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Nihow Chosan travel show. Wow,how about that that I am fluent in
Spanish? Did you understand that that'snot that that getaway guru? Of course,
fluent in Chinese and all languages.I just got back this week from
Thailand and Hong Kong. Just gotback, flew back across the Pacific times
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have you been to Thailand? Oh? I don't. Do you live there?
I go there three or four timesa year. This this last trip
was a great gig. I wentas a guest of the Thai government.
They had an international massive travel convention, people from all over the world,
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and they wanted me to be oneof the participants. And they said,
if you will come, we willpay your airfare, your hotel, your
meals, your transportation will take careof you meals. Oh the food is
great. So I actually went toBangkok for a couple of days and then
flew south to Kawlak, It's anarea in the south of Thailand for the
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convention, and then stopped over fora few days in Hong Kong. And
I hadn't been to Hong Kong sincethe COVID I've been there many many times,
and I mean, how much funwas that, so I have a
great life. I'll tell you onestory. When you asked me about how
many times they've been to Thailand,and I've told you, and I said
on this show that if it weren'tfor my kids and grandkids, Kathy and
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I would live in Thailand. It'sthe people, the culture, the diversity,
and of course the food is andit's one of the best value destinations
in the world. Now, yes, it's a long flight across the Pacific.
There's no way to sugarcoat that,but I promise you the discomfort of
a long airplane ride is quickly andsoon forgotten. So back in twenty sixteen,
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and you've got to understand, inthe Gelwicks family, we we thrive
on cheap and shameless humor. Iknow that, yes, particularly shameless same
so in twenty sixteen I made sevenseparate trips from the US to Thailand.
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That's when you gained your weight land. I remember the gain weight in Thailand
is good. The food is healthyand fresh food. And you know the
families. They shop just about everyday for fresh vegetables, fresh meats,
fresh fruits, everything, And ofcourse I have sticky rice and mango with
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coconut cream every day. So anyway, I made seven different trips, several
with tour groups, others just onbusiness others. I had a client,
a national company, planning their annualawards trip for their top clients, their
top employees they hit performance level.We call it incentive travel or award travel,
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and we were doing a site inspectionsite siite. He was under contract
going to be taking two hundred andfifty people the following year to Thailand and
just wanted to see the hotels,the activities, making sure he was comfortable
with it. So I had thepresident and his wife, the vice president
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and his wife, and I wasmeeting I was going to be meeting them,
of course, and fly over withthem. So this was December of
twenty sixteen. Kathy, my lovelywife, is driving me to the airport
that day and she says, now, Larry, isn't this your seventh trip
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to Thailand this year? And Isaid yes, it is smirk on her
face. Here comes the cheap andshameless humor. She goes, Okay,
what's her name? I'm wondering aboutthat. And I actually came up with
the name fun Ling, and it'sactually the name of a restaurant in Hong
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Kong. It is Jim Kimble andI used to eat there all the time,
and uh and so it became thefamily joke. And to this day,
it's like eight years later, tothis day, my kids say,
Dad, how's the other family?And I always say, all the kids
are growing up like weeds the backin school, foon Ling is just doing
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great, And Kathy says, Inever should have said anything, right,
Hey, anyway, I want tosay to all of you, I love
by the way, I just loveThailand. I can't wait to get back
there. So I want to sayto all of you, Felice diodel Padre,
Wow, Danada. But to Carlos, I want to say, Felice
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diodel villejo at the other jo welldel Padre is happy Father's Day? And
what is vie hole old old man? Happy old man's Day? Anyway,
Hey, hey, let me getFather's Day doesn't get the attention that Mother's
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Day gets. And I think that'sfine. Moms need a lot more praise.
You know, you think about eachof our contributions in bringing children into
this world, it doesn't seem tobe an equal contribution. I'll just leave
it at that, Okay, I'msure that's a question that my wife and
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many women will ask the Good Lord. Was Dear Lord, help me understand
the division of responsibility on multiplying andreplenishing the earth. Anyway, some interesting
things about Father's Day. You know, it was first celebrated June nineteenth,
nineteen ten. It was kind ofbrought about in the US by Sonora Smart
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Dodd in Spokane, Washington, asa way to celebrate her own father,
who was a veteran of the CivilWar and widow and widower who had to
raise six children. Now, it'sinteresting that President Calvin Coolidge was the first
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US president to really promote the ideaFather's Day, and that was in nineteen
twenty four. President Johnson signed aproclamation in nineteen sixty six declaring the third
Sunday of June should be designated asfar while President Richard Nixon signed a law
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to allow for the permanent recognition ofFather's Day. Now, many people say
that Father's Day is a national holiday. USA Today reported that, however,
the US government says it's not afederal holiday, and that can be at
USA dot gov, forward slash holidaysor it. The US government lists official
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US holidays well, you know,the practice of honoring fathers on the third
Sunday in June began in the UnitedStates, and it is now used as
Father's Day in more than forty countriesaround the world. However, some countries
use March nineteenth to celebrate Father's Day, as it is also the feast day
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of Saint Joseph, Jesus's father,So the celebration of Saint Joseph is on
March nineteen. But other countries haveother days. For example, we're talking
about Thailand. They celebrate Father's Dayon December fifth, which happens to be
the king's birthday, and you celebrateit by feasting by good reverilly and donating
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blood. Yeah, that's strange.Now. In Germany, father's days referred
to as monotag and involved drinking lotsof beer and eating a lot of traditional
food. Bring on my brought verse, yes anyway, and it can be
quite a raucous affair. Now,Father's Day is the fourth most popular holiday
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for greeting cards number one, Christmasnumber two, Valentine's Day number three is
Felice Dia del madre. Yes asMother's Day and Father's Day's number four.
In the Hallmark. Half of allcards purchased for Father's Day are purchased by
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sons and daughters of the father.Well, only twenty percent are bought by
the wives for their husbands, youknow. And lastly, I want to
take a guess. We'll play stumpthe dummy here. Okay, what do
you suppose is the most common orfrequent gift given to father's on Father's Day?
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How about something to do with grillingmeat? How about something Well,
that's a popular one, yes,that's down around Number three is a meal
out. But the most commonly purchaseditem for Father's Day is a tie.
No, I've ever gotten a tie? You know. What said you think
about Father's Day is the average agefor fathers now is thirty point nine years
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in the United States for the firsttime father. In the UK it's thirty
three years. But if you goback to nineteen seventy two, the average
age was twenty seven years. Huhso pretty young. Pretty young with that,
So don't forget your father's And asI'm the father of this radio show,
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I welcome your gifts for Carlos andmyself. Thanks dad. Yeah,
and we like money. Hey,listen, we come back on the travel
shore. There is a new ruleI'm going to tell you about him,
how you can renew your passport withoutleaving your house yours the Travel Show.
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I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, joined in studio by none other than
the Argentinian Gaucho himself, Carlos Feedadirector of Latin American sales for Morris Columbus
Travel. The Travel show is sponsoredby Morris Columbus Travel, where you Always
travel More and pay Less, andNorwegian Cruise Line, the home of freestyle
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cruising. Well, Carlos, Renewingyour passport just got a whole lot easier
thanks to a new pilot program fromthe US State Department. They released an
online passport renewal, not first request, not first patage, but it's a
renewal only just this past Wednesday,three days ago, and so it's now
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easier than ever for Americans to renewtheir passports. If you're over the age
of twenty five. Under that youstill you have to mail it in.
I guess I have to do that, thank you very much. But there
are a few catches of when andhow applications can be sent now. The
portal from the US State department onlyopens for a limited window on each day
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starting at one pm Eastern time,and then it closes when the department has
reached their daily threshold their number.Because keep in mind, this is a
pilot program that, if it's successful, will be rolled out permanently. For
that now, the renewal system isexpected this pilot program over the next few
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months. A permanent online portal willbe launched once the department analyzes the progress
of the pilot program. Well,if the government's going to analyze it,
we could probably see a permanent programabout twenty forty six, all right,
Now, who can apply? Thereare ten requirements that you must meet to
apply for a passport renewal Online Applicantsmust be over the age of twenty five
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and have a passport that was validfor ten years, because some passports are
valid for less than that time.The applicant must be renewing a passport that
was issued between twenty oh nine andtwenty fifteen, or between nine and fifteen
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years from the date the application wassubmitted. Now on that you can't change
your name, gender, date ofbirth, or place of birth. You
know, so if it was ifit was somebody getting married and they changed,
it won't work. Everything has tobe the same, and the applicant
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cannot be traveling internationally for at leasteight weeks after submitting online application. You
must be living in the United Statesand the passport can't be damaged. It
has to be in decent shape andthere will be a fee for that.
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And you must upload a digital passportpodio and be aware that the current passport
that you have will be canceled onceonce the application is sent for renewal,
not when it's approved, but whenyou send that application in, your current
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passport is going to be canceled.That's why they don't want you traveling for
eight weeks. And you know,it only makes sense because if I if
I apply for passport renewal through thesnail mail, you'll mail it in.
They've got my actual passport, Ican't travel, so it's it's not anything
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down anyway. I'll be talking moreabout this, and I think this is
a big step forward. You know, people want to travel international. Let's
talk about international travel, Carlos.You talk to a lot of people about
travel to Latin America and around theworld. What sort of travel adventures are
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people looking for now? They're lookingfor something a little bit different, not
what everybody else does. New thingslike a unique, express, unique experience.
You cannot be the same as always. The all inclusive Mexico, the
Caribbean, Europe, Hawaii are fantastic, but they're always there and you can
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have some unique experiences for a dayor two there. But people are looking
for something different. I got totell tell you one of the most unique
experiences that I've had is on atall ship. Now this is a true
sailing vessel. What makes a difference. Got propellers too, you know,
of course, but it's it isa perfect experience for mobile, active lifestyle
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guests of all ages. You gottahave a little bit of adventure in your
heart. It's a tall ship withsails, but a modern ship with air
conditioning, electricity, I mean,all the modern features and a propellers.
You're never gonna get stuck in thedoldrums. I will tell you. It's
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one of the finest experiences of mine. I've been on with star Clippers several
times in Asia in Europe. Itis one of the highlights. And I've
never met a person that's gone ona tall ship that has regretted it.
See what's fun is you can dosome of the activities. You can climb
up on a rope ladder to thecrow's nest. They have you in a
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harness too, you know. Yeah, but you climb up this ladder to
the crow's nest. You can steerthe ship the big wheel out on the
deck. Now on that one,they have an officer standing next to you
lest you decide you want to seehow close you can get to the rocks.
Most of your sailing is what wecall sight sailing. You can see
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land. You're not out in theopen ocean. We have a unique experience
next year on a tall ship,on the Royal Clipper. Now, just
how big is the Royal Clipper.Think you're a soccer guy, Yes,
all right, Argentina won the WorldCup. I'm thinking football anyway, it's
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one and a half times a socceror football field. I mean, it's
a big ship with all you have, all the creature comforts. But July
nineteen to the twenty six you'll besailing from Venice to Croatia with Wendy Frat
as your host. She is thegroup department manager. She's sailed on Star
Clippers. But you'll visit Venice,Italy, Croatia, Kotor, Montenegro.
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I mean it just goes on andon. By the way, Croati is
one of the most beautiful countries anywhere. So contact your favorite Morris Travel Advisor
in any of our offices, orjust call the Group Department at eight hundred
eight oh nine ninety nine ten eighthundred eight O nine ninety nine ten.
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On the Star Clipper July nineteenth tothe twenty six we got more of Christmas
traditions when we come back to Welcomeback to the Travel Show. I'm Larry
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Gelwicks. They get away at Guru. Actually in the United States, I'm
known as the Getaway Guru Carlos.My name in Hong Kong was the getaway
Guilo. Now Gwilo is the Chineseword for like foreigner, like Howley Uh.
