine thousand spectators, nine hundred participants, it's bagpipes, it's dance,
it's drum corps, drum corps from countries other than the UK.
They want it to be an international presentation. This up.

(43:08):
This year will be the seventy fifth anniversary of the
tattoo started in nineteen fifty. The theme is the heroes
who made us and as I was, go on YouTube
and just put it in Edinburgh Military Tattoo and see

(43:30):
some of it. It is magnificent. A million people turn
in to watch it. But this year it's going to
be a little more traditional.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
In terms which I like.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah, I do too in terms of music, because it
is a celebration of what has come before and I
have always wanted to You have.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Been so excited. This is viewed by over one hundred
million people worldwide. Also, outside of the festival you have
bagpipe troops going through the streets of the city. They
block it off. Now the big question, here's a lesson
in marketing. All of you MBA students should be listing
out here. So we come out with a brochure about

(44:18):
it's called, as you correctly stated, the Military Tattoo festival.
Nobody was signing up and I'm thinking, why are they?
And then I look at the brochure and it says tattoo. Well,
everybody's thinking this is body art only. Do you hear me, Mark?
Yeah too, tattoo has the military tattoo festival has nothing

(44:43):
to do with body art. It dates back. The term
tattoo dates back to the sixteen hundreds where at the
end of the night a drummer and the sergeant from
the barracks or the town crier would go to the
pubs and shout out dough ten taptoe, dough ten taptoe

(45:05):
and taptoe. Over four hundred years became tattoo. Now what
was dough ten taptou mean? It meant it was a
message to the innkeepers of the pub owners, turn the
taps off, no more grog, no more ale. A message
to the soldiers to head back to the barracks. It's

(45:26):
closing time. To the men of the town or village,
go back home. Your wives are waiting for you. So
you hear the term tattoo, folks, No, you're not going
to get a scene tattooed on your back.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Well, and the part in Scotland is only a fraction
of the trip. It's at the beginning, but then we
stop at some other really exciting whales. And I've never
been to Wales. That's one of the countries you.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Married one, But that's no I'm just kidding. Hey, listen,
did you ever watch with me the nineteen forty one
movie How Green Was Your Valley?

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Yes, I love that. Watch well, go on YouTube and
just get some clips. I love the whole movie. But
it's about the coal miners and was called the row Row,
the row houses that are all fastened together connected. You
still see that in Wales today.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Well, you know the other thing about Wales is they
are known for their choral groups. That is where the
beginning of the Tabernacle choir because there were these immigrants.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
For me, welch choral groups. We're talking about kids, adults, seniors, everybody,
school groups. Now we also visit York. Do you remember York?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Oh? York is amazing.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
It's like all of the history all in a smaller area.
I love walking the ramparts of the city Wall. They
have a number of entrances that you can do there.
And then down to Stratford upon Avon.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Well, yes, we'll go to the Anne Hathaway House. We'll
see the Royal Theater there Shakespeare's home.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
That's it, and we actually can visit his home now.
Shakespeare is also buried at the Holy Trinity Church in
Stratford and you can visit that. It's a step back
in time. And we'll all be buying Shakespeare books well.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
And then we end up in London.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Oh week, we were in London with our kids. We
as a Christmas present in twenty twenty three, we gave
our kids a Rhine River cruise. Our five kids are married,
soho was with spouses we invited, but we spent what
four days in London, then two days in Amsterdam, then

(47:49):
sailed the Rhine Amsterdam, which is the Netherlands, France, Germany
and Switzerland. That was probably one of the greatest family trips.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
In fact, we sat down because we love river cruising.
We sat down to dinner the first night with them
and they looked at us and said, this is incredible.
You've been holding out on us.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
I remember that. Hey, we'd love to have you join us.
We've got space I think for about four couples or
four singles. We have four rooms left on our Scotland,
Wales and England. Yeah, it's the Tattoo Festival, but nobody art.
That means head home from the pubs August eleven to fourteen.
Get all the details at morriscolumbus dot com. That's Morriscolumbus

(48:35):
dot com. On the homepage, scroll down to Morris Murdoch
Escorted Tours and then click on Europe. When we come back,
we're headed on river cruising Ultra Luxure. Here on the
travel shooting. If you're listening to the travel show, I'm

(49:02):
Larry Gelwicks, the getaway Guru. The travel show is sponsored
by Morris Columbus Travel where you Always Travel More and
Norwegian Cruise Line, the home of freestyle cruising. I'm joined
today with a special guest, my wife Kathy. Now Kathy,
before I introduce our other special guest, tell me why

