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 234.

Today on the Amateur Traveler, we talk about castles and shrines and temples, and of course, sushi.

As I talk about my recent trip to Japan.

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. This episode of the

amateur traveler is sponsored by Viatur and Viatur is a great site for

getting tours, day trips, and short excursions for popular destinations.

And I just recently took one of their tours in Kyoto, Japan, which you'll hear more about

in this episode of the Amateur Traveler.

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dot com slash tours. Before we get into this week's main content I do have three

new stories to share for you. I'm sure that CBS 11 out of Dallas was trying to be helpful when they were

announcing that the new Pope was from Argentina when they put up a map of South

America marking where Argentina was. The only problem is they marked it as being in Colombia.

So here's the quiz for there are only 13 countries in South America.

We've covered 12 of them on the amateur traveler.

So go to Google and Google

blank map South America and bring up a blank map of South America and tell me

can you label all 13 countries? In another news story a Frenchman tried to reenact

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