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Harveryone and welcome back to the Alexa Show. I am
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Alexa Servo DiDio your host, and I am so excited
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to be here tonight. Tonight's surprise show is just incredible.
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It's for people who love history, historic novels, and traveled
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historic places. The Historic Traveler is the first place they
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can call home. This blog, alongside is associated membership community,
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an alliance Historic Traveler international history lovers and readers, a
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vast resource information and entertainment. My guest tonight, Jackie Lappin. Jackie,
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Welcome to the Alexa Show.
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I'm so delighted to be here. Thank you Alexa.
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This is so amazing. Please tell us a little bit
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about how you got started and where did this all begin.
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Well, you know, I have always been a closet photographer,
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traveling all over the world, shooting photographs on my vacation
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and extended business trips, and I really had a passion
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to share it with people. But it's been sitting in
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carousels and notebooks and you know, my digital stuff. And
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I finally had the inspiration too at you know, at
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a point in my life where I really wanted to concentrate.
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On sharing all of it. So and I'm a storyteller.
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What I do for a living is right, and so
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I'm bringing together the storytelling problem aspects of this my
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beautiful photos from all over the world. And then I
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also love to absorb my history through historic novels, history books,
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and historic mysteries. So what's unique about this blog is
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that I actually get to recommend the books that make
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you feel as if you live there. So every blog
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pairs photos, story and book recommendations, and so I'm bringing
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all the things together that I love. I've got over
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six hundred books right here in in my place. But
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what's more important is we have a database of close
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to ten thousand books. Is the Historic Traveler that you
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can source by wherever you want to go or where
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you like to read about, so you can sort it
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by state, country, and or city.
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Well, I think it's so important too and necessary because
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so many times people will google or they'll try to
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look up or get reviews online about different places they
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might want to go to. And here you have pictures.
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You're providing them with all the information and recommendation so
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they can almost get a real good feel of what
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they're going to see, but also what to expect. And say, okay,
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is this for me and my family.
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And what they want to plan for Now, you know,
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this is not the kind of blog that's going to
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give you a lot of food.
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It's going to give you a lot of art.
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It's going to focus on history, and if you love history,
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I'm going to tell you in every blog what to
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see in each city, what's worthy of seeing. But more
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than I'm also going to tell you the context. How
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did it get to be this place? What's a little bit.
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I'm not going to give you more than a paragraph
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or two, but you have to understand what went into
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this so that you understand what you're seeing. And then
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I'll illuminate each one and then I have pictures of
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them as well, so you get a real feel for it.
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You really get a deeper appreciation when you travel somewhere
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and you find out the history. Yes, it could be
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a beautiful land, beautiful architecture, but to really know the
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history of going into it, to really get that personal touch,
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which so many times we don't have when we go
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on vacation or we pick somewhere to go to have
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that history. But I think also amazing to be able
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to really speak about where you're going and where you've been,
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when you get to know the history and really share
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it with others other than just a couple of pictures
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of you and your family or doing whatever people usually
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do on vacation.
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Well, and I really believe that if you if you're
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a history lover, you're going to want to read before
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you go, and so we've assembled the ways to do that. One,
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you can absorb your history basically through historic novels or mysteries.
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But you can also get a really good guide.
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And one of the things we did was we added
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a directory of Insight Guides on our pages. There's two
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hundred of them, but I chose the Insight guide because
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they are the best ones for history lovers. They give
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you a really good section on the history, and then
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you get all the regular cultural stuff and the food
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and the you know, all the other things to see
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besides of history too, but they're really ideal. And then
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of course in our directory we'll also give you history
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books or in the blogs as well, so we give
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you a whole spectrum so that you have a real
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sense of not just what happened there, but a lot
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of times who made the history happen there. Who was
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the moving force, who were the leadings, and we'll put
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biographies also into our book options at the end of
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each blog, so you have a lot of resources to
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pull from. But we also want it to be fun.
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You know, it's not just about learning mistry.
