The Travel Show: Hawaii and Mexico Specials!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy New Year, and welcome to the Travel Show. I'm
Larry Gelwicks to get Away Guru, and we are now
in our thirty fifth year of the Travel Show. It's
been my privilege to host the Travel Show for thirty
five years.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm joined today in.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Studio by the one, the only, the lovely and talented
Kathy Gelwick.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I invited Kathy to come.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
You remember last week we had a very special edition
of the Travels and I came.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Because I didn't get a word in edgewise last week.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
How out of character?

Speaker 5 (00:35):
Oh yeah, it's not the Glwick family way, is it.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
No, that was a lot of fun. We had Kathy
and Sarah and Jenny and Keaton. That was all the
microphones we had for a I think we'll make that
an annual tradition. That's that Saturday between Christmas and New
Year's We'll bring the Gelwicks family on.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
You might have to pay him a little more treats
in the room.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Paid as it is.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Anyway, I asked Kathy to come back. She's co hosted
the show with me a few times. She's an excellent
tour guide, takes tour groups for Morris Columbus Travel on
her own and some with me. So Kathy, welcome to
the show.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
We have a really good show lined up today. We're
gonna be talking about the Utah Travel Expo, the biggest,
the best travel show expo anywhere in the Inner Mountain
West here at home and.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Exclusive expo discounts.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I'm going to give you my travel predictions for twenty
twenty six. We're going to be going to Egypt and
the Egyptian Endowment. Now that is a secular term for
a temple ceremony that was practiced in ancient Egypt. And
what is a digital passport? You're familiar with the handheld
little book. What is this new digital passport? And can

(01:58):
you use it for travel? We're gonna be talking about
favorite places in Hawaii a Wahuu, Maui, Kawaii and the
Big Island. And Kathy will be the star of the
Joys of river Cruising.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
You know I've been thinking, Larry you called me a
co host on the show. Can I tell you I
went to see Song Sun Blue.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's a movie.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
That's a movie, It's all Yes.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
My sweet girls made an extension of my birthday celebration.
So we had dinner and went to this movie. It
is very sad. If you go to see it, take tissues.
But it's about impersonators for Neil Diamond and they call themselves.
This is a husband and wife group. They call themselves

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Lightning and Thunder. So I think we should be Lightning
and thunder. You're lightning because you're very quick on the draw.
You can send people into beachlessness with some of your comments. I,
on the other hand, fit the.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Description of thunders. Oh you want to be.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Can I get an amen on that?

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
My word.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
The Travel Expo is coming up, Kathy, the thirtieth annual
Morris Columbus Travel Expo. Now it opens in Saint George
on Wednesday, January twenty first, and then the Granddaddy of
all expos will be in Salt Lake City Friday and Saturday,
January twenty third and twenty fourth at the Mountain America

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Expos Center in Sandy.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
At the Salt Lake event, there will be over one
hundred travel vendors. Last year we one hundred and seven.
We got more coming this year. These are airlines, cruise lines,
safari companies, hotels, resorts, travel companies, even sub zero ice
cream as my favorite ice cream is going to be
there with free samples. I always say mucho grande por favour,

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and they actually give me a cup of it rather
than a sample. But that doesn't surprise you anyway. You
know what's great about the Utah Travel Expo is that
you can come in, sit down one on one with
any of these travel vendors, ask questions, take advantage of
exclusive expo discounts, attend educational seminars.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'll be doing one seminar.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Friday night at five o'clock and another one they're half hour,
and the other one is Saturday, the twenty fourth at
two point thirty. We'll be broadcasting the show live from
the Expo. Now, Denny, our producer and studio, is already
very sad that I won't be here. But for Denny,

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he's laughing right now, no doubt laughing at me. Most
people do laugh, not with me, but at me. Anyway,
it's it is a wonderful And did I mention the
free travel awards like free international airline tickets, free domestic
airline tickets, free cruises, free resort, free stays, free, this

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free that now every hour one of these awards is
going to be made You don't have to be present
to win, but you have to register to win when
you arrived.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Exciting.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh, it's really exciting. I keep asking if I can
draw the winner, and would they think there's something wrong.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
If I draw my name with that. But somebody's going
to win.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
These prizes, it may as well be you. What has
been your experience at the expo castlet?

Speaker 2 (05:38):
We don't.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I look at it as a very happy place. People
are coming to do something that they've planned for a
long time, or are just looking for something that pops up.
I love to ask people what is on the bucket list,
where would they like to go, and to have somebody

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there to answer your specific questions, to put a little
treat in your bag. Our grandchildren especially like that part.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's so much fun to come with kids or grandkids.
You know, they're getting all this free stuff while you're
talking about your next vacation.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
It really is a place where you can grab a brochure,
go home, dream planit.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
There isn't excitement.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
It really is fun. Now it is a ticket and event.
All the tickets are free. At the Saint George. It
will be about half the vendors due to constraints of
size of the giant ballroom at the Hilton Garden Inn.
That's where it is in Salt Lake, or excuse me,
in Saint George. It'll be over one hundred in Salt

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Lake City. Now there is a cost three bucks for adults,
discounts for seniors, military, kids seventeen and undergo free. However,
the costs for the Salt Lake event. However, I have
got a secret method for any of our travel It's
not so secret anymore. All of our travel show listeners

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can go absolutely free. You can print as many tickets
as you want, absolutely free. Give them out to your friends,
your family, your neighborhood, your place of business.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
You know.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Printy done everybody there.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Print fifty tickets. Print whatever you need to come. And
here's how you do it. Go to the website. All
the details are at Utah Travel Expo dot com. That's
Utah Travelexpo dot com. And then scroll down and you
see get Saint George tickets again. You do that, order
your tickets they're all free, or get SLC get Salt

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Lake City tickets. Now those have a price. Go ahead
and click how many tickets you want? Maybe you want
twelve adult tickets twenty adult tickets, two adults, the kids.
It's it's a zero cost, but you get a ticket
for them. Then scroll down and there's a place to
enter a discount code. Here's Larry's secret discount code.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Free.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, the only thing better than cheapest free fr
E Type that in and then the critical thing is
right next to the discount code area. It's there's a
little icon says apply. It's like submit, but apply. Click
on apply and you will see all of the dollar
amounts disappear. It's a free event for our travel show family.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
You are all about a coupon, deer, I love coop,
all about a code?

