Road tripping through the South and Southwest U.S.

A road trip? A good old-fashioned road trip!

June 21, 2023

Ruth Sturby & John Mauel  have found that the best part of road travel is the “in-between” sites, between major cities and airports.

Listen to Ruth and John tell their stories of some magnificent, surprising, scary, and inspiring encounters as they travelled through every state north of the Rio Grande River and west of Louisiana and Mississippi. See Pancho Villa's trigger finger, the graves of Bonnie and Clyde, blooming cactus, the childhood home of President Bill Clinton and the first store that Sam Walton opened in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Our presenters travel in a 2007 Toyota Tacoma truck with a small pop-up camper on the back which gives them the freedom and maneuverability to drive in downtown Los Angeles, New Orleans and along back-roads that only a 4x4 truck can navigate. Their “prairie clipper” has helped them explore “everything” in-between.