Amateur Traveler Podcast, Episode 19. Welcome to the show I'm your host Chris Christensen. Today on the show I'll be talking

about cruises. Everything from your dress-up formal cruise night to

barefoot cruising. Stay tuned for the amateur traveler podcast.

Please take a moment now to make sure that your seatbelt is fastened low and tight about your waist.

To fasten the seatbelt, insert the metal tab into the buckle to release it's a pulley thing not a

pushy thing like you're in a car because you're in an airplane hello

welcome to the show it's sunny morning November 27th as I record the show coming out a little later than usual because my wife and I were down in Monterey and Carmel celebrating our 24th wedding anniversary yesterday.

This is probably going to be just a little shorter show today.

I only have two news items for you.

The first one sounds like something that should have an April 1st byline on it. I've got a link in the

show notes to the World Island Project in Dubai. The plan is to design 300 islands off the coast of Dubai.

These are islands that are going to be reclaimed from the sea,

and they're going to be in the shape of a globe that when completed will be visible from space.

You've got to check out the picture in the show notes on amateur traveler.com.

The second news item is from Zoom and Go, it's through business wire.

And basically the news headline is Zoom and Go brings thousands of travel clips to users of Apple's hot new video iPod. The website

becomes the first to make entire video library iPod compatible. If you

check out the links in the show notes or in the enhanced iTunes version,

you'll see that Zoom and Go is putting up links to videos all in the iPod format

and what Zoom and Go is or what Zoom and Go has is this library

of whether it be clips from somebody getting an elephant massage in Thailand or a lot of different hotel reviews that are done in video so you can see what hotels are like.

The changing of the guard in London so check that out and links in the

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