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Amateur Traveler, episode 148.

Today the amateur traveler goes to Tokyo, Japan.

Learn some of the history, the culture, the the food and some budget tips for this

fascinating destination today on the amateur traveler. heading home, but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

Before I get into today's story, today's interview,

I do have three different news articles for you that I

want to call your attention to. One is for those of you who read the

blogging that I do on travel you may have noticed an article I did a while back on your travel

biz.com or YTB which is an online travel agency that lets you set up your own

agency and I did a financial analysis of that company and found it to be

somewhat wanting more of a pyramid scheme and apparently the California Attorney General

agrees as they have just filed suit that it is quote a gigantic pyramid scheme so you

might want to check out both that story as well as my analysis. The other two very

sad and tragic new stories that we haven't mentioned of the show that

happened since the last time I talked about travel.

One was this gruesome and horrible murder that happened on Greyhound that you may have heard where someone

who was on a trip from Alberta to Winnipeg one of the passengers apparently was beheaded

and partially eaten which is just bizarre in a strange piece of irony, Greyhound had just launched an ad campaign with the line,

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