The Travel Show - Has Hawaii become too expensive?; What is the Happiest Country in the World?

Episode Transcript

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God bless America and welcome to theTravel Show on this July fourth weekend,
celebrating our independence and our freedoms thatwe enjoy. I'm Larry Gelwicks, they
get Away Guru, joined by theArgentinian Gaucho himself, Carlos Fieda, director
of Latin American sales at Morris ColumbusTravel. The Travel Show is sponsored by

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Morris Columbus Travel, where you alwaystravel More and pay Less, and Norwegian
Cruise Line, the home of freestylecruising. We got a really fun show
today. We'll be talking about someJuly fourth fun facts. What is the
happiest country in the world. Anew survey will answer that question. And
you know we love Hawaii. Buthas Hawaii become simply too expensive? What's

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the best time to book flights forthe best air fair? This year,
Carlos will be taking us to SouthAmerica and an update on the Holy Land.
I'll give you even a little historyon Mount Moriah, one of my
favorite sites in the Middle East.Well, Carlos, yes, sir,
se Senora, that's right, that'sright. Felis July quatro, felis quatro

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They Julio, that's what I said, No, that's what I said.
You know, what did you guysdo for the fourth of July? I
mean being Argentinian. Uh, didyou have a counter demonstration or something?
No, no, no, no, no, we we go for steaks,
real stakes. Well, you know, let's talk a little bit about

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Independence Day and July fourth. Therewere fifty six men who signed the Declaration
of Independence, fifty six and theydidn't all sign it on July fourth.
Some weren't there in congressman signed ina day or two later. Do you
ever wonder what happened to these fiftysix men. Well, here's some of
the stories. There were five signerscaptured by the British and they were tortured,

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literally tortured to death as traders,the British Helemis traders. Twelve had
their homes ransacked and burned, youknow, signing that declaration. They knew
it was a death sentence. Twolost their sons in the Revolutionary War,
another two had sons captured. Nineof the fifty six actually enlisted, fought

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and died from wounds or hardships ofthe Revolutionary War. But they signed.
They pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honors. So you know,
you ask yourself what kind of werethey? Well, twenty four were
lawyers and jurists, eleven were merchants, nine were farmers, and then these

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most of them were men of means, well educated. But they signed the
Declaration of Independence knowing full well,Carlos that the penalty if they were captured
death would be death. It wasfor the rest of their lives. The
British would put them to death.Here is a couple. Carter Braxton,

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one of the signers of the Declarationof Independence, was a very wealthy farmer,
plantation owner, and trader. Hewatched as his ships were destroyed by
the British navy. He sold hishome and properties then to pay off his
debts and died in rags and neverregretted signing the declaration. He went from

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wealth to being a pauper. Thomasmckeem was so hounded by the British that
he was forced to move his familyconstantly on the move. He served in
Congress without pay. I'd like tosend that to our Congress today. Get
your lazy keasters, do something,get a real job. The founding fathers

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never intended Congress to be a fulltime job with almost unlimited resources and staff.
Anyway, Thomas mckein served in Congressout pay, and he had to
keep his family in hiding, movingthem about from basement to basement. All
of his possessions were taken from himhis reward poverty. Vandals or soldiers are

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both looted the properties of many ofthe other signers. Here's an interesting one.
At the Battle of Yorktown, ThomasNelson Junior one of the signers that
the British General Cornwallis had taken overhis home for his headquarters. So Thomas

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Nelson Junior quietly urged General George Washingto open fire on his own house,
and they obliterated it, and Nelsondied absolutely bankrupt and impoverished, but never
regretted signing the declaration. Francis Lewishad his home and properties destroyed. The

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British jailed his wife, and injail she died in a few months because
of deprivation. Well, I'll giveyou one more. John Hart was driven.
His wife was deathly ill. Hestayed at her bedside, but the
British were on his tail. Theydrove him. They had thirteen children.

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I guess they had no television theyhad thirteen children, and they the kids
had from young young kids to olderkids, had to run for their lives.
His fields, his gristmill of JohnHart were destroyed. For more than
a year. John Hart, asigner of the Declaration of Independence, lived

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in the forest and in a cave, returning home to find his wife had
deceased and all thirteen of his childrennobody knew what happened to them. A
few weeks later he died from exhaustionand a broken heart. Anyway, you
know, you might say, forthe support of the Declaration of Independence,

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with firm reliance on the protection ofthe divine providence. This is there,
these men, the signers. I'mgoing to read this quote. For the
support of this deck claration, withfirm reliance on the protection of the divine
providence. We mutually pledge to eachother our lives, our fortunes, and

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our sacred honor. Where are thesemen and women today? Well, you
know, coming from another country,you know, and I love the United
States of America because of its freedom. You know, we are guaranteed freedom's
individuals. But this is what happens. How come that people today, the
many thousands of politicians that we havestates and the Congress and everything else.

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How come that nobody honors these people? How could it be that they forget
everything is in writing? How comethat they don't know that? You know,
I hear from a lot of youknow, I travel constantly, and
one of the questions I get isthey ask me, why do your people,
your citizens disrespect your country? Dothey not know the freedom that they

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have? You know, as Isaid, I've traveled concert one hundred and
thirteen countries. I got three newones, three new visits this year.
And I have this emotion because Itravel internationally every month. I'm somewhere around
the world every month for our listeners, you know that, because I'm the

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broadcast is somewhere around the world everymonth. And I have this emotion literally
that when I land and get offthe airplane, I am so grateful to
be an American, even with ourproblems. It is the greatest country,
the greatest nation, even with theissues that we face, and I have

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this emotion. I want to getdown on my hands and knees, kiss
the ground and say, Dear God, thank you that I live in this
country. Here's some fun about thefourth of July. The most famous signator
on the declaration took half the pagealmost John Hancock right there in the middle.

