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Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm not hearing myself. Oh now I've got it. Now
it's just come in and welcome to the Travel Show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks, that Getaway Guru joined today in studio
back from his travels across the world. Ah, Carlos Fieda,
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the one, the only, the Argentinian gaucho himself. We've got
a great show planned today. We're going to be talking
about the UK a new travel fee, yes, a cost
to go to England and the United Kingdom. You remember
those Goza protesters that disrupted airports, Well, a day of
justice has come to them, customs and manners around the world.
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Carlos will be taking us to Latin America. The business
development manager from Viking Cruises will be joining us, and
some Hawaii fun facts. We just got a great show
ahead of us today. We'd love to have you to
join us as part of the show. You really are
the best part of the show. Triple eight five seven
oh eight oh one Oh that's eight eight eight five
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seventy eighty ten. Particularly if you have a question about
Southeast Asia or anywhere in the world, but particularly Latin America.
Carlos is the walking Google of all information related to
South America, Latin America, everywhere that you want to go.
That's eight eight eight five seventy eight zero one zero. Well, Carlos,
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we've been talking on the show for about two years
something called real ID that changes how you can check
in for an airline flight will be an acceptable form
of government issued ID. Well, real Idea is coming, and
it's kind of like serious time to start thinking about
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making sure that your driver's license or ID is up
to date. The US Department of Homeland Security and the
DOT Department of Transportation just published a note in the
Federal Register, which is a daily journal of the federal government,
regarding the rollout of new security standards that drivers' licenses
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and state ID cards have to meet in order to
be used for federal purposes, including passing through airport security checkpoints,
beginning in the spring of next year twenty twenty five. Now,
after multiple delays, DHS Department of Homeland Security says its
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latest deadline is May seventh, twenty twenty five, is locked
in for officially permitting or implementing the real ID requirement
for domestic air travel. Now international, of course, you still
have to have a valid passport. One thing to keep
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in mind when you're traveling overseas with a passport, is
what is the validity requirement that different countries impose for
the passport. For example, most countries around the world require
your passport. And I'm speaking of a US passport, not
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the born identity where you have six or seven. Okay,
I actually have two passports, Canadian and US, and I'm
glad i have that. You know, God save the King
and all that business. Long leave the may, long live
the maple leaf. But meaning let's say I'm travel well,
I'll be going to Thailand in January and I'll be
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flying back from Cambodia with our annual Thailand Legends of Siam, which,
by the way, we will be introducing the January twenty
twenty six Thailand Cambodia Legends of Siam Tour by the
end of the month. Don't call yet because it's not ready.
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We're making we're just finalizing all of our reservations. But
you may remember the January twenty twenty five tour. We
put it out there for sale in February. I think
it was sold out in one week. So for January
twenty twenty six. By the end of this month, we'll
have it out there. But I fly back from PanAm
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Pen Cambodia, I believe it's January nineteenth, all right. That
means that my passport has to be valid through July nineteenth,
six months a minimum of that. Now, subcountries only require three.
Mexico the last time I checked, required it be valid
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on the day across the border. You know, I've always thought, well,
you know what is today September fourteenth. So I go
to Mexico and my passport expires September fourteenth or September fifteenth,
It's not valid when I come back, So you want
to check that out. But anyway, beginning May seventh, twenty
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twenty five, those presenting a state issued driver's license or
ID card at the airport must present a real ID
compliant card. Now, passengers without the compliant ID may face
delays at the identity verification. They may even be turned away.
The government said they're gonna they're not going to be
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super duper strict. Initially there will be some flexibility, but
at a short time afterwards it will become hardcore.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
With that.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now, the question is what does it mean to be
real ID compliant. The good news is you may already
be compliant, and you can look at let's take a
Utah driver's license. If you will look in the upper
right or left hand corner, depending on what states you're from.
In Utah, it's the upper right hand corner. There's a
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there's a star. That means that you're real ID compliant.
But folks, you say, hey, well that's next spring. Next
spring will be here before you know it. Now, do
you know what the number one oversees travel destination? Trans
oceanic not I mean you got Mexico and Canada you
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can drive to or whatever. But as far as crossing
an ocean, Carlos, what is the number one destination the
United That's right right, England in particular in the UK
is the number one transoceanic destinations for Americans. Well, Americans
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are going to have to start paying to go. We
have a visa reciprocity program. We don't need of we
being US citizens. So it might be different from you
being from Guadalajara. I don't know what it is for you, Carlos,
But for US, passports mean visa free means that we
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can go to say England or the UK without getting
an advanced visa visa is not a credit card. I
actually had that happen on a tour. We said, now
we were going to China, and we said, you have
to get a China visa. We will process it for you,
or you can just do it on your own. The
guy says, no, no, I'll take care of it. I
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have a visa. I have a visa. I have a visa.
Shows up at the airport and they ask for his
visa and he pulls out his credit card. I have
a visa credit card. No, no, no, did you take
your meds this morning or months ago? This is a
travel visa is a government issued authorization from the country
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that you intend to visit, granting you permission to enter
their country. For for example, if you want to go
to China, you have to get an advance visa for that. Well,
the United States has a visa waiver program with many
countries around the world, meaning your citizens can come to
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America visa free. You still have to go through immigration
and customs. And we can go to England as I
did in July, flew into London and we can go
there visa free. Well, anyway, starting January eighth of next year,
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there will be an Electronic Travel Authorization ETA. In this case,
it doesn't mean estimated time of arrival. It means electronic
travel authorization. This requirement applies to all visitors, regardless of age,
including children and infants, who can travel visa free to
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the UK. That includes Americans. But you have to fill
out this ETA online in advance. It's gonna cost ten pounds.
I wish I could lose ten pounds, but here ten
British pounds are sterling is about thirteen dollars and it's
good for multiple entries up to six months over a
two year period. So why is it that we just
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love the UK? It's the number one favorite? Why is that?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, one will be because many many of the people
live in here have an ancestry from England.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Then the England has.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So much history, because every region of history has a history,
and maybe some of them are attached to your own
relatives who came here during there.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Whether we have a family genealogical tie to the King UK.
We all have in this country a cultural I mean
we kicked them out in seventeen seventy six, okay anyway,
but there's a historical, cultural and culinary richness to the UK.
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We'll talk more about this when we come back here
on the Travel Show.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You're listening to the Travel Show on Talk Radio one
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Speaker 4 (10:56):
Just listen and you'll know.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwiz. They
get Away Guru join today, the lovely, the talented Carlos Feta.
Is that straight. I am the getaway Guru. He is
the guadalajaraor Guru. You know, Carlos and I have been
the best of friends for almost forty years. And by
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the way, our banter back and forth is by mutual
approval and affection. And the best part, let me tell
you the best part. On Mondays when I see Carlos
at the Morris Columbus office. He has a lot of
people at his church congregation. They're and bountiful listen to
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the show and a lot of people listen to the show,
and they will talk about the hard time that I
give Carlos, and then they take delight when Carlos gives
it back to me double time.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I do.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That's a true statement, is it? Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It is? But I mean why not? I mean, we
have been known, we have friends.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
We're not going to be offended by some of the
nice things that you tell me, a nicer ones that
I tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Larry, What did I just say to you about sixty
seconds ago at our station break? I said to Carlos,
You're always welcome on the travel show, but not just welcome,
but appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Didn't I just say that those very words, very very words.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, Well, we were talking about travel to the UK,
and what is it about the UK, Carlos that we
you know, Americans just love.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Well. First of all, we share the same language, even
though if.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You go well, I share the same language, Yes you do.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
But anyway, you know some places in England I don't understand.
They're cogn not just a conny. I mean you go
to some other regions.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
How about a deep Scottish accent, a deep Welch or
Irish accent. Oh my gosh, that's that is so much fun.
Do you go to England for the food?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Actually yes, I say yes, now there's yes, yes, But
it's always been said the best food in England is
ethnic food, Italian, Indian, French.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, but the English fish and chips.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Now, I'm very disappointed in my homeland because some years
ago they outlawed fish and chips in newspaper.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Because the ink.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think the ink added to not only the flavor,
but the atmosphere.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I think.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I'm sure there are scientific studies that say British newspaper
ink lubricates the heart. I'm sure of it. But you
can't wrap but in newspaper.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That was part of the fun of it.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
But you know the other thing I love. They're called pasti's.
It's it's uh, it's almost it's.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It's dough with a filling.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
What do they fill it in?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It's like a hot pie in Australia New Zealand. You
know steak and cheese, steak and and mushroom chicken. Well,
a shepherd's pie is more like a casserole dish. But
it's called a pasti and it is it's dough. What
what is it that you bring to the office all
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the time. It's like a giant empanada comprende.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
But I don't particularly care. I lived there for four
years and believe me, I lost weight.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
So if you want to lose weight to go there,
very very good.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, let me tell you a couple of programs and
I I'll have the pleasure of hosting both of these programs.
First in June, it's an Iceland to London. It's June
twelve to twenty two. Now this is with Norwegian Cruise
line that has a free airfare offer. It's really a
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buy one, get one free. The thing you have to
know about their airfare it's legit, but they pick the airline.
You can't even request, say well, I want to fly United,
I want to fly Dela. You can't do that. They'll
put you on a major airline day will get you there.
But let me give you an example. This particular one
is Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and England. It's a wonderful
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twelve day cruise on a new ship Withgian, the Norwegian Prima,
and I love that ship. It really really works. But
when Kathy and I went last year in twenty twenty three,
my airline ticket Salt Lake to London home from rekkievic
Iceland was sixteen hundred dollars. I priced that out on
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both United and Delta and was over twenty two hundred dollars,
so it was a discount for me about sixteen hundreds.
But Kathy flew absolutely free, which gave us a effective
airfare of eight hundred dollars per person in the summertime
into Europe.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You can't touch that. You can't touch it now.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't know what the discount airfare is now this
when we fly into Rekivic, Iceland will bake three stops
in Iceland. I love Iceland. Then on to Norway, the
Norwegian Fjords at flam olissen Bergen, and then down to
Well I'll be Amsterdamed and onto Bruges, Belgium. Ladies, do
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you love lace? Well, I know, Carlos. I'm looking at
your attire heavily in lace today. It's the lace capital
of the world. And then across the channel to Southampton.
You can fly straight home, but we're going to have
an optional three day, two night London option. Samuel Johnson said,
when a man is tired of London, he is tired
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of life. Winston Churchill is usually credited with that statement,
but actually Samuel Johnson, perhaps Britain's greatest man of letters,
a scholar, a poet, everything, a political leader, said, when
you're tired of London, you're tired of our I was
there just in July.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I love London.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
England is wonderful. I mean not just England, but I
mean Wales. I love Wales. Wales is a wonderful place.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So we'll see Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and England. The
one thing to remember on everything in travel, be it
an airline ticket, a hotel room, a cruise cabin, the
price is not static, meaning it's fixed, it never changes.
It's like anything else. It's econ one oh one supply
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and demand. When that airplane fills up, the hotel fills up,
the cruise ship starts filling up, prices go up, up, up, up.
Now is the time to book it. So the dates
again are June twelve to twenty two. You can go early,
you can stay much later if you want. I mean,
it's like you're in the neighborhood in Europe. Why not
see a few more things. Go down to Italy or Paris.
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All the details at morriscolumbus dot commorriscolumbus dot com more
when we come back with Customs.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And Manners around the World.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You're listening to the Travel Show every weekend at this
time on this very station, and we broadcast from the
Rocky mountains all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, Florida, Texas.
We have a great listening audience. I'm Larry Gelwicks, the
getaway Guru, your humble host. Humility a character trait. Carlos
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is shaking his head, a character trait I have never
been accused of. Now, Carlos is a humble man, which
is understandable. Boy, I have on one today. You take
every space you have to understand the dynamics of our dear,
dear friendship. I am Carlos's loyal fan, his biggest fan.
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He's the walking Google of travel information to Latin America.
But for forty years we have kind of kibbets to
each other. Yes, we like that, we do. We do,
and we've traveled the world together. We told you a
couple of weeks ago about that in galapa Ghosts. In fact, hey,
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I want you to talk about Galapagos maybe next segment,
would you do that? Sure, it's one of my favorite
tours ever. Anyway, we were talking about the UK, that
incredible Iceland to London, which is June twelve to twenty two.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Next year.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
We'll be doing our own short excursions and I particularly
love the Fjords of Norway. It's just something about it.
I have one other UK tour that we've never done before.
