Hey this is Chris from Amateur Traveler.

I'm on a boat this week and so there's not going to be a new episode and so this is a

rerun episode of one of my favorites which is a conversation with Robert Reed

about traveling to the Russian Far East.

Hope you enjoy it. There and I'm ready to go looking real good in my passport photo

Amateur Traveler episode 406.

Today the amateur traveler talks about dachas and Volcanoes and a really really long train ride as we go to the Russian Far East. I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not today.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

We're going to dispense with the usual news stories today because the show is long enough and because I don't have a lot of voice and so I won't make you listen to this voice.

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I'd like to welcome back to the show Robert Reed, who's come to talk to us about the

Russian Far East.

Robert, welcome back to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Nothing better than the Russian Far East.

So happy to talk about it.

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