Amateur Traveler podcast Amateur Traveler podcast The Amateur Traveler Podcast is a travel podcast nad blog for people who love to travel. It focuses on travel stories with a dash of travel news, travel tips and travel resources. Season with humor and serve weekly. 
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Serenity / Firefly Fan Cruise
2007-04-12 07:48:00 Fans (called browncoats) of the cancelled TV series Fire fly have been some of the most rabid fans. They raised enough interest in a show that did not even go one season that the creator of the series was able to create the movie Serenity . Now they are taking this show on the high seas with ... More About: Firefly , Cruise
Hamster Driven Shredder
2007-04-12 05:17:00 Another, “Ar you sure this is not April 1st” invention. Boing boing found this invention that is a shredder that is powered by a hamster. And then the shredded paper lines the bottom of the hamster page. Ingenious or weird? Tags: hamster, shredder More About: Hamster , Drive
Video Episode 14 - Istanbul - St Saviour in Chora
2007-04-11 00:00:00 Visit Istanbul with the Amateur Traveler: The church St Saviour in Chora has some of the best frescos and mosaics from the Byzantine period Song Kyrie Orbis Factor by Lisa Hammer Discussions Comment on this episode click here to download (m4v) Tags: istanbul, turkey, byzantine, More About: Video , Episode , Piso , Hora
TSA Says Giant Pickle Suit is a Security Issue
2007-04-10 00:00:00 P.Dilly of the Podcast Pick le has a giant pickle suit that he uses to promote the Podcast Pickle , his site about podcasts and podcasting. He says that coming back from New York City this week the TSA took his suit. When we arrived hone in Dallas the Pickleman was not in our luggage. I checked with ... More About: Security , Giant , Suit
TSA Says Giant Pickle Suit is a Security Issue
2007-04-09 22:04:00 P.Dilly of the Podcast Pick le has a giant pickle suit that he uses to promote the Podcast Pickle , his site about podcasts and podcasting. He says that coming back from New York City this week the TSA took his suit. When we arrived hone in Dallas the Pickleman was not in our luggage. I checked with ... More About: Security , Giant , Suit
Favorite Beach - The Baths in Virgin Gorda
2007-04-09 00:00:00 by Chris Christensen I was wondering recently what was my favorite beach in the entire world. I thought about the pink beaches of Bermuda, black sand beaches in Hawaii, beaches covered with agates in Oregon, sailing off of Long Beach in southern California, etc. This was going to be hard to choose. I finally decided ... More About: Bath , Virgin , Favorite , Favor
Episode 85 - Burma / Myanmar
2007-04-08 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler talks with Marianne about a recent trip to Burma / Myanmar : visas, Rangoon / Yangon, Shwedagon, Bagan temple complex, Kalaw, Inle Lake, Ngapali beach, trekking, money, customs, language, astrology, internet access News Chicago Sun Times: Best sites for travelers (AmateurTraveler.com makes #4) U.S. passport rules cause spike in demand, delays 357.2 mph French TGV shatters the world ... More About: Episode , Piso
What one will do?
2007-04-07 00:00:00 It was a pleasant town: wide streets opening into a large square then steps leading past the church into another large square. There was the quiet buzz of energy and afluence of a town on the rise. It was in this second square where we spotted a great looking restaurant with window seats available on the second floor...A story about what one will do for a glass of wine. More About: What , Hat , Will
Reign Over Me
2007-04-05 07:59:00 What do you know, Adam Sandler can act. I have never been a big fan of Adam Sandler. I enjoyed him in “50 First Dates” and “The Wedding Singer” but not in some of his other sophomoric roles. So it was a pleasant surprise when my wife and I saw “Reign Over Me” at a ...
Daybreak - Cancelled But Not Gone
2007-04-04 07:40:00 One of the interesting benefits of internet TV is that instead of a very finite schedule a network has to fit all its shows in there is no constraint on how many different shows that it can offer. So ABC, for instances, decided to cancel the show DayBrea k before it aired all of the episodes. ... More About: Cell , Elle , Gone
My Favorite April Fools Joke
2007-04-01 18:24:00 Queensboro Shirt company makes embroidered shirts for companies with logos on them. Today they sent out an email advertising their latest offering which is a deep sea diving suit. I like the fact that the embroidery is free. More About: Joke , April , Fool , Favorite , Favor
Call Recorder
2007-03-27 21:08:00 I have a podcast that includes an interview almost every week. None of those interviews have been done face to face and some of them have not even been done from the same continent as the interviewee since my show is a travel show. I record all of my interviews using Skype. Sometimes I am ... More About: Call , Record , Order , Recorder , Corder
Monolingual
2007-03-27 07:38:00 Have you heard the old joke? When a person speaks two languages we call them bilingual, when they only speak one language what do you call them? American. Now that joke may not apply to you but odds are that you don’t speak as many languages as your Macintosh. And if you don’t happen ... More About: Mono
Mouse ?robs? cash machine
2007-03-26 23:08:00 Dave Barry’s blog found this story: A mouse munched its way through thousands of pounds of cash after climbing inside a cash machine in Estonia. The animal was found in the machine after a customer withdrew some money and got partly-eaten banknotes outside the bank in the capital Tallinn. Bank security experts are investigating how the mouse managed ... More About: Mac , Machine , Chine , Cash , Mouse
Third Stargate series title announced
2007-03-25 07:42:00 “The working title of the third Star gate television series has been unveiled! The series currently exists in the form of a one-page treatment of the story and characters, with the title Stargate Universe, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told Gate World exclusively.” Will 3 Stargate titles be one to many? With the original series winding down (or ... More About: Series , Title
