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Cruising Back to Safe Travel (KWYWTG 12) Oct 23, 2021

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It's been a while! In March we talked about people getting out and traveling as well as great resources you can take a look at to ensure that you're going to the right place at the right time.
Today we'll revisit some of those resources as well as talk about the exciting new cruise line - Virgin Voyages. Their Scarlet Lady is awaiting your embarkation! Learn more about what Virgin Voyages is all about and see if it is something you should consider for a future voyage. We look forward to seeing you in November and December on board.
Learn more about Virgin at https://www.virginvoyages.com/book/voyage-planner/find-a-voyage?cabins=1&USD[%E2%80%A6]lors=2&toDate=2022-10-04&agentId=38927&agencyId=589
Can You Travel? Check it out at https://canitravel.net/
Need help with travel? I've got you covered. https://camjontravel.com

Stay Up to Date on Travel Restrictions in 2021 (KWYWTG 11) Mar 01, 2021

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Something new happens every day in the world of travel. The great news is that there are a number of outstanding resources to stay up to date on travel restrictions. Want to get out of the country? It may be easier to do than it is to go to some states!
We'll talk about this as well as some hypocritical actions that some people take when they decide to travel while condemning the freedom of those at home to move about freely. Yes, I do have rants every now and then on this podcast. :)
Here are some references we make in today's podcast:
Product Hunt - A great resource for software. Whether you own a business or have a hobby that requires a variety of different tools, there is often something here. This was where I found a great travel website.
CanITravel.net - Great website with updated information on travel restrictions. Found this one on Product Hunt!
Please note that we are testing the transcript and there will be errors. :) Thanks! - Cam
[00:00:00] : Welcome to the know where you want to go. Travel podcast Where we talk about what we know in the world of travel Hello again and welcome to Episode 11 of the Know Where You Want to Go Travel Podcast This is Candy Young, your host as always, and also, as always, time flies. Oh my goodness, It's been over a month since we had our last podcast. And of course, time always flies. It doesn't stop. It doesn't slow down. But speaking of flying, I sure wish we could be flying more than we do right now. As we know, travel is still a little bit up in the air, although I will say I've seen some friends on social media. Um, they've been traveling a bit lately, and that's great. You know, it's it's awesome to see it, but not to get off topic, because the topic of today's podcast, as you can see in the title of the show notes, is really just looking at where you can go right now. What were the restrictions are what's open, what's closed, etcetera for those looking around. I did find a good website on that on one of my favorite software websites actually wish. I'll tell you about the moment as well. And of course you can see it in the show notes if you want to get ahead or if you already are ahead of me, but just as a little bit of a rant. I don't like ranting too much on here, but I find it interesting that people are traveling and that's great all about it. I'm totally on board with people traveling, but these are the same folks and almost every case that are all about social distancing, all about lockdowns, all about everything, pro government and pro restriction on liberties when it comes to Covid. And I totally agree with wearing a mask in public social distancing, being reasonable, you know, and doing just doing the right thing. But I'm not going out on one side of my face saying we need more restrictions or we need to clock everybody down or we need to do this and that. Closed businesses cause businesses to go out of business, and then I turn around and go travel somewhere, which requires going to an airport which requires being around people, which requires a lot of those things. I'm just saying, Don't be a hypocrite. If you're gonna travel, that's fine. But don't you know you can't condemn things that others are doing and then you go out and do it yourself. So what's going on? You know today's episode we're going to talk about a website called Can I travel dot net And I'm just looking at that. And I saw it on one of my favorite websites called Product Hunt, where there's always you can check that out a product hunt dot com. And there's always a lot of cool software and cool links there for those that are looking to either get a business going or have a business going and looking to establish or expand a tool set. So there are some really cool things there. But what I like about this can I travel website. It's called It's a Your Covid travel partner, and you can look to see what you do is you go to this website and you can kind of see where you can go from the United States from other countries and and of course, it's subject to being updated and so on. But as of today, March 1st 2021. It shows that you know there's 248 total countries that they have in their database and 48 are open to travel. 90 restricted, 110 are closed from the United States would curse out my favorite place. Uh, it is open as long as you have a covid test within 72 hours of departure or has to be 72 hours in advance of departure. So that's on the restricted list. But it's interesting to see what's open you have Turkey. Mexico. Um, I've seen people traveling there. Excuse me. Morocco. Costa Rica is open. Colombia, Tanzania, Serbia, Egypt, Brazil, Montenegro, Albania and Dominican Republic. There's several that are open, which is interesting to me, and I think it's important that you know you if you want to travel. A lot of people think that you can't travel unless they see their friends on Facebook travel, and then they realize, Oh, maybe I can travel, So I would highly encourage you to take a look at these countries. So when you think about the top countries that people want to travel to, um, you you look at excuse me like in Europe, for example, if I wanted to go to Europe and I'm just gonna pull up, for example, a couple of places where I've been to the Netherlands, the motherland not really but close Definitely have ancestry there, as you could