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 284.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about cathedrals and ancient stone circles as we go to Wiltshire in England and to Stonehenge. Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get

into this week's interview, I do have some news stories for you. The first one

was an interesting article from Travel Mole, and it talks about Southwest Airlines,

and it's not the airline you once thought it was.

For those of you in the United States, you may know that Southwest is known as the low price leader,

and it still is the low price leader in some markets,

in about 11 markets of the 24 that were surveyed.

The one thing that's interesting though is the average ticket price for Southwest over the last

five years have gone up 39 percent, while

other airlines have only gone up 10 percent.

So the moral of the story here is, next time you fly, don't assume you know who has the lowest prices, but check.

And then in the news of the strange, a contortionist managed to steal from traveler's luggage by packing himself in a suitcase and having

himself put on with all the other luggage and then he got out on the luggage bus and

started stealing from people suitcases. This happened in Spain and the

contortionist was from Poland. And then in interesting news I think many of us assumed that Egypt is a place where everything

that's going to be discovered has probably been discovered, but relatively recently,

Egyptologist discovered 17 new pyramids.

Now these aren't going to be pyramids the size of the Great Pyramid, but there are over

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