It is the first time we've had people asking for
years and years, and no, it's not the Tattoo of
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the Angel Moroni that's all over your back. It's the
Tattoo Festival of Scotland, the biggest, the largest bagpipe and
drum corps festival in the world, viewed by over one
hundred million people worldwide, and it's in all August only.
We finally have put a tour together August eleven to
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twenty one of next year. We'll be visiting Scotland, Wales
and England. Now in Scotland, I just I absolutely love
Scotland and that fierce independence that they have. Of course
being subjected to the British rule for centuries would bring
out a bit of nationalism, I think. But there is
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the Highlands, the heather, every the longest month, language, the
language if you can understand it. But it's very interesting.
The Tattoo Festival again, nothing to do with ink on
your arm. The word tattoo really doesn't have much to
do with this type of performance. It comes from what's
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called last call in Dutch pubs, which I know when
you were in the Argentinian Navy you were very familiar with.
But it's called last call. In the sixteen hundreds, do
din top tooy dodn top tooy was the call that
the someone from the regiment would be walking through the
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town and he would call out dou ten top tu,
which was an expression that loosely meant last call, meaning
turn the taps off, send the soldiers back to the
barracks if they can walk. And how that became tattoo.
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The last one is taptou taptou tap too top two
tattoo is what it eventually evolved itself in. But you
know interesting, the earliest records of bagpipes in Scotland date
to the fourteen hundreds, but many historians believe that bagpipes
originated in ancient Egypt. Now, I got to tell you something.
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My graduate school included Hebrew, Jewish studies, Coptic, Yes, Coptic
being one of the Egyptian languages and Egyptian religions. There's
even a small congregations of Coptics in Egypt today. Yeah,
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or they're Coptic Christians now. But it originated anciently as
one of the religions that was practiced there. But in
all of my graduate studies on Egyptology and things, I
never heard any talk of bagpipes. But as I've read
this and researched this for the Tattoo festival, Yes, many
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historians believe they came. They were probably brought to Scotland, however,
by the Roman legions and the Scots tribes coming over
from Ireland. But originally many historians believe that it came
from England.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
The dates are August eleven to twenty one. Do you
remember the movie How Green was My Valley about the
coal miners in Wales.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I love that movie, old black and white movie.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wales in the coal mining area looks just like that,
the row houses, and again that fierce welch independence. And
by the way, they played good rugby in Wales, better
rugby in Ireland. But and then of course England. I mean,
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I love England. You know what's interesting about England?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
For me?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I am only three generations from living in England. My
great grandfather immigrated when he was eleven years old with
his family from England. I actually have a detailed drawing
of the boat they sailed on. It was in the
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eighteen seventies and I have a photo of the ship's
log with his name, his parents' name and other siblings.
And one of the greatest experiences of my life. They
were living in West Lulworth, England. Now, think of going
south from London to Salisbury and then going west along
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the coast to about an hour and to a town
called West Lulworth. There's Lolworth and we Lulworth. It's a
wee village and there's an old stowed Anglican church where
his name is on the baptismal record back in the
eighteen seventies. Actually, yeah, eighteen seventies. And there's a swimming hole.
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It's called the Lulworth West Lolworth Swimming Pond and it's
ocean water.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It opens to the North Sea. Yes, it's cold.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It will grab your attention, especially you guys when you
walk in the water. Okay, I'll just leave it at that.
And there's a footpath from the village down to the
swimming hole, one footpath that's been there for centuries and
I walked that down to the swimming hole. Again, it's
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north sea water. It's very cold, but that's what they
had and I thought, how many times did my great
grandfather walk this very path, sit in this very church
where I'm sitting, this old stone church, very very small,
sit right here, and then sailed to America. They settled
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in Ohio. They thought that was out west. But I mean,
there's a there's a pole for me to England.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You know. I have the same experience.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
My great great grandfather, Samuel A. Woolley, served a mission
for the LDS Church in eighteen fifty four to India.
I'll be in India in November, by the way, on
that wonderful Spice Route cruising tour. And we have his journal,
four hundred and fifty two pages. I have walked and
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I've held that journal in my hand. It's in the
church historian's office now. But I have walked in India,
in the squares, in the plazas, the very streets that
he named myself. And he was a I'll tell you
the greatest miracle. He walked from Salt Lake City to California, walked,
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sailed across the Pacific in one of those old clipper ships,
stopped in what was then the Sandwich Islands, which is
present day Hawaii. He was still under I think at
that time, which king Kamehameha the third? I think it
was when he was there and then across the Pacific
to China, through Southeast Asia and to India, spent three years,
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much of it alone, the greatest miracle. In eighteen fifty seven,
a letter from Brigham Young shows up in India.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
He was in.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Calcutta, the black hole of Calcutta or Coolcutta as it's
pronounced now more indigenous.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
A letter shows up.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
How did a letter in those days in eighteen fifty
seven get across the Pacific saying it's time to come home?
By the way, he was married with kids, and he
left for three years. He's a much better man than
I am. And then he earned some money, sailed to
Boston and then traveled much of it by foot from
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Boston to Salt Lake. Showed up at home unannounced. What
a history. Now I have an interesting picture of Samuel A. Woolley,
because it's the tradition that when you sail across the
equator you put you have an air. So I have
Elder Woolley, a Mormon missionary, with an ear.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Ring you don't have.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
When are you gonna wear that?
Speaker 6 (29:10):
You know?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I did that once I did. I gotta tell you
this story. This is really funny. And when I was
in the California Fresdo Mission, we had missionaries who wore
ear rings.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I allowed it on the sisters. The sister missionary is
gonna wear ear rings anyway. Okay, this is just a
personal story. That's a great one. So we had a
ward party, all right, and you know, I'm crazy, all right, certifiably.
And I went to my teenage daughter and I asked
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if I could borrow one of her ear rings. You know,
it was a gold ball or brass ball with a magnet.
So I didn't pierce my ear I thought, you know,
we need to loosen up a little bit in our ward.
And so I put the ear ring on. And I
don't know what ear I'm told that left right supposed
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to mean something, and I have no idea what it
might mean anymore. Anyway, So I put it in, wore
this ear ring, and people were I mean, this was
twenty five thirty years ago, when today it's commonplace for
men to many men to wear an ear ring. Not
back thirty years ago, you know, and people are saying, oh, Larry,
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what's that on your ear, and I said, oh, do
you like it? I think it's kind of decorative, you know,
And some people laughed at others were hyperventilating. Finally I
took it off because it was a magnet. I said, people, relax,
just relax, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I wonder the comments of some of the people.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, listen, we got surprisingly, we got off topic. So
I wanted to talk about customers and manners and a
couple of what would you do in this situation. We'll
do that probably in the second hourcat next segment, I
want you to talk about Galapagos a little bit. But
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remember the two UK tours June twelve to twenty two
is Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and England June twelve to
twenty two, and then the Tattoo Festival August eleven to
twenty one, which is Scotland, Wales and England. By the way,
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I have won more British isles in July, England, Scotland, Ireland, France.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Hey, lot's here on the travel show.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What is it.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
About South America that is such a draw once people
go there?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Well, there are many places to be seen. You know,
people think that South America is kind of like, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Makes call the food and it's all the same.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And that is everything in the same, which is not.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
It is not because each region, each country has their
own customs and their own different history.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You know, what's fascinating to me is that in South America,
in various countries, there are three languages that are the
first language spoken. Everybody knows Spanish, probably everybody knows Brazil Portuguese,
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but there are countries where the official first language is English.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah, that would be in the Caribbean region or in Guatemala.
In Guatemala, there is one little piece of Guatemala, well
it was called Those countries were called with an English name.
They were conquered by the British and they stay British
and they speak the language. Of course it's not the
same English that we speak here in the United States
or in England, but yes.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
It is. Call it ghetto English.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Look at this thing.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
What about the other countries, like Peru has two official language,
the Spanish and.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Well in South America, Guyana Guana English is the first.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Language, the official lie.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Most people speak more, but everybody thinks it's the same.
It's such a diverse continent. And one of our favorite
that you and I have traveled together is Ecuador and Galapagos.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
There's nothing like it in the world anywhere.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
No, it cannot be reproduced anywhere else in the world.
Whether the animals on the version or they are just
two feet away from you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
They've never learned to fear Man's It must have been
what the Garden of Eden was like, with the lamb
laid down with the lion. And I mean, people, there
are no lions in Galapagos, but you know what I'm
saying with that. And Ecuador itself, Quito is the iconic
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colonial city, the architecture, the cobblestone streets, and I remember
one time you and I were in Ecuador together and
there was a political demonstration. Remember that they were protesting
the government. It was a pretty large demonstration. When they
were done, the people went around and picked up any
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pieces of paper trash, they swept. They actually swept the area.
There was no graffiti, there was no spray pain, there's
no tearing down monuments. I mean, I think I'm all
for peaceful protest. I love that I live in a
country with the First Amendment, but I think we have
lost our minds and with demonstrations. I'll talk a little
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bit about that in the second hour, about the Hamas
Gaza protesters that totally disrupted airports and what's happening to them.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
But it's such a clean city. But tell us.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You have a program, yes, Ecuador, and go up and
goes next month. Now it's it's coming up pretty quick,
just short of a month away. But you could still
sign up. Somebody sign up this week. Yes, that's right.
And you know what, I'm one couple. I can get
the rooms, I can get everything arranged. And there is
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no infactive in the air.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You know, that could be cheaper now because you know
air changes from month to months, from day to day.
So that will be a magnificent tour, you know, because
it lives in October.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
October. Why did I choose October?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Carlo?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Excuse me? Yes, why did you choose October?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Because you can eat you can eat lobster, because there
is a season in which you cannot fish for lobster.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So that's what I put it. And then the weather conditions.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You know, it's a mild weather in the seventies seventy five,
you know, it never goes too far, except that the
sun is very strong when you go up to the
high altitude.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It's a wonderful tour.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
All the details at Morriscolumbus dot com morriscolumbus dot com.
On the homepage Morris Columbus dot com, scroll down to
Morris murdoch Escorted tours. If it's a cruise like I
talked about, you know, Iceland to London, British Isles, which
is in July, click on cruises. If it's a land
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tour like the Tattoo Festival or the Galapagos Ecuador tour,
click on the geographic region South America of South America.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
What's your favorite food in South America?
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Well, I like seafood.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Seafood, the best fresh seafood, really fresh, not the fresh
that they haven't just miss you know here it is
it is in Peru, in egualor in Chile, because there
are countries slate border with the sea and so that's great.
But of course in Argentina the best food is a
big steak, that is that's it. And the taste of
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the meat is so different from what we have here.
For example, you got to be a restaurant here and
they said, okay, this meat has been aged twenty eight days.
In Argentina, if the meat is two days old is rotten,
nobody will eat it. So these are things that make
a difference, you know, in our cuisine in South America,
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you know, like the steake in Buenos Aires, or the
lamb in southern Argentina and southern Chile, the seafood in chiliull.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I would say, my favorite has to be the seafood.
But Cardada, of course, that's that's it.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Hey more, when we.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Come back in our number two of the Travel Show,
we're gonna be talking about what a survey showed is
one of life's greatest regrets. Welcome back to our number
(38:03):
two of the Travel Show. Carlos and I have been
waiting anxiously for the top of the hour news and
commercials to go so we can join with you again.
I'm Larry Gelwiz, the Getaway Guru. Join with my me ambigo,
diketo mucho now yo tambien uh. Carlos feeda director of
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Latin American sales at Morris Columbus Travel. More Morris Columbus
Travel check out the website Morris Coolumbus dot Commorriscolumbus dot
com or give them a call one eight hundred triple
nine forty six forty six. One eight hundred triple nine
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of a travel advisor, then just call the direct line
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ask you what would you do? And by the way,
we invite any of our listeners uh to give us
a call on what you would do? Triple eight five
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Speaker 2 (39:10):
Eighth one oh. All right.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
When your flight is canceled, Carlos and you're stuck somewhere overnight,
the hotel might give you a hotel room for the night.
It often depends on your medallion status, the.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Length of the delay. Is it their fault? Now?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
For a weather delay, airlines aren't gonna do anything for you,
and nor should they. That's that's yeah, it's mother nature.
