Amateur Traveler Podcast. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Today on the show we

go swimming with Wales at the Pacific Island of Tonga.

Please take your seat and fasten your seat belts.

Also make sure your seat back and folding trays are in their fully upright and locked position.

I have two quick news stories today that I'd like to highlight before we get into the interview with Chris talking about Tanga.

The first one is something that combines my love of travel and my fear of writing great big checks for my kids for college and that's a new

program called the scholarship. Scholarship.com got links to it in the show notes

but basically it is a floating college semester at sea on a cruise ship that is

just dedicated to be a college. So if you're interested in that it is about the same cost as private school, which is to say expensive.

And there are also openings for staff on that ship, so check that out in the show notes.

The other thing that I have is someone

has actually made a reality TV show that I enjoy and that's a little surprising to

me because there isn't a lot of reality TV that I've enjoyed, but the travel channel has one with a new show called Five Takes, which is taking five amateur travel journalists and sending them around the world.

I guess this is the second season, but the first time I'd heard about it.

You can actually also interact with the people as they're on their journey.

They're in Australia last week. I think they're in Thailand

next week and if certainly if you haven't heard of them and you do interact with

them let them know you heard about them in the Amateur Traveler podcast.

And now with no further ado here you heard about them on the Amateur Traveler Podcast.

And now with no further ado, here's an interview that I think you'll enjoy.

I'd like to welcome the show Chris, and Chris contacted me after one of the last couple shows I think was the show on Egypt

that he responded to and told me a little bit about an adventure that he and his wife

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