Amateur Traveler episode 108. Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Portugal.

Here why our guest says you shouldn't join the rest of the tourists at the Algarve.

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 you one more cathedral.

I've got to sit in one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home.

But maybe not, Chris Christensen. The first news story I have for you today is from an article in the New York Times called

No Suitcase is Safe about what happens to your luggage when things go missing or your luggage

itself doesn't show up. There's a recent study that came out from the Transportation

Security Administration and being a government agency and right up on top of things they ranked airports

based on their data which comes from 2004 and they rank that the worst airport

for getting your luggage through is Los Angeles International Airport

with 1458 claims in the year 2004, followed by O'Hare in Chicago with 963 and then Seattle Tacoma actually took third place which surprised me.

Check out that article.

The bottom line is if you really want it to go with you, make sure it's in your carry-on luggage and if it

doesn't fit in your carry-on luggage and you're really afraid of losing it

leave it at home. Many of you by now have heard about the Strandin that took

place in Washington, D.C. a couple weeks ago. If I can read from an article from the Chicago Tribune.

On Wednesday afternoon, Melissa Wheeler acted out the role of flight attendant.

She paused down the grassy aisle in a makeshift airplane and informed a passenger the pretzels were gone.

Behind her a CD player blasted typical airplane sounds, a howling baby, a beeping seatbelt sign,

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