The Travel Show: New Zealand; The Holy Land; Disney

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gelwicks.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
They get away, Guru, and I've gotten away to Altairoa,
land of the Long White Cloud, New Zealand, and I've
been talking to the last couple of weeks. Two weeks
ago I spoke to you from Sydney, Australia. Last week
we were in Fiordland, South Island of New Zealand. Fjordland,
Milford Sound, Land of Well Lord of the Rings was

(00:24):
filmed down here, and today we're in Auckland. We actually
disembarked the ship yesterday. We're gonna spend a few days
in Auckland seeing the sites. One of the most interesting
places that we're going to be visiting me Auckland itself,
Queen Street. One Tree Mountain. By the way, it's no
tree mountain. Some bonehead decided in protest there's a very

(00:48):
famous mountain with one tree on the top.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
So what does you do?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Bonehead cuts it down. I throw them to the sharks
or something. But we're going down south to Hobiton and
where the Hobbit movie was filmed. I'm joined today back
in studio by the Three Musketeers. Wendy Fraki, a group
department manager for Morris Columba's Travel Welcome, and I should

(01:13):
say Kiota John Potter aka Pluto. I still haven't forgiven him.
He had but he did not wear the Pluto hat
at the Utah Travel Expo. Who was the unpardonable sin Potter.
But welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Thank you, we still love you.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
And Lo my business partner for I don't know how
many years, about forty years or something, Mark Faldmo, who
is also a leprechaun, to be talking to us about
Ireland today. Mark, welcome to the show. Good to be here, Larry,
good to have you here. Did any of you guys
see the Hobbit movie? Oh yeah, yeah, you know you

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remember the scene in the shire where they have these
farms and homes built right into the mountain on the hill.
The Green Dragon Inn, you know that's a real pub. Really,
that's where we eat. It serves food and drinks including

(02:13):
apple cider, ginger beer, and two ales. And that that
comes from the movie.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
The set is real.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I mean they have a change was built on a
farm and the farmer kept the set their brilliant idea.
Because people flocked. You have to have a reservation so
it's not over crowded. What's also interesting is your cruise
ships stop in Auckland. Hobbiton will not allow a cruise

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ship tour meaning during the cruise to visit because it'll
overwhelm it. Well, we qualify as a just a tour
group because our cruise is over even though we got there.
We met the requirements. But the set is real. The
set includes gardens, fresh vegetab The hobbit holes made from

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the building materials were meant to last.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Uh, it's a working farm.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
It'st down in the Waikato region near Matamata, which actually
has a pretty good rugby team. The game they play
in Heaven. You know there's only two religions. I know
that you were all deeply religious people following various nobles
and gods in the universe, But do you know there's
only two religions in New Zealand the same and there's

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the same two religions in Australia and South Africa.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
No I had no idea rugby and beer. Okay, I
fell right.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
You exit that.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Oh my gosh, if you were here, I would throw you.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Have that drum roll? Yet he's looking for it. I
told him to get one. Anyway, we should have had
that at the him have those two religions. I participate
in one. Denny participants. It's in one, but they're different.

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There we go and they wouldn't participate in either. That's right,
that's right. We've had a great you know, I love
the food down here in New Zealand. Some of it's familiar,
some of it's not familiar. But some of the favorite
foods right at the top is fish and chips. And yes,
you can still get it wrapped in newspaper with the ink.

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England out lawed that and I think it affected the flavor.
One of the most interesting that I love. I consume
two or three a day hot pies. You know, think
of it has a crust on it and it's filled.
The most popular like steak and cheese, steak and mushroom, steak,

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mushroom and cheese. I haven't gotten into the steak and kidney,
but that's a popular one. Now they're getting fufu down here.
They got like and I like butter chicken, chicken curry,
chicken tika masala Indian recipes from Thailand green curry, nang
curry with chicken.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I still go to the steak and mushroom.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
But it's New Zealand. Why don't they have lamb?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Well, lamb is popp you know.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
In New Zealand there are twenty four million sheep, yeah,
and about five point two million people. That's approximately five
sheep for every one person. And you go to a barbecue,
it's always lamb on the grill. Now, mister Falbo, Yes, here,
we're gonna play stump the dummy.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Why did you choose me?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
It should be chosen, It should it should be.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Chose.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
The most popular ice cream dishes called hokey pokey ice cream.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Okay, okay, oh I learned about this last week.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Okay, I actually mentioned this last you did when Now
it's just like you can call in a favor, you
can call in a friends.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
What's it called on that movie? It's a lifeline.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah right.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Hokey pokey ice cream Wendy.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
It has a honey at the honeycomb that's right, comb
on top.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Of just about any ice cream.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Most people take vanilla and then they put a honeycomb
chunk on top of dripping honey on it?

Speaker 5 (06:17):
Is that not amazing sounding?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I prefer chocolate.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And when you're done, you turn yourself about that's.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Not very good.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
All right, Mark, I'm gonna give you a chance to
redeem yourself because they have. And I want you to
explain what an umu underground oven is. They in Hawaii
it's a luau. In New Zealand's it's honey. What's an
umu oven?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's an underground oven.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
And the way they heat it is they first heat
up rocks to very high temperatures.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
They lay them the bottom of the pit.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
They put the it's the pits.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Yeah, they put the uh, palm, palm leaves, not palm leaves, banana.
They put the meat on, and they put more banana.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Leaves, vegetables and things, and then what.

Speaker 6 (07:04):
The hot rocks, and then they cover it and let
it cook for a long time.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh does it taste? It is really really good.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now I'm gonna give you two others, John, I thought
of you for this.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
First one must involve seafood.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, it's beef.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Wow. Good.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
You see John's favorite seafood is a tea bone. It's
a kiwi burger. Okay, here's what comes on a KeyWe
you have. It's a cheeseburger and you can add lettuce.
They use they don't use fresh onions, use grilled onions.
You can do mustard or ketchup or whatever you want.
But then they add two, sometimes three things to it.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Not for a Kiwi bird, I.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Hope no fried egg.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
They'll start with, okay, and then a slice of beetroot.
Think of beets like a Thanksgiving but it's a it's
a like it's it's not cubas, it's like a slice.
They put that on top of the egg. Some people
add grilled pineapple. That is a key.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
I could do without the beat, but the rest of it,
That's what I said, as long as I could take
that beat off.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, beat it to death. I'll tell you this. The
kids staple in New Zealand is fairy bread. Take a
piece of a white slice of bread, smother it in butter,
and then you take those colored sprinkles and come and
drop it on that. The kids inhale fairy bread because

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of the colors. Well, a lot of good things down here,
and I of course make quite a scene at the
buffet here on the we're sailing with Princess Cruise.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
By the way, they have the best pizza at sea.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
They do.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
It's a real pizzeria, not this cardboard crap that some
of the cruise lines say, I don't know why they
don't do it better, but Princess really does. It's a
real pizzeria eighteen inch and you go give me a slice.
It's like a New York pizza for that. Hey, listen,

(09:02):
I'd love to have you join me. Next year, we're
really doing the same thing with Holland America, Australia, New
Zealand twenty twenty six, February fifteen to March the first.
We'll start in Sydney, visit Melbourne, Australia, Tasmania, North and
South Islands including Milford Sound, Fjordland National Park, and then

(09:25):
we disembark May first in Auckland, New Zealand. Wendy, How
do we find out more information?

