#1351 Eight Objects
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🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Clay Jenkinson has returned from his annual Lewis and Clark trip in Montana and Idaho, and he gives us a report on the 2019 tour. Clay also offers a list of eight items Lewis and Clark would have certainly wished for on their journey, could they have had them.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day Thomas Jefferson, Our Podcast, |
| 0:02.5 | listeners, and thank you for listening. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm just back from my annual Lewis and Clark trip |
| 0:08.0 | in Montana and Idaho, and a lot of what I did this time, |
| 0:12.0 | David, was to talk about the space program then and the space |
| 0:16.6 | program now. |
| 0:17.6 | And I just want to say, I'm so excited about the cultural retreat at Locksaw Lodge in January on the space program. |
| 0:24.6 | One four-day period is on four novels by Dickens, and the other is on America's Space |
| 0:29.8 | Ventures. |
| 0:30.8 | I've been reading book after book. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm currently reading Eugene Cernan's book, |
| 0:34.0 | Last Man on the Moon. This is going to be really a remarkable four day period |
| 0:39.0 | 50 years after the successful moon landing in July of 1969 and so I hope people will consider |
| 0:46.6 | signing up for those retreats. There's also of course the France trip |
| 0:50.1 | beginning October 17th and then we're going to Cuba in February of 2020 so all |
| 0:56.2 | that but this this program I love my annual Lewis and Clark journey I took |
| 1:01.6 | Monticello's elite on this one and they were extraordinary and |
| 1:05.6 | we had a great time and I'm going to do it again next year. I'm going to go back to the |
| 1:10.9 | usual band of Merrymakers next summer. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm going to do this as long as I can. |
| 1:16.8 | I climbed the Wendover vertical hike for the 17th time |
| 1:20.8 | and this year I didn't even cough up a long I was just so proud of myself. |
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