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Our American Stories

The Plan Was Simple. The Road Trip Was Not

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, volunteering seemed simple enough. Then the plan fell apart. What started as a group effort quickly turned into a one-man road trip across state lines.

Robert Frohlich, an Our American Stories listener from Wisconsin, shares the story of a road trip gone wrong while volunteering to deliver trucks to impoverished communities in Appalachia.

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0:04.3

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0:07.7

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0:28.3

Listen to Stuff to Bo Your Mind on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

0:33.5

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0:44.5

Music your podcasts. This is our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show.

0:49.3

And we love hearing from you and your stories, send them to Our American Stories.com.

0:54.1

They're some of our favorites.

0:56.0

And every year, millions of Americans take to the road in search of adventure or to just

1:01.1

get from point A to point B.

1:02.9

But for Robert Frolic, a listener from Wisconsin, his trip from his home state to Kentucky

1:08.2

while volunteering for the Appalachian service project was a bit more

1:12.8

complicated than that. Here's Robert with the story of his bad road trip.

1:24.0

It was about 9.30 at night when my wife looked out the window as I backed into the driveway.

1:30.2

She was shaking her head when I walked in the front door. I told her, you go to bed. I need to sit and pray for a while.

1:38.3

Without a word, she went off to bed.

1:42.8

My friend Jack and I had many adventures together, mostly because the word impossible was not in his vocabulary.

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