RMWorldTravel with Robert & Mary Carey and Rudy Maxa

How can you protect yourself from airline delays or a change in plans when you've booked an expensive vacation?  Carol Mueller of Travel Guard explains her company's solutions. How would you like to live in an airplane? Bruce Campbell of Oregon explains how he's outfitting a retired commercial jetliner as a home in the country. Stephanie Loleng discusses the concept of   "honeyteering"--taking a volunteering vacation while on a honeymoon--and Rudy has his usual "Deals of the Week and travel news.

What's the story behind Delta Air Lines' new "Basic Coach" fare?  Brett Snyder, author of the blog Crankyflyer.com joins Rudy to explain the savings and limitations of buying that fare category, currently offered on Delta flights from Detroit to Florida.  Author Andrew Blackwell travels a bit differently that most of us.   A couple of years ago, while living briefly in Delhi, he became interested in a very polluted town and river in India. That led to an examination of some of the world's most polluted places and a fascinating, new book, Visit Sunny Chernobyl. He joins Rudy to share details.  In honor of National Trails Day, Rudy talks with Henry Fortunato, a determined walker who thinks nothing of walking four hours to an airport to catch a plane.  (When he's not walking, Henry is the director of public affairs at the Kansas City Public Library.)  And Rudy re-visits an interview with another serious walker, Stephan Bossert, who, following an injury suffered in a rickshaw accident while visiting Asia, was advised by his doctor to begin a regimen of walking.  He's committed to walking every single street in his hometown of Minneapolis, and he's nearly a thousand miles toward his goal.  Plus, Rudy delivers the up-to-the-minute travel news and deals.

It's National Trails Day, and John Michels from the American Hiking Society joins Rudy to give a short history of how America's trails came to be.  In several countries around the world, kids flock to an indoor attraction called Kidzania.  It's a kids'-sized town where kids run the show, and it's coming to America.  Cammie Dunaway, the president of America Kidzania, explains how it works. And Monterrey, Mexico, is known mainly for its narcotics trade and violence.  But it's also home to some of the world's happiest people.  Author and explorer Dan Buettner (and author of the book on the world's happiest places, Blue Zones), explains what at first glance appears to be a contradiction.  And Heddi Cundle introduces listeners to a web site where anyone can contribute to the future travels of, for example, a graduating college student or couple planning a honeymoon.  It's caled MyTab.co (not "com").  And Rudy begins the hour with more travel news and closes it, as always, with his Deals of the Week.