Speaker 4 (09:32):
You go to morriscolumbus dot com and scroll down about
three items down. You're going to see Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours.
If you click on that, you'll find our page with
all of our tours. Go to the geographic location find
Cruises and you'll be able to get the information on
that again.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Those dates are February fifteen to March the first. Next year,
twenty twenty six, now John Potter. I've tried to help
you through some difficult periods of your life, helping you
understand your purpose at Morris Columbus Travel, which.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Is to work so you can play in travel exactly.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
You can call John Potter direct to book this Australian
New Zealand, which I will be the guide.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Your direct line.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Is eight A one for eight three fifty two fourteen.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, listen, when we come back, we're going to talk
to a real life leprechaun yep, the castles of Ireland
right here on the Travel Show. Welcome back to the

(10:51):
Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwis. I'm in New Zealand, off
to New Zealand. It's actually March the second. Here, March
the first. Back in Salt Lake Joining me on today's
Travel show are the three Leprechauns, the three Mustardiers, dear
friends of mine in studio who understand their role in
life to work so that I can travel the world.

(11:13):
I like this arrangement. I don't really care about their
opinion of it because they probably go into revolt.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Just kidding, folks.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Joining us in studio in Salt Lake City is Wendy Fraki,
a group department manager for Morris Columbus Travel and John
Potter Travel Advisor extraordinary again you can get a hold
of him eight oh one four eight three fifty two
fourteen and my dear friend for I don't know how
many years, Mark Fldmo, one of my business partners and

(11:43):
one of the owners of Morris Columbus Travel. Mark, how
when did we first meet at the Brown Derby Hotel
at a Western Airlines reception about their service Denver to
London NonStop service.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
What year was that?

Speaker 7 (12:01):
That must have been about eighty five, ninety five, early eighties,
early eighties, Yeah, early eighties. I mean this has been
like forty years. We've been the best of friends.

Speaker 6 (12:12):
We like to joke that our business partnership is outlasted
most marriages.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
This is true, and this is true anyway, Mark, the.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Listeners know of my love of Thailand.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Listeners know of John's obsession with Disney, all things Disney,
and listeners know that Wendy like.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
World to send you to travel places.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, but you love you love tours and cruises. You
have a love of the world absolutely, And Mark Fldmo,
you have a love of Ireland. What is it about
Ireland that captivates you.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
You know there there really is something magical about Ireland.
I mean, starting with the people. They are the most friendly, warm, genuine,
welcoming people I think any place in the world. They're
fun to be with, fun to talk to, fun to
hang around with. I love being with the people there.
The scenery is absolutely beautiful, the Emerald dial because it's
green year round, interesting, interesting history, and I could go

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on and on. There's so many great things about Ireland.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
What's the best time to visit?

Speaker 6 (13:19):
September is the more is the qua pardon poor quaw
poor quah?

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Is that an Irish word?

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Lary it is?

Speaker 2 (13:27):
It's franchi iris oka espanoli.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Okay, yeah, it's anyway, that's and we're going in September.
The end of September, first part of October, best time
to be there. And we have just so many things
packed into this program. We call it The Castles of Ireland.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Well, the dates of September twenty sixth October third. Take
me through briefly the itinerary. You start in Dublin. Just
run through that and kind of give me an idea
of what they'll experience.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
Okay, starting in Dublin.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Of course, we see the sites of Dublin.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
In Dublin, we see the Book of Kels, which is
written by ancient monks. It's the New Testament with beautifully
illustrated drawings, historical book from I think the three hundred
AD that that has been found. We see the sights
of the city, We go down to some of the

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other sites nearby, and then we leave and go across
Ireland and we go to stop at the Rock of Castle.
Very interesting history there. I'll talk about that in just
a minute. And then we go to Blarney and Larry,
I know you love Blarney.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Why do you know that's Blarney.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Why do you like Blarney so much?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well, it's the castle. I mean, it's a real castle.
Of course, the Blarney Stone is iconic. And I'm gonna
I'm gonna scoop you because you love to tell this
story that the legend of the Blarney Stone is that
if you kiss it, you get the gift of gab
h Wendy Mark has publicly made the statement publicly humiliated

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because I'm a very by nature, a very quiet person,
very modest, very modest. He said, well, if you get
the gab of the Gift of gab by kissing the
Blarney stone. Obviously Larry just made.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Out with it.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
Well that is putting it politely, okay.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
So and then we go to Killarney. Killarney is a
very Irish city. It's what you would picture a little
Irish town to be. And while there, we go out
to the Dingle Peninsula, which is a peninsula that juts
out into the Atlantic and if you can picture the
wild Atlantic surf coming in and crashing over the rocks,
it's got a shoreline that's just spectacular.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Fund drive.

Speaker 6 (15:47):
And then we go up to Droumolin Castle, stay there
for two nights and the name of this tours castle's
of Ireland. And you'll never have an experience like that.
I love taking people into the castle. When they walk
talk in, their jaws drop and they say, wow, this
is a real castle. That really is And it's a
marvelous experience to be there for just a few days. So, uh,

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you know, and it's such a popular tour, you know,
every year I have people that have been on the
tour before that come back. I know, John's talking to
a couple right now, ready to sign up again. I
think they knew twice before.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
I think three or four times. They've done a lot.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
They it as much as you do.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Obviously you've just been able to pass that passion onto them.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
I think that's fantastic. That says so much to you
as a tour guide.

Speaker 6 (16:33):
Well thank you. They and and I know two other
couples that have signed up that have been with me before.
So it's just that good of a tour that people
want to come back over and over again. And Ireland
is really fantastic. What a wonderful place, you know, I
called the Castles of Ireland Larry. Let me just ask
how many castles have been built in Ireland?

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Eight hundred?

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Try thirty thousand? Well I was close, and we're going
to see all thirty thousand in eight days.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Wow, we're going to see some of the best.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
We go to.

Speaker 6 (17:07):
Lorney Castles, Lost Castle, but Rodney Castle and of course
stay at Dremoland. So it's a tour that you will
never forget. Fun, beautiful, interesting experience.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Let's talk about something that is on everybody's mind. Leprechauns now.
Leprecauns are really the touchstone of Irish folklore. They bling
they they belong to the Fairy family and it dates
back to the eighth century. You know, they're supposedly they're

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two to three feet tall. They're devious, quick witted little
men who are believed to be the true natives of Ireland.
Supposedly they descended from Irish royalty, from the Tuatha Daden
family who invaded Ireland. And then we're banished to live
under Will we see a leprechaun?

