Embarcadero - San Francisco - Amateur Traveler Video Episode 44

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Visit San Francisco's Embarcadero with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the ferry building at San Francisco's embarcadero. The ferry building was built in 1898 and survived the 1906 earthquake. In the early 1900s the pedestrian plaza outside of the ferry building was one of the busiest pedestrian areas in the world but the opening of the bay bridge caused the area to fall into disuse. The embaradero freeway cut off this area from downtown which increased its isolation. After the 1989 Loma Prieda earthquake the embaradero freeway was condemned and torn down. Since then the area has been rejuvenated. Now it is the home for restaurants and high end food stores and hosts a farmers market and arts and crafts fair.

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http://budurl.com/xxby - Embarcadero - San Francisco - Amateur Traveler Video Episode 44

Travel to Scotland - Amateur Traveler Episode 166 - http://budurl.com/dpuu

Travel to Scotland - Amateur Traveler Episode 166

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Eden (an ambassador for Macallan Whiskey) about his home country of Scotland. Eden lays out a tour for Amateur Traveler listeners that starts in Edinburgh with its castle, royal mile and pubs and continues up to Saint Andrews (the home of golf) and the castles of Perthshire. We make sure to stop on the Whiskey trail of Speyside before continuing to the rugged countryside of the highlands. We also talk about special events, famous scotsmen and hagis.

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Traveling to Acadia National Park in Maine - Amateur Traveler Episode 165 - http://budurl.com/yjrx

Traveling to Acadia National Park in Maine - Amateur Traveler Episode 165

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Margot about Acadia National Park in Maine. Margot has been going to Acadia since she was a little girl to hike, bike, kayak, and connect with the beauty of this beautiful area. She talks about the sights, the seafood, the Maine people and why you should not go blueberry picking with her grandfather.

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Friday morning and done with tomorrow's Amateur Traveler on Acadia National Park in Maine... one more week that I have not podfaded

Travel to Zanzibar in Tanzania - Amateur Traveler #164 - http://AmateurTraveler.com/2008/12/13/travel-to-zanzibar-in-tanzania-episode/

Travel to Zanzibar in Tanzania - Amateur Traveler Episode 164

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Tadzio about his trip to Zanzibar in Tanzania, off the east coast of Africa. Tadzio worked as a ranger on Chumbe then toured Stonetown, the northern beaches, the Jozani forest, and Pemba. Hear about the food, the people, the snorkeling, the swimming, the beaches and the history of this tropical island paradise.

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http://budurl.com/3kwc - The Amateur Traveler talks to Zora O’Neil who is one of the co-authors of the Rough Guide in the Yucatan

Travel to the Yucatan Penninsula of Mexico - Amateur Traveler Episode 163

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Zora O’Neil who is one of the co-authors of the Rough Guide in the Yucatan guide book. Zora talks about this very beautiful, very tropical and very isolated part of Mexico. Learn about the beach communities (Riviera Maya - Cancun, Talum, Playa del Carmen; Costa Maya - Majahual, Xcalak; Isla Holbox), getting around, the food (Xni Pec, Achiote), the colonial cities (Merida) and the Mayan ruins (the Ruta Puc, Uxmal, Calakmul).

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I would encourage everyone to support the travel bloggers behind passports with purpose - http://budurl.com/cgwb

feeling nostalgic for Acadia National Park in Maine (honeymooned there) after an interview for Amateur Traveler, show will come out Dec 20th

7 Reasons Why Paris Is Better Than Disneyland

Even in this economic downturn families will take their kids in droves to Disneyland and Walt Disney World in this coming year. I am a fan of Mickey Mouse (Amateur Traveler Episode 25 - Disneyland - why I learned to love the mouse) but I want to propose that there are reasons also to take the kids to Europe when they are still young. To make the point I want to point out 7 ways that Paris France is better than Disneyland...

read 7 Reasons Why Paris Is Better Than Disneyland

from the Amateur Traveler travel podcast

signing up for the new Blogger and Podcasters Media network http://budurl.com/8r54

Just finished an interview about Zanzibar for the Amateur Traveler, scheduled to release on Dec 13th

Getting other things done avoiding learning to program iPhone applications. Nothing quite focuses you like procrastination.

