The American wilderness can get under your skin in unexpected ways.

Coming up, we'll hear how Beatrider Jack Kerawak couldn't cope with this solitude, while

working as a forced lookout in the Pacific Northwest.

By the end of his stint, he had developed several invisible friends and he was having a highly

compassive polka tournament with them all.

Terry Tempest Williams reminds us how the erosion in the Utah landscape holds lessons

for our times.

Suddenly, you know, the Colorado River was running red.

People were just stopping, taking pictures, laughing.

We were all drenched and you just think, this is what matters.

And this is what cleans our souls.

And Becky Lomax explores more national parks.

She notes the wilderness at Theater Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota has a fun

side too.

They have these silly prairie dog towns where the prairie dogs are running around and they

are so social and they are funny.

This all ahead on travel with Rick Steves, come along.

Terry Tempest Williams has found that erosion has a lot to say about the times we live

in.

She explains what the Utah desert has been teaching her lately a little later in the

hour.

Plus Becky Lomax recommends ways to immerse yourself in nature at a national park.

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