Let's Travel Radio

Travel the many and various nonprofits worlds, whether you are travelling or staying put. How did the nonprofit worlds become so important to us in our daily lives? How come we are, to a great part, unaware of the nonprofit worlds? How has planning - city, urban, and national - changed and how will it change? Join John Casey, a Nonprofit Guru, and Ethel Sheffer, a planner, and learn about the relationships and interrelationships.

This week's show is expected to raise your IQ level on all things Chinese. We'll talk about some of the most honored customs and traditions the people of China have carried to the present day. We'll also hit on some of their popular dishes and what they signify. And we'll make reference to China's historical sites and places of interest. There are special packages and promotions for 2010 too. You'll hear about these and more from our featured guests. They include Ms. Agnes Hsu, Director of the Confucius Institute/ China Institute, New York, the director of the World Monuments Fund, and a surprise new award winning Chinese chef to start with.

Make new friends! Help the world! Build a school! Sleep on a strange couch! This week on Let's Travel Susi explores the worlds of global volunteering and couch surfing.

Travel with Susi to the Galapagos Islands, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the place which inspired Charles Darwin to write his "Origin of the Species". Learn what is so unique about the Galapagos and what is being done to preserve and conserve the extraordinary biodiversity.

Explore traffic, infrastructure, bridges, including bridges that can be "interrogated" remotely on their condition, etc., with Samuel I. Schwartz, a.k.a., Gridlock Sam. How come America spends so little on its infrastructure? Can bikes and cars get along? Can people, trucks, cars, bikes, trains live happily together? How did Sam save the Williamsburg Bridge? What is traffic calming?

Are you ready for some pampering? Explore the world of spas with Susi this week on Let's Travel! and learn some spa secrets on how to find the best spa for your needs and what's in store for the future, including medical spas. Guests include: Wendy Bosalavage, president, American Leisure; Phyllis Stoller, Ixtapan Spa Hotel and Golf Resort, Mexico, and Lynn McNees, president, International Spa Association.

This week's guests include Natalia Indrimi, Director of the Primo Levi Center in New York, George Sacredote, President of Sacredote and Co.,Inc., Rabbi Dr. Umberto Piperno, author and consultant to the Italian Kosher network of restaurants in the U.S. including San Domenico in New York, Gabe Goldstein, Associate Director of Yeshiva University Museum and others who will talk about the significance of Jewish Art, Tradition and Customs by virtue of the many historic sites you'll find in Italy on your next trip there. This is a learning experience you'll not want to miss.

Plan your 2010 adventures to Cambodia, Thailand, England, Latvia, India and more exotic places with our Let's Travel's Intrepid Friends, Nan, Linda, Louise and Barry, on our end-of-year round-up of Insider Travel. We wish everyone a Fun-Filled Happy New Year!

This week's guests include Anna Teresa Callen, noted cookbook author and educator and founding member of the James Beard Institute in New York, Mr. Paolo Vannini, Vice President/Managing Director of Alta Cucina, a members only organization of shoppers of gourmet Italian food products and services, Mr. Morten Sohlberg, President and CEO of Smorgas Chef Restaurant Group, perveyors of Scandinavian cuisine with three restaurants in New York including Scandinavian House, where the theme is the "sensory experience" and Ms.Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu, Director and Dean of the Confuscius Institute/China Instutite and member of the Unesco World Heritage Center, scholar, author and board member of the American Museum of Natural History. Each guests will talk about the type of cuisine best served for the holidays along with some of the customs and traditions that go along with them.

Journey with Susi this week back to a time when the information superhighway was a network of land routes that stretched 4,600 miles from Xi'an in Eastern China through the cities and empires of Central Asia and the Middle East west to the Mediterranean -- along the fabled Silk Road. Our guides are: Dr. Mark Norell, Chairman and Curator-in-Charge, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, home to an exhibit on the Silk Road, who introduces us to the diversity of the most celebrated trade route in history, and Nirmala Narine, owner and founder of Nirmala's Kitchen and Kojiro Umezaki, a musician from the Silk Road Ensemble, who introduce us to the tastes, smells and sounds of the Silk Road.

Let's Talk and Let's Travel! with Catherine M. Perebinossoff and her guests, Jerry Solomon, Author, Artist, Caterer, etc., and Marc A. Scorca, President and CEO of Opera America, the National Service Organization for Opera. What could be better than music, food, and romance? Music-as-Food and vice versa. Rock and Roll vs. Opera OR Rock and Roll and Opera?

This week Let's Travel! Radio continues its series on Music "Heard Round the World" with The Music of Jazz. Our guests include: Robin Bell-Stevens, President and CEO of Jazz Mobile, Loren Schoenberg, President and CEO of The National Jazz Museim / Harlem, David Schroeder, Director of the Institute for Jazz and Contemporary Studies at New York University, and Todd Barkan, Director of Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola / Jazz at Lincoln Center. The show is focused on both the legendary figures in Jazz as well as the newer stars making today's headlines. It's particularly an American focus: one that we're sure you'll enjoy.

Continuing our Spanish odyssey, we head north through Zaragoza, Spain's fifth largest city. Spain's most water-bearing river the Ebro runs through it, and it is home to the Basilica del Pilar, Aljaferia Palace (a World Heritage site), great tapestries and the Caesaraugusta route with Roman ruins on the site of the old Jewish quarter. Then it's on to the Basque Country, Donastia-San Sebastian, with it's beautiful bay and beach fabulous restaurants including Martin Berasategui's Michelin 3-star restaurant in Lasarte, and Bilbao, home to the Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Gehry.

Come to Barcelona this week with Susi and explore the city with the most World Heritage sites in the word, sometimes called "Paris with palm trees". First we talk with Sr. Jordi Marti, Cultural Commissioner of Barcelona for an overview of Catalonia and its capital city. We take a gastronomical tour at the Via Veneto restaurant with its owner Sr. Pedro Monje and Chef Carlos Tejedor. Finally, we have a fantastic voyage with Sr. Jordi Bonet, Chief Architect through La Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudi's last, as yet unfinished, masterpiece.

Lighting to reveal scope, space and form, using the best technology to achieve a functional, creative and environmental result. An enlightening discussion with Herve Descottes, an Architectural Lighting Designer and Principal of L'Observatoire International, Inc.