Travel to Slovenia with guest Shel Holtz (@shel) - Amateur Traveler Episode 162 - http://budurl.com/q3vl

Travel to Slovenia - Amateur Traveler Episode 162

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Shel Holtz (from the For Immediate Release podcast) about his trip to Slovenia. Here about the food, the wine, the lake and the cake as Shel describes his visit to the capital of Ljubjana, the caves at Postojna, Portoroz castle and Lake Bled. Slovenia is one of Europe’s best kept secrets.

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Bodie, California - Ghost Town - Amateur Traveler Video Episode 42 - http://budurl.com/945p

Bodie, California - Ghost Town - Amateur Traveler Video Episode 42

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Visit Bodie, California with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the old gold mining ghost town of Bodie. Bodie was founded in 1861 and largely abandoned by 1932. The town is kept in a state of arrested decay. It is not restored nor is it allowed to continue to disintegrate.

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brownies out of the oven (will later get mint and chocolate topping), pumpkin pie in the oven, starting the lemon, then after that apple pie

Spent the day changing my http://tripinator.com blog into http://blog.amateurtraveler.com with a new custom theme, more simple and fast

Spent the day changing my http://tripinator blog into http://blogs.amateurtraveler.com with a new custom theme, more simple and fast

Putting way too many things on my list of things to do with my week off

Any recommendations for podcast transcription services?

Anyone in the south San Francisco Bay area interested in forming an internet marketing mastermind group?

Writing out a recipe for my niece for my mom's thumbprint cookies - "fill depression with chocolate" - a rule I live by :-)

My son the film major is looking for an internship, any ideas? Either Spring or Summer, Spring would be in SoCal, Summer in SF bay area

On vacation for 9 days :-) / no probably not going anywhere :-(

Downloading a podcast directly to my iPhone with 2.2 software. Cool. About time.

I finished this week's Amateur Traveler on Transylvania this morning, how nice to have a Friday night off

Today is "World Hello Day"... hello

Travel to Mexico or Guatemala for free as part of a study on Montezuma's revenge - http://budurl.com/j8j6

Someone stole this car magnet from my car, http://budurl.com/kpgz I guess they really wanted the URL for the Amateur Traveler

Created a media kit for the Amateur Traveler, let me know what you think - http://budurl.com/vtcg

PC Magazine is folding. Have not read it in years but helped put a product on the cover in 1991 (Momenta M1 pentop computer)

Editing this week's Amateur Traveler on Transylvania

Waiting for a plumber to fix a broken pipe, apparent Rotto Router managed to write down both the wrong address and phone, not auspicious

Recorded an episode of Amateur Traveler with Zora O'Neil, co-author of the Rough Guide to Cancun, for publication Dec 6th

Just RSVPed for my 30 year class reunion - http://budurl.com/eqlt

Win a Trip to South America from a contest on Wanderlust and Lipstick - http://budurl.com/vgrk

Mostly done with my Christmas shopping :-)

I just learned I am going flying tomorrow around the bay area in a small plane, cool. Video will follow.

Traveling to India as a Woman - Amateur Traveler Episode 160

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Beth Whitman, author of Wanderlust and Lipstick for Women Traveling to India, about the joys and challenges of traveling to India, especially solo travel as a woman. Learn what iconic image Beth has in her house, how she can go to the sub-continent with only the clothes on her back and how to fall in love with India.

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Traveling to India as a Woman - Episode 160 - http://amateurtraveler.com/2008/11/15/india-as-a-woman-episode-160/

Outputing this week's Amateur Traveler on traveling to India as a woman, always a relief to have put off podfading one more week

Amateur Traveler has been nominated for an award at Divine Caroline, please vote for it - http://budurl.com/h6pw

happy National American Teddy Bear Day

in Salinas (home town) to see one of my mom's many cousins in town. I have 42 first cousins but she has more.

OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7 according to the Onion - http://budurl.com/dslf :-)

Aniakchak National Monument - You Will Probably Never See It - Monument Monday - http://budurl.com/l8ut

Costa Rica Rain Forrest - Amateur Traveler Video Episode 41 - http://budurl.com/nv9f

Costa Rica Rain Forrest - Amateur Traveler Video Episode 41 - http://budurl.com/nv9f

In the pre-show for the Podcast Awards (with no expectation that I will win) http://www.podcastawards.com/

Wish I had time to get to Corte Madera tonight to hear Vagabonding author Rolf Potts speak http://budurl.com/agw8

San Francisco, California - Amateur Traveler Episode 159

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Richard Miller of the SparkleTack podcast (about San Francisco history) about San Francisco. Richard guides us in a driving/walking tour from west to east. We start at lands end and end up near fisherman's wharf while talking about the sites and history of many of the places in between. This is a great companion episode with the 2 part soundseeing walking tour of San Francisco.

