Solo Road Trip: No Plans, No Partner, Just Open Road & Opportunities

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4.8 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Shannon shares the true story of his solo cross-country trip during a time when he needed space, adventure, and a little bit of something new. From spontaneous stops to unexpected conversations, it’s a ride full of insight and local food. Then, in the No Idea segment, Shannon offers a playful PSA: How to Be a Good Passenger—because being in the passenger seat is more than just picking the music.

This is an episode for the restless, the curious, and anyone who’s ever just needed to get away.

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0:00.0	Have you ever gotten in your car and drove as far as the road would take you?
0:06.7	No destination in mind just to get away from everything.
0:12.4	I have.
0:14.3	Let's talk about it.
0:18.3	Welcome to Homemade.
0:22.2	I'm Shannon Kaysen.
0:25.9	Road trips.
0:26.9	Road trips.
0:28.0	I went on road trips when I was young.
0:30.1	My road trips was always my dad's business trips.
0:34.1	He had a hair magazine, and we went on trips to sell his hair magazine and he had a van.
0:42.2	It was a van that was retrofitted and his old men in the 80s and 90s had vans with beds in the
0:51.9	back. I don't know why. I don't know. I'm not trying to say nothing. No assumptions. But he had a van and he has had six wheels, like two wheels in the back and then, you know, the front wheels. But in the back, I guess they had, this was like an aftermarket thing. And you could smell fumes in the back I guess they had this was like an aftermarket thing
1:11.9	and you could smell fumes
1:14.1	in the back by the bed
1:16.0	like I would go to sleep on the bed
1:18.5	but when you're going back there
1:20.2	you would smell the fumes from the gas
1:22.9	tank and it was almost like
1:25.0	immediate sleep
1:26.5	on road trips.
1:29.6	Immediate.
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