But when it's their fault, which you know, I hate
to say this, but some airlines to work for them,
you have to be a pathological liar, my goodness, because
they don't want to pay out anything, they don't want
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to take responsibility. But if they give you a room,
it's often after a long line and a long wait,
eating into the time you're actually able to sleep. And
even though airlines might provide your room automatically through their app,
there may not be any rooms available. Even though there's
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rooms at the hotel. The airline has a contract rate
and they don't want to pay much anything more than that,
or they might not be willing to do one room
per passenger. Now, what would you do in this situation?
Easy Jet, which is one of the low cost airlines
(40:37):
that flies all over Europe, requires not suggests, but requires
passengers to double up in hotel rooms, even if they're
not related, even if they don't know each other. Now,
one room. A woman just reported that she was being
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told that if she didn't agree to share a room
with a man she had never met, she'd have to
dissleep in the hotel lobby or out on the lawn
or something like that. In this case, this is unbelievable.
She wasn't even given a room with two double beds.
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It was one queen.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Yeah, and so maybe you say, well, let me see
this person first. Oh, he's handsome, Okay, But anyway she
talked about she was so exhausted that she said, I've
got to have a bed. She's not going to sleep
on the floor in a hotel lobby. And so yeah,
she slept in the same bed, terrified in a hotel room.
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Now what would you By the way, Eric Canada did
the same thing to a hotel room. It had two
beds in the hotel room. America Airlines made three passengers
sleep in the same room and one had to sleep
on the floor. But the worst is a Chinese airline
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once made They said this is the only hotel we
can get. It was an S and M themed hotel.
You know, whips and chains, strobe lights. It's like, what
is going on here? So you know, the quality of
the hotel some airlines will pick is often appalling. But
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you know, the Biden administration did pressure airlines through mayor
Pete at the DOT to agree to cover hotel and
meal charge.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
So what would you do. You're traveling.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
And you got overnight and they put another man another
woman in your hotel room.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
I will never say I rather sleep in the uncomfortable
seats at the airport rather than accept something like that,
and then I we'd report to the DOT.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
I wouldn't do it either. I just wouldn't do it,
not just from a appropriateness, but from a safety you know,
is this that Texas chainsaw massacre. I've actually slept in
airports on a few occasions. My last one was last
year coming back from Africa. I was on a Kenya
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Airways flight out of Nairobi and the flight was canceled,
but our visa was single entry, which we did ten
days earlier, and if we were to go and once
you go through passport control to leave the country, your
visa is canceled. If we had left and gone outside.
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In fact, the airline told us, well, we'll put you
up in a hotel room. Just walk out down to
the main check in area. I'm walking and I said,
and we had a group of people and I said,
wait a minute, We're on a single entry visa, and
the Kenya Airwaves lady said, oh, no, it doesn't make
any difference, and I said, better check on this one.
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She calls and I can't hear the person on the
other phone, but when she says, oh my, I figured,
and she said, yes, if you leave, you will have
visa problems in a fine So I slept on the
floor inside security at the Nairobi airport, just put my
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bag down and just didn't sleep very well.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
I had an interesting occasion at the Chicago O'Hare airport
some years ago with American Airlines, which is kind of,
I don't know, kind of a sorry airline right now,
coming back to Salt Lake and it was what we
call a rolling delay. What it will be thirty minutes,
an hour, hour and a half, two hours, and they
kept So I walked and they said, there's a ATC
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air Traffic Control weather delay. I'm looking out, it's not
raining here. I check. I was flying to Salt Lake City.
It's not raining in Salt Lake City. And so I
go up to the departure gate, you know, and the
agency behind the desk I said, They said, yes, it's
going to be another hour, and now we're two and
(45:21):
a half three hours delay. And I said I'd like
a meal voucher please, And she says, oh, well, I'm sorry,
but for ATC weather delays, you know, it's really not
our fault and so we don't give them. I held
up my cell phone and turned it to her. I
was on ATC. They have a website an app, and
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I said there is no weather delay in Chicago or
Salt Lake City or anywhere in between. In fact, if
you look out there, there's a mechanic that has opened
up the left engine. And she just looks at me
and I said, I'd like my meal voucher. She handed
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me one, of course, I mean she was lying through
her teeth. But then I did a Gelwick's classic. I
immediately did a one to eighty turnaround about face. I
held up the meal voucher because other people have been
asking and were turned away, and I said, hey, look,
I just got a meal voucher.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
I bet they.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Give you one too, And there was this heart of
people coming up to the departure counter, meal voucher, meal voucher,
meal voucher, and boy, she gave me the skunk, I
the stinky. And she's handing out these meal vouchers right
and left, and hopefully it cost them hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
It depends how much that's right. So what would you do?
What would you do?
Speaker 1 (46:45):
You know, A survey was taken, an international survey about
some of the biggest regrets that we have in life,
and right there at the top I had to do
with there are two things that where way had one
is more time with family. I remember my neighbor Steve,
who saw him once and he says, you know, Larry,
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he'd just been to a retirement dinner. He said, I
hear the same thing at every retirement dinner I go to.
I wish I had spent more time with my family.
My kids are grandkids, particularly when they were young.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
He said.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
What I've never heard is anyone say, you know, as
I'm retiring, I sure wish that I'd gone to the
office earlier. I sure wish I had worked on the weekends.
But so it was family, but right there with it
was I wish I'd traveled more. I've told the story
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of a couple who are travel and I tell the
story with the women's permission. They were travel show listeners
and they always wanted to travel. They finally retire hiring.
He was sixty seven, she was about sixty five ish,
and they're finally going to take their first big trip.
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And they're sitting in my office and I'm say, where
do you want to go? And he was humming and
han and something just clicked in me and I said,
go while you can do it, while you can't. He said,
that's right, and they went on this tour with me. Sadly,
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six months later he passed away unexpected. To this day
she gets tearful thanking me. That was their one big trip.
Go while you can do it, while you can, Hey,
when we come back, it's Viking Cruises.
Speaker 5 (48:44):
You're listening to the travel show on talk radio one
oh five nine kN rs.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Just listen and you'll know you're listening to the travel show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks. They Get Away Guru, join by Carlos Fieda, Miamigo,
the director of Latin American Sales at Morris Columbus Travel.
Be sure to check out all the great Land tours
(49:10):
and cruise options at Morriscolumbus dot commorriscolumbus dot com. Just
scroll down on the homepage and click on Morris Murdoch
escorted tours. You can book those directly with the group
deportment or with your favorite Morris Columbus Travel advisors, or
give Morris Columbus a call at one eight hundred triple
(49:32):
nine forty six forty six. One eight hundred triple nine
forty six forty six. We'd like to welcome back to
our show one of our best friends. Reiner, Mark's business
development manager with Viking Cruises. Reiner, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 6 (49:51):
Thank you so much, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
You know, I did a I do a travel report
every Monday as a reporter, a television reporter on KUTV
Channel two, which is the CBS network affiliate for Utah,
Southern Idaho and the six people that live in Eastern Nevada.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
And I did a.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Story about, in fact, it was this past Monday, about
Viking Cruises, and I made the comment that, you know,
ocean cruises, river cruises are absolutely wonderful, the number one
best travel value out there right now, hands down. But
I said, most companies specialize in ocean cruises or river cruises. Now,
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this KUTV report is not a commercial, it's a straight
news I may be in the studio with the anchors,
I may be somewhere on location, but every Monday, for
the last fifteen years, I do a television news reporter
strictly travel news. And I mentioned that Viking Cruises is
the only major cruise line that I'm aware of that
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does both ocean and river cruises. And we have a
couple of information seminars where Rhiner, you're going to be
in Utah coming up next week?
Speaker 6 (51:14):
Yes, looking forward to Itiner, Absolutely, I will be there.
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (51:21):
Yeah? I lost you there just for a minute.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
Let's first talk about September nineteenth in Ogden dinner at
the Union Grill. Tickets are just eight dollars per person.
It starts at six. Good These are ticketed events, so
you have to get the tickets. What are you going
to be talking about at these information seminars.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Oh, Larry, I have so many great news about Viking.
As you mentioned, we're not only doing rivers, we're doing oceans.
We recently started doing expedition cruises. And we have a
beautiful ship domestically here on the Mississippi River. So there's
a lot of new information that I'm bringing with me
rate images. So I hope I see a lot of
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your listeners there at the Grill.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
That is on September Thursday, September nineteenth, at the Union
Grill in Ogden, It's at Cruise Night with dinner at Viking.
Tickets or just six dollars. Contact your favorite Morris Columbus
travel advisor or just go to Morriscolumbus dot com to
get your tickets and then I've never seen a cruise
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line do a night with the symphony on Friday, September twentieth,
it's my understanding. Starting at about six o'clock, you'll have
an information seminar about Viking followed by a performance of
the Utah Symphony. Light refreshments will be served. Tickets rene
are just ten dollars. You can't go to the symphony
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for ten dollars, but with Viking cruises you can.
Speaker 6 (52:53):
It will be absolutely spectacular, you know, And an event
with the Utah Symphony, it just makes sense because King
does is really taking people in the destination. We focus
on the culture, on the music, on the traditions, on
the history. So doing an event where we have wonderful
music and such a beautiful location that is just a
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perfect fit.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Now I want to let's talk about promotions. People are
always looking for a deal. You still have some offers
on eight day Ryan or Danube at a rate starting
at just nineteen ninety nine per person double ogiviency, keeping
in mind that rates vary by departure and are subject
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to availability and change. The type of booking tell us
about nineteen ninety nine and discounted airfare.
Speaker 6 (53:43):
Yeah, I could barely believe it myself. So there's discounted
airfare on all of those europe cruises on the rivers.
But these are Ryan and Daniels sailing still available, and
we're looking at sailings that take us to the Christmas
markets in twenty twenty four, of sailings in twenty twenty
five that are available, but still like you said, in
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twenty four, some Christmas market cruises that are still available
that close to sailed it. And then a lot of
amazing sailings in an amazing office for next year twenty
twenty five on rivers on oceans. But like you said
nineteen ninety nine, you cannot beat that.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Some of the cruises have a depositive only twenty five
dollars per person. I was really excited to hear of
a recently released amazing Asia adventure fifteen day Jewels of
Japan and China tell us about that.
Speaker 6 (54:39):
Incredible I am. I am absolutely amazed by this itinerary.
So we were seeing six ports in Japan before we
move on to one port in South Korea. It's a
beautiful island that belongs to South Korea, and then moving
on to four more ports in China. This is as
great as it gets. If China or Japan or South
Korea was on your markeet list, this is the way
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to go, and it's all in the luxury and comfort
that you know from Viking.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
I'm assuming that's Chaju Island there in South Korea. Hey,
we've only got about a minute and a half. We're
speaking to Reiner Marx, the business development manager with Viking Cruises.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Very quickly.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
I love sailing the Nile, and don't you have six
Viking ships on the Nile?
Speaker 6 (55:23):
Six true Viking ships is absolutely stunning. These are small ships,
eighty passengers only. This is very intimate cruising there on
the Nile, and I can tell you it's gaining popularity.
We have booking flarry all the way up to twenty
twenty seven. There are some Eclipse cruises that are already booked
for twenty twenty seven. So if Niles on your listeners
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have been on their agenda business the time to book
your twenty five twenty twenty six sailings, they will go fast.
That's true.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
We have about thirty seconds left. Tell us very quickly
about the Mississippi and Great.
Speaker 6 (55:58):
Lakes Mississippi and Great Lakes. Our Great Lakes sailings are
on the expedition ships. They're built for the Antarctic Arctic,
but they also will bring them in the offseason in
the Great Lakes. Super popular Mississippi has started in twenty
twenty two. A beautiful ship, three hundred and eighty passengers
on that one. It's a little bigger than our European ship,
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but the stunning experience.
Speaker 1 (56:23):
We're speaking with ryder Mars, business development manager, Viking Cruisers.
All the details at Morris Columbus dot com. Thanks Ryner,
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Welcome back to the travel show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, the
getaway guru. Yes, Viking Cruises, Ocean and River is offering
some incredible, incredible deals out there. Do contact Morris Columbus
Travel to get all of the details. You know, Carlos there.
I've been to one hundred and thirteen countries. I'll be
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to a couple new ones this year. I'm quite excited
about that, and some more new ones next year. But
I divide my travel destinations into two primary categories, one
and done, and I can't wait to go back now
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one and done. I'm glad I went, but I don't
feel the need to ever go back, you know, someplace
like Cleveland, right, No, yeah, but I'm glad I went.
The I can't wait to get back is well, you know,
that's with Thailand, with England, with Africa, you know, with
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South America, going to dinner with you in Buenos Aires
at a steakhouse, all of these things, I'll tell you,
right there, amongst the best of the best for I
can't wait to get back is closer to home.
