This episode of the outside podcast is brought to you by Toyota, a company that wants to help you find joy by exploring America's scenic byways.

It's really important to me to show the kids different parts of the country and different parts of the world.

So I'm trying to get out on as many road trips as I can with the family and build confidence through adventuring.

This is professional mountain biker, Eric Porter. Recently, Eric and his wife, Megan, took their sons Owen and Milo on a road trip along Michigan celebrated M-22 highway in a Toyota Highlander XSC.

We've spent a lot of time traveling around the west coast of the U.S. and I really wanted to show the kids a different part of the country.

The cool part about being here is we're on the 45th parallel which means we're halfway in between the equator and the North Pole.

The route hugs the eastern shore of Lake Michigan and it also skirts a number of smaller waterways giving road trippers access to numerous sandy beaches.

It used to come here when I was a kid. Really? Yeah, there's so much fun stuff. Oh, there's the dunes sleeping bear sand dunes right up here.

It's not too far. Should have put the sport mode. Yes, sport mode.

With a sport tune suspension, the Toyota Highlander XSC offers confident, fun handling on pavement and when you're rolling on gravel, it's available dynamic toward vectoring all-wheel drive, improves responsiveness and stability.

The road is going to take us along the water right there so we should have some awesome views.

I'm excited to go paddle boarding because we haven't done that this summer.

Whether you cruise in along the shores of Lake Michigan on a family road trip or heading out on a very different kind of adventure, there's a Toyota designed to get you there.

When we're at home, it's easy to fall into the routine of school and work but when we get out on the road, we can leave all that stuff behind and reconnect with each other and with the outdoors.

Find the right Toyota to help you find joy on America's scenic byways at toyota.com

From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.

If you got an invitation to go on a journey that would take you halfway around the planet to a remote region of the Amazon rainforest to enter a cave, a massive cave,

one that is steeped in legend and some really bizarre theories, would you go?

And what at the point of the journey was to capture some of the sounds and power of the cave in the form of story and art and music so that you could share it with the world.

Sounds pretty fun, right?

My general way of operating in life is if someone asks me to do something that's extremely strange and interesting and I don't have to do any of the organising, then I'd be mad not to say yes immediately.

This is British electronic musician and composer John Hopkins. He's best known for his dance music. His 2018 album Singularity was nominated for a Grammy.

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