Postcards From The Road

Mary Latham, 32, has been traveling around The United States searching for More Good.  The Long Island, New York native set out three years ago to visit all 50 states.  She has stayed in the homes of over 150 strangers, and when our host Elizabeth Hill spoke to her on October 23rd she had collected […]

Rick Reed, 63, is a retired postmaster and hiking enthusiast. Born and raised in New York’s North Country he grew up around the Adirondack high peaks and in 1980 he completed his first peak: Mt. Marcy. However, it wasn’t until he became postmaster in West Stockholm 17 years later that Reed decided to become an […]

This past June Hannah Joseph, 28, a high school Spanish teacher with Hoover City Schools in Hoover, Alabama ventured to Cuba for an eight day excursion with travelers from around America, myself included. With the hope of bringing school supplies to a once very mysterious land, she credited her career as to what made her […]

Jessica Holmes, 46, is a comedian and mental health advocate.  I spoke with Holmes on WAMC’s 51% about her new memoir Depression The Comedy, a comedic conversation starter about depression.  However, this episode of Postcards focuses on her mission work in Venezuela with The Mormon Church in the early 90’s. Holmes said her upbringing with […]

Matt Plummer graduated college in 2013 with a bachelors in history and the looming question of what’s next? Post college, the 23 year old started landscaping on Martha’s Vineyard when the realization came to him, he had never traveled outside of the U.S.  Plummer decided it was time to go.  Giving himself one month to […]

In April 2012 then 22-year-old producer and director Holli Rae set out on a 6 month, 10,000 mile journey across The United States on the adventure of a lifetime.  Rae and her co-producer Sara Landas begin what would become a 4 year journey determined to empower the feminine voice.  They packed their lives into a […]

In early 2019 Jordan Taylor Hill traveled to Senegal and Guinea to expand his musical background as an artist. Hill says his passion for drumming and his previous visits to West Africa sparked his trip back. Audio from this episode was provided by Jordan Taylor Hill. To learn more about Hill’s journey, upcoming drum workshops […]

Iran is a county steeped in history, culture and nature. In April 2018 29-year-old, Boston native, Henry Zhu ventured to the Middle East for 9 days to experience what the county has to offer. I asked Zhu why he wanted to go to Iran with the current political climate and most mass media outlets discouraging […]

Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world. In 2014, Julie Deadrick, a Molecular Microbiologist from Virginia, set her sights on a trip there. Deadrick says she wanted to go to Antarctica because she wanted a unique travel experience to a desolate, remote area that not many people have seen and she […]

On Saturday March 2, 2019 the 47th Iditarod will kick off.  The dog mushing race covers over 1000 miles of the roughest terrain from Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western coast of the Bering Sea. The harsh conditions include: jagged mountain ranges, thick forest, barren tundra and miles of windswept coast, […]