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Well, who was he President ofthe Congress when the Declaration of Independence
was adopted and signed? Now,there were some other men who actually would
have signed the declaration, but therewas no space left after all fifty six

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had done it. Do you knowthere have been twenty seven different versions of
the official US flag from seventeen seventyseven to nineteen sixty. Also, the
fourth of July is a big consumerspending day. Americans spent about nine and
a half billion dollars on food alonefor this weekend and two and a half

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billion dollars on fire works. Well, what's sad, and we we gotta
do something about this. According toa twenty twenty two Gallop poll, only
thirty eight percent of Americans consider themselvesextremely proud to be an American. That

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bothers me. And so, youknow, as we as we go into
our families, we go into ourcelebrations, perhaps we could offer a prayer
for our country that we'll elect goodwomen and men to manage our affairs.
And Dear God, may we havean appreciation for the freedoms and liberties that

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we have. Hey, we comeback. What's the happiest country in the
world? Here on the Travel Showingto the Travel Show on Talk Radio one
oh five nine knrs. Just listenand you'll know. Welcome back to the

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Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks toget Away Guru join with Carlos Feeder,
the Argentinian Gaucho on this special editionof the Travel Show on the July fourth
Independence Day weekend. We'd love tohave you join us here on the Travel
Show with you'll share your experiences,maybe your thoughts about being an American.
You're welcome to call, as longas you're not a communist. No commuist

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can call. That's a good one, you know, but you know your
experiences, your recommendation. Do youhave a question about South America Latin America?
I have the Google. The manhimself, Carlos is the Google of
South America. Anyway, call usat triple eight five sevenh eight oh one.

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Oh that's eight eight eight five seventyeighty ten. Uh. Carlos.
What makes you happy? Well,you know, after living a long life
on earth, my family, mygrandchildren especially, you know, because that's
the joy of my life. IfI can travel with them. In fact,
I took one of them to Ecuadoraand to their That was the experience

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of a lifetime, not just forhim but for me because he was by
me. You know, I canrelate to that. As I said,
I've been in the travel business forforty five years, but I've been traveling
the world my whole life. Iwas one, you know, I grew
up in San Francisco, back whenyou could do it. I hitchhiked too,
and into Mexico. I was hitchhiking. I wouldn't recommend that today,

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No, I live, you know. I backpacked through Korea and Japan.
It goes on and on and on. I was on I managed on
a sailboat through the archipelago of Islandsin the in the South Pacific, all
of these things. But so Ihave traveled everywhere, and I love traveling,

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especially international travel. But my favorite, my absolute favorite is We have
a family friend. He and hiswife are very generous to us as friends.
They have a beach house in Oceanside, California, you know, just
north of San Diego, and it'sa lovely, beautiful vacation home. It's

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about a two minute walk from thebeach. It's even in a gated community
with you know, and every youknow, every year they say, hey,
Larry, take your family, thehouse is yours for a week.
You know. They are the kindestpeople. So we rally the troops with

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the grandkids and our children. Thatis my favorite vacation. That is because
I'm with my family, so youknow. But I got to tell you,
sometimes life is tough. It couldbe stressful at home, at work,
at school, or anywhere in between. And the world can be overwhelming
from time to time and when youneed to escape, there are a few

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destinations that have proven to be happierand more care free than others, which
makes for an ideal getaway. Ina recent survey, just last month,
the results came out. An analysislooked at a list of nations with a
they called it a Human Development Indexscore according to the United Nations Development Program,

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and they analyzed countries as a whole, like what makes it a happy,
convivial place to live? They lookedat average salaries, the unemployment rates,
crime rates, well that kicked theUS in my hometown San Francisco out
sunshine, retirement ages, all touncover what are the happiest countries on Earth.

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And after crunching the numbers, Igot to tell you these is kind
of a surprise to me. Accordingto this Human Development Index score through the
United Nations was of course, anythingin the unit makes it spurious, even
on a good day. Austria wasnamed the happiest nation of all. By

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the way, just two months ago, I was in Austria, spent a
week in Vienna and the surroundings.I love Austria. But the number two
really surprised me. It's a countryI've been to Slovenia, and number three
in a very close there came inthird, but very close to Slovenia.

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It was Switzerland and rounding out thetop ten, this was a surprise.
South Korea was in fourth. Nowthat one I said, I made all
over South probably South Korea twenty timesmore, okay uh, and then Luxembourg,

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Iceland, Japan, Denmark, theNetherlands and Germany. I think it
was a bunch of Europeans that didthis survey as sure. Anyway, our
happy place. Let's go to thephone lines and we have a caller with
us. Welcome to the travel show. Hello, Larry, this is Larry.

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Is the Great Larry Glwicks the manthe myth a legend. Oh no,
this sounds like general brigadier general.Very good, very good, Larry.
I want to renew at number one. I've enjoyed your tours. We

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went to Egyptwick you, we wentto Thailand, the Cambodia and such.
But I want to renew my requestfor you to set up a tour for
us to go to Amsterdam and buildto see those beautiful tulips here. So
puts that on your list. That'sthat's it. That would be a great
one if you guys could do that. You know, we've actually talked about

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that, and I know pre pandemicwe had Doug Wright leading a river cruise
in late March. Late March earlyApril is the best time to see the
tups and I've been there. Itis unreal. And south of Amsterdam,
in Amstolvene, they have the it'sa market, it's it's it's like an

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auction and they're selling millions of flowersevery day and you can see the auctioneers
bidding on these cut tulips and otherflowers. And by the way, on
my desk at home is the militaryform you gave me for my grandfather who
fought in World War One, whosedog tag I I wear. It's actually

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on my desk. I'm filling itout, was working on it yesterday.
Well listen, thank you very much, and thank you for your service.
Listen, keep tuned into the TravelShow. I'm going to take your suggestion
of a tulip festival tour or cruiseto heart and you'll hear about it first

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right here on the Travel Show.Okay, thank you so much. Hey,
when we come back, we havemore of the Travel Show. Travel

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Show. Yes, the Getaway Gurufluent in Spanish and all languages. Really,
Carlos Douyo oblomos, ablamos, Espanol, pentes. Yeah, you're in

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English. Is not a great either, I take I take example from my
leaders. Okay, Uh, youand I and our lovely wives Kathy and
Karen, we have cruise together.We've traveled the world together. Uh that
Rhine River cruise that we took ayet, that was one of the best.
I didn't think I was going toget Karen off the ship. She

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was enjoying herself so much. Youwanted to do? Can we just yeah,
it go back the other way?What for you? What is the
ideal length of a cruise, Larry, I think that is seven eight days
is good. But what I liketo do is two days before arrive in

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Amsterdam or whatever, and then atthe end take another two days and visit
the country. That's my favorite.I think for me. Actual cruise days
is about twelve to fourteen days.You on a seven day cruise, you
kind of get in the swing ofthings about the third day and then they're
having a meeting about disembarkation on thefourth day. Yes, well I've got

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one for you. Okay, Ithink I'm gonna send you on this,
Carlos. A new cruise line willlet you spend the rest of your life
on a ship. Now may soundlike a fantasy, but there is.
It's called residential cruising. There's anew cruise line called Villa Vey Residence.