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San Francisco, California - Amateur Traveler Episode 159 - http://budurl.com/29tn

Just had lunch with a friend from 3rd grade though high school that I had not seen in 19 years (Mary Lou), what a cool thing facebook can be

Picture of Myself - Photo Friday - http://budurl.com/x65s

New logo idea for the Amateur Traveler podcast - http://budurl.com/dugy, what do you think? Too similar? Too different?

Last day to vote for your favorite podcasts at http://PodcastAwards.com (don't forget the Amateur Traveler)

My prediction is that we will know Obama is president by the time the polls close in California at 8pm PT.

Glued to CNN, this is the part of the campaign that I find facinating

Just think, tomorrow at this time... we start the 2012 presidential campaign

It is "National Use Your Common Sense Day", seems like a good thing to use on election day (Also "National Chicken Lady Day", say what?)

Seems to have been some problem with the iTunes version of Amateur Traveler #158 on Zimbabwe this weekend, re-download now to get the fix

Lower Antelope (Slot) Canyon - Monument Monday - http://budurl.com/gnl4

Travel News - Germany Rejects Scanners, UNESCO list grows, Travel Trends, United door to door luggage delivery, etc - http://budurl.com/prym

Only a few more days to vote (every day) for your favorite podcasts (like the Amateur Traveler) for a podcast award - http://budurl.com/ddtp

Finished listening to the "12 Byzantine Rulers" podcast series (17 parts), a must hear for all history buffs - http://budurl.com/gev2

My wife just read that there are fewer heart attacks this week that we change the clocks back and more in the Spring when we turn them ahead

Amateur Traveler Episode 158 - Zimbabwe - Alex Lindsay (@alexlindsay) talks about his love for this African nation - http://budurl.com/wtmh

@soultravelers3 I grew up near Pacific Grove in Salinas, who says foggy is "bad" weather :-)

Zimbabwe - Amateur Traveler Episode 158

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Alex Lindsay about his adventures in Zimbabwe. Alex has been traveling to Zimbabwe twice a year for a number of years where he has built friendships with the people there including some notable artists and musicians. Alex talks about the struggles of life in Zimbabwe and the beauty of the country and the people.

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We woke up in a beautiful inn in (a somewhat damp) Pacific Grove to the smell of breakfast. We talk of retiring to this lovely town.

Celebrating an early 27th anniversary this weekend in Monterey

Finished the main edit on this week's Amateur Traveler with Alex Lindsay @alexlindsay on Zimbabwe, just need to add the ending and pictures

Ghost Town - Bodie, CA - Photo Friday - http://budurl.com/8akg

celebrating National Knock Knock Jokes Day... orange you glad I didn't say banana?

The Bible Study Podcast - Episode 90- Hebrews 2 - http://budurl.com/wvql

at Logan airport getting ready to fly home to SFO via Las Vegas

Back in Boston to meet with another agency.

Today is "Crank Co-Workers Day" or in other words... "Monday"

Sorry, I should have said who is interested in meeting up Tuesday night and maybe late Monday night in Boston.

Any Amateur Traveler listeners who live around Boston want to do a meetup on Wednesday night (or later Tuesday)?

Travel News - Drunk Pilots, Smiling Parisians, Amtrak Discounts, Iceland for Sale on eBay http://budurl.com/yh2e

Still trying to wrap my head around 5 infielders and the Phillies winning game 3 on an infield hit anyway

Oh for a virtual assistant. I am changing the Amateur Traveler website to point all the episodes to libsyn and to add an audio player.

Seoul, South Korea - Amateur Traveler Episode 157

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Rachel about Seoul, South Korea. Rachel is a college student from Hong Kong who studied in Seoul for the Summer. She talks about historic palaces, museums, customs and shopping in this city that she describes as a "kaleidoscope."

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Seoul, South Korea - Amateur Traveler #157 http://budurl.com/pb8u - Rachel is a college student from Hong Kong who studied in Seoul for ...

