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

passport photo. Amateur Traveler episode 232. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about island

churches, Venetian walled cities and fjords as we go to Montenegro.

I know that I should be heading home.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. I have two news

stories for you. The first one is a very somber one with a little bit of a

silver lining and that is obviously the plane that went down in

Libya this week and yet the one silver lining there is that out of a hundred and

four people on the plane there was one boy who made it who survived, who had serious leg injuries, but seems to be doing okay.

A Dutch boy, unfortunately his whole family was on the plane.

So my thoughts go out to Holland which is reeling under that as

well as everyone else who suffered some loss in that particular crash and they

still don't really know what happened it doesn't seem to be at all related to the

ash cloud for instance which has been again grounding flights over Europe.

And then I'm afraid my second news story is also a sad but strange story and that is a couple

was trying to bring back a dog from Mexico and they

were on Delta Airlines and the dog did not arrive and at first Delta said well the

dog is fine he's being cared for he'll be on a later flight,

and later they found out, no, the dog had escaped from his carrier.

He's not coming home.

And apparently, they paid $200 because that's what you would pay for lost luggage.

So they considered the dog a piece of lost luggage,

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