This link — https://rmworldtravel.com/podcasts/2020-2/ — will take you to RM World Travel, America’s number one travel show on radio. This broadcast, which aired March 28, is worth listening to in its entirety. Perhaps it will offer you an escape from the restrictions of social distancing and lockdowns, as well as relief from news about the Coruna virus pandemic. But if you don’t have two hours to spare, you can listen to Rudy Maxa’s 10-minute interview with me on Hour 2, Segments 3 and 4, beginning at 24:10 on the timer. The topic is my 2012 travel memoir, The Longest Road, describing a 4-month journey my wife, Leslie, and I took, towing a small Airstream trailer from Key West, Florida to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. We sought from Americans of all walks of life an answer to the question, What holds such a large, diverse nation together? That’s as relevant today, in this age of bitter, partisan division, as it was eight years ago.

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