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 391. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 391. Today the amateur traveler talks about crawfish

boils, Cajun culture and the alligator Bayou as we go to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I'm going to go to the city one more cafe.

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. We don't have a

sponsor this week, but if you have a travel company or destination, we could be

talking about you right now. If you're interested in sponsoring the amateur traveler

send an email to host at amateur traveler.com. Before we get into this week's

interview I do have three news stories for you. In the first we've talked

about travel to Azerbaijan on the show before.

I thought you might be interested to know that the Central Election Commission announced that the

president of the country was winning re-election with 72.76% of the vote. That probably would have worked better

if they hadn't announced the election results the day before the election.

Speaking of saying the wrong thing, a bullet train in Japan was forced to make an emergency stop after a man had

warned that there would be an explosion on the train. Apparently the drunk man thinks that what he

actually said was I felt like my bladder was going to explode. In other misunderstandings Burlington International Airport was forced to evacuate because a fire alarm went off because someone burnt toast.

Forling still three of those stories, check out the show notes at amateur traveler.com.

I'd like to welcome to the show Lindsay Thomas who's coming to us from the Travel Luster.com and come to talk to us about her hometown of

Baton Rouge. Lindsay, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Chris.

And I should say you're really coming to us from the Travel uster dot com because there's only one else

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