Amateur Traveler episode 79. Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Ethiopia.

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

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.

I got to sit in one more cafe. I know that I should be heading home

maybe not maybe not to the day

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

I have two travel stories for you today. The first one is an article from National Geographic

Traveler and I'll put links to both stories on the show notes, Amateur Traveler.com. The first one is called

51 ways to cut vacation costs and it goes through a number

of different things that you can do to save monies from simple things like

joining AAA and taking some advantage of some of their discounts to more subtle things like

clearing your cookies from your browser because you'll get a get different

rate when you go back to some sites based on what you have bought before. So check out that

article and see what you think of those suggestions. National Geographic Traveler is one of my favorite

travel magazines and I'm sure it's only

coincidental that they mentioned the podcast last year. In the second news story

Dave Berry is always been one of my favorite comedy writers. He has not necessarily been one of my favorite travel writers because he doesn't generally write about travel, but he did write a review of a recent trip to St Bartz that you might find interesting if you're heading to that island nation.

It's titled, If you can Tip $17,000, this is the island for you.

So take a look at that link and the show notes at amateur traveler.com.

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