Last Chance Harvey Movie Trailer (Dustin Hoffman & Emma Thompson) http://budurl.com/7s4j - we saw part of this being filmed in London

Giggling in Granada - Photo Friday http://budurl.com/6xf2

Another good source of travel blogs is Guy Kawasaki's (@guykawasaki) alltop listhttp://budurl.com/3pmf which has some of my favorites

My suggestions for other shows that deserve your vote for a podcast award http://budurl.com/puyw

A couple people have asked about what travel bloggers to follow on twitter, t-list os a good start http://budurl.com/wv5s

Thanks to the San Jose Sharks for scoring >= 4 goals on Saturday which bought me a free pizza for lunch today

Thanks to listener Wes who sent me this article to explain why the dollar is rising http://budurl.com/sr5m

Enjoying new Marketing Over Coffee podcast http://budurl.com/m8rm - Seth Godin talking about his latest book Tribes http://budurl.com/46er

The Bible Study Podcast starts a study on Hebrews this week http://budurl.com/qphw

Just hearing about the Book Group Expo which is this weekend in San Jose on the Reduced Shakespeare Company podcast - http://budurl.com/eann

Today is Make a Difference Day (celebrate by voting for the Amateur Traveler at http://podcastwards.com, it would make a difference for me)

at SFO to pick up Joan

Today is International Stuttering Awareness Day, because I edit a podcast every week I am very aware that most of us stutter to some degree

Only bright side of getting a parking ticket while volunteering last night at Juvenile Hall, can pay online http://budurl.com/4hlq

Listening to Jumping Monkeys talk about shared parenting. In my house the way things work: http://budurl.com/6tpw

Great tribute video from Funny or Die - In a World Without Don LaFontaine - The Voice-over King http://budurl.com/lj3x

Thanks to the crew of Buzz Out Loud for the nice plug for Amateur Traveler (http://AmateurTraveler.com) today!

Travel News - TSA Targets The Anxious, Ryanair Not Content to Be Hated just in Great Britain http://budurl.com/jjcy

Blogger Outreach - Do Your Homework http://budurl.com/a7uy

58 per cent of people forget their best ideas by failing to write them down immediately http://budurl.com/5ml4

With Fashion columnist Mr Blackwell's death we get to find out what he would be caught dead in

My son Mike pointed out this strange robbery story involving Craig's list, sounds like a movie plot http://budurl.com/yywg

Trying out http://budurl.com/elvc which Paul Colligan mentioned on "This Week in Internet Marketing", like tinyurl but with tracking

My goal today is to be caught up on email... at least for one brief shining moment

4 blog posts written and next week's Amateur Traveler on Seoul is started, time for bed.

Thanks to everyone who nominated the Amateur Traveler for a podcast award, don't forget to vote for your favorites. http://ping.fm/NlDtn

Puerto Vallarta - Amateur Traveler Episode 156

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Robin Noelle (author of next year’s edition of the Moon Guidebook for Puerto Vallarta) about Puerto Vallarta. Robin talks about the beach, the food, the jungle and 12 foot wide Manta rays.

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Managed to interview Shel Holtz (@shel) about Slovenia for Amateur Traveler. Fun. Now I think I will take a few weeks off from interviews.

Heading to the San Jose Sharks game with the RPI alumni group

Interview with Shel Holtz (@shel) postponed as he has no audio on his computer after a restart.

h n! The "" key n my laptp keybard des nt seem t be wrking right. As if I were nt already a bad enugh typist.

pricing car sterios with iPod jacks for Joan's birthday (yes she knows), next step in the plan of getting her to listen to podcasts

What a beautiful day to visit San Francisco

Off to San Francisco to shoot video. This is an experiment to see if I have one more podcast in me on travel tech, gadgets, and gear

Finished the main audio edit of this week's Amateur Traveler on Puerto Vallarta with next year's author of the Moon Handbook

That should have read "use on Dec 14, 1960", which yes was my birthday

Just noticed my certificate for Free Disney admission on my birthday (http://ping.fm/oMnQt) says us on Dec 14, 1960!

Time to pause editing an Amateur Traveler episode on Puerto Vallarta and go to sleep

Looks like I am heading back to Boston the week after next

Just did an interview for Amateur Traveler on Transylvania that won't come out until November 22nd, never been this far ahead

Sorry to hear about the layoffs at Jive (http://ping.fm/Th6Kf). Best of luck to Bill, Matt, et al.

