AT#410 - Travel to Indonesia and the Island of Komodo
Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast
Chris Christensen
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2014
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's digging and then there's super digging. This food and then there's baker's super-foods. |
| 0:08.0 | And then there's baker's super foods. Made with selected natural ingredients and tasty chicken. |
| 0:15.7 | The food. And then there's Baker Super Foods. I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good |
| 0:29.2 | in my passport photo. Amateur Traveler episode 410. Today the amateur traveler talks about |
| 0:37.1 | temples and wreck dives and Camodos as we go to Indonesia and the island of kamoto. |
| 0:47.0 | I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. |
| 0:57.0 | Before we get into this week's interview, I do have two news stories for you. |
| 1:02.0 | United has announced that they're going to be more strictly |
| 1:05.4 | enforcing their rules on carry-on luggage. Their rules are that a bag can be no larger than |
| 1:10.4 | nine inches by 14 inches by 22 inches and they will be putting |
| 1:15.0 | different bag measuring devices at every gate is the plan. Now they're a little |
| 1:20.4 | bit softies there because it turns out that the measuring bin is actually |
| 1:23.5 | one inch larger in all the dimensions. But still if you have a bag larger than that, it will have to be checked. |
| 1:31.3 | But one thing you can't check a bag for. A strange story is coming out that may or may not have happened, but there's a story that the TSA demanded to inspect somebody's bag for Bitcoin. Now if you know what |
| 1:45.1 | Bitcoin is it's an electronic or digital currency meaning that it's not like |
| 1:49.6 | cash and you're not going to find it in someone's bag. The TSA has been unable to verify the incident. |
| 1:56.0 | For links to both those stories, check out the show notes at amateur traveler.com. |
| 2:01.0 | The amateur traveler is once again sponsoring this episode and I want you to think about credit cards and I want to tell you a story I was just in the Dusledorf train station and I went to buy a train ticket and I presented my credit card and it has |
| 2:16.6 | no chip on it and they couldn't take it at the kiosk which did not surprise me but |
| 2:21.1 | even when I went to the person, she said, I cannot use this card. You're |
| 2:25.8 | going to have to pay cash. So if you're traveling to Europe, it's becoming increasingly |
| 2:30.8 | problem to not have a chip with a smart pin and mine doesn't so I may |
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