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In Hawaii, it's for a foreigner. A farong is the same word
in the Thai language. Of course, the getaway Guru fluent in Spanish,
Chinese and Thai and all languages.But in Thailand, I'm a farong,
a foreigner. In Hong Kong,I'm Guilo. So I told them I
want to be referred to as Guyhainot Gwilo. They didn't see quite.
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They had these puzzled look on theirface. Anyway, I'm Larry Gelwick's the
Guilo in Hong Kong, the GetawayGuru, joined by Carlos Feeda, the
Argentinian Gaucho. We'd love to haveyou join this here in the show with
a question, a comment, arecommendation your experiences. What unique experiences are
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you looking for? Triple eight fiveseven o eight oh one. Oh,
that's eight eight eight five seventy eightyten and Joe, in fact, here's
what I'd like some of our listenersto do. I want you to call
that number triple eight five seventy eightyten and wish Carlos either felice dia del
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padre, which is happy Father's Day, yes, or pelise dia del dieho,
which is happy old man's day.Will you do? That is a
this will be kind of fun.Triple eight five seven oh eight oh one
day you can pick podre or viejowishing Carlos, I, of course would
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be I am a the old oldman. Hey, you know, Christmas
will be here before we know it, and you know, the last couple
of weeks we've been talking about funChristmas traditions. I know that Argentina is
your home country, but you havea unique love and experience in Peru.
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Why what is a Christmas tradition?Very briefly, you know, it has
a tremendous religious influence in the celebration. You know, the whole thing starts
with nine days, nine days ofmasses, you know, the masses,
and then the culmination of everything.The top of the top of the very
very special thing is that they ofthe celebration when the child Christ is brought
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to the to the creed, tothe Christmas tree, and the kids take
care of that. You know,there's a little statue. It's different from
what we do anywhere else in there, at least, David, Dad,
Let's go to the phone lines.We have a caller here. Welcome to
the Travel show, Marcus. Dowe have a caller? John is calling
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from Bluffdale. John, Welcome tothe Travel Show. Let me turn the
radio down there. Yeah, we'relooking a list and I looking at going
on a cruise, John, John, John, Are you on a speakerphone?
No, I'm not okay because we'regetting some echo here, but go
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ahead. I'm sorry. He wouldit be better if I was on the
speaker phone. No, no,it would be even worse. All right,
what I understand you had a questionabout a cruise. Yeah, well
we're looking at the British Isles tournext year and Columbus has two of them.
It looks like one is a churchbased land tour on the churchy Street
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based on tour. The other one'sa cruise, Ones in May, ones
in July. Trying to get anidea of the difference between the two.
You're hosting the one in Yeah,you know, both are wonderful tours,
as you mentioned that. The inMay it's a faith based tour about LDS
church history in Britain and it's awonderful tour if that is your focus.
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Mine is not a faith based tour. It's a British Isles cruise. We'll
have a pre departure London option,either pre or post. But it's a
fantastic Itineran. I love the timeof year, July seventh to the twentieth,
the British Isles, We see England, we Northern Ireland, Scotland.
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We even have a chance that wedock at Lehovre in France and you can
go into Paris that day. Soit's a very comprehensive tour. Yes,
it's a very comprehensive tour of theBritish Isles, Ireland, Scotland, England,
and I mean the stops in England. Of course you have London where
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you start, Portland, England,Liverpool, England and then in Ireland Cork.
That's the Blarney Castle, you know, and the tradition is if you
kiss the Blarney Stone you're given thegift of gab Well. Mark Falmos said,
if that's true, Larry made outwith the Blarney Stone. And then
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of course an option Edinburgh in verGordon, Scotland, Glasgow, Paris.
So they're very very different, they'reboth excellent. One is a focus on
Elds church history in the UK andthe other is a you know, you
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pack an unpack one time the crew, all your meals and everything are included
and you see really all of theUK and I will be hosting I will
be hosting the British Isle Cruises inin July. One more question, John,
So the tours are they tours thatare offered by the cruise ship or
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their tours that you're specifically hosting them. You know that's a great question.
When you come on this cruise,you have three options. I guess.
For one, you can stay onthe ship, but that's not cool.
Uh. The ship offers their cruises, cruise tours, we will offer our
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own, or you can just doyour own thing. Yeah, shore excursions
I'm talking about I will find withthe ship. Okay, we will offer
our own shore excursions. You'll getmore out of it at a better price.
John, I'd love to have youwith me, and you can call
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any of the travel advisors or callthe group department direct at A hundred eight
oh nine nine nine one zero.The other thing you can do is go
to morriscolumbus dot com, scroll downto the escorted vacations and get all the
details. John, thank you foryour call. Let's go to Mike in
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Orr. Mike, welcome to thetravel show. Hi Larry, and happy
old man's day, Carlos. Ican't say it in Spanish. Well I
will not ask you to sue viejoMike. What's up? So, Larry,
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we went on that Norwegian Iceland cruisewith you last year. But anyway,
we've been looking at a Switzerland cruisebut they all seem to end in
Bazil or however you say that BaselBozo and we're thinking more getting into the
Alps and stuff, and so there'sprobably not a cruise that goes there.
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So my wife is saying, well, why don't we just go there and
stay like a month? Does that? Do you guys have any advice doing
stuff like that? Yeah? Well, I would love to spend a month
in Europe. Here's something to think. What you're talking about the cruises.
There's not a navigable river that's goingto get you up to Innsbruck or Zurdik
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or any of those areas. Okay, so the Rhine River river cruises will
start in Amsterdam and end in Basel, Switzerland, or vice versas, starting
Basel end in Amsterdam, and you'llvisit the Netherlands, France, Germany and
Switzerland. Here's something you might consider. Do the Rhine River cruise and let's
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just say it's Amsterdam to Basel andthen rather than fly home, rent a
car, rent a camper. Yeahyeah, and spend several weeks in Switzerland
or even some you get into Bavariain Germany. There's some beautiful areas.
Why not take the best of bothoptions and combine them. Right. Okay,
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that's a great idea your coming up, don't you? Yes? August
first, I probably, I probablyis, and I'd love to have you
with me. You were with meLondon to Iceland. By the way,
I'm going to be doing that samefor our other listeners, the London Iceland
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in June of next year. Ithink it's June twelfth. Anyway, it's
mid June. We'll start in Iceland. We visit Iceland, Norway, let's
see Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bruce Belgium, maybe one of the
most beautiful cities in all of Europe, and then to Southampton. We'll have
a post cruise London option with that. And by the way, that's with
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Norwegian Cruise Line that has a freeairfare offer. It's really a buy one,
get one free. The first personpays a discounted airfare and it is
a discount. Second person flies absolutelyfree. But that's next year. Will
that have Garrengeray, No, they'regoing to a different Fejord area. Wasn't
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Garrenger beautiful? That's beautiful. Yeah, we thought that they're calling the most
beautiful part of Norway. Yeah,we're going to a different area in Fjordland
there. Back to yours. Ilike that idea. You could call a
Columbus Morris Columbus travel advisor, seeif there's any space left on my cruise,
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which is August first to the eighth, and remember that all your shore
excursions are included in that. Andif it's not available, look at other
available dates and specials out there.Okay, okay, hey, thank you,
hey, thank you so much foryour call. Happy Father's Day.
You are a padre where Carlos isa viejo. They're always putting down.
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Okay, hey, listen, wetalked about Christmas traditions. I want to
talk about a Christmas market market cruisewhen we come back. But here's a
Christmas tradition point Setius. Now thereare I mean, we love the point
Setia, and so why do weuse point Setia. The story of the
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point Setia for Christmas actually begins inthe plant's native Mexico, where the legend
says, a humble, humble weedsleft by a poor girl as an offering
to baby Jesus at a nativity scene. So this girl just takes some weeds
she's desperately poor, leaves them ata Nativity scene in Mexico, and miraculously
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those weeds were turned into this gorgeousred flower that we call point Setia.
We called because a nineteenth century USambassador to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett,
brought the plants, which were backto the US because we didn't have him
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here in the nineteenth century, andthey were named after him. And that's
how we got point Setia for Christmas. And when we you know, later
on the show, I'm going totell you about the Christmas markets of Europe
and a cruise in December this yearthat I'll be taking all here on the
Travel Show. Welcome back to theTravel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks. They
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get Away Guru, the Gwilo ofHong Kong and the for Wrong of Thailand.
Are you the widow? You knowwhat a widow is For the Mexicans,
it's a it's a foot, it'sus. You stepped on the weddle
of water. Yeah, Guido EGuetto and joined of course by Miamigo Carlos
feeda director of Latin American sales.Uh. You know we were talking about
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Christmas traditions, and I just wantto briefly mention, uh, the Christmas
traditions of Europe, six hundred yeartraditions where every town, village, hamlet,
big city, small town absolutely losestheir mind over Christmas with outdoor Christmas
festivals. It's not department store stuffthere. They have a whole area with
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wooden kiosks be decked with evergreens.It's music, it's entertainment, it's food,
it's drink, it's it's celebration,and then all this stuff you can
purchase. Now, I'm not ashopper, but the last time that Kathy
and I went, which was justbefore COVID, the last time we did
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the Christmas markets on a cruise,I also lost my mind. Had to
go buy a suitcase. I wasjust buying stuff from my grandkids right and
left. Well, I'll be hostingKathy and I'll be hosting a special Christmas
market cruise river cruise on the Danubefrom Nuremberg, which has the absolute best
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Christmas market in Europe. And weovernight in Nuremberg and we visit Reagansburg,
Passau, Germany, Milk Austria,Vienna, Austria and Budapest and we overnight
on board the ship. We overnightin Nuremberg, we overnight in Vienna,
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and we overnight in Budapest. Bythe way, Budapest has a fantastic Christmas
market for those who are interested.We also have a pre cruise cruise is
December fourth to the eleventh. Wehave a pre cruise Bavaria Spectacular option where
we'll fly into Munich. We'll seeMunich down to nous Schwanstein, the famous
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castle that Walt Disney used as theinspiration for Cinderella's Castle in Disneyland, and
then over to ober Amagau, whereof course the passion Spiel or Passion Play
is held every ten years. It'snot playing this year, but that's this
year. I'd love to have youjoinmy I promise you this will be one
of the greatest experiences of your life. And let's go back to the phone
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lines. Do we have a caller? Oh? Look, look, okay,
it looks like we lost our caller. So, Carlos. One of
the things that I love about LatinAmerica, particularly South America, are the
legends, the stories, and youknow, South America is perfect for individual
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We have some groups that we'll talkabout. But it's also great for family
travel or individual travel. You know, many families now are just going together,
and I'm talking about ten, twelve, fifteen people going together. They
are all members of one family,and they go to the most unusual places.
Some of the things that they alwaysask is I want to see something
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unusual. We know all about theplaces that we go, but some things
that we don't know about. Whatwould it be? For example, for
example, how about the seven oreight hours Inca Trail. The best part
of the Inca Trail are the onesthat start at a certain kilometer, you
know, going and then ending upthrough the Gate of the Sun and visit
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much of you know, traditional ifyou want to do the Inca Trail,
most people started a kilometer what twentytwo I think, and it was several
days after what you reach you realfortate, Yeah, you do. You
have porters that carry everything, butnot everybody, and there's some there's some
incline on the Inca Trail, butnot everybody wants to spend several days hiking.
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So there is now a seven houroption. It still will have some
incline. You need to be inpretty good shape, but porters will carry
everything for you. And it's aone day, seven hour yes. And
what you do? You start theink trail, you know, climbing up
to the top of the andes upto thirteen fourteen thousand feet and then you
start going down into much you pitchyou passing through the gate of the Sun.
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That's that is an amazing experience.All right, Now you want to
pitch you. I know of anunique experience that now is much easier than
when I first did it. Yes, because you were younger, that was
well, there is no step,no ready, let me tell you people,
it's very easy now because the hasbeen enlarged a little bit, so
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you can hold yourself to a rope. Now, what we're talking about is
wanna peach you. When you seea picture of Machu peach you, there's
a kind of a flat area andlike a sugar loaf mountain at the magnusfacture,
that is the mountain wanna peach you? Just think of I want to
pinch you. I wanna peach you. When I went there, there were
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times I was on all fours,yes, going up the mountains. But
now it's much easier. There aresome steps, there's a rope you can
hold on to and yeah, andyou know what it's Some people said,
you know, they, Carlos,we like to go on and experience.