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They have a program called Endless Horizonswhere for a one time fee you can
enjoy unlimited lifetime cruises. Now youcan stay on at the rest of your
life, or you can come andgo. That's not a bad deal,
but for a solo traveler it's aboutthree hundred thousand dollars for the rest of

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your life. For if you wanta double, you know, like,
uh, for that's for a solocabin. But if you want a better
cabin, it's it's about half amillion dollars for two people, you know,
for a double. Uh. Wellthat's I've thought about that. But

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I mean, do these people nothave families? Well, you know,
I was on a cruise with Karenand there was a lady and a single
lady there and sat at the wordtable and we start talking and said,
well, all I do is gofrom one company to another, and I
travel because if I have to bein a care center or even at home,

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I spend more money because I'm fair, I'm taking care of something happens
to me. That it's a doctorboard. Of course, you can easily
spend three to eight thousand dollars ormore on a quality care center. It's
usually about five to ten per month. Well, let's just assume if you
don't mind an inside cabin, whichI don't like. But let's go el

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Chipo. Here about you can findfive ninety nine cruises, six ninety nine
cruises. So let's say let's goel Cheapo and we can find a six
hundred dollars per person plus taxes fora week in an inside cabin. So
on a month, that's about twentyfour hundred and twenty five hundred dollars,

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and you have all your meals,you sail the world. Blah blah blah.
This is for a lifetime. Imean, you could sign up at
age eighteen and live the next seventyyears on this cruise ship. That's not
a bad deal. But anyway,if you're not quite ready to commit to
a lifetime of cruising, the Villaof the Residence cruise line offers a pay

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as you go segment from thirty fivedays to one hundred and twenty days.
I think I'll pass on it,but it's kind of it's just kind of
interesting right there. Hey, there'ssome great cruise specials out there. Viking
Cruises has a new promotion they've teamedup with Morris Columbus Travel called the Morris
Columbus Travel and Viking Inclusive Value.Remember, Viking Cruises is both river cruises

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and ocean cruises, and it coversjust about everything they're throwing in your port
charges, Wi Fi meals, onboardactivities, and shore excursions. What's the
deal? You got a book beforeJuly thirty first and you can also get,
depending on where you're going, eitherfree or reduced international airfare's d that's

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a great. Princess Cruises has apromotion right now. You know, ease
is subject to availability and it canchange at any time, but right now,
Princess Cruises the Love Vote has discountsup to forty percent off your cruise
fare and third and fourth guest sharingyour cabin on Select Cruises. Now Select

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means not every cruise on Select Cruises, the third and fourth sale absolutely free.
You just you just pay the taxeson that. And you know,
ooh, that is a that isjust a great, great deal. Okay,
And Royal Caribbean will give you upto five hundred and fifty dollars on

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board credit. On Board credit islike free money. You can spend on
just about everything. The Usually thecasino is out, so I know you'll
be disappointed. But your bar tab, you know, because I know you
slam back a couple just to getcomfortable. You're on board credit. We
call it an OBC. An OBConboard credit up to five hundred and fifty

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dollars. Norwegian Cruise Line has agood special. We talked about the free
air promotion last week, which isreally a buy one, get one free.
And they picked the airline. That'swhat you have to understand. Absolutely,
they'll get you there on a majorlicensed airline, of course, but
they picked the routing. They're findingthe cheapest fair they can and fair enough.

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But the second person goes through,I'll tell you how good of a
deal this is. Let's see,it was two years ago, twenty twenty
two. I did that London toIceland with Norwegian Cruise Line on the brand
new ship to Prima, and wevisited London, then sale out of Southampton.
We went to Bruges, Belgium,perhaps one of the most beautiful cities

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in the world, onto will I'llbe Amsterdam. We went up to Norway
for the Norwegian Fjords, Olisson andBergen, orgeous cities, and then three
stops in Iceland, finishing in Recuvitflying home. I priced that out and
it was about twenty two to twentythree hundred dollars Delta or United. My

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price out of Salt Lake to Londonhome from Iceland was sixteen hundred dollars and
Kathy went absolutely free not it didn'teven have to pay tax, so our
effective airfare rather than twenty three hundreddollars was eight hundred bucks apiece. This
is what ncl's doing now, seventypercent off the second guest. I love

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the way they do this because twoweeks ago they didn't have this promotion,
but it was it was thirty fivepercent off the first and second. Well
what's the total there? And theysaid, I'm sorry that promotion is gone,
but we'll give you seventy percent offthe second guest. It's about out
the same. What they do haveis you can get up to two hundred

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and fifty dollars called a cruise.First, it is a credit for a
future cruise. They'll give you upto two hundred and fifty bucks. Then
they have the free at Sea,which is not free, you have to
pay for it, but they callit free, which is you know,
open bar, unlimited drinks, youcan slam back a couple of tall cool
ones, Carlos and through Wi Fispecialty dining, shore excursion credits, and

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of course the free air promotion.So you know, you know, I
love Hawaii, one hundred and seventytrips I've made there. I used to
commute for several years once or twicea week. The shortest trip I've ever
been was to a reception, oneof those receptions you had to go to.
You had to be there. SoI flew to Hawaii. I arrived

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at five pm and had a tenpm flight home because I had a meeting
the next day. I had tobe I was in Hawaii. I remember
taking off on that night flight,that Red Eye, back looking out the
window, seeing the lights of Honoluluand Waikiki, thinking, Kelwicks, you
are an idiot. You're here inHawaii. Why don't you stay a couple

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of days? So I love Hawaii. There's something about Hawaii that captures me.
You know. There are one hundredand fifty two islands and atolls.
One hundred and fifty two, buteight major ones. Let's name them o
Wahu, Maui, Kawaii, theBig Island Kaho, Lave Molla, Kai

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l Nai, and the mysterious ForbiddenIsland Nihihou. So let's talk about the
I'll call them the big four.O Wahu, Maui, Kawaii, and
the Big Island. Give me one, not the favorite activity, but just
one favorite activity. Let's start withOahu Oahu the punch bowl. Well,

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I enjoy a good Hawaiian drink ofHawaiian punch. Myself, you're the wrong
one. This is punch Bowl ofthe Pacific, which is like Arlington National
Cemetery. And they have these mosaicsof the of the battles, the naval
battles in the Pacific. And it'sin a crater dormant. Thank you very