Speaker 6 (18:03):
Absolutely, I guarantee, and on top of that they will
have their pot of gold. And the legend is if
you see a leprechaun, he has to give you his
pot of gold.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
So here well Ceptember.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Twenty sixth to October third, the Castles from.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Ireland with Mark Paul More.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
When we come back, we're headed to the Holy Land
here on the Travel Show. Welcome back to the Travel Show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks. Then get away, Guru, and I should

(18:43):
say Kiota because today is actually Mark second here in
New Zealand, March first, back in Salt Lake City, and
I think, what is it, John Potter, it's about eleven
thirty Ish back. Yeah, yeah, about that. Well, we're twenty
hours ahead of you. It's seven thirty ish. Here we're

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actually flying home today March the second, across the position.
You know, I just marvel forty six years in the
travel business. I'm a hopeless travel junkie. I've never lost
the miracle of flight. That in a few short hours,
I'm back in the United.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
States, and I love when you're coming back that way.
You get home before you leave.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's right now. You hope it's your birthday.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's right, well, I said Kyota.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Now I'm going to say shalom. On the line.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Back in Salt Lake City is our friend Dan Hone. Dan,
welcome to the Travel Show.

Speaker 8 (19:42):
Thank you. It's great to be with me.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
You know, Dan is, as far as I'm concerned, one
of the smartest men I've ever known about the Holy
Land God is graduate degree at Israeli University, sixteen different languages,
most of them ancient languages. Are published off author thirty
two years with the BYU Department of Ancient Scripture and
Travel Study, founding member of the BYU Jerusalem Center. And Dan,

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I don't usually mention this, but you have many unique
things about you. But you had a church calling with
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Jerusalem,
and you took the place of James from New Testament times.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Tell us about that seriously.

Speaker 8 (20:34):
Well, when the branch was first organized by Carol B.
Lee as president of the church, first time in two
thousand years a president begin there of the church, the
senior Apostle, and when he organized the branch of regarding room,
then a couple of months later the full branch cousins
to be organized. And in those days, and he was

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also a branch credit that kept all the minutes and everything.
And when I was called to do it by David Galbert,
who was the first bench president there in two thousand
years in Jerusalem, before he sent me a party says,
now you'll be replacing James, the brother of Christ. We
expect you to do a good job.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
No pressure there, Dan, no pressure there, no pressure. I
believe now I believe you're leaving for Israel tomorrow March
the second, aren't you.

Speaker 8 (21:29):
That's correct?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Very good?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, first of all, what is the Holy Land? Some
people think it's just Israel, but it's more. It's even
more than the Middle East. It's the Near East. Tell
us about the geography of the Holy Land, the land
of Profits and Apostles and the Savior.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
That's right. It almost ought to include the Mediterranean world
because Paul Is even said to make it to Tarshish
for part of where Spain is our call. And so
when you're talking about the Holy Land, the word itself
is to that which is sacred or holy, that which
is promised by God as well, and so both Islam, Judism,

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and Christianity have a common term for that. But I
would say if we focus on everything from Rome, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria,
the Levant area there, Virael and Georgia and Egypt, then
you're pretty much hitting what most people with most of
these different cultures would consider holy lands, because they have

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sacred events that occur.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Right, much more than just initial Now I'm joined, that's right.
I'm joined on the show today by my friend John Potter,
travel expert extraordinaire. He's back in Salt Lake. He knows
his role to work so that I can travel. He
does it very well. But John, you talk to a
lot of people, will you book a lot of people

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to the Holy lad?

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
What is the first question that they ask? And I
want Dan to answer.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
It always the very first question is is it safe.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Damn yep.

Speaker 8 (23:07):
Well, I want to say I'll be there on just
another day over there, but I have sources, but I
keep very very close ties with daily messages everything. The
airlines have opened up. One of the reasons the YU
program couldn't go there this last fall in this January
was there wasn't good air flights there. You couldn't obtain

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them mostly helll it was all that was going. Now
over twenty four to twenty eight flights have opened up.
April first is when Delta will start direct flights. Already
I'm going through United Loutanza and a lot of the
major carriers, Delve and others going there so far as
safety goes. I was there last April as well, when

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it was supposed to be the heat of a lot
of things. It was wonderful because I had an individual
with me to do some business. He had never been
there before. We could go to guest semone and inside
the Church of all Nations of get Semie there the
Catholic Church, and we were the only ones there for
as long as we want to be. Tourists aren't coming,

(24:13):
but they're going to start again. That's why I'm excited
to go over there right now because it's wonderful. The
BYU faculty and staff have been there since August, just
no students. Other programs are going and it's beginning to
pick up. It won't come like it did after the
tsunami of the COVID, but people are going there, and

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a lot of people are going to Jordan, then Israel,
and then I'm back to Jordan. They're able to all
the sites were opened up a couple of months ago.
They're able to see things. But most of the ones
that are coming are either Asian Europeans, very very few Americans,
and that's just the way it is, partly because of media.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well let's talk about you have three programs to the
the Mediterranean and the whole we call the Holy Land,
including Greece and Turkey. You know, I think half of
the Savior's ministry was in Jordan and Egypt and everything.
So let's talk about the first one, which really has

(25:16):
two parts, if you'd give it's just a quick overview
of the itinerary. The first is August twenty third this
year to September one Turkey and Greece. That is a
land program with an option. Then September one to the eighth,
the one week cruise with Royal Caribbean from Athens to Rome.

(25:37):
Tell us what you can do one or both. Tell
us what we're going to see.

Speaker 8 (25:43):
Well, I'm so excited about the Christian and Western Heritage
tour that covers the areas all both these programs, whether
you take the option to then take the cruise or
you do the other. We're going to hit all seven
cities of Apocalypse of those that on the Turkey also
do Astan, goli Ismir and these other places. And then

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we also get print in Athens. And then as we
join the cruise group which will then go we hit
the Greek island Santrini Mikinos Ephesus, which is one of
the seven cities, and then we go to Rome to
we go to Sicily there and I'm excited about the
Naples with some special options and things. It's really exciting,

(26:27):
you know, the cruise portion of a very very special prize.
I don't think you'll find many prices in that range
and all when you think of something just a little
over one thousand dollars, it's as far as the cruise
portion goes. That's exciting, and I think we'll be visiting

(26:48):
the places of Peter, Paul, Timothy, of John and so forth.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, it's a great time, Dan, we have about three
minutes left, So the Key grease Land August twenty third
to September first. You can take that by itself or
join the cruise, which you can also take by itself
September first to the eighth. The Holy Land which includes
Israel with an option to Jordan.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Again.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Half of the Saviors Ministry was in Jordan October eighteenth
to thirtieth. Give us a quick summary.