That is a particular experience that Iwant to do it. And I said,
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well, if you are sixty yearsold, you can still do it
if you're in good conditions. Soyes, it's possible to do it for
everybody. Now, if you wantto climb wanna Peach, you visit Machu
Peach. You Carlos, You're hostinga Journey to the Land of the Incas
tour August third to the ninth thisyear, and you'll see all these things.
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You can go to morriscolumbus dot com, scroll down to group tours or
vacations and see all the details.The other thing later in the show,
I want to talk about the legendof Vitacocha, the bearded white god that
said of the Incas. All thatand more right here on the Travel Show.
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You're listening to The Travel Show Hournumber two, the best two hours
in radio. I'm Larry Gelwicks,that get Away Guru, joined by the
Argentinian gaucho and taco vender Carlos FidaNo I Love Argentinian tacos. No,
that's oh, you mean the tako. There is the shoe, the heel
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of the shoe. Is that whatyou like? Well, that's what they
taste like. Non. Well,may I listen? I mentioned to you
nihaw chosan travel show fun ling Le. I just got back Tuesday from Hong
Kong, and that is basically like, hello, good morning. I guess
it's afternoon now, and welcome hereto the travel show. Hong Kong is
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an exciting city, a population aboutseven and a half million people. And
there was a handover of Hong Kongfrom the British rule to the People's Republic
of China at midnight on July first, nineteen ninety seven. Now, the
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British had a treaty, a signeddocuments for British rule for one hundred and
fifty six years, and it beganin eighteen forty one. And I'll tell
you flat out, Hong Kong isstill exciting, but it was better under
the British rule. Of course,we're free. Yeah, you could speak
freely, you could demonstrate peacefully,freely. It's not the case. But
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you know, Hong Kong is famousfor towering skyscrapers everywhere. But did you
know that forty of the territory ismade up of country parks and natural or
nature reserves. Now, the wordHong Kong means fragrant harbor in Chinese.
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And most people are on Hong KongIsland. By the way, there's two
hundred and sixty three islands in HongKong. Kowloon is over more on the
mainland side. But do you hearthe word kowloon, It really means nine
dragons. And kind of the centeris Chim Chauchoi. It's kind of the
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center heartbeat of it. Now,Hong Kong boasts the world's longest covered escalator,
you know, the moving stairs,Yeah, half mile a half mile
moving staircase at mid levels. It'scalled the Mid Levels Escalator. Now,
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you know, for me, themost iconic Hong Kong space you've been to
Hong Kong. You told me youlove Hong Kong. I love it.
There's two iconic experiences. The firstfor me is the Star Ferry, you
know, and it began running.It's a boat and it's an old boat.
And you know, you can haveupper class or second class. I
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always go to second class. Imade. It costs like twenty five cents,
and I'll sail from Kowloon Jim ChaoChoi over to Hong Kong Island in
the back and sometimes I just goover and back because it is the ultimate
Hong Kong experience. It dates backto eighteen eight and the journey from Sim
Chao Choi to Hong Kong Islands aboutten minutes. Originally it was one hour
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back in the eighteen hundreds. Badly, yeah, it must have been.
Uh you know. The other iconicexperience is dim sum. Now dim sum
means pieces of the heart from theheart and think of like Spanish top as
small dishes, dumplings. My favoritehakau, which is a shrimp dumpling,
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charsu Pao charsu is barbecued pork andthey put it inside about a bow.
You have, of course a shoe. My it goes on and on.
I went to when I was inHong Kong just a few days ago,
I went to the oldest tea housemeaning dim Sum restaurant in Hong Kong,
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the Lin Hong, and it's Imean, it's just legendary. You don't
get your own table. They havethese big round tables that will seat six,
you know, and you just sitdown and other people come up and
they bring the dim sum around.It's all it's steamed. A few were
fried, but most of them arejust steamed, and they bring it out
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in these carts in the bamboo steamingwhat do you call them device like a
tray. It's covered and they havesteam coming up from the bottom of the
cart and you just tell them whatyou want. They market and you pay
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at the end. But because it'sso popular, they also have where you
can stand in line and as theycome out, you just say I want
that, I want that, andthey mark your ticket, or you can
wait for it to come around inthe cart. I had absolutely, positively
the best dim sum lunch in myentire life, Verry one of the great
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xp And the approach to the airport, I remember that I was on a
seven forty seven and I thought,are we going into the buildings or what
is going to happen this long runwaywhich is an island. You know,
that's the thing that is such asmall place and they can lend this huge
plane with three hundred and forty people. Now you're referring to Kai Tak Airport
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that is the old airport and youliterally you're landing just as you said,
you can see people in their apartmentsright the skyscrapers are so close. I
talked to a Delta pilot friend ofmine who would fly into Kai Tak and
he said, I asked him whatairports are the most challenging for pilots,
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and he said, well, KaiTak. Now they have a new airport
out on Lantau Island, and youknow, you can take the train in,
take a taxi. You know,it's about a if there's no traffic
jam, it's about a twenty minutetwenty five minute drive from the new airport
on Lantau Island into downtown Kowloon ChimChow Choi. And I mean, it's
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a beautiful airport right there. Youknow, there's over eight thousand skyscrapers in
Hong Kong. And at nighttime youhave Hong Kong Island across the waterway and
there's a there's a light show,laser light show at night and they're blaring
music. What I like to dois right on the Kowloon side, there's
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a boardwalk for about a mile that'sright on the water and people come out
there's fun, there's entertainment, there'sfood, and you watch the light show
and they got these big speakers thelight show with music. Now another I
guess iconic experience is Victoria Peak andyou can take a tram. That tram
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is a very steep funicular railway.It was Asia's first funicular, started running
in eighteen eighty eight and it remainsone of the oldest and steepest tramways in
the entire world. And as afoodie, Hong Kong is a must.
It has the highest number of restaurantsor cafes per capita of anywhere in the
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world. There is food everywhere,and of course I try to sample every
restaurant. Now, I talked aboutdim sum. A traditional dim sum.
It's kind of like a Chinese brunchwith various types of steam buns. I
mentioned charsu pau wheat or rice dumplings, rice noodle rolls that include pork,
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chicken, prawns, vegetarian options.But as I said, dim sum literally
means touch the heart. I loveHong Kong. It's an exciting city.
I think on one of my Asiatours and people ask me all the time,
Larry, why do you love Asiaso much. It's the people,
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it's culture. And I'll tell youyou feel different in Thailand than any other
Asian country you're going to me andMar or Laos, or Vietnam or China.
And to borrow a phrase from StarWars, there's a disruption in the
forest. I feel different, andlike going into Cambodia. You know,
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from seventy five to seventy nine itwas Polepot and the Kim Rouge, and
that the psychological effect upon the people. I feel. Oh, I don't
even I've been to Mir and Maror formerly Burma, but it's a mess
right now, an absolute mess.So I feel that way when I go
to Vietnam. I enjoy Vietnam.These are wonderful countries in Laos, you
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know, but there's a different feel. There's a calmness to Thailand that you
don't get anywhere else. Changing topics, the FBI is warning passengers to avoid
using USB charging points in airports becausethey could infect your phone with spy spyware
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and steal your personal data, includingpasswords and other sensitive data. Cybersecurity experts
have coined the term juice jacking forthis type of crime, leading the FCC
to issue several warnings about the threatin recent years. So they've warned about
the public USB charging station, includinghotel lobbies and airports, which could be
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vulnerable to juice jacking. If youreally need to use a USB outlet,
the FCC suggests investing in a chargejing only cable which prevents data from sending
a receiving well charging. Hey,we had a caller on the line,
and I'm going to invite you tocall back as we're coming up to a
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break. We'd love to have yourcall right here on the Travel Show.
You're listening to the Travel Show onTalk radio one oh five nine kN rs.
Just listen and you'll know Jen Benitosa travel show that was just for
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you, Viejo Felisa del Dia Viehoand I said that very carefully. Hey,
welcome back to the Travel Show.I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru,
joined by Carlos Fieda, director ofLatin American sales for Morris Columbus Travel.
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And you know that's an exciting journeyof the Incas tour you'll be taking
in August. You know we weretalking earlier Carlos that people now are looking
for unique experiences, but they wantit safe, they want their creature comforts.
We're not talking about camping out onthe Gobi Desert, and certainly that
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tour of yours is you know,another area of the world that is a
unique experience is Croatia and Slovenia,that part of the Mediterranean. I have
been to those two places and Ijust love it, especially Croatia, so
much culture and Slovenia, of courseit's a tiny country, but so much
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to see it. It really doeswell. We'd like to welcome to the
Travel Show our good friend Tim Taggart, who is actually heading to Croatian Slovenia
in April of next year. Tim, Welcome to the Travel Show. Thanks
Larry. It's great to be withyou. It's nice to have you here.
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You know, I remember my travels. I've been in Slovenia, I've
been in Croatia. It's one ofthe highlights of my whole travel experience.
Now, what is it first aboutCroatia and Slovenia that is so captivating.
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Well, it's some of the mostbeautiful natural areas in all of Europe,
and so many people never know this. It's absolutely spectacular. Both the historical
areas and the natural wonders. It'sjust spectacular. You know. One of
the things that I noticed when Itraveled in that part of the world,
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Croatia and Slovenia, is that thelocals welcomed us. They love the Americans,
you know, and it's not likesometimes you get some snobbery in some
other countries. You'll feel right athome. You're like family when you're visiting.
Now, you'll be leading a tourApril eighteenth to the twenty ninth of
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next year. Why don't you justkind of go through the itinerary briefly with
some of the highlights. Well,we fly into Debrovnik, which is I
love that people visit. Yeah,it's a cruise ship location. It's just
fabulous, right on the Adriatic Sea, so beautiful, historical, the castle,
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the walls, it's just spectacular.And then we head down to Montenegro,
one of the most beautiful locations,and my first time in Montenegro.
I've been in one hundred and twentythree countries. I've never visited there,
so I'm excited to go there formy first time. Then we head up
to split in Croatia, passing throughBoston, and another country that I haven't
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visited, quite excited about that.Then up to Troe Gear, heading up
into the natural wonders and Plitfisse andoh Pata and some of the falls and
other areas up here are just unbelievable. And we head up to Leuijana,
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which I've been before, which isone of the most beautiful places in all
of Europe. The river running rightthrough the city just spectacular. And then
up to bled which has one ofthe most scenic with the castle right on
the island in the middle of thelake. Really spectacular. Then we head
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back over to Zagreb, finishing upin that marvelous city, capital city in
Europe that's just again historical but fabulouslybeautiful, and then flying home. You
know, some of us in ourage remember Zagreb as the home of Kreshumir
Chosich, member man of b YUbasketball say also played in the NBA and
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then on the what was then theYugoslav national team. You know, you
start out into Bronik. One ofthe things that I love about well several
things. One is walking down PlakaStreet, kind of the main drag area,
but you can walk up on thecity walls tell talk to us about
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that. Yeah, it's just amazingbecause first of all that you're allowed to
go there. In so many citiesyou're not allowed to do something like that,
But in this case you can walkright up on the city wall and
then walk around the walls of thecity, looking down on the Adriatic coast
and the cruise ships out in thein the in the bay is so beautiful.
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And then looking inward to all ofthe city, both the old city
and then up on the mountain upabove the beautiful new parts of the city.
