When you're produced nature films in the world's largest format, we want to take audiences

into an environment, places they're probably never going to get to, to see things they're never

going to experience.

I'm Max filmmaker Mike Day tells us how he's traveled the world to bring back the spectacles of nature but at ten times bigger than life.

Teresa Bruce searched for lost childhood memories of a family road trip to South America by taking a van down the longest highway in the world.

You're literally passing through North America, Central America, and South America on one stretch of the road.

She found that understanding the lives of the people she met was her best souvenir.

But the longer you drive, the more willing and able you are to kind of roll with those changes and appreciate

the sacrifices that people make to live there. And listeners share how their

hobbies and special interests can boost their travel plans. Stay with us for the hour ahead. It's

travel with Rick Steve's.

What's it take to produce a stunning nature documentary that'll really light up those huge

iMac's theater screens around the world?

Filmmaker Mike Day joins us in just a bit on today's travel with Rick Steve's to share what

it's been like. And we'll check in with listeners like you. travel with

listeners like you for reports on how they've enjoyed international travels

designed around their hobbies and special interests.

Let's start with a look at an ambitious road trip Theresa Bruce and her husband took

across Central and South America. In an earlier edition of Travel with Rick Steve's

Theresa told us why she felt she needed to retrace an epic 1974 family road trip down the Pan American

Highway. She's back with us to tell us more about how this time they actually got their

camper to make it all the way to the tip of South America.

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