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Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores Quebec City, Quebec, in early February during its annual Winter Carnival - the largest winter carnival in the world. Before the Carnival begins on the weekend, we have time to find out about some of Quebec's history at the Museum of Civilization. Francois Tremblay, the director of exhibitions, meets us in the lobby of this very large, state-of-the-art, award-winning museum complex.

Monterrico, Guatemala, lies along the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. For centuries, turtles have used the narrow strip of black sand beach as the perfect incubator for their fragile eggs. Today, competition with human activities threaten some of the world's last remaining turtles.

Audio Journeys tour Explore Park in the Shenandoah Valley, Roanoke, Virginia. On the Blue Ridge Parkway, Explore Park’s visitors' center is open, the Living History Tour, the subject of this Audio Journey is currently closed. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores Freiburg Germany, the gateway to the Black Forest. We take a tram to the top of the mountain trail head, and with our naturalist guide, we explore this important ecological treasure of Europe.

The Baltimore Clipper ship Frolic was bound from Canton, China, to San Francisco with household goods for gold miners. The shipwreck of the Frolic lead to the founding of the town of Mendocino, California, and the discovery of redwood trees. We speak with archeologists who are studying this important early California event. The Frolic Shipwreck is now a California Underwater State Park.

Audio Journeys' exploration of Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park continues. In 1937 vaudeville and silver-screen actor Leo Carrillo (the Cisco Kid) purchased, and preserved over 2,000 acres of the southwest US'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, barns, and other out buildings.

Audio Journeys explore The Life of African Americans in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. The first capital of the colonies, Colonial Williamsburg tells the story in the years preceding and during the American Revolution. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores three historic hotels of the Rocky Mountains: the Alex Johnson in Rapid City, South Dakota; the historic Franklin Hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota; and the Isaac Walton in Montana.

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 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 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 by Travel Radio International explores the National Currency Museum of Canada, where we find out about the history of money around the world.

Audio Journeys explores the ancient ruins of a Mayan village in El Salvador. Twenty kilometers northwest of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, is the 650-year-old village of Joya de Ceren, the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in El Salvador.

What makes this site unique is that the everyday life of the Mayans was preserved when around 600 A.D. a volcano erupted spewing volcanic ashes that covered the land, caused the common people to flee their homes.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the countryside near Muenster, including a 300-year-old Westphalia village that has been reconstructed. Houses, barns, buildings, and artifacts from the time make it seem as if people will be returning from their fields soon.

Outside of Muenster, we visit a unique project: a biotope, an important sanctuary for hundreds of thousands of birds. We enter a bird blind with Dr. Hans Schutz, the man in charge of the biotope.

Audio Journeys are exploring the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis Tennesse. Forty-one years ago on April 4 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated as he was leaving the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee to join the city's sanitation workers' striking for better working conditions and pay.

In 1867 the Dominion of Canada was formed. In 1931 Canada became an independent nation within the Commonwealth. We are exploring Ottawa, Canada's Capital, in the Province of Ontario. Our exploration begins on Parliament Hill and ends across the Ottawa River at the Civilization Museum.

Patricia Lawrence is riding in the back of a Photo Safari truck at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park.These trucks are one of several ways visitors can get up close to some of the most endangered animals in the world. Most of the animals that live in the Wild Animal Park represent the last individuals of their species anywhere on earth.

Audio Journeys follows in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. Six hundred miles west of the coast of Equador, in the Galapagos Island chain, we explore Bartholomew Island. Its highest point is only 370 feet above sea level.

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.

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.