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Talking Travel Program Schedule

2006

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Cruise News! Please note that our weekly “Travel News and Insider Information” includes a report by Evan Eggers, President of 02 Cruise.com. In his reports, Evan brings our listeners the latest news and information from the Cruise world.

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Jan 4

Listen for a Talking Travel Encore presentation

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Jan 11
Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and Cruise News
Dan Austin, Partner and General Manager, Austin-Lehman Adventures
Destination Worldview, Peter Flaherty, Havana: Everything Old is New Again
Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World
Jan 18
Travel News and Insider Information ... and Julie Wordell, Media manager (Europe and Canada)
Orlando/Orange County, Florida Convention and Visitors Bureau
Antonio Graceffo, intrepid traveler and author, Four Years of Living Dangerously
Destination Worldview, Neala Schwartzberg, Ponce, Puerto Rico Grassroots Travel Stories (Cultural Insights), Colleen Fliedner, Cobh, Ireland: the Port of Farewells
Jan 25

Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and Cruise News

Destination Worldview, Suzanne Wright, Tahiti: James Michener, Paul Gauguin, and Marlon Brando Were Right! Grassroots Travel Stories (Personal Travel Experiences), Stephanie Moreland, Sacred Assisi Trevor Sadler, USA 300 Airlines
Feb 1

Travel News and Insider Information with special guest...

Jeff Wise, Communications Director, Stowe Mountain Resort

Keith Kavanaugh, “The Tall Ship Chef” and The Schooner Virginia (Hampton, Virginia)

Grassroots Travel Stories (Special Interest Travel) Carol Matthews, Cypress Gardens: Florida's Oldest Theme Park Is New Again

Destination Worldview,

Bob Fisher, The Faces of Gujarat: Experiencing India Subliminally (until 12:15) 

Feb 8
Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and Cruise News

John Berendt, author of In the Garden of Good and Evil and The City of Falling Angels (Venice)

Rediscovering America, Suzanne Wright, Great Architecture on the Prairie: Bartlesville, Oklahoma Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World
Feb 15

Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and more “fun stuff ” in the Cruise News

A Tribute by Roy to Sir Freddie Laker: Pioneer, Visionary, and Good Friend

Sam Blyth
Blyth Education
; Educational Travel and Voluntourism

Grassroots Travel Stories, (Special Interest Traveling), Kay Harwell Fernandez, The Best in Chocolate Travel

 

Destination Worldview, Karin Leperi, An Agriscape Experience: The Tuscan Landscape at Castello di Spannocchia
Feb 22
Travel News and Insider Information  with Evan Eggers. Serious stuff and “fun stuff ” in the Cruise News   Chris and Kristal Carlson, authors of Disney on a Dime Rediscovering America, Karen Hamlin, Pure Alaska Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World  
Mar 1

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Mar 8
Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and his Cruise News (Cruising and the China market) Attorney and Security Expert Charles Slepian (The Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center) on airport security Destination Canada, Hans Tammemagi, Blissful Cross Country Skiing in the Canadian Rockies  

Rediscovering America, Bob Fisher, The Crab Lady of Cape Cod

Mar 15

A one-hour Québec City Winter Carnival Special (entire show)

Richard Séguin, Account Executive (Media), Québec City Tourism

A one-hour Québec City Winter Carnival Special

Suzanne Wright, Winter Wonderland: Carnival and the Hinterland of Québec

A one-hour Québec City Winter Carnival Special

Jean Pelletier, Director of Communications, The Québec Winter Carnival

A one-hour Québec City Winter Carnival Special

Bob Fisher, Talking Travel's Great Northern Adventure: At the Québec Winter Carnival

See Also...

Wild Spirit of Québec, by Henry Golden

Mar 22
Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and news and views from the cruise world

Erin Cinelli, Director and Co-founder of the Spannocchia Foundation

Rediscovering America , Suzanne Wright, The Booth Western Art Museum:
Exploring the West – in Georgia!

Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World
Mar 29

TravelVision: Talking Travel Encore Presentations

John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The City of Falling Angels

A Tribute by Roy to Sir Freddie Laker: Pioneer, Visionary, and Good Friend

Sam Blyth
Blyth Education
; Educational Travel and Voluntourism

Bob Fisher,

The Faces of Gujarat: Experiencing India Subliminally

Apr 5
Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and news and views from the cruise world

Jim Franchetto General Manager
Heritage Cruise Lines Ltd.


