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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#168 - Travel to Key West, Florida

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2009

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Casey Wohl the author of the Girls Getaway Guide to Key West about Key West Florida. We will talk about how the area has changed in the last 20 years from Jimmy Buffet’s famous Margaritaville to an area with numerous nice restaurants, art galleries and hotels. We will also talk about beaches, Ernest Hemmingway and other sland characters and how to catch a spiny lobster with your tickle stick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

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in my passport photo.

0:11.6

Amateur Traveler episode 168.

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Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Key West, Florida.

0:18.0

We'll be talking about Jimmy Buffett and Hemingway and How to Catch a Lobster

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today in the Amateur Traveler.

0:23.3

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not

0:30.8

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

0:36.0

Before we get started with today's interview I have two news stories for you.

0:40.0

One is a continuation of the last week's story.

0:43.0

Remember, nine Muslims got kicked off an air trans flight, and then even after the FBI told

0:49.3

the airline it was okay to let them back on, that this had been a misunderstanding, the airline refused.

0:56.6

Not surprisingly, the airline has since issued an apology.

1:00.5

In the other failure to communicate story, Duane Kurtzak set out to try and win an Amtrak annual photo contest hoping to win a thousand dollars in travel vouchers.

1:10.0

So he went to New York's Penn Station and was arrested for taking pictures.

1:18.0

He was told it was illegal to take photos of trains.

1:21.0

I believe the right-handed Amtrak does not know what the left hand is doing.

1:26.4

For more information about both of those stories as well as other news items, check out

1:30.0

the show

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The

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Well, I'd like to welcome to the show Casey Wool,

1:38.0

who is the author of the girls getaway guides,

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