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I got my bags packed on a roll.

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.

Looking real good in my passport photo. Looking Real Good. In My Passport Photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 507.

Today the amateur traveler talks about architecture and the Erie Canal.

Beef on aak and Buffalo Wings

as we go to Buffalo, New York. I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not

to the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We'll hear more from our sponsor who is Rover.com,

but first let's talk about Buffalo.

I'd like to welcome back to the show Larissa Mel from Changes in Longitude.com, who's come to talk to us about Buffalo, New York.

Larissa, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Chris, nice to be back.

And before people hang up on us, because they're thinking of the old line from Chorus line about the person who was going to commit suicide in Buffalo, then they realized that was redundant.

You pitched me in Buffalo, New York and said you had an amazingly great time there. Why should someone go to Buffalo?

It's a city that will surprise a lot of people. It certainly surprised us and I think that

probably the best thing to do is just to kind of give you a little bit of background on why it's a city worth visiting not so much for the sites we can certainly get into that later but a little bit of the history as to why it even exists where it does and why it's there.

Buffalo is perched on the eastern end of Lake Erie in the west in Western New York

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