It's just spectacular, it really is. You'll never forget. We're speaking
with Tim Taggart, who will beyour tour host on the twenty twenty five
Croatia and Slovenia Adventure. The datesare April eighteenth to the twenty ninth next
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year, with a just an incredibleitinerary. Now, Carlos, when we
talk about fjords, what country orcountry's come to mind? Norway, Alaska,
well down in Chile and the Ushawayaand all of that are. But
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you know, Tim, Katore,which a beautiful city is actually in Europe's
southernmost fjord. Uh huh. Yeah, and it's an amazing, amazing looking
place. I've examined the picture andit also is there cruise port destination.
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But again this just remarkable. Goahead, many Carlos, when you're in
Zagreb, you have to take yourselfa picture with mister who created them beautiful
Tesla. Mister Tesla there says thatyou have Testla right in the as in
the electric vehicle. Yeah, yeah, well yes it is. Wow.
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Hey, well listen one of thegreat inventors of all time. Tim,
We've got less than a minute left, uh. Tim Taggart April eighteenth to
the twenty ninth A most unusual,unique, exciting Croatia and Slovenia, a
part of the world that you've probablynever seen. You can get all the
details at morriscolumbus dot com. That'smorriscolumbus dot com. Just scroll down to
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the group tours and you'll find thatwhen Tim, thank you so much for
joining us today. Absolutely great tobe with you. Larry, thank thank
you very much. You know thatthat really is an exciting part of these
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We never take it for granted.Now, Carlos, you said you like
to go to the beach. Yes, all right, and you know when
I go to the beach heads turnpeople stare and they asked me to put
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my shirt back on. Yes,you also blinding white. You know.
I travel all over the world andit's like I want to get a tan,
but it's like, well, whowill ever see it except Kathy,
you know. So anyway, SoCalifornia has some of the most beautiful beaches
in the world. I, youknow, grew up in San Francisco Ocean
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Beach right there by the cliff housein Golden Gate Park. I used to
cut school and go down to SantaCruz. I have to confess a sin.
I had a perfect forgery of myfather's signature. I had to have
a note to get back in school. I was also a student buddy officer
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my senior year, of course,with a sincere heart. No. But
I had a perfect forgery of theDean of students, Bruce C. Handley,
the dean of students at my highschool. And so I used to
write myself hall passes, write mybuddies hall passes. I was a derelict,
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you know. Anyway, so wecatch school good on Santa Cruz steamer's
lane and go surfing. You know, I had the surfers haircut had the
surfer jams that I would wear,and we thought we were really cool.
We weren't cool, but we thoughtwe were. But I love the ocean.
I love the water. But aCalifornia beach, a very popular one,
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was just named as the most pollutedbeach in the United States. There's
a there's an annual clean Water Reportthat measures bacteria, fecal matter, garbage,
everything in the water. Doesn't thatsound appetizing, Well, the winner,
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maybe we should send them a goldmedal. The winner for twenty twenty
three because they finished all the studiesand just published them this last week in
the Clean Water Report was Imperial Beachin San Diego. That's a very popular
beach. But catch this storm water? Why is it polluted? Stormwater runoff
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near Imperial Beach is blamed for thisand what they have from your countrymen,
the Tijuana or Tijuana Tijuana River Watershed, which dumps contaminated water into the ocean
every day on the Mexican side ofImperial Beach. Well. Not surprisingly,
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Imperial Beach was so polluted in twentytwenty three that it was closed for swimming
all but forty three days a monthand a half out of the entire year
now. They also shared the rostrumwith some other California beaches. Linda del
Mar near Pacifica, which is morenorth up near the Bay Area, had
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high levels of bacteria over half thetime that it was measured, and then
Pismo Beach, which I love.I used to go clamming at Pismo Beach.
I used to live in San LuisObispo before we moved to San Francisco,
and we would go clamming. Youget it's like a pitchfork and stab
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and you know when you've hit aclan, you dig them up, you
shuck them. And I love clamseven to this day. But Pismo Beach
very popular spot, have a beautifulmarina. There was ranked number nine most
polluted beach in the United States.What happened to the Venue Beach? Well,
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I think if all because there.Venice Beach is a collection of weirdos.
If you want entertainment, go toVenice Beach. It's every ellective,
crazy person goes to Venezula And Ithink if they all got into the water
at the same time, it wouldbe polluted. Anyway, Hey, this
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is kind of interesting. This isthe month of June. Why do we
call this month June June Juno.Yes, it's Juno, the very good,
very good, the Roman goddess ofchildbirth and fertility. Now it was
Julius Caesar named the twelve months.He reformed the Roman calendar, who had
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twelve months based upon Earth's revolutions aroundthe sun. This is back during the
Roman Empire. You know, forexample, the month of October, it
comes from the Roman word eighth octaves. It was the eighth month of the
Roman years, the tenth month ofour Yeah, and so you have two
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calendars. You have the Julian calendar, which is a three hundred and sixty
five day calendar that Julius Caesar,hence Julian Calendar made official and forty six
BC. It replaced the Roman calendar, which was a lunar calendar. Is
what we use today in Western world. And it was instituted by Pope Gregory
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the thirteenth in fifteen eighty two.And the calendar has three hundred and sixty
five days with one extra day everyfour years, except there's no leap here
every four years. If the yearsare divisible by one hundred but not divisible
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by four hundred, go ahead,I mean that's over my pay grade,
way over my pay grade. Nowthere's I love traveling, travel internationally about
every month, and one of myfavorite areas is the South Pacific. I've
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been all through Fiji and Samoa,Tonga, the Kirabass Islands, Christmas Islands,
Tahiti. But I have a speciallove for Australia and New Zealand,
and I love the way they talk. You know, here here's if you
want to talk like an Aussie,here's a couple expressions. If I want
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to say thank you, it's notglascias what you would say or set in
Hong Kong, it's ta hey,hey, Carlos, ta nate. Yeah,
now you know what a barbecue is, throw another shrimp on the barbie.
And if something is an exclamation ofsurprise, it's krickie. Oh that's
(01:06:57):
kriky and like it's a surprise.Now you have grandchildren, don't you how
old? Okay they would not fitthis, but my grandchildren. I have
grandchildren, you know, two yearsold, five years old. In Australia,
they'd be called ankle biters. That'sa small child and language, and
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one of the if things are good, true and genuine, which you are
Carlos, you are fair Dinkham.What is that? Well, that's better.
I don't know what you're telling me. Now that's right. It's better
than a vieh. Now listen,I'm not swearing. If I say felice
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dia del padre, that means Butif I said to Carlos fesd del viejo,
that means happy old man's day.That's to you, Larry, it
is to me anyway. So youknow I I we have a love for
the South Pacific. It tends tobe expensive if you island hop I think
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the best way to see Australia NewZealand is on a cruise ship. The
prices are incredibly good. I meanthey're low for what you're getting. Usually
allow twelve to fourteen days. Well, it depends on the cruise. I'm
going to be hosting one along withmy lovely wife Kathy, February fifteen to
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twenty eight, fifteen to twenty eightof February next year, twenty twenty five.
We already have a wonderful group.I'd love to have you join us.
Take a look at this itinerary.We'll board the ship in Sydney on
Saturday February fifteenth. We'll sail toMelbourne, Australia and then down to Tasmania,
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the island of Tasmania. Yeah,we'll be going looking for the devils
right there. Then we cross theTasman Sea, named after Abel Tasman,
a Dutch explorer who first saw asfirst European to see New Zealand, and
it was named auta Aroa the indigenouslanguage the Maudis, which means land of
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the long white cloud, because that'swhat they thought the land was outa Aroa.
So we first visit the South IslandFjordland National Park. Think of the
movies. So many movies have beenshot down there, you know, well
the Hobbit. We actually will visitHobiton later on because it's outside of Auckland,
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but we'll visit the Fjords and thenonto Dunedin and christ Church. Christ
Church, you think you're in England. The architecture, the Tudor homes and
buildings. Then we'll sail to theNorth Islands Scenic Bay of Islands is everything
that you think a picture postcard shouldshow of New Zealand. Down to Taranga.
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Think Santa Monica, San Diego,Santa Cruz without polluten without the polluted
beach in San Diego, and thenon to Auckland. Now we're going to
offer a pre cruise three nights Sydneyexperience where we see Sydney and outside the
city up to the Blue Mountains,the Three Sisters Mountains out in the countryside,
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and then we'll have a post extensiontwo nights in Auckland where we see
Auckland Hamilton. Will stop for photosat the eldest temple there, just a
photos stop, and then onto Hobbitonwhere they film the movies. This is
Lord of the Rings country that wevisit. Go to Morriscolumbus dot com Morris
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Coolumbus dot com, scroll down tothe group vacations and click on cruises and
then February of twenty twenty five,I would love to have you join me.
I don't know that you're at aprice like this one. Again,
we've got well, you know,when we come back, we've only got
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about less than a minute, SoI want you to talk about Vita Coocha,
the Bearded White God. When wecome back. I want to remind
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going to hear about Vita Kochia.Personal favor do you remember I announced some
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There's so many legends in South America, and one of the most intriguing is
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Vitaicocha, the bearded White God.Right, and you know those that are
following me on this particular departure,which is August third through the nineteen we
go passing the temple of Vitracocha.They're talking about the journey of the Incas
this Augustus. There's only a fewseats left, yes, and I'd like
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to have at least one or twomore couple. Yeah, that's about all
you can feel. What is thethe legend of Vitaicocha. Who was Viticoca?
You know, the the chronicers thatcame with Pisaro or another the conquistadoris
that's right in Lima. They travelall over Peru, especially on the altiplanet,
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you know the hyperotone Whereusco is,and they ask these wise men that
they were called Amautas, what werethe legends that they observed? What did
they know about it? And thetraditional, the oral tradition comes that this
god that was a white man witha beard and a crown of a high
priest and a book in his hand, traveled around the land before the days
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of the Inca, even before andthey taught from this book and blessed people,
heals people. And don't they believethat Verdaicochu was the creator? He
was the creator, but also hewas the one that brought the tremendous flood
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that eliminated most of the people.I was going to say, in the
story of Viticocha, this bearded whitegod who carried a book, traveled the
earth, blessing people, healing people, became disappointed, disillusion upset with his
creation the people, and so floodand flooded the earth. Now you can
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make your own parallels, yes tosomebody called Noah. But I mean it's
incredible. And you know there's legendsof bearded white gods elsewhere in Polynesia and
Latin America. Yes, that's right, Nolo is one of them. Also
the plume servant serpent in Mexico.So it's just about the same similarity between
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one and the other. What Ilike the most is this this god travel
all around the earth which is todaythe continent, and taught the people and
the first the first thing that theythought is love one another, and so
they first command. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean it's amazing
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because it's not just this story.You know that we learn when we travel
to Peru. What about going tothe Nascal Lines. How many people know
the Lascal lines? Not many?What is the Nascalnascal lines are these huge
echins on the desert floor. Yeahthat are some people the aliens didn't.
Yeah, somebody there was a crazySwish Swiss that said, yeah, they
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the airlines made them. Yeah,hey, you know you mentioned you're gonna
be visiting a lot of these areas. Journey to the Land of the Incas
August third to the ninth. Checkthat tour out with Carlos. Hey,
folks, we'll be seeing you nextweek.
Nihow Chosan travel show. Wow,how about that that I am fluent in
Spanish? Did you understand that that'snot that that getaway guru? Of course,
fluent in Chinese and all languages.I just got back this week from
Thailand and Hong Kong. Just gotback, flew back across the Pacific times
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have you been to Thailand? Oh? I don't. Do you live there?
I go there three or four timesa year. This this last trip
was a great gig. I wentas a guest of the Thai government.
They had an international massive travel convention, people from all over the world,
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and they wanted me to be oneof the participants. And they said,
if you will come, we willpay your airfare, your hotel, your
meals, your transportation will take careof you meals. Oh the food is
great. So I actually went toBangkok for a couple of days and then
flew south to Kawlak, It's anarea in the south of Thailand for the
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convention, and then stopped over fora few days in Hong Kong. And
I hadn't been to Hong Kong sincethe COVID I've been there many many times,
and I mean, how much funwas that, so I have a
great life. I'll tell you onestory. When you asked me about how
many times they've been to Thailand,and I've told you, and I said
on this show that if it weren'tfor my kids and grandkids, Kathy and
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I would live in Thailand. It'sthe people, the culture, the diversity,
and of course the food is andit's one of the best value destinations
in the world. Now, yes, it's a long flight across the Pacific.
