AT#170 - Travel to Cuba

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2009

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Sam about his recent trip to Cuba with his brother. Sam visited Havana and Trinadad. He reveled in the local music, the warmth of the people, the beautiful and enigmatic scenery and tolerated the food. Sam who is one eighth Cuban also met family that he had not known about until recently. Sam’s highlights include walking with tourists and locals alike along the malecon on the shore of Havana. As a photographer he came back with over a thousand pictures of the people, the colonial architecture and the classic cars of Cuba. A small sample of Sam’s work can be seen in the iTunes enhanced version of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll.
0:03.0	I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.
0:06.0	Looking real good in my passport photo.
0:10.0	The Amateur Traveler, episode 170. Today the Amateur Traveler, episode 170.
0:14.0	Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Cuba.
0:16.8	Hear about the food, the people, the music, and the scenery of this island nation. I'm going to
0:24.0	one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home
0:28.0	but maybe not, maybe not
0:30.0	not till the day.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:36.8	today's interview I do have a few news stories for you. The biggest news story
0:41.9	is clearly the landing slash crash slash
0:45.9	ditching of flight 1549 the US Airways flight that landed in the Hudson
0:51.7	River unless you've been under a rock flight that landed in the Hudson River.
0:53.1	Unless you've been under a rock,
0:54.9	you've probably already heard about that.
0:56.7	And I don't know that there's a whole lot more to say
0:58.8	other than, wow.
1:00.5	In the second new story, in this week's episode episode you'll hear me make a prediction which is that the
1:06.7	Obama administration will open up travel to Cuba and since we've recorded this interview but before it came out there was an announcement
1:16.4	from Hillary Clinton, the nominee for Secretary of State that indeed they do plan to at least open up travel for families of people in Cuba to
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