Reel Travels With Lisa Iannucci

Welcome to Episode 53 of Reel Travels! I’m your host Lisa Iannucci, the author of the travel books On Location: A Film & TV Lover’s Travel Guide and Road Trip: A Sport’s Lover’s Travel Guide. I’m hoping this podcast inspires you to travel to destinations that have been used in your favorite movies and television shows.  I have to say that this interview was actually done in January, so you’ll hear me mention that. But nothing else is really time-sensitive and I think you’ll thoroughly enjoy this. It’s all about Italy! And if you’ve been listening you know that I haven’t been there yet, but it’s on my list of places to go. So I turned to the one person I know who knows Italy, but who specializes in Sicily -- Karen La Rosa, the owner of La RosaWorks Sicily Tours and Travel. We talk about everything about Italy travel and movies in Sicily, including The Godfather (and Godfather Tours) and Cinema Paradiso's filming locations.This interview has only piqued my interest in traveling to Italy.  Find me on Insta

Welcome to Episode 52 of Reel Travels and welcome to 2022! I’m your host Lisa Iannucci, the author of the travel books On Location: A Film & TV Lover’s Travel Guide and Road Trip: A Sport’s Lover’s Travel Guide. I’m hoping this podcast inspires you to travel to destinations that have been used in your favorite movies and television shows.  On today’s episode of Reel Travels, I’m chatting with Peter Craynis, Executive Director of Florida’sSpace Coast Office of Tourism, which includes 72 miles of beaches and other spaces that have been used for the filming locations of many space-related TV shows and movies and we’re going to get into which ones they are including one of my favorites from when I was little. Most recently, portions of the Disney + documentary “The Right Stuff” were filmed here, and fans can actually enjoy many of the experiences from the show when they come to visit. And welcome Michelle Danner for our celebrity minute! Michelle is an international film director & acting coach. Her stu

Welcome to Episode 51 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci, the author of the books On Location: A Film & TV Lover’s Travel Guide and Road Trip: A Sport’s Lover’s Travel Guide. I’m hoping this podcast inspires you to travel to destinations that have been used in your favorite movies and television shows.  This week my guest is YouTuber Ryan Albanese who talks about his channel, “Going to the Movies!”. He has been traveling the country finding different film locations for quite some time and today he talks about his journeys, the movie locations he would like to see and so much more. It’s a fun interview and I hope you enjoy it. I’ll see you on the other side!  Ryan, thank you so much for stopping by and thank you all for tuning in! Please leave me a review or a rating -- it really helps me out, and follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler. I'd love to hear from you about your Reel Travels and what you think of the podcast. Thanks and see you next time!   

Welcome to Episode 50 of Reel Travels. I’m your host, Lisa Iannucci, the author of the books On Location: A Film & TV Lover’s Travel Guide and Road Trip: A Sport’s Lover’s Travel Guide. I’m hoping this podcast inspires you to travel to destinations that have been used in movies and on television shows. And speaking of travel inspiration, today my guest is Jo Franco, one of the three hosts of the new Netflix show The World's Most Amazing Vacation Rentals. When you’re looking for something cool to watch on Netflix, this is a must-see and I loved talking to Jo. Let’s get started!  Please leave me a review or a rating -- it really helps me out, and follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler. I'd love to hear from you about your Reel travels and what you think of the podcast. Thanks and see you next week!  

Welcome to Episode #49 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci, the author of On Location: A Film & TV Lover’s Travel Guide. Today, almost this entire episode is dedicated to Charlie Chaplin. I talk to an author of a book on the legend and we take a peek into Chaplin’s World, an incredible museum in Switzerland that really needs to be on your bucket list. It's on mine! Plus, I have what I think is the best celebrity minute since I started doing this podcast. Stay tuned. You’re not going to believe this! Let’s get started!  A special thanks to Rob Paulsen -- check out his book, Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life. and Gary Golio's book Smile: How Young Charlie Chaplin Taught the World to Laugh (and Cry). This is a great episode and I really appreciate that you tuned in. Please leave me a review or a rating -- it really helps me out, and follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler. I'd love to hear from you about your reel travels and what you think of

Welcome to Episode 48 of Reel Travels. I'm your host, Lisa Iannucci and I'm the author of On Location: A Film and TV Lover's Travel Guide. Today I'll update you on some of the film and TV festivals that are taking place this year and those that have moved to 2022 or been canceled.  Also, my guest on today’s episode of Reel Travels is actress and producer Susan Gallagher. You might know her from her work as Val on Queering or her roles in Safe Harbor, or  The InBetweeners. She’s appeared in (among many other things) the film Strange Weather (2016) opposite Holly Hunter, Bloodline (2015) opposite Kyle Chandler, and Lifetime's The Christmas Contract (2018) opposite Hilarie Burton. Other lead roles have included working in female-driven films Doorstep (2019) and Windblown (2019). Susan also played a woman with the early onset of Alzheimer's in I'll Be Here for a While (2019). In 2014, she formed her own production company Her Little Red Productions, Llc,. a female-run production company focusing on female-drive

Welcome to Episode 47 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci, the author of On Location: A Film & TV Lover’s Travel Guide. Today, I’m saying the words we’ve been waiting to hear for more than a year -- Let’s plan a trip!  We will get into exactly how you should go about planning a trip in this week’s interview with Samantha Weck, a travel agent with Expedition Weck. Enjoy the interview! My celebrity minute is with Pat Francis, comedian and host of the Rock Solid Podcast. You can find him on Twitter at @Pat_Francis Thank you so much for listening to the Reel Travels podcast. Please follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler and if you have a minute, please share or leave me a review on this podcast? Click on those iTunes stars. It would really help me out. Thanks. See you next week!   

