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 478.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about bazaars and lakes and sacred mountains.

Break out your Atlas because today we head to Kyrgyzstan.

I know that I should be heading home.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. With no further ado, let's talk about

Kyrgyzstan. I'd like to welcome the show Eric Anderson. Eric Anderson is a Peace Corps volunteer in

Kyrgyzstan. You can read more about his travels at Eric and Taylor.com.

Link to that in the show notes. Eric, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

And Eric is coming to us from Kyrgyzstan,

so we have a little bit of a hiss on the line,

but considering that we're going all the way halfway around the world,

it really sounds pretty good.

It's a needed thing for me so I can watch some American sports while I'm living all the way over here.

Well, and before we get into why I should come to Kyrgyzstan, let's talk about why you went to Kyrgyzstan.

Well, my wife and I applied to the Peace Corps a couple of years ago, and the reason went to Kyrgyzstan is because Peace

Corps said, hey, you're going to Kyrgyzstan.

So the process has changed a little bit as a director who you interviewed about a month ago or so mentioned.

So people can kind of choose countries now.

You can also just choose to leave it up to the whim of Peace Corps

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