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much. It is. It isa moving experience, these long rows of
servicemen and women who paid the ultimatesacrifice to defend our freedoms. How appropriate
to remember the servicemen and women inthe Pacific. All right, let's go
to Maui. Maui. I thinkit is the drive to hanah I love

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that, you know. Kathy andI made a what We've been there many
times. But from uh Kahlui theairport where we picked up our rental car,
we drove down to Hanna. Thisthis sleepy beauty, a full,
densely vegetated jungle village. We countedninety eight waterfalls. Ninety eight. Now

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it was a couple of days aftera rain with all right, very quickly
we got to have a minute.Look, we forgot something. What about
the cultural center? Oh a wyes, you know The other thing that's
a lot of fun is the SwapMeet at Aloha Stadium. It's only on
Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Itis outside the Aloha Stadium, the big

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football stadium where uh plays, andit circles the stadium with these every these
vendors and gifts. All right,we got about thirty seconds quickly. The
Big Island, the Big Island,Volcanoes. I love Volcano National Park,
kill Away. I've flown on ahelicopter over kill aweya while it was erupting,

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absolutely intense. And how about Kawaii, Kawai. Let's go to the
helicopter right, Oh my gosh,around the not poly coast. Well,
what we want to do is whenwe come back later in the show,
I want to address is Hawaii nowtoo expensive? Has it just priced?

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It says up, because I'll tellyou the visitor numbers are dropping, of
course, but the prices are goingup. I don't know if the hotels
and airlines are out any money,but it's a grave concern. Now when
we come back, before we talkabout Hawaii, I want to talk about
South America. Right here on theTravel show. You're listening to the Travel

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show on Talk Radio one oh fivenine kN rs. Just listen and you'll
know Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwiz that Getaway Guru.
Carlos, one of our founding fathers, John Adams, argue that we should

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not celebrate Independence Day on July fourth, but rather it should be July the
second. Now we ask why,Well, the Continental Congress voted for independence
on July second, seventeen seventy six. That's when they voted and said we're

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officially broken off from Mother England.But it didn't approve the Declaration of Independence
as a document until July fourth,seventeen seventy six. Interesting, John Adams
said, no, we began ourindependence Day was July the second, because
that's when we as Congress. TheContinental Congress are not the boneheads that we

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have in Washington now voted for independence. Wow, okay, Carlos, we're
going to talk in the next hour. Has Hawaii become too expensive? I'll
tell you one place that is nottoo expensive for what you get is Latin

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America. Yes, I consider itthe undiscovered continent. Now, most people
when they're thinking of an international adventure, look to Europe first. I get
that. I got no problem withthat. Yes, but I think South
America diversity of culture. It's notall Mexico, and I love Mexico.
But that's a minister there that thefood is all, food is all.

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Nothing could be more wrong. Iknow that one of your favorite countries,
maybe even ahead of your home countryArgentina, maybe not, is Peru.
Yes, and the whole story ofthe Incas. Now, first of all,

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what is how do you define theInca? What does that word mean?
The Inca? That is the mistakethat everybody says it is. The
Inca is the king, the emperor, that's right, and the people are
the catch us. That's the languagethat they speak, and that's a misunderstanding.

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We talk about the Inca Empire orthe Incas as a people know.
But the Inca was the king,that's correct. They believe had some deity
in him. It was one ofyou know, this tour is next month,
yes, I think, departing Augustthe third, And normally we don't

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talk about tours so close in becausethey're close in, but this one is
so unique, so exciting. It'sabout the journey to the land of the
Incas. And we even use thatterm mistakenly or incorrectly, you know,
okay, very quickly. It's Augustthird to the night. It's a short

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tour. Tell me about what we'regoing to see. You knows, of
course Machu Pichu, that is amass, of course, the sacred valley
in between Machu Picchu and Cusco.But the one that is very interesting is
the price. The price the firstI mean I can never hear the land
price. Do you have that down? Two thousand, seven hundred dollars for

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South America? For South America?I mean that is that we have the
people. We have people from Idaho, we have people from Oregon that they're
going because they said, where canwe find these price for the seven you
have to add your airfare? Yeah, there's still some good deals out there.
Will you be taking this partic Iwill be yes, I would be

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hosting. By the way, MamaMia is Spanish for that's so cool.
No, that's Italian whatever, whatever. Okay, that's the journey to the
Land of the Incas. You canget all the details at morriscolumbus dot com
morriscolumbus dot com and then just scrolleddown a little bit to the group tours

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Morris Murdoch escorted tourists is the brandname for that. Now you and I
will be doing the most incredible tournext March called the Wonders of South American.
Frankly, I have done my research. I haven't seen a tour that
has all these conclusions. It tooka time to put it together because you

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know, it's a tour. Aprogram that we put together is a puzzle,
little pieces. You know that youhave to provide the service that pick
up at the airport and all thesethings. So I think that that tour
that we have, Larry, youwill find it nowhere in the industry.
Well what's it it? Well,it is Costco machuch Lima, the Sacred

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Valley and then jump onto Santiago,Chile. And from Santiago Chili we go
to Easter Arapanui. You know,Easter Island is really incredible because it's closer
it's Polynesian, and it's closer toFrench Polynesia which includes Tahiti, than it

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is to Chile. And there wasI think eighteen eighty eight when Chile for
economic reasons annexed Rapanui. And youknow what's interesting there on Easter Island is
they have almost nine hundred MOAIs.Now these are these elongated statues with the

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long faces that there's a mystery behindit. Now most historians and archaeologists think
that it represents their ancestors which theybelieved would come back literally to help them
to fight for them, much likethe Maudis in New Zealand when they do

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the hakka calling upon their ancestors.Well, you can get all the details
on Wonders of the South America andjourney to the Land of the Incas.
When does South America is next March? Okay, March of next year at
Morriscolumbus dot com morriscolumbus dot com andscroll down on the homepage to Morris Murdoch

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escorted church, we'd love to haveyou with us, just a few seats,
lunth we come back. Is Hawaiitoo expensive? Welcome back to the

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travel show The Best two Hours inRadio Hour number two. I'm Larry Gelwicks,
that get Away Guru, joined bythe Argentinian gout himself, Carlos Fieda.
And you know we have an excitingday. We've been talking about fun
facts with Independence Day weekend in Julyfourth which John Adams wanted to celebrate on

