The Frommer's Travel Show

Craig Taylor author of "New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time", Jennifer Gonnerman, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, and Anastasia Healey Mills Healey, author of "Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure" were this week's guests.

CORRECTED VERSION! Scott McCartney of the Wall Street Journal had warnings for travel voucher holders, then Charleston Park's Lead Interpretive Aide Toby Smith discussed one of the only two attractions in the USA devoted to the topic of slavery. We finished the show with Barbara Duriau, founder of a delightful Facebook group that is being distilled into a book.

Today's show features Jonathan Weinberg of AutoSlash talking about the massive current shortages in rental cars, and Victor Prince, author of The Camino Way: Lessons in Leadership From a Walk Across Spain

Hopefully, this "pause" is coming to an end. In the meantime, Stephanie Rosenbloom gives advice on how to savor planning for the return to travel, plus Jason and Pauline discuss the latest cruise news, Disneyland's reopening, travel developments in Israel and more.

We discussed aromas and travel with author Jen Rose Smith, and took a look at Indonesian cuisine and culture with Lara Lee, author of the new book Coconut and Sambal

Jason and Pauline discuss a new tool for US National Park vacations, a study on the world's most popular dogs, and more. Then the New York Time's Lauren Sloss talks about what it's like to do a hotel quarantine.

Done George, author of "Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus" and John Waterman, author of "The Atlas of the National Parks" were our guests today.

Consumer Advocate Christopher Elliott and Frommers.com Editor In Chief Jason Cochran joined Pauline Frommer for wide-ranging conversations on history, travel regulations, and a whole lot more.

Pauline interviewed Devin Murphy about his Outside magazine article on how he saw the world by working on cruise ships, and Jeremy Hance, author of the new memoir "Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac"