Top 10 Travel Trends for 2024

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Welcome back to another meeting of the Gold Key Adventurer Society.

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My name is Dan Leonard. Hi, Dan. Hey, joining me this week in the studio is Heather Strait. Hello.

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And Mr. Jeff Williams. Hey, that's me.

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Sure is. Our show, as always, is brought to you by Key to the World Travel.

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I love those guys. Yeah, they're pretty cool.

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Well, it's that time of year when we're all trying to figure out what the next

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12 months are going to look like. Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year! Happy New Year! New us. I'm so squeaky.

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That was bottles popping, Dan. He was popping the champagne.

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I bet you had a loose over in there. I thought maybe you needed to go take care

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of a situation real quick.

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Yeah, well, the Internet is full of suggestions on how they think you should,

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how we should make sure our lives are on trend in 2024, including the Internet

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that KeepTheWorldTravel.com resides on.

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So we're going to take a look at a list that we published of

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the 10 hottest travel trends trends that we're watching this

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year I gotta say I was unfamiliar with

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these terms and I like that uh not only is

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it a type of travel but it has a cool term for

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each one of these and you know as Mr trendy Traveler I'm proud of you yeah I'm

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a little disappointed that Ultimate World Cruising didn't make the the travel

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Trends list because I've been down a real rabbit hole on Tick Tock lately following

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all of the ultimate world cruisers.

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Drama. Yeah, there's always new drama every single day. It's fantastic.

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And we have some clients and one of our advisors on board.

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So we've got the inside scoop. And it's, it is fascinating to me.

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I love how dramatic the TikTok community makes it.

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It's probably just, you know, fairly mundane and boring on board. But.

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It's like a reality TV show unfolding on Royal Caribbean.

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Yeah, between that cruise and Neil deSille, I haven't put down my cell phone

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in weeks now. What is that?

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What's Neil deSille? Neil deSille? You haven't met Neil? Oh. No.

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I think it's either Australia or New Zealand. There's a colony of elephant seals

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that beach themselves around end of December to molt.

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Because apparently seals molt. They do. I do. And elephant seals smell really bad.

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Yeah. Well, Neil the seal is one particular elephant seal who has decided that he likes the locals.

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And he's not just laying there on the beach while he molts. He has moved in

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and made himself a resident of the town.

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Wow. And he frequently obstructs the roads.

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He will crawl up to people's houses and bang on the doors.

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Oh, fun. I've got to go check this out. And ask for them to come out and spray

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him down. Yeah, he's become a member of the community. Love it.

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So, yeah, you can find this article at keytosworldtravel.com,

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and we'll link it in the show notes for you.

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But we've got a whole bunch of trends to start with. Some of them we've talked

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about a little bit before.

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Some of them, like Jeff had, have been updated with hot new names for the new

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year. Let's dig right in. The first one on the list is astrotourism.

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So I have a question. Would being in

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search of the Northern Lights fall in astrotourism, youth, do you think?

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Because this is what I've been seeing all over the place in the last couple

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of weeks, is everybody posting about the fact that those are supposed to be huge this year.

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It's supposed to be a really great year for the Northern Lights.

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I've always wanted to see that.

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The auras are going to be huge in 24, everybody.

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Yeah, when it's cold enough and if you're far enough north, You can see them in Michigan sometimes.

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I have seen them. I've seen pictures. Right here off of my own back deck.

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I would say it looks like the most crazy when you see people like in Iceland

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watching these things. It's just bananas.

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I would love to see that. And that certainly would be a spot for astro-tourism.

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That's where people can go and watch them.

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So I'm thinking astro-tourism is going to be hot in Miami this year after the

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10-foot aliens at the Bayside Mall. all.

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Have you guys heard about this? I think that's something different.

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What's going on at the Bayside Mall, Jeff? Have you not seen this? No, I haven't either.

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I've been watching Neil DeSille. I can't get off Neil Talk.

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It's all Neil Talk all the time. I'm in Drake Passage Talk.

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I haven't gotten the alien. Well, I'll send you a link later.

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But there was a kerfuffle at the Bayside Mall in Miami.

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And then some dummy said it was aliens. And now the whole TikTok is aflutter

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with proof that there are 10-foot aliens that have arrived in a portal at the Bayside Mall.

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And my thought is, why in the world would they show up in a portal in the Bayside Mall? In Miami?

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Miami. That's a good question.

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Anywho, that's – we'll have to do some investigative journalism on that one and get back to you.

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But, yeah, 2024 is definitely a big year for astronomical events,

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not astrological events.

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As Heather mentioned, the Northern Lights are going to be really spectacular this year.

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Also, there's a great big total solar eclipse happening in April.

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And hotels along the path of that eclipse started booking up solid over a year

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ago. This is crazy to me. People are really excited. Yeah.

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I know that like basically immediately after the last total solar eclipse was

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like a good five years ago or so, wasn't it?

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People started booking their trips for the 2024 eclipse. Be in the path of it. Huh?

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Interesting. That's right. I don't care. About that. Yeah.

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I do. I've seen the dark before. I do. I will say that I never quite got it

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when people are talking about stargazing in places where there's not a lot of

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light pollution until I happened to be somewhere.

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And this was when we did the Arizona and Utah Adventures by Disney,

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and we were out in the middle of nowhere.

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And it is kind of spectacular what you can see just with the naked eye,

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just standing on the ground. It's very, very cool.

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I don't know whether I would plan an entire trip around that,

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but if there's somewhere you wanted to visit and that was a thing that you could

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tack on, then I'd be all about that.

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And people get really into the photography of the sky where you do time-lapse and all that.

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So going somewhere like that, you get some amazing pictures.

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Yeah, there's great places right here in the United States where you could go

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jump on this astro-tourism trend. Yeah.

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Yeah, there's a lot of places that it's been, for several years now,

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they've been designated as dark sky parks, where they're remote,

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more remote spots where the light pollution is below a certain level.