Speaker 8 (27:24):
Well, we're going to hit over fifty sites when I
started counting them. That's exciting. It's one day longer than
the past ones Eve and I have done, and that
makes it so that we can have a little more
time and even some better taste time and other things.
So I'm just very excited about that one too. Besides,
that's like a second home to me, and Jordan is

(27:45):
part of it. As you said, nearly a good share
of the Savior's time has spent in Jordan, and many
of the major events, not only Moses and Elijah and
Jeremiah and the Saviors Ministry and was baptized on outside
of the Jordan. All these things happen in that Jordan option,
which goes just before we go to Israel and see

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all of the other areas of the life and ministry
of Jesus, the apostles and prophets of Old and New Testament.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Dan Holne, this is so exciting, you know, the comment
that we get. Dan takes programs by himself and Dan
and I. My graduate studies included Hebrew and Coptic, Coptic
being one of the Egyptian languages, Egyptian religions, and some
of the tourists Dan and I take together. You'll be

(28:38):
with Dan himself October eighteenth to the thirtieth. But Dan,
the most frequent comment we get is life changing. And
you know, John, that's an overused phrase, isn't it It is?

Speaker 3 (28:50):
But I think it would justifiable on this itinerary.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
And people say, I can't wait to read the scriptures,
the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament. Again,
I can't wait to read them.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Very quickly.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
I want you to tell us about the volume one
of an eight volume series, and we have about oh
thirty seconds your Foundations of Scriptural Understanding book. I'm reading
it and I'm just blown away.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
Well, this particular volume is kind of a foundation volume,
if you will, for the other eight volumes that are coming.
I hope to have out the second volume on feasts
and festivals and how they coordinate through the ages by
this summer. But also in this book here we cover
not just the standard things you have and understanding scriptural

(29:42):
heritage and places and people and thoughts and manners and languages,
but we also cover certain principles to understand the scriptures,
such as the concept of the Messiah. You know, there's
at least three different Jewish Messiahs that must accomplish certain
missis that are told through their tribes of Israel. So

(30:02):
there's so much more work for the dead with the
concept and Judaism, and still is though it's not talked
about very much, how the dead will be redeemed by
the Messiah and by his messengers. All these different things
were in the Mosaic law code and how it came
about and the introduction of the feasts and festivals for
the second.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Well, it's a wonderful book again. The dates August twenty
third to September one, Turkey and Greece. It's following the
lives and pathways of the Apostles September first to the
eighth with Royal Caribbean Athens to Rome. You can do
either one or both is what I recommend. And then

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to the Holy Land with an option to go to Jordan.
It'll be Israel in depth October eighteenth to the thirtieth.
And one thing to remember, folks is if you know
safety is paramount, and if we deem it not safety
as we have in the past, you know we cancel it.
You get all your money back if we determine that

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it's just not safe. Dan, thank you for joining us,
and look forward to having me back on the Travel Show.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
We come back.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
We're headed down Pluto's Pathway with a Disneyland Disney update
here on the Travel Show. Welcome back to the Travel Show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, joined in studio by

(31:35):
John Potter, one of our great travel advisors at Morris
Columbus Travel, the sponsor of the show. You want to
talk to John direct, call eight oh one four eight
three fifty two fourteen. That's eight oh one four eight
three fifty two fourteen. Now I've said to you before,
how how much you've disappointed me at the expo. You

(31:57):
had your Pluto hat and you didn't wear it?

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Did I had no excuse? Yep, no excuse. You kept
me too busy at the expo.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
That was a great expo.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
It was well.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Mark Falmo feels about Ireland the way I feel about Thailand,
and you feel about all things Disney the way I
feel about Thailand.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
So give us a Disney update.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
All right. Well, this year, on July seventeenth, Disneyland turns
seventy years old.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Impossible.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yeah, it's just amazing. Was it fifty five that they
nineteen fifty five?

Speaker 2 (32:34):
You know, I visited Disneyland eight years old in nineteen
fifty eight, and I actually have some pictures of me
as an eight year old kid visiting Disneyland. We drove
down because I grew up in San Francisco, drove down.
We didn't have air conditioning in our car. I didn't
have it back then, and so even on the freeways
those hot summer days, you roll the windows down and

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everyone is hanging outside the window.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
The for sixty air condition windows down at sixteen.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, okay, so they're going to have a big celebration.
It is going to start on May sixteenth, so it's
going to start a little early than the actual date,
and it's going to go for fifteen months. It's going
to go through the summer of twenty twenty six and
they've got some really fun things planned. At Christmas time,
they do a projection on the Small World Facade and

(33:26):
they're going to be doing that through this celebration. So
at nighttime they'll have that going on. They're bringing back
a nighttime parade. It's not the electrical parade, but it's
the Paint the Night Parade which was there in twenty fifteen.
It started in Disney Hong Kong and it's just a
real five Disney Hong Kong. Yeah, rub it in, just
keep rubbing it in.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
All right, let's play stump the dummy. But you can
get this one, and you know your role.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Name the Disney theme parks around the world. Okay, that's easy,
Go ahead, Anaheim.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
That's the Disneyland Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
And it's not Disneyland Florida, is it.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
No, it's Walt Disney Worldney and it opened after Walt
had passed away, and they did that in honor of him.
Roy his brother is the one that named that park.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
We're going to the Magic Kingdom that.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Is in the Florida, Florida.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
So we have Disneyland California, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney, disney
World is Florida a right.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Then we have Disneyland Paris. You've been there, I've been there.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Did you like Paris?

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yeah? Not as well as Anaheim and Florida.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
I mean, I'm so glad I went yeah, but it
didn't grab me the same way.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah, yeah, yes he Then of course you've got Japan,
Tokyo been there, uh huh me not? Then Shanghai and
Hong Kong.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'll be Shanghai hoodwinked in the Bendigo w C. Fields.
You say that, I I've been to Hong Kong. I haven't.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I've been to Shanghai, but I've never gone out to Disney.
I think you know I have threatened and you've gotten
after me, and fair enough. Once on the show, I
talked about doing an Asia Disneyland where we visit not
only the Disney parks, but the sight seeing of Hong Kong, Shanghai.
We've probably taken Beijing also, to yes, and then to