probably imagine, based on my Dutch surname. So if I want to get to the Netherlands, for example, you get to this website and the Netherlands is, uh certainly got a lot going on, you know, in Amsterdam right now, as a really turn it around there, looking at turning around, you know, where it used to be red light district and it still it is. And you have the marijuana and other drug use. They're really trying to get away from that as a society which I find interesting just because, you know, that's it's a draw. But at the same time, he is it. Do you really want to to draw that kind of of crowd? So that's that's very interesting. As I looked this up, I just talk as I looked this up. So if you look at like going to the Netherlands, for example, use a few examples here, you get this website again. Can I travel dot net? Choose your passport country, United States. That's where you're from, you're from, which would be the United States. Then you can say you go to the Netherlands. So it's again closed, closed entry limited to residents and essential reasons. So certainly, um, interesting. There it is closed. If you look at Germany, which there's gonna I know I've done some business folks that have traveled there recently. It's limited to residents and essential reasons. And I think when you think about essential, it's it's a very loose definition. You have to look at that sexual emergency. Is it an emergency as a family? Is that this or that? It can be business reasons, so you have a business reason you can certainly travel, so there's a lot of that, too. And, of course, Germany being a great country that I love, can't wait to go back there sometimes. But that's a pretty exciting place again. Curacao, Dominican Republic of I'm not a huge fan of the Dominican Republic. There's some wonderful people there, and there again, you got to have a health certificate or negative tests or your subject without if you don't have a PCR test certification. You have to take a covid 19 tests when you get there, another great country Barbados again. You could do this all on your own. You can stop the podcast right now and go to travel down there and do this on your own. But I'm just giving you some examples of countries I've been to. Then you got like, Barbados and yeah, you got got to arrive at a covid 19 negative test and then you have to, uh, you know, make sure that you're good to go and be subject to to quarantine, and that would be the worst thing. And I think that's where you got to be. Careful is things can change at any time. And I think we have to be very aware of that is, let's say that you go to a country like Mexico that doesn't have heavy restrictions at the moment, and they probably won't have the restrictions coming. But you, all of a sudden let's say you're taking a 10 day trip and you reminds me of the cruise we went on last year when we went on a cruise at the very beginning of Covid where we didn't know it was going to explode into what it did. And we thought we were gonna be lost at sea for a while. But you think about Mexico in this case five days into your trip, an emergency hits. There's a huge outbreak in Mexico or a huge outbreak in the United States. You can't come back without quarantining or you can't leave Mexico. U. S won't let you back in because of what's going on there. So you got to be careful and I and I and I hate that because I I really I really do hope for and expect the day to come where things get better. But again, you know, don't be afraid to travel even though I pretty much said, Be afraid to travel and don't do it but just keep, you know, keep an open open. I open mind. As I said at the beginning, Time flies. I wish we were flying. Um, we do have a still have a cruise scheduled for later this year in December. I'm hoping things settle down by then and you know, you know, and the questions asked, Hey, you know, Cam, are you gonna get a vaccination if it's required to travel. And I'd say, you know, I'm undecided about that. You know, I feel healthy, but I'm not open minded. I mean, obviously I'm not closed minded to the idea, but we'll see when that time comes. But as it stands now, there are a number of countries that are allowing entry 48 open right now and again open doesn't mean you walk in the door of their wonderful, uh, the Wonderful Country, but it means that there's a lot more accessibility. And I think a lot of people believe that everything is still closed. And that's the problem. In a sense, if you're in the US and you're looking at businesses that are closed and towns and states that are closed and then you're looking like heck, I can get to Mexico, you know, and have a good time, I can get a turkey. I can go to Costa Rica, Tanzania. You know, Serbia. I mean, there's a boatload of places you can go with very few restrictions again. Should you? I don't know. I don't know. I'm not here to tell you to do that, but again, check out this Web sites in the show notes. And so its product hunt And and again this is, You know, I just want people to be comfortable thinking about travel again. Think about it. It's going to be there. It's going to come back. The world's going to come back to normal. We can call it a new normal and old normal. Whatever we want to say, it's going to come back. We're gonna be fine. And we're going to be able to to do things like again. And I'm very confident of that. And I very much look forward to it. So hopefully this is This is a little bit more of a and a kind of A It was a ramble, but it's an ongoing conversation with myself about travel here, but certainly hopefully it's helpful for you. Um, definitely subscribe. If you don't mind to this podcast, share your thoughts on it. You can email me Cam Cam john travel dot com anytime and, uh, look forward to being back in April with another podcast, and I'll just keep updating. I might even do a quick check in on this list, every podcast, just to see where we're at from 48 up to our down front, down from 48 or up from 48 doesn't see where we're at, so hopefully this was helpful for you. If so, please let me know I'm here for you and all your travel needs and appreciate very much and stay safe and be, well, thank you so much. We'll talk to you next time. Thank you for listening to today's Know where you want to go. Travel podcast. Subscribe to stay up to date with upcoming episodes, plus visit US online at cam john travel dot com that c a M j o n travel dot com Mm.