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I do love coupons.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Now, twenty twenty six is going to be a great
travel year. Twenty twenty five was very busy and sometimes
sobering when it came to air travel. A lot of
records were broken. Let me tell you about some of
the things that are happy. Spirit Airlines became twenty twenty
six just as it began twenty twenty five, in the

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middle of chapter eleven bankruptcy. This time, however, the situation
does appear more serious. Am I telling you not to
fly Spirit Airlines?

Speaker 4 (09:17):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:17):
You do whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
If I were to buy a Spirit Airlines ticket, it
would only be with a credit card for close in travel,
because I have some credit card protection. Well, the Florida
based ultra low cost carry, known for its big, bright
yellow planes, has been unable to climb out of a
financial hole in the wake and result of the COVID pandemic.

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So even late last summer, Spirit executives raised doubts about
the company's future, and Wall Street analysts did the same.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
So be aware.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Another big change We've we talked for over a year
about Southwest now charging for check luggage, which it used
to be too free. But the biggest change at Southwest
Airlines arrives this month. On January twenty seventh, the Southwest
Airlines will go from open seating to assigned seating and

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this has a major change. Remember I talked to you
about jet Bridge Jesus. When we come back, I will
tell you what that is and the impact that jet
Bridge Jesus will.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Happen in Southwest Airlines.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks to
get Away Google. The travel show is sponsored by more
Columbus Travel, where you'll always travel more and pay less
check out their website Morris Coolumbus dot com. That's Morris
Columbus dot com. If you have a favorite Morris Columbus
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and you go right to their desk. But if you
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forty six forty six the website again, Morriscolumbus dot com.
Welcome back to the travel show. Kathy Gelwick's my lovely
wife of how many going on forty nine?

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (11:43):
It'll be April forty nine years.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
She hasn't thrown me out of the house yet, right,
you just go, I refuse you. I promise she's had cause. Well,
this is the start of wave season this week now.
Wave Season is the crew industry's biggest annual sales perier,
typically running from January through March or even into the
first part of April. This is when cruise lines offer

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their most aggressive discounts, cabin upgrades, onboard credits, added perks likes,
free drinks, free shore excursion credits, free Wi Fi, free
specialty dining, to boost bookings for the coming year. They
like to get their their ships filled early. It's like
an extended Black Friday sale for cruises, encouraging early booking

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with incentives to fill the ships up. It's really kind
of fun, you know, almost well, sixty plus percent of
cruises are sold for the entire year in the first
three months.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Sixty percent.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Why because the deals are out there, and the sad thing.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Is if you snooze, you lose.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Once waves season is over, these discounts and promotions disappear.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Oh my goodness sake, she'd want to jump on it
really fast.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Tell me, you and I have done a lot of cruising.
We started out on State Street, but then we cruised
the Seven Seas.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
I never crew, well maybe.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Once once once with Cordell. No, but anyway, Cordell was
Cathy was a cheerleader at East High School. Yes, go Leopards,
and her chair partner was Cordel.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Cordell and shout out. He is a great buddy.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sends you flowers on your He is just a good guy. Anyway,
What is it about cruising that both ocean and river
And we'll talk about river later in the show in
some detail. But what is it generally about cruising that's
so appealing to you.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Well, I think you just let everybody else take care
of you.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
You're on vacation and you're there to enjoy.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
You know, if you're an adventure traveler, this isn't for
you necessarily, but your food is taking care of you
only have to unpack once if you want ice in
your bucket every night. Your cabin Stewart will take care
of you. It's just a nice vacation.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
And you mentioned adventure. There are some more adventure minded
cruises like Quark Expeditions and some of these others into
Antarctica or the northern reaches the Amazon, but mostly it's
a vacation.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Let me give you an example of some of the.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Waves Season cruise discounts available at Morris Columbus Travel, who,
by the way, is the largest seller of cruises in
the entire Inner Mountain West. As a result, not only
do we have some special discounts, but Wave Season includes
some exclusive Morris Columbus promotions and discounts.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Now here's just a sampling, And.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
By the way, come to the expo and you'll get
all of the Wave discounts and some exclusive Expo discounts.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's like a double dip.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Norwegian Cruise Line or NCL fifty percent off all cruises,
free air for the second guests. That's a legitimate bogo
bog o, Buy one, get one. They don't jack up
the price of the first person. It's at a discounted rate.
The second person goes absolutely free, including all air taxes

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with their more at sea promotion, free and limited drinks,
free shore excursion credits, free Wi Fi, free specialty dining.
Viking Cruises, which offers both ocean and river cruises, has
free or reduced airfare, and that's for like you and
a traveling companion, free or reduced airfare and up to

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thirty five percent off your crew ruise fair with only
a twenty five dollars deposit. Royal Caribbean Cruise. I really
do love Royal Caribbean. They I think are so good
for families. Now all of them do families, but Royal
Caribbean does it particularly.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Well on their food. I think it's just a little
bit matter, it really is.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I like what they do up to one thousand dollars
off Princess Cruises, the Love Boat up to one thousand
dollars instant savings up to forty percent off cruise fair
now here is a really really nice feature.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Ms Kathy.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean and Princess all offer free
cruises for a third and fourth person sharing your cabin
on select cruises. On this one, you only pay the
cruise taxes.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
It's not just kids. Do you have other adults.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Any age now?

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Royal Caribbean traditionally has been kids twelve and under. Right
now there's a promotion anybody, third and fourth guests can
sail absolutely free.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
You know this is so good.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
For example, we gave in Christmas of twenty twenty four,
we gave our whole family, children, grandchildren.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
That nice of us.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
It was a spring break cruise April sixth to the tenth,
which is spring break for most of the Utah school districts,
including Granite and Salt Lake where our kids go. And
we said, we'll pay for the cruise. You just get
yourself there and some are gonna fly, some are gonna drive.

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You can park right across at the Port of La
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a sixty second walk from the ship. But you see,
you can sail absolutely free on select cruises. So now's
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and discounts like never before. What did I say earlier
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We're headed to Egypt when we come back.

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Sure Welcome to the first weekend of twenty twenty six.
You drive around the Watsash Front looking pretty good, no
problems an I fifteen north of southbound from Ogden all
the way down to Provo. We do have a crash
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on the west side of town. That's still causing some problems,

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but it looks like it may be gone fairly soon.
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Because everyone, welcome back to the travel show. I'm Larry Gelwicks.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
They get away do We're joined by the lovely and
talent Kathy Glwicks. Same thing, I say, my partner in crime.
But in life, that's right.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
You want to expand on that thunder.