Bill Wolf, Europe by Air, and Mesa Air Group

Martha Honey, Executive Director of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES). See also TIES gala website and online travel auction by clicking here.

 

Apr 12

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Apr 19
Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and news and views from the cruise world Thomas Talboy, Director Ubiquity International  Destination Worldview, Bonnie Neely, Pacura Lodge, Costa Rica, For Natural Adventures   Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World
Apr 26
Travel News and Insider Information with Taddy McAllister, author of Wanderlust Mark Gochman, Editor of Equestrian Adventurer Grassroots Travel Stories, (Personal Travel) Suzanne Wright: Got Baggage? How to
buy the right luggage and how to pack your stuff
 
Grassroots Travel Stories (Agritourism/Ecotourism), Karin Leperi, What Every Traveler Should Know About Avian Influenza (based in part on an exclusive interview with Majority Senate Leader Bill Frist)  
May 3
Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers, being treated like a king abord the Queen Mary 2 Mike Fisher, our Alberta Bound Troubadour. See also Day of the Iguana:
Lizards I Have Loved
 

Destination Canada, Carol Matthews The Montreal Botanical Garden's 75th Anniversary

Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World ... back from New Zealand!
May 10
Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers keeping track of all the new ships

Tony Rizzuto, The Rocky Mountain School of Photography (RMSP)

Rediscovering America, Neala Schwartzberg: Alabama Wonders: Ave Maria Grotto, Cathedral Caverns, Jesse Owens Destination Worldview, Peter Flaherty: The Levels of Experience in Naples, Italy  
May 17
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May 24
Holly Stone, Director Medomak Family Camp and Retreat Center. The family camp as a social, environmental, and heritage institution Rediscovering America, Hans Tammemagi, Monterey, California: Exulting in Nature and History

Talking Travel Literature with Peter Flaherty and Bob Fisher. The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

The Art of Travel continued

May 31

Listen for a Talking Travel Encore presentation

(NATJA annual conference May 30-June 2-5)

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Jun 7 Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers: shipboard amenities, accessibility issues, price structuring Rediscovering America, Karin Leperi, A Tale of Two Barbecues: The Best of Alabama and Maryland
Kay and David Scott, authors of
The Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges
Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World more Downunder 
June 14 Travel News and Insider Information Ted Flett, Media Relations Officer Hamilton Ontario (sister city to Sarasota, Florida). See also Hamilton, Ontario:
Canada's Steeltown — an Inner Beauty Behind a Gritty Exterior

by Hans Tammemagi
Rediscovering America, Stephanie Moreland,Giving Houston A Second Thought Attorney and Security Expert Charles Slepian (The Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center) current travel security concerns
June 21 Rick Fisher, Vice-President, Vacation Rentals for Hotels.com, an Expedia Inc. company. Candy Harrington, author of There Is Room at the Inn and Editor of Emerging Horizons Accessible Travel News Rediscovering America, Peter Flaherty, Return to New Orleans

Laurie McConnell, Communications Manager, Boise, Idaho Convention and Visitors Bureau

June 28 Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and his Cruise News Anne Martin, Host and Executive Producer of On Top of the World, and a new series on PBS “Journeys Through the British Isles” Sandra Phinney, Destination Canada; They Call It Rappie Pie: An Introduction to the Acadian Communities of Southwest Nova Scotia Malia Asfour, Director of the Jordan Tourism Board North America

July-December 2006


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July 5

Listen for a Talking Travel Encore presentation

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July 12
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July 19

A one-hour Finger Lakes Special
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A one-hour Finger Lakes Special

A one-hour Finger Lakes Special   A one-hour Finger Lakes Special
July 26

Travel News and Insider Information

Ken Brengle, CEO of the Big Bear Lake Resort Association
Big Bear Lake
: “A Breath of Fresh Air
Destination Worldview, Suzanne Wright, A Foodie in Ireland: Eating My Way from Coast to Coast

Destination Canada, Hans Tammemagi, Caves, Spheres, and Forest: The Non-ocean Side of Oceanside, Vancouver Island

Aug. 2

Listen for a Talking Travel Encore presentation

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Aug. 9
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Aug. 16

Travel News and Insider Information with Evan Eggers and his insider cruise news.

