560 Enjoying National Parks; France 2019; Puzzle of Polynesia
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 13 April 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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As National Parks Week approaches, a guidebook author joins us to share ideas for exploring America’s 59 national parks. Then tour guides to France help listeners plan their summer voyages, with advice for marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, and enjoying a "babymoon" in Paris. Plus, the author of "Sea People" tells the fascinating story of how Polynesians came to populate the most far-flung islands on earth.
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| 0:00.0 | What's your favorite national park? The most popular one straddles the border between Tennessee and North Carolina? |
| 0:06.5 | Great Smokies National Park has the biggest visitation of all the parks in the country. |
| 0:13.0 | Coming up, the author of a guide to America's 59 national parks helps you plan a national parks road trip. |
| 0:19.0 | When you visit France, a take-out lunch is a pretty good option. |
| 0:23.0 | Really beautiful spaces where you can go to the market, pick out a few things, go find a nice spot, and have a lovely |
| 0:28.4 | meal. |
| 0:29.4 | And I find France facilitates that the most with its markets. |
| 0:33.0 | And we'll take a look at how thousands of miles of ocean couldn't separate the South Sea islands from ancient Polynesian navigators, |
| 0:40.0 | or from the seafaring explorers who wanted to live there too. |
| 0:43.2 | The long-term effect of this arrival of strange people in Polynesia |
| 0:48.2 | was kind of tough on Polynesians. |
| 0:50.6 | The puzzles of Polynesia and tips for visiting France and the national parks. |
| 0:56.0 | It's just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 0:59.0 | We'll get you ready for a trip to France and explore the mysteries of Polynesian settlers in the South Pacific. |
| 1:06.0 | That's all in the hour ahead on today's travel with Rick Steve's. |
| 1:09.0 | We're at 877 333 7425.3.7.3.7.5. |
| 1:14.0 | Let's get started by planning a national park road trip. |
| 1:17.1 | Our guest Becky Lomax lives and breeds the national parks with a personal bond that stretches |
| 1:22.2 | back generations. |
| 1:24.0 | Becky grew up the daughter of a National Park Ranger in Washington State, |
| 1:28.0 | and her great-grandparents even went to Yellowstone on their honeymoon. |
| 1:31.0 | In college, Becky worked summers at Montana's Glacier National Park |
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