Traveling During a Pandemic in 2021 (KWYWTG 10) Jan 24, 2021

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In today's podcast we will talk about how the new administration and party controls in government can impact travel in 2021.
Is it safe to travel in 2021? Will there be a vaccine requirement? What are different companies doing to provide incentive for travelers to stay in hotels, fly, or take cruises? Find out more of what we know in the latest podcast.
Further, we'll give a tidbit on what's going on in Curacao. If you have a COVID negative test, indeed you can go diving without quarantine!
We'll talk about a great promotion from Virgin Voyages. You can get an extra savings if you book with CamJon Travel for a voyage this year. No risk with cancellation and full refund up to 48 hours before cruise departure. Click here to send Cam an e-mail to ask about additional offers after you take a look first at https://www.virginvoyages.com/book/voyage-planner/find-a-voyage?cabins=1&USD[%E2%80%A6]lors=2&toDate=2022-10-04&agentId=38927&agencyId=589

Will Tuesday's Election Results Impact Travel? (KWYWTG 9) Oct 31, 2020

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“Will election results impact travel?” is a question a lot of travelers are asking.
The election on Tuesday November 3rd is near. Today’s podcast talks about some of the thoughts about how election results impact travel now and into the future.
If President Trump is re-elected, will we see more people get up and out of their houses and travel more? If Vice President Biden is elected, will there really be a lockdown that would certainly impact travel?
Either way, are there ways that even in a locked down society we are going to be able to get out and about while socially distancing?
No one really has all the answers, but we’ll go over some ideas on how travel can happen regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s election. In fact, state elections may have as much impact as our national elections. Tune in and learn more today about how election results impact travel.
References in today’s podcast (candidates in alpha order by last name)
Curacao Travel – https://www.curacao.com
Joe Biden – https://joebiden.com
Jo Jorgensen – https://jo20.com
Donald Trump – https://www.donaldjtrump.com/
The host today is CamJon LLC managing partner Cam DeJong.

The Crazy World of Travel and Staying Healthy (KWYWTG 8) Sep 16, 2020

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We're back! I am so glad to be back with a new podcast.
Things are well here and I hope the same for you and yours. In the past, we have recorded podcasts dealing with health and safety, travel anxiety, and cruising.
It's amazing how it was almost a premonition of what is going on in the world today with COVID-19.
Today we'll talk about what is going on in the world along with some thoughts on safety with flying, cruising, staying in hotels and much more.
We hope you enjoy this podcast and look forward to returning to a strong cadence of episodes going forward.
The host today is CamJon LLC managing partner Cam DeJong.

