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 episode 584. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about churches and castles

bison, Marsrutkas, Lee Harvey Oswald at an immigrant mouse as we go to Belarus.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We've got two

sponsors we'll hear from a little later but first let's talk about Belarus.

I'd like to welcome to the show Megan Starr from Meganstar.com who's come to talk to us

about Belarus. Megan welcome to the show.

Thank you. I'm very happy to be here.

Now you don't sound like you were a Belarusian, if that is the correct way to say it.

So, yes.

Why are we talking about Belarus?

What's your connection to Belarus? It's actually quite interesting.

I'd always wanted to go there.

I saw this movie as a kid called Fival Goes West

and also an American Tale.

And they used to sing about, it was a bunch also an American tail. Yep.

And they used to sing about, it was a bunch of mice, which I'm absolutely terrified of

rodent, so I don't know why I was entertained by this.

And they were singing about immigrating to the United States because we had no cats and they were coming from Minsk.

So at some point in my life I decided, well I think I want to go to Minsk one day. And I eventually, it was about 2012,

I got a visa for Belarus and everything kind of fell through

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