(49:24):
you love river cruising above all else.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Oh my goodness. For one thing, you don't have to
be in charge of the short excursions.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Sorry, you're all included.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
He can enjoy it. He still likes to go around
and visit with people and in his words, work the crowd.
But again it's it's peaceful. All the excursions are included.
The food is delicious.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
It's you know what I love is the easy on
and off. We'd like to welcome our friend, Jennifer Holbroth,
CEO Riverside Collection, the America is better known as Riverside
Luxury Cruises. Jennifer, Welcome to the travelers. Hi it is

(50:14):
so can you hear me? Okay, we can hear you,
just fine, Jennifer, And we're excited to have you here.
You know, some cruising used to have a reputation as
a senior citizen activity. Of course that has completely changed.
Families love cruising. Why should people not wait to retire

(50:38):
to enjoy a river cruise?

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Well, so, one, there's really no easier way to see
some of these places in Europe. And you know, why
wait for anything. You know, if you're thinking about going
to Europe and you want to see a lot, but
you also want to be relaxed and be pampered, there's
really no other way than river cruising. And when you
come with friends, you know, drinks are include amazing food,
You get into these small towns and have experiences. I mean,

(51:04):
I think that anyone who likes to travel at any
age would appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
You know, Riverside Cruises. You were at the Utah Travel Expo, Kelly,
I think was there at the booth there and had
a lot of activity. I'd like you to introduce who
Riverside Cruises is. I mean, to be frank, it's not
as well known as some of the other brands that
spend at gazillion dollars advertising Who is Riverside Cruises? And

(51:33):
where do you? Where do you sail?

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Well we are new, but I think that can be
good because we can do some things differently. The Riverside
is owned by a family, the Garlock family, out of Europe.
They have been operating luxury four and five star properties
in Europe and one in the Maldives for since the seventies,
so they know hospitality. They during COVID purchased five former

(52:01):
Crystal River ships. This is some of the listeners are.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
You know they all know Crystal all right?

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Well, then you know these ships are beautiful. We got
in the water in twenty three and we're just heading
into our second year of sailing three of our ships.
We've got the Revel on the own. The vuc starts
next week with Tulip Time gets down onto the Rhine
and the mosel onto the Danube, and then the beautiful
Riverside Mozart is exclusively on the Danube thanks for extra width,

(52:29):
and then the Douc and Mozart both sail Christmas markets.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Now I'm going to give you my impression of Riverside
luxury cruising. You know, if I were to say some
of these other cruise lines are five star, I literally
will give Riverside seven. I'm deadly seriously.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Wow, Larry, I love that.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
What what? And that's true? It is absolutely true. What
makes Riverside ultra luxury.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
On the.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Yeah, it's a couple of things. One the space and design.
I mean, we just put less people on board. If
you're referencing another well known river cruise line on the
same size ship, they put one hundred and ninety people,
we put one hundred and ten. That's more room in
the common areas and you know, larger suites. It also
allows us to have larger galleries, more chefs. We prepare

(53:23):
all our food on demand. We budget more per guests
than the other lines because we know for the luxury traveler,
food is a non negotiable it has got to be
five star plus. We've had we've had clients go off
to Michelin Star restaurants come back on and say the
food is no better. In fact, in some cases Riverside
was better. And then finally, it's the service. You have

(53:43):
access to a butler in every suite, really personalized, you know, authentic, engaging,
fun service that is not stuffy. So all of it
adds up to a really unique ultra luxury experience on
the river.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Well, body remembers food, and I got to say, the
reputation of Riverside is insane good culinary preparation. Why what
makes your dining experience so different?

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Yeah, there's a couple things. Like I said, the budget.
So when you put more money in, you get better output. Right,
So we're going to budget. We're gonna get the best
cuts of meat, the most you know, freshest vegetables, vegetables.
We make all our pasta and our bread homemade on
board like no one else does that. We have the
space and the people to do so we also have
less people in the dining room, so you're getting more

(54:36):
attentive service from from the staff, the flavors and the display.
I mean, you can't you know, something can taste good,
but you know with luxury. It's got to look amazing.
You got to get those insto food shots, right and
every shot that comes out of you know, the gay
the distincts out of the galley with Riverside is instagrammable
for sure. And I just think the variety and frequency

(54:58):
you can get food. Some people say that I'm river cruise.
If it's in between meal times, coming off in a excursion,
you're hungry, you can't get anything. We always have a
buffet out.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Oh yeah, healthy scootery.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Yeah, oh my brezels are great. So we just we're
gonna feed you amazing food throughout your cruise, and we've
prioritized it early and that's why we're making waste with it.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
We're speaking with Jennifer Halbroth, CEO Riverside Collection Americas. We
know it as Riverside Luxury Cruises. You can check out
their website at Riverside dash Cruises dot com. Riverside Dashcruises
dot Com. We've got about one minute left. I don't
know where the time goes so quickly, but you know,