(35:24):
Tokyo and you actually got some calls from people, says Larry,
really going to put this.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah, they want to go. So I think if you go,
I go with you.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Done deal, done deal. You'd have to, but I'd probably
want to do it. See, here's the dilemma I have
with in Asia Disneyland, is I really don't want to
go in the.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Middle of the summer where it's so human.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, you know, I remember I was trying to be
the good dad in the summer of nineteen ninety one.
You know, I talked on the show previously about the
greatest I think last week I talked about dad's take
the kids and leave mom at home as her vacation.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
I did that.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I took the kids to Florida Disney Magic Kingdom. It
was all is brutally hot, and I had a heat wave.
We're standing there for an hour on the matter horn.
I'm dripping sweat, thinking I'm paying thousands of dollars to
have this done to me. So I'd have to go
in the spring, But I guess, but the kids will

(36:29):
want to go.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Yeah anyway, all right, but yeah, so, but it's going
to be a real fun time. And then I think
The key thing that's going to be awesome is right now,
the Great Moments with Mister Lincoln is closed for renovation,
and when it reopens, it's going to be rotating with
Walt Disney a Magical Life, and I'm assuming they're going

(36:50):
to have a animatronic Walt Disney talking about it, and
then mister Lincoln will take over and the shows will
go in rotation. I think that's just going to be awesome.
So again, starting on May sixteenth of this year, twenty
twenty five through the summer of twenty twenty six, are we.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Seeing some good air Hotel Disney packages?

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Uh? Yeah, they're okay. I've seen better prices, but I've
seen worse. Yeah, they're so so.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
You know, my daughter Jenny loves the best Western stoveall.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
In so short walk, great.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Breakfast, and probably as good a price as you'll find
within walking proximity.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Yeah, and it goes on the west side, so you
don't have as many people going in the west as
you do the east.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Hey, listen, we're coming up to our number two of
the travel show, and when we come back, I want
to talk to you about a brand new river cruise.
Not where you are expecting with me and Alma Waterways,
all that and more on the Travel Show. I'm greeting you.

(37:55):
It's Sunday morning. Excuse me, it's March second.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Morning, Air and news.

Speaker 9 (38:00):
All that and more on today's Travel Show.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Welcome back to our number two of the Travel Show.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
I'm Larry Gelwick's the Gettle Guru and I've gotten away
to down Under.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah, I'm in New Zealand. All in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
It's actually March the second here, March first come. I
think John Potter who's joining me. He's in Salt Lake.
He works so I can travel. It should be what
about eight am? There, No, it's eight am. It's twelve
about noon back in walt Lake City. But it's it's

(38:52):
the next day. It's twenty hours difference. It's just crazy.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
You're a day ahead of me. Larry, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Behind. We've had a wonder time.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Eighty two Travel Show listeners joined me in Sydney, Australia
a couple of week ago and we sailed Australia Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania.
Then both many good river cruise companies. But why is
Alma a step ahead?

Speaker 3 (39:26):
They just do a great job. Food is amazing. Their excursions,
you get so many of excursions that are included on
your cruise.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
You know, we had an interesting experience. What was this
Three years ago I had I hosted two river cruises
on the Rhine. One was the Christmas Markets December of
that year, and the other was in the summertime, you know,
and the same ship. Now, Kathy and I both enjoy

(39:58):
a diet coke with a lime wadge to start lunch
and dinner with. And so after, you know, the first
day they in the summer, they just brought.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Us this diet coke clime with every time we sat down.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
I believe it, they get to know you. It's such
a small ship.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
We got back six months later. It happens to be
the same ship, the same crew. We recognize them. But
you know, think of.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
How many people between you.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
We sit down to.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Dinner on the first night and the waiter that we
had brings two diet cokes with lime wedges.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
I'm not surprised. That's how good they are. They are
such a good cruise line.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
You know, I have a love of Southeast Asia. I've
said before, if it went with the kids and grandkids,
Kathy and I would live or retire of course, of
villages and cities and out of the way places the
local people. And you know, the ship only holds about gosh,
one hundred and twenty people if it's fully booked, maybe

(41:00):
it's one hundred people. It's a smaller river boat. And
we're going to do that again next year. And what
we've done is we've actually chartered half the ship. We
bought the cabins, which means the price just dives down
because we take inventory control. And November ninth to the fourteenth. Now,

(41:25):
for this part of the world, I recommend that you
visit November to February. You know, April interesting left in Thailand,
April's the hottest month.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Of the year. Oh interesting, even the locals get uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
But November to February you are in the tropics, so
it's warm, it's comfortable, and that's the best time to visit.
So we'll start in cn Reap. That's anchor Watt. We'll
board the ship and sail the Makon. We will offer
a pre cruise Thailand option, probably focusing on Bangkok, and

(41:59):
then fly up to Sea Indurd. It's about an hour
and fifteen to twenty minute flight, very short. Get the
Cambodi fly home from Hanoi. Now what about airfare? Airlines
publish schedules and prices. How much in advance?

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Eleven months prior to your return date?

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Yeah, your return date to the United States, So this
would be mid November November fourteenth, and plenty of time
before Thanksgiving. So if we go eleven months, then sometime
in mid to late December of this year we can
give you airfare. But when we've done this in the past,

(42:39):
we have deep group discounts on group airfare, and again,
the cruise itself is deeply, deeply discount Typically it'll run
anywhere from three four to five hundred dollars to one
thousand dollars less than if you buy the other half
of the ship, same dates, everything directly from Alma Wa.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yes, why buy it from them?

Speaker 1 (43:02):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
You can check out all the details and the lead
prices at morriscolumbus dot com. That's Morriscolumbus dot com. On
the homepage, click on Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours. That's our
brand name for the escorted tours. We run sixty five
to seventy personally hosted tours a year, and I do

(43:24):
about ten or eleven a year. I'm traveling somewhere every month,
and I want to keep doing as long as I can.
Hopeless travel junkie. You feel about Disneyland the way I
feel about Southeast Oh yeah, and then just click on
cruises and look for the Alma Waterways November ninth to
the fourteenth. That's the actual cruise days. If you only

(43:45):
do the cruise, you have your air tring cruise. I
call it the spring Break Escape. Why is this such
a good deal for families?

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Well, the ship, the ship.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Caban Cruise. What do you like about the Navigator?

Speaker 3 (44:01):
The water slides? I love water slides and they have
some real fun ones. And of course the ice skating
rink and the ice skating show is awesome. They're ack claiming.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Wall the Rider something.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
The flow Rider is the onboard.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Screen boogie boarding.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Yeah, I can do it on my stomach. I can't
stand up to do it, but I I've got to
see there blows uh huh.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Anyway, you know, the ship is wonderful. I've sailed on
it four times. It was refurbished a few years ago.
But the itiner, why don't you run through the itinic.
I'm going to give you the day, by the way,
for most of Utah's outhern night the spring break. This
is next year, twenty twenty six is April sixth to
the tenth, the Monday through Friday.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
That's why I picked this cruise.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
It's a Monday to Friday, five days, four nights, and
you have the weekends on each side to go where Catalina?