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It's fun.
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So we're going to recommend walking tours and little bus
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tours in those cities with a company called Valator, which
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make it really easy. And the other thing that what
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I love about the Historic Traveler is as we talk,
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you mentioned the membership program and we can talk more
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about what the benefits there, but let's say that you
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want to plan your trip and you don't want to
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go into all the details. One of them member benefits
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is that we actually have a travel agent that'll book
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the trip for you at no cost to you and
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at massive discounts that you're not going to be able
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to get on your own. So this system is set
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up you can actually do it in a portal where
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you can do the discount yourself, or you can get
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the travel agent to source it all for you.
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Well, I love how you make it so easy because
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sometimes if you're a history buff or not myself, I'm
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into some history, but I find sometimes getting the time
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to really sit down and enjoy it. I don't have,
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but I think having this all at your fingertips and
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then having someone being able to plan what you're going
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to see or what would be something that would be
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of interest really puts that extra personal touch. What type
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of feedback do you get back from people who've been
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on these trips or who have read through it just
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to feel like they were there.
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Well, people just love the fact that this is it's
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a community, you know, they have the opportunity to connect
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with other people who love history, travel and historic novels.
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It gives them a sense of not being alone in
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their passion and they really like but they love the
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fact that there's so many different resources. So let me
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kind of touch on. So on the homepage, you get
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access to the blog which are constantly I had two
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a week, and you also get the photo gallery, which
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there are thirty three different photo galleries in there of
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beautiful photos from all different kinds of things. Not only
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do you get the locations, we have city scapes and
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we have spotlights on a particular location.
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Sometimes for example, like I've got a blog in there,
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on the world's oldest continuing hospital. I've got blogs on
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three of my favorite libraries all over the world, so
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there's you know, we call those spotlights. Then in the
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photo gallery you also get collections of things, so I
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love to pick windmills or roses or hot air balloons
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or things like that.
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Then you get landscapes a.
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Whole area and the landscapes I've taken there. And lastly
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animals if you love animals, there's a great section just
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on animals from around the world, so that's in the
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photo gallery. And then there's the insight directory on the
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home page. Well, and then you see my logo. This
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logo is really kind of fun, and the logo has
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different iconic landmarks built into the words, like the H
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is the is the Tower of London, and then there's
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Big Ben and then there's you know, the Eiffel Tower
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and the leaning towers at Pisa. They all stand for
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letters here. So we've got a fun bit of merchandise
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that you can get. You know that there's a shop
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that's really fun. So that's what you get on the homepage,
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which on any cost, and I encourage people to sign
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up for the.
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Blog updates at the bottom of that page.
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It's a newsletter and an update and we there's all
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kinds of cool stuff that I put in their news
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that I'm finding on an ongoing basis, comes out twice
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So that's homepage.
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Now, let's say you want to go deeper, and it's
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the membership program Historic Traveler International. And by the way,
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eventually we are are going to be doing travel trips
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with people, but we're not there yet, so groups.
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There could be groups people you'll be going along with them.
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Yeah, but we're not there yet.
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But what they do get right now is a seventy
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five to eighty page magazine. The first half the magazine
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is dedicated to destinations. The second half of the magazine
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is dedicated to the media, books, TV and.
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Films.
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Now, what's really cool about this is there's a great
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Q and A in each half. And the second Q
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and A is always a big time historic traveler, I
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mean a big time historic novelist. And I'm really excited
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that I've just gotten Tony Rich, one of the top
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novelists in the field, to be featured in our second magazine.
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And so and the first one, for example, for the Expert,
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we featured was the guy that saved most of the
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lighthouses in America, and you're going to see all kinds
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of fun features there.
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So that's that.
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Then you have the direct the book directory I was
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telling you about, where you with thousands of books, where
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you can find them by locality. The second part, the
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next part is that I've given you TV dramas and
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where you can find them online, and we go all
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the way back to roots for example. Then there is
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a directory of the world's the world's chargers directory of historic.
