AT#285 - Travel to St. Louis, Missouri

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2011

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Rease Kirchner about her hometown of St. Louis Missouri. St. Louis is known for its iconic Arch and is known as the gateway to the west. Rease claims that St. Louis has the largest urban park in the U.S., and now boasts about a surprising array of ethnic restaurants including a Little Italy area with toasted ravioli and a Little Mexico around Cherokee street. The city has an art museum made of entirely recycled materials, and Rease’s favorite the City Museum. Rease also tells us where we can find traditional St. Louis food including gooey butter cake and a slinger which she describes as “everything that can kill you all on one plate”. St. Louis is famous for Budweiser and for the associated Busch stadium which is the home of the St. Louis Cardinals, but now also boasts micro-breweries and NFL and NHL teams. 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
0:08.0	in my passport photo.
0:11.0	Amateur Traveler episode 285. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 285. Today the amateur traveler talks about beer, baseball,
0:17.0	and yes, that Great Big Arch as we go to St. Louis, Missouri. The Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.5	into this week's interview I do have three news stories for you. In the first
0:41.2	story if you were confused about the growth of tourism in China, let me just tell you
0:46.7	that Starwood, the hotel chain, is planning on opening up one new hotel in China every two weeks. The Chinese tourism market is growing very
0:56.4	rapidly. And speaking of hotels, good news in the UK where best Western, not the same as the best Western in the United States, is launching a campaign to try and convince other hotels that internet should be free.
1:09.0	They say that British businesses would save 1.4 billion a year if all in-room internet
1:14.6	were free of course that might mean that hotels would lose 1.4 billion a
1:18.7	year so it might be a tough sell and then you thought your tour operator was cheap. A Michigan tour bus company was
1:25.3	ordered to cease operations after six people were found in the luggage compartment
1:30.9	of a traveling coach, complete with mattresses and pillows.
1:34.9	The driver told police there wasn't room in the passenger compartment for a 235-mile journey
1:40.4	to Northern Ohio.
1:42.2	And as if that's not enough, this is not the first time the company
1:45.2	has been caught using the luggage compartment for unauthorized purposes. In August 2010,
1:50.0	they were cited for using the luggage carrier as a sleeping berth for drivers.
1:54.0	For links to all three of those stories, check out the shownotes at amateur traveler.com.
2:00.9	I'd like to welcome to the show, Reese Kirchircher who's coming to us from Buenos Aires
2:05.2	but come to talk to us about her hometown of St. Louis Missouri. Reese welcome to the
2:10.5	show. Thanks for having me, Chris.
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