Speaker 3 (44:57):
No, oh, Disneyland, I'm sorry failed, I failed Disneyland. Yes,
you can go to Disneyland before the cruise and after.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
The cruise we play stumping dummy and we've nailed it. Okay,
So Monday, April sixth, I'll tell you. We board the
ship in Los Angeles having afternoon sale.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Where are we Tuesday?

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Tuesday, you're in Catalina.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Tell me about Catalina.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Oh, it's got the beautiful Wriggley Mansion. It's a very
small island. There's not many cars on it. It's a
great place to rent a golf cart and kind of
mosey around.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Beautiful Sandy Beach yep.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Great beaches. The big casino there. It's not gambling, but
they call it the casino.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
It's the iconic beach communities like Santa Cruz, Newport Beach,
Santa Monica, Santa Barbara all rolled into one.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, Wednesday. Wednesday, you're at sea. You get
to play on all those fun water features on the ship.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Now, Thursday we stop in Mexico and that's kind of
fun day, and Sonata stop in Mexico. Friday we come
back to.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Los Angeles and Disneyland.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
There's the best part.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Rates of course, always vary by departure date and are
subject to change in availability at the time of booking.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
I have today's rates.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
I can't even guarantee these will be valid Monday, but
it's what they is.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
They are today.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Welcome back to the travel Show.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
I'm Larry Gelwiz, the getaway Guru, joining me back in
the good old US of A because I'm down under
New Zealand. John Pottery, you want to talk to John Direct,
one of our just wonderful travel advisors. Eight oh one
four eight three fifty two fourteen. That's eight o one
four eight three fifty two eighteen. We're both hopeless travel junkies, John.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Yes, we are.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
You know I have been my whole.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Life growing up there in San Francisco. When I got
my driver's license, I used to drive out to SFO
San Francisco International. No security back then, and I just
walk the airport and dream of maybe someday I could
go somewhere. There was a pan Am flight that got
in about four pm every day, Boeing seven oh seven

(47:12):
from Honolulu, and I would go and sniff the people,
you know, and let me let me explain that before
you throw me out.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Is there were no jetways. It was all stairs, and.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
I remember going down the stairs. I remember the observation
deck outside airport.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah, well they had one in San Francisco too.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
You can just walk and watch the airplanes, but everybody
would be wearing flower lays, and the whole arrival gate
area was just perfumed with two barrows and plumeria. And
I would just sit literally and inhale, you know, Yes,

(47:56):
I did inhale, Yes.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Thank you very much, you know.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
And at night time I read National Geographic cover to cover,
I'd look at a World atlas, and as a kid,
I used to walk down catch the cable cars as
a kid, down to the marine and watch the ships
push out and sail under the golden gate bridge. Dreaming
that maybe someday I could go there. What is it

(48:23):
that travel does to us? That it enlivens our life,
It benefits our character.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
I think the connection in your soul. I always come
back feeling more refreshed. I can the second I step
on an airplane, I'm totally relaxed. I still can't sleep,
but I'm relaxed. I'm excited to go somewhere. And one
experience I will never forget is, you know, I've seen
the picture of the Eiffel Tower my entire life. When

(48:51):
I was actually standing in front of it, could reach
out and touch it, it was an emotional experience for me.
It was just incredible.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Yeah, you know, there's so many many experiences that we have.
I've been to one hundred and fifteen countries and everyone
has touched me some way. Most of them I've been
to multiple times over. But I think of you know,
I've spent so much time in the South Pacific and Polynesian.

(49:18):
I think of Samoa now that you have American Samoa
Poglo Pogo, which is an American territory, and Western Samo,
which is a sovereign nation. A pia is the capital,
and I have dear friends in both places. And I
think of Letti sai Eli now he passed away a
few years ago, and true to the Samoan tradition, who's

(49:42):
buried in the front yard. They it's what they do
and they put it's almost a cement headstone because of
the cost. Letti worked for the government for two He
had a good job. He and he earned two tullah
an hour. It's about a dollar fifty.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
He's the family an open sided folly and the floor
was just smooth rocks from the stream, and then they
put mats over it, you know, and mosquito nets would
drop at night time, and then if it rained, you'd
have like woven pandana leaves curtain. It would just drop down,

(50:25):
made out of leaves. No indoor plumbing, no oven. Every
meal was cooked over and open fire using coconut husks.
And when I'd go to Samoa, I would we'd always
go out there and spend a night and it just
that's you know, and I would take a gifts to them.

(50:50):
They would always feed me. It's really interesting in that culture.
The adults and guests always eat first. That's why the
adults are heavy and the kids are skinny.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
The kids gets what's left over.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
They get whatever's left over, and they and the kids
serve the guests and the adults Grandma and grandpa guests
always come first, and the parents then the kids. And
they're looking these wide eyes, who he took another bite
of the chicken.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
You know, there can be anything left for me.

Speaker 8 (51:18):
You know.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
When my son, my eldest son, was in high school,
we had a group of friends. They're all rugby players,
all football players, rugged kids and great kids. We had
something kind of like the White Knuckle Adventure Club and
during the summertime I would take them somewhere.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
We went to Australia. We went to New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
We went diving on the Great Barrier Reef. We oh,
we did everything, but we went. I took him to
Samoa one time, and I kind of before AIRBNBA, I
kind of rented a house where we could all live
for part of it, but we also we stayed out
with Letty. But I didn't want to impose because of

(52:05):
the cost. But he did arrange that each of the
boys by himself would stay with a local family for
several days. And I had rented this truck and were
kind of a flatbed with sides on it, and where
these six boys that always would stand in the back.
You know, things are different down there. And I remember

(52:28):
taking them and dropping them off, and they were scared.
They were scared, you know, but scared as anxious and nervous.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
This was a new experience. They're going to live as
a Samoan.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Sleeping on the floor, eating with the family, working in
the family farm for several days. I remember when I
picked him up and they, without exception, wept, and the
family wept and saying goodbye to them. It's just it's
one of those life change in these these boys are

(53:04):
now in their mid forties. They were sixteen seventeen when
this happened. But it opened their eyes of what a
wonderful country we live in and that you don't have
to have a lot of material things to make you
yeah happy. I remember once my daughter Emily, that you know,

(53:24):
is an exchange student in Samoa, in western Samoa, And
I remember once flying from Auckland, New Zealand, to the US.
We flew right over western Pe and I saw the
lights thinking and I brought tears to mise my daughter
is down one of those lights years much Jim student Herry.
When we come back, we're going to sail on the

(53:46):
Sinn River in France with John and I'm going to
give you an update and caution about the latest travel scams.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Thank you for joining us on the travel show.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
I'm Larry Gelwick's The Getaway Goo joined in studio today
back in Salt Lake City because I'm down under in Auckland,
New Zealand today. John Potter, you want to talk to
John Direct eight oh one four eight three fifty two fourteen.
That's eight oh one four eight three fifty two fourteen. John,
we've been talking about river cruising. I mentioned the Maykong

(54:27):
that I'll be doing November of next year. You also
have a river cruise next year on an iconic river
and experience.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Yes, we're doing the beautiful Senn River down through Paris
down to Normandy and I am so looking for this.
This is going to be next year. We'll depart from
the US on August twenty sixth and it's a two
day pre package in Paris if you want to do that,

(54:57):
and it includes daily breakfast in Paris. We have our
tour guide that's our cruise ship person as well. Will
be with us. There will be excursions included free of
cost part of the cruise, and the biggest thing there
is to see how many people I can tick off
with the my crape porters. I got people so mad

(55:18):
at me because I don't like Natela and they put
Nattella on all their crapes over there, and I was
just trying to communicate I just want powdered sugar, and
it was like going into a fancy steakhouse and asking
for ketchup. They were so offended. I did not want
to tell on my crapes, but it really is. But
it's gonna be a great time, and I'm excited go
and see Notre Dame since it's reopened from the fire.