Speaker 10 (20:54):
No, no, no, I have learned not to talk back. Oh, anyway,
we were talking between the segments here about our next topic, Egypt.
You can visit mountain alpine splendor, white sand beaches, palm trees,

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cathedrals all over the world, and they're wonderful, but there
is nothing in the world like Egypt.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
There's no culture like Egypt. Yeah, you can see some
pyramids like at Chisanita in Mexico.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Tou loom.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
Around the world.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
And things, but it's not the same. I think perhaps
in Egypt, the pyramids and the sphinx are some of
the most iconic symbols. You know, the primary purpose of
the Egyptian pyramids was to serve as monumental burial structures
for pharaohs, facilitating their transition to the afterlife and reflecting

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their divine status. Now you've been to Egypt a number
of times. The last time both of us were there
was just a few years ago. We did a Egypt tour,
spent three days in Cairo at the museums and the
shopping bazaars, flew to Luxor, a one week Nile cruise
back to Cairo, and then we went to Israel. Kathy,

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what is it for you personally? And there's no right
or wrong in this. Everybody's answer may be different. That
captures your imagination, your heart. You're intrigue about Egypt.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Well, I think, for one, it's the grander. Everything is big, bold,
It just is kind of in your face. I think
the idea of the ancient culture, the discovery. You know,

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one of the things that actually just took my breath
away when we were on the cruise was Abu Symbal
and the fact that they moved that brick by brick
to make way when the Aswan Dam was filled, and

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I just picture those huge carvings and building and it's amazing.
It's there's nothing like it.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Like you say, it really is.

Speaker 10 (23:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
One of the constant themes of life in Egypt amongst
the you know, the not the slaves, but the pharaohs,
in the noble class, was this whole positive themes that
about the importance of the afterlife. You know, the importance

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of a temple is found in almost every culture. Another
theme is mankind's relentless quest to come into contact with
the divine, to enjoy communion with the gods who are
worshiped and honored in temples. Now speaking of Egypt and
measuring eternity with the Egyptians, perhaps the oldest documented examples

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of attempting to commune with Deity are the people of Egypt,
unified as a kingdom under the Pharaoh around three thousand BC.
Ancient Egyptians not only believed they could enjoy communion with
their gods, but strongly believed that they could become as
the gods. Egyptians were obsessed with eternity and eternal life.

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Virtually everybody after two thousand BC who wasn't a slave
thought about eternity. To obtain eternal life, everyone is expected
by to live by the principles of ma'at ma a
Apostrophe eight, roughly translated truth, justice, harmony, balanced righteousness mahaut

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was the standard by which all humans were measured and
was very important in going to the temple one The
temple in Egypt was viewed and people would go in
for religious ceremonies.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Was viewed almost.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
As a practicession for going into the afterlife. You go
there for a glimpse, glimpse of eternity, a chance to
commune symbolically with the gods, because they believed once you died,
you would go through the same rituals as you walked

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through the afterlife. And perhaps the most significant effect produced
by the Egyptian's conviction that they could become like and
live with the gods was seen in the mood, the outlook,
the tone of their sinizations, which was profoundly optimistic. The
ancient Egyptians were confident, optimistic, and even very self assured.

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Now in Egypt, death was viewed differently than in other cultures,
as death was seen as a transition, a transitional event,
a portal, if you will, through which humans must pass
in hopes of gaining admission to the realms of eternity.

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This obsession with eternal life life with and life like
the gods becomes obvious to modern travelers. Travelers because almost
everywhere in Egyptian culture is displayed imagery of objects such
as temples, tombs, pyramids, and mummies. Now I want to

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talk about we talked about Maat and and studies has
always been a favorite of mine. I've mentioned before my
graduate studies included Coptic, one of the Egyptian languages in religions,
first century Christian literature, and Hebrew in graduate school. I

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don't claim to be an academic scholar on anything, but
I do I do acknowledge that it's been a lifelong study,
graduate courses and studies in that.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
The Egyptian endowment absolutely fascinates me. Now that is not
a religious term used by any denomination. That is a
secular term. There is a ceremony in the temple in
Egypt of which the nobles would go in practice for
when they died and actually did it in the afterlife

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and went into the presence of God. I'm going to
go through in brevity the Egyptian Endowment. I want to
emphasize that I am only talking about verifiable ancient Egyptian
practices there is no I am not suggesting any relation
to any current religious practices. You can make those associations

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if you want. I'm only talking about ancient practices. So
in the Egyptian Endowment, one would enter the temple. There
is a change of clothing from your street clothes to
appropriate attire in the temple. The person going through has

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an escort. And again they're doing this immortality. They're doing
this while they're alive to practice for when they will
actually do it for real in the afterlife. So they
enter the temple, they change their clothes, they are ceremoniously
washed with water and anointed with oil. I mentioned they

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have an escort. So they passed to what's called the
Hall of Judgment, and there they are asked the forty
two questions of Maat.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Now you can look these up.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Depending on who's doing the translating, they will differ slightly,
But it really gets down to a character interview. What
is your character? What is your worthiness to be here
in the presence of gods? Some of the questions were
you fair in the marketplace? One of the interesting ones

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did you commit adultery with your neighbor's wife. I hope
the answer is no. I thought maybe they should redo
that one. Did you commit.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Adultery with anyone's wife, not just your neighbors?

Speaker 1 (29:49):
But that's the question. Did you treat your servants or
even slaves fairly? Were you honest in your dealings with
other people? But the us question to me is the
most intriguing, and it is this, is there anyone, even

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one person, who is glad that you lived?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Now?

Speaker 1 (30:17):
I was talking to Kathy about this and that question,
and I said, Kathy, Kathy, Kathy.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
No, But I think that is something that we could
all ponder on a little bit.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Who is grateful that I am alive? We should all
ask that. I'm asking it rhetorically, of course, but who
is grateful? Am I honest in my dealings in the marketplace?
Am I honest in my dealings? Am I the first
to volunteer for that? It's not my job? Do I
try to have a positive outlook even in the midst.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Are you a problem?

Speaker 5 (30:56):
Are you just a good guy?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
That's right? Now?

Speaker 1 (31:00):
They will they you will join together in a circle
to offer prayers to the gods for your life. Now
after the forty two questions of Mahat, after the circle
of prayer or prayer circle. You will continue to a
veil or partition with your escort. There is a person

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behind the veil asking questions, and you answer certain questions.
Then the escort says, and this is the translation, having
been faithful in all things, desires to enter the presence
of God close quote. He then is escorted, the veil
is parted, and he is escort into what they believe

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would be the presence of the Gods. And so that
is a temple sermons. It's really quite fascinating, Kathy. Now,
one of the things that I went through, I wanted
to get to Israel, because you know, the whole is
much more than Israel. It's Egypt, it's parts of Syria, Jordan, Israel.
Half of the New Testament took place in what we

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call present day Jordan. You hear references in the New
Testament to beyond Jordan. We've got about a minute left.
We'll add some more later on. But what are some
of your favorite places.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Let's go to Israel.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Oh, I would say top of the list for me
is the city of Magdala.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, that's up in Galilee. Absolutely, Magdalen.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
It is it is to be the birthplace, it is
the birthplace of Mary Magdalen. They know that Christ would
have taught there. But currently there is a chapel built
dedicated to women and if you go down the steps
in there there is the.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
Most beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Painting, very large, called Encounter, and it's women, the woman
touching christ garment, the Hem of His Great the Hem
of his Garment. You can google Magdala Encounter and see.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
It and we'll be talking more about the Holy Land
when we come back. What is a digital passport and
can you use it? Welcome back to the Travel Show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks. They get Away and Google. The Travel

(33:30):
Show is sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel, where you always.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Travel more and pay.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Let's check out their website at Morriscolumbus dot com. I'm
joined today by Kathy Yelps, my lovely wife. We've been
talking about the Holy Land. We talked about Egypt. Isn't
that fascinating? The Egyptian Endowment or Egyptian temple, ceremony and rituals.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
Is It's very intriguing, It really is.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Doctor Hugh Nibley, writing on this wrote quote the commonly
expressed goal and object of visiting the Egyptian temple is
to see God close quote. I'll just say temples in
ancient Egypt were houses of the gods, as their titles
included the most common ancient Egyptian name for a temple,

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het Najaire, which literally means the mansion of God. Now
you mentioned Magdala. Up on the north western shores of
the Sea of Galiley, there is a mosaic floor of
a first century synagogue, and the scriptures say that Jesus

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taught in all of the synagogues in Galilee. He certainly
would have been here, certainly would have walked across that floor.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
That is a very very special place.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
It has such a warm you feel something there, Yes, absolutely,
you know.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Just very briefly before we get to digital.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Passport, a couple of my favorite place. Everybody loves Jerusalem,
you know, the earliest settlements date back to forty five
hundred BC. King David, of course made it the significant
city in about one thousand BC. But they're in Jerusalem.

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A couple favorite places, Kathy. There's two spots revered to
be the burial tomb of Jesus, the Garden Tomb and
the Church of the Holy sepulcher I feel something at
the garden tomb. Yes, you can walk right into the
tomb and to think what took place. Now the western
wall of the temple, it was about nine to sixty BC.

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King Solomon bills the first Temple. Of course, four hundred
years later the Babylonians destroy it and take the Jews
into exile. The second Temple dates back to its completion
about five point fifteen BC, following the return of the
Jews from Babylon. Well, all that remains of the ancient

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temple is the western wall. It was part of the
outer wall, and it's a sacred place. What's really interesting
there is that on Shabbat or the Sabbath, which starts
Friday night at sundown, goes to Saturday night sundown. The
observant Jews are praying all the time there, but on

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the start of Shabbat, the place is an excitement there.
In fact, the Yeshiva that's a Jewish school, the Yeshiva
students come down and they celebrate the start of Shabbat.
They are singing, they are dancing. They separate, separate the genders.

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The men will lock arms and circle and dance. The
women will do their own. They separate them at prayer.
In traditional synagogues, the men and women are separated, but
they're singing songs of gratitude to God.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
There's a festival, Yeah, thank you for giving us the Sabbath,
as opposed to how long is church? Is it going
to interfere with.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
The you've never heard before?

Speaker 1 (37:31):
I do, I have to go to church. They are
celebrating it with glee. Thank you for giving us the Sabbath. Well,
right there, of just above the western wall, is the
temple Mount Mariah. That, of course, is where Muslims believe

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that Muhammad ascended into Heaven on a horse. It is
sacred to Christians, Muslims and Jews. Will both Christians and
Jews believe that a temple will be built.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
And do you know what I find is interesting, Larry,
is that the excavations discoveries don't end in Israel. They
are always announcing the discovery of something new.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Time of David.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Right there the hotel, which is archaeological digs on the
western wall.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
But what I think.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
About Mount Moriah is where Abraham journeyed three days with
his son Isaac to offer him as a human sacrifice,
which he didn't understand because Abraham escaped that himself as
a youth, and of course the ram was caught in
the thicket, and it was right there at Mount Moriah.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Well, there are other things that happened there as well.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah, I mean it's steeped in history. The Mound of
the Beatitudes on the north shore of the Sea of
Galilee mat you five, six and seven. One of the
things in the Sermon on the Mount that touches my
heart so much is Jesus said, Blessed are the peace makers.
He didn't say blessed are the peace lovers. Blessed are

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those who love peace. He talked about, Blessed to those
who make peace. May we make peace in our hearts,
with our families, with those that we've had some disagreement with,
and amongst nations and cultures. Also one last one, the
amount of transfiguration. Ten things took place there where authority

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was passed to Peter James and John Well. I didn't
get to digital passport. I will do that as the
first thing when I come back in our number two
of the travelship will also be talking about favorite places
in Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Stay tuned, we'll be back show.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
I'm Larry Gelwicks, then get Away Guru the Travel Show
in the best two hours in radio. I'm joined today
by the lovely Kathy Gelwiz, my traveling actually my traveling
partner in life and around the world.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
There we go, dear, We're a team. We're a team now,
lightning and sight, Lightning and thunder.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Now, Kathy, you've been to one hundred and five countries.
Tell me this is unscripted question. Tell me two or
three that are your favorites that you'd like to go
back to again, again and again.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
Oh my goodness, Israel. There's a draw there.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Do you know The most common comment we get for
Holyland tourists is I can't wait to read the four
Gospels again.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Well, and it's life changing, it really is, really is.
Much of my heritage is from the British Chiles.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
Ma.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
I just comment on that.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
When Kathy talks about she's thunder, she is the descendant
of the William Wallace klan. Do you remember William Wallace
who took on long shanks the king.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
That will explain that's with me.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
That's right, that'll explain a lot when she gets mad
at me. William Wallace. Okay, the UK, Scotland, Israel one more.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
That's Oh my goodness sakes, I like Europe.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Yeah, I do a river cruise on the Rhine maybe. Oh, yes,
we'll be talking about that. Hey, I promise to talk
about digital passports. I got all sorts of ketchup in
this segment of things that I didn't get to, all right.
A USA digital passport refers to the biometric chip embedded

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in the modern US passport. You can see it's like
a little gold chip right there on the cover. It
stores your photo and data for secure travel, but increasingly
digital IDs in smartphone wallets like Apple or Google Wallet
that use your passport information for faster secure domestic airport verification,

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acting as a virtual secure version of your physical passport
for specific uses, though.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Not yet a full international replacement.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
So for domestic travel and platforms like Apple Wallet or
Google Wallet, it allows you to add a digital ID
by scanning your physical passport's chip and taking a selfie.
It is TSA approved at most US airport checkpoints for

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domestic flights. So the question I'm often asked, Kathy, can
I use my digital passport for international travel?