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July second. Wasn't that interesting?Yes? He really? Of course.
Benjamin Franklin for our national bird didn'twant the Eagle. He wanted Turkey,
and in some respects that would beappropriate for Washington, d C. Today.
By the way, speaking of dC, I will be in d
C next Saturday. Yes, I'llbe uh your host in Washington, d

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C. But you will be herein studio, won't you? I will?
Yes, Thank you very much withthat. You know, it's are
you meeting any personalities like the presidentor something like that? Larry, What
are you doing now? I'm surethat President Biden will want to uh you
want to remember? Are you?Why don't you tell us what you're going

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to do there? I want toknow that you already know. Carlos,
thank you for the people, don'tI am being inducted into the US Rugby
Hall of Fame. It's an unbelievablehonor, particularly because I know the women
and men. It's a very veryvery elite small group, and it is
you know, rugby is the secondmost popular sport in the world, the

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fastest scoring sport here in America.My eight year old grandson Oscar plays rugby.
Just finished his season and yes it'stackle rugby eight years old. It
is an absolute scream to watch theseboys play. But you know, I
coached the Highland rugby team, whichwas the basis of the movie Forever Strong,
which opened in theaters coast to coastand then did a huge international release

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because of the popularity of the sport. I coached for thirty six years and
I retired in twenty eleven when wegot a phone call from Henry b Iring.
Actually it was very interesting. Hissecretary called and said, brother Gelwicks,

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this is sister so and So.I'm President Iring's secretary. President Iring
at the time was the first ouncelorin the first presidency of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Letterday Saints, andsaid President Iring was wondering if you and
your sweet wife could meet with himtomorrow at three o'clock in his office.

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Now you know, there's a realsmart alec part of me and in the
Gelwick's family. We never miss anopportunity for cheap and shameless humor. And
the thought crossed my mind, butI did not say it. I had
a rare moment of self control.But the thought that crossed my mind when
she said, can you meet PresidentIroing at three o'clock tomorrow, The thought

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crossed my mind, Well, Idon't know, I'm kind of busy tomorrow.
Let me see, let me see, let me see. I could
squeeze him in for a few minutesat one Do I not say that?
But the humorous thought anyway, inthat meeting. The next day, Kathy
and I were called to serve athree year mission, leave our home,

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leave our business for three years,and be mission leaders somewhere around the world.
That we didn't find out our assignmentto the California Fresno Mission until three
months later. And there's something interesting. President Iren said. He said to
us, will you accept a callto serve to me to serve as a

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mission president for a period of threeyears, beginning honor about July first next
year. And then he paused andlooked right dead. It was just the
three of us in his office forone hour, and he just kind of
pointed his finger in a nice wayand said, anywhere in the world the
Lord will call you. Wow.And I said, yes, sir,

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And then the thought crossed my mind, I'll go where you want me to
go, Dear Lord, but pleasedon't send me to Lubbock, Texas.
Why have you been to Lubbock,Texas? Oh? My word. Anyway,
So that was my retirement. Butwhen I retired, the varsity record,
our varsity record for thirty six yearsof coaching with four hundred and eighteen

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wins and just ten losses in thirtysix years. We used to joke we
had a bad game at once everyfour years. That included twenty USA National
Championships. It included a third placebronze medal in the High School World Cup.

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Now they didn't take the national team. They only did it one year
too. I don't know why theydid it. It was a sanctioned world
tournament. We were gone in themonth of July in nineteen ninety eight for
a month and it was in Zimbabwe, Africa. We're in Zimbabwe and London.

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We were in London. The tournamentwas in Zimbabwe. We also went
to South Africa, and you knowthey took the individual high school champion of
all the rugby countries. You know, Tonga was there, in England and
Wales and South Africa, Fiji.I mean everybody was there. And of

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course, being Americans, they didn'tgive us a ghost of a chance to
do anything. Well, we'll getWe just kept winning. We learned that
that rugby games and life are notone on whiteboards. They're one out on
the field, and we had ourown game plan and we just kept winning.
We then met Kelston Boys' School.It was a rugby academy. Imagine

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this. It's a high school wherethey bring in kids all over the world
for high school to train them tobe professional rugby players. And can you
imagine we had a high school likethat. The equivalent would be you bring
in players from all over the countryor the world to be NFL players or
to be NBA players. That wasthe quality that we are competing against.

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And so we're in the semifinals nownobody can believe the Americans are there.
And we met Kelston Boys High thisrugby academy in the semifinals and they outpaced
us. They beat us fair andsquare. But boy was it a match

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no one could believe. People weresaying it was the most exciting match of
the tournament. And then to PoleCollege College in Tonga, meaning high school
like you know, Leahona High Schoolis the LDS High school in Tonga.
Lehona College, Pesanga College, theLDS High School in Samoa. So we're

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up against Tupo College who lost toSouth Africa Horse School, the champion of
South Africa. And we met toPoe College. In the third place.
We lost to Kelston Boys College orHigh and they went on to win it

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all. And so we met toPoe College, who was favored to win
the tournament. This is the nationalchampion of Tonga and these guys were giants
and we were down. We weredown seventeen to five at halftime. And
I'm in the locker room and Isaid, boys, are we playing our
game? Are we playing our bestgame? And they said no, coach,

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And I said, can we beatthese guys? Yes, coach,
So I laid out another game plan, said we will bend, but we
will not break. And this hasa local connection in rugby. It's like
in football when the time expires,the game's not over till it's a dead
ball, not like basketball whistle blows. And we're now down in the second

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half with time expired, twenty fourto twenty and the score is five points,
then two points conversion kick, sowe're down by four points and it's
what we call phases. You gotto keep the ball alive. You can't
kick it out of bounds. Theball can't die. And we're going we're
in our half of the field andthe ball's going back and forth and our

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boys, no, you gotta keepit alive. And we're marching down two
yards, three yards back, ayard up, ten yards, and we
had this play. We called hands. And when you call hands, it
means that drop whatever you're doing andgive this guy the ball. He sees
something, He sees a gap.Well. Morgan scally who is now the

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defensive coordinator for the University of Utahfootball team and was just named to be
Kyle Whittingham's replacement as head coach whenKyle retires. He's out there. One
of the two fastest kids I evercoached in high school and one of the
greatest young men I've ever known,Morgan Scalley. He had a will to

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win. He was our captain.He would drag you over the finish line,
you know. He would grab boysand drag him along. He suddenly
we're about twenty yards out from thegoal. He starts calling out in this
shouting voice. Hands, hands,hands, He saw something, and so