Speaker 2 (58:08):
Alaska.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
Alaska has called America's last frontier, and that is a
really true state. But you know, Alaska is a land
of over one hundred volcanoes and volcanic fields, three thousand rivers,
three million lakes, and the Alaska has more combined or
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excuse me, more coastline than the rest of the United
States combined. There are over twenty seven thousand glaciers in Alaska.
I mean, it goes on and on. There are two
hundred and twenty four federally recognized tribes and twenty indigenous
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language currently and modern spoken in the state. Almost one
third of Alaska's lands is in the Arctic Circle. And
you know it's it's just one of those places I
see the same or similar things whenever I go back,
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and I think, I think the best way to see
Alaska is on a cruise. Now you can spend some
time on the land, you know, before or after the cruise.
But I'll be hosting an Alaska cruise that I am
so excited about. I'm absolutely giddy because of the itiner.
It's very unique. We're doing something different. Usually we sail
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round trip from Seattle. Nothing wrong with that, but we're
gonna do it bigger and better. And it's what I
call the North South, which is Vancouver to Anchorage or
vice versa. We're gonna be set sail from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Speaker 2 (59:59):
And I say, oh there.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
A few days earlier, rent a car, go up through
Stanley Park and up to Whistler where the Olympics were held.
And I got to tell you a story. So I'm
up in British Columbia, Vancouver, and I'm driving up to Whistler,
and we passed this small mountain town. It's deep in
the forest in a small town. There a little convenience store,
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people living there, but they have a sign with this
grisly bear on its hind legs, claws out, teeth showing
and The sign says bear country. Do not stop and
get out of your car. Do you want to guess
what I did?
Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
You got out?
Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
I stopped and got out of the car. Went looking
for bears, and on this trip I did. I've seen
a lot of bear in Alaska and in British Columbia.
I didn't see any bear there, but I thought, how
fast can a bear run? I can run really fast,
So I left the car door open and was very
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carefully looking for bear. Yeah, I told you earlier. I
was crazy. You are I can barely stand it. Oh
that was bad. That was bad.
Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Yeah, you want to see me, not in the bear,
but with the bear, the grizzly bear I'm talking about. Anyway,
we set sail for Vancouver and we visit ketcha Can,
which is the home of the best totem.
Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Parks in all the world.
Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
You know Potlatch Totem Park, Sacman Village at Creek Street.
There in ketcha Can, we go on to Juno. Now
I love Juno because Juno we will charter our own
boat and go whale watching. No, I'm not talking about
the buffet. I'm talking about out seeing the whales before
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they head back to Hawaii. Then we go to Mendenhall Glacier,
where you can walk this trail down the Nugget waterfalls
and you're up close and personal with a glacier, one
of twenty seven thousand glaciers in Alaska. And you'll see
the Mount Roberts tram. But no visit to Juno is
complete without a visit to the Red Dog Saloon, which
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takes you back to the gold Russian mining days.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Sawdust floors, an.
Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Old West atmosphere, and plenty of entertainment. And don't worry
about the name saloon. It's a very family friendly restaurant,
but it's it's in this historic saloon, So yeah, it's
a lot of fun. From Juno, we head to Glacier Bay,
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the granddaddy of them all, and then catch this. It
gets better and better. From Glacier Bay, we enter College Fjord.
Now it's a fjord, which means that the valley was
carved by glaciers millenniums ago. And now we sail into
collegege Fjord. Once we're in the in the fjord, there
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are thirteen glaciers that you can see. Now most cruises
you see one glacier We've already seen Glacier Bay, but
now we've got thirteen in one afternoon from College Fjord.
It's in College Fjord because it's the Harvard Glacier, the
Columbia Glacier, the Yale Glacier. I'm waiting for a Utah
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byu Weaber State, Southern Utah or Utah State or Slick
Salt Lake Community College.
Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
At all.
Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
No, let's say no, there have to be more glaciers
to name.
Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Okay, well, with climate change, maybe we'll get more glaciers
or they'll melt the glaciers.
Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
But from there we go up to Anchorage.
Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
You can extend your visit in Alaska or just fly home.
Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
I specifically pick these in late August August twenty third
to the thirtieth. Why because fall foliage in Alaska hits
in late August, and the quaking aspen the trees, of course,
the pine trees and fir trees, they're evergreens, but all
(01:04:18):
the other foliage is changing colors. It's a cornucopia of
color in the valleys and the mountains, and no guarantees.
But it's a greater opportunity to see the northern lights
because the Northern lights are best viewed in the fall
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and winter months, but fall is not here in the
end of August, but it is in Alaska, and you know,
the days are starting to shore. It's no guarantees, but
I have seen the northern lights, the Aurora boreality. It's
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just unbelievable. That's spectacular. So I'd love to have you
join me. We do our own short tours and excursions
August twenty third to the thirtieth with Princess Cruises on
the Sapphire Princess. We'll be having activities on board, exclusive
and private to our group. Do contact Morris Columbus Travel
(01:05:21):
and ask for Larry's Alaska August twenty third to the thirtieth.
I can't wait for you to see Vancouver, catch Akad, Juno, Skagway,
Glacier Bay, College, Fjord and Anchorage. And it's to me,
it's sensory overload. The you know, excuse me, I'm getting
(01:05:42):
too excited here. Rate start at just nine to twenty
five catch this including your taxes, including your fees, that's
your total price. Rates start from that. Keep in mind
that all rates are subject to change and availability at
the time of booking, but I just checked it five
minutes ago. In the nine to twenty five is an
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inside cabin. I recommend a balcony cabin. Of course, it's
sensory complete sensory overload for that. Okay, you know last
week I talked about this app I saw on It's
not really an app, but a posting on Instagram for
asap tickets dot Com.
Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
I went to their website.
Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
They were advertising Thailand, Manila and other destinations in Asia USA,
and what caught my attention was Bangkok, where I love Thailand.
Four hundred and seventy seven bucks round trip from the
United States, all taxes, all fees, and closed. I know
no such fair exist. It is absolutely impossible. But I
(01:06:53):
went to their website and then I checked out their company.
Website says they're in Ocean City, Maryland. So all the number,
I get a recording of some language that is pretty weird,
and so I just hang up. Two minutes later, they
must have captured the call already. I get this call
from a guy I can barely understand, and I ask
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him finally, where are you located? And he says, we're
in Turmekistan.
Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Turmkistan is a Central Asian country that's bordered on the
Caspian Sea.
Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
It's bordered by Afghanistan.
Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Ubekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran.
Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
That sounds like a great part of the world.
Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Yes, you know, and what And I said, okay, I
can go anytime, any date.
Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
What did they say?
Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
They they wanted personal information from me like that, Well,
one will give us your web your email address. I'm
not giving it, but so they're sending I was on
the phone for twelve or thirteen minutes. They never gave
me a date. They wanted personal information. I'd have to
buy it with a credit card. And I said, well,
(01:08:11):
I can go anytime, anytime. Well, give us this, give
us this, give us this, Termechistan. Come on, Carlos. I
mean red flags are going up everywhere, and that I
told you about this last week. So this week they
are calling me daily, once or twice a day.
Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
I don't answer.
Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
They're sending me text messages because they don't have my email,
asking for my email and asking me to click on
this link to get all the information. I am not
clicking on a link that I don't know from a
trusted source. Now I can't say they're scammers. I can't
say that. And I'm not saying that everyone should make
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their own informed decision, but there are so many red
flags on this there's no way in heaven or down
below that I would click on the link that is
coming for Turmkastan. And so I finally said, I mean
once or twice a day they're calling me and I
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won't answer the phone because I recognize the number. I'm
just saying, folks, be careful who you deal with. Make
sure it's a trusted source. And I'll tell you a
great trusted source, Morris Columbus Travel. I finally sent them
a text saying thank you, but no thank you, and
they're still calling me, Paul when we come back.
Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
You're listening to the travel show on talk radio one
oh five nine knrs. Just listen and you'll know.
Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
The Bien Beneto's a travel show. So letty Gelwicks they
get away Guru, you know me and Migo Carlos.
Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
As Muy Bonito as Mui guoffo. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
I just thought with that mariachi music, you know, you
should have seen Carlos. He was dancing here in the studio.
I had to bring him back to his chair. I
am on one today. What next week is your payback?
Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
I will take all the beatings and stripes that you
give me. Fair enough, Will you prepare yourself this week?
Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
I'm prepared. I have a page and a half.
Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Very good. Hey, listen.
Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
For those in the Salt Lake area using the Salt
Lake International Airport, we recommend parking Jet. They have a
personal service, free car wash, they pick you up right
at your car, and what I like about it there
there is one other off airport parking option, a major one.
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It's parking Jet and this one of the two big
I like parking Jet because it's locally owned. We always
talk about locally owned, but the money stays here and
is spent here in Utah rather than going to some
other place.
Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
So parking Jet here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
If you'll go to morriscolumbus dot com, there's a toolbar
across the top. It says home, find travel all of that.
Click on resources. Just click on that and then click
on travel resources and the very first entry is parking Jet.
You print a twenty percent off parking coopa. Now what
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you want to do is print a half a dozen
of them. Keep them in your glove park, give them
a glove compartment, give them to your family twenty bucks.
Excuse me, twenty percent can save you a ton of
money off your parking bill.
Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
You know another important thing, this is my own experience
with them, the people that drive, they're so kind, they
take it of your luggage, that make you feel and
they pick you up at your car. I mean, it's
nothing like that I have seen anywhere. This is a transfer.
Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Now you actually were born and raised in Argentina, despite
my joking with you, but your family is of Italian heritage.
Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
My parents tell me if.
Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
You could pick one Italian food or dish, just one pizza. Well, pizza, yes,
you're like margarita, you like it loaded? Yes, yes, yes,
I that would probably be mine. Also for that, well,
you can satisfy your craving. Today and tomorrow in Salt
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Lake City is Festa not Fiesta Festa Italiana down at
the Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City today. It's going
on right now noon to ten pm. Tomorrow noon to
seven pm. It's free entry. It's just there at the
gateway and Fest Italiana Salt Lake is a non profit
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festival funded in part by the residents of the Salt
Lake County. Through the Zoo's Arts and Parks Department, and
through Catholic Community services and Italian organizations, guests will enjoy
Italian food, dancing, musical entertainment, Italian cars, local Italian art,
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and much much more. That's Festa Italiana today and tomorrow
down at the gateway. And by the way, did you
know here in America the top three most popular Italian foods.
Number one is pizza, of course, number two is lasagna,
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and number three is spaghetti with meat polls, those are
as far as the most popular Italian foods. I've found
the biggest difference between Italian food here in the US
generally speaking, and in Italy is that two differences. One is,
in America we sauce the pasta much more, and you
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taste pasta rather than excuse me, you taste sauce rather
than pasta. And in Italy they are so particular about
the type of pasta, where did the flour come from,
what grain is it? And they want to taste the
pasa perfumed or accented by sauce. Now, if you want
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a great Italian meal, go down to Vaulters. It's kind
of pricey there. In downtown Salt Lake. But it is
a great, great meal. So that's today and tomorrow. I
want to remind you I mentioned it earlier of a
British Isles and France cruise that I'll be personally hosting.
It's July seven to twenty. We visit England, Ireland, Northern Ireland,
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Scotland and France. There's a chance to take the train
down to Paris on one of our shore excursions there.
That'll be offered and I'd love to have you join me.
It's the Ultimate British Isles July seventh to twenty next
year England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and France. We mentioned earlier.
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Carlos still has a couple of spots on his Ecuador
and Galapagos departing October the eleventh, My Alaska August twenty
third to the thirtieth. I'll be with you on Iceland, Norway, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands, Belgium and England. That is the Iceland to
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London group June twelve to twenty two. And who could
forget the.
Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Which one did I did? I leave out there?
Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
British Isles, Oh, I know, Africa, that's a land tour
next summer.
Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
I'll be taking a group.
Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Well listen, have a great day, Be careful what this
count ticket website that you go to.
Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
But we'll be back next week.
Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
And may I just express our appreciation of you joining
us every week. We love travel, We eat, drink, sleep, travel.
You have a great week and good luck to all
the State of Utah football teams today
I'm not hearing myself. Oh now I've got it. Now
it's just come in and welcome to the Travel Show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks, that Getaway Guru joined today in studio
back from his travels across the world. Ah, Carlos Fieda,
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the one, the only, the Argentinian gaucho himself. We've got
a great show planned today. We're going to be talking
about the UK a new travel fee, yes, a cost
to go to England and the United Kingdom. You remember
those Goza protesters that disrupted airports, Well, a day of
justice has come to them, customs and manners around the world.