Welcome to Episode 46 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci and I am also your film and tv travel guide. If you got a late start with traveling, that’s okay. So did today’s guest, who talks about how many states and countries she and her husband have since traveled to and they are over 50 and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon!  Listen to my interview this week with Samantha Taki of the Golden Age Traveling Blog. It is about her family and travels through the US, Canada, Caribbean, Europe and Mexico. She and her husband Gene joined the 55+ club last year. Samantha gives a lot of great tips in this interview and I’m sure she’ll inspire you to start putting your dream trip together. Enjoy the interview and I’ll see you on the other side.  Thank you so much for listening to the Reel Travels podcast. Please follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler and if you have a minute, please share or leave me a review on this podcast? Click on those iTunes stars. It would really help me out. Thanks. See you next w

Welcome to Episode 45 of Reel Travels (for those of you who listened to last week's episode, THIS is actually episode 45!). I’m your host Lisa Iannucci and I am also your film and tv travel guide. Today it’s just me and I’m talking about what I’m watching and I’m talking about the movie Nomadland Starring Frances McDormand which has been nominated for 4 Golden Globes including Best Picture and I’ll be talking about other stuff that’s too long for this intro so let’s get started! What am I watching and do I like it? B Positive; Cobra Kai; Bobby & Giada in Italy. What are you watching?  Links to things I mentioned in the podcast: Reel Travels podcast about Laura Ingalls Wilder: See episode #1 of Reel TravelsClark Gable's house/museum: http://www.clarkgablefoundation.com/museum-tour-info.html Groundhog Day and tours: http://www.woodstockgroundhog.org/walking-tour/ These places are also in my book: A Film & TV Lover’s Travel Guide, which is available by ordering it through Oblong Books.com. My book: 

Welcome to Episode 45 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci and I am also your film and tv travel guide. Happy New Year! What you may not know is that I wrote a biography of Will Smith years ago, and thanks to that biography I appeared in Will Smith’s biography in Germany, think A&E biography. In this episode, I interviewed the very talented Daphne Maxwell Reid, who played the second Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. This was a fun interview and I think you’ll really enjoy it. Thank you so much for listening to the Reel Travels podcast. Please follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler and if you have a minute, maybe leave me a review on this podcast? Or click on those iTunes stars. It would really help me out.  Thanks again and I’ll see you next week!   

Welcome to Episode 43 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci and I am also your film and tv travel guide. To finish out my Reel Travels podcast for 2020, I decided to bring you just one more crossover interview I did for my podcast The Write Start. On that show, My guest Merrit Minnemeyer and I talk about achieving dreams, and knowing when the right time is to go for yours. With a new year, it’s a perfect conversation to have for those who have personal goals including traveling so let’s get started.  Thank you so much for listening to Reel Travels podcast. Please follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler and if you have a minute, maybe leave me a review on this podcast? Or click on those iTunes stars. It would really help me out.  I want to remind you that if you are an RVer traveling around to all of your favorite film and tv locations, you can park your RV at one of Harvest Hosts members sites, which includes wineries, breweries and farms. To save you money on your annual membership, you can use my

Hey everyone it’s Lisa Iannucci and this is a special cross-over episode between both of my podcasts The Reel Travels podcast and The Write Start podcast. My special guest for this episode is Katherine Parker-Magyar, who is an extremely successful travel writer and I thought that writers would want to know how she accomplished what she did as a travel writer and the travelers who listen to Reel Travels would love to listen to what she’s accomplished as a traveler and, of course, her interest in film.  Katherine Parker Magyar is the guest today and here is a snippet of her bio:  “In my career as a travel writer, I’ve driven husky sleighs through Arctic forests in Finnish Lapland and sailed the Rio Negro to the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. I’ve practiced yoga with goats in the Swiss Alps and chased Alaskan King Salmon off the shores of Prince of Wales Island. I’ve jumped into black holes in Belize and trekked across the most active volcanic valleys in the Caribbean. I’ve hot air ballooned above the Sierra N

Welcome to Episode 41 of the Reel Travels podcast. I’m your host and film/tv travel guide, Lisa Iannucci.. This podcast Is all about the 2020 Holiday Gift Guide. There are no affiliate links and I’m not being paid by any of them to bring you this gift guide. It was purely based on research and my own likes and dislikes. It is a jam-packed episode that includes a bunch of great ideas. I hope you find something helpful here or it sparked some holiday gift giving ideas. Well, that’s it for this week’s podcast. Thank you so much for listening to Reel Travels. Please follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler and if you have a minute, maybe leave me a review on this podcast? Or click on an iTunes stars. It would really help me out.  Thanks again and I’ll see you next week!       