I have tabnesia today, as in "why did I open that browser tab again"?

Today is National Boss/Employee Exchange Day... ok what will you give me for my boss Peter Friedman (worked for him for 16 years)?

I think my wife may shoot me, I am thinking of starting an additional podcast, a video show on travel tech. Is it time for an intervention?

And my parting comment for the evening: as a Giant's fan let me say "Go Phillies!"

Just back from Geek Brief meetup, nice meeting everybody

Interviewing Richard Miller from Sparkletack podcast about San Francisco

Funny queensboro.com (http://www.queensboro.com/index.html?ref_id=539758) where I buy my custom embroidered shirts is having a 14.92% off sale today

Colorado - Episode 155

Colorado at Amateur Traveler

The Amateur Traveler talks to Brad Hugg soon to be the host of the Colorado Podcast about his state. He talks about the citieson teh frontal range and gives us a great circle route that takes in 14ers (peaks over 14 thousand feet), huge sand dunes, buttes, Mesa Verde, and the ski resorts near the continental divide.

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I was amused by this one that co-worker/friend @dland sent me: http://ping.fm/hFMwd

lunch at Chipotle then more work in the libsyn migration - putting in ad slots, changing links to media on my blog, etc

Both Columbus Day and International Moment of Frustration Scream Day as in "What the @$%^&*! This isn't India!"

Getting ready for church http://ping.fm/NPrir You all are welcome. (I'll be at the contemporary one. I prefer drums and guitars to organ.)

It's moving day as the Amateur Traveler goes to libsyn.com. So long Mevio and thanks for all the fish!

Georgia Travel News (including a plug for my recent show on Amateur Traveler) - http://ping.fm/bS3e1

Warren Buffet interview is a must watch http://ping.fm/w3X2c

OK, I have done the research and am ready to throw my support behind a candidate for president http://ping.fm/JgjZn

Rescheduled the interview until tomorrow because of a client emergency, as long is it is not my client emergency I can deal with that :-)

About to interview Shel Holtz of FIR (@shel) about Solvenia for the Amateur Traveler

Wearing Podcaster t-shirt http://ping.fm/gawUU love it when asked "what kind of podcast?" not "what's a podcast?"

Connected with Alex Lindsay (@alexlindsay) after all. I knew he would be a good guest after we first talked about Zimbabwe in Jan 2007. :-)

I was trying SpanningSync but it seems to have munged my contacts, creating duplicates and contact fragments. Uninstalling it.

Funniest part of Amateur Traveler interview on Seoul, just for my Wisconsin listeners, cosmetics made from cheese

Starting an interview on Seoul Korea for Amateur Traveler (for Oct 25)

Two Amateur Traveler interviews today: Seoul Korea and Alex Lindsay (@alexlindsay) on Zimbabwe

Stayed up late editing an episode on the Amateur Traveler about Colorado, time for bed... past time for bed

Immersive Travel in the USA - Amateur Traveler Episode 154

Episode 154 at Amateur Traveler

The Amateur Traveler talks to author Sheryl Kayne about her new book Immersion Travel USA. She talks about volunteer travel, educational travel and other immersive experiences from experiencing zero G to quilting, from climbing frozen waterfalls to counting right whales.

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And if you are afraid we won't reduce those disasters be of god cheer as today is also "National Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day"

Today is the "International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction" so remember, friends don't let friends start earthquakes.

Wow it's dark. So much for daylight savings time. What did we do, invest all that daylight at Lehman Brothers?

My wife's niece won't come live with us because the Angel's lost last night. One way to make a decision. Darn Angels.

Listening to net@nite live while I wade through email

Catching up on email, etc after 5 days off. Reverse culture shock coming back to Silicon Valley after being in the poorer parts of Tijuana

off to Mexico until Sunday

at Little Italy in San Diego

Passing San Juan Capistrano on the way to dinner in San Diego before we get to Tijuana

In my video on a tour of the Panama Canal I did part in fast forward to make it more interesting http://ping.fm/dWTkj

I loved this story about a 747 turned into a hostel in Sweden http://ping.fm/WbOAJ

DirecTV Tivo refused to record American League game, I guess the obscenity which is the D.H. clashed with the parental filters ;-)

I was confused at first why I had an episode of The Bible Study Podcast ready for tomorrow. Oops, was supposed to go out last week!