There's no way to sugarcoat that,but I promise you the discomfort of
a long airplane ride is quickly andsoon forgotten. So back in twenty sixteen,
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and you've got to understand, inthe Gelwicks family, we we thrive
on cheap and shameless humor. Iknow that, yes, particularly shameless same
so in twenty sixteen I made sevenseparate trips from the US to Thailand.
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That's when you gained your weight land. I remember the gain weight in Thailand
is good. The food is healthyand fresh food. And you know the
families. They shop just about everyday for fresh vegetables, fresh meats,
fresh fruits, everything, And ofcourse I have sticky rice and mango with
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coconut cream every day. So anyway, I made seven different trips, several
with tour groups, others just onbusiness others. I had a client,
a national company, planning their annualawards trip for their top clients, their
top employees they hit performance level.We call it incentive travel or award travel,
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and we were doing a site inspectionsite siite. He was under contract
going to be taking two hundred andfifty people the following year to Thailand and
just wanted to see the hotels,the activities, making sure he was comfortable
with it. So I had thepresident and his wife, the vice president
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and his wife, and I wasmeeting I was going to be meeting them,
of course, and fly over withthem. So this was December of
twenty sixteen. Kathy, my lovelywife, is driving me to the airport
that day and she says, now, Larry, isn't this your seventh trip
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to Thailand this year? And Isaid yes, it is smirk on her
face. Here comes the cheap andshameless humor. She goes, Okay,
what's her name? I'm wondering aboutthat. And I actually came up with
the name fun Ling, and it'sactually the name of a restaurant in Hong
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Kong. It is Jim Kimble andI used to eat there all the time,
and uh and so it became thefamily joke. And to this day,
it's like eight years later, tothis day, my kids say,
Dad, how's the other family?And I always say, all the kids
are growing up like weeds the backin school, foon Ling is just doing
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great, And Kathy says, Inever should have said anything, right,
Hey, anyway, I want tosay to all of you, I love
by the way, I just loveThailand. I can't wait to get back
there. So I want to sayto all of you, Felice diodel Padre,
Wow, Danada. But to Carlos, I want to say, Felice
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diodel villejo at the other jo welldel Padre is happy Father's Day? And
what is vie hole old old man? Happy old man's Day? Anyway,
Hey, hey, let me getFather's Day doesn't get the attention that Mother's
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Day gets. And I think that'sfine. Moms need a lot more praise.
You know, you think about eachof our contributions in bringing children into
this world, it doesn't seem tobe an equal contribution. I'll just leave
it at that, Okay, I'msure that's a question that my wife and
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many women will ask the Good Lord. Was Dear Lord, help me understand
the division of responsibility on multiplying andreplenishing the earth. Anyway, some interesting
things about Father's Day. You know, it was first celebrated June nineteenth,
nineteen ten. It was kind ofbrought about in the US by Sonora Smart
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Dodd in Spokane, Washington, asa way to celebrate her own father,
who was a veteran of the CivilWar and widow and widower who had to
raise six children. Now, it'sinteresting that President Calvin Coolidge was the first
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US president to really promote the ideaFather's Day, and that was in nineteen
twenty four. President Johnson signed aproclamation in nineteen sixty six declaring the third
Sunday of June should be designated asfar while President Richard Nixon signed a law
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to allow for the permanent recognition ofFather's Day. Now, many people say
that Father's Day is a national holiday. USA Today reported that, however,
the US government says it's not afederal holiday, and that can be at
USA dot gov, forward slash holidaysor it. The US government lists official
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US holidays well, you know,the practice of honoring fathers on the third
Sunday in June began in the UnitedStates, and it is now used as
Father's Day in more than forty countriesaround the world. However, some countries
use March nineteenth to celebrate Father's Day, as it is also the feast day
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of Saint Joseph, Jesus's father,So the celebration of Saint Joseph is on
March nineteen. But other countries haveother days. For example, we're talking
about Thailand. They celebrate Father's Dayon December fifth, which happens to be
the king's birthday, and you celebrateit by feasting by good reverilly and donating
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blood. Yeah, that's strange.Now. In Germany, father's days referred
to as monotag and involved drinking lotsof beer and eating a lot of traditional
food. Bring on my brought verse, yes anyway, and it can be
quite a raucous affair. Now,Father's Day is the fourth most popular holiday
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for greeting cards number one, Christmasnumber two, Valentine's Day number three is
Felice Dia del madre. Yes asMother's Day and Father's Day's number four.
In the Hallmark. Half of allcards purchased for Father's Day are purchased by
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sons and daughters of the father.Well, only twenty percent are bought by
the wives for their husbands, youknow. And lastly, I want to
take a guess. We'll play stumpthe dummy here. Okay, what do
you suppose is the most common orfrequent gift given to father's on Father's Day?
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How about something to do with grillingmeat? How about something Well,
that's a popular one, yes,that's down around Number three is a meal
out. But the most commonly purchaseditem for Father's Day is a tie.
No, I've ever gotten a tie? You know. What said you think
about Father's Day is the average agefor fathers now is thirty point nine years
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in the United States for the firsttime father. In the UK it's thirty
three years. But if you goback to nineteen seventy two, the average
age was twenty seven years. Huhso pretty young. Pretty young with that,
So don't forget your father's And asI'm the father of this radio show,
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I welcome your gifts for Carlos andmyself. Thanks dad. Yeah,
and we like money. Hey,listen, we come back on the travel
shore. There is a new ruleI'm going to tell you about him,
how you can renew your passport withoutleaving your house yours the Travel Show.
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I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, joined in studio by none other than
the Argentinian Gaucho himself, Carlos Feedadirector of Latin American sales for Morris Columbus
Travel. The Travel show is sponsoredby Morris Columbus Travel, where you Always
travel More and pay Less, andNorwegian Cruise Line, the home of freestyle
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cruising. Well, Carlos, Renewingyour passport just got a whole lot easier
thanks to a new pilot program fromthe US State Department. They released an
online passport renewal, not first request, not first patage, but it's a
renewal only just this past Wednesday,three days ago, and so it's now
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easier than ever for Americans to renewtheir passports. If you're over the age
of twenty five. Under that youstill you have to mail it in.
I guess I have to do that, thank you very much. But there
are a few catches of when andhow applications can be sent now. The
portal from the US State department onlyopens for a limited window on each day
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starting at one pm Eastern time,and then it closes when the department has
reached their daily threshold their number.Because keep in mind, this is a
pilot program that, if it's successful, will be rolled out permanently. For
that now, the renewal system isexpected this pilot program over the next few
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months. A permanent online portal willbe launched once the department analyzes the progress
of the pilot program. Well,if the government's going to analyze it,
we could probably see a permanent programabout twenty forty six, all right,
Now, who can apply? Thereare ten requirements that you must meet to
apply for a passport renewal Online Applicantsmust be over the age of twenty five
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and have a passport that was validfor ten years, because some passports are
valid for less than that time.The applicant must be renewing a passport that
was issued between twenty oh nine andtwenty fifteen, or between nine and fifteen
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years from the date the application wassubmitted. Now on that you can't change
your name, gender, date ofbirth, or place of birth. You
know, so if it was ifit was somebody getting married and they changed,
it won't work. Everything has tobe the same, and the applicant
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cannot be traveling internationally for at leasteight weeks after submitting online application. You
must be living in the United Statesand the passport can't be damaged. It
has to be in decent shape andthere will be a fee for that.
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And you must upload a digital passportpodio and be aware that the current passport
that you have will be canceled onceonce the application is sent for renewal,
not when it's approved, but whenyou send that application in, your current
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passport is going to be canceled.That's why they don't want you traveling for
eight weeks. And you know,it only makes sense because if I if
I apply for passport renewal through thesnail mail, you'll mail it in.
They've got my actual passport, Ican't travel, so it's it's not anything
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down anyway. I'll be talking moreabout this, and I think this is
a big step forward. You know, people want to travel international. Let's
talk about international travel, Carlos.You talk to a lot of people about
travel to Latin America and around theworld. What sort of travel adventures are
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people looking for now? They're lookingfor something a little bit different, not
what everybody else does. New thingslike a unique, express, unique experience.
You cannot be the same as always. The all inclusive Mexico, the
Caribbean, Europe, Hawaii are fantastic, but they're always there and you can
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have some unique experiences for a dayor two there. But people are looking
for something different. I got totell tell you one of the most unique
experiences that I've had is on atall ship. Now this is a true
sailing vessel. What makes a difference. Got propellers too, you know,
of course, but it's it isa perfect experience for mobile, active lifestyle
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guests of all ages. You gottahave a little bit of adventure in your
heart. It's a tall ship withsails, but a modern ship with air
conditioning, electricity, I mean,all the modern features and a propellers.
You're never gonna get stuck in thedoldrums. I will tell you. It's
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one of the finest experiences of mine. I've been on with star Clippers several
times in Asia in Europe. Itis one of the highlights. And I've
never met a person that's gone ona tall ship that has regretted it.
See what's fun is you can dosome of the activities. You can climb
up on a rope ladder to thecrow's nest. They have you in a
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harness too, you know. Yeah, but you climb up this ladder to
the crow's nest. You can steerthe ship the big wheel out on the
deck. Now on that one,they have an officer standing next to you
lest you decide you want to seehow close you can get to the rocks.
Most of your sailing is what wecall sight sailing. You can see
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land. You're not out in theopen ocean. We have a unique experience
next year on a tall ship,on the Royal Clipper. Now, just
how big is the Royal Clipper.Think you're a soccer guy, Yes,
all right, Argentina won the WorldCup. I'm thinking football anyway, it's
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one and a half times a socceror football field. I mean, it's
a big ship with all you have, all the creature comforts. But July
nineteen to the twenty six you'll besailing from Venice to Croatia with Wendy Frat
as your host. She is thegroup department manager. She's sailed on Star
Clippers. But you'll visit Venice,Italy, Croatia, Kotor, Montenegro.
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I mean it just goes on andon. By the way, Croati is
one of the most beautiful countries anywhere. So contact your favorite Morris Travel Advisor
in any of our offices, orjust call the Group Department at eight hundred
eight oh nine ninety nine ten eighthundred eight O nine ninety nine ten.
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On the Star Clipper July nineteenth tothe twenty six we got more of Christmas
traditions when we come back to Welcomeback to the Travel Show. I'm Larry
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Gelwicks. They get away at Guru. Actually in the United States, I'm
known as the Getaway Guru Carlos.My name in Hong Kong was the getaway
Guilo. Now Gwilo is the Chineseword for like foreigner, like Howley Uh.
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In Hawaii, it's for a foreigner. A farong is the same word
in the Thai language. Of course, the getaway Guru fluent in Spanish,
Chinese and Thai and all languages.But in Thailand, I'm a farong,
a foreigner. In Hong Kong,I'm Guilo. So I told them I
want to be referred to as Guyhainot Gwilo. They didn't see quite.
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They had these puzzled look on theirface. Anyway, I'm Larry Gelwick's the
Guilo in Hong Kong, the GetawayGuru, joined by Carlos Feeda, the
Argentinian Gaucho. We'd love to haveyou join this here in the show with
a question, a comment, arecommendation your experiences. What unique experiences are
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you looking for? Triple eight fiveseven o eight oh one. Oh,
that's eight eight eight five seventy eightyten and Joe, in fact, here's
what I'd like some of our listenersto do. I want you to call
that number triple eight five seventy eightyten and wish Carlos either felice dia del
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padre, which is happy Father's Day, yes, or pelise dia del dieho,
which is happy old man's day.Will you do? That is a
this will be kind of fun.Triple eight five seven oh eight oh one
day you can pick podre or viejowishing Carlos, I, of course would
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be I am a the old oldman. Hey, you know, Christmas
will be here before we know it, and you know, the last couple
of weeks we've been talking about funChristmas traditions. I know that Argentina is
your home country, but you havea unique love and experience in Peru.
