I got my bags packed on a roll. I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.

Looking real good in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 421. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 421. Today the amateur traveler talks about

deserts, dramatic coastlines, camel merchants, and the Moroccan Wall as

we go to the Western Sahara. I got the city 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. We're going to

skip the news for this particular episode but I do have some personal news

which is that I'm recording this overlooking Petra. I'm in the country

of Jordan as a guest of the tourism board and you'll hear more about that later on for sure

but that means I'm a little cut off on the internet so we're going to jump right

into the interview today.

I'd like to welcome back to the show Francis Tappan who has come to talk to us about

Western Sahara. Francis, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Chris.

Nice to be back.

And you may recall, those of you who've been

listeners for a while that Francis came and talked about a book that he had done on

Eastern Europe.

Hidden Europe, is that the correct name? Do I have that correct?

That's right, The Hidden Europe. The Hidden Europe and you are now working on sort of a

sequel but it's all about Africa. That's right.

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