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

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 553. Today the amateur traveler talks about

fjords and glaciers, hikes, salmon and bears as we go to the Kenai

Peninsula in Alaska.

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. Without any

further ado, let's talk about Alaska. I'd like to welcome this show Marith Griffith who is a tour guide from the

Seward area of Alaska and has come to talk to us about the Kenai Peninsula in

Alaska. Marith, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

It's very nice to be here.

And I should say that Marith and I have met in person,

although not in Alaska.

We actually met on the recent uncrues that I did in Baja where Marith was one of our exploration leaders and

so you're probably right now if you're in the enhanced version looking at a picture of her

and a kayak so. Merrith, where is the Kenai Peninsula?

First of all, let's put it on a map for people.

If you're picturing Alaska in your head

and you can see the southern coastline just along the Pacific.

Right in the middle of that, you'll have Anchorage.

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