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 635.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about FDR and the Rockefeller's, the CIA,

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and where the phrase Keeping Up with the Joneses comes from.

As we talk about New York's Hudson Valley.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

the Hudson Valley. I'd like to welcome the show Adrian Bain from strangers abroad podcast.com and the

strangers abroad podcast and today we're going to talk about the Hudson Valley

Adrian welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me, Chris.

I'm so excited.

You're welcome.

So a place that you know, probably better than me, but I used to live in also.

Yes, I grew up in the Hudson Valley. I'm now a world traveler, but man the Hudson

Valley is such a phenomenal place to come home to. So that's where I grew up. It consists of 10 counties along the Hudson River and it's this

classic bucolic Americana and there's so much history there. There's so much influence from the

American Revolution all the way to New York City elites and some really interesting art and architecture.

And it's a little gem, you know, it's a little, my dad calls it a fairy tale sometimes because it's really it's so hidden from the world and you wouldn't know that it's there if you didn't explore it and it makes a good amount of what New York actually is.

Most people think, oh, New York, New York City, Empire State Building,

Statue of Liberty, all these things, Broadway, but the island of Manhattan takes up a very small

geographic percentage of the actual state.

So it's great to represent the rest of it.

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