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

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 258.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about mosques, the Silk Road, and Terracotta Warriors as we go to Sien China. Welcome to the city one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not to the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into

today's interview I do have four news stories for you. I know that's more than usual

but this was a weird week for news.

In the weirdest and the saddest news story this week, the body of young man Devante Tisdell was found in a suburban

street in Boston and the police have ruled that he fell from a plane.

He actually had tried to stow aboard a plane and apparently fell out of the wheel well when the plane was landing at Logan Airport.

Though the last time we know that somebody stowed away aboard a flight in the U.S. was April 14, 1972,

and that also ended very poorly because again the person tried to stow away

in a wheel well and froze to death.

And then speaking of making exits from planes, a man in San Jose, possibly suicidal suicidal tried to open up the cabin door of a

continental airways jet flying from San Jose to Houston forcing the plane to divert to

Albuquerque. We don't recommend that.

And then in Abu Dhabi trying to reenact snakes in a plane, they found a passenger who was trying to sneak

four snakes, two parrots, and a squirrel inside his luggage onto the plane. And yet, the best quote this week

for me comes from our fourth story, which is passengers a Qantas flight that was delayed

were told eventually we're sorry for the delay but we're having problems loading

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