Speaker 5 (42:59):
Probably not yet?

Speaker 2 (43:00):
No, no, you can't do it.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
Based on your explanation, you got to wait until it's worldwide.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
You got to have that booklet.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Also, I mentioned a term that's used in the media
jet bridge. Jesus, I don't mean to be sacrilegiousating my
breath away.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Did she go, what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Well, as I mentioned, Southwest Airlines is going from open
seating to assigned seats on January twenty seventh this month,
and the problem that Southwest Airlines had all over their
system was people scamming, dishonest people scamming the system and

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putting it jeopardy the legitimate people who needed assistance. So
if you if you request a wheelchair first of all,
that costs Southwest Airlines thirty bucks a person that they
have to pay.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
They zip you. They zip you right up to.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
The front of the boarding line and also through TSA
they take you to the front of the line and
they bored you first, so the wheelchair people get ahead
of everyone else. And Southwest had no rule against saving seats.
There was one story of a woman who came in
a wheelchair, got on the Southwest flight, had coats and

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bags and saved thirteen seats at the front of the
plane for people who were at the back of the
line and did.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
She have a wheelchair when she got off.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Now there's a flight that was highlighted in the news
Baltimore BWI to Fort Lauderdale. Thirty one wheelchairs, twelve people.
Excuse me, two people required a wheelchair to exit.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Twenty nine were scammers and liars.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
And I say that because there are people legitimately who
need assistance and they put those at risk for that.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
Well, I really like gate lies.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
That's an American Airlines people huddling around the boarding trying
to skip their zone. American Airlines and some other carriers.
Now it will beep if you are not in your
proper zone and they'll ask you politely to go to.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
The you know way for your zone where you belong.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
And American Airlines employees refer to these people as gate lies.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Well, here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
So you had thirty one people need a wheelchair to
get on the plane. Two people needed a wheelchair to
get off the plane. Somehow they found the Good Lord
during the flight. And the jet bridge is that is
the that like that you walk across, and so it's

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referred to as jet jet bridge. Jesus they they they
were instantly healed, raised the Lord No, that's just crazy
stuff anyway, So let's talk. We talked about Digital Passport
the Expo. Just want to remind you of the Utah

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Travel Expo, the thirtieth annual Utah Travel Expo, the biggest
and the best expo anywhere in the Inner Mountain West.
Sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel. It opens in Saint George
on Wednesday, January twenty first, and then the granddaddy of
them all Friday and Saturday, January twenty third and twenty

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fourth at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy. It
is a ticket event. Go to Utah Travel Expo dot
com Utah Travel Expo dot com. And remember I told
you of a secret code we've come up with for
travel show listeners and anybody you want to tell.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
And I'm going to be in your seminars.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Oh yeah, We're doing two seminars, one on traveling with
the Ghetaway Guru, other on Adventures with the Getaway Guru.
One will be Friday night at five, the other will
be Saturday at two point thirty. Kathy, you'll be joining
me and then you'll find both of us in the
group Department booth area answering questions about are the tours

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that Kathy and I take and other tours too. I've
been to one hundred and seventeen countries. I'm happy to
give suggestions about travel here there. Now, you know, I
have some bucket list ones that I'm anxious to get
to add to.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
My soiree of travels.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, they say, anyway, So there is a cost to
the saltlic event. But if you go to Utah Travel
Expo dot com, click on as many tickets you want,
it'll show a price. Then in the lower left hand
it asks if you have a discount code, type in
the word free fr e E and then you have

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to click on apply, which is like submit, but apply
and ooh, all of the prices go. I print as
many tickets as you want, flood them with free tickets.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
I may lose my have a family party at a
travel is yeah, and I may get fired.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
But I could probably be fired for a long list
of reasons.

Speaker 5 (48:13):
People.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
You know I've said that, Kathy.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
People ask me, Larry forty eight years in the travel business,
You're seventy five years old, and your go, go go.
Kathy calls me the energizer bunny, No kidding, it's just go.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Go, go.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
And people say, Larry, when are you going to retire?
I always have the same answer, Well, what do people
do when they retire? They people respond, well, they travel. Oh,
I'm doing that now and enjoying it, enjoying it even
getting paid for it. There you go, so a lot

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of fun things. I have no intentions of retiring. It's
what you do. That's what I asked myself, like plant
petunia around the house, drive you crazy? Yeah, Kathy likes
to get me out of that. Say listen, We've just
got a couple of minutes. I want to tell you
a funny story there in Jerusalem. You know, a kipa
or a yamaica is a skull cap. Is what observant

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Jewish men will wear. Did you know there is no
direct biblical commandment for men to wear a kipa, but
it's a Talmudic custom. The Torah, their book of scripture,
the Jewish book of scriptures, the first five books of Moses.
But the talmud is a is not scripture, but it

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has almost the same effect. It's a body of Jewish
civil and ceremonial laws and legends, and the wearing the
yamaica symbols humility, reverence, awareness of God's presence above, evolving
from head coverings for the high priests and the men

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of stature, later becoming a common practice for all Jewish
to show submission to God. So, as I said, it's
not rooted in the Torah, but it's it is rooted
in the concept of reverence for God, with early references
in the Talmod.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
So I'm at the tomb of David.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I have about a half a dozen yamakas myself, and they,
you know, they always will give you one to wear
if you don't have one, that could be cardboard. And
so I walk into the tomb of David with my
own yamaka, or so I thought I had it. I
don't have it. What do I do? The law is
your head is covered. I took my iPad put it

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over my head. None of the rabbi said a word
because I observed the law with my head coverage.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
More when we come back on the Travel.

