#1648 Hitting the Road With Lewis and Clark

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History, Politics, Unitedstates, Society & Culture, American

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Occasional guest host and LTA videographer Nolan Johnson joins Clay to talk about the epic Lewis and Clark Airstream journey of 2025, wherein Clay will follow the Lewis and Clark Trail from Jefferson’s Monticello in Virginia to Astoria, Oregon, and back again. Historian James Ronda said the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06 was “America’s first great road story.” Clay plans to get himself on all the great rivers of the journey: Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Clearwater, Snake, and Columbia. Nolan will join Clay at several Lewis and Clark sites across America, with video cameras and his celebrated drone work. Nolan and Clay talk about several adventures that have already been scheduled, including an absurd pontoon float from Fort Yates, North Dakota, up to Bismarck and beyond. Clay will begin his transcontinental travels in early May in North Carolina and make stops at Monticello, Harpers Ferry, and Philadelphia before joining the Ohio River at Pittsburgh. It’s a grand adventure, and we already ask, “What could go wrong?” This interview was recorded on March 22, 2025.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody, to this episode of listening to America with Clay Jenkins.
0:05.7	I am your guest host, Nolan Johnson.
0:08.3	Today's episode, hitting the road with Lewis and Clark.
0:11.7	I got to sit down with Clay and talk about what he's looking forward to on our travels
0:17.3	from the East Coast to the West Coast in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.
0:22.2	We will start at Poplar Forest, May 6th with a launch event, 2 p.m. Eastern.
0:28.0	Come on out if you're able to get there.
0:30.1	$25 to get into Poplar Forest.
0:31.9	Come hang out here, what Clay is looking forward to.
0:35.5	Help us out with a launch event.
0:36.9	We'd love to see you out there.
0:38.4	May 6th, 2 p.m. at Poplar Forest. That will be the launch event and we will head and make stops at
0:46.0	Monticello, Harper's Ferry, Philadelphia before jumping on the Ohio River at Pittsburgh,
0:51.0	down to St. Louis on the Great Missouri River, back through our home state
0:55.5	of North Dakota, the wild west of Montana, all the way out to the west coast, Astoria, Oregon.
1:00.4	I'm looking forward to joining Clay as much as I can in some beautiful areas and seeing
1:05.9	this great nation parts that I have never seen before, with my own personal tour guide in Clay Jenkinson creating
1:11.5	a bunch of content for everybody visit LTamerica.org so you can find out how to become a friend
1:18.0	of LTA see everything that we have in bonus content all sorts of extra videos diary from Clay
1:25.7	extra content from myself as I travel out to meet him, support our
1:30.3	program in any way you can. Visit ltamerica.org to find out any way that works for you.
1:36.3	On today's show we discuss what we're looking forward to in this great adventure, and Clay
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