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2025
TeslaTouring.com/carl/TravelShow2025
Report and Photos by Carl Morrison, Carl@TeslaTouring.com or Carl@TrainWeb.com
America's
Favorite Travel Show with access to the top destinations, travel
providers, experts and more, all armed with the latest, top of mind
information that you won't be able to find anywhere else.
My focus in this year's report at the Travel & Adventure Show is:
Trains and Teslas
Travel via Tesla in California, and The Grand Canyon Tourist Train.
Above: Tesla Cybertruck at the
show. The only tourist train with a booth
at the show was The Grand Canyon Railway.
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Table of Contents
1. Eastern Sierra Tesla Travel Destinations
Sherman Oaks Tesla had a Tesla Cybertruck with a camper/tent at the show.
Cybertruck front seats
Cybertruck back seats with ample room for this 6' 1" reporter.
The floorboard is about 22" from the ground.
View from the back with the tent's back open.
Booth personnel from Sherman Oaks Tesla
Winners of the two door prizes were:
View forward from the back seat with back screen at the bottom.
Cybertruck dash.
A different booth had Cybertruck Hollywood tours.
Their website: https://ridelikeastar.com/
Tesla Road trip
suggestions. Several towns were represented in the California
Eastern Sierra booth and since I have extensive Tesla driving
experience in this area, including several 1,000-mile travelogues along
Hwy. 395 from Orange County, CA, to Reno, Nevada, I collected brochures
from that area.
My earlier Tesla Travelogues in the Eastern Sierras along Hwy. 395 can be viewed at:
Above, two "A Better Route Planner" app. routes from Orange
County, California to Reno/Sparks to show the ample Tesla Superchargers
in case you plan a road trip to some of the following locations.
Remember:
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Some good Tesla Road Trips on California Hwy. 395:
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2. Grand Canyon Railway
In the past years at the Travel Show, there have been as many as 5
tourist trains represented. However, this year only one, The
Grand Canyon Railway.
They had a large map showing how to fly to an airport near Williams,
but you can also take the Amtrak Southwest Chief or drive your Tesla
with ample Tesla Superchargers along I-40 (below).
Tesla Superchargers from LA to Williams, AZ, and Grand Canyon.
There are as many more non-Tesla slower chargers in addition.
One of the specialty trains they run.
AAA
offers packages called, "Rails To The Rim"--you should get one of their
brochures. I suggest the "4-Days & 3-Nights" package where
you drive to and stay at their Grand Canyon Hotel in Williams, AZ, one
night. Take the train to the Grand Canyon the next day and stay
that 2nd night at the Maswik North Lodge at the Canyon South Rim.
On the third day, return to Williams and stay a second night at their Grand Canyon Hotel. I also suggest the Luxury Parlor class on the train because this class has access to the rear, outside platform.
3. Pauline Frommer's tribute to her father, Arthur
Frommer, who wrote "Europe on $5 a Day". She also related current
travel tips.
Pauline and Aurthur Frommer. Arthur passed in November, 2024.
Pauline Frommer's website QR code above goes to frommers.com. First her tribute to her father.
Arthur Frommer was born to immigrant parents in1930.
Arthur
graduated with a law degree from Yale and was the only person in the
graduating class to be drafted for the Korean War. They learned
that he had learned German and Russian, so he was stationed in Berlin
where he traveled and wrote the book above.
Arthur,
after the success of his book for GIs, reasoned that others would like
such a budget travel book so he wrote the best selling book
above. Sue and I used this book as a guide when we went to Europe
in the late 1960s.
Pauline
read several of Arthur's quotes about travel, but were not shown on the
screen. I researched his quotes and selected a few that interested me:
Arthur in Venice Italy.
Arthur Frommer with daughter, Pauline, left, with grand children, right.
Pauline
with Arthur and many Frommer Guides, left. Arthur always had
stacks of books to learn about destinations before traveling there,
right.
The Frommers' radio show, left. Pauline always put a quote from Arthur with most slides.
Pauline now does a podcast, left. Arthur was the publisher of Budget Travel.
Ms. Frommer's Presentation about International Budget Travel:
Frommer's Best Places to Travel in 2025
Places NOT to go in 2025 - our own National Parks because of DOGE defunding
meaning overcrowded and less services.
Her daughter on a work-for-travel vacation.
Hostels are different, better, than in the past.
After her presentation, Pauline Frommer was available at the Book Store to sign books and answer questions.
4. Other fun and interesting booths at the Travel & Adventure Show
There is a photo booth where attendees use their props, choose a backdrop, and have an instant photo made.
Bigfoot's brother was in-person in the Oregon booth.
They had a pool and scuba lessons, but I did not partake.
I enjoyed talking with the Maui Visitor's Bureau since we have a two-week timeshare there.
They have giant posters in the large convention hall.
Other travel locations for this show. (I think Chicago's date might be a misprint.)
This was the most bazaar booth, offering citizenship and a passport
from Slowjamastan (1 1/2 hr. south of Palm Springs!) near the Salton
Sea which they want to rename Sultan Sea.
Couldn't pass up this photo op...better than Big Foot don't you think?
Learn more at https://www.slowjamastan.org/
Using Tesla's Full Self Driving to and from the Travel Show allowed me
a few seconds of time with my hands off the wheel to take some photos
out the car windows.
View of the mountains north of the Hwy. 57 and Hwy. 60 junction east of Los Angeles
Two interesting graffiti examples from downtown LA off I-10.
Los Angeles Convention Center. Escalators in background to the Travel & Adventure Show.
Whittier Narrows, foothills, and mountains north east of Los Angeles on the way home.
I leave you with this image, shot through my rear view mirror as I left the convention center parking garage.
Could this outfit have a legitimate purpose?
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