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we do what's called a skip pass. They shot it out about fifteen yards,
skipping all the players. He grabsthe ball, takes off like a
rocket and does the dive into theend zone with two of these giant tongue
ands just smashing him as he goesin, and we win the game twenty

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five twenty four, which after nowthey say was the most exciting game.
These games were brought in this hugestadium, sold out crowds, broadcast all
over Europe, the South Pacific,just about everywhere except America. We shock
the rugby world with a third placebronze medal World FI. So I have

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been inducted, not indicted. Imay get indicted one day. So I'm
inducted into the Rugby Hall of Fame. A week from today, I'll be
giving you my report from Washington,c Hey, we'll talk about Hawaii when
we come back. You're listening tothe Travel Show on Talk Radio one oh

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five nine knrs. Just listen andyou'll know Welcome back to the Travel Show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, joined by Carlos Fieda, Miamigo
and director of Latin American Sales.Don't forget those two tours at Morris Columbus

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Travel that Carlos, He'll be onboth. I'll be on one, the
journey to the Land of the Incas, which is in August third to the
ninth, and the Wonders of SouthAmerica Peru, Machu Picchu, Chile and
Easter Island Rapanui March eleventh to thetwenty fourth next year. The Incas is

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next month, and there's still timeto get it. There's one one space
left for a couple. That's it. El uno, el spaso, uno
piso. That's about all I haveis one peso. Hey, listen.
You know Captain James Cook made threevoyages into the Pacific between seventeen sixty eight

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and seventeen seventy nine, and itwas in his third voyage in seventeen seventy
eight that he sailed right past theisland of O Wahoo, but didn't stop
that day. It was in February, but sailed on to Waya Maya Bay,
Kawaii and in the true spirit ofthe European colonizers who considered many of

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the indigenous almost less human, talkto me about the Spanish cones. If
you want a horrible, horrible story. Well, he named the what we
call the Hawaiian Islands the Sandwich Islands, not after a Reuben or French Dip,
but in honor of his friend anda patron who paid for part of

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his journey, John Montague, theEarl of Sandwich. Do you think he
invented a sandwich? I don't know, But the Earl of Sandwich had nothing
to do with something to eat.It had everything to do with some land
and titles. But you know,many people do not believe that James Cook

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was the first European to visit theHawaiian Islands as we call them today.
By the way, what many peoplebelieve that the name the Hawaiian Islands is
there were two great waves of Migraineto what we call the Hawaiian Islands today.

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One was about four hundred AD andthe other was about nine hundred or
one thousand a D. And they'reon the island of Rightieta in French Polynesia.
There's a temple where before they wouldgo out on these ocean voyages,
which is to me is unimaginable.They navigated by the stars, by the

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temperature of the water, the fishthey would catch, the words that would
say the wind, and how manyof these ocean going vessels think of Kontiki
were lost at sea. They didn'tknow there were islands out there, and
so some of them obviously were lost. But they came across this group that
we call Hawaii. But they'd goto this temple on the island of Raiatea,

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which is in French Polynesia today inthe Society Islands of French Polynesia.
They would get a blessing from thepriest. The name of the temple Wasvikei
Haaki. Well, yeah, manypeople think that's where the name came from.

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But Captain James Cook he had alittle falling out in uh Kalakekua Bay
on Valentine's Day seventeen seventy nine wherethey got in an argument with the natives
and he was killed in that.That's another story for another day. I

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love Hawaii. I love that alohaspirit. But the question is being asked
that Hawaii's hotel room rates have increasedso dramatically in the last five years it's
causing some travelers to look elsewhere,particularly to the all inclusives in Mexico,
which are still a fantastic deal.The number of visitors to Hawaii is declining.

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Now the state's average daily hotel rateincreased thirty five percent in April of
twenty twenty four. A wahu increasedabout twenty percent. They try to tell
us it's inflation, but that that'sjust a pr Now catch this. The
island of Hawaii, the Big Islandand Kawaii topp the state in terms of

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percentage increased. They like to measureit every five years. So between April
of twenty nineteen and April of twentytwenty four, here's the increase. Now,
in April of twenty nineteen, theaverage rate hotel rate on the Big
Island just five years ago was twohundred and sixty bucks, Kawaii two hundred

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and sixty seven. Now let's goto this year, just what three months
ago, the average room rate increasedmore more than sixty percent. On the
Big Island, it went in fiveyears from two hundred and sixty dollars.
Put your seat bill on the averagefour hundred and forty two dollars. Now
you got to add to that taxresort fees and all this other garbage.

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And on Kawaii it went from twosixty seven to four hundred and thirty two
dollars. The Big Island of Hawaiihas the greatest percentage change of all the
Hawaiian islands. The Big Island wentup seventy percent. And then Hawaiian travelers
are also concerned about taxes and fees. Hawaii has the highest hotel room tax

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in the country ten point two fivepercent. Also the mandatory resort fees parking
fees, they can top one hundreddollars a day, both of them combined.
Now, in February, President JoeBiden introduced a junk Fee Prevention Act.

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I applaud for this, which addresseshotel resort fees, which says,
you can't have a surprise. Yougot to be up front because they always
put this resort fee at the veryend. You think you're getting a room
for this. And I'll give youan example. Oh, last year,
I was going to go to LasVegas and I looked just for a couple

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of nights and I saw this adat Circus Circus, a hotel I would
never stay at because it's a dump, but in my humble view, but
it advertised a roommate for thirty ninedollars. The resort fee was like sixty
seventy bucks that you add on theend. It's just a sucker punch,

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bait and switch. Anyway, Hawaiistill has some great values. And when
we come back, I want totell you how to visit Hawaii at a
good hotel with airfare at reasonable prices. Thousand bucks for almost a week here
on the Travel Show. Welcome backto the Travel Show. Thank you so

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much for joining us this holiday weekendand every weekend and saturdays here on the
Travel Show. You know, it'sa very heartfelt thank you. Without you,
we don't have a travel show.I've been on the radio now behind
the golden microphone for thirty two years, going my thirty third year as host

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of the Travel Show, and Ijust want to say thank you. I
love travel. I dream travel.It's what keeps me going. You know.
I will be seventy four years old, which is about thirty years younger
than Carlos ten only ten. Mybirthday was in June, yours is now