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Hotels.
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So if you're looking to say, if you if you
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like to travel and stay in historic hotels, you can
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find it here. In addition to that, you're going to
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have uh, you're going to have uh uh localities of
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I'm sorry, I just got distracted here a minute. And
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so you're going to also have the travel discounts. As
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We have a.
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Community meeting once a month that everybody can cut and join,
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and you don't have to be a member to join
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the first time the second. We also have a book
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club that you can come and join and same the
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same there.
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We have a book swap. We have a.
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Travel matching program with where people you can meet. I'm
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going to be offering interviews with a lot of these
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experts and these authors, so you really get a ton
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of value and the cost is so minimal. It's under
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twenty dollars a month. So if you really want to
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be engaged and get in and tipped off to great
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opportunities for traveling and stuff, this is the place to come.
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And you can find it all at Thehistoric Traveler dot Com.
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And I want to emphasize that it's tche that you
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have to put that in first, So it's Thehistoric Traveler
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dot Com. Come and join us, and you know you'll
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get an opportunity to really expand your.
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Sense of the world and the sense of history in
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the world.
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Do I think it's coming from As a mental health expert,
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I have a lot of clients that love to travel,
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that love to travel internationally, but sometimes can't afford it,
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or sometimes can't actually physically go there times. So I
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was thinking, one, this is perfect for them to be
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able to speak to experts, to speak to people who
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have knowledge about it, but also have that feeling of
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being there. But then for those who need a community
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to travel with or to have people, is there a
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group are there people they can connect to to find
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out about that, but also to be able to use this,
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to use these these photo galleries, all of these different
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history localities to really be able to watch, to be
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a part of to help you as a relaxation, as
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a place of inspiration for them, because I know, especially
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during COVID, so many times when no one couldn't leave this.
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I know a lot of clients where a lot of
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people were looking online to see what all these different
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great places were just to help them feel as they
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were grounded or had something to look forward to.
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Well. And you know, this is the lovely part about
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this is you can just be an armchair traveler if
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you love books, and you know we've sourced them all
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in one place. You could go onto Amazon and wander
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and wander and wonder. But one of the things, for example,
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on the homepage there's a book of the month, and
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then also in the newsletter, every newsletter there's a section
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that says, what's Jackie reading now, And I'm going to
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give you a new book that might be interested or
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the first book in.
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A series that might interest you.
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So you know, your opportunities to travel either physically or
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great or in the possibility of just in your home,
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sitting with a book, or exploring with your with your colleagues,
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or hearing about their trips, or wandering through the photo gallery, which,
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by the way, you can buy any of those images,
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so you know, you could create a wall of photos
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if you wanted to make you feel as if you're traveling.
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you the sense of, you know, if you love the
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essence of seeing and experience history live, this is it.
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How long did it take you to put this all together?
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About eight months?
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Wow, Because I built the book directory, I digitize forty
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thousand photos, we built the website, we built the magazine.
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I've written fifty blogs, about twenty are already posted. So
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it took me total of ten months to do all
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that and get it to this point.
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you have put such hard work into this and such passion.
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I think that makes all of a difference for someone
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wanting to actually travel there, but also to learn about it,
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to know someone really took the time and really this
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is passion and know what they're talking about, and to
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find you know, the windmills, the lighthouses, the animals. Those
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are just such small, intricate things that really we don't
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people don't think about when going on vacation or traveling
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that sometimes we don't have the time to but really
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make make the trip or make that place even more
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appealable to them.
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And when I'm I'm doing my photography, I'm not just looking.
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I'm looking at the details and the things that you
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know are so unique and fun and the you know,
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the door knobs and the windows and the uh you know,
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the kiddy and the you know in the window, and
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you know all the things that make it what it is.
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I give you a sense of more than just looking
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it is so that it makes makes you feel like
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you're you're experiencing it yourself.
