Amateur Traveler episode 78 today the amateur traveler goes to the city of

Brotherly Love and the home of the cheesecake Philadelphia.

I got my bags packed on a roll.

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.

Looking real good in my passport photo.

Oh no.

15 hour flight. Oh, I don't think I'll ever be coming home you know I love it

I got to see one more cathedral

to sit in one more cafe

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not maybe not today Maybe not so the day.

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In the second story, a relic of the Cold War, a North Dakota nuclear silo may reopen as a museum.

As an article from USA Today Travel, that the State Historical Society of North Dakota is facing a one-year deadline and a fundraising

challenge.

By December 31st, 2007, they're trying to raise $1 million to turn a Minutemen

silo into a museum and to operate it on a

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