Packing for my trip to Mexico (working with church group and Esperanza http://ping.fm/K3JBJ), hear more about a previous trip http://ping.fm/mJaTg

Wild swimming pool design... hangs off the end of the building... http://ping.fm/0dyEo

It is World Diary Week and Banned Books Week... so hide write in your diary but hide it

Exporting this week's episode of the Amateur Traveler on Immersion Travel in the USA http://ping.fm/sjkYn

Did an interview on Colorado for the Amateur Traveler on October 4th

Finished the edit of this week's Amateur Traveler, although doing audio editing is more difficult when you are moved to tears. Saturday.

I am looking for ideas on how to make the weekly Amateur Traveler newsletter more useful, interesting

Craig from Indie Travel Podcast is looking for people wanting to help write an eBook about Europe http://ping.fm/dmCu5

Reading Vagabonding http://ping.fm/huSWC

OK, am I the only one who did not know where the Faroe Islands were? http://ping.fm/uyEbU

Faroe Islands - Amateur Traveler Episode 153

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The Amateur Traveler talkes to Russell about the Faroe islands. The Faroes were named by the National Geographic Traveler as one of the best island destination. Learn about this small rugged green island in the North Atlantic.

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Going to the Giants game tonight, I think it is cool that J.T.Snow will be given a chance to "play" so he can retire as a Giant.

I would have gotten out the Amateur Traveler much faster today if catching up on Heroes had not been a higher priority :-)

Sitting at Logan Airport getting ready to fly home. Still somewhat damp.

Drying out in a Starbucks on Newbury street waiting for my friend I am meeting for lunch

Looks like I could get home one hour earlier (11pm instead of midnight) by flying standby (probably in a middle seat)... probably not

I was planning on shooting some Boston videos today but it is a rainy day

It's National Singles Week and National Tolkien Week... not that we are trying to imply if you spend to much time talking about orcs...

I just noticed it is National One Hit Wonder Day, so raise a glass to the Oneders!

Walking through Quincy Market listening to the Travel Commons Podcast

walking around Boston in the dark listening to Marketing Over Coffee seems appropriate

quick trip to Newton to see former co-worker Bernie Bernstein at tripadvisor.com

Our sales meeting went very well, I loved when we demo LiveBar. Running off to Digitas. If I am very lucky there will be food sometime

On the T in Boston heading to a meeting with a potential customer, hope it goes as well as yesterday's meetings.

heading to dinner... finally... with Peter and my Boston engineers. Lunch was a bag of chips.

Found my EVDO... whew... at Beam interactive agency in Boston.

Ugh i think I left my EVDO card in the hotel, that would mean I will spent the day in internet withdrawal

Georgia - Amateur Traveler Episode 152

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Kim Hatcher from Georgia’s State Park System about places to see in her home state. Learn about the Blue Ridge mountains, the Okefenokee swamp, rural Georgia and some of the lesser known state parks and historic sites.

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I just realized that according to technorati (http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/) Amateur Traveler is in the top 1% of active blogs

Movie Review - Burn After Reading, shold they have done that with the script? http://ping.fm/CipSD

On the 6pm train to Boston. It is a nice new train, hard to believe it is Amtrak.

I have record 8 interviews scheduled right now for Amateur Traveler including interviews with @shel and @alexlindsay, http://ping.fm/y7jf8

heading to Boston tonight, staying at the Intercontinental

What does opera have to do with marketing? http://ping.fm/L9zV3

Traveling with my boss, you just have to know that you can't plan on him stopping for things like meals. He is a bit driven.

Tired from walking around the city at night shooting video, back at the W for bed

Done with meetings for today, now have to figure out what I can video in NYC at night or how else to amuse myself

Going to see a friend at MLB.com and get a tour

Trying to find a decent hotel room for tonight cheaper than the W where I have a reservation

Signed a Libsyn contract to host the Amateur Traveler, still working with some other contracts also since Libsyn is non-exclusive. Thx Rob!