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Why what is a Christmas tradition?Very briefly, you know, it has
a tremendous religious influence in the celebration. You know, the whole thing starts
with nine days, nine days ofmasses, you know, the masses,
and then the culmination of everything.The top of the top of the very
very special thing is that they ofthe celebration when the child Christ is brought
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to the to the creed, tothe Christmas tree, and the kids take
care of that. You know,there's a little statue. It's different from
what we do anywhere else in there, at least, David, Dad,
Let's go to the phone lines.We have a caller here. Welcome to
the Travel show, Marcus. Dowe have a caller? John is calling
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from Bluffdale. John, Welcome tothe Travel Show. Let me turn the
radio down there. Yeah, we'relooking a list and I looking at going
on a cruise, John, John, John, Are you on a speakerphone?
No, I'm not okay because we'regetting some echo here, but go
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ahead. I'm sorry. He wouldit be better if I was on the
speaker phone. No, no,it would be even worse. All right,
what I understand you had a questionabout a cruise. Yeah, well
we're looking at the British Isles tournext year and Columbus has two of them.
It looks like one is a churchbased land tour on the churchy Street
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based on tour. The other one'sa cruise, Ones in May, ones
in July. Trying to get anidea of the difference between the two.
You're hosting the one in Yeah,you know, both are wonderful tours,
as you mentioned that. The inMay it's a faith based tour about LDS
church history in Britain and it's awonderful tour if that is your focus.
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Mine is not a faith based tour. It's a British Isles cruise. We'll
have a pre departure London option,either pre or post. But it's a
fantastic Itineran. I love the timeof year, July seventh to the twentieth,
the British Isles, We see England, we Northern Ireland, Scotland.
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We even have a chance that wedock at Lehovre in France and you can
go into Paris that day. Soit's a very comprehensive tour. Yes,
it's a very comprehensive tour of theBritish Isles, Ireland, Scotland, England,
and I mean the stops in England. Of course you have London where
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you start, Portland, England,Liverpool, England and then in Ireland Cork.
That's the Blarney Castle, you know, and the tradition is if you
kiss the Blarney Stone you're given thegift of gab Well. Mark Falmos said,
if that's true, Larry made outwith the Blarney Stone. And then
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of course an option Edinburgh in verGordon, Scotland, Glasgow, Paris.
So they're very very different, they'reboth excellent. One is a focus on
Elds church history in the UK andthe other is a you know, you
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pack an unpack one time the crew, all your meals and everything are included
and you see really all of theUK and I will be hosting I will
be hosting the British Isle Cruises inin July. One more question, John,
So the tours are they tours thatare offered by the cruise ship or
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their tours that you're specifically hosting them. You know that's a great question.
When you come on this cruise,you have three options. I guess.
For one, you can stay onthe ship, but that's not cool.
Uh. The ship offers their cruises, cruise tours, we will offer our
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own, or you can just doyour own thing. Yeah, shore excursions
I'm talking about I will find withthe ship. Okay, we will offer
our own shore excursions. You'll getmore out of it at a better price.
John, I'd love to have youwith me, and you can call
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any of the travel advisors or callthe group department direct at A hundred eight
oh nine nine nine one zero.The other thing you can do is go
to morriscolumbus dot com, scroll downto the escorted vacations and get all the
details. John, thank you foryour call. Let's go to Mike in
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Orr. Mike, welcome to thetravel show. Hi Larry, and happy
old man's day, Carlos. Ican't say it in Spanish. Well I
will not ask you to sue viejoMike. What's up? So, Larry,
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we went on that Norwegian Iceland cruisewith you last year. But anyway,
we've been looking at a Switzerland cruisebut they all seem to end in
Bazil or however you say that BaselBozo and we're thinking more getting into the
Alps and stuff, and so there'sprobably not a cruise that goes there.
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So my wife is saying, well, why don't we just go there and
stay like a month? Does that? Do you guys have any advice doing
stuff like that? Yeah? Well, I would love to spend a month
in Europe. Here's something to think. What you're talking about the cruises.
There's not a navigable river that's goingto get you up to Innsbruck or Zurdik
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or any of those areas. Okay, so the Rhine River river cruises will
start in Amsterdam and end in Basel, Switzerland, or vice versas, starting
Basel end in Amsterdam, and you'llvisit the Netherlands, France, Germany and
Switzerland. Here's something you might consider. Do the Rhine River cruise and let's
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just say it's Amsterdam to Basel andthen rather than fly home, rent a
car, rent a camper. Yeahyeah, and spend several weeks in Switzerland
or even some you get into Bavariain Germany. There's some beautiful areas.
Why not take the best of bothoptions and combine them. Right. Okay,
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that's a great idea your coming up, don't you? Yes? August
first, I probably, I probablyis, and I'd love to have you
with me. You were with meLondon to Iceland. By the way,
I'm going to be doing that samefor our other listeners, the London Iceland
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in June of next year. Ithink it's June twelfth. Anyway, it's
mid June. We'll start in Iceland. We visit Iceland, Norway, let's
see Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bruce Belgium, maybe one of the
most beautiful cities in all of Europe, and then to Southampton. We'll have
a post cruise London option with that. And by the way, that's with
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Norwegian Cruise Line that has a freeairfare offer. It's really a buy one,
get one free. The first personpays a discounted airfare and it is
a discount. Second person flies absolutelyfree. But that's next year. Will
that have Garrengeray, No, they'regoing to a different Fejord area. Wasn't
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Garrenger beautiful? That's beautiful. Yeah, we thought that they're calling the most
beautiful part of Norway. Yeah,we're going to a different area in Fjordland
there. Back to yours. Ilike that idea. You could call a
Columbus Morris Columbus travel advisor, seeif there's any space left on my cruise,
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which is August first to the eighth, and remember that all your shore
excursions are included in that. Andif it's not available, look at other
available dates and specials out there.Okay, okay, hey, thank you,
hey, thank you so much foryour call. Happy Father's Day.
You are a padre where Carlos isa viejo. They're always putting down.
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Okay, hey, listen, wetalked about Christmas traditions. I want to
talk about a Christmas market market cruisewhen we come back. But here's a
Christmas tradition point Setius. Now thereare I mean, we love the point
Setia, and so why do weuse point Setia. The story of the
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point Setia for Christmas actually begins inthe plant's native Mexico, where the legend
says, a humble, humble weedsleft by a poor girl as an offering
to baby Jesus at a nativity scene. So this girl just takes some weeds
she's desperately poor, leaves them ata Nativity scene in Mexico, and miraculously
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those weeds were turned into this gorgeousred flower that we call point Setia.
We called because a nineteenth century USambassador to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett,
brought the plants, which were backto the US because we didn't have him
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here in the nineteenth century, andthey were named after him. And that's
how we got point Setia for Christmas. And when we you know, later
on the show, I'm going totell you about the Christmas markets of Europe
and a cruise in December this yearthat I'll be taking all here on the
Travel Show. Welcome back to theTravel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks. They
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get Away Guru, the Gwilo ofHong Kong and the for Wrong of Thailand.
Are you the widow? You knowwhat a widow is For the Mexicans,
it's a it's a foot, it'sus. You stepped on the weddle
of water. Yeah, Guido EGuetto and joined of course by Miamigo Carlos
feeda director of Latin American sales.Uh. You know we were talking about
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Christmas traditions, and I just wantto briefly mention, uh, the Christmas
traditions of Europe, six hundred yeartraditions where every town, village, hamlet,
big city, small town absolutely losestheir mind over Christmas with outdoor Christmas
festivals. It's not department store stuffthere. They have a whole area with
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wooden kiosks be decked with evergreens.It's music, it's entertainment, it's food,
it's drink, it's it's celebration,and then all this stuff you can
purchase. Now, I'm not ashopper, but the last time that Kathy
and I went, which was justbefore COVID, the last time we did
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the Christmas markets on a cruise,I also lost my mind. Had to
go buy a suitcase. I wasjust buying stuff from my grandkids right and
left. Well, I'll be hostingKathy and I'll be hosting a special Christmas
market cruise river cruise on the Danubefrom Nuremberg, which has the absolute best
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Christmas market in Europe. And weovernight in Nuremberg and we visit Reagansburg,
Passau, Germany, Milk Austria,Vienna, Austria and Budapest and we overnight
on board the ship. We overnightin Nuremberg, we overnight in Vienna,
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and we overnight in Budapest. Bythe way, Budapest has a fantastic Christmas
market for those who are interested.We also have a pre cruise cruise is
December fourth to the eleventh. Wehave a pre cruise Bavaria Spectacular option where
we'll fly into Munich. We'll seeMunich down to nous Schwanstein, the famous
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castle that Walt Disney used as theinspiration for Cinderella's Castle in Disneyland, and
then over to ober Amagau, whereof course the passion Spiel or Passion Play
is held every ten years. It'snot playing this year, but that's this
year. I'd love to have youjoinmy I promise you this will be one
of the greatest experiences of your life. And let's go back to the phone
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lines. Do we have a caller? Oh? Look, look, okay,
it looks like we lost our caller. So, Carlos. One of
the things that I love about LatinAmerica, particularly South America, are the
legends, the stories, and youknow, South America is perfect for individual
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We have some groups that we'll talkabout. But it's also great for family
travel or individual travel. You know, many families now are just going together,
and I'm talking about ten, twelve, fifteen people going together. They
are all members of one family,and they go to the most unusual places.
Some of the things that they alwaysask is I want to see something
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unusual. We know all about theplaces that we go, but some things
that we don't know about. Whatwould it be? For example, for
example, how about the seven oreight hours Inca Trail. The best part
of the Inca Trail are the onesthat start at a certain kilometer, you
know, going and then ending upthrough the Gate of the Sun and visit
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much of you know, traditional ifyou want to do the Inca Trail,
most people started a kilometer what twentytwo I think, and it was several
days after what you reach you realfortate, Yeah, you do. You
have porters that carry everything, butnot everybody, and there's some there's some
incline on the Inca Trail, butnot everybody wants to spend several days hiking.
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So there is now a seven houroption. It still will have some
incline. You need to be inpretty good shape, but porters will carry
everything for you. And it's aone day, seven hour yes. And
what you do? You start theink trail, you know, climbing up
to the top of the andes upto thirteen fourteen thousand feet and then you
start going down into much you pitchyou passing through the gate of the Sun.
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That's that is an amazing experience.All right, Now you want to
pitch you. I know of anunique experience that now is much easier than
when I first did it. Yes, because you were younger, that was
well, there is no step,no ready, let me tell you people,
it's very easy now because the hasbeen enlarged a little bit, so
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you can hold yourself to a rope. Now, what we're talking about is
wanna peach you. When you seea picture of Machu peach you, there's
a kind of a flat area andlike a sugar loaf mountain at the magnusfacture,
that is the mountain wanna peach you? Just think of I want to
pinch you. I wanna peach you. When I went there, there were
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times I was on all fours,yes, going up the mountains. But
now it's much easier. There aresome steps, there's a rope you can
hold on to and yeah, andyou know what it's Some people said,
you know, they, Carlos,we like to go on and experience.
That is a particular experience that Iwant to do it. And I said,
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well, if you are sixty yearsold, you can still do it
if you're in good conditions. Soyes, it's possible to do it for
everybody. Now, if you wantto climb wanna Peach, you visit Machu
Peach. You Carlos, You're hostinga Journey to the Land of the Incas
tour August third to the ninth thisyear, and you'll see all these things.
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You can go to morriscolumbus dot com, scroll down to group tours or
vacations and see all the details.The other thing later in the show,
I want to talk about the legendof Vitacocha, the bearded white god that
said of the Incas. All thatand more right here on the Travel Show.