(55:37):
there's an interesting approach that Riverside the ultimate luxury cruise.
It's a river cruise, but it's an easy way to
see Europe. It's an easy way to see the land.
Explain that to me.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of times people
are cruise verse, so I say, the only thing that
makes it a cruise is it's on water at the
end of the day. It's a way to take a
very complex European trip if you think about planes, trains,
that adds a lot of logistics and frankly hassel to
your vacation. Come fly into a major city like Amsterdam,
get on one of our beautiful vessels, sail for seven

(56:16):
nights see ten, twelve, thirteen ports, do all the excursions,
eat amazing food, and then you know.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Jennifer how Bron at the Riverside lecturer cousin Jennifer, thank
you for joining us on the Travel Show more When
do we come back? You're listening to the Travel Show.

(56:51):
I'm Larry Gelwiz, the getaway Guru. The Travel Show is
sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel. Check out their website Morris
Columbus dot com, Morris Coomeupus dot com. Each of the
Morris Travel advisors has a direct line. If you have that,
call it. If you're looking for an expert travel advisor,

(57:11):
call one eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six.
Now that's easy to remember. Eight hundred triple nine forty
six forty six. I'm joined today by my traveling companion,
Kathy Gelwick's low almost forty eight years. That's our wedding
anniversary a week from today. We will plan a big

(57:32):
soiree on that day. What do you think? Okay, what
do you think?

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Have I been upgraded
to an assistant tour director?

Speaker 1 (57:46):
No, you're full blown to direct?

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Oh no, no, no, no, I will steal mostly.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Yeah, you don't stop starting. You have led tours on
your own. I have, and she does a wonderful job.
You know, people ask doctors for medical advice, dennis for
dental advice, lawyers for legal advice, landscapers for gardening advice?

(58:13):
What do they ask you and me travel advice? So
let's give it doctor Gelwick's.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Oh my goodness, what is some.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Of your best travel advice?

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Well, first of all, you and I have learned over
the years that we pack best when we use a
packing list, so we cross off we usually don't miss things.
And there are all kinds of these available on the internet.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Well, I made my own things, and it has everything
from a beach vacation to a cold winter overcoat, a suit,
a white shirt, you know, swim swimsuit, exercise socks, medicase,
everything I could possibly.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Need on any trip.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
On any trip. And then I get it out and
I just get a sharpie and I mark off the
ones that I you know, I'm going to Hawaii, I
don't need my winter coat, so I crossed that off,
all right, so, and I just keep it on our
PC at home and print it out every time we
all go.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Absolutely And because I'm looking at this from to a
director's point of view, I would say, please read the
documentation that you get very carefully. Take a highlighter.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
You know.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
One of the things that I enjoy watching Larry operate.
One of the things I enjoy about the way he
operates is that he is so kind to everybody. Thank
you now we have at the end of I would say,
every one of his groups, he will say, this is
such a nice group of people, and I are because

(59:58):
it's also because of the way you treat the But
there is nothing more frustrating than to announce what time
we're going to meet and immediately have some times yeah,
over and over and over again. The other thing that
I'm very sensitive about it and torn almost is this

(01:00:19):
idea of mobility issues because travel, travel is exciting no
matter what age you are, but as we get older,
there are things that can limit our ability to move
or to move at the pace that a tour needs

(01:00:40):
to travel. And so I would just say, as there
are times when you may need to excuse yourself, there
are times when a tour is not appropriate, and be
willing to look at the effect that your mobility has
on the members of the group, because they paid the

(01:01:01):
same amount of money that you have. So the other
thing is when things don't go quite as they have
been planned. Your travel is dynamic, be willing to just
sit and wait. Larry will take good care of you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Well, thank you. On that mobility issue, I think part
of it is we want everyone to enjoy the joys
of travel. If I'll give you an example. You know,
last month we did our Australia to New Zealand. Such
a nice group of peoces, that's what It's true. They
were so good. We had a couple people in wheelchairs

(01:01:41):
and there were some tours that were perfectly appropriate. Others
you simply can't do into Larni Castle in Dunedin and
there's no elevator to the upper floors, and just explain
this is this part of the tour. Enjoy the gardens.
Now I'll tell you one that is good for limited mobility.