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At all the different places and places you've been to
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and have taken these photographs, do they reach out to you?
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Because I mean you really are just showing things I
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don't think most people could do well.
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I haven't really hooked up with a lot of those
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the you know, civic organizations, tourism organizations, but I plan
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to be doing more of that in the future because
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you know, I'm going to be looking to focus in
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particular markets, and now that I have a blog, people
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are going to potentially be interested inviting me to come
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and do blogs on those occasions. So that's in the future,
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I think. But one of the things that I did do,
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which I think is really kind of fun, is because
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people are, you know, they're trying to plan their summer
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vacations or their future vacations or their bucket list, I
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created a guide called twenty International Cities where you could
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immerse yourself in history and the books that will make
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you feel as if you live that. And so I
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want to encourage people to go and grab that e
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guide and you can get it at Vhistoric Traveler dot
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com Forward slash Guide and that's Thehistoric Traveler dot com
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Forward Slash Guide.
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And this is a terrific guide that's.
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Going to really really give you, you know, you an opportunity.
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Would you give us a little not give the whole
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book away, but give us a little idea of what
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people could expect when they look at it.
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They're going to get one page on each market, each
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of those twenty markets, a couple of photographs, and then
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again some book recommendations. But those that one page is
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again going to go over what a little bit of
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the history and what you should see in that market.
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also say that you really don't get out of the
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internationally and you just want to stay in the in
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the US, I have a separate guide just for the US,
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and so that guide is the same, but it's eighteen cities,
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not which is the US, but in North America. So
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I have Canada as well, so it's eighteen cities in
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North America. So you can go to Theehistoric Traveler dot com,
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Forward slash guide na as in North America guide in
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A and you can grab the ones for just this
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continent if that's your preference.
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What is if you have one? If you could pick
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what would be one of your favorite or most inspirational
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shoots or places.
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Oh I love Bruges, Belgium because it's a little mini
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Amsterdam with swans in the canals, and you know, with
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the tall buildings with the winches on the top, it's
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just adorable. But I also love Prague. Prague's an amazing city.
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Dubrovnik in Croatia, you know they film parts of a
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Game of Thrones there. You know, there are just so
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many amazing small towns, little interesting towns. There's one in
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check Slovakia called Chesky Crumblaw. It's like walking into a
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fairydale and it's all in pinks, in in peaches, and
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you know, in green it's just stunning. So but there,
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you know, if you take the time to get out
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into the world, you're going to find so many of
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these amazing not necessarily big towns, but smaller towns as well.
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week you're going to find a new an interesting, new
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place that you might might want to end to your
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bucket list.
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Yes, I win these membership groups and meetings. Once you joined,
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what type of things will they would someone expect, you know,
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talking about the different places. Would they be learning a
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lot of history? What would one would expect?
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a particular book or author you know. And this next
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one coming up is Philippa Gregory, that wonderful series that
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she's done on the Tutors then or.
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Ken Filat, you know, Pillars of the of the Earth.
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The general Conclave as we call it, it's going to
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be we're going to talk about uh places to go,
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and we're going to talk about travel tips and things
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that you should know about. People are going to share
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their experiences of maybe a travel agent or a travel
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company company that they've loved, or maybe a hidden spot.
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if you go to a Budapest, you have to go
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to the the spa baths you know that have been
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there his historically and so you know, I might bring
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that up and say, oh, somebody says I've been there
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and they have to do this.
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have for example, the lighthouse guy.
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I just another another.
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Article we're going to have in the magazine is from
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people that renovated it ranches historic Dude ranches. I just
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did did an article with somebody on graveyards and ostuaries.
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in and talk and share, and so people can ask
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questions and get.
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That experience as well.
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So you know, I might have somebody who's a top
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uh toward travel agent for destination. I'm also going to
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be looking at traveling for your uh, you know, familial connections,
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you know where your heritage came from. I mean, just
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the myriad topics.
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And there's something for everybody. There's definitely you'll find something.
