5 North America Road Trips; Wales

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

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🗓️ 8 May 2005

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Rick learns about the charms of Wales from Welshman Martin DeLandowicz, and attempts to speak some otherwise undecipherable phrases in the Welsh Celtic language; also, Rick chats with Jamie Jensen for the first time, author of an extensive guidebook on road trips in the USA and Canada, and takes listener calls on their recommended back highway trips. Jamie will return in future programs with more road trip ideas. 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	For more castles than you can shake a maysat, there's no place like Wales.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steve's. Today, our travels take us near and far.
0:11.0	In this edition of Travel with Rick Steve's, my Welsh friend Martin
0:14.0	Delandovitz tells us why his homeland of Wales offers you more variety than
0:18.2	you ever imagined. We'll find out why Wales is a sightseeing surprise of the British Empire.
0:24.4	And closer to home, we're making plans to take a great American road trip.
0:28.8	Jamie Jensen wrote the book on it, a thousand pages worth of it.
0:32.2	He can recommend the breathtaking parks, dusty towns,
0:35.4	characteristic diners, off beat nooks, and backdoor crannies that continue to make traveling
0:40.0	the back roads of America a genuine right of passage.
0:44.5	All that and your calls coming right up.
0:47.0	It promises to be a fun adventure for the hour ahead.
0:50.0	It's Travel with Rick Steves.
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1:17.7	travelers on the line right now. If you'd like to get in on the
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1:39.0	Hi, hi Rick, how are you doing?
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