Welcome to Wayward Stories, the podcast dedicated to telling our stories of adventure, exploration and self-discovery in the great outdoors!
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Welcome back to Wayward Stories!
Tonight we’re going to take one banger of a road trip, and explore some 2,500 miles of the upper west!
I recently had the opportunity to take a driving tour of Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota and all of the National Parks along the way!
Join me tonight to hear all about the Black Hills, the Badlands, the Bighorn Mountains, the Platte River, Wall Drug, Deadwood, and more!
It turns out taking a Hoe-bath in a Love’s parking lot and sleeping in your car isn’t a terrible way to see the country… 😬
I hope you’ll join me tonight to hear all about it!
If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to
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Thanks for Listening!
22 Jul 2026
On the Trail of the Southwest Explorers - Beale’s Road, A.K.A. Route 66
Welcome back to Wayward Stories!
Tonight we are, yet again, going to embrace that Nomad Spirit, Sedentary Life energy we harnessed a couple of years back when school had me unable to go pretty much anywhere.
As we talked about in the last episode, I’ve recently been working on some itineraries for road trips from our national historic site that would trace the historic trails set by some of the earliest explorers. So tonight, we’re going to explore in the footsteps of one Edward Fitzgerald Beale, the man who “built” the first transcontinental wagon road across the U.S.
I promise tonight’s show won’t bore you to tears with my historic predilections, because ol’ Eddie Beale wasn’t just blazing our nation’s first transcontinental highway for horses and buggies…he was building what we become a road trip classic bucket-lister…Route 66. There will be national parks, national monuments, state parks, national historic sites, national battlefields, BLM backcountry byways, national Forests, and more!
Also, camels 🐫
Listen in tonight and learn how not just one, but four early southwestern explorers would explore, blaze, engineer, and improve a trail that would eventually become a world-renowned cultural icon.
I hope you’ll join me tonight to hear all about it!
If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to
mywaywardstory@gmail.com
-or-
Head on over to
www.waywardstories.com
25 Jun 2026
On the Trail of the Southwest Explorers - The 1821 Fort Smith to Santa Fe Trade Expeditions
Welcome back to Wayward Stories!
Tonight we’re going to get back onto some of that Nomad Spirit, Sedentary Life energy we harnessed a couple of years back when school had me unable to go pretty much anywhere.
I’ve recently been working on some itineraries for road trips from our national historic site that would trace the historic trails set by some of the earliest American explorers. So tonight, since I’ve been unable to do anything for quite some time, we’re going to explore one of those itineraries. First traveled by Americans in 1821, the southern route of the Santa Fe Trail would go on to be a legendary legacy travel corridor. Tonight we’re going to visit 26 different destinations on a massive round-trip adventure that will take us from natural wonders to cultural Meccas. From places like the Great Salt Plains and it’s alabaster caverns to cultural centers like Santa Fe and Taos, the American southwest has a road trip tradition 200 years in the making.
I hope you’ll join me tonight to hear all about it!
If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to
mywaywardstory@gmail.com
-or-
Head on over to
www.waywardstories.com
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