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Pains & Accuracy 3 8:30 Barrett Golding

Flood: Biking and mic-ing the modern Lewis and Clark Trail. Missouri floods, a frog symphony, a million worms, bowfishing a beanfield, and in little league: Lemke Trenching and Excavating plays Miller Funeral Homes [transcript]

Broadcast: Aug 18 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy TravelerSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Environment, Travel, Historical

Heat 4:15 Jeff Rice

It is 120°. The birds and animals, and even insects hide. The story focuses on the words, thoughts and sounds of desert residents: writer Charles Bowden, the Tohono O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda, and ambient composer Steve Roach, whose composition "Slow Heat" scores the piece. [transcript]

Broadcast: Aug 15 2001 on NPR All Things Considered Subjects: Environment

Underground Lunchroom 15:01 Sarah Vowell

You Can Have Your Cave and Eat It Too. A national controversy implicating Carlsbad Caverns, a cafeteria, and the United States Congress.

Broadcast: Aug 1 2001 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: Travel, Environment, Politics, Food

Sacramento Interstate 50 sign- 3073 miles to Ocean City MD

3k on US50 24:25 Scott Carrier

A cross-country mid-summer drive, in a failing un-air-conditioned truck, on Interstate 50: the loneliest Road in America.

Broadcast: Aug 1 2001 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: Travel

The Parking Lot 6:36 Carmen Delzell

Let off the bus at 5 a.m. with $5 at the 24-hour supermarket. "Sometimes the difference between a traveler and a homeless person is hard to define." An audio postcard from deep in the hearts and minds of Mexico.

Broadcast: Jul 1 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Travel, Hispanic

Pains & Accuracy 2b 2:32 Barrett Golding

Second Call: Military connections and Clark’s kid. And still can’t catch the 70-year-old-lady cyclclists.

Broadcast: Jun 29 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy TravelerSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later

Pains & Accuracy 2a 2:23 Barrett Golding

First Contact: Phoning it in; rising rivers and chasing old ladies.

Broadcast: Jun 29 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy TravelerSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Travel, Historical

Pains & Accuracy 1 8:30 Barrett Golding

Preparation: Cross-country preparations, then and now: Penis syringes and Indian presents, AAA and GPS. Your observations are to be taken with great pains and accuracy, for others as well as yourself" --Jefferson’s Instructions to Lewis, 1803.

Broadcast: Jun 1 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy TravelerSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Travel, Historical

Language School 17:46 Nancy Updike

The dreaded educational vacation. Three weeks in Mexico City -- en Espanol.

Broadcast: Jun 1 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Hispanic, Education, Travel

Cringe Love 12:20 Nancy Updike

A look back at that relationship you can’t believe actually happened. You stayed too long, put up with too much, said such nasty things. The bylaws and byways of cringe love.

Broadcast: Apr 1 2001 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: Women, Family