(00:57):
Carlos will be taking us to Latin America. The business
development manager from Viking Cruises will be joining us, and
some Hawaii fun facts. We just got a great show
ahead of us today. We'd love to have you to
join us as part of the show. You really are
the best part of the show. Triple eight five seven
oh eight oh one Oh that's eight eight eight five
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seventy eighty ten. Particularly if you have a question about
Southeast Asia or anywhere in the world, but particularly Latin America.
Carlos is the walking Google of all information related to
South America, Latin America, everywhere that you want to go.
That's eight eight eight five seventy eight zero one zero. Well, Carlos,
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we've been talking on the show for about two years
something called real ID that changes how you can check
in for an airline flight will be an acceptable form
of government issued ID. Well, real Idea is coming, and
it's kind of like serious time to start thinking about
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making sure that your driver's license or ID is up
to date. The US Department of Homeland Security and the
DOT Department of Transportation just published a note in the
Federal Register, which is a daily journal of the federal government,
regarding the rollout of new security standards that drivers' licenses
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and state ID cards have to meet in order to
be used for federal purposes, including passing through airport security checkpoints,
beginning in the spring of next year twenty twenty five. Now,
after multiple delays, DHS Department of Homeland Security says its
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latest deadline is May seventh, twenty twenty five, is locked
in for officially permitting or implementing the real ID requirement
for domestic air travel. Now international, of course, you still
have to have a valid passport. One thing to keep
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in mind when you're traveling overseas with a passport, is
what is the validity requirement that different countries impose for
the passport. For example, most countries around the world require
your passport. And I'm speaking of a US passport, not
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the born identity where you have six or seven. Okay,
I actually have two passports, Canadian and US, and I'm
glad i have that. You know, God save the King
and all that business. Long leave the may, long live
the maple leaf. But meaning let's say I'm travel well,
I'll be going to Thailand in January and I'll be
(04:03):
flying back from Cambodia with our annual Thailand Legends of Siam, which,
by the way, we will be introducing the January twenty
twenty six Thailand Cambodia Legends of Siam Tour by the
end of the month. Don't call yet because it's not ready.
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We're making we're just finalizing all of our reservations. But
you may remember the January twenty twenty five tour. We
put it out there for sale in February. I think
it was sold out in one week. So for January
twenty twenty six. By the end of this month, we'll
have it out there. But I fly back from PanAm
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Pen Cambodia, I believe it's January nineteenth, all right. That
means that my passport has to be valid through July nineteenth,
six months a minimum of that. Now, subcountries only require three.
Mexico the last time I checked, required it be valid
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on the day across the border. You know, I've always thought, well,
you know what is today September fourteenth. So I go
to Mexico and my passport expires September fourteenth or September fifteenth,
It's not valid when I come back, So you want
to check that out. But anyway, beginning May seventh, twenty
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twenty five, those presenting a state issued driver's license or
ID card at the airport must present a real ID
compliant card. Now, passengers without the compliant ID may face
delays at the identity verification. They may even be turned away.
The government said they're gonna they're not going to be
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super duper strict. Initially there will be some flexibility, but
at a short time afterwards it will become hardcore.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
With that.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now, the question is what does it mean to be
real ID compliant. The good news is you may already
be compliant, and you can look at let's take a
Utah driver's license. If you will look in the upper
right or left hand corner, depending on what states you're from.
In Utah, it's the upper right hand corner. There's a
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there's a star. That means that you're real ID compliant.
But folks, you say, hey, well that's next spring. Next
spring will be here before you know it. Now, do
you know what the number one oversees travel destination? Trans
oceanic not I mean you got Mexico and Canada you
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can drive to or whatever. But as far as crossing
an ocean, Carlos, what is the number one destination the
United That's right right, England in particular in the UK
is the number one transoceanic destinations for Americans. Well, Americans
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are going to have to start paying to go. We
have a visa reciprocity program. We don't need of we
being US citizens. So it might be different from you
being from Guadalajara. I don't know what it is for you, Carlos,
But for US, passports mean visa free means that we
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can go to say England or the UK without getting
an advanced visa visa is not a credit card. I
actually had that happen on a tour. We said, now
we were going to China, and we said, you have
to get a China visa. We will process it for you,
or you can just do it on your own. The
guy says, no, no, I'll take care of it. I
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have a visa. I have a visa. I have a visa.
Shows up at the airport and they ask for his
visa and he pulls out his credit card. I have
a visa credit card. No, no, no, did you take
your meds this morning or months ago? This is a
travel visa is a government issued authorization from the country
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that you intend to visit, granting you permission to enter
their country. For for example, if you want to go
to China, you have to get an advance visa for that. Well,
the United States has a visa waiver program with many
countries around the world, meaning your citizens can come to
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America visa free. You still have to go through immigration
and customs. And we can go to England as I
did in July, flew into London and we can go
there visa free. Well, anyway, starting January eighth of next year,
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there will be an Electronic Travel Authorization ETA. In this case,
it doesn't mean estimated time of arrival. It means electronic
travel authorization. This requirement applies to all visitors, regardless of age,
including children and infants, who can travel visa free to
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the UK. That includes Americans. But you have to fill
out this ETA online in advance. It's gonna cost ten pounds.
I wish I could lose ten pounds, but here ten
British pounds are sterling is about thirteen dollars and it's
good for multiple entries up to six months over a
two year period. So why is it that we just
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love the UK? It's the number one favorite? Why is that?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, one will be because many many of the people
live in here have an ancestry from England.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Then the England has.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So much history, because every region of history has a history,
and maybe some of them are attached to your own
relatives who came here during there.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Whether we have a family genealogical tie to the King UK.
We all have in this country a cultural I mean
we kicked them out in seventeen seventy six, okay anyway,
but there's a historical, cultural and culinary richness to the UK.
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We'll talk more about this when we come back here
on the Travel Show.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You're listening to the Travel Show on Talk Radio one
oh five nine can ors.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Just listen and you'll know.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwiz. They
get Away Guru join today, the lovely, the talented Carlos Feta.
Is that straight. I am the getaway Guru. He is
the guadalajaraor Guru. You know, Carlos and I have been
the best of friends for almost forty years. And by
(11:25):
the way, our banter back and forth is by mutual
approval and affection. And the best part, let me tell
you the best part. On Mondays when I see Carlos
at the Morris Columbus office. He has a lot of
people at his church congregation. They're and bountiful listen to
(11:48):
the show and a lot of people listen to the show,
and they will talk about the hard time that I
give Carlos, and then they take delight when Carlos gives
it back to me double time.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I do.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That's a true statement, is it? Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It is? But I mean why not? I mean, we
have been known, we have friends.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
We're not going to be offended by some of the
nice things that you tell me, a nicer ones that
I tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Larry, What did I just say to you about sixty
seconds ago at our station break? I said to Carlos,
You're always welcome on the travel show, but not just welcome,
but appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Didn't I just say that those very words, very very words.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, Well, we were talking about travel to the UK,
and what is it about the UK, Carlos that we
you know, Americans just love.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Well. First of all, we share the same language, even
though if.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You go well, I share the same language, Yes you do.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
But anyway, you know some places in England I don't understand.
They're cogn not just a conny. I mean you go
to some other regions.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
How about a deep Scottish accent, a deep Welch or
Irish accent. Oh my gosh, that's that is so much fun.
Do you go to England for the food?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Actually yes, I say yes, now there's yes, yes, But
it's always been said the best food in England is
ethnic food, Italian, Indian, French.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, but the English fish and chips.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Now, I'm very disappointed in my homeland because some years
ago they outlawed fish and chips in newspaper.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Because the ink.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think the ink added to not only the flavor,
but the atmosphere.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I think.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I'm sure there are scientific studies that say British newspaper
ink lubricates the heart. I'm sure of it. But you
can't wrap but in newspaper.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That was part of the fun of it.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
But you know the other thing I love. They're called pasti's.
It's it's uh, it's almost it's.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It's dough with a filling.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
What do they fill it in?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It's like a hot pie in Australia New Zealand. You
know steak and cheese, steak and and mushroom chicken. Well,
a shepherd's pie is more like a casserole dish. But
it's called a pasti and it is it's dough. What
what is it that you bring to the office all
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the time. It's like a giant empanada comprende.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
But I don't particularly care. I lived there for four
years and believe me, I lost weight.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
So if you want to lose weight to go there,
very very good.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, let me tell you a couple of programs and
I I'll have the pleasure of hosting both of these programs.
First in June, it's an Iceland to London. It's June
twelve to twenty two. Now this is with Norwegian Cruise
line that has a free airfare offer. It's really a
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buy one, get one free. The thing you have to
know about their airfare it's legit, but they pick the airline.
You can't even request, say well, I want to fly United,
I want to fly Dela. You can't do that. They'll
put you on a major airline day will get you there.
But let me give you an example. This particular one
is Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and England. It's a wonderful
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twelve day cruise on a new ship Withgian, the Norwegian Prima,
and I love that ship. It really really works. But
when Kathy and I went last year in twenty twenty three,
my airline ticket Salt Lake to London home from rekkievic
Iceland was sixteen hundred dollars. I priced that out on
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both United and Delta and was over twenty two hundred dollars,
so it was a discount for me about sixteen hundreds.
But Kathy flew absolutely free, which gave us a effective
airfare of eight hundred dollars per person in the summertime
into Europe.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You can't touch that. You can't touch it now.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't know what the discount airfare is now this
when we fly into Rekivic, Iceland will bake three stops
in Iceland. I love Iceland. Then on to Norway, the
Norwegian Fjords at flam olissen Bergen, and then down to
Well I'll be Amsterdamed and onto Bruges, Belgium. Ladies, do
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you love lace? Well, I know, Carlos. I'm looking at
your attire heavily in lace today. It's the lace capital
of the world. And then across the channel to Southampton.
You can fly straight home, but we're going to have
an optional three day, two night London option. Samuel Johnson said,
when a man is tired of London, he is tired
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of life. Winston Churchill is usually credited with that statement,
but actually Samuel Johnson, perhaps Britain's greatest man of letters,
a scholar, a poet, everything, a political leader, said, when
you're tired of London, you're tired of our I was
there just in July.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I love London.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
England is wonderful. I mean not just England, but I
mean Wales. I love Wales. Wales is a wonderful place.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So we'll see Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and England. The
one thing to remember on everything in travel, be it
an airline ticket, a hotel room, a cruise cabin, the
price is not static, meaning it's fixed, it never changes.
It's like anything else. It's econ one oh one supply
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and demand. When that airplane fills up, the hotel fills up,
the cruise ship starts filling up, prices go up, up, up, up.
Now is the time to book it. So the dates
again are June twelve to twenty two. You can go early,
you can stay much later if you want. I mean,
it's like you're in the neighborhood in Europe. Why not
see a few more things. Go down to Italy or Paris.
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All the details at morriscolumbus dot commorriscolumbus dot com more
when we come back with Customs.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And Manners around the World.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You're listening to the Travel Show every weekend at this
time on this very station, and we broadcast from the
Rocky mountains all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, Florida, Texas.
We have a great listening audience. I'm Larry Gelwicks, the
getaway Guru, your humble host. Humility a character trait. Carlos
(19:15):
is shaking his head, a character trait I have never
been accused of. Now, Carlos is a humble man, which
is understandable. Boy, I have on one today. You take
every space you have to understand the dynamics of our dear,
dear friendship. I am Carlos's loyal fan, his biggest fan.
(19:40):
He's the walking Google of travel information to Latin America.
But for forty years we have kind of kibbets to
each other. Yes, we like that, we do. We do,
and we've traveled the world together. We told you a
couple of weeks ago about that in galapa Ghosts. In fact, hey,
(20:01):
I want you to talk about Galapagos maybe next segment,
would you do that? Sure, it's one of my favorite
tours ever. Anyway, we were talking about the UK, that
incredible Iceland to London, which is June twelve to twenty two.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Next year.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
We'll be doing our own short excursions and I particularly
love the Fjords of Norway. It's just something about it.
I have one other UK tour that we've never done before.
It is the first time we've had people asking for
years and years, and no, it's not the Tattoo of
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the Angel Moroni that's all over your back. It's the
Tattoo Festival of Scotland, the biggest, the largest bagpipe and
drum corps festival in the world, viewed by over one
hundred million people worldwide, and it's in all August only.
