AT#214 - Family on Bikes

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2010

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Nancy Sathre-Vogel from FamilyOnBikes.com about their odyssey – a bike ride with two young boys along the length of the Pan-American highway from Alaska to the southern end of South America. Learn why they did this trip, how they have managed it and what they have learned along the way. 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 heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.1	in my passport photo.
0:10.5	Amateur Traveler episode 214. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 214. Today the amateur traveler talks to a family doing a record
0:17.1	breaking trip from Family on Bikes.com.
0:20.1	See one more Cathedral.
0:22.4	Got to sit see one more cathedral.
0:23.0	I got to sit in one more cafe.
0:26.0	I know that I should be heading home,
0:29.0	but maybe not, maybe not today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. For those of you
0:36.3	who haven't been paying attention to the news, the obvious travel news story that
0:40.3	we need to talk about today, is the attempted hijacking on Christmas day of an
0:44.2	ear liner by a man who had hidden a bomb in his underwear which is a completely
0:48.4	different type of dedication and that attempt was foiled by the prompt reaction
0:51.8	of his fellow passengers and not by any
0:53.8	security means and that has led to quite a bit of controversy about the TSA in terms
0:58.9	of whether they were doing their job and that has only been made worse when they had published the new guidelines for what
1:07.4	you should do, but they hadn't published it to the public.
1:10.8	They have a blog, but they hadn't used it and so two travel bloggers
1:14.9	flying with fish and Chris Elliot who has been a co-host on This Week in
1:20.3	Travel with me had got a copy of the memo and had published it so that people
1:24.0	knew what they should expect the next day when they went to the airport.
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