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 297.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about palaces and temples and geisha as we go to Kyoto Japan. Welcome to the

I'm your city one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not to the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Before we get into today's interview, I do have three news stories for you.

The first one is there's a Russian company that's selling sleep boxes. These are small

self-contained cabins that they can put in out-of-the-way places in airports or even you can make a

hostile by combining a number of these.

So if you get caught in a long layover sometime, look around and maybe you'll find a sleep box.

Or if you're looking for a more upscale place to sleep, Conan O'Brien has put his TV

studio on AirB&B for a dollar a night. He's serious about this. He's looking for a family

to come stay. They're going to be filmed. So only

do this if you want to be on TV. But if you want to be on Conan O'Brien for a dollar

night you can stay at his TV studio. And then if you didn't want your family to travel on 9-11 because you were worried that something might happen, what would you do about it?

If you said phone in a bomb threat, that's the wrong answer as a woman found

out who has since been arrested. For links to all three of those stories, check out the show notes

at amateur traveler.com.

I'd like to welcome the show Phil Smy, who has come to talk to us about Kyoto Japan.

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