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

in my passport photo.

Hey amateur traveler episode 576.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about volcanoes and sea stacks, Native Americans, and wineries, Mountain lakes and tulip fields as we go to Washington State.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. At the end of the show

we're going to be talking a little bit about upcoming amateur traveler trips,

not just the India trip in 2017, but Eastern Europe in 2018, and Peru in 2019.

Stay tuned for that, but first let's talk to a pair of National Geographic authors about Washington State.

I'd like to welcome the show Mike and Anne Howard from Honey Trek.com who have come to

talk to us about Washington State.

Mike and Ann, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having us.

It's great to be here.

So why Washington State?

You pitched me a state that is not your home state nor where you're living to the extent that you're

living in one place at all right now.

So what is the attraction with Washington State?

Well, we've been nomadic for six years now and when traveling around the world when we

reached Washington State we're like this feels like home. It sort of had that

feeling we are we are not from there but when a really captures you, when you don't have any

familial ties, but just it's a feeling, that's the way you feel in Washington State, and it's

diversity as well if you want to talk about that, like.

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