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Isn't that supposed to be Disney's new fifth gate?

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Yes. Right. I will say, if you're in one of these areas where the stargazing

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is great, what's not great is the Wi-Fi.

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So if that's important to you, keep that in mind.

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They're not building a lot of antennas out there.

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Yeah. There's one in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There's a dark sky park that you can visit.

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Does not surprise me. Yeah, those are really popular. There's also a meteor

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shower that's happening right around the time of the solar eclipse.

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It's supposed to be one of the biggest, most spectacular ones.

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I do love a meteor shower. There's a comet coming through that is leaving a

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trail of meteors. That's going to be really good.

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We've had a lot of people asking about Alaska for this summer to get in the

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Northern Lights and check Alaska off their bucket list.

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Alaska cruises are very hot right now.

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Well, that goes right into our next topic. Yeah, exactly.

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And, you know, stuff is melting, so now is the time to go see glaciers.

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Yeah, even Alaska is melting. When Kendra was there last summer,

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it was up in the 80s for most of their cruise. Yeah, it's kind of weird.

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Yeah, so that it doesn't fit as well into this next one.

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But this next topic or the next trend we've got our eye on is we're calling it coolcationing.

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That would be where you instead of heading to the beach in the summer,

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thanks to the ridiculous heat waves that we've seen, especially in like Europe

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the last few years, people are starting to look for cooler climates to head

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to for their summer vacations.

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So a lot of alpine retreats.

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Scotland only hits the mid-60s on average in the summer. Pretty far north.

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Scandinavia, people that typically would go to the Mediterranean,

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they are heading to the Baltic. And Latvia is apparently a really hot,

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hot destination. A really hot, cool place.

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That's right. The Arctic is on my bucket list now.

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I've been to the bottom of the world. Now I have to go to the top and see a polar bear.

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I cannot get my cannot get my family excited about this trend both of my kids

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are like heck no we don't want to go where there are polar bears and you have

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to have naturalists armed with rifles,

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watching for the polar bears because they're starving and they will come eat

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you my parents did that in the 70s so tell your family they're a bunch of i will tell them yes.

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Again, their daily message. Yes. You know, the Southern Hemisphere also has

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some spots that work for this trend as well.

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Because when it's summer up here in the northern, it's winter down there.

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So there are a lot of great skiing locations in New Zealand and Australia.

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It seems weird to think about going skiing in Australia. I know,

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but they've got some really tall mountains.

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And they're really close to the South Pole. So you could head to Chile and Easter Island.

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But the very tip of Argentina is pretty cold.

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Most of the year, actually. It's fairly temperate down there.

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Right. And this one never occurred to me because it's Africa.

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But South Africa is very temperate in our summertime.

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And you can see penguins in Cape Town, South Africa. That one is starting to

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become a popular place to head for 2024 in the summertime or in our summer months.

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I'm all for going somewhere cool. I've always wanted to do Alaska for that reason

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because it's really hot here in Alabama in the summer. I don't want to be here.

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Expedition cruises to the top and the bottom of the planet are still the hot thing.

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We're seeing a lot more people. Yes, we're seeing a lot of people that are booking those.

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The Ultimate World Cruise is about to enter the Drake Passage like right now, I think.

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That's what's been all over my TikTok the last few days. They're headed down to Antarctica.

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Didn't they skip over some Argentina and head straight to...

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They did because the weather is getting so bad down there right now that they

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changed their route route to have a quicker route through the Drake to avoid

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the swells that are happening right now.

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They're on a bigger ship, so it's not going to be quite as dramatic as on a smaller ship.

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And they don't get to land anywhere. They won't be getting off the ship in Antarctica.

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It's too big of a ship, but they'll just be sailing past some of the sites.

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I get the feeling that a lot of the guests on that cruise aren't necessarily

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the hearty, adventurous types that might be up to braving the Drake Passage.

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Yeah. And I think another thing that like a lot of those, these spots that are

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on this cool alternatives, they're kind of cultures and places that haven't been explored so much.

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Everybody's been going to the Caribbean and to, you know, the Mediterranean,

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these places for quite some time now. Oh, yeah, everybody's been to the Mediterranean.

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I mean, it's been a part. In Europe, all the Europeans go there, right? Yeah.

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seeing Croatia and some of those. I hear it's spotty.

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Seeing Croatia and a lot of those spots along there, and they're really beautiful

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countries, and everybody speaks English.

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It's kind of crazy. That surprised me about that area of the world.

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Well, next up on the list is something that we're calling gig tripping. Gig tripping.

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Yeah, it's going to conjure up maybe visions of deadheads traveling the country

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in vans. Is this just following bands around?

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Well, traveling specifically for a show.

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Yeah, because music festivals have really become over-the-top destination events.

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Um events some of those you know huge crazy

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things that look like you step into like a sci-fi movie or

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something and then there's miss taylor swift's eras tour there's a lot of oh

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and that new that new familiar with her that new um the sphere in vegas i've

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seen a lot of people taking trips out there to see their favorite band yeah

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in the sphere we're seeing in there i'll go so far So far,

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nothing has really grabbed me enough to want to go out there.

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U2 isn't getting your motor running. No, I've seen U2 enough times. I think I'm done.

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I haven't seen U2 a single time. Well, you know, I wasn't excited about it. And I am a big U2 fan.

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And their last couple of albums, notwithstanding, I still like them. But...

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They sound awful on this tour, I have to say. The visuals look cool,

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but they sound like hot garbage.

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That's shocking because they have an army of musicians literally underneath

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the stage playing everything for them. Really?

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Oh, dear. Oh, they have. They have an army of clones singing what he used to

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sound like. Yeah, they've done that for years.

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It's a little trick. I guess I did this this summer. or I went to see Depeche

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Mode in two different cities and seriously considered tacking on a couple more,

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but I restrained myself.

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I would go anywhere. I would go somewhere and see Taylor Swift,

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but I was never able to secure any tickets, so I didn't. You didn't get an access code? No.

