Clay wrestling with his leaky RV shower. (Image courtesy of Clay and ChatGPT)
Thanks to YouTube, persistence, and bloody knuckles, a hot shower gets pretty close to paradise.
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Clay and his Listening to America “Corps of Discovery” celebrate the 4th of July along the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Clay at the Missouri River just east of Great Falls, MT. In the background is Belt Creek, where the Lewis and Clark Expedition began their 18.5-mile, one-month portage around the five falls of the Missouri River in June/July of 1805.

At Great Falls, Montana

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.
Ryan Dam, one of five hydroelectric dams on the Missouri River in Great Falls, Montana. (Photo Visit Great Falls)
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.
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The Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers join, forming the headwaters of the Ohio River in Pittsburg, Penn. The Ohio River then flows southwestward, eventually joining the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.
One of America’s truly grand rivers, The Ohio ranks eighth in length in the United States but second in volume.
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Clay with a look at what's coming for the 2026 Winter Retreats at beautiful Lochsa Lodge.
Lochsa Lodge in Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains and site of Clay's annual hummanites retreats.
Clay reports from his annual humanities retreat near the Montana-Idaho border in the Northern Rockies.
Clay reads from his
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.
Nolan
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.
Glendive dinosaur museum
The Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in eastern Montana presents its detailed fossil displays in the context of “Biblical history.”