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 371.

Today the Amateur Traveler goes to one of the natural wonders of the world

as we go to Victoria Falls on the Zambia-Zimbia-Zimbly border.

I know that I should be heading home.

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

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slash free book. Before we get into this week's interview I do have two news

stories for you. In the first one, Airbus has a plan to provide for passengers who are larger than they used to be when they design the original seats.

What they're going to do is they're going to take rows of seats and make the ones on the aisle wider and then make the ones near the window smaller and charge more for the

ones in the aisle. I understand why they're doing that. It probably makes sense, but I like to fly

on the window seats so I'm not particularly fond of the idea.

And then speaking of interesting ideas, there's a new company called Jib.LI.

and Jib.LI is doing an interesting thing where if you travel without luggage, they will let

you take someone else's luggage with you, or if you have more luggage, you can send it with someone else.

You can also ask people to buy you stuff on their

trip. I like the idea of asking people to buy you stuff and bringing it back for you.

I think that could be a good idea. But I do wonder about the security line

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