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 426. Today the amateur traveler talks about hiking and convict history and the plight of the devil as we go to Tasmania.

I'm going to 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. Before we get into

today's interview let me just remind you that there are still spots

available for the trip to Morocco and one of the reasons that there are spots is we're ending up doing two

trips. We're going to do a 15 day trip followed by a 10 day trip. I'm only going on the 10 day

trip just so you know that might influence you to go on the 15 day trip and

the 15 day trip I don't have the page up just yet but it should go up about the

same time as this episode so go to amateur traveler.com and look on the book travel tab and I'll have

links to both of those trips. I'd like to welcome back to the show Robert Reed who's come to talk to us about

Tasmania. Robert, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me. And I say

welcome back to the show. You now have a new title. You are the Offbeat Observer for National Geographic

Traveler and I have to say that is the best title I've ever heard.

Yeah, I love it. Offbeat Observer. Oh, oh oh I'm waiting for the merch but yeah I write for them

about offbeat things often like kind of the philosophy the why and hows of travel. So not so much.

This is a great walking destination, which by the way

Tasmania is, but why do we walk?

What does it mean we walk?

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