Someone just posted, asking about our itinerary. Frankly it’s a little harder than you’d think to scare up the final itin, it was changing up until the last minute. But this one is pretty close:
[My comments in the brackets -- you thought I could resist commenting?]
Thursday, January 29:
Arrive Santiago
Meet Chile Tourism Tour Guide
Depart for at Grand Hyatt, check-in, etc.
LUNCH
Free time to explore Santiago
Individual on-camera interviews with writers
Welcome dinner with Guillermo Rodriguez
Night out Bellavista Area (www.patiobellavista.cl)
read more…
Jill Roozenboom isn’t getting enough love (or hate mail), so I thought I would get her face out there. She is the magician behind all this. She made me look like a bastard (really hard), and everyone else look like saints (a little harder…I’m kidding). All joking aside, she did a great job as did the camera crews, the editors in LA and the production company execs. If you like the show, well we all have Jill to thank.
If you hated it, continue to blame me.
And no, I don’t know why my leg is lifted up. I might have needed to pee.
We love to get comments here, but you can also send your reactions in to the Travel Channel directly on their Viewer Relations page.
Stay calm people, it’s just a TV show.
Looks like 11pm EST, 8pm PST.
Check your local listings…sometimes it’s on Travel’s HD channel, sometimes it’s on the regular one. You obviously know how to use the internet if you’re looking at this, so it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.
To the folks who liked the program, thank you. I’m glad you understood that it’s a construct — a heavily edited television show. Things are pulled out or left in from our seven-day trip for dramatic effect. We let viewers see that travel writers don’t only go to places and do things that they like; they’re also occasionally roped into doing stuff they don’t care for. It’s not all “the most amazing places” when you’re doing this job. Some of it’s boring, annoying and just plain bad.
I think those who enjoyed it, got that COATW is basically a goofy workplace drama; and yes, I’m the only one shown occasionally complaining about this job I fundamentally love, but have flashes of hating. (Trust me, other travel writers complain, too.)
The other thing I would like to emphasize is we were there for seven days. I was there for an extra two using the diary cam and finishing up assignments I couldn’t do while being followed by a giant camera crew. This show is 43 minutes. They shot over 80 hours on two cameras. We could have put together the “WE ALL LOVE CHILE” show. That would be easy. We all truly loved it, and said so over and over. But five travel writers loving everything…hasn’t that already been done before?
Anyway, I see that some of you reacted quite badly to the show and in particular to the parts when they showed me complaining. read more…
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From left: Jimmy Im, Andrew Evans, Chantal Martineau, Shira Lazar and Charles Runnette race to make the best pisco sour.
