AT#295 - Travel to Oklahoma with Robert Reid from Lonely Planet

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 September 2011

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Robert Reid from Lonely Planet about his home state of Oklahoma. Robert recommends when you are driving through Oklahoma on your great American road trip you get off the interstate and explore for a few days. From the hills and woods of Eastern Oklahoma, to the tall grass prairies, to the oldest mountains in the United States (The Wichita Mountains) Oklahoma has more variety than you might have guessed from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the same name. Even the shape of the state holds clues to its unusual history. It is a state shaped by treaties made and broken with the Native Americans and by slavery and the Compromise of 1850. Its people are influenced by its history, its oil, its tornadoes, and of course its football. Ever a storyteller, Robert talks about African American towns, football upsets, buffalo, songwriters, authors, cowboy poets, onion burgers and Route 66. 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.
0:10.9	The Amateur Traveler episode 295. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Native Americans,
0:18.0	Great Plains, and the Flaming Lips as we go to Oklahoma.
0:23.0	I know that I should be heading
0:25.0	home.
0:26.0	I know that I should be heading home
0:29.0	but maybe not, maybe not today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:36.3	this week's interview I do have three news stories for you. At a Pittsburgh hotel
0:41.4	guests are asked to surrender their digital devices on check-in.
0:46.2	Participating hotels in Pittsburgh are trying to get people who are in the always-on generation
0:50.7	to do an internet free weekend.
0:53.0	I won't be going to Pittsburgh.
0:55.0	And then speaking of being addicted to technology,
0:57.0	there's a question whether airline pilots are getting addicted to the automation in the cockpit
1:02.0	and are losing some of their skills on how to fly the plane.
1:07.1	It's not a problem until you lose the computer.
1:09.7	And then speaking of getting lost, in the wake of Hurricane Irene, Carnival managed to strand 300 passengers in San Juan.
1:18.6	Carnival cruise lines left about 300 passengers behind in San Juan Sunday when the approaching Hurricane Irene
1:25.3	forced it to depart the island early. But unlike Royal Caribbean, which faced a similar problem,
1:30.8	Carnival put up the passengers in hotels and offered to fly them to the next port.
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