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

in my passport photo.

Oh no!

Amateur Traveler episode 379. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about verdant forests,

Soviet architecture, and monuments to the great patriotic war as we go to Belarus.

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 again sponsored by Via Tour. Via Tour is a great place

for tours, especially day tours.

You can find out all sorts of interesting day tours, although not as it turns out any for

Belarus, but if you're doing Belarus and go to nearby Poland, there are plenty of tours there.

If you would please go through amateur traveler

dot com slash tours and amateur traveler will get credit for your tour.

Before we get into this week's episode I do have three news stories for you all of

them interesting or good news stories this week.

Boeing is making a slight change to the 737 and I found this interesting. It's a

slight little winglet that comes off the wing and it reduces the fuel cost on the 737 by 2%.

That doesn't sound like a lot, but in United Airlines that's enough to save the company

200 million per year, which I'm sure they will pass along those savings to you.

Meanwhile China's Spring Airlines is hiring new flight attendants and they're

specifically intentionally seeking out married women with kids.

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