Twittervision - People I don?t know telling me things I don?t care about
2007-03-23 19:40:00 One of the latest rages on the web is twitter. Twit ter lets people answer the question of what they are doing right now. I can see my daughter and her friends using this and there is certainly a buzz around this in tech circles that is probably similar to how crack hit the streets. Now ... More About: People , Care , About , Twitter
Edge Brownie Pan
2007-03-22 17:10:00 Are you one of those people (like me) who prefers the edge brownies to the soft ones from the center of the pan? If so Boing Boing found a brownie pan with nothing but edges: The Baker’s Edge brownie pan is a labyrinthine trough running through a rectangular pan. The topology means that every brownie cut ... More About: Brown , Brownie
MIT Gets Nerdy
2007-03-19 04:27:00 MIT announced to the high school seniors who applied for admission who was accepted on March 14 at 1:59pm. Why? Because the time would then be 3.14159, the value of pi. If you don’t find the humor, then perhaps another school would be a better fit. More About: Nerd , Gets , Nerdy
Google?s PigeonRanking
2007-03-12 06:06:00 There has been a lot of speculation from outside Google as to how the system works. Since Google ranking can be so important to a web site it is worth understanding how the system works to better know how to utilize it. Google has this helpful page on its website that explains how they use ... More About: Rank , Pigeon , King , Ranking
Man robs underwear stores believing he was a female elf
2007-03-08 17:31:00 Man accused of robbing underwear shops claims that he thought he was a magic female elf. Fails to level up. Insert video gaming joke here. read more | digg story More About: Female , Store , Stor , Male , Underwear
Hindu and Muslim extremists burn Valentine cards
2007-02-15 17:11:00 John Dvorak’s block had this story: As a Valentine ?s Day card smoldered, more than 100 members of the Hindu extremist group Shiv Sena chanted ?Death to Valentine?s Day? and ?People who celebrate Valentine?s Day should be pelted with shoes!? Valentine?s Day has in the past two decades made strong inroads in India as the country has slowly ... More About: Card , Muslim , Extremist , Mist
Trash into Energy
2007-02-08 17:59:00 Now here is a cool trick. SciFi.com caught this story about a cool experiment at Purdue: Working on two problems at once, Purdue University researchers are building a prototype generator that would create useful energy by munching up all sorts of garbage. Dubbed the tactical biorefinery, it has soldiers’ needs in mind. They can tote this ... More About: Energy , Trash
Amateur Traveler on iTunes
2007-02-07 07:59:00 One of my podcasts, the Amateur Travel er, is being promoted on the iTunes podcast page this week. More About: Itunes , Rave , Itune
Woman with bionic arm regains sense of touch
2007-02-03 01:17:00 In the coolest news I have heard out of the medical community is this story from the Telegraph: A woman fitted with the world’s first “bionic arm” controlled by thought alone has been given back a sense of feeling. The bionic arm: Click to enlarge Claudia Mitchell, 26, a former US marine, regained the ability to carry out ... More About: Sense , With , Woman , Oman , Touch
Mini RFID Billboards
2007-01-30 18:33:00 When a new billboard in San Francisco scrolls the message “Motor On Vera!'’ it’s a good bet that someone named Vera is driving her Mini Cooper at that moment. Or that her car is nicknamed Vera. A billboard using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology started “talking'’ Monday. In a new twist on tech-savvy marketing, the board flashes ... More About: Board , Billboards , Bill , Billboard
Episode 80 - Mountain Gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda
0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler talks to Chris Willis about traveling to Uganda and Rwanda to see the very endangered mountain gorillas. Chris also talks about the countries, their people and an unforgettable stay in a chimpanzee sanctuary. News U.K.’s new tax increase means unfriendlier skies ‘God’ mistakenly bleeped out of in-flight showings of ‘The Queen’ Show Notes Chris’s photo gallery Episode ... More About: Gorillas , Piso
Video Episode 12 - Gilroy Garlic Festival
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Visit the Gilroy Garlic Festival with the Amateur Traveler: the music, the crafts, flaming garlic dishes, belly dancing, cooking classes and garlic ice cream Discussions Comment on this episode click here to download (m4v) More About: Video , Episode , Piso
Episode 81 - Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown
0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler talks to Julie of the Washington Travelcast about the historic sites of Jamestown, Will iamsburg, York town. Learn more about these locations that help define the american experience. The first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, the capital of colonial Virginia at Williamsburg and the site of the final American victory in the Revolutionary war ... More About: Episode , Piso , Town
Video Episode 13 - Hollywood
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Visit Holly wood with the Amateur Traveler: Mann’s Chinese theatre, Hollywood & Vine, The Grove & Farmer’s Market and Hollywood Forever Memorial Park Discussions Comment on this episode click here to download (m4v) More About: Video , Episode , Wood
Episode 82 - Turkey, Asia
More articles from this author:0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler goes to Turk ey : Gaziantep, Urfa, Izmir, Ephesus, Pamukkale, and Hieropolis. This is the first of two episodes on Turkey and deals with the visit to Eastern Turkey and the Aegean coast. This episode deals with learning Turkish, Turkish food, Roman mosaics, Greek ruins, markets, hospitality and driving. News Chris gets his voice back Contest Winner ... More About: Asia , Episode , Piso 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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