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in my passport photo. Amateur Traveler episode 351.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about boats and sharks and blue-footed boobies

as we go to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador.

I know that I should be heading home.

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.

If you've ever been in a noisy hotel you may like the idea that two UK

hotels are doing, they're cracking down on noise. Basically they're installing shish ometers in 620 hotels and those will be triggered when a

certain decibel level is exceeded and they will flash as a reminder to guests to lower their

voice.

In air travel news this week, for those in the US there was an

interesting development when the FCC, the Federal Communication Commission

that's in charge of things like cell phones, recommended to the FAA, the department that is in charge of what

you can or cannot use on a plane, they recommended that they allow the use of electronic devices

during takeoff and landing.

Apparently, according to the FCC, there is no risk.

So we'll see where that goes.

And then because we're doing Alpha Bit Soup, the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, stepped into the travel game this week by slapping

22 hotels with a warning because their room rates and taxes that they're advertising don't

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