#1640 Traveling America in Search of Its History and Stories

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History, Politics, Unitedstates, Society & Culture, American

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Clay sits down with Nolan Johnson, fellow North Dakotan and Listening to America’s talented videographer and podcast editor. Nolan joined Clay with cameras and drone in hand at key points along Clay’s 21,000-mile Travels with Charley journey in 2024. The two discuss plans for this year’s Lewis and Clark trek from Monticello to Astoria, Oregon, and back again. Clay notes that following John Steinbeck’s 1960 journey was relatively simple with only a dozen must-visit places on the Travels with Charley trail. With Lewis and Clark, things are much richer and more complicated. How can one pay respect to a river journey across the continent by driving along those rivers pulling an Airstream trailer? Nolan has his own history with the expedition’s winter quarters at Fort Mandan in North Dakota and is excited to join Clay at Lewis and Clark sites across the country. Clay outlines his plan to get on each of the principal rivers of the 1804-1806 expedition, his goal to do a series of public events at Lewis and Clark interpretive centers, and his hope of making genuine discoveries along the way.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to this week's podcast introduction for listening to America with Clay Jenkinson.
0:06.6	My name is Nolan Johnson and I get to be your co-host this week where I get to sit down with Clay
0:11.9	Jenkinson in my studio and discuss our plans for 2025. If you've heard my name before, it's because I am the
0:18.3	videographer that gets to travel from time to time with Clay Jenkinson. I create all of the video content that you can find on LTAamerica.org
0:26.6	and across all of listening to America's social media channels. I've been a part of LTA for a little
0:32.1	over two years now, producing and editing the radio and podcast every week. On today's show, I get to ask Clay Jenkinson a little bit about what he learned on his
0:41.6	travels in 2024 that might make his travels in 2025 just a little bit easier.
0:47.9	Looking forward to 2025, Lewis and Clark is very near and dear to my heart because I grew up
0:52.2	in a small town in North Dakota called Washburn,
0:55.2	and that is the site or close to the site of the original Fort Mandan, where Lewis and Clark
1:01.7	spent the winter of 1804, 1805. It was actually my first job in high school, giving tours during
1:09.7	the bicentennial years in 2004 and 2005 of the Fort
1:13.6	Mandan site and at the interpretive center. So I'm looking forward to being able to see the Lewis
1:19.1	and Clark Trail in its entirety and travel this country from coast to coast with Clay Jenkinson.
1:24.9	As is with anything listening to America, you can follow along at
1:29.2	LTamerica.org where you will find links to all of our social medias. We would love to hear your
1:36.0	suggestions on what kind of content that you're looking for. And if you're able to support us at all,
1:41.1	you can do all of that at LTamerica.org. I'm so glad I had the opportunity
1:45.8	to sit down in my studio with Clay Jenkinson for this episode. I hope we're able to do it more
1:50.7	in the future, and I hope you will have me back. Let's go to the show.
2:05.5	Hello everyone. This is Nolan Johnson, occasional host on listening to America.
2:10.1	And I am here in my studio with the man himself, Clay Jenkinson.
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