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No access code. And I tried to go to Vegas to see Adele, and that didn't work either.

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Well, it was when she came back, And the Weekends with Adele thing,

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I've signed up for both times she was going to do it, including the one where

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she actually did. And they sell out just so immediately.

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Those residencies are definitely. That's my kind of thing. But I don't like

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these big concert, these big festivals.

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I'm not going to be out in a field of mud with a bunch of people and then sleeping

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in a tent somewhere. That is not happening.

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Did you see this one, though, that I linked to in the article?

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It's the Untold Festival. It is in Transylvania, and it looks like...

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Swedish house mafia? Yeah, it looks pretty over the top. It looks like there

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might be... And Sam Smith.

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Yeah, but the set looks like a big Gothic castle.

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Cool. There in that video, they're playing and stuff. Leaning into the location.

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I like it. Yeah, definitely.

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It looks pretty phenomenal. It looks cool, but I'm still out in a field with a bunch of people.

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In Transylvania. Yeah. That does make it, that set does look super cool.

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I would go to Transylvania. I keep on getting ads on Facebook for,

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hey, you can spend a night in Dracula's castle and then sign me up for that.

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Sign me up for that. I don't know about the music festival, but I'd go to Transylvania.

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I will go travel for music though I love concerts and I live in Birmingham And

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we don't get all that many good ones And the ones we do get Are happening while

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I'm out of town That's why you have to go to where the shows are Get your Volkswagen

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van And just hit the road Start a new life Okay.

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This next one doesn't quite apply to anybody in our group yet.

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Not for a long time. We're missing out on both ends, but this is skip gen travel,

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especially in the U.K., but we're seeing it in the U.S. also.

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And this is where grandparents leave

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their children at home and take their grandchildren on a trip instead.

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I did a lot of this with my grandparents when I was a kid. Yeah,

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Grandparents are taking their kids to places that were important to them in

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their life that they want to share with them or just things that they never

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got to do before that they want to experience.

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grandparents are living a lot longer than they used to.

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Have more money. And being grandma and grandpa doesn't necessarily mean you're

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elderly and frail anymore. That's true.

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So they're getting out there. They're getting active. They're taking kids to

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places that are on their bucket lists.

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Any highlights? We'd go to a lot of Gatlinburg and that kind of stuff.

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Highlight one year, there was a secret city in Tennessee that was involved in the Manhattan Project.

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That's where my stepbrother lives. Well, it's a small world.

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That my grandpa liked to drive really close behind the coal trucks on the mountain roads.

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And we'd get going quick, and it was kind of like a roller coaster.

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Drafting off the coal truck.

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some time. Yes, this is on my bucket list. I'm a little surprised you haven't made this happen yet.

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Luxury rail travel continues to be a really big deal.

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One of these days, you guys, I want to do the Orient Express.

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doing murder mystery hopefully they're yeah they're giving

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you opportunities to use your little gray sails on the train

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uh the rocky mountaineer also looks phenomenal very cool

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yeah i i have had my eye on a trip for with them for quite some time they you

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can you know start in the canadian rockies and head down to see red rocks in

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parts of the American desert or they do every single one yeah.

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But have you seen one from a luxury train so glass roof train car from the back

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of a pack mule way God intended you were with the Donner party right oh.

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I made it out. Donner, party of 14, 13, 12.

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I've done some rail travel through Europe, but nothing overnight and nothing

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on the luxury scale of the Orient Express, which I really want to try.

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We came back and went to Seattle and then took a train there all the way,

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zigzagged up and down across these United States till we wound up in Birmingham.

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We just spent two weeks on a train.

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get back on. But that was awesome as a kid.

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That's cool. The whole train thing was really cool.

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Alaska Railroad looks very cool, too. Those look so great.

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too. That looks incredible.

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And bullet trains in Japan. That's not so much the luxury overnight thing,

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but I think it would be really cool.

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in Europe. High-speed rail in Europe is pretty cool. It is pretty cool.

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But I'm intrigued by the Shinkansen in Japan.

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You just wanted to say that. Yeah. That and I liked that movie,

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Bullet Train. That was a really good movie.

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Yeah, a lot of these trains have, I mean, the interiors look like luxurious European hotels.

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That's what I want. Their restaurant and dining are top of the line.

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Pardon the train pun there. I'm here for it. I've got to find a way to do some

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luxury overnight train travel.

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Yeah, and the other cool thing about it is a lot of the tracks go through areas

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where there's not roads, there's not towns.

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So you're seeing things that you might not be able to see any other way than

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traveling in this train.

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You're heading through the actual countryside of these places.

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It's drier. It is a lot drier.

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And fewer locks. Just next.

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This next trend, I kind of combined two different things that we're seeing a

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lot of into one label here with wild feasting. Wild feasting. I'm intrigued.

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Yeah, this one might not be quite as familiar.

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Wild feasting. That is entirely different. That's for the looky after dark.

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This is a different thing. Wrong show.

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So wild feasting has two different ideas on it. One, a lot of times it means

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an experience where you go and you help forage and gather the ingredients for a meal.

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These are a lot of like kind of guided experiences that you might have as a

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shore excursion or as part of a guided tour.

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Can I go somewhere with a pig and watch it hunt for truffles?

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Yeah, I'm sure that you can pay a small Frenchman to take you out into the forest with his pig.

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But it's also a lot of the idea of it's really popular to have these excursions

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where you go and you dine outdoors with the locals.

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People are at a point where cultural immersion in travel is really big.

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And they don't want to just eat where the locals eat or eat the traditional food.

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They want to actually eat with people who live in the place and experience what

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a traditional meal is, find out how it's made, take cooking lessons and learn how it's made.

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Our advisors did this last year on a trip that they did to Israel, at least once.

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There was once where they were making hummus. I think there might have been a second.

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There was. I can't remember exactly which part of Israel. reel there.

