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 438. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

Crabcakes, the National Aquarium, and one really big flag as we go to Baltimore

Maryland.

I'm going to

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. This episode of the

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One big announcement that I didn't want to bury at the end of the show and that's that the amateur traveler,

specifically the amateur traveler podcast that you're listening to,

won a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award last week.

I was very pleased and maybe a little surprised. I happened to be attending the Society

of American Travel Writers Conference and so I was there when the awards were announced,

which was a nice bonus for my trip to Iceland.

I'd like to welcome back to the show Nancy Perot.

Nancy writes about both senior travel and boomer travel at about.com

and has come to talk to us about

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