AT#264 - Travel to Aspen, Colorado

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Kara Williams of TheVacationGals.com about Aspen, Colorado. Like so many locals who live in that area of Colorado, Kara came for the winters but stayed for the summers. She tells us about this historic silver-mining town that is better known as a winter playground for the wealthy now than for its mining past. Whether you are skiing, hiking or fly fishing it has a wealth of outdoor activities. It offers great, if not always inexpensive, food and a wealth of artistic events set in a gorgeous mountain valley. Kara describes side trips to the Ghost towns of Ashcroft and Independence, to the continental divide at Independence Pass and to the caves at The Grottos. She also tells you whether the Aspen Crud is something you want to get. Aspen also hosts festivals as diverse as the Aspen Institute, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, the Aspen Music Festival and School and Aspen Summer Words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo. Amateur Traveler episode 264.
0:14.0	Today the Amateur Traveler talks about skiing and mountains and crud
0:19.0	as we go to Aspen, Colorado. I'm going to go to the city one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home,
0:29.0	but maybe not, maybe not to the day.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.4	into this week's interview, I do have three news stories for you. The first news
0:40.3	story comes from the news of the weird. A monk from Cyprus was caught at Greek
0:44.0	airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage. He told authorities that it was the
0:49.4	relics of a saint that he was taking back to his monastery, but instead it was the skeletal remains
0:54.6	of a nun who had died four years ago. I'm not sure that I'm ever going to figure this story out.
1:00.9	And then good news, bad news. Good Good news and very good news indeed is 2010 there were no U.S.
1:08.2	airline fatalities. In fact, there were no airline fatalities in any developed nation.
1:13.6	The last US air crash was in February of 2009,
1:19.3	and not counting that flight, which crashed nor Buffalo,
1:21.5	the last four years, have had no other crashes.
1:25.3	So that's very good news indeed.
1:27.5	And the bad news, I'd like you to guess how many people you think were taken hostage
1:31.3	in 2010 by pirates.
1:35.4	Did you guess 1181 hostages?
1:39.1	In all 53 vessels were seized last year, all but four of them off the coast of Somalia.
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