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It was another one where they were in someone's home and they had a cooking lesson with the family.

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Can't remember what they made. I know on Virgin Voyages there's several...

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In the Dominican Republic, there's a trip where you get welcomed into a house and you eat with them.

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So it's that idea of forming a connection with the place and the people that you're visiting.

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Adventures by Disney, a lot of their itineraries have something like this.

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The one that comes to mind is in Italy where they learn pasta making in a home.

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That one looks pretty cool.

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Yeah, those kinds of experiences are really popular. We did this once on a spring break trip to Paris.

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We learned how to make croissants in a local bakery.

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It was one of the coolest things I've ever done. Really small, family-owned bakery.

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And they took us into the back to teach us how to make croissants.

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And I always knew there was a lot of butter in a croissant. But when you actually

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see it, it's kind of shocking.

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That's why they're so delicious. And so good for you. It was a really neat experience.

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It was a very small group. It was just my family and one other couple.

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So there were about six of us making chrysalons. It was really cool.

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Yeah, wasn't the, Jeff didn't, I know I've seen pictures of Jeff making some

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chocolate, but wasn't there a scone making session that you were super excited about? Oh, yes.

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That was our Adventures by Disney, the England and France one.

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I think that was Jeff's favorite thing, right?

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Making scones? Yeah. I thought it was going to be stupid, and it was. It was fun.

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The chocolate one was okay. I don't know. If you're there with family, it's fine.

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Personally, I would rather have wandered around the amazing little towns that

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we were in than go and sit in a commercial kitchen in a place and do a thing.

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That's a little bit different experience there when it's not.

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I do still have that scone recipe and I make them from time to time after learning how to do it.

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We did learn some interesting facts and stuff about, like, the room that we

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were in was actually the room where Prince Charles had changed clothes before he got married.

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To Camilla. To Camilla. So that was kind of interesting to hear little stories.

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And when we were there, it was right after Harry and Meghan had gotten married.

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So that had happened right around the corner, too.

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It was like I'm sitting in a, you know, some little rec room in a building.

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Yeah, it was like a town hall kind of thing.

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Yeah, in a rec room, and they're talking about these cool things.

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I'm like, I'd rather be out there looking at the cool things.

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You did like the tea they were dishing out about Harry and Meghan. Yeah, I like that.

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If there's one thing Jeff's into, it's the hot goss. That's right. I love a celebrity goss.

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So, yeah, I mean, it certainly isn't for everyone.

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One that is that is true but if that's the kind of thing you're into that there's some really,

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great ways to add that on to trips but these things

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like the one you were talking about the ones they did our uh travel planners

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did in israel looked pretty awesome they're in people's homes and eating and

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cooking and sharing stories and all that as well as the everything i've heard

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about the ones in greece that shore things from virgin does sound that's the one everybody loves,

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And we have some, we can add this kind of thing on to any trip anywhere in the world, really.

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We have some great travel partners that put stuff like this together.

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So even if you're doing something that doesn't focus on this kind of wild feasting

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trend, it's something you could add for a day time excursion on one of the days

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of your trip, really anywhere.

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Yeah, definitely. And it's really worth it. See things that you don't normally

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see on a stereotypical guided tour.

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The next two trends are ones that we've talked about in the past.

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These are still hot, hot travel items.

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And one of them, the first one is what we're calling dupe destinations.

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Destinations uh so there's a

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lot of places that people are saying realizing the

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hot travels or the stereotypical travel spots

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are getting overcrowded with tourists which i

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mean it's fair everybody wants to see it but um for

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example it didn't um didn't venice just put in place stricter rules for tour

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groups they did um tour groups are going to be limited to no more than 25 people

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So a lot of tour operators are having to sort of split their groups up.

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And Venice is a, this is a tricky one because, you know.

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Having now been there, I don't think there's anywhere in the world that is like it.

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And I definitely think it's something that people should see.

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It's it really was one of the coolest places I've ever been.

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And I didn't expect to love it as much as I did.

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However, I would say absolutely don't go there in the summer because it's going

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to be just insanely crowded.

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And the canals don't smell great in the summer from what I've heard because

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of some things I learned on a tour there.

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But so I'd say avoid Venice during the summer and go in the off season when it's not crowded.

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And there's cool stuff you can do in the summer that's kind of a dupe destination

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sort of thing. Any of the places along the Dalmatian coast, I had no idea that

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most of them were settled by Venetians way back when.

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So you're going to see a lot of the same kind of architecture and stuff.

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A lot of the places in Croatia and Montenegro were all started by Venetians.

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And there's really cool stuff to see there. So go to places like Kotor and Dubrovnik

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and stuff like that in the summertime where it's not as busy there.

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And save Venice for the winter months.

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Right. Yeah. Yeah, so to back up just a little bit, the idea is find these,

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instead of going to these busy places or in addition to, you know,

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maybe spend a little less time in the overcrowded locations,

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find places nearby that are similar but aren't full of people.

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And they all have things worth seeing, right? Right there.

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There you're going to get the flavor of flavor of the area.

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But you might see things that you totally missed out because you had to go see

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that tower that's leaning or something like that.

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I've got a couple of articles with some some suggestions and some ideas.

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I know that one that was mentioned.

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Everybody wants to go see Santorini in Greece. The thing is,

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like that entire area is full of little villages that look just like Greece.

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Greece has so, so, so many islands.

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And I don't even know that I was aware of it until a cruise that I took in the fall.

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And we didn't visit any of the big, you know, famous ones like Santorini.

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We saw Corfu and Cephalonia, Naxos. They were all absolutely gorgeous and not as crowded at all.

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Right. Give those spots a chance. Even so much, you know, if you were thinking

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about taking a foodie trip around Europe.

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Maybe consider going to some of the less well-traveled boroughs around New York

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City where you're going to find ethnic food literally from around the world.

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You're probably going to cover more types of cuisine traveling around New York

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City than you might on a trip abroad.