Welcome to Episode 40 of Reel Travels I'm your host, Lisa Iannucci. This episode, I take a detour and head over to Woodstock, New York for the 21st Annual Woodstock Film Festival and, as I’ve said several times before, my favorite film festival. I’ll tell you about the movies I watched and what I thought about them. Let’s get started.  Film festivals suffered big time this year. The festivals depend on movie tickets being sold and souvenirs being bought and the communities they are located in depend on tourism dollars with hotel stays, restaurant visits and more. If you’re not familiar with film festivals, you should be. It’s a great way to see some of the best movies that don’t always make it to the theaters. Some do, but not all do and there are some talented filmmakers out there. I started thinking about how can I do my part during quarantine to help and I realized there are two areas that fit me well -- movies and books. So my goasl going forward are to bring you more promotion on film festivals as well

Welcome to Episode #39 of Reel Travels. I'm your host Lisa Iannucci and I'm also your film and TV location travel guide. I'm the author of "On Location, A Film & TV Lover's Travel Guide." If you're interested in ordering it, please visit OblongBooks.com, search my name and order from them please.  This week, my guest is Brian Koppel, the founder of Reel2RealLocations. He has traveled the country finding film and TV locations for years. His website includes his travels to locations from Halloween, Fresh Prince, WKRP, Friday the 13th and more. Brian shares how he got started and gives tips on how you can too. Great information and a great interview!  Thanks so much for listening to Reel Travels. Feel free to leave a comment or a rating on iTunes or wherever you listen. Much appreciated!  Also, be sure to use my 15% off discount link to Harvest Hosts http://harvesthosts.referralcandy.com/QX9GH5T.  See you next time!   

My guest is Carole Ita White. She started out her career with episodic TV and small film roles in the early 1970s and has worked along side such legends as John Astin, Mickey Rooney, and Milton Berle. She’s made appearances on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Starsky & Hutch, The Love Boat, Beverly Hills, 90210, The Wayans Bros. and Profiler. And had roles in films such as The Witches of Eastwick, and The Fabulous Baker Boys. She’s probably most remembered as one of my favorite characters, Big Rosie Greenbaum on Laverne & Shirley. My guest today -- OMG, I’m so excited -- is Carole Ita White!  Thank you so much for listening to Reel Travels. PLEASE leave me a rating on iTunes or a review if you have time. Follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler. I will see you next week! 

Welcome to Episode 37 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci and I am your film and tv travel guide. This week, you’re going to meet Missy Kay, who decided she had enough of sitting at home, researched a trip to the Grand Canyon and left the next day for a three-week 9500 mile road trip where she slept in her car. She left the next day. Could you do something so adventurous? You’re going to want to hear this interview!  Let's also talk about food films and TV shows! Have you ever traveled to a restaurant or bakery because you saw it in a movie or a on a food television show? I'm about to do that!  Thank you so much for listening to the Reel Travels podcast. Please follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler and if you have a minute, maybe leave me a review on this podcast? Or click on the iTunes stars. It would really help me out.  

Welcome to Episode 36 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci and I am your film and tv travel guide. This week, we’re going to take a detour and talk about something that I’ve been doing a lot of lately and when I tell people about it, they ask me for advice. Today, we’re going to talk about downsizing your home to fund your travel -- can it be done?  Thank you so much for listening to the Reel Travels podcast. Please follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler and if you have a minute, maybe leave me a review on this podcast? Or click on the iTunes stars. It would really help me out.  Interested in staying in your RV overnight at a distillery or a winery? Try a Harvest Hosts membership! Click on the link for a 15% discount!  Thanks again and I’ll see you next week!   

Welcome to Episode 35 of Reel Travels. I’m your host Lisa Iannucci and I am your film and tv travel guide. This week, you’ll learn about a special place in Las Vegas that was a regular for such legends as Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley -- oh and some members of the Mob too. and, if you visit, you can sit exactly where they sat.  Thank you so much for listening to the Reel Travels podcast. Please follow me on Instagram @thevirgintraveler and if you have a minute, maybe leave me a review on this podcast? Or click on the iTunes stars. It would really help me out.  Thanks again and I’ll see you next week!   

Welcome to Episode #34 of Reel Travels! I'm your host Lisa Iannucci and I'm also the author of On Location: A Film and TV Lover's Travel Guide (available through OblongBooks.com). Today we talk about where I live -- in New York's Hudson Valley and how the area has become popular for film and television production. Laurent Rejto, director of the Hudson Valley Film Commission, talks about all of the shows and movies that have been filmed here, including Mark Ruffalo's I Know This Much is True, as well as The Avengers, Billions, and The Quiet Place. It's a great conversation and by the time it's over, you're going to want to book your next trip to this beautiful and historic Hudson Valley area.  Thank you so much for listening. Please leave me a rating, or share the podcast. I love what I do and I hope you do too.