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

in my passport photo

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Amateur Traveler episode 688. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

seafood and beaches and a seafood museum and the world's most expensive waffle house as we go to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen

let's talk about Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

I like to welcome the show Charles McCool from mccool travel.com and Charles has come to

talk to us about coastal Mississippi Charles welcome to the show.

Hi Chris how you you doing today?

I'm doing well and we're talking about the state of Mississippi.

What is your connection with Coastal Mississippi?

As the travel writer I have visited Coastal Mississippi a few times over the past two years and after going there three or four times I decided that I love that area and other parts of the U.S. Golf Coast so much that I developed a new brand called U.S.

Gulf Coast, which covers everything from Key West to South Padre, but we are talking

only about Coastal Mississippi today. So as a travel writer, I covered it several times.

Excellent. And why should someone go to Coastal Mississippi?

Well, we'll talk about many things, but it is unique, a unique destination in the United States. It has the longest continuous beach in the

United States, which I think a lot of people don't know. I love road trips. I travel all

over the world and love driving and there's this sense of

soul fulfillment when I drive on the Mississippi Gulf Coast where it's just

different than anywhere else. You can drive for an hour and not see anything except for the

sand in the water is unobstructed by condos and buildings and restaurants and what have you. So this great piece and

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