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 566. Today the amateur traveler talks about Roman ruins and sand dunes,

veiled women, French colonial architecture, and the Casba.

As we go to Algeria.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. This part of the show

may sound a little different today because I'm recording it from a hotel room

and Whitehorse Yukon at the tail end of a press trip, but we'll talk about that more later on some other show.

But first, let's talk about Algeria.

I'd like to welcome the show Rick Gazarian from Global Gas.com and the

counting countries podcast who's come today to talk to us about Algeria.

Rick welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris.

I appreciate it.

Excited to be on today.

And we'll see how this goes since we've already had to start this twice

because I started introducing you as talking about another country that starts with A because it's so hard to believe you went to Algeria I guess

So why did you go to Algeria? Well a couple of reasons first reason I am trying to go to every country in the world.

Hence the podcast name.

Exactly.

Hence my podcast counting countries.

So the UN states there's 193 countries. I'm at 110 right now. So I was in Europe for a bit and I decided to pick

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