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You're listening to The Travel Show Hournumber two, the best two hours
in radio. I'm Larry Gelwicks,that get Away Guru, joined by the
Argentinian gaucho and taco vender Carlos FidaNo I Love Argentinian tacos. No,
that's oh, you mean the tako. There is the shoe, the heel
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of the shoe. Is that whatyou like? Well, that's what they
taste like. Non. Well,may I listen? I mentioned to you
nihaw chosan travel show fun ling Le. I just got back Tuesday from Hong
Kong, and that is basically like, hello, good morning. I guess
it's afternoon now, and welcome hereto the travel show. Hong Kong is
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an exciting city, a population aboutseven and a half million people. And
there was a handover of Hong Kongfrom the British rule to the People's Republic
of China at midnight on July first, nineteen ninety seven. Now, the
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British had a treaty, a signeddocuments for British rule for one hundred and
fifty six years, and it beganin eighteen forty one. And I'll tell
you flat out, Hong Kong isstill exciting, but it was better under
the British rule. Of course,we're free. Yeah, you could speak
freely, you could demonstrate peacefully,freely. It's not the case. But
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you know, Hong Kong is famousfor towering skyscrapers everywhere. But did you
know that forty of the territory ismade up of country parks and natural or
nature reserves. Now, the wordHong Kong means fragrant harbor in Chinese.
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And most people are on Hong KongIsland. By the way, there's two
hundred and sixty three islands in HongKong. Kowloon is over more on the
mainland side. But do you hearthe word kowloon, It really means nine
dragons. And kind of the centeris Chim Chauchoi. It's kind of the
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center heartbeat of it. Now,Hong Kong boasts the world's longest covered escalator,
you know, the moving stairs,Yeah, half mile a half mile
moving staircase at mid levels. It'scalled the Mid Levels Escalator. Now,
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you know, for me, themost iconic Hong Kong space you've been to
Hong Kong. You told me youlove Hong Kong. I love it.
There's two iconic experiences. The firstfor me is the Star Ferry, you
know, and it began running.It's a boat and it's an old boat.
And you know, you can haveupper class or second class. I
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always go to second class. Imade. It costs like twenty five cents,
and I'll sail from Kowloon Jim ChaoChoi over to Hong Kong Island in
the back and sometimes I just goover and back because it is the ultimate
Hong Kong experience. It dates backto eighteen eight and the journey from Sim
Chao Choi to Hong Kong Islands aboutten minutes. Originally it was one hour
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back in the eighteen hundreds. Badly, yeah, it must have been.
Uh you know. The other iconicexperience is dim sum. Now dim sum
means pieces of the heart from theheart and think of like Spanish top as
small dishes, dumplings. My favoritehakau, which is a shrimp dumpling,
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charsu Pao charsu is barbecued pork andthey put it inside about a bow.
You have, of course a shoe. My it goes on and on.
I went to when I was inHong Kong just a few days ago,
I went to the oldest tea housemeaning dim Sum restaurant in Hong Kong,
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the Lin Hong, and it's Imean, it's just legendary. You don't
get your own table. They havethese big round tables that will seat six,
you know, and you just sitdown and other people come up and
they bring the dim sum around.It's all it's steamed. A few were
fried, but most of them arejust steamed, and they bring it out
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in these carts in the bamboo steamingwhat do you call them device like a
tray. It's covered and they havesteam coming up from the bottom of the
cart and you just tell them whatyou want. They market and you pay
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at the end. But because it'sso popular, they also have where you
can stand in line and as theycome out, you just say I want
that, I want that, andthey mark your ticket, or you can
wait for it to come around inthe cart. I had absolutely, positively
the best dim sum lunch in myentire life, Verry one of the great
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xp And the approach to the airport, I remember that I was on a
seven forty seven and I thought,are we going into the buildings or what
is going to happen this long runwaywhich is an island. You know,
that's the thing that is such asmall place and they can lend this huge
plane with three hundred and forty people. Now you're referring to Kai Tak Airport
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that is the old airport and youliterally you're landing just as you said,
you can see people in their apartmentsright the skyscrapers are so close. I
talked to a Delta pilot friend ofmine who would fly into Kai Tak and
he said, I asked him whatairports are the most challenging for pilots,
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and he said, well, KaiTak. Now they have a new airport
out on Lantau Island, and youknow, you can take the train in,
take a taxi. You know,it's about a if there's no traffic
jam, it's about a twenty minutetwenty five minute drive from the new airport
on Lantau Island into downtown Kowloon ChimChow Choi. And I mean, it's
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a beautiful airport right there. Youknow, there's over eight thousand skyscrapers in
Hong Kong. And at nighttime youhave Hong Kong Island across the waterway and
there's a there's a light show,laser light show at night and they're blaring
music. What I like to dois right on the Kowloon side, there's
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a boardwalk for about a mile that'sright on the water and people come out
there's fun, there's entertainment, there'sfood, and you watch the light show
and they got these big speakers thelight show with music. Now another I
guess iconic experience is Victoria Peak andyou can take a tram. That tram
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is a very steep funicular railway.It was Asia's first funicular, started running
in eighteen eighty eight and it remainsone of the oldest and steepest tramways in
the entire world. And as afoodie, Hong Kong is a must.
It has the highest number of restaurantsor cafes per capita of anywhere in the
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world. There is food everywhere,and of course I try to sample every
restaurant. Now, I talked aboutdim sum. A traditional dim sum.
It's kind of like a Chinese brunchwith various types of steam buns. I
mentioned charsu pau wheat or rice dumplings, rice noodle rolls that include pork,
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chicken, prawns, vegetarian options.But as I said, dim sum literally
means touch the heart. I loveHong Kong. It's an exciting city.
I think on one of my Asiatours and people ask me all the time,
Larry, why do you love Asiaso much. It's the people,
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it's culture. And I'll tell youyou feel different in Thailand than any other
Asian country you're going to me andMar or Laos, or Vietnam or China.
And to borrow a phrase from StarWars, there's a disruption in the
forest. I feel different, andlike going into Cambodia. You know,
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from seventy five to seventy nine itwas Polepot and the Kim Rouge, and
that the psychological effect upon the people. I feel. Oh, I don't
even I've been to Mir and Maror formerly Burma, but it's a mess
right now, an absolute mess.So I feel that way when I go
to Vietnam. I enjoy Vietnam.These are wonderful countries in Laos, you
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know, but there's a different feel. There's a calmness to Thailand that you
don't get anywhere else. Changing topics, the FBI is warning passengers to avoid
using USB charging points in airports becausethey could infect your phone with spy spyware
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and steal your personal data, includingpasswords and other sensitive data. Cybersecurity experts
have coined the term juice jacking forthis type of crime, leading the FCC
to issue several warnings about the threatin recent years. So they've warned about
the public USB charging station, includinghotel lobbies and airports, which could be
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vulnerable to juice jacking. If youreally need to use a USB outlet,
the FCC suggests investing in a chargejing only cable which prevents data from sending
a receiving well charging. Hey,we had a caller on the line,
and I'm going to invite you tocall back as we're coming up to a
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break. We'd love to have yourcall right here on the Travel Show.
You're listening to the Travel Show onTalk radio one oh five nine kN rs.
Just listen and you'll know Jen Benitosa travel show that was just for
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you, Viejo Felisa del Dia Viehoand I said that very carefully. Hey,
welcome back to the Travel Show.I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru,
joined by Carlos Fieda, director ofLatin American sales for Morris Columbus Travel.
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And you know that's an exciting journeyof the Incas tour you'll be taking
in August. You know we weretalking earlier Carlos that people now are looking
for unique experiences, but they wantit safe, they want their creature comforts.
We're not talking about camping out onthe Gobi Desert, and certainly that
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tour of yours is you know,another area of the world that is a
unique experience is Croatia and Slovenia,that part of the Mediterranean. I have
been to those two places and Ijust love it, especially Croatia, so
much culture and Slovenia, of courseit's a tiny country, but so much
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to see it. It really doeswell. We'd like to welcome to the
Travel Show our good friend Tim Taggart, who is actually heading to Croatian Slovenia
in April of next year. Tim, Welcome to the Travel Show. Thanks
Larry. It's great to be withyou. It's nice to have you here.
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You know, I remember my travels. I've been in Slovenia, I've
been in Croatia. It's one ofthe highlights of my whole travel experience.
Now, what is it first aboutCroatia and Slovenia that is so captivating.
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Well, it's some of the mostbeautiful natural areas in all of Europe,
and so many people never know this. It's absolutely spectacular. Both the historical
areas and the natural wonders. It'sjust spectacular. You know. One of
the things that I noticed when Itraveled in that part of the world,
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Croatia and Slovenia, is that thelocals welcomed us. They love the Americans,
you know, and it's not likesometimes you get some snobbery in some
other countries. You'll feel right athome. You're like family when you're visiting.
Now, you'll be leading a tourApril eighteenth to the twenty ninth of
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next year. Why don't you justkind of go through the itinerary briefly with
some of the highlights. Well,we fly into Debrovnik, which is I
love that people visit. Yeah,it's a cruise ship location. It's just
fabulous, right on the Adriatic Sea, so beautiful, historical, the castle,
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the walls, it's just spectacular.And then we head down to Montenegro,
one of the most beautiful locations,and my first time in Montenegro.
I've been in one hundred and twentythree countries. I've never visited there,
so I'm excited to go there formy first time. Then we head up
to split in Croatia, passing throughBoston, and another country that I haven't
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visited, quite excited about that.Then up to Troe Gear, heading up
into the natural wonders and Plitfisse andoh Pata and some of the falls and
other areas up here are just unbelievable. And we head up to Leuijana,
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which I've been before, which isone of the most beautiful places in all
of Europe. The river running rightthrough the city just spectacular. And then
up to bled which has one ofthe most scenic with the castle right on
the island in the middle of thelake. Really spectacular. Then we head
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back over to Zagreb, finishing upin that marvelous city, capital city in
Europe that's just again historical but fabulouslybeautiful, and then flying home. You
know, some of us in ourage remember Zagreb as the home of Kreshumir
Chosich, member man of b YUbasketball say also played in the NBA and
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then on the what was then theYugoslav national team. You know, you
start out into Bronik. One ofthe things that I love about well several
things. One is walking down PlakaStreet, kind of the main drag area,
but you can walk up on thecity walls tell talk to us about
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that. Yeah, it's just amazingbecause first of all that you're allowed to
go there. In so many citiesyou're not allowed to do something like that,
But in this case you can walkright up on the city wall and
then walk around the walls of thecity, looking down on the Adriatic coast
and the cruise ships out in thein the in the bay is so beautiful.
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And then looking inward to all ofthe city, both the old city
and then up on the mountain upabove the beautiful new parts of the city.
It's just spectacular, it really is. You'll never forget. We're speaking
with Tim Taggart, who will beyour tour host on the twenty twenty five
Croatia and Slovenia Adventure. The datesare April eighteenth to the twenty ninth next
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year, with a just an incredibleitinerary. Now, Carlos, when we
talk about fjords, what country orcountry's come to mind? Norway, Alaska,
well down in Chile and the Ushawayaand all of that are. But
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you know, Tim, Katore,which a beautiful city is actually in Europe's
southernmost fjord. Uh huh. Yeah, and it's an amazing, amazing looking
place. I've examined the picture andit also is there cruise port destination.
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But again this just remarkable. Goahead, many Carlos, when you're in
Zagreb, you have to take yourselfa picture with mister who created them beautiful
Tesla. Mister Tesla there says thatyou have Testla right in the as in
the electric vehicle. Yeah, yeah, well yes it is. Wow.
