In 1975, a musician named Jim Sullivan got into his car and left Los Angeles behind. He was heading east, chasing a new beginning - or maybe running from something he couldn’t name.

He was tall, handsome, magnetic - and his music carried that same restless energy. 

Songs about highways, lost souls, and vanishing into the unknown.

The kind of lyrics that feel like they’re trying to tell you something… if you’re really listening. Somewhere along that long stretch of desert road, Jim stopped - and from that moment on, no one knows what happened next.

His story faded into rumor, mystery, and myth - tangled up in the same strange beauty that filled his songs.

Today, we’re going to follow the same road Jim Sullivan took - the one that led him deep into the desert… and out of the world we know.

Listen as we dive into New Mexico, the case of Jim Sullivan, and how to stay alive on vacation.

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