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Amateur Traveler episode 582.

Today the amateur traveler talks about food trucks and stuffies, sailing, Roger Williams, and

Water Fire as we go to Providence, Rhode Island. 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.

We'll talk more about our sponsor in just a few minutes, but first let's talk about Providence.

I'd like to welcome the show to Mara Gruber from We3 Travel.com and the Vacation Mayven's

podcast who's come to talk to us about Providence, Rhode Island.

Tamara, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Well I say Rhode Island, that's not the full name of the state.

Let's just do a little bit of trivia before we go.

We're talking about what city?

We're talking about Providence.

The full name of the state is the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, as I recall.

Exactly. We had to vote on that like a couple of years ago.

Did you really?

Not to shorten it, and they kept it.

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