We finally have put a tour together August eleven to
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twenty one of next year. We'll be visiting Scotland, Wales
and England. Now in Scotland, I just I absolutely love
Scotland and that fierce independence that they have. Of course
being subjected to the British rule for centuries would bring
out a bit of nationalism, I think. But there is
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the Highlands, the heather, every the longest month, language, the
language if you can understand it. But it's very interesting.
The Tattoo Festival again, nothing to do with ink on
your arm. The word tattoo really doesn't have much to
do with this type of performance. It comes from what's
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called last call in Dutch pubs, which I know when
you were in the Argentinian Navy you were very familiar with.
But it's called last call. In the sixteen hundreds, do
din top tooy dodn top tooy was the call that
the someone from the regiment would be walking through the
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town and he would call out dou ten top tu,
which was an expression that loosely meant last call, meaning
turn the taps off, send the soldiers back to the
barracks if they can walk. And how that became tattoo.
(22:35):
The last one is taptou taptou tap too top two
tattoo is what it eventually evolved itself in. But you
know interesting, the earliest records of bagpipes in Scotland date
to the fourteen hundreds, but many historians believe that bagpipes
originated in ancient Egypt. Now, I got to tell you something.
(23:00):
My graduate school included Hebrew, Jewish studies, Coptic, Yes, Coptic
being one of the Egyptian languages and Egyptian religions. There's
even a small congregations of Coptics in Egypt today. Yeah,
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or they're Coptic Christians now. But it originated anciently as
one of the religions that was practiced there. But in
all of my graduate studies on Egyptology and things, I
never heard any talk of bagpipes. But as I've read
this and researched this for the Tattoo festival, Yes, many
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historians believe they came. They were probably brought to Scotland, however,
by the Roman legions and the Scots tribes coming over
from Ireland. But originally many historians believe that it came
from England.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
The dates are August eleven to twenty one. Do you
remember the movie How Green was My Valley about the
coal miners in Wales.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I love that movie, old black and white movie.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wales in the coal mining area looks just like that,
the row houses, and again that fierce welch independence. And
by the way, they played good rugby in Wales, better
rugby in Ireland. But and then of course England. I mean,
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I love England. You know what's interesting about England?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
For me?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I am only three generations from living in England. My
great grandfather immigrated when he was eleven years old with
his family from England. I actually have a detailed drawing
of the boat they sailed on. It was in the
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eighteen seventies and I have a photo of the ship's
log with his name, his parents' name and other siblings.
And one of the greatest experiences of my life. They
were living in West Lulworth, England. Now, think of going
south from London to Salisbury and then going west along
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the coast to about an hour and to a town
called West Lulworth. There's Lolworth and we Lulworth. It's a
wee village and there's an old stowed Anglican church where
his name is on the baptismal record back in the
eighteen seventies. Actually, yeah, eighteen seventies. And there's a swimming hole.
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It's called the Lulworth West Lolworth Swimming Pond and it's
ocean water.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It opens to the North Sea. Yes, it's cold.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It will grab your attention, especially you guys when you
walk in the water. Okay, I'll just leave it at that.
And there's a footpath from the village down to the
swimming hole, one footpath that's been there for centuries and
I walked that down to the swimming hole. Again, it's
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north sea water. It's very cold, but that's what they
had and I thought, how many times did my great
grandfather walk this very path, sit in this very church
where I'm sitting, this old stone church, very very small,
sit right here, and then sailed to America. They settled
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in Ohio. They thought that was out west. But I mean,
there's a there's a pole for me to England.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You know. I have the same experience.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
My great great grandfather, Samuel A. Woolley, served a mission
for the LDS Church in eighteen fifty four to India.
I'll be in India in November, by the way, on
that wonderful Spice Route cruising tour. And we have his journal,
four hundred and fifty two pages. I have walked and
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I've held that journal in my hand. It's in the
church historian's office now. But I have walked in India,
in the squares, in the plazas, the very streets that
he named myself. And he was a I'll tell you
the greatest miracle. He walked from Salt Lake City to California, walked,
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sailed across the Pacific in one of those old clipper ships,
stopped in what was then the Sandwich Islands, which is
present day Hawaii. He was still under I think at
that time, which king Kamehameha the third? I think it
was when he was there and then across the Pacific
to China, through Southeast Asia and to India, spent three years,
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much of it alone, the greatest miracle. In eighteen fifty seven,
a letter from Brigham Young shows up in India.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
He was in.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Calcutta, the black hole of Calcutta or Coolcutta as it's
pronounced now more indigenous.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
A letter shows up.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
How did a letter in those days in eighteen fifty
seven get across the Pacific saying it's time to come home?
By the way, he was married with kids, and he
left for three years. He's a much better man than
I am. And then he earned some money, sailed to
Boston and then traveled much of it by foot from
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Boston to Salt Lake. Showed up at home unannounced. What
a history. Now I have an interesting picture of Samuel A. Woolley,
because it's the tradition that when you sail across the
equator you put you have an air. So I have
Elder Woolley, a Mormon missionary, with an ear.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Ring you don't have.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
When are you gonna wear that?
Speaker 6 (29:10):
You know?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I did that once I did. I gotta tell you
this story. This is really funny. And when I was
in the California Fresdo Mission, we had missionaries who wore
ear rings.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I allowed it on the sisters. The sister missionary is
gonna wear ear rings anyway. Okay, this is just a
personal story. That's a great one. So we had a
ward party, all right, and you know, I'm crazy, all right, certifiably.
And I went to my teenage daughter and I asked
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if I could borrow one of her ear rings. You know,
it was a gold ball or brass ball with a magnet.
So I didn't pierce my ear I thought, you know,
we need to loosen up a little bit in our ward.
And so I put the ear ring on. And I
don't know what ear I'm told that left right supposed
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to mean something, and I have no idea what it
might mean anymore. Anyway, So I put it in, wore
this ear ring, and people were I mean, this was
twenty five thirty years ago, when today it's commonplace for
men to many men to wear an ear ring. Not
back thirty years ago, you know, and people are saying, oh, Larry,
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what's that on your ear, and I said, oh, do
you like it? I think it's kind of decorative, you know,
And some people laughed at others were hyperventilating. Finally I
took it off because it was a magnet. I said, people, relax,
just relax, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I wonder the comments of some of the people.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, listen, we got surprisingly, we got off topic. So
I wanted to talk about customers and manners and a
couple of what would you do in this situation. We'll
do that probably in the second hourcat next segment, I
want you to talk about Galapagos a little bit. But
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remember the two UK tours June twelve to twenty two
is Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and England June twelve to
twenty two, and then the Tattoo Festival August eleven to
twenty one, which is Scotland, Wales and England. By the way,
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I have won more British isles in July, England, Scotland, Ireland, France.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Hey, lot's here on the travel show.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What is it.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
About South America that is such a draw once people
go there?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Well, there are many places to be seen. You know,
people think that South America is kind of like, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Makes call the food and it's all the same.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And that is everything in the same, which is not.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
It is not because each region, each country has their
own customs and their own different history.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You know, what's fascinating to me is that in South America,
in various countries, there are three languages that are the
first language spoken. Everybody knows Spanish, probably everybody knows Brazil Portuguese,
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but there are countries where the official first language is English.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah, that would be in the Caribbean region or in Guatemala.
In Guatemala, there is one little piece of Guatemala, well
it was called Those countries were called with an English name.
They were conquered by the British and they stay British
and they speak the language. Of course it's not the
same English that we speak here in the United States
or in England, but yes.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
It is. Call it ghetto English.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Look at this thing.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
What about the other countries, like Peru has two official language,
the Spanish and.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Well in South America, Guyana Guana English is the first.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Language, the official lie.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Most people speak more, but everybody thinks it's the same.
It's such a diverse continent. And one of our favorite
that you and I have traveled together is Ecuador and Galapagos.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
There's nothing like it in the world anywhere.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
No, it cannot be reproduced anywhere else in the world.
Whether the animals on the version or they are just
two feet away from you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
They've never learned to fear Man's It must have been
what the Garden of Eden was like, with the lamb
laid down with the lion. And I mean, people, there
are no lions in Galapagos, but you know what I'm
saying with that. And Ecuador itself, Quito is the iconic
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colonial city, the architecture, the cobblestone streets, and I remember
one time you and I were in Ecuador together and
there was a political demonstration. Remember that they were protesting
the government. It was a pretty large demonstration. When they
were done, the people went around and picked up any
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pieces of paper trash, they swept. They actually swept the area.
There was no graffiti, there was no spray pain, there's
no tearing down monuments. I mean, I think I'm all
for peaceful protest. I love that I live in a
country with the First Amendment, but I think we have
lost our minds and with demonstrations. I'll talk a little
(34:43):
bit about that in the second hour, about the Hamas
Gaza protesters that totally disrupted airports and what's happening to them.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
But it's such a clean city. But tell us.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You have a program, yes, Ecuador, and go up and
goes next month. Now it's it's coming up pretty quick,
just short of a month away. But you could still
sign up. Somebody sign up this week. Yes, that's right.
And you know what, I'm one couple. I can get
the rooms, I can get everything arranged. And there is
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no infactive in the air.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You know, that could be cheaper now because you know
air changes from month to months, from day to day.
So that will be a magnificent tour, you know, because
it lives in October.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
October. Why did I choose October?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Carlo?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Excuse me? Yes, why did you choose October?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Because you can eat you can eat lobster, because there
is a season in which you cannot fish for lobster.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So that's what I put it. And then the weather conditions.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You know, it's a mild weather in the seventies seventy five,
you know, it never goes too far, except that the
sun is very strong when you go up to the
high altitude.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It's a wonderful tour.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
All the details at Morriscolumbus dot com morriscolumbus dot com.
On the homepage Morris Columbus dot com, scroll down to
Morris murdoch Escorted tours. If it's a cruise like I
talked about, you know, Iceland to London, British Isles, which
is in July, click on cruises. If it's a land
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tour like the Tattoo Festival or the Galapagos Ecuador tour,
click on the geographic region South America of South America.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
What's your favorite food in South America?
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Well, I like seafood.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Seafood, the best fresh seafood, really fresh, not the fresh
that they haven't just miss you know here it is
it is in Peru, in egualor in Chile, because there
are countries slate border with the sea and so that's great.
But of course in Argentina the best food is a
big steak, that is that's it. And the taste of
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the meat is so different from what we have here.
For example, you got to be a restaurant here and
they said, okay, this meat has been aged twenty eight days.
In Argentina, if the meat is two days old is rotten,
nobody will eat it. So these are things that make
a difference, you know, in our cuisine in South America,
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you know, like the steake in Buenos Aires, or the
lamb in southern Argentina and southern Chile, the seafood in chiliull.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I would say, my favorite has to be the seafood.
But Cardada, of course, that's that's it.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Hey more, when we.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Come back in our number two of the Travel Show,
we're gonna be talking about what a survey showed is
one of life's greatest regrets. Welcome back to our number
(38:03):
two of the Travel Show. Carlos and I have been
waiting anxiously for the top of the hour news and
commercials to go so we can join with you again.
I'm Larry Gelwiz, the Getaway Guru. Join with my me ambigo,
diketo mucho now yo tambien uh. Carlos feeda director of
(38:26):
Latin American sales at Morris Columbus Travel. More Morris Columbus
Travel check out the website Morris Coolumbus dot Commorriscolumbus dot
com or give them a call one eight hundred triple
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forty six forty six. If you have the direct line
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of a travel advisor, then just call the direct line
skip the recorded greeting there. All right, I want to
ask you what would you do? And by the way,
we invite any of our listeners uh to give us
a call on what you would do? Triple eight five
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Speaker 2 (39:10):
Eighth one oh. All right.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
When your flight is canceled, Carlos and you're stuck somewhere overnight,
the hotel might give you a hotel room for the night.
It often depends on your medallion status, the.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Length of the delay. Is it their fault? Now?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
For a weather delay, airlines aren't gonna do anything for you,
and nor should they. That's that's yeah, it's mother nature.
But when it's their fault, which you know, I hate
to say this, but some airlines to work for them,
you have to be a pathological liar, my goodness, because
they don't want to pay out anything, they don't want
(39:53):
to take responsibility. But if they give you a room,
it's often after a long line and a long wait,
eating into the time you're actually able to sleep. And
even though airlines might provide your room automatically through their app,
there may not be any rooms available. Even though there's
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rooms at the hotel. The airline has a contract rate
and they don't want to pay much anything more than that,
or they might not be willing to do one room
per passenger. Now, what would you do in this situation?
