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

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 231. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 231. Today the amateur traveler talks about temples and

night markets and the world's second tallest building as we go to Taiwan. I'm going to go to one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not today. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Before I get into this week's interview I do have two news stories for you.

In the first story the Federal Safety Panel is looked at the story of the US Air Flight that went down in Hudson,

flight 1549, and they've come out with some recommendations, like actually putting LIFES on planes.

That plane was not required to carry LIFES because it wasn't planning

on flying over water.

The other interesting thing that I saw in that

that you should all pay attention to

is that only 33 passengers reported to having put on a life

vest and only four managed to completely fasten it. So next time they do the safety demonstration, pay attention.

And the second news story comes out of that failed terrorist attack in New York City.

The good news was they managed very quickly to identify the suspect and to put

them on the no-fly list. The bad news is the airline he got on, Emirates, was using an old copy of the list and so they've changed the

rules to make airlines check the no-fly list just a little more often.

For links to both those stories, check out the show notes at amateur traveler.

And before we get into our interview I do want to remind you that you can get a free

audiobook from audible by going to amateur traveler.com

slash free book. The book that I just finished listening to is

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