Amateur Traveler - A travel podcast 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.
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.
Those of you who subscribe to the iTunes enhanced version of the podcast may notice that episode 113 is not so enhanced. There are no chapters, pictures or links. It is not for lack of effort. I have spent hours trying to get even one chapter to show up but it appears that this feature was broken in GarageBand by either the Leopard upgrade or some other recent software update. I have notified Apple and will let you know what I learn.
The Amateur Traveler was featured on a recent version of Podfinder which seems to have come back from hiatus. I am glad to see it back as I have found it to be a good source of podcasts to listen to.
The Amateur Traveler goes to Andulusia with Chris talking about a trip a few years back: Sevilla, Italica, Los Pueblos Blancos, Ronnda, Malaga, Granada, Cordoba. Hear about historic buildings (churchs turned into Mosques turned into churches), how and when not to travel to Andalusia, spectacular small towns, and caves art.
Visit Eastern Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: The marketplace and mosque of Urfa (where the Turks say that Abraham was born) and the museum and marketplace of Gaziantep
Well, all that promoting that iTunes has been doing for me and the pain that the servers have been going through also led to some good news. For the first time ever, the podcast made the iTunes list of top 100 most subscribed podcasts. I should note that this is only counting one of the two feeds (iTunes enhanced). Cool.
If you went to the podcast page of the iTunes Music store today and scrolled down (no, further down, just a little bit further, further, there) to the bottom of the featured podcasts there was the Amateur Traveler Podcast.
Best Life Magazine, a men’s magazine, just named a list of the “The 10 best podcasts on the Internet“. 
