Correspondent Tom Wilmer explores Eau Claire , Wisconsin, a city of 68,000 that has rapidly evolved to become a trend-setting cultural attraction.

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with locals about life in Wisconsin ’s historic villages dotting the Great River Road , a network of state and local byways following the route of the mighty Mississippi for over 2,000 miles.

Correspondent Tom Wilmer explores Eau Claire , Wisconsin, a city of 68,000 that has rapidly evolved to become a trend-setting cultural Mecca.

There are two standard options for dogs and cats that arrive at shelters and pounds: adoption or euthanasia. Lisa LaVerdia decided to create another option that she dubbed The Third Door, providing a home for unadoptable dogs and cats.

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Cal Poly journalism lecturer Katya Cengel to talk about her new book, “Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back. " Cengel shares the stories of four Cambodian families as they "confront criminal deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States." You are invited to subscribe to the Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel show podcast, Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer, featured on the NPR Podcast Directory , Apple

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Cal Poly journalism lecturer Katya Cengel to talk about her new book, “Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back” . Cengel shares the stories of four Cambodian families as they confront criminal deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States.

Join correspondent Tom Wilmer in China for an exploration of the northwest province of Shaanxi , and the numerous benefits of traveling to Tibet by automobile versus aircraft or train.

Morro Bay resident Chris Christensen will be in Nashville, the Ryman Auditorium on Aug. 22 to receive the Academy of Country Music Founders Award. Christensen’s mother and father started the Country Music Awards back in 1964 at the family owned Red Barrel nightclub in the Los Angeles community of Hawaiian Gardens.

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Monterey-based country and western musician Mike Beck. Beck talks about California’s unsung role as a prime incubator of America’s country and western musical genre, which gelled back in the 1950s and ‘60s with hotbeds in Bakersfield and Los Angeles.

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Monterey-based country and western musician Mike Beck. Beck talks about California’s unsung role as a prime incubator of America’s country and western musical genre, which gelled back in the 1950s and ‘60s with hotbeds in Bakersfield and Los Angeles.