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See a suggestion here is instead of going to Hawaii, try the Azores of Portugal.

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There's places if you want to see some really cool architecture and places that

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00:33:54,144 --> 00:33:56,124
feel European, you could go to Quebec.

435
00:33:56,804 --> 00:34:02,884
Montreal and Quebec City look a lot like Paris and Geneva some of those places

436
00:34:02,884 --> 00:34:05,484
in europe but do they have the same conventions,

437
00:34:08,324 --> 00:34:16,404
i hope so otherwise we're all in for some torture italy is the yeah italy is

438
00:34:16,404 --> 00:34:22,564
the place that americans want to go on summer vacation and y'all it is crowded

439
00:34:22,564 --> 00:34:28,084
in italy in the summer and And the airfare is insane.

440
00:34:28,084 --> 00:34:30,124
Yeah, I'm discovering that currently.

441
00:34:30,604 --> 00:34:37,484
Yeah. If you go to somewhere like Spain or Sicily instead of Italy in the summer

442
00:34:37,484 --> 00:34:41,444
months, you're going to have just as cool an experience, and it's probably going

443
00:34:41,444 --> 00:34:42,364
to be a little less crowded.

444
00:34:43,904 --> 00:34:48,704
Not that I'm saying don't see Italy. But my cruise line doesn't sail from there. Yeah.

445
00:34:50,504 --> 00:34:57,604
This one sat back. I was reading about Curacao is becoming a much more popular

446
00:34:57,604 --> 00:35:01,224
destination, but still not as crowded as some of the other Caribbean islands

447
00:35:01,224 --> 00:35:03,684
during the summer. It's so pretty there. It's gorgeous, yeah.

448
00:35:05,777 --> 00:35:09,637
It's kind of like seeing Amsterdam with less weed.

449
00:35:11,937 --> 00:35:18,137
Yeah, that is actually one thing that stood out to me from some of the trainings

450
00:35:18,137 --> 00:35:23,857
or the conferences that we've had over the past year is the number of islands

451
00:35:23,857 --> 00:35:26,357
that I may have heard a passing the name of,

452
00:35:26,417 --> 00:35:29,877
but there's so many in the Bahamas, the Caribbean,

453
00:35:29,997 --> 00:35:32,977
these little islands that I did not know. People aren't visiting.

454
00:35:33,177 --> 00:35:35,697
Curacao was a place. I just thought it was that blue bar stuff.

455
00:35:35,697 --> 00:35:37,857
The drink. The liqueur. Yeah.

456
00:35:38,797 --> 00:35:41,277
Yeah, and apparently there's like seven different colors of it.

457
00:35:41,657 --> 00:35:46,497
I didn't know that either. I thought it was all blue. You can get so many colors.

458
00:35:46,917 --> 00:35:50,457
Yeah, there's orange and green and yellow and all kinds of stuff.

459
00:35:50,917 --> 00:35:56,557
Yeah, we went to Curacao on a cruise in 2017 or 18.

460
00:35:56,717 --> 00:35:59,937
It's gorgeous there. um you know

461
00:35:59,937 --> 00:36:02,917
ideas like instead of instead of

462
00:36:02,917 --> 00:36:06,757
going to bar jeff say barcelona for barcelona yes

463
00:36:06,757 --> 00:36:14,237
go to valencia instead oh and that is a beautiful beautiful spot yeah another

464
00:36:14,237 --> 00:36:19,197
beautiful ancient city that for some reason isn't quite as popular as barcelona

465
00:36:19,197 --> 00:36:24,957
um go to the alps in italy but try out a different area of it.

466
00:36:25,017 --> 00:36:28,157
The Dolomites are kind of the go-to there. Try the Piedmont region.

467
00:36:29,957 --> 00:36:35,457
And you can, you know, there's wineries there. Osti is right there.

468
00:36:35,457 --> 00:36:36,857
They make great Spumanti.

469
00:36:37,657 --> 00:36:38,657
Yes, that's what I hear.

470
00:36:41,197 --> 00:36:46,017
So, yeah, it's just look for alternatives because there's so many places in the world.

471
00:36:47,241 --> 00:36:50,261
You don't want to be with everybody else. Try something new.

472
00:36:50,501 --> 00:36:56,381
And more Caribbean resorts and Mexican are starting to do overwater bungalows,

473
00:36:56,381 --> 00:36:58,981
if you've always wanted to go to the really,

474
00:36:59,081 --> 00:37:02,081
really super expensive ones in the Pacific, and you can't get there,

475
00:37:02,181 --> 00:37:06,221
you've got these kind of resort fields to go to as well.

476
00:37:07,201 --> 00:37:10,981
Yeah, they've definitely caught on to where the money is for those things.

477
00:37:11,581 --> 00:37:12,981
They still look just as gorgeous.

478
00:37:14,301 --> 00:37:18,461
And so the next the next one on the list we've also talked about a little bit

479
00:37:18,461 --> 00:37:23,401
is set jetting instead of jets. I get it. I get it.

480
00:37:23,681 --> 00:37:28,481
Yeah. And this is where you chase the locations from this past summer.

481
00:37:30,021 --> 00:37:34,061
Set jetting? You went to the White Lotus. Oh, that's right.

482
00:37:34,761 --> 00:37:37,921
Totally forgot about that. How do you forget that?

483
00:37:38,201 --> 00:37:44,901
Tell me you traveled too much without traveling. I forgot I was at the Four Seasons. Yeah.

484
00:37:45,181 --> 00:37:50,981
So this is where you go to find the locations where your favorite prestige television

485
00:37:50,981 --> 00:37:54,381
series or your favorite movies were filmed at. There's a lot of them.

486
00:37:54,481 --> 00:37:59,421
A lot of the ones that are driving this trend are from The White Lotus and also

487
00:37:59,421 --> 00:38:01,921
Game of Thrones are kind of the two biggest ones.