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Hey, well listen one of thegreat inventors of all time. Tim,
We've got less than a minute left, uh. Tim Taggart April eighteenth to
the twenty ninth A most unusual,unique, exciting Croatia and Slovenia, a
part of the world that you've probablynever seen. You can get all the
details at morriscolumbus dot com. That'smorriscolumbus dot com. Just scroll down to
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the group tours and you'll find thatwhen Tim, thank you so much for
joining us today. Absolutely great tobe with you. Larry, thank thank
you very much. You know thatthat really is an exciting part of these
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We never take it for granted.Now, Carlos, you said you like
to go to the beach. Yes, all right, and you know when
I go to the beach heads turnpeople stare and they asked me to put
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my shirt back on. Yes,you also blinding white. You know.
I travel all over the world andit's like I want to get a tan,
but it's like, well, whowill ever see it except Kathy,
you know. So anyway, SoCalifornia has some of the most beautiful beaches
in the world. I, youknow, grew up in San Francisco Ocean
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Beach right there by the cliff housein Golden Gate Park. I used to
cut school and go down to SantaCruz. I have to confess a sin.
I had a perfect forgery of myfather's signature. I had to have
a note to get back in school. I was also a student buddy officer
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my senior year, of course,with a sincere heart. No. But
I had a perfect forgery of theDean of students, Bruce C. Handley,
the dean of students at my highschool. And so I used to
write myself hall passes, write mybuddies hall passes. I was a derelict,
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you know. Anyway, so wecatch school good on Santa Cruz steamer's
lane and go surfing. You know, I had the surfers haircut had the
surfer jams that I would wear,and we thought we were really cool.
We weren't cool, but we thoughtwe were. But I love the ocean.
I love the water. But aCalifornia beach, a very popular one,
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was just named as the most pollutedbeach in the United States. There's
a there's an annual clean Water Reportthat measures bacteria, fecal matter, garbage,
everything in the water. Doesn't thatsound appetizing, Well, the winner,
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maybe we should send them a goldmedal. The winner for twenty twenty
three because they finished all the studiesand just published them this last week in
the Clean Water Report was Imperial Beachin San Diego. That's a very popular
beach. But catch this storm water? Why is it polluted? Stormwater runoff
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near Imperial Beach is blamed for thisand what they have from your countrymen,
the Tijuana or Tijuana Tijuana River Watershed, which dumps contaminated water into the ocean
every day on the Mexican side ofImperial Beach. Well. Not surprisingly,
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Imperial Beach was so polluted in twentytwenty three that it was closed for swimming
all but forty three days a monthand a half out of the entire year
now. They also shared the rostrumwith some other California beaches. Linda del
Mar near Pacifica, which is morenorth up near the Bay Area, had
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high levels of bacteria over half thetime that it was measured, and then
Pismo Beach, which I love.I used to go clamming at Pismo Beach.
I used to live in San LuisObispo before we moved to San Francisco,
and we would go clamming. Youget it's like a pitchfork and stab
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and you know when you've hit aclan, you dig them up, you
shuck them. And I love clamseven to this day. But Pismo Beach
very popular spot, have a beautifulmarina. There was ranked number nine most
polluted beach in the United States.What happened to the Venue Beach? Well,
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I think if all because there.Venice Beach is a collection of weirdos.
If you want entertainment, go toVenice Beach. It's every ellective,
crazy person goes to Venezula And Ithink if they all got into the water
at the same time, it wouldbe polluted. Anyway, Hey, this
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is kind of interesting. This isthe month of June. Why do we
call this month June June Juno.Yes, it's Juno, the very good,
very good, the Roman goddess ofchildbirth and fertility. Now it was
Julius Caesar named the twelve months.He reformed the Roman calendar, who had
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twelve months based upon Earth's revolutions aroundthe sun. This is back during the
Roman Empire. You know, forexample, the month of October, it
comes from the Roman word eighth octaves. It was the eighth month of the
Roman years, the tenth month ofour Yeah, and so you have two
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calendars. You have the Julian calendar, which is a three hundred and sixty
five day calendar that Julius Caesar,hence Julian Calendar made official and forty six
BC. It replaced the Roman calendar, which was a lunar calendar. Is
what we use today in Western world. And it was instituted by Pope Gregory
(01:05:27):
the thirteenth in fifteen eighty two.And the calendar has three hundred and sixty
five days with one extra day everyfour years, except there's no leap here
every four years. If the yearsare divisible by one hundred but not divisible
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by four hundred, go ahead,I mean that's over my pay grade,
way over my pay grade. Nowthere's I love traveling, travel internationally about
every month, and one of myfavorite areas is the South Pacific. I've
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been all through Fiji and Samoa,Tonga, the Kirabass Islands, Christmas Islands,
Tahiti. But I have a speciallove for Australia and New Zealand,
and I love the way they talk. You know, here here's if you
want to talk like an Aussie,here's a couple expressions. If I want
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to say thank you, it's notglascias what you would say or set in
Hong Kong, it's ta hey,hey, Carlos, ta nate. Yeah,
now you know what a barbecue is, throw another shrimp on the barbie.
And if something is an exclamation ofsurprise, it's krickie. Oh that's
(01:06:57):
kriky and like it's a surprise.Now you have grandchildren, don't you how
old? Okay they would not fitthis, but my grandchildren. I have
grandchildren, you know, two yearsold, five years old. In Australia,
they'd be called ankle biters. That'sa small child and language, and
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one of the if things are good, true and genuine, which you are
Carlos, you are fair Dinkham.What is that? Well, that's better.
I don't know what you're telling me. Now that's right. It's better
than a vieh. Now listen,I'm not swearing. If I say felice
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dia del padre, that means Butif I said to Carlos fesd del viejo,
that means happy old man's day.That's to you, Larry, it
is to me anyway. So youknow I I we have a love for
the South Pacific. It tends tobe expensive if you island hop I think
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the best way to see Australia NewZealand is on a cruise ship. The
prices are incredibly good. I meanthey're low for what you're getting. Usually
allow twelve to fourteen days. Well, it depends on the cruise. I'm
going to be hosting one along withmy lovely wife Kathy, February fifteen to
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twenty eight, fifteen to twenty eightof February next year, twenty twenty five.
We already have a wonderful group.I'd love to have you join us.
Take a look at this itinerary.We'll board the ship in Sydney on
Saturday February fifteenth. We'll sail toMelbourne, Australia and then down to Tasmania,
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the island of Tasmania. Yeah,we'll be going looking for the devils
right there. Then we cross theTasman Sea, named after Abel Tasman,
a Dutch explorer who first saw asfirst European to see New Zealand, and
it was named auta Aroa the indigenouslanguage the Maudis, which means land of
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the long white cloud, because that'swhat they thought the land was outa Aroa.
So we first visit the South IslandFjordland National Park. Think of the
movies. So many movies have beenshot down there, you know, well
the Hobbit. We actually will visitHobiton later on because it's outside of Auckland,
(01:09:36):
but we'll visit the Fjords and thenonto Dunedin and christ Church. Christ
Church, you think you're in England. The architecture, the Tudor homes and
buildings. Then we'll sail to theNorth Islands Scenic Bay of Islands is everything
that you think a picture postcard shouldshow of New Zealand. Down to Taranga.
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Think Santa Monica, San Diego,Santa Cruz without polluten without the polluted
beach in San Diego, and thenon to Auckland. Now we're going to
offer a pre cruise three nights Sydneyexperience where we see Sydney and outside the
city up to the Blue Mountains,the Three Sisters Mountains out in the countryside,
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and then we'll have a post extensiontwo nights in Auckland where we see
Auckland Hamilton. Will stop for photosat the eldest temple there, just a
photos stop, and then onto Hobbitonwhere they film the movies. This is
Lord of the Rings country that wevisit. Go to Morriscolumbus dot com Morris
(01:10:45):
Coolumbus dot com, scroll down tothe group vacations and click on cruises and
then February of twenty twenty five,I would love to have you join me.
I don't know that you're at aprice like this one. Again,
we've got well, you know,when we come back, we've only got
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the Bearded White God. When wecome back. I want to remind
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at your car. They have afree car wash, you have to ask
for a coupon at the entrance forthat. They'll help you with your luggage
and they're just you know. It'sthe only major off airport parking facility that
is locally owned. But is theservices amazing and have used them quite a
few times. And they take careof the luggage when you listend at the
(01:12:51):
airport, you know they take careof the luggage too. You don't have
to do anything and then you cando that. That is good stuff.
Hey also am A water Ways whichis one of our favorite river cruise companies.
They sail in the Nile in SouthAfrica, the Maykong in Asia,
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and of course most of them arein Europe. Morris Columbus Travel is partnered
up with Almah Waterways for a veryunique complementary pre or post land package which
could often run fifteen hundred to threethousand dollars per person. Now this is
on select Europe sailings this year andnext. Select means not everyone, but
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some of them. And the onlydevil in the details. You have to
book this with Morris Columbus Travel bythe end of June. June thirtieth and
it's you can see. Contact MorrisColumbus to see what cruises the free land
package is applicable to. I havea personal favor to ask and then we're
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going to hear about Vita Kochia.Personal favor do you remember I announced some
weeks ago that my sweet sweet daughterin law, Samantha Gelboos, who we
call Sam, has an online sitefor everything sewing. Now the ladies will
be tuned into this. I waslooking at some of the stuff. I
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didn't even know what it was,but my wife did, oh yes,
this, you know, Oh yesthat. Would you do me a personal
favor and just visit her website.We are trying to increase the traffic.
If we want to buy something great. If you don't want to buy something
great, but go to the website. It's it's so Sam. It's so
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Sam. It's it s dot sows w dot Sam. It's so Sam.
It's dot so dot Sam. Dome a personal favor and visit her
website. We had some promotions anddiscounts out there. Okay, Carlos.
There's so many legends in South America, and one of the most intriguing is
(01:15:11):
Vitaicocha, the bearded White God.Right, and you know those that are
following me on this particular departure,which is August third through the nineteen we
go passing the temple of Vitracocha.They're talking about the journey of the Incas
this Augustus. There's only a fewseats left, yes, and I'd like
(01:15:34):
to have at least one or twomore couple. Yeah, that's about all
you can feel. What is thethe legend of Vitaicocha. Who was Viticoca?
You know, the the chronicers thatcame with Pisaro or another the conquistadoris
that's right in Lima. They travelall over Peru, especially on the altiplanet,
(01:15:56):
you know the hyperotone Whereusco is,and they ask these wise men that
they were called Amautas, what werethe legends that they observed? What did
they know about it? And thetraditional, the oral tradition comes that this
god that was a white man witha beard and a crown of a high
priest and a book in his hand, traveled around the land before the days
(01:16:19):
of the Inca, even before andthey taught from this book and blessed people,
heals people. And don't they believethat Verdaicochu was the creator? He
was the creator, but also hewas the one that brought the tremendous flood
(01:16:40):
that eliminated most of the people.I was going to say, in the
story of Viticocha, this bearded whitegod who carried a book, traveled the
earth, blessing people, healing people, became disappointed, disillusion upset with his
creation the people, and so floodand flooded the earth. Now you can
(01:17:04):
make your own parallels, yes tosomebody called Noah. But I mean it's
incredible. And you know there's legendsof bearded white gods elsewhere in Polynesia and
Latin America. Yes, that's right, Nolo is one of them. Also
the plume servant serpent in Mexico.So it's just about the same similarity between
(01:17:29):
one and the other. What Ilike the most is this this god travel
all around the earth which is todaythe continent, and taught the people and
the first the first thing that theythought is love one another, and so
they first command. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean it's amazing
(01:17:54):
because it's not just this story.You know that we learn when we travel
to Peru. What about going tothe Nascal Lines. How many people know
the Lascal lines? Not many?What is the Nascalnascal lines are these huge
echins on the desert floor. Yeahthat are some people the aliens didn't.
Yeah, somebody there was a crazySwish Swiss that said, yeah, they
(01:18:17):
the airlines made them. Yeah,hey, you know you mentioned you're gonna
be visiting a lot of these areas. Journey to the Land of the Incas
August third to the ninth. Checkthat tour out with Carlos. Hey,
folks, we'll be seeing you nextweek.
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