(55:40):
I was there before the fire, so I want to
see how it looks now. They say it so crisp
and clean in there and lighter. I want to go
in and see that. So just a fun time in Paris.
Then we're going to board the Ama Dante cruise ship.
It's it is, it's a smaller ship and we're going
to sail down the sind River. And I think the

(56:02):
thing that I'm the most looking forward to as we
stop in the Hove and it's near Normandy, and we're
going to go down to Normandy. The experiencer included we're
going to see the US Cemetery where nine three hundred
and eighty eight American service members are buried. The cemetery
is one hundred and seventy two acres. It's just huge,

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and it's so humbling to see all those gravestones of
the people that gave their lives for our freedom and
to help end World War Two. You'll get to see
the cliffs that they climbed up, you get to see
the artillery units that the Germans had. It's just once

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in a lifetime experience. It's just wonderful, it really is.
You know, you mentioned the Alma Dante. What I like
about that particular ship is it's the perfect size it
if it's fully booked, it's one hundred and forty passengers.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
And what I recommend you do to every port, but
especially Normandy in D days go on YouTube. I do
this with historical sites and you can see actual film
from the D day landing. You can also see the
roll up actual film of General Eisenhower and his staff

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planning it, watching the weather canceling it, bringing it back,
knowing that if it failed, the tide of the war
would turn in Germany's favor. Yeah, because they threw everything
they had. But you have some other exciting stops other
than La Hove, which is kind of the end of the.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
Road and you come back right. Yeah. So we're going
to row In.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
I love Rowen. It's a medieval city.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
It is, yeah, and just a great city there. We're
going to visit Vernon, and we're also going to get
to overnight in Paris on the way back up. And
then you know, Pluto is your host. So we're going
to have an optional two day extension to go to
Disneyland Paris of course. And so you can find the

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information on our website, Morris Columbus dot com and you
just go to where it says fine Travel. It's a
drop down box, and then go down to where it
says Morris Columbus Departures and uh, I'm the It's the
very first one listed. Or just call me and I'd
be happy to answer any questions or send you a
link or a flyer and you can reach me at

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eight oh one four eight three five two one four
or by email at Jpotter at Morriscolumbus dot com.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Now we've talked a lot on this show about the
escorted tours at you know, Morris Coolumbus dot com, Morris
Murdoc escorted. You won't find this one here. This is
kind of a special departure and I recommend that you
call John Direct eight oh one four eight three fifty
two fourteen. You know I mentioned Rowan I it's a

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throwback in time. It's actually where Joan of Arc who
was burned.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
To death.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
She's buried there in row In. It's yeah, yes. And
then Monette Monette. You know, one of his most famous
paintings was the row In his depictions of the Rowenn Cathedral,
cobblestone streets, ancient buildings, dot row In.

Speaker 8 (59:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
And a lot of people think there's nothing to see
in France but Paris, and no, it's a beautiful country.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
So you mentioned a pre cruise.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Paris option that's transfers breakfast daily de luxe hotel sightseeing.
Typically these pre or post cruise land packages will sell
for anywhere from twelve hundred to two thousand. If you
were to buy this pre cruise three day, two night
Paris package, I believe it's about twelve hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Twelve hundred and fifty dollars per person.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Twenty five hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
But if you book this tour with John before the
end of March, it's incree, it's free. It's a twenty
five hundred dollars value. Yep, I hope that you will. Uh,
this is just a great one. Did I tell you
my wife Kathy wants to go on this?

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Yes? Yeah, you are a single traveler. Mind if she
maybe shares your cabin?

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Yes, they do, and I think she would as well.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Yes I would, Yes, I would.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
That's Paris in Normandy August twenty sixth to September fifth
next year. Yes, it's going to be a absolutely fabulous cruise.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Our favorite trivia game, of course, is stumped the dummy?
Only once in my life? How long have I known you?
Like twenty four to twenty five?

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Yeah? About that about twenty five years.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Yeah, I've only stumped you once. Do you remember when
you had a brain freeze?

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
I had a brain freeze? Whatcost? Okay, but that that's
kind of Disney. All right, I'm going to ask you
just a few questions and test your knowledge. All right, Um,
let me find one.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
What's the name of Mickey's first film.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Steamboat Willie.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
That's right. What's the first thing that Bambi said.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
I think it was Bird.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
You're two for two? All right? Now, what is the
only Disney lead character never to speak a word in
the movie?

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
In the film, I thought he was going to ask
some tough questions, Larry, it's Dumbo. Dumbo, Dumbo never speaks.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Are you calling me Dumbo? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Thank you, very you speak a lot. Okay, what is
the name of the Oh, that's too easy. The name
of the wood carver we made Pinocchio?

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
All right? Can you name the seven Dwarfs?

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
I usually leave one out, but let's see. We've got dope, doc, sneezy,
grumpy when I'm really tired, Yeah, sleepy, when I'm shy,
uh huh, bashful.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
And when I'm really excited, the opposite of mad.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
You're happy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
There we go, very good. Ah, he did it? How
does he do it?

