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.

The amateur traveler, this is the second live episode of the amateur traveler.

Thank you for tuning in.

This is going to be a very different episode today.

And so if you have never listened to an episode of the Amateur Traveler, I would encourage you not to listen to this

episode or at least not as your first episode, as this is not typical.

This episode was recorded using talkshoe.com.

The sound qualities not quite as good and it was recorded as a live show answering questions from an audience.

Audience that was on the internet, so not an in-person live show.

I don't quite know the right terminology for that.

Next week we'll get back to our more standard polished affair. It will be an episode on

Croatia. A little bit off the beaten path in Croatia with a travel writer Amanda

Castleman, so stay tuned for that next week

but for now here's the second live show from the amateur traveler.

Recorded live.

Welcome to the second live episode of the amateur traveler.

The live episodes are always interesting for me because it's a little bit like going without a net.

For those of you who haven't seen the episode I did, a video episode on my personal blog,

which is Chris 2X.com.

I did a 15 minutes making of the amateur traveler recently and you can see that when I normally

do the show it's very controlled.

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