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 588. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about beaches, sailboats, and South Pacific culture,

Croakmasur Pan-Oshakalat, and a little bit of France in the South Pacific as we go to New Caledonia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We'll hear more from a

sponsor coming up here but first let's talk about New Caledonia. I'd like to welcome to the show CJ Johnson from the movie land

podcast who's come to talk to us about New Caledonia. CJ welcome the show.

Thank you very much Chris I'm very delighted to be on the show. I enjoy the podcast very much.

Well, and as a fellow podcaster, I appreciate that because you have some idea how much work this takes.

Yeah, I'm lucky enough to do mine through a government arts

organization being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,

the ABC in Australia.

So that makes all the studio stuff and everything very, very

easy. But I do produce my entire show, so I arrange my guests, I do the interviews, I edit it,

and then I pump it out there.

Excellent.

So why are we talking about New Caledonia?

What's your relationship to New Caledonia?

I went there very recently.

I live in Sydney, Australia, and my father is from the island nation of Fiji he grew up in Suva in Fiji and so I've been to

Fiji a bunch of times and together as a father-son combo we know the South Pacific quite well.

We've been to some interesting places in the South Pacific such as Tonga.

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