Easy Jet, which is one of the low cost airlines
(40:37):
that flies all over Europe, requires not suggests, but requires
passengers to double up in hotel rooms, even if they're
not related, even if they don't know each other. Now,
one room. A woman just reported that she was being
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told that if she didn't agree to share a room
with a man she had never met, she'd have to
dissleep in the hotel lobby or out on the lawn
or something like that. In this case, this is unbelievable.
She wasn't even given a room with two double beds.
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It was one queen.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Yeah, and so maybe you say, well, let me see
this person first. Oh, he's handsome, Okay, But anyway she
talked about she was so exhausted that she said, I've
got to have a bed. She's not going to sleep
on the floor in a hotel lobby. And so yeah,
she slept in the same bed, terrified in a hotel room.
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Now what would you By the way, Eric Canada did
the same thing to a hotel room. It had two
beds in the hotel room. America Airlines made three passengers
sleep in the same room and one had to sleep
on the floor. But the worst is a Chinese airline
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once made They said this is the only hotel we
can get. It was an S and M themed hotel.
You know, whips and chains, strobe lights. It's like, what
is going on here? So you know, the quality of
the hotel some airlines will pick is often appalling. But
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you know, the Biden administration did pressure airlines through mayor
Pete at the DOT to agree to cover hotel and
meal charge.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
So what would you do. You're traveling.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
And you got overnight and they put another man another
woman in your hotel room.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
I will never say I rather sleep in the uncomfortable
seats at the airport rather than accept something like that,
and then I we'd report to the DOT.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
I wouldn't do it either. I just wouldn't do it,
not just from a appropriateness, but from a safety you know,
is this that Texas chainsaw massacre. I've actually slept in
airports on a few occasions. My last one was last
year coming back from Africa. I was on a Kenya
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Airways flight out of Nairobi and the flight was canceled,
but our visa was single entry, which we did ten
days earlier, and if we were to go and once
you go through passport control to leave the country, your
visa is canceled. If we had left and gone outside.
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In fact, the airline told us, well, we'll put you
up in a hotel room. Just walk out down to
the main check in area. I'm walking and I said,
and we had a group of people and I said,
wait a minute, We're on a single entry visa, and
the Kenya Airwaves lady said, oh, no, it doesn't make
any difference, and I said, better check on this one.
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She calls and I can't hear the person on the
other phone, but when she says, oh my, I figured,
and she said, yes, if you leave, you will have
visa problems in a fine So I slept on the
floor inside security at the Nairobi airport, just put my
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bag down and just didn't sleep very well.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
I had an interesting occasion at the Chicago O'Hare airport
some years ago with American Airlines, which is kind of,
I don't know, kind of a sorry airline right now,
coming back to Salt Lake and it was what we
call a rolling delay. What it will be thirty minutes,
an hour, hour and a half, two hours, and they
kept So I walked and they said, there's a ATC
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air Traffic Control weather delay. I'm looking out, it's not
raining here. I check. I was flying to Salt Lake City.
It's not raining in Salt Lake City. And so I
go up to the departure gate, you know, and the
agency behind the desk I said, They said, yes, it's
going to be another hour, and now we're two and
(45:21):
a half three hours delay. And I said I'd like
a meal voucher please, And she says, oh, well, I'm sorry,
but for ATC weather delays, you know, it's really not
our fault and so we don't give them. I held
up my cell phone and turned it to her. I
was on ATC. They have a website an app, and
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I said there is no weather delay in Chicago or
Salt Lake City or anywhere in between. In fact, if
you look out there, there's a mechanic that has opened
up the left engine. And she just looks at me
and I said, I'd like my meal voucher. She handed
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me one, of course, I mean she was lying through
her teeth. But then I did a Gelwick's classic. I
immediately did a one to eighty turnaround about face. I
held up the meal voucher because other people have been
asking and were turned away, and I said, hey, look,
I just got a meal voucher.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
I bet they.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Give you one too, And there was this heart of
people coming up to the departure counter, meal voucher, meal voucher,
meal voucher, and boy, she gave me the skunk, I
the stinky. And she's handing out these meal vouchers right
and left, and hopefully it cost them hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
It depends how much that's right. So what would you do?
What would you do?
Speaker 1 (46:45):
You know, A survey was taken, an international survey about
some of the biggest regrets that we have in life,
and right there at the top I had to do
with there are two things that where way had one
is more time with family. I remember my neighbor Steve,
who saw him once and he says, you know, Larry,
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he'd just been to a retirement dinner. He said, I
hear the same thing at every retirement dinner I go to.
I wish I had spent more time with my family.
My kids are grandkids, particularly when they were young.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
He said.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
What I've never heard is anyone say, you know, as
I'm retiring, I sure wish that I'd gone to the
office earlier. I sure wish I had worked on the weekends.
But so it was family, but right there with it
was I wish I'd traveled more. I've told the story
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of a couple who are travel and I tell the
story with the women's permission. They were travel show listeners
and they always wanted to travel. They finally retire hiring.
He was sixty seven, she was about sixty five ish,
and they're finally going to take their first big trip.
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And they're sitting in my office and I'm say, where
do you want to go? And he was humming and
han and something just clicked in me and I said,
go while you can do it, while you can't. He said,
that's right, and they went on this tour with me. Sadly,
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six months later he passed away unexpected. To this day
she gets tearful thanking me. That was their one big trip.
Go while you can do it, while you can, Hey,
when we come back, it's Viking Cruises.
Speaker 5 (48:44):
You're listening to the travel show on talk radio one
oh five nine kN rs.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Just listen and you'll know you're listening to the travel show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks. They Get Away Guru, join by Carlos Fieda, Miamigo,
the director of Latin American Sales at Morris Columbus Travel.
Be sure to check out all the great Land tours
(49:10):
and cruise options at Morriscolumbus dot commorriscolumbus dot com. Just
scroll down on the homepage and click on Morris Murdoch
escorted tours. You can book those directly with the group
deportment or with your favorite Morris Columbus Travel advisors, or
give Morris Columbus a call at one eight hundred triple
(49:32):
nine forty six forty six. One eight hundred triple nine
forty six forty six. We'd like to welcome back to
our show one of our best friends. Reiner, Mark's business
development manager with Viking Cruises. Reiner, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 6 (49:51):
Thank you so much, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
You know, I did a I do a travel report
every Monday as a reporter, a television reporter on KUTV
Channel two, which is the CBS network affiliate for Utah,
Southern Idaho and the six people that live in Eastern Nevada.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
And I did a.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Story about, in fact, it was this past Monday, about
Viking Cruises, and I made the comment that, you know,
ocean cruises, river cruises are absolutely wonderful, the number one
best travel value out there right now, hands down. But
I said, most companies specialize in ocean cruises or river cruises. Now,
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this KUTV report is not a commercial, it's a straight
news I may be in the studio with the anchors,
I may be somewhere on location, but every Monday, for
the last fifteen years, I do a television news reporter
strictly travel news. And I mentioned that Viking Cruises is
the only major cruise line that I'm aware of that
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does both ocean and river cruises. And we have a
couple of information seminars where Rhiner, you're going to be
in Utah coming up next week?
Speaker 6 (51:14):
Yes, looking forward to Itiner, Absolutely, I will be there.
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (51:21):
Yeah? I lost you there just for a minute.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
Let's first talk about September nineteenth in Ogden dinner at
the Union Grill. Tickets are just eight dollars per person.
It starts at six. Good These are ticketed events, so
you have to get the tickets. What are you going
to be talking about at these information seminars.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Oh, Larry, I have so many great news about Viking.
As you mentioned, we're not only doing rivers, we're doing oceans.
We recently started doing expedition cruises. And we have a
beautiful ship domestically here on the Mississippi River. So there's
a lot of new information that I'm bringing with me
rate images. So I hope I see a lot of
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your listeners there at the Grill.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
That is on September Thursday, September nineteenth, at the Union
Grill in Ogden, It's at Cruise Night with dinner at Viking.
Tickets or just six dollars. Contact your favorite Morris Columbus
travel advisor or just go to Morriscolumbus dot com to
get your tickets and then I've never seen a cruise
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line do a night with the symphony on Friday, September twentieth,
it's my understanding. Starting at about six o'clock, you'll have
an information seminar about Viking followed by a performance of
the Utah Symphony. Light refreshments will be served. Tickets rene
are just ten dollars. You can't go to the symphony
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for ten dollars, but with Viking cruises you can.
Speaker 6 (52:53):
It will be absolutely spectacular, you know, And an event
with the Utah Symphony, it just makes sense because King
does is really taking people in the destination. We focus
on the culture, on the music, on the traditions, on
the history. So doing an event where we have wonderful
music and such a beautiful location that is just a
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perfect fit.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Now I want to let's talk about promotions. People are
always looking for a deal. You still have some offers
on eight day Ryan or Danube at a rate starting
at just nineteen ninety nine per person double ogiviency, keeping
in mind that rates vary by departure and are subject
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to availability and change. The type of booking tell us
about nineteen ninety nine and discounted airfare.
Speaker 6 (53:43):
Yeah, I could barely believe it myself. So there's discounted
airfare on all of those europe cruises on the rivers.
But these are Ryan and Daniels sailing still available, and
we're looking at sailings that take us to the Christmas
markets in twenty twenty four, of sailings in twenty twenty
five that are available, but still like you said, in
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twenty four, some Christmas market cruises that are still available
that close to sailed it. And then a lot of
amazing sailings in an amazing office for next year twenty
twenty five on rivers on oceans. But like you said
nineteen ninety nine, you cannot beat that.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Some of the cruises have a depositive only twenty five
dollars per person. I was really excited to hear of
a recently released amazing Asia adventure fifteen day Jewels of
Japan and China tell us about that.
Speaker 6 (54:39):
Incredible I am. I am absolutely amazed by this itinerary.
So we were seeing six ports in Japan before we
move on to one port in South Korea. It's a
beautiful island that belongs to South Korea, and then moving
on to four more ports in China. This is as
great as it gets. If China or Japan or South
Korea was on your markeet list, this is the way
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to go, and it's all in the luxury and comfort
that you know from Viking.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
I'm assuming that's Chaju Island there in South Korea. Hey,
we've only got about a minute and a half. We're
speaking to Reiner Marx, the business development manager with Viking Cruises.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Very quickly.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
I love sailing the Nile, and don't you have six
Viking ships on the Nile?
Speaker 6 (55:23):
Six true Viking ships is absolutely stunning. These are small ships,
eighty passengers only. This is very intimate cruising there on
the Nile, and I can tell you it's gaining popularity.
We have booking flarry all the way up to twenty
twenty seven. There are some Eclipse cruises that are already booked
for twenty twenty seven. So if Niles on your listeners
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have been on their agenda business the time to book
your twenty five twenty twenty six sailings, they will go fast.
That's true.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
We have about thirty seconds left. Tell us very quickly
about the Mississippi and Great.
Speaker 6 (55:58):
Lakes Mississippi and Great Lakes. Our Great Lakes sailings are
on the expedition ships. They're built for the Antarctic Arctic,
but they also will bring them in the offseason in
the Great Lakes. Super popular Mississippi has started in twenty
twenty two. A beautiful ship, three hundred and eighty passengers
on that one. It's a little bigger than our European ship,
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but the stunning experience.
Speaker 1 (56:23):
We're speaking with ryder Mars, business development manager, Viking Cruisers.
All the details at Morris Columbus dot com. Thanks Ryner,
(56:46):
Welcome back to the travel show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, the
getaway guru. Yes, Viking Cruises, Ocean and River is offering
some incredible, incredible deals out there. Do contact Morris Columbus
Travel to get all of the details. You know, Carlos there.
I've been to one hundred and thirteen countries. I'll be
(57:08):
to a couple new ones this year. I'm quite excited
about that, and some more new ones next year. But
I divide my travel destinations into two primary categories, one
and done, and I can't wait to go back now
(57:29):
one and done. I'm glad I went, but I don't
feel the need to ever go back, you know, someplace
like Cleveland, right, No, yeah, but I'm glad I went.
The I can't wait to get back is well, you know,
that's with Thailand, with England, with Africa, you know, with
(57:51):
South America, going to dinner with you in Buenos Aires
at a steakhouse, all of these things, I'll tell you,
right there, amongst the best of the best for I
can't wait to get back is closer to home.
