A New Travel Agent - Lorene Romero Relates Her Experiences

Podcast Number Thirty-two

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Lorene Romero in this podcast. Lorene is an event planner and decided to add the travel business to her offerings. Lorene and I discuss earthquakes, travel education, Fam Trips, podcasting and travel in general.

Thank you for listening. Drop me an email at barry@hometravelagent.net. I really appreciate your comments, ideas and suggestions. My goal is to continually improve this podcast and I need your input to accomplish this goal.

The Home Based Travel Agent's websit can be found here.

Stop by my business website at http://www.special-destinations.com.

Pike Street Market, Seattle, WA Sound Seeing Tour

Podcast Number Thirty-one

This is a sound seeing tour of the Pike Street Market in Seattle, Washington. You will hear street musicians, the cacophony of the market and the employees at the Pike Street Fish market as they toss fish over their customer's heads. This is one of three sound seeing tours that I recorded while in Seattle. The next in the series is a ride on the monorail and a trip to the top of the Space Needle. The last is an exciting adventure of whale watching. You hear my fellow whale watcher's excitement as a whale swims right up to our boat. Look for these sound seeing tours coming soon! I hope you enjoy this sound seeing tour.

Thank you for listening. Drop me an email at barry@hometravelagent.net. I really appreciate your comments, ideas and suggestions. My goal is to continually improve this podcast and I need your input to accomplish this goal.

The Home Based Travel Agent's websit can be found here.

Stop by my business website at http://www.special-destinations.com.

Hug Your Travel Agent and What Travel Insurance Will Do For You

Podcast Number Thirty

The Thrifty Rental Car, "Hug Your Travel Agent" contest is discussed and what the winners did that made them winners!

The topic of travel insurance is in today's podcast. Travel insurance can save the day and make a travel agent a hero.

Scott Ahlsmith, of Magellan360 and the Travel Institute is doing a podcast called the "Road Less Traveled." Scott has done a fantastic job on this podcast so stop at his web site www.ahlsmith.com and check it out. Scott is focusing on the behind the scenes view of the travel industry.

The TreeSize software discussed in the podcast can be obtained at Jam Software.

In this podcast you will hear the song, "Slurping Soup in Seattle" by J. Oliviet. You can pick up this song at Garage Band dot Com.

Hopefully, if the old laptop survives and I have a good broadband connection, I will be podcasting updates from Seattle,WA this week. Otherwise the next regular podcast will be on September 25, 2005.

Thank you for listening. Drop me an email at barry@hometravelagent.net. I really appreciate your comments, ideas and suggestions. My goal is to continually improve this podcast and I need your input to accomplish this goal.

The Home Based Travel Agent's websit can be found here.

Stop by my business website at http://www.special-destinations.com.

Variety Podcast - Hurricane, Travel News, Podcasts and PA Motels

Podcast Number Twenty Nine

This podcast turned out to be a variety podcast where I talked about the hurricane helping victims. I discussed travel news, some related to the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.

Podcasting was a topic and in particular the success of Independent (Indy) podcasting over the commercially produced but repackaged podcasts.

Don't always trust internet hotel sites when they advertise pet friendly hotels. Listen to the podcast and learn of some deceptive practices of these sites. I also talk about our trip to the Kantz family reuinion and the motel experience we have and about our lively neighbors.

Thank you to CruiseBox for their podcast song!

Here are some links to consider with your heart and your wallet:

The Amereican Red Cross

International Aid

Thank you for listening. Drop me an email at barry@hometravelagent.net. I really appreciate your comments, ideas and suggestions. My goal is to continually improve this podcast and I need your input to accomplish this goal.

The Home Based Travel Agent's websit can be found here.

Stop by my business website at http://www.special-destinations.com.