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And I think it sounds like a great community where
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you're able to meet these other people, speak with them,
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and have that community feeling exactly exactly.
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And I'm going to encourage people as we grow to
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even set up little you know, dinner dinner meet and
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greets in their towns so that they get to know
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each other and better.
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And you know, we're just really starting.
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To grow now, and so but I'm encouraging people to
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come and I and I and I opened the doors
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for those meetings every time once a month, and you know,
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I'm there to also get a feeling for what they want.
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What do you want to cover in the next one,
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And I'll go out and find the rece you know,
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the resource or the subject matter.
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Did you ever think of offering this as a college
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course or a course I would think in grade school justly.
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I mean, this would sound like this would be history
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where people would really enjoy children and adults would not
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want to miss this class.
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You know, that's an interesting thought.
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I hadn't really looked it at doing that, but that
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that's that is an interesting thought.
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It was actually my fourth grade trip to.
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The California Missions that stimulated my history, like my love
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of history, because I can just.
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Think of so many people off the top of my
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head that would love something like this and to learn
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about it. I mean, I think it's just it's really
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it's interactive. You have a community. It's hard sometimes to
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find people who have similar tastes than you and travel
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and finding that. So to now that community, but also
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trusted to be able to have a sounding board and
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have ideas and recommendation that is really really big.
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As you can tell, I'm passionate about history and and
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I love, you know, the fact that you can absorb
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real history through historic novels.
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I'm just reading a.
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Series about a woman named Emma of Normandy that I
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had never heard of.
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She's real.
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She was a very she was she was married to
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two kings. I never heard of her before, and now
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I'm knee deep in these books a fascinating life.
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It may be fiction, but it's.
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All completely based around the reality of fictional the fact
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factual access.
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Of her life. So for me, when I go on
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I travel, you know, I'm.
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Pulling from this book, this book, this book, this book
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for a whole picture. Now, not just reading one book.
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was and this person and this person and how they
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influenced history together. And that's so if I see a place,
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I say, oh, this is where this happened. For example, Mary,
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Queen of Scots, you know, I was in the Holyrood
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Palace in the very room where her secretary was murdered,
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which is a big turning point in her history. And
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so here is the or here was another thing. I
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went to Chinonsa, which is a chateau in the Loire
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Valley which I love in France, and this was and
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the story behind this that chateau was that it was
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given to the king's mistress for years and when he died,
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Catherine de Medici, his wife, basically threw out his mistress
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and took over this chatau, and I was in the
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very room where it all flapped, and or actually all
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of Queen this this, this particular chateau is called the
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Chateau of Ladies because there are five women who basically dominated.
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There was no male ruler in this. In this chateau,
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it was always a female.
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There's also drama and crime, drama and a little bit
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of love and lifetime going on with it too, for
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so all different types of people. Well, we're at the
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end of the show. How can my viewers find you?
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Follow you again to really keep updated and really join
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this community.
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So thank you, Alexa.
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The first thing is they can go to Thehistoric Traveler
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dot com and sign up for the blog updates.
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That's number one.
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Two, if they're interested in joining the community, they should,
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you know, obviously take advantage. There is a button there
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for Historic Traveler International. It also states what the all
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the you know resources are. Again, by the way, we
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also have gift certificates so that if you know people
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who love history and you're not the one, they can
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take advantage of giving this as a gift. And then lastly,
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if you just want to reach out to me. I'm
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Jackie atthehistorictraveler dot com, So please, you know, come join us,
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take advantage of our resources, get an insight guide if
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you're going to be traveling off of our website, so
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you know, there's just so many ways that we are
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Wonderful. I can't wait to read all about it again.
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Thank you so much for coming on the show. It
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was so exciting, and thank you for all the work
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that you do.
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Thank you, Alexa, it's been a pleasure to be here.
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Keep traveling, everybody.