(01:02:03):
It will be the tell me how much you love
this the Christmas Markets of the Rhine River. We're going
to do that December third to the tenth, twenty twenty six,
from Amsterdam to Basel, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland.
And Kathy tell us they have the tours included, but

(01:02:26):
they rate them by activity.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
That's right. They will say this is appropriate or this
is not appropriate. So you can take it at a
slower pace or you can go at a faster pace.
And I appreciate that because it doesn't put pressure on you, Larry,
for one thing, to have to say, oh, this may

(01:02:48):
not work. But we could have a whole segment on
Christmas markets.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Well, let's do that. You remember we did a Rhine
River crew some years ago and my aunt Lotti, who
about ninety years old, she's still going strong, had a
walker and they had tours with an activity level of
a one that were perfectly appropriate for we went on

(01:03:14):
other ones, but they have people that can help out.
It's yeah, I think that's great advice. Some of my
best travel advice is always check the weather of where
you're going. You'd be surprised how and dress appropriately, plan appropriately.
Make three copies of your passport information page. Now. One

(01:03:35):
is just like a photocopy a xerox copy. Two is
a photo on your cell phone. You're going to store
it in your gallery. And then the thirties you're going
to download that cell phone photo to your server. Why
three copies, Well, if your passport is lost or stolen,

(01:03:56):
you are not going to leave that foreign country until
you have a replacement, which would be at an embassy
or some of the consulate generals of the US State Department. Well,
if you have the photo, if you can prove who
you are, you don't just walk in say I want
a US passport. Well do you look like an American?
Do you sound like American? I don't know what that means,

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because we are a wonderfully diverse country. But you have
to prove who you are a photo copy. You can
usually get it within a day if you're there. You know,
first thing when they open. But what if your photo
copies are lost? You have it on your cell phone.
What if your cell phone is lost, you can go
to any laptop or PC and sign in to your server,

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sign into your account and print a copy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
And unfortunately you've seen instances when they don't have these backups.
That's that's right, expensive and very time.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
It really is. Well, let's have some fun. Now, let's
appoint you, Kathy as and this is unscripted. I'm going
to appoint you as the customer service representative I want
to give you now. None of these complaints were lodged
against Morris Columbus Travel, but they have been lodged against

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travel agencies and travel companies.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Do I have to be kind when I answer these?

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Well, you can be funny. We're always kind, We're always kind.
How would you react to this? Just like in one sentence,
let's start. I don't know if this is the Gulf
of Mexico or Gulf of America right now, but the
water in the gol this was what the complaint was.
The water in the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico was salty.

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No one told me there's going to be salt in
the ocean.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
I enjoy the opportunity and brush it off when you
get out, be sure you shower.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Okay, now, this could have been on one of my tours,
this one, this one happened, could have It's not again,
none of these are Morris Columbus complaints. But this is
a real complaint, all right. I can hardly say that
this could have been me. We could not enjoy the

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tour as our tour guide was too ugly. You can't
admire a beautiful view when you're staring at a face
like his. How do you respond to that?

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Well, ask for the picture of the tour guide before.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
That's right. Here's one. After visiting Yellowstone National Park, a
visitor complained to the park quote. We had to cut
our trip short to Yellowstone because we were informed that
the park does not cage the animals at night. We

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were worried about our protection.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Uh, Larry, there are some DNA pools that should not
be unperpetuated.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Their DNA should be removed from the human gene pool
because these people might be reproducing. There you go, Oh,
here we go. This is the tour. We had to
stand in line outside and there was no air conditioning.
Reminds me of the go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Well, like I said before, you have to be adaptive
and sometimes you do have to stand outside. And some
people just want to complain for this.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
These people ever graduate even from elementary. Now we just
got back from Maui. Here's a complaint. The beach was
too sandy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Oh my goodness sakes, I think I'd rather have sand
than little pebbles.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
That's right. Does ocean view really mean I have a
view of the ocean.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Yes, it's especially if you're on the ship and you're safe.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
We're going to the real question. We're going to Florida.
Which be which is closest to the ocean?

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
The South Beach?

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Yeah, yep. Now here's another one. Can we pet the
lions on an African safari? That's true, I guess you can.
You might lose a hand with that, all right, here
we go one more. My fiance and I requested twin
beds when we booked the hotel room, but instead we
were placed in a room with a king bed. We

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now hold you, the hotel responsible, and want to be
reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would
not have happened if you had put us in the
room that we booked.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
I think he skipped health class in eighth.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Oh my goodness. Fun stuff, fun stuff. Well, listen, when
we come back, I would like to take a Have
you talked about a women's perspective on an African Safar?
Because you were hesitant to go the first time, and
we're going to explore why Kathy was hesitant to go.
But now I think you are the biggest poster child

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for the Great Migration Safari. Can tell me one thing
you absolutely love about the Great Migration Safari?

