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 338. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 338. Today the amateur traveler goes to the desert to Sin City

Lost Wages, Las Vegas, Nevada. up. Welcome 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. We talked

about AirB&B on the show just recently I believe in the episode about going to Serbia and

to Serbia and Kosovo and we just talked about what a good alternative it is

although Swedish roommates who rented out their apartment may not have had the

best experience because they came back from a month long vacation to find their home and been raided by the police because the renters had used it as a brovel, which I believe is off-brand for Airbnb.

Speaking of things you don't want to be known for, United Airlines, apparently just recently misplaced

a 10-year-old girl flying alone.

When I say misplaced, the person who was supposed to come and meet her at the plane, did not show up, and when she asked flight

attendance for some help or even to use a phone, they were apparently too busy to help for

a while and she missed a connection.

So the parents had no idea that she wasn't going to make her flight until she to

the parents had no idea that she wasn't going to make her flight until she finally was able to call them.

That's not the way the service is supposed to work.

United issued an apology.

And then speaking of apologies, Ryan Air is trying to save some

money and what they're doing on their flights is they're trying to not have

more fuel on the flights than they need because that just has extra weight and makes you burn more fuel.

But they ran into problems recently because of a thunderstorm caused some delays and

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