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Yes, and everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. Everyone,
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have a good night and God bless
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Harveryone and welcome back to the Alexa Show. I am
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Alexa Servo DiDio your host, and I am so excited
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to be here tonight. Tonight's surprise show is just incredible.
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It's for people who love history, historic novels, and traveled
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historic places. The Historic Traveler is the first place they
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can call home. This blog, alongside is associated membership community,
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an alliance Historic Traveler international history lovers and readers, a
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vast resource information and entertainment. My guest tonight, Jackie Lappin. Jackie,
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Welcome to the Alexa Show.
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I'm so delighted to be here. Thank you Alexa.
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This is so amazing. Please tell us a little bit
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about how you got started and where did this all begin.
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Well, you know, I have always been a closet photographer,
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traveling all over the world, shooting photographs on my vacation
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and extended business trips, and I really had a passion
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to share it with people. But it's been sitting in
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carousels and notebooks and you know, my digital stuff. And
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On sharing all of it. So and I'm a storyteller.
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beautiful photos from all over the world. And then I
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also love to absorb my history through historic novels, history books,
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and historic mysteries. So what's unique about this blog is
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that I actually get to recommend the books that make
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you feel as if you live there. So every blog
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pairs photos, story and book recommendations, and so I'm bringing
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all the things together that I love. I've got over
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six hundred books right here in in my place. But
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what's more important is we have a database of close
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to ten thousand books. Is the Historic Traveler that you
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can source by wherever you want to go or where
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they're going to see, but also what to expect. And say, okay,
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a beautiful land, beautiful architecture, but to really know the
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to see or what would be something that would be
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of interest really puts that extra personal touch. What type
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a community, you know, they have the opportunity to connect
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their passion and they really like but they love the
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three of my favorite libraries all over the world, so
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opportunities for traveling and stuff, this is the place to come.
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people were looking online to see what all these different
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great places were just to help them feel as they
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were grounded or had something to look forward to.
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you love books, and you know we've sourced them all
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in one place. You could go onto Amazon and wander
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and wander and wonder. But one of the things, for example,
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on the homepage there's a book of the month, and
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then also in the newsletter, every newsletter there's a section
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that says, what's Jackie reading now, And I'm going to
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give you a new book that might be interested or
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the first book in.
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A series that might interest you.
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great or in the possibility of just in your home,
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sitting with a book, or exploring with your with your colleagues,
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or hearing about their trips, or wandering through the photo gallery, which,
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by the way, you can buy any of those images,
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so you know, you could create a wall of photos
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if you wanted to make you feel as if you're traveling.
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you the sense of, you know, if you love the
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essence of seeing and experience history live, this is it.
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How long did it take you to put this all together?
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About eight months?
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thousand photos, we built the website, we built the magazine.
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I've written fifty blogs, about twenty are already posted. So
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it took me total of ten months to do all
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that and get it to this point.
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I want to be out traveling more so that'll be.
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It's incredible because people really know what they're getting because
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you have put such hard work into this and such passion.
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I think that makes all of a difference for someone
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wanting to actually travel there, but also to learn about it,
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to know someone really took the time and really this
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is passion and know what they're talking about, and to
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find you know, the windmills, the lighthouses, the animals. Those
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are just such small, intricate things that really we don't
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people don't think about when going on vacation or traveling
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that sometimes we don't have the time to but really
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make make the trip or make that place even more
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appealable to them.
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And when I'm I'm doing my photography, I'm not just looking.
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At a big building structure.
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I'm looking at the details and the things that you
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know are so unique and fun and the you know,
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the door knobs and the windows and the uh you know,
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the kiddy and the you know in the window, and
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you know all the things that make it what it is.
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I give you a sense of more than just looking
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at a structure, but of absorbing the essence of what
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it is so that it makes makes you feel like
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you're you're experiencing it yourself.
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At all the different places and places you've been to
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and have taken these photographs, do they reach out to you?
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Because I bet they'll give you a really big thank you,
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Because I mean you really are just showing things I
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don't think most people could do well.
