406 Breakfast In America; Four Corners Road Trip; Indonesia Etc.
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.3 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Listen in as Elizabeth Pisani shares tales of her year-long voyage to get reacquainted with the world's fourth most populous country ― what she calls the "improbable" nation of Indonesia. Then learn about where to find some of America’s best breakfasts on your next US road trip – the perfect places get each day started on the right note. And we explore the singular beauty of the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.
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| 0:00.0 | You know an American style breakfast can put a lot on your plate. |
| 0:04.0 | To us it really is the most important meal of the day, not necessarily nutritionally, |
| 0:08.0 | but because it's at breakfast where you really can feel where you are, take the pulse of a community. |
| 0:14.6 | From country biscuits to sweet tamales, Road Food Devote Michael Stern celebrates what breakfast |
| 0:20.2 | means across America. |
| 0:22.4 | Ready for a road trip? |
| 0:23.0 | Rick Garban suggests you get to the south rim of Grand Canyon a little before sunset. |
| 0:28.0 | For about an hour you watch the changing colors of the Grand Canyon. |
| 0:32.0 | And author Elizabeth Pisani explains why she thinks of Indonesia as a complicated and fascinating friend. |
| 0:39.0 | It's not only that there are people living in different centuries in the same country. You're often living in |
| 0:45.3 | different centuries in the same village. Have breakfast across America, |
| 0:49.0 | Rome the desert southwest, and get to know Indonesia just ahead on Travel with Rick Steeves. |
| 0:55.0 | It's one of the most populous countries on earth, but what do you really know about Indonesia? |
| 1:06.0 | Elizabeth Pissani has grown quite fond of the country, Warts and all, from her years of getting |
| 1:10.2 | acquainted with the Indonesian people and the issues they face. |
| 1:14.0 | She introduces us to Indonesia a little later in the hour. |
| 1:17.4 | One of the favorite regions for taking an American road trip is the Desert Southwest. It's no surprise that you'll meet so many German RVers at nearly every |
| 1:26.2 | trading post all along the way. The romantic wild and lonely desert scenery |
| 1:30.7 | featured in hundreds of Westerns is indeed what looms beyond your windshield. |
| 1:35.5 | We'll get inspired to explore the American Southwest in just a bit. |
| 1:39.1 | We're at 877337425 and by email it's radio at Rick Steves.com. To get your road-tripping |
| 1:46.8 | days started in style you need to know how to find the best breakfast in town. |
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