Speaker 11 (50:43):
Show, thank you for being with us today.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
I love every Saturday I get kiddy, just get to
come down to the iHeart studio.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
You know we're The Travel Show is syndicated on nineteen stations,
but we originated the station k NRS in Salt Lake City,
one of the iHeart Mega stations, and it's a great
home with great people.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I love Hawaii.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
My very first trip to Hawaii I was sixteen years old.
In many ways a memorable occasion, and I was a
little surfer boy. Used to cut school back growing up
in San Francisco cuts high school. I had a perfect
forgery of my dad's Sure, I probably shouldn't tell my

(51:44):
grandkids that, but we'd go down to Santa Cruz and
go surfing at Steamer's Lane if you're familiar with that area,
and absolutely had a lot of fun. I was never
a great surfer, but I enjoyed myself.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
You disliked the water, I do. I love the ocean,
the intrigue, the mystery. I remember the very first time I.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Was on a board out in Hawaii and I was
surfing there in Hawaii. He's sixteen years old, and I
looked to my right and I saw a shark, the
fin cutting the water.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
You have never told me this battery.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Heading this way, and I mean, I'm riding the wave,
but this shark is getting closer and closer until it's
some of the body came up.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
It was a dolphin. It was the dolphin's fin.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
I was innocence of you.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
I think I wet my pants or something like that. Anyway,
that was a fun time. But Kathy, you and I
have been to Hawaii so many times, one hundred and
seventy and that's a real number. I used to commute
there once or twice a month. We were doing so
much business. For a year, you can rack up a

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lot of trips. So my shortest trip was five hours.
I was in Honolulu for a reception. Had to get back.
I remember looking out at the lights of Waikiki as
we returned home. I one of those receptions you have
to go to and thinking why aren't I staying?

Speaker 2 (53:19):
But I had a meeting I had to get back.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
So you know, there's one hundred and fifty two islands
and islets in Hawaii and stretching over fifteen hundred miles
of the Pacific Ocean. There's eight major islands, but we
called the Big four o Wahuu, Maui, Kawaii, and the
Big Island. Kathy, there's many favorite places that we've gone

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to on these islands. But maybe just tell me one
of the favorites. Let's start with the Wahoo.

Speaker 5 (53:49):
You know, I really liked the North north Shore. Yeah,
that eya surf country.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
You know. Maybe it harps back to when we took
our family over there and stayed six weeks. Our kids,
the oldest was six, but we had a great time
when we were there.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
And I've become.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
A fan of the TV show North Shore because it
talks about that culture where things are a little slower,
you know, Polynesian time. But Ariel Kebble, who was in
the movie Forever Strong, is one of the lead actors.

Speaker 5 (54:26):
So it's.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Ever Strong, the greatest movie that was ever found. Absolutely
I enjoy again.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
I have so many favorites. I love Waikiki, the Tiawana
of the Pacific.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
Now that's what you've always called it.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
I love the Polynesian cultural set. I've been there so
many times. And the North Shore. I like to stop
at Kahukuo have all those food trucks. I always go
to Giovanni's food truck. That's the garlic shrip. You get
this massive plate of garlic shrimp.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Is so good.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
I like to stay at the Courtyard by Marriott, the
on the North Shore in light Ea. It's walking distance
to the marketplace, to the PCC, the Byu Hawaii, the
light Ea Temple, and there's a wonderful Scottish restaurant on
the other side of the parking lot. Yep, right, McDonald's

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there is. Okay, let's go to Maui. What do you
love about Maui?

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (55:22):
You know. We went to Maui last February and saw
some of the app after math of the fire. But
I will tell you those people are so resilient. And
we did something on Maui that we had never done before,
and that's stay up in Kappolua.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
That's up on the northwest shore for.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
A week with two friends of ours and it was
the most relaxing. We didn't do anything really except go
out to eat, but beautiful view. Loved it.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
The road to Hannah, I remember one time we drove
down there. It takes several hours from Kahui where the
airport is, or from you know, Wailea and all of
that area. But it had rained the day before and
you and I counted ninety eight waterfalls and you can stop.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Along the way.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
I love a sunrise on a top Mount Haliakala, a
dormant volcano, we OPA's dormant. Let's go to Kawai. We've
got just a couple of minutes left. The Garden Island.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
Oh love the coconut plantation area.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Shops, restaurants, so much fun. I love well.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Poipoo is the best place to I think to stay
down in that area.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
But I love the Napoly Coast. There's a trail there.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
It's eleven miles the first two miles and there's some
serious elevation getting up and going down to the beach
at hanta Kopyeye. And anybody can go the first two miles.
The next nine miles you have to have a permit,
and you got to apply a year and advance.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
They're hard.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Yet you can camp there and do that. But see
from the beach at hant Akopyeye. If you turn inland,
follow a trail through a dense jungle, but it is
a trail. You come to Hantakopyey Falls. It's about a
three hundred foot waterfall. You can go swimming. Don't swim
under the falls, as tempting as it is, because rocks

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come over falling three hundred feet. Its lights out very quickly.
Let's go to the Big Island.

Speaker 5 (57:42):
Koda yeap black sand beach.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
I went to Hawaii when I was nineteen and fair
young lass brought home a little jar full of black
sand beach.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Do you still have it? I'm well.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
In Hawaii, you have black sand beaches which are crushed lava.
You have green sand beaches. You have red sand beaches,
which the red and green are water coming over vegetation
that color the sand, and of.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Course white sand and gray sand beaches.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
When we come back, I've got some Hawaii and Mexico
Air hotel.

Speaker 6 (58:26):
Specials and we're going river cruising.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Welcome back to the Travel Show, and am.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Very happy New year from all your friends at Morris
Columbus Travel, who is the good sponsor of the Travel Show.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
It's been my.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Privilege to host the show now for thirty five years.
I started with brown hair. I still have hair, but
it's gray.

Speaker 5 (59:01):
Yeah, you were quite a hunk, Thank.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
You very much. Anyway, we love river cruising.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
Don't we We love?

Speaker 1 (59:12):
What is it about river cruising that you just love?
I mean we both I really love ocean cruising, but
river cruising is different.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
This almost is going to sound sec religious, given what
you do for a living. But I'm over big crowds.
I love the intimacy of a river cruise.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
You're telling me six thousand people plus creu is too many?

Speaker 4 (59:39):
And how many is on that new ship the Royal?
Is it Royal that made this that?