Judy Prentice, Midway Motor Travel (UK) small, specialized group travel   Grassroots Travel Stories (Personal Travel Experiences) Suzanne Wright, Return to the Sea Experiencing A State of Bliss in the Turks & Caicos

 

 

Destination Canada , Elle Andra-Warner, Tundra Trekking in Ontario's Sub-Arctic
Aug. 23
Travel News and Insider Information and Evan Eggers and the ins and outs Cruise News Stan Bradley, Executive Vice-President, Air Ambulance Card Rediscovering America, Kay Harwell Fernandez, California Wine Country: Healdsburg, the Heart of Sonoma Destination Canada, Karin Leperi, Southwestern Ontario: Birds, Butterflies, and Booze: Nature and Agritourism in Southwestern Ontario
Aug. 30

Travel News and Insider Information

Seabury Lyon, Guide Extraordinaire at Bethel Outdoor Adventure & Campground (Bethel, Maine) Grassroots Travel Stories, Karin Leperi, All Roads Lead to Chocolate and Roller Coasters:
A Pennsylvania Road Tour to Hershey
 

Destination Worldview, Bob Fisher, Make Yourself at Home — in Amsterdam!

Sept. 6
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Sept. 13
Travel News and Insider Information; and Evan Eggers — our regular Cruise News commentator Steve Schussler, creator of T-Rex, “A Prehistoric Family Adventure” Marilyn Downing Staff
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer Asia Transpacific Journeys Distinctive small group and custom travel to Asia since 1987.

Rediscovering America, Colleen Fliedner, Oxnard, California: Gateway to the Channel Islands National Park

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Destination Worldview, Suzanne Wright, Contemplating the Collective Psyches of Three Cities: Prague, Budapest, and Berlin

Sept. 20
Travel News and Insider Information and Evan Eggers — our regular Cruise News commentator

Destination Worldview, Peter Flaherty, Havana Encore: Religion and Other National Passions

Rediscovering America, Elle Andra-Warner, Duluth, Minnesota: On the Waterfront

Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World

 

Sept.27
Travel News and Insider Information and Evan Eggers — with what's new on the high seas Rediscovering America, Stephanie Moreland, The Hidden Treasures of Galveston    Destination Worldview, Kay Harwell Fernandez, Stockholm:
Beauty on the Water

Anne Martin, Host and Executive Producer of a new series currently being broadcast on PBS “Journeys Through the British Isles”

Oct. 4
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Oct. 11

Travel News and Insider Information and our Cruise expert Evan Eggers

Grassroots Travel Stories (Great Cities), Suzanne Wright, My Russian Troika Jack Royal of the Siksika Nation of Alberta and Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park: First Nations/Native-American Heritage Travel ... for all travelers Destination Canada, Elle Andra-Warner, Fishing in Northwestern Ontario: the Perfect Life  
Oct. 18
Travel News and Insider Information and Attorney and Security Expert Charles Slepian (The Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center) on airport security Rediscovering America, Karin Leperi, Breathless in Kansas! — Cowboys, Crops, and Dinosaurs
Rediscovering America, Bonnie Neely, High Hampton For Authentic Southern Cooking! Peter Flaherty: Road Notes from India
Oct. 25
Travel News and Insider Information and our Cruise expert Evan Eggers Kelly Monaghan, author of The Other Orlando: What to Do When You've Done
Disney & Universal

Lydia Gregory (Andria Mitsakos Public Relations): Mexico boutique hotels, Island Outpost hotels, and UNIK on Isla Mujeres Destination Canada, Colleen Fliedner, The Colors of Fall in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley
Nov. 1
Travel News and Insider Information with our cruise expert Evan Eggers

Destination Canada, Sandra Phinney, Newfoundland: Off the Beaten Track

Grassroots Travel Stories (Ecotourism and Soft Adventure), Hans Tammemagi Strathcona Park Lodge and Outdoor Education Centre:
Pushing your physical and conceptual limits on Vancouver Island

Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World


12:00: Pierre Wolfe, host of The Good Life and America's Dining and Travel Guide

 

Nov. 8

A 90-minute special program on Jordan

Crossing Jordan:
Wisdom, Enlightenment, and Euphoria in the Hashemite Kingdom

To hear the whole 90-minute show, please be patient while the entire program loads. You can also listen to each segment separately by clicking on the audioicons to the right.

