The Amateur Traveler talks to Spencer Quong who is a adventure travel guide about his recent trip to Botswana in south central Africa. After reading the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency his ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Vicente Perez about his home city of Pamplona, Spain. Pamplona is best known for the festival of San Fermin and of course for the running of the ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Ben Dixon about biking the route of the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. The Camino de Santiago is a an ancient pilgrim trail that runs across ...

There is a fine line between determined and crazy and it occurred to me that I might have crossed that line a while back. All of the other kayakers had either climbed ...

I had a great opportunity last week when I rafted the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. George Wendt from Oars.com had been a guest on Rafting Down the Grand Canyon – ...

I spent the whole summer of 2003 exploring India. After the first few weeks of hot and dusty excursions through the plains — checking out temples and riding overnight trains — I ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Dan Stromberg about his recent trip to Mali. Mali is a destination so remote that Dan says “I couldn’t imagine myself being here when I was there”. ...

Chris, the Amateur Traveler himself, talks about a recent trip to New Zealand’s North Island where he went to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds and took a dolphin watching cruise up by the ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to George Wendt from Oars.com about white water rafting down the Grand Canyon which is one of Chris’s dream vacations. The Grand Canyon can be traversed in motor ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Madeline Jhawar from Italy Beyond the Obvious about life as a tour guide for an adventure travel company. Madeline was previously on the Amateur Traveler talking about ...