Speaker 2 (58:08):
Alaska.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
Alaska has called America's last frontier, and that is a
really true state. But you know, Alaska is a land
of over one hundred volcanoes and volcanic fields, three thousand rivers,
three million lakes, and the Alaska has more combined or
(58:37):
excuse me, more coastline than the rest of the United
States combined. There are over twenty seven thousand glaciers in Alaska.
I mean, it goes on and on. There are two
hundred and twenty four federally recognized tribes and twenty indigenous
(59:03):
language currently and modern spoken in the state. Almost one
third of Alaska's lands is in the Arctic Circle. And
you know it's it's just one of those places I
see the same or similar things whenever I go back,
(59:23):
and I think, I think the best way to see
Alaska is on a cruise. Now you can spend some
time on the land, you know, before or after the cruise.
But I'll be hosting an Alaska cruise that I am
so excited about. I'm absolutely giddy because of the itiner.
It's very unique. We're doing something different. Usually we sail
(59:45):
round trip from Seattle. Nothing wrong with that, but we're
gonna do it bigger and better. And it's what I
call the North South, which is Vancouver to Anchorage or
vice versa. We're gonna be set sail from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Speaker 2 (59:59):
And I say, oh there.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
A few days earlier, rent a car, go up through
Stanley Park and up to Whistler where the Olympics were held.
And I got to tell you a story. So I'm
up in British Columbia, Vancouver, and I'm driving up to Whistler,
and we passed this small mountain town. It's deep in
the forest in a small town. There a little convenience store,
(01:00:23):
people living there, but they have a sign with this
grisly bear on its hind legs, claws out, teeth showing
and The sign says bear country. Do not stop and
get out of your car. Do you want to guess
what I did?
Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
You got out?
Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
I stopped and got out of the car. Went looking
for bears, and on this trip I did. I've seen
a lot of bear in Alaska and in British Columbia.
I didn't see any bear there, but I thought, how
fast can a bear run? I can run really fast,
So I left the car door open and was very
(01:01:03):
carefully looking for bear. Yeah, I told you earlier. I
was crazy. You are I can barely stand it. Oh
that was bad. That was bad.
Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Yeah, you want to see me, not in the bear,
but with the bear, the grizzly bear I'm talking about. Anyway,
we set sail for Vancouver and we visit ketcha Can,
which is the home of the best totem.
Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Parks in all the world.
Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
You know Potlatch Totem Park, Sacman Village at Creek Street.
There in ketcha Can, we go on to Juno. Now
I love Juno because Juno we will charter our own
boat and go whale watching. No, I'm not talking about
the buffet. I'm talking about out seeing the whales before
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they head back to Hawaii. Then we go to Mendenhall Glacier,
where you can walk this trail down the Nugget waterfalls
and you're up close and personal with a glacier, one
of twenty seven thousand glaciers in Alaska. And you'll see
the Mount Roberts tram. But no visit to Juno is
complete without a visit to the Red Dog Saloon, which
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takes you back to the gold Russian mining days.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Sawdust floors, an.
Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Old West atmosphere, and plenty of entertainment. And don't worry
about the name saloon. It's a very family friendly restaurant,
but it's it's in this historic saloon, So yeah, it's
a lot of fun. From Juno, we head to Glacier Bay,
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the granddaddy of them all, and then catch this. It
gets better and better. From Glacier Bay, we enter College Fjord.
Now it's a fjord, which means that the valley was
carved by glaciers millenniums ago. And now we sail into
collegege Fjord. Once we're in the in the fjord, there
(01:03:05):
are thirteen glaciers that you can see. Now most cruises
you see one glacier We've already seen Glacier Bay, but
now we've got thirteen in one afternoon from College Fjord.
It's in College Fjord because it's the Harvard Glacier, the
Columbia Glacier, the Yale Glacier. I'm waiting for a Utah
(01:03:29):
byu Weaber State, Southern Utah or Utah State or Slick
Salt Lake Community College.
Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
At all.
Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
No, let's say no, there have to be more glaciers
to name.
Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Okay, well, with climate change, maybe we'll get more glaciers
or they'll melt the glaciers.
Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
But from there we go up to Anchorage.
Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
You can extend your visit in Alaska or just fly home.
Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
I specifically pick these in late August August twenty third
to the thirtieth. Why because fall foliage in Alaska hits
in late August, and the quaking aspen the trees, of course,
the pine trees and fir trees, they're evergreens, but all
(01:04:18):
the other foliage is changing colors. It's a cornucopia of
color in the valleys and the mountains, and no guarantees.
But it's a greater opportunity to see the northern lights
because the Northern lights are best viewed in the fall
(01:04:39):
and winter months, but fall is not here in the
end of August, but it is in Alaska, and you know,
the days are starting to shore. It's no guarantees, but
I have seen the northern lights, the Aurora boreality. It's
(01:05:00):
just unbelievable. That's spectacular. So I'd love to have you
join me. We do our own short tours and excursions
August twenty third to the thirtieth with Princess Cruises on
the Sapphire Princess. We'll be having activities on board, exclusive
and private to our group. Do contact Morris Columbus Travel
(01:05:21):
and ask for Larry's Alaska August twenty third to the thirtieth.
I can't wait for you to see Vancouver, catch Akad, Juno, Skagway,
Glacier Bay, College, Fjord and Anchorage. And it's to me,
it's sensory overload. The you know, excuse me, I'm getting
(01:05:42):
too excited here. Rate start at just nine to twenty
five catch this including your taxes, including your fees, that's
your total price. Rates start from that. Keep in mind
that all rates are subject to change and availability at
the time of booking, but I just checked it five
minutes ago. In the nine to twenty five is an
(01:06:02):
inside cabin. I recommend a balcony cabin. Of course, it's
sensory complete sensory overload for that. Okay, you know last
week I talked about this app I saw on It's
not really an app, but a posting on Instagram for
asap tickets dot Com.
Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
I went to their website.
Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
They were advertising Thailand, Manila and other destinations in Asia USA,
and what caught my attention was Bangkok, where I love Thailand.
Four hundred and seventy seven bucks round trip from the
United States, all taxes, all fees, and closed. I know
no such fair exist. It is absolutely impossible. But I
(01:06:53):
went to their website and then I checked out their company.
Website says they're in Ocean City, Maryland. So all the number,
I get a recording of some language that is pretty weird,
and so I just hang up. Two minutes later, they
must have captured the call already. I get this call
from a guy I can barely understand, and I ask
(01:07:16):
him finally, where are you located? And he says, we're
in Turmekistan.
Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Turmkistan is a Central Asian country that's bordered on the
Caspian Sea.
Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
It's bordered by Afghanistan.
Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Ubekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran.
Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
That sounds like a great part of the world.
Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Yes, you know, and what And I said, okay, I
can go anytime, any date.
Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
What did they say?
Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
They they wanted personal information from me like that, Well,
one will give us your web your email address. I'm
not giving it, but so they're sending I was on
the phone for twelve or thirteen minutes. They never gave
me a date. They wanted personal information. I'd have to
buy it with a credit card. And I said, well,
(01:08:11):
I can go anytime, anytime. Well, give us this, give
us this, give us this, Termechistan. Come on, Carlos. I
mean red flags are going up everywhere, and that I
told you about this last week. So this week they
are calling me daily, once or twice a day.
Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
I don't answer.
Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
They're sending me text messages because they don't have my email,
asking for my email and asking me to click on
this link to get all the information. I am not
clicking on a link that I don't know from a
trusted source. Now I can't say they're scammers. I can't
say that. And I'm not saying that everyone should make
(01:08:51):
their own informed decision, but there are so many red
flags on this there's no way in heaven or down
below that I would click on the link that is
coming for Turmkastan. And so I finally said, I mean
once or twice a day they're calling me and I
(01:09:13):
won't answer the phone because I recognize the number. I'm
just saying, folks, be careful who you deal with. Make
sure it's a trusted source. And I'll tell you a
great trusted source, Morris Columbus Travel. I finally sent them
a text saying thank you, but no thank you, and
they're still calling me, Paul when we come back.
Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
You're listening to the travel show on talk radio one
oh five nine knrs. Just listen and you'll know.
Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
The Bien Beneto's a travel show. So letty Gelwicks they
get away Guru, you know me and Migo Carlos.
Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
As Muy Bonito as Mui guoffo. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
I just thought with that mariachi music, you know, you
should have seen Carlos. He was dancing here in the studio.
I had to bring him back to his chair. I
am on one today. What next week is your payback?
Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
I will take all the beatings and stripes that you
give me. Fair enough, Will you prepare yourself this week?
Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
I'm prepared. I have a page and a half.
Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Very good. Hey, listen.
Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
For those in the Salt Lake area using the Salt
Lake International Airport, we recommend parking Jet. They have a
personal service, free car wash, they pick you up right
at your car, and what I like about it there
there is one other off airport parking option, a major one.
(01:10:58):
It's parking Jet and this one of the two big
I like parking Jet because it's locally owned. We always
talk about locally owned, but the money stays here and
is spent here in Utah rather than going to some
other place.
Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
So parking Jet here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
If you'll go to morriscolumbus dot com, there's a toolbar
across the top. It says home, find travel all of that.
Click on resources. Just click on that and then click
on travel resources and the very first entry is parking Jet.
You print a twenty percent off parking coopa. Now what
(01:11:36):
you want to do is print a half a dozen
of them. Keep them in your glove park, give them
a glove compartment, give them to your family twenty bucks.
Excuse me, twenty percent can save you a ton of
money off your parking bill.
Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
You know another important thing, this is my own experience
with them, the people that drive, they're so kind, they
take it of your luggage, that make you feel and
they pick you up at your car. I mean, it's
nothing like that I have seen anywhere. This is a transfer.
Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Now you actually were born and raised in Argentina, despite
my joking with you, but your family is of Italian heritage.
Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
My parents tell me if.
Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
You could pick one Italian food or dish, just one pizza. Well, pizza, yes,
you're like margarita, you like it loaded? Yes, yes, yes,
I that would probably be mine. Also for that, well,
you can satisfy your craving. Today and tomorrow in Salt
(01:12:39):
Lake City is Festa not Fiesta Festa Italiana down at
the Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City today. It's going
on right now noon to ten pm. Tomorrow noon to
seven pm. It's free entry. It's just there at the
gateway and Fest Italiana Salt Lake is a non profit
(01:13:02):
festival funded in part by the residents of the Salt
Lake County. Through the Zoo's Arts and Parks Department, and
through Catholic Community services and Italian organizations, guests will enjoy
Italian food, dancing, musical entertainment, Italian cars, local Italian art,
(01:13:24):
and much much more. That's Festa Italiana today and tomorrow
down at the gateway. And by the way, did you
know here in America the top three most popular Italian foods.
Number one is pizza, of course, number two is lasagna,
(01:13:44):
and number three is spaghetti with meat polls, those are
as far as the most popular Italian foods. I've found
the biggest difference between Italian food here in the US
generally speaking, and in Italy is that two differences. One is,
in America we sauce the pasta much more, and you
(01:14:04):
taste pasta rather than excuse me, you taste sauce rather
than pasta. And in Italy they are so particular about
the type of pasta, where did the flour come from,
what grain is it? And they want to taste the
pasa perfumed or accented by sauce. Now, if you want
(01:14:27):
a great Italian meal, go down to Vaulters. It's kind
of pricey there. In downtown Salt Lake. But it is
a great, great meal. So that's today and tomorrow. I
want to remind you I mentioned it earlier of a
British Isles and France cruise that I'll be personally hosting.
It's July seven to twenty. We visit England, Ireland, Northern Ireland,
(01:14:52):
Scotland and France. There's a chance to take the train
down to Paris on one of our shore excursions there.
That'll be offered and I'd love to have you join me.
It's the Ultimate British Isles July seventh to twenty next
year England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and France. We mentioned earlier.
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Carlos still has a couple of spots on his Ecuador
and Galapagos departing October the eleventh, My Alaska August twenty
third to the thirtieth. I'll be with you on Iceland, Norway, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands, Belgium and England. That is the Iceland to
(01:15:34):
London group June twelve to twenty two. And who could
forget the.
Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Which one did I did? I leave out there?
Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
British Isles, Oh, I know, Africa, that's a land tour
next summer.
Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
I'll be taking a group.
Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Well listen, have a great day, Be careful what this
count ticket website that you go to.
Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
But we'll be back next week.
Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
And may I just express our appreciation of you joining
us every week. We love travel, We eat, drink, sleep, travel.
You have a great week and good luck to all
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