488
00:38:02,241 --> 00:38:06,261
I forgot about that because the most recent season of The White Lotus was in

489
00:38:06,261 --> 00:38:10,681
Sicily. And I'm sitting here thinking, I don't think I've been there.

490
00:38:12,121 --> 00:38:16,601
But season one, yes, I did see that location.

491
00:38:18,399 --> 00:38:22,599
So people are flocking to the resorts, whatever, whatever, you know,

492
00:38:22,639 --> 00:38:24,879
the newest season of White Lotus, wherever that's filmed.

493
00:38:24,959 --> 00:38:27,259
People are flocking there to see that.

494
00:38:28,419 --> 00:38:34,179
Ireland and Croatia are incredibly popular for fans of Game of Thrones.

495
00:38:35,339 --> 00:38:39,139
Still. This kind of goes all the way back to when people were headed to New

496
00:38:39,139 --> 00:38:41,679
Zealand for Lord of the Rings locations.

497
00:38:41,739 --> 00:38:45,619
A lot of people don't know this about me, but I have never watched Game of Thrones. What?

498
00:38:46,179 --> 00:38:48,879
I am just hearing this information right now.

499
00:38:52,859 --> 00:38:57,379
I've got one episode on you, Jeff. Harry Potter filming locations,

500
00:38:57,839 --> 00:39:02,039
the studio, that's kind of a, you're not seeing countrysides,

501
00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:06,439
but you can actually go to the studio where they filmed a lot of Harry Potter.

502
00:39:07,199 --> 00:39:13,679
You can go see the steam train that they used for the Hogwarts Express.

503
00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:17,159
That's in Scotland, the Jacobite Express.

504
00:39:18,859 --> 00:39:26,599
You can go to the place where that famous shot of it, where it's moving across that big bridge.

505
00:39:28,299 --> 00:39:31,119
Oh, yes, that aqueduct-looking thing.

506
00:39:33,459 --> 00:39:37,979
This is entirely on speculation, but I imagine that there's been an uptick in

507
00:39:37,979 --> 00:39:41,979
visits to dude ranches in the Yellowstone area.

508
00:39:41,999 --> 00:39:46,839
Oh, for sure. Sure, we get a lot of requests for dude ranch vacations because of that.

509
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:53,959
Yeah, so there's another category I'm not interested in. I don't like dude ranch. Dude or ranching.

510
00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:57,859
You sure you're not into the dudes? Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

511
00:39:59,799 --> 00:40:04,459
I don't know, Jeff. I think we could have a good time on a dude ranch. Yeah, sure.

512
00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:09,179
I won't make you get on a horse. I've never ridden a horse before.

513
00:40:10,252 --> 00:40:16,292
We'll keep that record. I don't like the outside. All of this is shocking to me.

514
00:40:16,432 --> 00:40:21,492
How do you feel about helicopters and hot air balloons? Never.

515
00:40:22,852 --> 00:40:25,652
Not going to touch them. No. Not going to touch them.

516
00:40:26,572 --> 00:40:31,272
I do like seeing locations where things were filmed. I love when I'm accidentally

517
00:40:31,272 --> 00:40:33,532
walking around in New York and you just roll up.

518
00:40:33,692 --> 00:40:40,212
I recognize that from wherever. or the friend's apartment or just little things like that.

519
00:40:40,252 --> 00:40:43,692
And there's all tours that you can do that are just filming locations.

520
00:40:44,212 --> 00:40:50,712
Jurassic Park. If you're in Hawaii, going to see the Jurassic Park filming locations is a cool.

521
00:40:51,032 --> 00:40:54,652
You can ride a horse through the valley where they filmed Jurassic Park.

522
00:40:54,832 --> 00:40:56,912
I would be scared of the dinosaurs, though.

523
00:40:58,392 --> 00:41:02,332
They are pretty scary. You can see the Christmas Story House in Cleveland, Ohio.

524
00:41:03,292 --> 00:41:10,492
Oh, yeah. I would see that. Oh, I just looked at the New York City one.

525
00:41:10,572 --> 00:41:14,412
And right here's the Friends apartment, as I was just saying.

526
00:41:15,212 --> 00:41:21,312
Friends apartment. When we went to Salem a few years ago, we didn't do any of

527
00:41:21,312 --> 00:41:22,392
the traditional witch stuff.

528
00:41:22,472 --> 00:41:28,272
And we only went and saw filming locations from the hit 1990s film Hocus Pocus.

529
00:41:28,272 --> 00:41:30,672
I'm not surprised by this in any way.

530
00:41:30,912 --> 00:41:35,152
My sister is a very big Hocus Pocus fan.

531
00:41:35,152 --> 00:41:39,492
And it was a major highlight of our trip really cool when is she gonna take

532
00:41:39,492 --> 00:41:45,312
you for filming uh locations for things like deep blue sea and sharknado.

533
00:41:47,272 --> 00:41:54,072
That would be on her bucket list as well she loves a good kooky disaster film,

534
00:41:54,672 --> 00:41:56,432
especially if it involves sharks,

535
00:41:58,009 --> 00:42:02,349
Yeah, she's been on to The Meg lately, both one and two.

536
00:42:02,489 --> 00:42:07,189
She's a major fan. Those are her two go-to airplane films are The Meg series.

537
00:42:08,409 --> 00:42:12,909
Yeah, the second Meg movie looked pretty good, I have to say.

538
00:42:13,049 --> 00:42:15,629
It looked like a ton of fun. She's a fan.

539
00:42:17,049 --> 00:42:20,709
The next one on our list, we kind of hit a little bit when we talked about food,

540
00:42:20,789 --> 00:42:25,589
but this one covers just a wider experience in general.

541
00:42:25,589 --> 00:42:30,569
People are looking for opportunities for authentic cultural immersion,

542
00:42:30,769 --> 00:42:35,229
places where you actually get to know the people where you're visiting, see what life is like.

543
00:42:37,069 --> 00:42:43,929
And so that's a very popular thing, looking for opportunities to not just sit

544
00:42:43,929 --> 00:42:45,629
on a beach, but get a slice of life.