Cruise Excursions in Curacao and Beyond (KWYWTG 7) Nov 19, 2019

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Lucky number seven! Welcome to our seventh podcast. Today I will focus on excursions as it relates to cruising in general but really going deeper into options you have in Curacao.
Do you need to book through your cruise line or can you book independent of them?
I have found that excursions through cruise lines provide great peace of mind, but that's about where the peace ends. Crowds, sometimes higher costs, and other factors can lead one to want to either stay on the ship or book elsewhere.
In Curacao we have several options that are recommended for your next cruise excursion. We talk about our blog, which contains a wealth of information about Curacao that can help you out in your excursion planning.
The Dive Bus www.thedivebus.com
Irie Tours www.irietours.com
Is Trip Insurance Important? Yes it is. Learn more here.
The host today is CamJon LLC managing partner Cam DeJong.

Travel Anxiety Part Two – Nootropics (KWYWTG 6) Sep 22, 2019

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Welcome to our sixth episode of the Know Where You Want to Go Travel Podcast. Today's topic continues with the second and final part in a series about travel anxiety. We will talk about a couple of supplements that have worked for me before and during travel. (PS: Sorry for the bad audio!)
Even the most traveled of us can become unraveled by the experience of crowds at airports, high seas, turbulence or another of other factors. Phenibut can be used for potentially several areas; anxiety, fear, trouble sleeping, stress, fatigue and more. I use it ONLY when I am VERY stressed as you can develop a tolerance of it and it can cause some pretty wicked headaches.
Kanna Extract is something I found more recently. I only take a small amount of it approximately 30 minutes before travel. It calms me down, helps me focus, and just makes me feel "content" with whatever comes my way. Makes the stress of travel much better. Please note that I am not a doctor and I make no guarantees of any kind that works for me will work for you.
The products below can be purchased via my affiliate link (helps the podcast!) or you can click the non-affiliate link. Please note that the affiliate link does save you 15% off your first order at LiftMode.
Phenibut Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
Kanna Extract Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
The host today is CamJon LLC managing partner Cam DeJong.

Travel Anxiety Part One – CBD (KWYWTG 5) Aug 03, 2019

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Welcome to the fifth episode of the Know Where You Want to Go Travel Podcast. Today's topic starts part one of two on a series about travel anxiety. We will talk about one method used to combat anxiety and for general travel well-being for everyone, from adults to pets.
Even the most traveled of us can become unraveled by the experience of crowds at airports, high seas, turbulence or another of other factors. This travel anxiety doesn't even take into account those who usually stay behind; particularly our furry friends.
The host today is CamJon LLC managing partner Cam DeJong.

Health and Safety in the Dominican Republic and Beyond (KWYWTG 4) Jul 01, 2019

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Welcome to the fourth episode of the Know Where You Want to Go Travel Podcast. Today's topic is the health and safety issues being presented in the media when it comes to the Dominican Republic.
We will discuss trips to the Dominican and to other countries in the Caribbean. Get some very basic tips on travel safety and learn about some other islands to consider if you did indeed cancel your plans to visit the Dominican Republic (Spoiler Alert: They don't include the Bahamas or Jamaica).
Learn more about our thoughts on the Dominican Republic in our blog by clicking here.
The host today is CamJon LLC managing partner Cam DeJong.

Head Back to the 80s With Us on the 80s Cruise 2020 (KWYWTG 3) May 30, 2019

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Welcome to the third episode of the Know Where You Want to Go Travel Podcast. As we keep learning the landscape of podcasting, we are going to shift into a guilty pleasure today. Today's topic is 80s theme travel. Specifically we're going to talk about the 80s Cruise leaving Miami on Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas in March 2020.
The host today is CamJon LLC managing partner Cam DeJong.
In this episode we will discuss:
* The excitement of cruises, whether it's 80s themed or not.
* What makes the 80s cruise even better compared to a so-called "normal" cruise.
* What differentiates the 80s cruise from other theme trips.
* How you can join our cruise group and receive a special bonus!
In the future we will have other topics about other vacation tips. We also plan to have guests as the podcasts grows. You can see more about the 80s cruise in our blog entry here. There you will find a form to learn more about joining our group to save on your cruise experience.

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