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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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This autumn is getting off to a strange start, as here in the Mojave High Desert there are carpets of little yellow wildflowers thanks to the hurri...

Bought by KSJE and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Insightful and whimsical poetry about summer vacations .

  • Added: Jun 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:21
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Where is she, tonight? It has been a month and ten days since she mailed this postcard from Idyllwild to Joshua Tree. All we can do is hope that th...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: (Photo by Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0)
The late novelist, retired Princeton professor, and mountain climber, Russell Banks is the author of the 2021 novel, FOREGONE. In this classic 201...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The things airlines won't tell you but airline industry expert Kerwin McKenzie will.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 31:55
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Sure are a lot of mostly abandoned churches out here in the California desert. A lot of good community real estate. How do you take over churches? ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Looking for God in the world? Watch the coyote. Huehuecoyotl, that’s its Holy name. Old, old coyote. Lord of the arts, god of music and dance, our ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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There's lots of chatter in the media about some Navy encounters with some sort of mystery drones, but meanwhile in the Western United States we've ...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Seasons change in the desert, but it's always Rat Time. Kangaroo rats, wood rats, deer mice full of hantavirus, it's just a feast for the rats all ...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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Roy Clark was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 t...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We revisit Sarah Aronson's interview with Doug Chadwick from 2017. Wildlife biologist and author Doug Chadwick engages in a lively discussion aroun...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Col. William H Jackson had a favorite tree. So, somewhere around 1832, Colonel Jackson gave the white oak tree to itself (and the city of Athens, G...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Will Rogers loved to travel, but he also loved to poke fun at his fellow tourists

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
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Well here we are, still alive, July in the American Desert. Good enough, we guess. When the Mojave is cooking that's when we start figuring out a w...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We’ve about had it with the cabin fever and now we’ve got the ramblin’ fever. So let’s pour a couple of drinks and enjoy some saloon time on this f...

  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer fire...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Sma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: No Kanchenjungha :-(, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy finally… finally sees the mysterious Kanchenjungha with his own eyes! Finally!

  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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Some extraordinary people sharing a bit of travel advice, insights and experiences from Moscow to the Camino de Santiago and destinations in betwee...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:50
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SUDS Episode – A destination episode to Portland, OR as we discuss some of our favorite things Beer, Food, & Coffee. Several beers listed below, Fo...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:27
Caption: Old World wine merchant at the New France Festival., Credit: Photo by Tonya Fitzpatrick
Today on World Footprints we celebrate Canada’s Francophone roots in the Quebec region as we walk in the footsteps of history at the New France Fes...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:55
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Air India’s reputation is of a sort of futzy dowager, very uncool. Even its mascot a Maharajah in a red coat and turban with a pointy mustache see...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Levitating Wine Glass
We discuss the 16 Wine Rules when traveling to France with our French Panel. We also speak with the creator of The Levitating CUP, the wine glass ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00