Speaker 1 (59:45):
It's a lot of people, you know, the new Ocean Line.
I enjoy the ocean liners. And I will say the
large ones, which are three football fields. They are big,
but like World Caribbeans, separates them into neighborhoods, which is nice.
But there's so many activities and dining options.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
But see, I'm okay not having all of that on
a river cruise. I'm okay not having some place to eat.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
You and I love about river cruising is easy on,
easy off. Absolutely this walk on, walk off.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
You get into the heart of countries or continents. You
get the big cities, the small villages, places that you
may not get on your own. Now, you and I
what a charmed life we have traveling the world and
with all of our travel show friends. By the way,

(01:00:38):
next week I'll be leaving for Thailand and Cambodi.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Where you love your heart. Part of your heart is
in Polynesia. The other heart part is in Thailand, And
that does leave some leftover for those of us here
at all.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Kathy has often said, I'm white on the outside of
brown on the inside. Absolutely get the love of the
Hispanic and Mexican cultures, Polynesia, the Asian cultures. Yeah, I
really love it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
What is it about Thailand and Cambodia, Vietnam that I
that just does something to me.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
I don't know if this is true for all people
who travel to those places, but for me, there's a
vibe in those countries. I love the culture, the food,
the people. They are happy people in Thailand. The shopping
is great. It's a good value, right And you know

(01:01:43):
your bus your bus groups always get to be really
good friends. And that's why people like traveling with you,
is that you make them comfortable.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
I got the sweetest letter. I'm just gonna read part
of it from Valerie and Scott. This says, dear Larry,
we understand you are doing your signature Thailand and Cambodia
tour again in January twenty twenty six. I got this
just before Christmas. Yeah, I leave next week for Thailand Cambodia.
We took your tour meaning Thailand Cambodia January twenty twenty

(01:02:22):
five and still talk about it all the time. It
was one of the best tours we have ever gone on,
and we never hesitate to tell others about it. We
learned so much and saw so much. I love the
temples we visited, especially doys sou Tep Temple.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
I've told you that's my favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
By the way, I love that I could have spent
this back to the letter, I could have spent the
whole day there, watching the people worship and just taking
in the beauty of the whole place. Every day was
not a not to be missed adventure. We came to
love Kat and bh Tin. Bhutin's story touched us to

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the core.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
Bhutin is from Cambodia.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
And Cat is the Thai guide. I've used them for
twenty years. We're good friends. We really enjoyed our second
tour with you and hope to tour with you again.
You were a wonderful tour guide, positive, friendly, and very patient.
Most people would lose their cool doing what you do.

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
I've wondered about that, Larry.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
You're always so calm, which allows people to feel confident
in what.

Speaker 5 (01:03:36):
You were doing for them.

Speaker 10 (01:03:37):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
I love Southeast Asia's the people, the culture, the food,
the graciousness, it's exotic, everything from tropical islands rice patties
to the foothills of the Himalayas elephants. I mean, just
everything about it. Kathy, You and I have a joke.
I've talked about this before. When we go to Thailand

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and South East Asia, we love massage is part of
the culture.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
Well, I thought you were going to talk about your
other family.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
That's a funny one too, But it's the.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
It's respectful, it's modest, and you and I always say
we are going to get a massage every day. We've
never done it, we never will, but it's our joke.
Now you you've opened a Pandora's box. People are wondering,
what is this about Larry's other I tell the story.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
Over the course of about eighteen months, Larry went to
Thailand nine times, and so I said to him, as
I was driving him out to the airport, lead without me.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
I said, Okay, fess up, who is she?

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
And so then he launches into this fabricated story about
his Thai wife and the children. Now the children are
in school, they're doing very well. It's crazy. Our kids
have picked up on it. The thing about Delwick humor
is that it just goes on and on and on

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and on.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
And it's the same jokes. It's the same joke because
they're still funny. So some let me fill in some details.
So as you said, you said you've been there ninth
this year, ninth trip, Yes, okay, with a smile on
her face.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
What's her name?

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
And I said fong Ling, which is not tell no,
it's Chinese, but it's my favorite restaurant in Hong Kong.
It's the only Asian thing I could come up with.
And now is well, how how is.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Soong Ling doing? Okay, I'd love Southeast Asia.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
You and I will be hosting three river cruises in
twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. Actually there'll be
a fourth, but we're not allowed to announce it yet.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
That's secret.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
It's under contract, but it's not on our website yet.
And I've been threatened with phys will be x. It
will be an extra the fourth one, which is a blockbuster.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Hey, let's talk.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
About the nine Dale's wish list for years, minly doing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
It for him, that's right anyway, the first one, and
you are invited on this and what we do on
all of these is rather unique. We let's call a
part charter. We buy half the ship. We just flat
out by it. And the discounts that we get are

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absolutely crazy, usually one thousand to two thousand dollars lower
than if you were to buy the same cruise directly
from Alma Waterways, the Ultimate Deluxe River Cruise Experience, or
any other travel company. It's a thousand to one thousand,
two thousand dollars less.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Now, remember the.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
List price for river cruises is always more than an
ocean cruise. Why because you're only with one hundred and
fifty Well, it could be one hundred and twenty two
hundred and sixty people. The largest go up to two
hundred as opposed to six thousand people. And all of
your shore excursions are included. Beer wine, soft drinks are

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included at lunch and dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
So if you look at the at the vice, so
oh my gosh, it's it's.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
We could talk fifteen minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Let me tell you about the first one, you know,
it's the Riches of the Maykong. We will be sailing
from Anchor watt cen Reap is where we start in
Cambodia November ninth to the.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
Sixteenth, and I would imagine Acre Watt is on a
lot of people's bucket list.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
It's one of the great wonders of the world. And
we are going to sail the Maykong through Cambodia, ending
up in Ho Chi Minh City, which we know is Saigon.
We'll visit the big cities like Saigon, PanAm Pen, the
capital of Cambodia, Cen Reap, which is a mid size city,

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Anchor Tom Anchor Watt. But then it's the backwaters. I
love and you and I've done this before.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
We did.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
I love going to Tan Chow. It is a backwater community.
You'll see plows pulled by water buffalo. It's where they
the silk making capital. The markets, oh, the markets is
the shopping is.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
To walk down this corridor and these women mostly are
sitting in front of baskets of fresh food, swimming fish.
The sites and the sounds.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
Are handicrafts, of course, souvenirs, everything that's imaginable.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
I of course don't really get into the shopping park you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Have on criss You have single handedly resurrected.

Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
The economy of several third worlds. That's another one that
on and on.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
That's right, we go to KaiB in Vietnam. So we
have an incredible experience. Now I got we only have
six cabins left. We bought half the ship. We have
six cabins left. November ninth to the sixteenth is the
actual cruise dates, and we'll offer a three day pre

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cruise option to see the Kimmer Temples, Anchor Watt, Anchor
Tom and then a two day post cruise in Saigon.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
We'll see all of Saigon.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
We'll go up to the Kuchi Tunnels, which were the
Viet Kong Tunnels during the war.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
We just did that. It was very interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
So again six cabins left on riches of the May Kong.
Let's go to the Christmas markets taking I'll give the
dates December third to the tenth this year.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
If I had to choose my very th favorite ever
travel experience, it would be Christmas Markets on the Rhine River.
You get all of the same benefits.

Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
That we just talked about.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
But Europe knows how to celebrate celebrate Christmas. The Chris
Krindle markets mean christ Child Markets, and while it's not
overly religious, they are not afraid to mention the cause
for the season and handicrafts. Larry loves to have a

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brought in each one of the cities, and plus you
get all of the touring and then you go back
in just to absorb the holiday atmosphere. It's a nice
way I thought to start holidays and you get back
in time to have it.

Speaker 11 (01:10:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
We'll be visiting Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands including Strasbourg, Rudesheim, Amsterdam, Basel, Switzerland. Again,
we have bought half the ship. We've only got a
few cabins left. We will offer a three day pre
cruise in Switzerland, but the.

Speaker 6 (01:11:18):
Cruise dates themselves to set recurred to the tent. We
will be home two weeks before Christmas. More on the
expo and tours when we come back. Welcome back to
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwiz.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
They get Away Gururu.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
The Travel Show is sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel, where
you always travel more in payments. I'm joined today by
Kathley Gelwiz, my lovely wife, and it's this other word lovely.
Good to have you do such a good job on
this radio. Oh my goodness, so fun times. I want
to remind you of the Utah Travel Expo coming up

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this month. It opens in Saint George Wednesday, January twenty
first at the Hilton Garden Inn and in Salt Lake.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
The blockbuster event with.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
Over one hundred travel vendors airlines, cruise lines, safari companies, hotels, resorts,
tour companies, and all things travel with hourly prize travel
giveaways including free airline tickets, free cruises Friday and Saturday,
January twenty third and twenty fourth at the Mountain America
Expo Center in Sandy. For all details, Utah Travel Expo

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dot com. Utah Travel Expo dot com. And don't forget
I told you how to get free tickets in Salt Lake,
because that does have a cost to it. You simply
click off your tickets. You'll see so many dollars lower
left hand. Do you have a discount code? Yeah, you
got one free fr ee. Type that in and click
apply in Wila. All your dollar amounts disappear pretty as

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many tickets as you want. We were talking about river
cruise as Kathy. We have one that we're really excited about.
It will be June seventeen to twenty four. Next year
twenty twenty seven. You want to introduce it.

Speaker 9 (01:13:16):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
I am so excited to do this. I took French
in junior high in high school because I loved the
sound of the language. Can't speak it, can say a
few words, but I've always wanted to spend more time,
particularly in the interior of France, and to be able

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to go to Normandy, also a bucket list item. I
have not been, Larry has but I am told that
the feeling, the spirit there is overwhelming.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
Well, you're talking about Normandy.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
The D Day Beaches June sixth, nineteen forty four. There
were five beaches. The Americans took two, Omaha and Utah beaches,
the Brits took two, the Canadians took one. You feel
something there, especially at the American Ceremeterary. So we're going
to be sailing round trip from Paris with who else
Alma Waterways. We visit Paris Normandy. You actually walk on

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the D Day Landing Beach. You can still see the
German bunkers there on floor, which is a jewel of
Gothic architecture, Growen, which is Joan of arc. You think
you've stepped back five hundred years to Vernon, Les Andeles
Lahab June seventeen to twenty four, and yes we bought
half the ship.

Speaker 4 (01:14:38):
Well, you know another thing I like about Alma Larry
is that their guides are always experts in what they're doing.
They're the top not.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
They really get some Brookluins, and the tour groups are
anywhere from eight to usually sixteen seventeen people. We talked
earlier Kathy about Hawaii and Mexico air specials. Looking at
this winter and spring Oahu a first class hotel I

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was looking at early May nine hundred and eighty dollars.
That's air hotel, six days, five nights. You can add
more days at the Ambassador Hotel nine hundred and eighty bucks.
The one thing Hawaii does not include because it has
airfare hotel in taxis is the resort fees which have
to be paid in person. Headed to Mexico in February,

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Cancun at the first class. Well let's go to a
five star over the top Catalina Riviera Maya, February nineteen
to twenty four, just eleven ninety eight. That's air hotel,
meals drugs, chants.

Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
What a time to go all.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Your tips and gratuities.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
I love Port of Arta and at a first class
Sunscape Port of Iarta Resort nine hundred and ninety eight dollars.
These are per person, double occupancy. Keep in mind that
all promotions and discounts are subject to change and availability
at the time of booking. Give your favorite Morris Columbus

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travel advisor a call.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
We talked earlier about Holy Land Tours. If you'll go
to the website Morriscolumbus dot com, scroll down on the
homepage and click on Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours, and then
you'll see like a toolbar, click on Europe, Asia Africa.
If it's a cruise, you click on cruises. There's geographic

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destinations for the land tours cruises obviously for cruises, but
there's also it says Holy Land Tours or LDS Church
History tours. Click on those you'll see outstanding, Outstanding tour guides.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
And some new ones coming on.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Can I tell you that one of my favorite bus
tours was a church history tour two weeks from Salt
Lake all the way to Boston. We visited every church
history site except Vermont and the Susquehanna River, and then

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we ended in Boston and saw the American history site fabulous.
I traveled with a dear friend who is no longer
with us, so the memories are a standout for me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
We love Mary Lou.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
We do love marylo.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
Thank you for joining us on the travel show again.
Go to Morriscolumbus dot com. Scroll down to Morris Murdoch
Escorted Tours and you can get holy Land. You can
get cruises. The River Cruises, riches of the may Cong,
the Sand River, Christmas markets on the Rhine are all
there when you click on cruises.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
Well. Thank you again for joining us.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
Don't forget the Utah Tildlax School later this month.

Speaker 5 (01:18:03):
I have a great week been in here.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Next week I'll be coming to you from Thailand.