223a The Lunatic Express; Open Phones: Travel Discoveries

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Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

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🗓️ 16 October 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Carl Hoffman explains what it was like to travel the world on the most notorious, over-crowded trains, planes, busses and ferries — the way most of the planet gets from one city to another. And listeners share their own travel discoveries and suggestions for seeing the world. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	One way to conquer your fears about what could happen when you travel in certain countries
0:04.4	is to actually join the crowds on the bus, the train, or the ferry.
0:08.0	Once I totally surrender to the dirt, it was nothing you can do about, I totally surrender to the heat,
0:12.0	and I just spent hours with my feet
0:14.1	hanging out of the doorway, people giving me sweet tea and cold beers.
0:19.5	Carl Hoffman set off to explore the most rickety and notorious modes of mass transit around the world.
0:24.0	And he did that just to experience how the majority of people on our planet actually get from town to town.
0:30.0	He came home with some great stories, and besides surviving unscathed to write his book the lunatic express
0:36.4	Carl tells us why he'd do it all over again. The best times in life are when you take the back alleys and side roads and the
0:44.0	disregard the guidebook. Carl Hoffman explains what third world transit is
0:48.0	really like and later in the hour
0:50.0	listeners share their own travel discoveries and tips.
0:52.4	Fasten your seat belt if you can find Listeners share their own travel discoveries and tips.
0:53.0	Fasten your seatbelt, if you can find it.
0:55.0	It's Travel with Rick Steves.
0:58.0	We're finding out just how dangerous the world's most crowded and run-down buses,
1:04.8	trains and ferries are and hearing about your own travels to exotic lands far
1:09.6	from home. It's coming up today on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:16.0	Travelers seem to notice the little articles on page 10 of a newspaper that says
1:22.0	Indonesian Ferry Sinks, 300 people drowned.
1:26.0	Peruvian bus plunges off cliff.
1:29.0	Kenyan train attacked by mobs.
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