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 41515. Today the amateur traveler talks about great history,

great architecture and great music as we go to Riga, the capital of Latvia. I'm

one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not

today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Before we get into this week's interview, I do have three news stories for you.

The first one is an interesting and innovative idea from Alaska Airlines.

They're taking that whole print your boarding pass one step further.

You can print your own luggage tag for your luggage, inserted in a tag holder when you get to the airline, and save yourself some time.

This is also, of course, going to save the airline some time and save them some money.

So I'll be interested to see how this one works out.

We had a scary news story come out this week at least for those

of us who live near San Francisco. A picture of San Francisco Airport appeared on an

Al-Qaeda magazine along with a caption reading,

Assemble Your Bomb.

This is set off alarms, as you may expect,

in Washington, D.C.

and I suspect in San Francisco.

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