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Well, we've been a few times now, so I love
watching the reaction of the people.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
We travel with so much fun. We're going to head
to Africa with Queen let Kathy when we come back.

Speaker 6 (01:09:32):
Kathy, you're listening to the travel show.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
I'm Larry Gelwick's The Getaway Guru. May I express my
heartfelt thanks for joining us every week on this station
at this time because we all love travel. We have
a lot of laughs, and I make a kind of
silly fool of myself often, but I so appreciate that

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you tune in, and I'm so happy that Kathy is here,
my lovely wife. Again. We celebrate forty eight years a
week from today, April the fifth, Happy annivers Happy anniversary,
dear love you, love of my life. You know we
had Jim Gee in earlier for a segment on the
Great Migration. I've been on African so far as all

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over the continent and I've always enjoyed them. But there
is nothing, there's nothing that even comes close to the
largest mammal migration land migration on Earth. And it's only
July August September, only in Kenya and Tanzania. For a
long lot of reasons, Kenya is the better choice. We

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still have what I think three rooms available couples or
singles on our July thirtieth this year. You can go
to the Morris Columbus website Columbus dot com, scroll down
on the homepage to Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours. That's the
brand name for the Escorted tours. Then you click on

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you know Africa or Europe or Asia or cruises and
you can see what's there. We all also have our
twenty twenty six Africa cruises. I'll be taking one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Not Africa cruises, excuse me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
That's why, thank you very much, an African Safari Great Migration.
Mine is already half full. For twenty twenty six. By
the way, jim Gee is on all of even with me.
He'll be with me and then we have some other
dates also. But in our last couple of minutes, Kathy,

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I want to talk about your experience in Africa, Kenya,
the Great Migration, because you were kind of hesitant to go.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
I was. I didn't know what to expect you. No,
I've done things like bungee jump.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
She really has in New Zealand, huh.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
And so you know, I thought adventure travel, but this
was just so different. I didn't know how I would
feel about observing a kill. It was the unknown, which is.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Only a small part of the whole experience. By day three,
you would have seen fifty species, not including the birds.
I remember the first time you went with me, and
I had been there before. You seemed almost immediately captivated
by the experience and told me before we returned home
that you wanted to go again next year.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
That's right, and so do my children. I have to
fight them off every year.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
Well, you know what's interesting about that, Kathy, is I
invite Kathy to go everywhere with me. She has first
rights of refusal. But so you go with me on
most trips, but not all. You have other things going on.
You have a very exciting, active life. And so I
will invite one of our children with or without the spouse,
depending on the circumstance, and can the spouse get off?

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They love it because I'm paying for it. Sure, And
so now they say, oh, Mom, you don't want to
go to Tahiti. No you don't want to, I'll go
in your place.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
That's right. Be careful walking down the stairs.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
Were you ever bored?

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Oh? Heaven snow. I think the thing that became very
clear to me right off the bat is that I
am an observer of the circle of life. Every dung
beetle up to the lion has a purpose and a
plan in all of this. And it's the rawness of

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the primal life. You know, it's nothing sugarcoated. But every
single game drive is different. I saw things this year
or last year when I went that I had never
seen before.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Did you ever feel bored?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Oh? I was never bored again. Every time you go out,
and that's up to three times a day when you're
in the parks, it's never the same.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
We visited three of the most important game parks in Kenya,
describe the quality of the accommodation, meals and guide services.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
So I was really surprised that the first game park
it's almost the hotel. It's almost like a hotel situation.
But the next two are glamping tents, and that was
really fun. I had never done that before. And I, well,

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you have a tent and it's in but it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Like a boy Scout talent. It's as big as a
hotel room.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
There's shower and restroom facilities and places to hang your clothes.
And because it's a higher elevation, I love the hot
water bottles that they bring in. The food is delicious,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
I might add about that clamping is that that's for
the atmosphere, the ambiance. You actually have a strung. You're
in this large deluxe tent and it's big as a
hotel room, but you have a structure on three sides
and covering it, you know, like a wooden structure. But

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it's it's for that. So you'd recommend this as the
trip of a lifetime.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
Absolutely, I would, and I will. I will also tell
you that there's no problem accommodating food allergies or issues
with that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
Okay, well, thank you, Kathy, appreciate you joining us here
on the Travel Show. Do contact Morris Columbus Travel eight hundred,
Triple nine forty six forty six. Talk to you next week. Yeah,
it's our anniversary here on The Travel Show.