Hear about travel to Death Valley National Park in California as the Amateur Traveler talks to former park ranger Jeff Ohlfs about the largest of the national parks in the continental United […]

I decided to slow down the day I watched dozens of cars catch fire. Our vehicle lurched out of one pothole and into the next on the journey back to Lagos from […]

Hear about travel to Seattle, Washington as the Amateur Traveler talks to Mary Jo Manzanares from travelingwithmj.com about her hometown. Transcript Mary Jo says, “despite what you hear about it raining all […]

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to visit Chicago.  It had been over twenty-five years since my last visit, and I began to wonder if I would still recognize the […]

Hear about travel to Baton Rouge as the Amateur Traveler talks to Lindsay Thomas from TheTraveluster.com about her hometown. Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana although it may be less well […]

When I first heard about Ski Dubai after it opened in 2005, I was totally intrigued.  How could someone build an indoor snow skiing resort in the desert?  Over the years, I […]

I talk about my recent trip to Berlin and Prague in December. Transcript This trip was just after the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and 20 years after […]

The Amateur Traveler goes to Seattle: weather, geography, history, “skid row”, the Fremont troll and rocket, Gas Works Park, Space Needle, Seattle Center, The Experience Music Project, Soundseeing tour of the Pike […]