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SEGMENT 1
SANDY DHUYVETTER

Executive Producer & Host

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Welcome to this week's program.
Missed last week? Listen in as China Expert Lloyd Lofthouse talks about his latest book.

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SEGMENT 2 & 3
NAIMA REMADI

Director of The Tunisian
Cultural & Information Center, USA

Naima with Tunisian President Ben Ali's photo on the wall behind her.
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The Mission: The Tunisian Cultural & Information Center is in the heart of Manhattan, one block from Empire State Buildings and one block from Macy's - the biggest shopping center in the world - and very close to Grand Central, to the U.N. and to Times-Square.
 
The "dream" became a REALITY thanks to the 7th November in 2007 for the Tunisian Community in the USA. The “Tunisian Cultural and Information Center" is the first of its kind in the United States of America. It started when pronouncing “Tunisia” was confused with "Malaysia” and “Indonesia”. People need to know more about Tunisia, including the country, the history, the people, the culture, the religion, the art, the hospitality, women’s status, the greatness of the political realizations, tourism & economy.

Women will be side-by-side with President Ben-Ali in keeping the actual realizations such as freedom, rights and social political status. Nothing will ever make them give up all acquisitions. No regression - our mission is to keep fighting for a better future, safe and secure for the generations to come.

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SEGMENT 4
BEATRICE KESSY

Tourism Warden, Serengeti
National Park


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About the Serengeti: The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Early man himself made an appearance in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.
It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.
The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat. Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants.

It was 1913 and great stretches of Africa were still unknown to the white man when Stewart Edward White, an American hunter, set out from Nairobi. Pushing south, he recorded: "We walked for miles over burnt out country... Then I saw the green trees of the river, walked two miles more and found myself in paradise."

He had found Serengeti. In the years since White's excursion under "the high noble arc of the cloudless African sky," Serengeti has come to symbolize paradise to many of us. The Maasai, who had grazed their cattle on the vast grassy plains for millennia had always thought so. To them it was Siringitu - "the place where the land moves on forever."

The Serengeti region encompasses the Serengeti National Park itself, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, the Loliondo, Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Over 90,000 tourists visit the Park each year.
Two World Heritage Sites and two Biosphere Reserves have been established within the 30,000 km² region. It's unique ecosystem has inspired writers from Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mattheissen, filmmakers like Hugo von Lawick and Alan Root as well as numerous photographers and scientists - many of which have put their works at our disposal to create this website.

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SEGMENT 5 & 6
GRAHAM MACKINTOSH

Author of "Marooned
With Very Little Beer"

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Graham's Newest Book
In 1983 Graham Mackintosh was a lecturer at West Kent College in England, teaching social sciences and special education to unemployed teenagers. In the hope of showing his students that a shoestring expedition could be the adventure of a lifetime, Mackintosh, who described himself as the "least adventurous person in the world," set out to walk around the beautiful but dangerous coastline
of Baja California.

The two-year, 3,000-mile trip changed his life. When Mackintosh emerged from the cactus-strewn wilderness, he returned to England to write Into a Desert Place and there received the prestigious "Adventurous Traveler of the Year" award. Mackintosh was soon drawn back to Baja. After years promoting Into a Desert Place in the USA and Baja California, and scores of trips below the border, he eventually decided to walk down the rugged, mountainous interior of Baja, visiting many of the old missions along the way. Journey with a Baja Burro, his second book, was the result. It describes his arduous thousand-mile journey with a pack burro from the US border to Loreto -- a trip that began exactly 300 years after the October 1697 founding of the Loreto mission, the first permanent European settlement in the "Californias."

In 2001, Graham spent four months in Baja’s Sierra San Pedro Mαrtir with two street dogs, which became the subject of his third book – "Nearer My Dog to Thee."

His fourth book, Marooned With Very Little Beer, appeared in April 2008, and tells of his two months kayaking and hiking around the second largest island in the Sea of Cortez -- Isla Angel de la Guarda.

Graham Mackintosh now lives in San Diego, California. He continues to give lectures and slide shows on his trips, writes articles on Baja and has guided tourists south of the border on various tours. He is married to Bonni, a nurse, who shares his love for Baja and nature.

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SEGMENT 7
SANDY DHUYVETTER

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Travel Writer Nick Gosling talks
about his recent trip to San Francisco.