Backroad Odyssey : Travel Stories, Van Life & Road Trip Oddities

 Feelings of loneliness can surface anywhere - especially when you’re on the road. 

Is van life glorified on social media? What do you do when loneliness strikes? Have you ever seen a UFO?!

We discuss all of this and more as we unpack what it means to feel lonely while living full time in a van. 

No script. No edits.

Grab a drink and let’s hang out.. 

Noah and Noodles here!

We want to extend a heartfelt thanks to every listener of Backroad Odyssey.

Your support fuels our passion and inspires us to keep sharing stories and discover overlooked locations.

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Hundreds of thousands traveled the roughly 2,500 miles from Missouri to the pacific coast - chasing fertile soil, better fortune and predictable climate. 

Among the thousands to have made this difficult journey westwards, no single group has garnered as much attention, or endured so much, as the roughly 87 people now referred to as the Donner Party …

 Upon reaching their destination, 47 of the 87 remain… what happened? 

Works Cited: 

Stuckey, M. E. (2011). The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 14(2), 229–260. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41940539

https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Donner-Party-Women-A-Tribute

https://sierranevadageotourism.org/entries/pioneer-monument/ed43023c-be23-4ee6-bbdc-f6b0b6eea706

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41780798?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41940539?searchText=the+donner+party&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dthe%2Bdonner%2Bparty%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Afae995de23f9342fd8c370bad8d6aabf&seq=8

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donner-party

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/donner-party

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1885479/episodes/new

http://thedonnerlife.weebly.com/characters.html

Noah and Noodles here!

We want to extend a heartfelt thanks to every listener of Backroad Odyssey.

Your support fuels our passion and inspires us to keep sharing stories and discover overlooked locations.

Follow each adventure visually at:

https://www.instagram.com/backroadsodyssey/

No edits. No script. 

In "Van Life Diaries", we  discuss experiences on the road, pull clips from previous episodes, talk  struggles, successes and everything in between. 

At each conclusion, I answer questions from listeners. Life questions, van questions, nothing is off limits. 

I’m going to grab a drink, if you’re in a position to as well grab a cold one and let’s hang out.. 

Noah and Noodles here!

We want to extend a heartfelt thanks to every listener of Backroad Odyssey.

Your support fuels our passion and inspires us to keep sharing stories and discover overlooked locations.

Follow each adventure visually at:

https://www.instagram.com/backroadsodyssey/

A water-logged marsh along highway 37, just west of Vallejo, California contains an object that perplexes, repulses and fascinates passing travelers.

How did this get here? The answer might surprise you. 

This is the story of The Lone Toilet.

Noah and Noodles here!

We want to extend a heartfelt thanks to every listener of Backroad Odyssey.

Your support fuels our passion and inspires us to keep sharing stories and discover overlooked locations.

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Something sinister happened behind these walls ...

I walk past the green shutters and elongated windows of the Jesse James house…

If not for the eerie feeling you get when approaching the entrance… it's beautiful.

I grasp the handle and open the time tested door. 

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Jesse James survives shootouts, bullet wounds and the ravages of they American Civil War… but his murder, and the shadowy series of events leading to a gun aimed at the back of his exposed head at his home in St. Joseph Missouri, that’s a story worth telling.  

Noah and Noodles here!

We want to extend a heartfelt thanks to every listener of Backroad Odyssey.

Your support fuels our passion and inspires us to keep sharing stories and discover overlooked locations.

Follow each adventure visually at:

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A vast collection of hand - carved, impossibly detailed, seemingly priceless wooden clocks rest around you. 

Never sold or bought, you are told … only collected. Some of them feet taller than yourself. 

One question plagues your mind as you observe the intricate patterns carved into the wood. 

How did these get here? 

Noah and Noodles here!

We want to extend a heartfelt thanks to every listener of Backroad Odyssey.

Your support fuels our passion and inspires us to keep sharing stories and discover overlooked locations.

Follow each adventure visually at:

https://www.instagram.com/backroadsodyssey/