Tom Wilmer’s Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel podcast — recorded live on location across America and around the world — showcases the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine and spirits, brewpubs, the culinary arts and more. He covers nouns and verbs: people, places, things, and action — everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls, and interviewing the "real" Santa Claus in the Arctic. Tom's feature, recorded live at Harland & Wolfe Shipyards in Belfast Northern ...
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Exploring a 2,000 year-old “ancient town” in Sichuan Province, China
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Join Correspondent Tom Wilmer and his Chinese interpreter friends reporting from historic 2,000 year-old Pingle fondly dubbed “ancient town”.By Tom Wilmer
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From Nanjing to Cal Poly, professor Yan Shan’s incredible journey
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Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Yan Shan, Associate Professor of Journalism at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo about her life journey.By Tom Wilmer
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Austin Hope, raising the bar with sustainably produced Central Coast grapes
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Join correspondent Tom Wilmer in downtown Paso Robles at the new Hope on Park tasting room for a conversation with Second-generation winegrower Austin Hope.By Tom Wilmer
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Fort Hunter Liggett—leading the energy independence charge with micro-grids
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Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, energy and Environment; Commissioner California Energy Commission and Col. Trotter offer insights about Fort Hunter Liggett's new micro-grid.By Tom Wilmer
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SLO’s Budget Café—a metaphor for the best of Americana
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Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Rhonda Mayeda at her iconic Budget Café in San Luis Obispo, CaliforniaBy Tom Wilmer
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Changing up the Habit at Merced’s Sisters of the Valley
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Join correspondent Ruth Carlson for a visit with the nun’s crafting and sharing CBD oils at Sisters of the Valley in Merced, CaliforniaBy Ruth Wertzberger Carlson
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Harry S. Truman’s Independence, Missouri Library, home and Frontier Trails
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Join correspondent Tom Wilmer in Independence, Missouri at Harry S. Truman’s home, the Presidential Library, and the National Frontier Trails MuseumBy Tom Wilmer
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Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen Keller’s birthplace
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Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with docent, Lynn Weaver at Helen Keller’s birthplace home, Ivy Green, in Tuscumbia, AlabamaBy Tom Wilmer
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The Mesquite Rodeo—a best of the best broadcast from the Journeys archives
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A time-trip exploration at the legendary Mesquite Rodeo in Mesquite, Texas back in April, 1998By Tom Wilmer
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Mobile, Alabama’s enchanting Bellingrath Gardens and mansion
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Join Tom McGehee at Bellingrath Gardens and Home to discover the backstory of one of the Mobile, Alabama region’s best-kept-secret destinationsBy Tom Wilmer
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Assisting John McCain's 2011 initiative to increase funding for veterans
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A conversation with veterans employed at Grand Canyon flightseeing operationsBy Tom Wilmer
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Military historian shares story of U.S. Army’s Fort Hunter Liggett namesake
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Washington D.C. Center for Military History’s Brian Newman shares insights about General Hunter Liggett and his lasting legacyBy Tom Wilmer
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In remembrance of an Alcatraz ex-con and his fresh-mown-grass epiphanous moment
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A Best-of-the-Best Journeys podcast with Alcatraz ex-con two years before he passed away, originally recorded August 2015By Tom Wilmer
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Dauntless Filipino-Americans who volunteered to serve in WWII
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Author Marie Silva Vallejo talks about the First and Second Filipino Battalions that returned to the Philippines with the Allied liberation forces, chronicled in her newly released book, Dauntless.By Tom Wilmer
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Cast Out of Eden--John Muir’s dark side revealed
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Author Robert Aquinas McNalley shares tales of John Muir and his racist attitudes in his new book, Cast out of EdenBy Tom Wilmer
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Main Street de Las Vegas propels a vibrant Northern New Mexico community
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Michael Peranteau shares insights about the community non-profit that shines a light on local businesses in Las Vegas, New Mexico.By Tom Wilmer
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California Cadet Corps—teaching leadership skills
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Major Tate Burns with the California Cadet Corps offers insights about the program for students ranging in age from 12 years-old through 18.By Tom Wilmer
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