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Hey, listen.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
You know a tour that I had mentioned last week
was the Scotland, Wales and England Tour August eleventh to
the twenty first. That includes the International Bagpipe Festival, which
is held right, I mean Bagpipe and Drum course from
all over the world descend on Edinburgh's only in the
month of August. This year, it's August eleventh to the

(01:02:44):
twenty first. Kathy and I'll be your personal tour guides.
Tickets are almost impossible to get. Yes, we got forty
of them and the tour is over half sold out,
just a few spaces left, and it's by over one
hundred million people worldwide.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
On television obviously. But the tour will.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Start in Edinburgh, we'll visit go down through the late
country of Scotland and we go into Wales. We visit York,
which I think is the most iconic British city. It's
everything and more of London history in a smaller city.
And then down to Chester which has an iconic labyrinth

(01:03:28):
of alleyways and small streets with boutiques and restaurants and
just such a fascinating stuff. Stratford upon Avon, who's the
famous author Shakespeare, William shaf You actually visit his grave there,
it's in a chapel and you can visit his birthplace.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
His home is there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Then down to Oxford and Oxford University, and then into London.
Samuel Johnson, perhaps Britain's most famous Man of Letters made
a statement that is often attributed to Winston Churchill, but
Sir Winston did not say this. When he did, he
was quoting Samuel Johnson, who said when a man is

(01:04:08):
tired of London, he is tired of life.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Love down.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
You joined me August eleventh and twenty first, this will
be a British Isles, UK Scotland, Wales, England tour, unlike
anything you've ever been on.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
It's worth it just for that music festival. I would
love to go to that festival.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
You got a credit card. If it clears, John, you're on, Yeah,
you're on.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
One of the things that just drives me crazy is
the plethora of there's a throwback to Don Shaeffer.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
He loved the word plethora.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
He did that in Bruges.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
That's always talking about br that's right. Travel scams, there
are so many. One is you get to notice you've
won a free trip, but there's a reservation via fifty
bucks or something. Yeah, it's probably a scam. Or you
get a text or a phone text or an email

(01:05:09):
click on this for a free trip. It's usually a scam.
Bogus online travel agencies.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
You pay. There is no trip there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
And one of the one of the crazy ones is
you're in your room and you get a phone call
on the room the hotel room phone saying, this is
the front desk, we had a problem with your credit card.
Could you just give that to me again so that
your reservation is held?

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
And you're in the room. What do you say if
you get that, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Come right down to the front desk exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
But what you say, thank you and you hang up.
Then you call the front desk ask them if it
really was them, and if they say yes, then you
walk down. You don't give the number over the phone.
You always do this. And you know what these scammers
do is they'll call, you know, the hotel and say,
give me a room two thirty six tells supposed to
ask and who do you wish to speak with? And

(01:06:03):
they say, well, it's my friend, Okay, I'll put you.
You know, yeah, they don't. They just go from room
to room to room hoping to catch somebody. There's yeah,
a lot of scammers out there. When we come back,
I want to talk about one of the best travel
websites that you should always look at for international travel

(01:06:24):
travel dot State, dot govern I'll tell you what's there
when we come back on the Travel Show. And you
know I'm going to be home later today. It's March
second here in Auckland, March first back in the US
and flying home today in about five hours. Talk to
you in a minute on the Travel Show. Welcome back

(01:06:54):
to the Travel Show.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
I'm Larry Gelwicks to get Away Guru.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
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jobs or lots.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
I really like parking Jet.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
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to Themorriscolumbus dot com website, click on resources and print
as many twenty percent discount coupons as you want. You know,
give it to your friends and neighbors for Christmas this year.
Save you a lot of money, and I'll save them
a lot of money too. I'm joined today in studio

(01:07:29):
back in Salt Lake City because I'm in New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
John Potter, you want to.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Get a hold of John eight oh one four eight
three fifty two fourteen and do give him a call
about John the Send River cruise that you're taking next
year and that free land package if you book no
later than end of March.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
End of this month. Yep, this month.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
March seems impossible to be March already.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
You know, if you travel over frequently or just once
in the blue moon. There's a website maintained by the
US State Department. I want you to check out. It's
easy to remember travel dot state dot gov. That's travel
dot State dot gov. And on the homepage there's all

(01:08:17):
sorts of things. You can renew your passport online with this.
You click on US Passports, follow the instructions. It talks
about international adoption. You learn about adopting a child to
and from the United States, International parental child abduction.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
I mean, that's a sad topic.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
But you know, sometimes in a marriage, maybe one is
an American, one is from wherever, and the wherever. Maybe
they're having marital problems, maybe they get divorced, but a
parent from the other country will then grab the kids
and flee, and I mean, just a horrible thing right there. Anyway,

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if you have US citizens in an emergency, has a
link with phone numbers for the US embassy and consulate
generals where you can get a help out of that.
There's also a program called the Smart Travelers Enrollment Programmers
STEP STEP and you can click on that or just

(01:09:26):
go step dot state dot govern. What that STEP program
is Smart Traveler Enrollment Program. John is you're going to
go to France on your tour. You can go on
this site list the country or countries. This is the
STEP program that you're going to visit and the dates,
and then the embassy in your case, the French embassy

(01:09:49):
will send you information and updates on what's going on
civil disobedience strikes.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
It would be strikes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
Yeah, I've never met a strike they didn't like.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Yeah, But you can go straight to step dot state
dot gov, or just go to the one site travel
dot state dot gov and in a big red bowld
it says US Citizen Travelers and you click on that
it takes you to it. But what I like is
at the top of the page it says find international Travel.

(01:10:22):
And what you can do is type in under the
international travel and you do it one at a time
the country that you're going to visit. For example, you
could type in France, Thailand, Brazil, you know wherever, Israel,
and then a long list of information will come up.

(01:10:47):
What you can find out is information like the currency
visa if any requirements the embassy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
Validity of pass require exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
You know, many countries require six months validity of your
return dates. Some countries require three months. Mexico requires one day.
It has to be valid on your day of entry.
So you go in and your passport expires. Now you've
got to get back to the US. Yeah, there could
be some problem.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Mexico's signed with that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
You come in and you spend money right there. But
what they also do, as you'd mentioned when we had
dan hone earlier, the question that everybody asks is how
safe is it? And the US State Department rates countries
level one, two, three, and four.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Level one is don't worry, I mean, always use caution.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Oh yeah, but that's a level one a New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Thailand, Japan, Greece.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
These are considered very safe country.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
A Level two is hey, don't worry about it, a
little bit of extra caution and alertness. That's France. It's
a level too. It's perfectly save Germany, the UK, Brazil, India, Italy,
countries like that, Mexico, Israel is still a level two.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
Other you don't go to Gaza. No, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Then there's the level three that is, rethink this. If
it's absolutely essential, then go, but rethink going. That would
be places like right now, Guatemala, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, the
Congo number four I'd actually put the Congo is number four.

(01:12:42):
The four is are you out of your ever loving
mind to even be thinking it? North Korea, Haiti, Syria, Russia, Gaza,
you know, the Ukraine.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
You just don't want to go.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
That's travel dot state, dot gov. You ought to be
looking at that.

Speaker 9 (01:13:01):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Listen, I'm headed to the airport in about five hours
for my flight home and look forward to it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Next week I'll actually be in Maui.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
I'm gonna fly home to Salt Lake for about two
or three days and then we're headed to Maui. I
love Hawaii, Love all of me, John Thank you for
joining us Rumor Johnny's eight O one four eight three
fifty two fourteen.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Talk to you next week. Aloha from Maui.