DISPATCHES FROM THE ROAD
Where Steinbeck Said Goodbye to His California Home — Video Dispatch
Thursday, October 09 2025
Clay and Russ Eagle recently visited Fremont Peak, which overlooks California’s Salinas Valley and Monterey Bay. It was an especially important spot for John Steinbeck and deeply tied to his youth. Russ reads a passage from Travels with Charley, where the famous author writes about his last visit to there.
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Were They Dreaming? A Rare Visit Inside John Steinbeck’s Iconic Rocinante
Tuesday, October 07 2025
Clay and sidekick, Russ Eagle, spend time hanging out in John Steinbeck's historic truck camper, Rocinante.
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Four Perfect Days
Monday, September 08 2025
Clay and friends are just off four perfect days canoeing remote sections of the Missouri River in central Montana.
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Assessing Two Years on the Road in My Airstream
Monday, September 01 2025
Clay assesses the good and bad as he wraps up his second season traveling America's byways in his 23' Airstream.
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Sacagawea and the Blue Whale
Tuesday, August 26 2025
Sacagawea’s insistence that she be allowed to join the reconnaissance team heading to see the great beached whale is one of the rarest instances in the entire Lewis and Clark journey where we hear her voice.
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Ode to Dismal Nitch
Saturday, August 16 2025
Has our friend Clay Jenkinson been too long alone on the Lewis and Clark Trail?
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How Meriwether Lewis’ Unfortunate Hunting Mishap Brought to Mind the Bounty of American Consumer Capitalism
Saturday, August 16 2025
On the 221st anniversary of Meriwether Lewis’ hunting calamity, Clay ponders salt, macrobiotics, and an earlier extended personal journey on the Lewis and Clark Trail.
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My Montana Summer
Monday, August 11 2025
Clay Jenkinson reports on his month-long adventure crisscrossing Montana in the long-since-passed footsteps of Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery.
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Clay Reads and Riffs on Huckleberry Finn While Sitting Beside the Mighty Mississippi — Video Dispatch
Sunday, August 10 2025
Earlier this summer, Clay Jenkinson traveled to the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers at Cairo, Illinois. Sitting on the banks of the Mississippi, Clay read from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and talked about the novel and its author, Mark Twain, who enshrined this mighty river deep in American mythology.
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Clay Checks in From Missoula — Video Dispatch
Monday, August 04 2025
Clay reports in on his adventures at the conclusion of his recent Montana Lewis and Clark Cultural Tour.
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