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On the Sunday, December 15th, 2019 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, Super Shuttle, the original airport ride share, is a casualty of the ride sharing movement. In our Smarter Traveler segment, we tell you which destinations have been searched the most often on the web this year... In the back half of the show, it’s a Travel Guys Christmas. Call in and share your best travel tip and get rewarded with a travel gift for the holidays. Last week’s wreath laying at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery

On the Sunday, April 7th, 2019 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, United has become the latest airline to blow up its award ticket chart.  United claims some routes, shorter routes at non-peak times, will go down in price.  But there will be no cap, and seats to popular destinations at peak times are going to coast a LOT more points.  And you will never know how many.  A serious downgrade of their Mileage Plus program.  Airbnb is under fire after a vacationing family found a live streaming camera in a Cork, Ireland home.  It was disguised as a smoke alarm.  The husband is an information technology security specialist and he found the camera.  Airbnb has been slow to comment.  Their rules prohibit any kind of hidden cameras for any reason. Recently a young South Carolina woman was found murdered after waiting for a ride share.  In our Smarter Traveler segment, we talk about how to be safe when ride sharing.  This woman may have met with foul play unrelated to her ride share, but knowing some basic tips will keep you safe and make it harder for your ride to go wrong. Two call in guests on the program - Matthew Felix wrote a book called Porcelain Travels, focusing on adventures involving porcelain...use your imagination.  It's light and fun and the stories are truly unique.  Rob Palmer claims to be the world's first travel blogger.  He made a living at it long before many of the current bloggers were born.

On the Sunday, February 24th, 2019 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, Princess is upgrading the wi-fi on their ships and New Jersey is creating the Anthony Bourdain Food Trail, based on the stops in one of his episodes. In our Smarter Traveler segment, Mark has a rant about the weird designs in new hotel rooms. What were they thinking? Plus, his ideas on how to solve airline overbooking and a comment on traveling when you are sick. Guests in the second half of the show include the writer of a book on the Coca-Cola Trail, a compilation of Coke landmarks around he country; and a San Francisco-based travel writer you had to rely on Uber and Lyft to get around for two months. Let’s hear how his experiment went.

This Sunday, February 25th, on The Travel Guys... In the Travel News, Southwest Airlines is charging more to jump to the front of the line at the airport, Caesars says they are coming in your room once a day no matter what, travel companies are abandoning NRA discounts quickly and it's going to cost more to spend a day at Disneyland. In the Smarter Travel segment, Tom offers some advice based on recent personal travel experiences, and Mark explains why you never skip an onward flight or hotel stay and the Seller of Travel law. Listeners are asked their opinion on ride sharing companies and Gwen Duncan has a segment on European River Cruises, again a First Person update. Next week: We take you to New Mexico, where you can stay in a eco-friendly Earthship, and Clayton Whitehead joins us with another First Person Report, this time it's all about his trip to Jordan and the Dead Sea.