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 796. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about beaches and

boobies, sugar plantations and megaliths, Lord Nelson, and an active volcano. and

Magaliths, Lord Nelson and an active volcano as we go to the nation of Antiga and Barbuda.

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

I'd like to welcome back to the show Jeff Olfs who's come to talk to us about Antigua and Barbuda.

Jeff, welcome back to the show.

Thanks for having me, Chris. I always love chatting with some place in the world with you.

Well, and we have talked about California State Parks, and we have talked about Monterey,

and we have talked about Joshua Tree National Park I wanted to call it National Monument

which I think it was for a while where Jeff we used to be a ranger and why are we

talking about Antigua and Barbuda?

What is your connection with that?

It was one of the islands I had planned before COVID to visit and got kind of cancelled.

And so I had credits so I needed to get them used and it's a beautiful

islands and I'm glad I went there's a lot of nature there as you know I'm very park

centric so strangely enough yes for obvious reasons and why should someone go to

Antigua and Barbuda well there's a lot of nature and history there I'll say right

off the bat they've got the all-inclusive resorts all over the place.

It's a great Caribbean island if you want to get away and just do the all-inclusive and beach

stays and vacations. I'm not that kind of a person, but they say they have

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