Award-winning travel writer Lea Lane shares travel memories and travel tips with passionate travelers, travel experts, and savvy locals around the world. She has traveled to over 100 countries. Is the author of nine books, a blogger at forbes.com, and contributor to dozens of guidebooks. Smart. Fun!
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 19 hours 41 minutes
episode 10: Miami: Past, Present, Future -- & The New Underline Park, With Founder Meg Daly
The Underline, a 10-mile linear park, urban trail and public arts destination, will meander from the Miami River to Dadeland South under the Miami Metrorail. With its first section, "Brickell Backyard" newly opened, Meg Daly, Founder and President of Friends of the Underline, talks with Lea about Miami's past, present and future.
-- Lea and Meg both grew up in the Miami area a generation apart...
episode 11: New Mexico: Pueblos and Art, Space Aliens and Frito Pie
Susan Mihalic, author of the debut novel Dark Horses, shares her love of New Mexico, her home state.
-- Northern Pueblos, including Taos Pueblo,and rituals and festivals, Bandelier National Monument,
-- Carlsbad Caverns...
episode 12: Green Travel, 'Slow Travel': Eco-Tourism Trips, Tips
Florence Quinn, a travel and lifestyle public-relations pro, represents numerous destinations and lodgings around the world. She shares with us environmental problems and the best ways to travel green, in what she calls the "earth crisis" we're in today.
-- She became especially aware of eco-travel when, among 120 million others, she saw a photo of a distressed sea turtle with a plastic straw up its nose...
episode 13: Italy: 'What's Not to Like?' With Steve Perillo
Steve Perillo, a third-generation owner of America's biggest tour company to Italy, figures he's traveled there over a hundred times. Steve brings expertise and humor as he and Lea share glorious travel memories from Milan to Sicily, and offer a charming overview of this blessed travel destination...
episode 14: Forbes Editor's Travels, Part #1: Liberia, Syria, Vietnam, Drag Racing In Nevada
Randall Lane likes to live on the edge: I know because, besides being chief content officer and editor of Forbes, he's my son. His motto is "life is to be experienced," and in both his work and play, he would rather do things than regret the things he didn't do. Here he gives us four exciting (sometimes harrowing) tales of his adventurous travels...
episode 15: Cuba And Pamplona, Spain, In Hemingway's Steps: Forbes Editor's Adventures, Part #2
In Part 1's amazing tales, Episode 14, we found out that Randall Lane likes to live on the edge -- from the jungles of Liberia to the deserts of Nevada. Besides being chief content officer and editor of Forbes, he's my son, and I found out details on the episode that I never knew about. His motto is "life is to be experienced," and in both his work and play, he would rather do things than regret the things he didn't do...
episode 16: Alaska: Northern Lights, Fishing Towns, Glacial Bays, Denali, More
Fran Golden and Midgi Moore, authors of 100 Places To Do in Alaska Before You Die, talk with Lea about the travel superlatives of the biggest, most northern and most spectacular state.
-- We start with cruising. Does size matter when it comes to seeing glaciers, up close? (Not that much, as in other things...
episode 17: San Sebastian, Spain: 'Greatest Foodie City In The World'
Delightful award-winning guide Eskerne Falcon talks with us from San Sebastian (also called Donostia) in Northern Spain, near the French border. We discuss the best pintxo bars and take a super tour in this beautiful Basque city and environs, between mountains and the Bay of Biscay.
-- Eskerne tells of the city's culture and history, developing from a fishing village early-on to royals favorite, from the 19th century...
episode 18: France/Belgium Road Trip: Trenches, Beaches, History, Charm
Husband Bill and I invited my son Cary and his partner Zhanna on a travels through the major European World War battlefields, in Belgium and France, ending 10 days later in Paris -- a road trip of charm and history.
First, we hear tips on road tripping, then we describe our trip. Right away we missed The Compiègne Wagon, the train carriage in which both the Armistices of both World Wars were signed...
episode 19: Summer Travel: World's Wildest, Weirdest Festivals!
Lea takes on the world's weirdest, oddest summer festivals around the world.
-- In the USA, there's underwater music in Key West, hat contests in Connecticut, and all things Elvis in Memphis. In Canada, she remembers participating in a noisy celebration of survival.
-- Bayonne, France celebrates Basque culture; and Italians high in the Dolomites swing on hammocks...