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coming up in July. Lease,but I'll be seventy four on July twenty
fifth. Yes, you folks,you can go shopping for Chris birthday gifts.
Thanks and cash is always appreciated anyway, people say to me, Larry,
when are you going to retire?And I have the same answer that

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you do. Carlos. First ofall, like what am I going to
do? Go home and plant petunias? And I say so. Then I
answer them and I say, whatdo people do when they retire? They
die? They die, but theytravel. Oh wait a minute, that's
what I'm doing now, and I'mgetting paid to travel the world. Why

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would I ever want a plant petunias? And so Carlyums, Carlos and I
have this philosophy that we love whatwe do. And you know what people
often say to me, you're gonnabe seventy four. I thought you were
in your mid sixties. Well nowI take that as a compliment. Yes,

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you know, when I was fiftyand they said, oh I thought
you were in your mid sixties,I didn't think so much of it.
Oh my gosh. Hey we weretalking about Hawaii. You know, my
very first trip. I was sixteenyears old in nineteen sixty six, and
I took off for a week,sixteen years old and went to Hawaii surfing,

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and I was your I was nevera really good surfer, but I
could get up on a board,you know, and it's like maybe it's
like going skinny on skiing on thebunny hill or something I did well.
I didn't do the surfing equivalent blackDiamond of skiing, you know, but

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I was okay. But I wasn'ta great surfer. But I loved the
culture. I loved. I hada surfer like the beach boy's haircut,
you know, kind of hanging down. I wore the jams. As I've
said, that was a time inmy life when man I looked good in
a bathing suit. That was decadesago. Now I go to the beach,

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they put sunglasses on to look atme and say, put a shirt
back on that man. Anyway,it has gotten expensive, But I've got
some deals for you. One ofthe things to do is with your Morris
Columbus travel Advisor, say listen whenyou see a deal to Hawaii, because

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they do, come and go.Let me know. Now for kind of
Middle America, there's there's a reallynice hotel called the Twin Fin. I
gotta say, I don't care forthe name, but it's a nice really
it's a great location. It's abouta half a block off Kalakaua Avenue,
which is the main drag. It'son Paul Kalani Avenue and it's very near

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the Marriott, the Queen Kapiolani,the Hyatt Place. It's right there,
half a block right from the beach. Now, the rates vary by departure
date and are subject to change andavailability, as it is with everything in
life. But at the Twin Fin, which is a solid three star hotel,

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I looked at the dates September twentysixth. That gives you a couple
months to plan and the summer crowdsare gone. Yes, I mean there's
always crowds in Hawaii, although thenumbers have come down. So I was
looking at a six day, fivenight and it's six days because you know,
you take the Red Eye home,or at least that's an option for
you. September twenty sixth to Octoberfirst, fifty nine. Well, you're

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gonna pay seventy eight hundred bucks justin airfare. Now, what's not included
are the evil resort fees on allof these in Hawaii. Have to pay
those in person at the hotel.But that's a thousand and fifty nine when
we're talking that the average room rateon the Big Island and Kawaii is about

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four hundred and fifty dollars a dayplus tax plus. A lot of people
are looking at the all inclusives inMexico, and I got to tell you,
I really love Mexico. I lovethe Mexican people and the food,
and I love the food more thanjust about anything else. There's a deal
in Porto Vyoth. Now. Ilike Porto Variot because it's iconic. It's

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colonial along the Malikon. It's aone mile pedestrian only street right along the
beach front. It's it's shopping,it's music, it's canteenas, it's restaurants,
and it's right near the Church ofOur Lady of Guadalupe, a very
short walk or ride to Zono's Romantica, which I have a restaurant there I

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go to all the time, theMargharita Grill, not Marguerita Ville, but
Margharita Grill. They have live music. The prices are very reasonable. Stream
Mood the Cameroons. Yes, yes, it is okay. But how about
this at the real Jalisco All Inclusive. It's a very solid, first class

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all inclusive, four star. Ilooked at the date September nineteen to twenty
four. Now, remember this isyour air your round trip transfers from the
airport to If I'm losing you tothe resort, your resort, stay all

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your meals, all your drinks,entertainment, even your taxes and gratuities.
Carlos, you will not have thatmoment of crisis. Should I really tip
him a whole peso, a wholequarter something? But catch this So September
nineteenth to the twenty fourth, sixdays, five nights, ninety four bucks.

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You can sell everything. No,and it's a great I've been to
this resort. It is a greatresort now, So anyway, call Morris
Columbus Travel. Keep in mind ratesvary by departure data subject to change and
availability at the time of l booking. That's Spanish for reservation reservac hey.

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By the way, if you wantto lose your luggage with an airline,
you have a greater opportunity to achievethat milestone with American Airlines than any of
the other majors. According to recentjust reported yesterday two days ago to Department
of Transportation data, American Airlines theygot so many problems, loses more bags

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than any other carrier. So oneof the problems is that they're not investing
in new technology to track bags.You know. You know what I like
is put one of those what doyou call them, those Apple devices you
know that identify I'm sorry, appleTag. I keep one of those in

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my suitcase and one in my briefcase. But on the suitcase. You know,
you arrive at an airport and you'rewondering, did my bag show up?
I always pull it up. Okay, it's here, it's somewhere.
There was a recent story, Ithink involving United Airlines where a bag didn't
come out in the carousel and theywere saying, oh, it's still in

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Denver, and she's looking at herApple Tag and it's no, it has
left the airport and is in acar going somewhere. Says no. They
say, no, it's in ourcomputer. It's in Denver. It'll we'll
get it to you tomorrow. No, it's anyway. She went to the

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house, called the police and theyretrieved her suitcase. Someone had stolen it.
Now tell me one thing. Thereis an advantage that he's losing the
language. I always buy insurance whereverI go, and I always readnew my
clothes because they lost it We appreciateit. When you wear clothes, we
really appreciate it. You're just buyingwhatever you're getting that l insurance, so

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it's an insurance. Hey, letme tell you about one of the greatest
travel adventures. Now, folks,this is trust Larry Time. Well,
I just destroyed that, didn't yewithout the window? Uh? There are
there are one hundred and seventy threedays till Christmas. Wow, one hundred.

