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Welcome back to the Skip Daily Briefing.

It's Friday, October 30th, 2026.

It's time to take off on the Award Travel 101 podcast.

Helping you maximize your travel rewards, no matter your destination or budget.

Welcome to episode 196 of the Award Travel 101 podcast.

I'm Cameron Laufer and joined this week again by Angie Sparks.

But you start all of a sudden, well, no, now you got to pay for $300 for the second night.

It's kind of like, well, I don't think I want to do that.

They're also adding Airbnb, speaking of, Lux bookings through the Amex travel portal.

And a booking then opens up a $250 Airbnb experiences credit.

CHAPTER I.

CROSSING THE DESERT A kind friend in Bolivia once placed in my hands a copy of a most interesting book by the late E. George Squire, entitled PERU, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION IN THE LAND OF THE INCAS.

In that volume is a marvellous picture of the Apurimac Valley, In the foreground is a delicate suspension bridge which commences at a tunnel in the face of a precipitous cliff and hangs in mid-air at great height above the swirling waters of the great speaker.

In the distance, towering above a mass of stupendous mountains, is a magnificent snow-capped peak.

This is the WebTree in Travel podcast.

I am Luca De Giglio.

I build with AI and blockchain, dozens of projects running at once.

Most people know it, the capital of New York, right? It's very true.

But for those like me who have never visited, what can travelers expect when they come to Albany?

So I like to say what's old is new in Albany.

We are a very historic city.

Wow, that's

crazy.

So tell us a little bit about what types of travelers do you welcome each year? What are some of the seasonality inputs, like what would you consider your shoulder season or your peak season? And what would you say most consumers are looking for when they choose Albany?

Yeah, our destination is very heavily arts and culture and history.

and i have seen the world from the back of motorcycle and i actually experienced the culture not just the culture of the five star hotel or four star or whatever but actually real culture and that's what makes me exciting that's why the riding the bikes and the freedom that it gives you is just one of the most exciting feelings out there

yeah so let's talk about peru okay so you've got a big big trip coming up with um go beyond travel which is the people you go which you can talk about so what can you tell us about this whole big trip to peru

Well, it's again me and Lily.

So me and Lily, as you could see on the socials, we do like each other.

i'll take the thousand again i was happy on the thousand yeah i was happy on

that so beyond peru then what's still on your most motorcycle bucket list if i get my words out

um everything all the countries all the countries that haven't been it really even the countries that i've been it's just i just want to learn a culture i just want to more you travel i think the bigger person or the nicer person you are yeah and uh i just wanted that i wanna i wanna see everything i wanna absorb i haven't been in a proper africa i know morocco is africa but i haven't been down south so i would like to do the uh paris dhaka on the vintage bikes as well so guys so the same guys that i did the sun raiders now doing the tour and it is paris dhaka starting in the paris and finishing in the dhaka At the moment, it's way too expensive for me, so I can't really afford it to do it.

But hopefully, maybe in a couple of years or something, I will be able to save up for it and actually do it.

At the Fazenda das Palmeiras, Colonel Roosevelt presents the skin of the first jaguar.

Journey on the River Sao Lourenco and hunting on the same river.

Marshlands on the River Paraguay and the Gaiva Lake.

In Caseiras, afterwards at Porto Jucampo.

I absolutely adore a crisp, dry, white Burgundy, a Chablis or something like that.

Um, Travel.

Yeah, I love to travel.

And of course, having said all of that, when I travel, what's one of the first things I do upon landing? Antiques near me on my Google to see what's going on around and about.