My Saga of the Leaky Shower in the Montana Back Country
Monday, July 14 2025
Thanks to YouTube, persistence, and bloody knuckles, a hot shower gets pretty close to paradise.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Celebrating July 4th On The Lewis and Clark Trail — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, July 08 2025
Clay and his Listening to America “Corps of Discovery” celebrate the 4th of July along the Lewis and Clark Trail.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
At Great Falls, Montana
Tuesday, July 08 2025
I’m spending the 4th of July at the Great Falls of the Missouri River in north-central Montana, where Lewis and Clark visited on the same day in 1805.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Clay’s “Must See” Stops in Great Falls, Montana
Tuesday, July 08 2025
Our Lewis and Clark explorer, Clay Jenkinson, says that Great Falls’ reputation for being one of the less attractive places to visit in Montana is highly unfair. He shares his “must see” stops.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Following the Ohio River on the Lewis and Clark Trail
Monday, June 02 2025
One of America’s truly grand rivers, The Ohio ranks eighth in length in the United States but second in volume.
- Published in Features
Sneak Peek: The 2026 Winter Retreats — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, January 21 2025
Clay with a look at what's coming for the 2026 Winter Retreats at beautiful Lochsa Lodge.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Shakespeare, Thoreau, and Ed Abbey in the Bitterroot Mountains
Tuesday, January 14 2025
Clay reports from his annual humanities retreat near the Montana-Idaho border in the Northern Rockies.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
How to Consult Your Destiny Via Thoreau’s Walden
Tuesday, January 07 2025
During a long life of hard reading, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is the book that helps me understand what it is to be human.
- Published in Books
Coast to Coast with Clay Jenkinson: Nolan’s 2024 Highlight Reel — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, December 31 2024
Nolan Johnson, Listening to America’s intrepid videographer and podcast editor, shares highlights of his adventures with Clay while traversing the country from Long Island, New York, to the source of the Mississippi River to Monterey, California, on LTA’s 2024 Travels with Charley/Steinbeck Tour.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Touring Glendive, Montana’s “Biblical History” Dinosaur and Fossil Museum — Video Dispatch
Monday, November 04 2024
The Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in eastern Montana presents its detailed fossil displays in the context of “Biblical history.”
- Published in Dispatches from the Road










