Once again this year the Amateur Traveler is nominated for a podcast award. Thank you to all who nominated the show.

The 2008 Podcast Awards Voting open till Nov 6th. You may vote once every 24 hours! Please review and vote for all of the shows you support!

Other fine podcasts that I would recommend (ignoring some of the fine podcasts competing with the Amateur Traveler in the travel category ) include:

Coffee Break Spanish
Grammar Girl
Coverville
Ask A Ninja
Geek Brief TV
ScreenCastsOnline
Internet Business Mastery
Get It Done Guy
Reduced Shakespeare Company
Manic Mommies
Tips From The Top Floor
The Signal
Daily Breakfast
LifeSpring
Buzz Out Loud
Typical Mac User

I have subscribed to all of these shows and most of them I still listen to weekly (I subscribe to 66 podcasts).

I completely forgot to mention that as of July 9th the Amateur Traveler has been in operation for 3 years. Now please excuse me while I bake a cake.

Please welcome Budget car rental as a sponsor of the show. Click on the ad to get 10% off your next car rental or $30 off a weekly rental.

Best Life Magazine, a men’s magazine, just named a list of the “The 10 best podcasts on the Internet“.

In addition to two shows from NPR, the TED conference, the Economist, they named the Amateur Traveler. Cool.

Chris Christensen created “Amateur Traveler,” a weekly hour-long audio and video podcast, to keep you as far away from tourists wearing jean shorts and Big Johnson T-shirts as possible. Each episode explores world destinations with guidebook writers, journalists, and veteran nomads. You’ll learn the best place to find lobster paella in Barcelona, how to motorbike through India, and where to go for a far-flung family vacation. Whet your wanderlust by scrolling through the archive of more than 125 past broadcasts.

CC Chapman of the Accident Hash podcast just made a ring tone for the theme song of his podcast. I thing that sounded like a great idea so I have put one up for the Amateur Traveler theme song (first 40 seconds of it) on MyxerTones for free.