I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 343. Today the amateur traveler talks about bamboo

trains, ancient temples, and genocide memorials as we go to Cambodia.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. Before we get into this week's interview, I do have

three news stories for you and all of them are bad news stories. The first one, Bad News, there was a plane crash earlier this week in

northern Mexico and a 727 crashed to the floor of the desert.

Its landing gear crumpled, its occupants thrown around like rag dolls, but the good news

was no one was hurt.

And the reason for that is, although it was a real jetliner, there were no people on board.

It was crashed for a new Discovery Channel program, Curiosity, which will air Sunday at 9 PM.

One of the things they were studying is where's the safest place to be in an airplane

when it crashes and the answer is the rear.

In the second news item, the good news was that American Airlines added some additional leg room to their

flights this week. Unfortunately, they added them while the flight was in the air. As twice

within a week, airline seats became unattached with the people tilting over

backwards into the lapse of the people behind them. No one can remember it

happening once let alone twice within a week.

In the final news story, the good news is the TSA is hiring again.

The bad news is they've gotten a little grief for one of their most recent hires, which was a defroct priest. a I suspect that situation won't continue.

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