545
00:42:46,069 --> 00:42:52,209
Yeah. Yeah. Again, we had quite a few travel advisors when they went to Israel last year.

546
00:42:52,289 --> 00:42:58,269
And again, even their their trip to Italy this year, there was a lot of those

547
00:42:58,269 --> 00:43:02,909
experiences where you were making the pasta, cooking,

548
00:43:03,209 --> 00:43:07,969
meeting, you know, meeting people and seeing what life is like in the area.

549
00:43:08,249 --> 00:43:13,869
And again, Adventures by Disney does a lot of that. Even better for that would

550
00:43:13,869 --> 00:43:16,509
be Nat Geo Expeditions. Yep.

551
00:43:16,869 --> 00:43:24,049
That's kind of really their niche is the cultural immersion side of travel.

552
00:43:26,069 --> 00:43:31,609
Also, G Adventures and that that one is not just a cultural immersion,

553
00:43:31,889 --> 00:43:36,369
but also they do a lot of sort of give back travel, which has been a trend. friend.

554
00:43:39,189 --> 00:43:44,449
Voluntourism, I think was the buzzword a few years ago, where you visit a destination

555
00:43:44,449 --> 00:43:47,409
and go work in the community as part of your trip.

556
00:43:47,789 --> 00:43:50,309
And they kind of specialize in that sort of travel.

557
00:43:51,824 --> 00:43:52,404
I remember.

558
00:44:00,324 --> 00:44:01,744
Should have turned that off.

559
00:44:04,004 --> 00:44:09,024
That was well-timed, but it's also two minutes late. We're having issues with

560
00:44:09,024 --> 00:44:11,564
it. You're going to have to reset your cuckoo.

561
00:44:12,424 --> 00:44:16,784
It keeps stopping. That's unfortunate. Next time I'm in Germany,

562
00:44:16,844 --> 00:44:17,764
I'll pick up another one.

563
00:44:18,324 --> 00:44:21,824
You've got to remember to feed that bird. Otherwise, he's not going to do his

564
00:44:21,824 --> 00:44:23,984
job. He quits cuckooing. Yeah.

565
00:44:24,624 --> 00:44:31,384
So, yeah, that is a big category that we see all the time is looking to experience the cultures.

566
00:44:31,964 --> 00:44:39,644
This last trend is a little bit more conceptual, but the idea of exploring frontiers.

567
00:44:39,664 --> 00:44:43,724
And there's not a lot of places on the planet that haven't been explored.

568
00:44:43,824 --> 00:44:47,464
There's not a lot of frontiers left. But, you know, people are,

569
00:44:47,604 --> 00:44:53,304
as Heather mentioned earlier, how many videos on TikTok do we see all the time

570
00:44:53,304 --> 00:44:55,344
of people crossing the Drake Passage?

571
00:44:55,604 --> 00:45:02,064
Or it is becoming more and more accessible to climb Mount Everest or even is

572
00:45:02,064 --> 00:45:05,824
becoming popular to not even climb Mount Everest, but just to be able to go

573
00:45:05,824 --> 00:45:08,744
and say that you camped at base camp at Everest?

574
00:45:08,864 --> 00:45:14,324
Yes, we, Jeff and I know somebody who did that this past summer, did Everest base camp.

575
00:45:14,324 --> 00:45:21,364
And when I was following along with his trip, I've never had any inkling whatsoever

576
00:45:21,364 --> 00:45:23,884
of climbing Mount Everest.

577
00:45:24,024 --> 00:45:29,884
I'm not a mountain climbing kind of gal, but following that trip, it looked pretty cool.

578
00:45:30,024 --> 00:45:32,864
And I thought, you know, I could probably make it to base camp.

579
00:45:33,004 --> 00:45:35,284
At the very least. That might be cool. Yeah. Yeah.

580
00:45:35,464 --> 00:45:38,544
You still do have to do a little bit of climbing to get there,

581
00:45:38,604 --> 00:45:43,584
but it's not like, you know, it's more of a steep hike than it is an actual

582
00:45:43,584 --> 00:45:50,024
having to climb over crevasses and actually ascend to the top.

583
00:45:50,324 --> 00:45:51,624
But it looked really cool. Right.

584
00:45:52,815 --> 00:45:58,835
Yeah. And like Facebook keeps on serving me up samplings of posts from groups

585
00:45:58,835 --> 00:46:00,275
that it thinks I might be interested in.

586
00:46:00,315 --> 00:46:04,235
And since it knows that I'm interested in travel, it showed me a post from this

587
00:46:04,235 --> 00:46:09,555
group of people sharing tips for visiting for trekking Kilimanjaro.

588
00:46:09,735 --> 00:46:14,715
And it struck me that everybody in this group, they seem to be like 90 percent

589
00:46:14,715 --> 00:46:24,315
middle aged, upper class, somewhat fussy British women. I could fit into that group.

590
00:46:50,375 --> 00:46:54,775
Said, people are looking for less crowded places, experiences that you think

591
00:46:54,775 --> 00:46:59,635
that you might not have tried in general, especially, you know,

592
00:46:59,635 --> 00:47:04,395
taking on some of the more adventure activities that you can have in different places.

593
00:47:04,435 --> 00:47:08,335
So in lots of different ways, that's why I said it's kind of a little more conceptual.

594
00:47:08,375 --> 00:47:11,795
People are looking, you know, going and trying weird new foods,

595
00:47:12,075 --> 00:47:16,995
experiencing unfamiliar familiar cultures it's it's people are looking to grow

596
00:47:16,995 --> 00:47:20,055
another one jeff will never do space tourism,

597
00:47:20,715 --> 00:47:26,835
i mean that's still on my list i i would absolutely do it if i was given the

598
00:47:26,835 --> 00:47:34,575
opportunity 100 it's the final frontier yeah but it's too similar to a to a balloon i don't like uh,

599
00:47:35,675 --> 00:47:41,155
unnecessary risk oh i went to a middle school named after a dead astronaut that.

