AT#266 - Travel to Los Angeles, California - part 2

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2011

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Eric Schwartzman (author, educator and podcaster) about his hometown of Los Angeles. In this second part of a two part series of episodes Eric will give us the last two days of his sample itineraries for 4 days in the Los Angeles area. In this insider’s look at LA Eric points out the cafes, coffee shops, restaurants, hotels and movie locations that he thinks you should know about.Day 3: Hollywood – Sunset Strip, Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Roosevelt, L.A.’s best chili dog, Academy Awards theater, Sunset Grill, Hollywood Cemetary and more.Day 4: Downtown – Chinatown for dim sum, Olvera St. for Mole, Union Station for breathtaking Mission Architecture, Santee Alley and Los Angeles St. for discount children’s formal wear, Disney Hall for magnificent modern architecture and Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church. 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
0:09.1	Amateur Traveler episode 266 today the amateur traveler talks about ethnic
0:14.8	neighborhoods and movie stars as we return to Los Angeles for part two of a
0:20.9	two-part series. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into this
0:35.9	week's interview, I do have two news stories for you. The first one is an odd warning
0:41.2	that is coming out of Orlando to be where the dangerous pizza menus.
0:46.8	Apparently the flyers for pizzas that you find in a hotel room are not always legit. And especially in Orlando they're having a problem with
0:54.8	criminals who convince hungry tourists to give out their names, credit card
0:59.0	numbers, and hotel room numbers and they're not even going to get pizza.
1:04.0	And then the second story is one of the funniest stories I've heard in sometime,
1:08.0	although perhaps not for everyone involved.
1:11.0	There is a UK border officer who managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years
1:16.0	by putting her name on the no-fly list while she was visiting the in-laws overseas.
1:26.5	He added his wife's name to the no-fly list after she left for Pakistan and she was not allowed to get on a plane to come home. But it turns out he was hoist by his own Patard because three years later he forgot
1:36.8	that he had exiled his wife. He put himself on a list to be considered for a promotion, and they found out that he was married to someone who
1:46.1	is on the terrorist watch list and when they looked into it they found out what he had done.
1:51.8	For links to both of those stories, check the show notes at amateur traveler.com.
1:58.7	As I said this is a two-part show with guest Eric Schwartzman, author, educator, and podcaster, podcasts about
2:05.9	business and social media and has just written a book about that too and we'll have
2:10.3	more information about that at the end of the show, but now we'll jump into this episode already in progress.
2:16.0	So here's my Hollywood day for you. Now I'm not talking about Universal Studios.
2:21.0	Okay. I would say if you want to go to Universal Studios, Okay. Okay.
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