Just in time for summer travel season, we’ll spend this episode of West of 100 wandering the West. Journalist Scott Carrier and poet Alex Caldiero visit the Sun Tunnels, a far-flung art installation in the Utah desert. High Country News editorial fellow Neil LaRubbio gives us a peek into the world of modern hoboes. (Neil is producing a documentary, Freeload, about train hoppers; check out the trailer and contribute to his Kickstarter campaign here.) And from producer Jonathan Mitchell, A Beginner’s Guide to Hitchhiking. 

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Music in this episode:

“The Heart of the Cat” by Ergo Phizmiz, licensed under Creative Commons 

Sounds in this episode: 

Man saying “Roadtrip!”; car door shutting, courtesy nmscher; engine starting, courtesy RutgerMuller; train whistle, courtesy HerbertBoland; cars passing, courtesy volivieri. Licensed under Creative Commons. 

Clips from Freeload trailer, courtesy Highway Goat Productions. 

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The Excursions Episode

by Cally Carswell, High Country News
June 19, 2012

<h1>The Excursions Episode</h1> <p class="byline">by Cally Carswell, High Country News <br />June 19, 2012</p> <p>Just in time for summer travel season, we’ll spend this episode of West of 100 wandering the West. Journalist Scott Carrier and poet Alex Caldiero visit the Sun Tunnels, a far-flung art installation in the Utah desert.&nbsp;<em>High Country News&nbsp;</em>editorial fellow Neil LaRubbio gives us a peek into the world of modern hoboes. (Neil is producing a documentary,&nbsp;<em>Freeload</em>, about train hoppers; check out the trailer and contribute to his Kickstarter campaign&nbsp;<a class="external-link" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/51846119/freeload">here</a>.) And from producer Jonathan Mitchell,&nbsp;<em>A Beginner’s Guide to Hitchhiking</em>.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Tune in to West of 100 around the middle of each month.&nbsp;Available via our&nbsp;<a class="external-link" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/hcn/HighCountryViews">RSS feed</a>, or subscribe for free through<a class="external-link" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=395530217">&nbsp;iTunes.</a></strong></p> <p><em>Music in this episode:</em></p> <p><em><a class="external-link" href="http://www.ergophizmiz.net/">“The Heart of the Cat” by Ergo Phizmiz</a>, licensed under Creative Commons</em>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Sounds in this episode:</em>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><a class="external-link" href="http://archive.org/details/MMMMMoon-RoadTrip240">Man saying “Roadtrip!”</a>;&nbsp;car door shutting,&nbsp;<a class="external-link" href="http://www.freesound.org/people/nmscher/sounds/86231/">courtesy nmscher</a>; engine starting,&nbsp;<a class="external-link" href="http://www.freesound.org/people/RutgerMuller/sounds/50898/">courtesy RutgerMuller</a>; train whistle,&nbsp;<a class="external-link" href="http://www.freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/30628/">courtesy HerbertBoland</a>; cars passing,&nbsp;<a class="external-link" href="http://www.freesound.org/people/volivieri/sounds/39012/">courtesy volivieri</a>. Licensed under Creative Commons.&nbsp;</em></p> <p><em>Clips from&nbsp;</em>Freeload&nbsp;<em>trailer,&nbsp;<a class="external-link" href="http://www.highwaygoat.tv/">courtesy Highway Goat Productions</a>.&nbsp;</em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/articles/the-excursions-episode/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=97644&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/articles/the-excursions-episode/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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