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I haven't really hooked up with a lot of those
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the you know, civic organizations, tourism organizations, but I plan
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to be doing more of that in the future because
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you know, I'm going to be looking to focus in
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particular markets, and now that I have a blog, people
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are going to potentially be interested inviting me to come
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and do blogs on those occasions. So that's in the future,
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I think. But one of the things that I did do,
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which I think is really kind of fun, is because
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people are, you know, they're trying to plan their summer
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vacations or their future vacations or their bucket list, I
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created a guide called twenty International Cities where you could
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immerse yourself in history and the books that will make
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you feel as if you live that. And so I
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want to encourage people to go and grab that e
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guide and you can get it at Vhistoric Traveler dot
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com Forward slash Guide and that's Thehistoric Traveler dot com
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Forward Slash Guide.
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And this is a terrific guide that's.
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Going to really really give you, you know, you an opportunity.
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Would you give us a little not give the whole
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book away, but give us a little idea of what
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people could expect when they look at it.
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They're going to get one page on each market, each
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of those twenty markets, a couple of photographs, and then
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again some book recommendations. But those that one page is
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again going to go over what a little bit of
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the history and what you should see in that market.
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also say that you really don't get out of the
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internationally and you just want to stay in the in
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the US, I have a separate guide just for the US,
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and so that guide is the same, but it's eighteen cities,
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not which is the US, but in North America. So
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I have Canada as well, so it's eighteen cities in
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North America. So you can go to Theehistoric Traveler dot com,
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Forward slash guide na as in North America guide in
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A and you can grab the ones for just this
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continent if that's your preference.
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What is if you have one? If you could pick
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what would be one of your favorite or most inspirational
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shoots or places.
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Oh I love Bruges, Belgium because it's a little mini
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Amsterdam with swans in the canals, and you know, with
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the tall buildings with the winches on the top, it's
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just adorable. But I also love Prague. Prague's an amazing city.
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Dubrovnik in Croatia, you know they film parts of a
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Game of Thrones there. You know, there are just so
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many amazing small towns, little interesting towns. There's one in
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check Slovakia called Chesky Crumblaw. It's like walking into a
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fairydale and it's all in pinks, in in peaches, and
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you know, in green it's just stunning. So but there,
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you know, if you take the time to get out
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into the world, you're going to find so many of
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these amazing not necessarily big towns, but smaller towns as well.
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And so I try to capture them so that every
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week you're going to find a new an interesting, new
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place that you might might want to end to your
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bucket list.
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Yes, I win these membership groups and meetings. Once you joined,
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what type of things will they would someone expect, you know,
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talking about the different places. Would they be learning a
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lot of history? What would one would expect?
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Well, in the book club, you're going to talk about
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a particular book or author you know. And this next
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one coming up is Philippa Gregory, that wonderful series that
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she's done on the Tutors then or.
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Ken Filat, you know, Pillars of the of the Earth.
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The general Conclave as we call it, it's going to
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be we're going to talk about uh places to go,
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and we're going to talk about travel tips and things
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that you should know about. People are going to share
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their experiences of maybe a travel agent or a travel
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company company that they've loved, or maybe a hidden spot.
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if you go to a Budapest, you have to go
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to the the spa baths you know that have been
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there his historically and so you know, I might bring
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that up and say, oh, somebody says I've been there
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and they have to do this.
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have for example, the lighthouse guy.
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I just another another.
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Article we're going to have in the magazine is from
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people that renovated it ranches historic Dude ranches. I just
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did did an article with somebody on graveyards and ostuaries.
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in and talk and share, and so people can ask
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questions and get.
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That experience as well.
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So you know, I might have somebody who's a top
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uh toward travel agent for destination. I'm also going to
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be looking at traveling for your uh, you know, familial connections,
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you know where your heritage came from. I mean, just
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the myriad topics.
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And there's something for everybody. There's definitely you'll find something.
