Amateur Traveler episode 106. Today the Amateur Traveler goes to New Mexico.

I got my bags packed on a roll. I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my passport photo

15 hour flight oh I don't think I'll ever be coming home.

You know I love it.

I got to see one more cathedral,

I got to sit in one more cafe. I know that I should be heading home but maybe not maybe not to the day

welcome to the amateur traveler I'm your host Chris Christensen.

The interview is going to be a little longer today so I'm only going to do one new story.

And since one of the four blogs for our guest is The Roving Gastronome,

I'm going to do an article that I saw on Forbes magazine on the top 10 cities worldwide for

Foodies.

And so their list from Forbes magazine, and I'm interested to see what you think about this is New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles,

Paris, Bologna, Italy, Singapore, Parmelo, Sicily, Barcelona, London, and Sydney, Australia.

What's your top 10?

The link to that article can be found in the show notes at amateur traveler.com.

I'd like to welcome on the show Zor O'Neill who is come to talk about New Mexico and Zor you've just recently written a book about New Mexico.

I have. I finished it up in the springtime and it's coming out at the end of September. So it's called Moon, New Mexico. It's published by Avalon Travel Publishing

and it's a guide to the whole state. Great. And welcome to the show first.

Thanks, thanks, Chris. Now, before we get very far, we should establish what country New Mexico is in because I know

of at least one story where somebody who's a senator from New Mexico was told by some government officials that they couldn't do that

because they were applying for something from outside the United States. It is, as I recall,

in the United States. Oh yes, this is a totally classic phenomenon.

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