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The story of an enslaved African American. Booker T. Washington was an author, an educator, an orator and political leader, and one of history's most influential African Americans. One if his more remembered quotes is: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” He titled his autobiography Up from Slavery.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the most important trading posts in the West. Hubbell was meeting ground for two cultures: the Navajo and early settlers who came to the area.

Gliding, a winery and an inn: Audio Journeys explore St. Remy France. In southern France's Provence, the old ways of doing things are not forgotten in the modern society. Patricia Lawrence soars with the eagles in a glider to discover the old villages and farms that dot the valleys. Back on the ground, we stop at an organic winery built in a cave in the mountains we were just soaring above. We explore an historic inn, built over Roman ruins, that is being preserved by the innkeepers.

In the Southern Highlands of El Salvador, 2,600 years ago, a clay terrace was built on the side of a mountain. Today, the fan shaped terrace is covered with a thick layer of earth and artifacts belonging to the people who built and used this important ceremonial site. The site is also covered with hundreds of coffee trees, belonging to the Santa Leticia Gourmet Coffee Farm.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International takes a road trip through the southwest United States. Overlooking the Little Colorado River, near Winslow, Arizona, not far from Interstate 40, we stop to explore Homolovi Ruins State Park. This very important Arizona park protects and interprets the 5,000-year-old Homolovi Pueblos, built by ancestors of the Hopi people of today.

Audio Journeys explores a small patch of some of the Republic of El Salvador's last remaining rainforests. Fifty spider monkeys live in the canopy of 300-year-old trees. The spider monkeys are protected as long as they stay in this very small area, known as the Chaguantique Nature Reserve.

This important private reserve is maintained by El Salvador's ministry of Natural Resources.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International is on a road trip through the Southwest United. On Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona, still has the look and feel of a Wild West town. Holbrook, about 100 miles east of Flagstaff, was once the roughest, toughest, most lawless town of the Old West. We explore the Navajo County Courthouse Museum. Some people, including our guide, believe the 1898 courthouse is haunted.

Yorktown was the site of the deciding battle of the American Revolutionary War, between British and American soldiers. Interpreters, dressed in period costume give visitors a glimpse into the life of American soldiers during the Civil War.

We arrive in San Jose, from a small boat across Lake Petén Itzá. There are few roads into the region. This quiet lakeside hill town has a Mayan and Spanish Language School.

Audio Journeys, from Travel Radio International, explores the Caribbean rainforest of Guatemala with a team of biologists. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

Audio Journeys explore ancient history and centuries-old structures inculding an anquduct, and view new and old art. We visit a lapidary specializing in local gems.

Audio Journeys is at the annual Oostende sailing ship festival on the old freight docks of this once very busy seaport.

In the seaport town of Oostende on the last weekend in May, one of the world's largest sailing-ship festivals is held. There are many ships to explore and much activity when we arrive on the docks of Oostende; announcers, marching bands, and battle-ship reenactments fill our senses. The first person we meet is a musketeer and one of the Festival's organizers.

Audio Journeys are explores this one-of-a-kind monolith known to Native Americans as Bear Mountain. We walk around the base while a park ranger interprets what this unique formation is and the ecology that surrounds it.

Audio Journeys is in Holbrook, Arizona, exploring a private collection of pictographs and a museum of artifacts available only through private tours. The pictographs in the steep red rock canyons tell stories of an ancient way of life. We are with our Payson Adventures Guide.

Audio Journeys visits the Via Delorosa in Jerusalem. Our guide, historian Ruth Holzman, describes Jerusalem, looking east down the Via Dolorosa, in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. The Via Dolorosa, according to tradition, is the route Jesus followed to his crucifixion.

Preserving a California nature preserve.... Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Rodman Nature Preserve with preserve guides. The Rodman preserve is next to Clear Lake, the largest freshwater lake completely within California.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International takes a walking tour of Erfurt's old city. We find out about Martin Luther, the founded of Protestantism and the Lutheran faith, and a creator of the modern German language.

Audio Journeys explore the Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park, a few minutes from the Pacific Ocean and down town Carlsbad California. In 1937 vaudeville and silver-screen actor, Leo Carrillo (Cisco Kid) purchased, and preserved over two thousand acres of southwest USA's rolling hills. This was a retreat for Leo, his wife, their adopted daughter, and their numerous friends from Hollywood.

Audio Journeys exploration of Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park continues. In 1937 vaudeville and silver-screen actor Leo Carrillo (Cisco Kid) purchased, and preserved over 2000 acres of southwest USA's rolling hills. The 27-acres that remain today are known as the Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park. Our tour of the Carrillo Ranch includes the Spanish style home they lived in, barns and other out buildings.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the 200-year-old village of Potsdam, New York. The village is home to The Crane School of Music, the first school of its kind to teach teachers how to teach music.