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 263. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about salt flats and

rugged mountains and music everywhere as we go to Northwest Argentina.

I'm going to the

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

The first one, if you're going to be traveling in Boston anytime soon

You might be interested to know that Boston is doing a reenactment of snakes on a plane

With snakes on the T with snakes on their public transportation system, someone has lost their

pet snake Penelope, so if you see a snake, report it.

And then in news of the weird, a 35-year-old New Hampshire man is in the hospital after trying to escape from the police

by lowering himself out of a fourth floor room using tied together bedsheets at the Hilton

Garden Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The failed escape artist Jose B. Martinez was tracked down at the hotel by police who were looking

for him because he was using his girlfriend's credit card without permission,

he broke several bones. That only works in the movies.

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

I'd like to welcome to the show Jeff Young who's coming to us

from Career Break Secrets and Jeff has come to talk to us about Northwest

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