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 278. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 278.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about deserts and mesos and Pueblos as we go to the American

Southwest and four corners. I got the city one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not

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

this week's interview I do have three news stories for you. In the first news story

you know how so many banks tend to look alike and you have to be careful

you get your bag. Apparently that also happens sometimes to Caskets. A woman

in Monterey, Mexico had the body of her husband not show up because apparently

it got picked up by someone else and delivered to the wrong funeral home. And then Bermuda has a new policy that may not exactly make cruise

passengers feel welcome. They are having problems with locals who couldn't

get on buses because they were filled with cruise passengers,

so they're going to limit the number of cruise passengers who can go on the bus.

And then speaking of feeling welcome,

there are advantages to showing up to your flight on time or getting there early as two passengers found who were escorted off a virgin blue jet in Melbourne, Australia because weather conditions require that they load more fuel on the plane

and they couldn't take the weight of two additional passengers.

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

I'd like to welcome back to the show Eric Smith who's come to talk to us about the

four corners region of the American Southwest.

Eric, welcome back to the show.

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