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I mean that's nothing, you know, nothing at about thirty what about
forty five? Less than that,it's one hundred and thirty something days till
the election. I'll be so gladwhen the election's over. Seventy three days
till Christmas, and Kathy and Iwill be hosting, seriously one of my

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favorite activities in the world. It'sthe Christmas Markets of Europe, a six
hundred year tradition. Now I've seenit on land, I've seen it off
a river cruise. I really preferthe river cruise because we pack and unpack
one day, and this particular rivercruise is the Christmas Markets of Europe,

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a six hundred year tradition. It'snot department store, but it's these wooden
kiosks be decked with evergreen vows.It's shopping and music and food, no
department store stuff and drink and entertainment. It's a festival. Now on the
river cruise on the day you willvisit Germany, Austria and Hungary seeing the

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best fact Nuremberg. We start inNuremberg and it is absolutely positively my favorite
Christmas market in all of Europe.It's a traditional and it's in old town
and we visit that. Now you'llsee all the you might say, the

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normal site. See you know,the fortress there in Passau, the Milk
Abbey, in abbey in Vienna.So here's the itina. We overnight in
Nuremberg Reagensburg, which is a smallertown, and you get that small town
feel to it, which is justabsolutely unbelievable. We go on from Reagansburg

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to Passau and the markets set againstan imposing backdrop of Saint Stephen's Cathedral in
the heart of old town and it'sknown as one of the best advent and
festive markets in Europe. Have anadvent theme to it. We go from

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Passau to Milk of course, thefamous Milk Abbey. Did you know that
the area around Milk is designated asa UNESCO Scenic Cruising Area, and now
Milk is only fifty three hundred people. On to Vienna where we overnight,
the city of Music, the cityof Mozart and Beethoven. Then down to

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Budapest where we overnight. Now whatwe did is we bought half the ship.
We bought it and so the discountsvery depending on cabin category, but
very from four to five hundred bucksor that range to one thousand dollars less
than if you bought it yourself.We have about four or five cabins left.

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I'd love to have you come withme. I promise you. It
is something that is so different becauseyou get all the regular site seeing and
you get the Christmas markets in Europe, all of that with me at Morris
Columbus. Travel more to come onthe Travel Show. You're listening to the

(01:10:15):
Travel Show on talk radio one ohfive nine knrs. Just listen and you'll
know, welcome back to the TravelShow. And God bless America and God
bless you. We live in theland of the Free and the brave.
I'm so grateful to live in thiswonderful country. I will beheaded to London.

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Later this month, and I'll alsobe on a Rhine River cruise with
a group of travel show listeners.My family and I are adult. Kids
are coming with us and there's spouses. So we're going to London for a
few days and then flying down toWell. I'll be Amsterdamed and getting on
with Almah Waterways. We'll do theRhine River, which you and Karen did

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with us. I want to goagain. I will then do it.
Don't talk about it, do it, and we'll visit the Netherlands, France,
Germany and Switzerland. So excited aboutthat. But I am so grateful
to be an American. Hey,folks, I want you to remember last

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call for journey to the Land ofthe Incas August third to the ninth with
Carlos Wonders of South America, Peru, Chile and Easter Island with Carlos and
Larry March eleventh to the twenty fourth. That's next year. I talk to
you about the Christmas markets on theDanube, which is December fourth to eleven

(01:11:48):
this year. We also on thatone have a pre cruise option three days
in Bavaria to nous Schwinstein Castle,which is what Walt did Disney used as
the inspiration for Cinderellas Castle in Disneylandto Oberamagau to Munich and of course the

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Christmas Market Cruise. I have twoother programs that I will be hosting.
I'd love to have you join me. You can get the details on these
and all of our tours. Youremember our escorted tour company is called The
brand is Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours.We are Morris Columbus Travel. What's a

(01:12:28):
brand name? You can get allthe details at Morriscolumbus dot com on the
homepage, scroll down to the grouptours. I'll be taking a group June
of next year twelve to twenty two. June twelve to twenty two from Iceland
to London by way of Iceland,Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and England.

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Also in July. I gotta havesomething to do every month the seventh
to the twentieth the British Isles,and we'll be visiting Ireland, Scotland and
Land. Just so incredibly much fun. We were talking about some fun facts
with this holiday weekend celebrating July fourth. Do you know that the United States

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is not the only country that celebratesJuly fourth as their freedom day. In
Rwanda Africa, it's called Liberation Day, their freedom day July fourth. And
then in the Philippines Republic Day.Now for July ninth, what do we

(01:13:36):
celebrate in our Argentine, Yes,Cardiada, I'm talking about. These are
actually also on July fourth, andto celebrate our independence, one hundred and
fifty million hot dogs will be eaten. We're eaten on July fourth, not
the whole weekend, on that oneday, one hundred and fifty million hot

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dogs. You know, we weretalking about Hawaii earlier in the show,
and you know, it's kind ofinteresting. They talk about the spirit of
aloha. Aloha means breath of life, and it's very interesting, you know,
very interesting there in Genesis chapter two, what's a verse seven. I

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believe that God breathed the breath oflife into man. But what's interesting,
I think overlooked is God breathe hisown breath into us, into Adam.
It's not just he got a vacuumand pumped some air into the man.

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God breathed his breath into the intothat. It's called the breath of life.
And they and that's what aloha meansit. It is. This is
this sharing of our experiences in ourlives. Now you know, I've spent
a lot of my life down inthe South Pacific and in New Zealand.

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There's two words I want to remember. Hungy, which is like an umu.
It's like a food cooked in undergroundhot stone hot stones, Ha and
gi. But ha n g iis the dinner. But the greeting is
hungy h o n g i.And when I go to New Zealand,

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I greet my Maudi friends. Youtouch your forehead and touch your nose and
then it's a and then breathe out. It's the breath of life you're sharing.
It's a bonding and that's what thealoha spirit is. It's this breath
of life and you feel something I'vetold you before. In the Samoan language

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where I have spent so much timein Samoa, both America and western the
islands of Upolo, Savaii, andin Samoan, they have two words for
spirit or breath of life. Oneis ananga, which is has a religious
connotation, which is like holy spirit, holy ghost ananga. And in Samon

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the other word for which there's noEnglish equivalent is manna, which is the
life. It's like the life thelight of Christ almost that the living power
that gives life to all things.That's through all things. They believe that
the rocks, the mountains, thecoca and it's the ocean, the trees,

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everything has manna. And that's whyPolynesians can feel a long rope tentacle
out from their home native country theislands, to wherever they are in the
world. That's what the spirit ofAloha is. That's what we feel.
By way, a shout out toBilly, a rodeo clown that I met

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at McDonald's this morning. I said, I give him a shut out.
See it next week.