Gisele Abrahao from the Jordan North America Tourism Board

Pierre Wolfe on dining and living well in Jordan

Elie Sidawi, President, Sunny Land Tours Inc

Peter Flaherty, An Overview of Jordan from a Travel Journalist's Point of View

Bob Fisher, Jordan's National Tourism Strategy 2004-2010: a role model for the travel and tourism industry

Nov. 15
Travel News and Insider Information with our cruise expert Evan Eggers Grassroots Travel Stories, Suzanne Wright, Posh and Circumstance Aboard the Queen Mary 2

Rediscovering America , Neala Schwartzberg, From New York to Albuquerque: My New Home in the Land of Enchantment

Destination Worldview, Elle Andra-Warner, Stepping Back to Medieval Times in Tallinn, Estonia

 

 

Nov. 22

Listen for a Talking Travel Encore presentation

Listen for a Talking Travel Encore presentation ... and a special offline recorded interview with Jim Thompson, Executive Member of The World Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers ... and President of The North American Association of Travel & Lifestyle Writers Travel and Tourism in the 21st Century
Nov. 29 Travel News and Insider Information Bora Ozkok,
Cultural Folk Tours International www.boraozkok.com
, See also Grassroots Travel Stories, Colleen Fliedner (Travel Industry Profiles) Bora Ozkok: A Portrait of a Role Model in the Travel Industry  
Rediscovering America, Karin Leperi, Back to Baltimore: Urban Renaissance and Rediscovery  
Nadine Godwin, Travel Weekly Editor-at-large, Greenland
Dec. 6
Travel News and Insider Information with our cruise expert Evan Eggers

Bart Baggett, handwriting analyst. (http://bartbaggett.com)

How does our handwriting reveal the type of travelers we are? How can you read more into primary resource documents when you travel.

Rediscovering America, Bob Fisher, Boise, Idaho: Artful Urban Design ... and People Who Give a Damn

Chris Curry
Airport Director,Gary-Chicago International Airport

Dec. 13 Travel News and Insider Information with our cruise expert Evan Eggers Rediscovering America, Suzanne Wright, A Sampling of Birmingham, Alabama  Paula Fisher, Marketing Manager, Plymouth Convention and Visitors Bureau. See also Plimoth Plantation, Desperate Crossing (The History Channel) and Pilgrim Hall Museum Johnny Jet: Our Man About the World  
Dec. 20 Travel News and Insider Information Helge Klausen, Vice President of Sales for NORSEA Grassroots Travel Stories (First Nations Travel), Hans Tammemagi,
Islands and Eccentrics in the Broughton Archipelago of British Columbia
Carol Perehudoff, columnist and freelance journalist
The Singles Travel Scene
Tony Haeusler
Country Manager USA & Canada
Interhome Vacation Rentals

Dec. 27
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Other Stories “In the Works”

Destination Worldview, Bob Fisher, À Cheval Through France's Cathar Country

Rediscovering America, Peter Flaherty, New York, the New Harlem, and all that Jazz

Rediscovering America, Indian Country: A New Mexican Frame of Reference (The desert of the Southwest and the indigenous people who have lived in harmony with it are the subject of this examination of time and space.)

The Prehistoric Art of Lascaux (This report will take you to one of the most important archeological sites in France and will challenge your thoughts on the definition of art and human creativity.)

RVing in Mexico: Should You or Shouldn't You? (This personal memoir will give you an experienced RVer's perspective.)

Osaka and Kyoto: Heartbeats of Classical Japan (Two of Japan's most important cities are the subject of this report by Bob Fisher.)

The Sweet Sound of Doubtful New Zealand (This lesser-known fiord in New Zealand 's South Island is a lesson in environmental integrity.)

Destination Canada, Winnipeg: Arts Capital, Historical Crossroads, and the Centre of Canada

Destination Worldview, Suzanne Wright, Navigating the Irawaddy River in Burma

Destination Worldview, Bob Fisher, Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) the Czech Republic

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