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

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 595.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about German settlers, a zoo, a movie palace, a science museum, Markets, and Ohio State Football as we go to Columbus and Central Ohio.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. This is going to be

the second of five shows in a row on the United States. It's odd the way these

lined up we did a number of shows on remote destination.

And now we're going to be going through a run of shows

on the United States.

And just in time for this to come out on President's weekend

is Ohio, the home for seven different United States presidents.

So let's talk about Ohio.

I'd like to welcome to the show Matthew Caracolo who's coming to talk to us about Columbus, Ohio.

Matthew, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

I started to say you were coming to us from Columbus, Ohio Ohio which I think is also true.

Yes, yes. Okay. And why Columbus? I mean I know Columbus isn't a very obvious

choice for most people.

But I think the two words that come to mind

are variety and value.

There's a surprising variety of things to do,

both within the city and an hour and a half to two hour radius in any

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