AT#238 - Travel to the Cook Islands

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2010

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Melanie Waldman of TravelsWithTwo.com about a recent trip to the Cook Islands in the Pacific. Think of the Cook Islands as Tahiti without the French language and using the New Zealand dollar to make it more affordable. Melanie tells us about this corner of Polynesia with beautiful resorts that she and her husband visited for their 10th anniversary. They hiked the mountainous spine of Raratongo with Pa who knows all of the plants and their uses and cruised the small outer islands of Aitutaki with a guide named Captain Awesome. They also took an archeology tour, drove the ring roads, shopped in the farmer’s market and just hung out on the beach drinking the cocktails of the moment. 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
0:08.0	in my passport photo.
0:10.7	Amateur Traveler episode 238.
0:14.0	Today the Amateur Traveler talks about remote tropical beaches and sea cucumbers
0:19.0	as we go to the Cook Islands. Welcome to the
0:23.0	I got the city one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home
0:29.0	but maybe not maybe not
0:31.0	to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.8	into today's interview I do have some news for you although I'm not going to be
0:40.4	using traditional news stories. The one thing I did want to mention though is I'm not going to be using traditional news stories.
0:42.8	The one thing I did want to mention though is I'm recording this on Friday, July 2nd.
0:46.5	And that's an important date for me, because July 2nd, five years ago,
0:51.1	was the first episode of the amateur traveler.
0:54.0	I certainly can make no promises that I'll still be doing this show in five years.
0:58.0	It will be interesting to see what the future holds, but I've been enjoying it and enjoying your
1:02.3	participation as well.
1:04.0	I'd like to give a special thanks to anybody who has been on the show as a guest.
1:08.0	We had a meet-up in New York City as part of the T-Bex, the Travel Blog Exchange Conference, and there were a number of people
1:16.2	who I get a chance to meet for the first time or to see again who have been on the show who were at that
1:22.1	meetup.
1:22.5	There were only 16 of us, but a high percentage
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