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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#472 - Travel to Atlanta, Georgia

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Hear about travel to Atlanta, Georgia as the Amateur Traveler talks to return guest Chris Willis about his hometown. Chris has been on the show talking about distant and exotic places but this time we talk about the land of Margret Mitchell and Coca-Cola. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:08.6

in my passport photo.

0:11.5

Amateur Traveler, episode 472. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Stone Mountain, the

0:18.0

Chattahoochy, Margaret Mitchell, and Coca-Cola as we go to Atlanta, Georgia.

0:25.0

I know that I should be heading home,

0:29.0

but maybe not, maybe not today.

0:32.0

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler, I'm your host Chris Christensen. We have a new sponsor

0:36.4

that I'll introduce in a bit, but first let's talk about Atlanta.

0:40.0

I'd like to welcome back to the show Chris Willis who's coming to us from

0:45.5

Atlanta, Georgia and come to talk to us this time about Atlanta Georgia.

0:50.1

Chris, welcome back to the show.

0:51.3

Thanks, Chris, it's a real pleasure to be on the show again.

0:54.7

And I say welcome back and if you haven't recognized Chris's voice or his name by now,

1:00.1

Chris has done some of, in my mind, the best episodes of the amateur traveler, including going to

1:05.1

Tanga and swimming with Wales and Ethiopian stone churches and filming and photographing

1:11.6

penguins in Antarctica and wild horses in Mongolia,

1:15.0

but today we're talking about a much more exotic destination.

1:19.0

He's going Atlanta.

1:20.0

That's right, it's my hometown and it has been since 1999. You were saying before we started recording a lot of people just know Atlanta as an airport to pass through. Why should someone get out of the airport and go see Atlanta?

1:31.0

Well, there's just a lot of things to draw your attention in Atlanta

1:36.8

and it appeals to a wide variety of tastes.

1:40.4

So Atlanta has a very interesting history that's very bound up with the Civil War of course.

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