600
00:47:43,775 --> 00:47:49,155
And there were two other schools in my same city named after the other two guys in the capsule.

601
00:47:50,195 --> 00:47:53,595
So I'm not feeling it. Was one of them a chaffee?

602
00:47:54,436 --> 00:47:57,916
There was Chaffee and Grissom and I went to Ed White.

603
00:47:58,836 --> 00:48:02,776
Roger B.'s from Grand Rapids. We've got a street named after him here in town.

604
00:48:02,936 --> 00:48:06,276
Yeah, we sure do. And our planetarium is named after him.

605
00:48:08,536 --> 00:48:12,736
So those are the top 10 travel trends that we've had our eyes on,

606
00:48:12,836 --> 00:48:16,696
kind of leaving 2023 and now that we're into the start of 2024.

607
00:48:18,956 --> 00:48:23,816
2024 is going to be a year for me. I'm getting to another place that's on my bucket list.

608
00:48:24,136 --> 00:48:28,936
Finally, I'm going to be going to Japan this summer. I'm super excited about that.

609
00:48:29,816 --> 00:48:31,996
Nice. I've been there a bunch of times. It's fun.

610
00:48:35,556 --> 00:48:39,976
Yeah, you're the one who told us all about the Iron Wang Festival, right?

611
00:48:43,196 --> 00:48:47,836
Looking forward to that. I'm also going to be going to Switzerland in a couple

612
00:48:47,836 --> 00:48:52,576
of months and just discovered that one of the things we're doing is going to

613
00:48:52,576 --> 00:48:58,696
the highest altitude suspension bridge in Europe,

614
00:48:59,956 --> 00:49:02,876
a foot traffic type bridge.

615
00:49:04,076 --> 00:49:07,796
I'm a little terrified, but I think I'm going to go for it. There's a lot of

616
00:49:07,796 --> 00:49:10,856
really, really high up things in Switzerland. Yes.

617
00:49:11,096 --> 00:49:13,256
I bet it's because of all those mountains.

618
00:49:14,216 --> 00:49:20,116
We're going to see an Alp or two. Yeah. that qualifies as adventure travel right

619
00:49:20,116 --> 00:49:23,896
yeah totally perfect your personality,

620
00:49:24,916 --> 00:49:28,596
there's a fancy rotating restaurant on top of one of those yeah we're going

621
00:49:28,596 --> 00:49:35,776
on some kind of rotating lift as well it's kind of like the Skyliner only it

622
00:49:35,776 --> 00:49:40,056
goes up much higher and it spins while you're going up there so you can see all around,

623
00:49:42,688 --> 00:49:46,148
Jeff looks horrified. It's totally turned my head. I don't need to do that.

624
00:49:46,948 --> 00:49:51,228
Have you seen the double-decker cable cars that they have up in the Alps?

625
00:49:51,228 --> 00:49:53,648
Yeah. That the top level is open air.

626
00:49:54,208 --> 00:49:59,948
You can stand inside, or if you're not a pussy, you go onto the roof. Yes. And it's open air.

627
00:50:00,668 --> 00:50:03,148
I'm a pussy. I would totally do that.

628
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:12,880
Music.

629
00:50:03,948 --> 00:50:06,988
Yeah, I would probably do that. Cable cars don't bother me.

630
00:50:09,148 --> 00:50:14,748
Yeah, but I did a cable car in the Alps. and it was really, really high. Yeah.

631
00:50:15,208 --> 00:50:19,868
Stuff like that doesn't bother me. I don't want to stand on an edge of something

632
00:50:19,868 --> 00:50:23,788
like near a cliff where that just makes me feel weird.

633
00:50:23,988 --> 00:50:26,128
Look over the edge of the Cliffs of Moher.

634
00:50:27,368 --> 00:50:35,028
Scary stuff. Done it. Or like these roads you see where the truck can just barely.

635
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:35,920
Music.

636
00:50:35,028 --> 00:50:39,848
Fit on the road and you have to careen along the side of the road. That makes me feel bad.

637
00:50:43,068 --> 00:50:44,748
If I knew there was no other traffic

638
00:50:44,748 --> 00:50:47,208
on the road and I could do it on the motorcycle, that would be awesome.

639
00:50:48,328 --> 00:50:52,728
That's terrifying, Dan. It sounds like fun. I used to be cool.

640
00:50:53,688 --> 00:50:58,968
When was that? Well, anyway, it was before you knew me, my friend. It must have been.

641
00:51:02,028 --> 00:51:02,668
Long before.

642
00:51:05,408 --> 00:51:08,488
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to the show on your favorite apps and all the latest Gold Key Adventure updates

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at www.goldkeyadventures.com.

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Music.

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Can't wait to hang out with you again, and we'll see you real soon.

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For real, I promise. Bye, y'all. Goodbye, everybody.

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To ask a question or share your travel story, you can reach us by smoke signal,

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carrier pigeon, or send an email to goldkeyadventures at gmail.com.

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And make sure you follow the Gold Key Adventurers Society on Facebook and Instagram.

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A huge thanks to our sponsor, Key to the World Travel.

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For all your travel planning needs, visit www.keytotheworldtravel.com for a

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free quote and help planning the trip of a lifetime.

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Tell them the Gold Key Adventurers sent you. That's www.keytotheworldtravel.com.

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Key to the World Travel, your key to a magical vacation.

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Music.

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Thanks to Outer Vibe for the use of their song Hoka Hei for the intro and outro of our show.

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Find them on Facebook at The Outer Vibe or check out www.outervibe.com for tour

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dates, music, merch, and more.

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Music.

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We'll see you next week for another meeting of the Gold Key Adventurer Society. society.

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And until then, remember, life is short and the world is wide. So go have an adventure.

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Swear to God, we'll actually record some episodes this year.