This is the book I am reading: "Wander and Lipstick: For Women Traveling to India" http://ping.fm/IMnXK

borading a flight to Phoenix then on to JFK

Planning my schedule for trip to NYC and Boston next week, with a stop in PA to see my little girl

Waiting for @calilewis and @colligan live at Cali Live http://calilive.tv

Gospel for Asia reports 100,000 Christians homeless and 20+ people dead in Hindu extremists violence in India

I'm way to cool to talk like a pirate today.... Arrrrrr you?

Hawaiian Shirt Friday - is the new thing, spread the word... because every Friday needs a luau

Interesting, United increased the second bag fee to $50 this week but Air Canada eliminated it

Determining the best places to travel to is more about figuring out who you http://bestplacestotravel.weebly.com/

When we went to dinner at Mimi's the hostess quizzed us on state capitals, wow... it's getting harder to get a table at that place :-)

Interviewed Sheryl Kayne, the author of Immersion Travel USA http://ping.fm/WJaWi

Around the world on private jet with college alumni sounds fun... $54K per person might be a bit out of my price range.

I fixed my iCal problem by deleting the program itself and restoring it from a backup. Not the only one having this problem in OS X 10.5.5

My mom did have a small breast carcinoma. Good news is that the Dr was surprised they even saw it on the mammogram. Prognosis is very good.

I see Orbitz has podcasts (planning a work trip to NYC and Boston next week), I wonder if they know that their links to iTune are broken

Microsoft Corp. moving into "next phase" of Vista ads, in which
"comedian Jerry Seinfeld will bow out for other personalities"

Best compliment I will get in some time, my best friend from highs school things Jonathan Coulton copied my style, lol

Just writing someone nicknamed AntsInMyPants on the Amateur Traveler boards, makes sense on a travel site, they can't sit still :-)

Cool, finished up this week's Amateur Traveler show on Georgia. Traveling the Saturday so I had to finish early.

My calendar just cleared up for the week... sadly that is because I seem to have lost everything in my calendar

Does anyone know would having a google search appliance make your site get hit more often from Google bots?

Used Disk Inventory X last night to find almost 15Gb of wasted space on my MacBook Pro hard drive

voting for my favorite podcasts at http://ping.fm/XqM4N

Huh, I did not know that the Faroe Islands were picked by National Geographic Traveler as their top island destination

starting an interview on the Faroe Islands for the Amateur Traveler

My contract with Mevio for Amateur Traveler has expired. I had asked for it but apparently they are letting almost all contracts expire.

Its very fun to wake up and see people talking about LiveBar http://ping.fm/RGOAU our new product at LiveWorld where I am an EVP

Finished the main audio edit for this weeks show. Need to get the show out before I go to NYC on Saturday.

TechCrunch article on LiveWorld (my employer) technology announcement http://ping.fm/WwdVC

Starting to edit this week's Amateur Traveler on Georgia, while doing work in another window, chatting with co-workers in another window...

listener quote "Where do find these guest, topics I think I'm going to listen for a few minutes, I end up listening for the entire podcast."

I remember a Business Week podcast from a year ago talking about bad mortgages were safer if you had a lot of them (simplified). Not so much

Had to reschedule the Faroe Island interview because skype was not working for us. The Faroe Islands look beautiful http://ping.fm/uBQgU

About to start an interview about the Faroe Islands

On "International Sing-Out Day" don't forget to greet your co-workers with song

Don't forget to vote for the Amateur Traveler as your favorite travel podcast in the Podcast Awards http://ping.fm/JAdLL

I really like how this photo from Crete turned out with the reflection of a church http://ping.fm/Z0mzl

Catching my breath before what may prove to be a very very busy week

Watching the Giants come from 4 runs down to take the lead on a wild pitch in the top of the 9th

Anyone interested in an Amateur Traveler meetup in New York or Boston the week of September 22nd? http://ping.fm/XCUJl

I think that worked, I think I can read all the data into Final Cut Express... now all I have to do is learn Final Cut Express

Fighting my Mac to try and import AVCHD from my Sony HD camera (Sony HDR-CX7)

Happy "International Chocolate Day", how will you celebrate?

Backing up my backup drive to my new backup backup drive

The Amateur Traveler #151 - the Outer Banks off the coast of North Carolina. http://ping.fm/ZVnHf

Catching up on presentations I missed at the New Media Expo.

So nice to be done podcasting before 9am, I have the whole day ahead of me. One more week that I have not podfaded. :-)

We called my baby girl at 9pm when it became her birthday where she is (a college on the East coast)

exporting this weeks Amateur Traveler on the Outer Banks

15 minutes of podcasting, 5 minutes of Age of Mythology, 15 minutes of podcasting, 5 minutes of Age of Mythology...

