AT#458 - Volunteer Travel with Peace Corp Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet

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Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Hear about volunteer travel with the Peace Corps as the Amateur Traveler talks to Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet. Director Hessler-Radelet not only served in the Peace Corps herself in Western Samoa but 4 generations of her family have done so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Amateur Travel Guide is sponsored by DK Eyewitness Travel Guides.
0:05.0	These colorful guidebooks are filled with great information and are one of my favorite guidebooks.
0:10.0	I have 25 of them right here on my bookshelf.
0:12.0	Learn more at decay.com. I have 25 of them right here on my bookshelf.
0:12.7	Learn more at decay.com. out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my passport photo
0:27.0	Amateur Traveler episode 458 today we're very pleased in the amateur traveler to talk about volunteer travel with
0:34.6	someone who knows a bit about it, the director of the Peace Corps. one more cafe. I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not
0:47.0	today.
0:48.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Before we get into our interview with the Director of the Peace Corps, I want to apologize for
0:55.0	skipping a show last week, but I was on a cruise ship and you'll be hearing more about that
0:59.6	with next week's episode.
1:01.3	I was cruising from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago
1:04.4	Chile around the Cape of Goodhorn and through the streets of Magellan. And as we
1:08.6	mentioned, sponsoring this episode of Amateur Traveler is DK Eyewitness Travel
1:12.4	Guides. And I brought along one of my D.K. of Amateur
1:13.4	is DK Eyewitness Travel Guides. And I brought along one of my DK Eyewitness Travel Guides to that South America cruise, specifically
1:18.4	to Buenos Aires, and that is the Eyewitness Travel Top Ten Buenos Aires. As I mentioned before the top 10
1:24.4	guides are small enough to fit in your back pocket and in fact was in my back pocket
1:28.2	as we traveled around Buenos Aires. Quite often you'd see me on a street corner folding out the map to try and
1:33.9	figure out exactly where we were as we were traveling in the Boca or watching
1:37.8	Tango in the square in Santelmo and I find the top ten guides are perfect for this type of trip where we had two or three days to explore the city
1:46.9	So we started with the top 10 recommendations of what to do in Buenos Aires, which included a trip to colonial del Sacramento in Uruguay, just a ferry ride away.
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