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And I think it sounds like a great community where
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you're able to meet these other people, speak with them,
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and have that community feeling exactly exactly.
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And I'm going to encourage people as we grow to
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even set up little you know, dinner dinner meet and
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greets in their towns so that they get to know
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each other and better.
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And you know, we're just really starting.
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To grow now, and so but I'm encouraging people to
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come and I and I and I opened the doors
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for those meetings every time once a month, and you know,
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I'm there to also get a feeling for what they want.
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What do you want to cover in the next one,
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And I'll go out and find the rece you know,
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the resource or the subject matter.
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Did you ever think of offering this as a college
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course or a course I would think in grade school justly.
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I mean, this would sound like this would be history
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where people would really enjoy children and adults would not
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want to miss this class.
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You know, that's an interesting thought.
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I hadn't really looked it at doing that, but that
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that's that is an interesting thought.
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It was actually my fourth grade trip to.
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The California Missions that stimulated my history, like my love
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of history, because I can just.
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Think of so many people off the top of my
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head that would love something like this and to learn
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about it. I mean, I think it's just it's really
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it's interactive. You have a community. It's hard sometimes to
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find people who have similar tastes than you and travel
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and finding that. So to now that community, but also
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trusted to be able to have a sounding board and
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have ideas and recommendation that is really really big.
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As you can tell, I'm passionate about history and and
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I love, you know, the fact that you can absorb
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real history through historic novels.
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I'm just reading a.
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Series about a woman named Emma of Normandy that I
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had never heard of.
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She's real.
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She was a very she was she was married to
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two kings. I never heard of her before, and now
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I'm knee deep in these books a fascinating life.
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It may be fiction, but it's.
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All completely based around the reality of fictional the fact
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factual access.
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Of her life. So for me, when I go on
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I travel, you know, I'm.
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Pulling from this book, this book, this book, this book
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for a whole picture. Now, not just reading one book.
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Having read so many books, I understand who this person
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was and this person and this person and how they
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influenced history together. And that's so if I see a place,
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I say, oh, this is where this happened. For example, Mary,
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Queen of Scots, you know, I was in the Holyrood
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Palace in the very room where her secretary was murdered,
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which is a big turning point in her history. And
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so here is the or here was another thing. I
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went to Chinonsa, which is a chateau in the Loire
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Valley which I love in France, and this was and
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the story behind this that chateau was that it was
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given to the king's mistress for years and when he died,
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Catherine de Medici, his wife, basically threw out his mistress
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and took over this chatau, and I was in the
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very room where it all flapped, and or actually all
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of Queen this this, this particular chateau is called the
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Chateau of Ladies because there are five women who basically dominated.
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There was no male ruler in this. In this chateau,
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it was always a female.
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There's also drama and crime, drama and a little bit
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of love and lifetime going on with it too, for
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so all different types of people. Well, we're at the
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end of the show. How can my viewers find you?
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Follow you again to really keep updated and really join
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this community.
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So thank you, Alexa.
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The first thing is they can go to Thehistoric Traveler
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dot com and sign up for the blog updates.
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That's number one.
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Two, if they're interested in joining the community, they should,
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you know, obviously take advantage. There is a button there
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for Historic Traveler International. It also states what the all
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the you know resources are. Again, by the way, we
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also have gift certificates so that if you know people
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who love history and you're not the one, they can
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take advantage of giving this as a gift. And then lastly,
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if you just want to reach out to me. I'm
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Jackie atthehistorictraveler dot com, So please, you know, come join us,
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take advantage of our resources, get an insight guide if
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you're going to be traveling off of our website, so
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you know, there's just so many ways that we are
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here to serve and support you.
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Wonderful. I can't wait to read all about it again.
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Thank you so much for coming on the show. It
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was so exciting, and thank you for all the work
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that you do.
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Thank you, Alexa, it's been a pleasure to be here.
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Keep traveling, everybody.
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Yes, and everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. Everyone,
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have a good night and God bless