Great video pointed out in this week's Marketing Over Coffee Podcast http://ping.fm/ANBhW

Wow, if you have a punctuation or capitalization error facebook will disapprove your ad

Had a great interview on Georgia for the Amateur Traveler with Kim from their state parks department, should come out on the 20th

So the Giants won their 5th in a row today starting when we finally made it to our first regular season game this year... I'm just saying

BlueHost says "This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota" :-(

Queued up The Bible Study Podcast for tomorrow now editing the next Amateur Traveler on the Outer Banks

Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the Earth http://ping.fm/AqNIc

My mother has a biopsy scheduled today to see if she has cancer. Your prayers are appreciated.

Using techniques learned in the 30 day challenge to try and drive traffic to the Amateur Traveler http://AmateurTraveler.com

Just heard from an Indonesian lawyer that an uncle I did not know died and left me a fortune... odd that it came in through a mailing list

Rescheduled an interview for Amateur Traveler with Shel Holtz @shel from For Immediate Release about Slovenia so he can do his homework :-)

Happy "Wonderful Weirdos Day"... you know who I mean

Ideas on the Best Places To Travel To http://ping.fm/fXYGz

We (LiveWorld) are doing a product launch at Web 2.0 http://ping.fm/Eo3hL

Just finished the first of 3 interviews scheduled this week, still have not gotten through all the requests that came in through HARO

If you can read this I wish you a happy "International Illiteracy Day"

About to start an interview about the Outer Banks for this week's Amateur Traveler

I have changed the slogan for the Amateur Traveler to:

"Amateur Traveler - The Amateur Traveler is a travel show that helps you find the best places to travel to. It includes both a weekly audio podcast and a twice monthly video podcast. It also includes travel news and resources."

Watching today's Giants game on Tivo. Boy is it fun to watch Valez run, among other things in this game.

If you are in the S.F. Bay Area then you should see The Foreigner at San Jose Rep, hillarious

Happy "National Grandparent's Day", if you still have them celebrate them (I lost my last two in 1989, both were 98 years old)

off to the Giants game

uploading a video episode of the Amateur Traveler about the Panama Canal

Tech support for my father over the phone, "do you see it says http://mail.yahoo...". A bit like a root canal without all that anesthesia.

http://ping.fm/AZzoT If I got the translation right from Spanish: ...professional platforms (Lonely Planet, Geobeats, Traveler Amateur…)

Editing this weeks Amateur Traveler show on the Bahamas

Quoted in a recent article about a trip we took 20 years ago, a babymoon - http://ping.fm/NzXN3

My ears are burning. My blog (http://chris2x.com) had a big spike in traffic but it was all direct, not a link from somewhere. Know why?

retweet: Trip Journal Greece (Santorini) http://ping.fm/1AjrB

Starting to work on Amateur Traveler episode 150 on the Bahamas

Retweet: Trip Journal - Greece (Athens) http://ping.fm/0RdN4

Worked on a video episode of the Panama Canal and did an interview for this weeks Amateur Traveler on the Bahamas. Now the day job calls.

Repost: I finally started to post my trip journal from my Summer trip - England (London, Liverpool) http://ping.fm/Nw2Xh

Who are you calling a lazy journalist? http://ping.fm/awdmT

I learned that the family friend who died ignored warning signs like "my arm is numb" for says :-(

Uh oh, I just realized I forgot to call my father on his birthday yesterday. Oops.

Finally, finally, finally, getting the trip journal from this year's vacation to ENgland and Grece ready to post

Looks like my site was hacked with some php exploit from pinoc.org

Happy "National Toasted Marshmallow Day", a perfect day for me to be heading to the mountains for a retreat

Siberia, Russia - (Mis)Adventure Travel - Amateur Traveler Episode 149

The Amateur Traveler talks to Sheila from “Travels with Sheila” about an exploritory trek she did with the venerabable trekking company Mountain Travel Sobek in Siberia (Altai Republic) that did not go aas well as anyone had planned. This show is about Mis-Adventure Travel.

http://ping.fm/mOib9

Any other video bloggers want a Podcaster shirt to wear on the show? http://ping.fm/HWc3S