LFTR Episode 71 - We’re nearing the end of our Summer of Song and wondering What’s Next? We discuss our week in 3 different Michigan State Parks including beach days and family bike rides.

Highlights include:

* An interesting bike path detour in Traverse City

* A campsite by a rocky beach with fossils in Petoskey

* Beach Party in Holland

* Hiking through woods and over sand dunes in Warren Dunes

* We can’t really know what’s next… and that’s probably good

* Biden is stepping aside and Harris feels… hopeful

* We’re not preppers, but we’re prepared (to go survive in the woods)

* Have a plan, but plan to change your plan

* Stories and morbidity

Links:

* Traverse City State Park

* Stonehound Brewing

* Petoskey State Park

* The Backlot Petoskey

* Tap 30 Pourhouse

* Holland State Park Beach Campground

* Warren Dunes State Park

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LFTR Episode 70 - We can barely contain our Joy this week, but we’re not sure why! Maybe you can let us know.. We left the gin out of our G&T’s and got sillier. 🤷 We recount our week in Toronto and seeing Mt. Joy

Highlights include:

* Dry July, y’all (so much good N/A stuff out there)

* TMI about sleeping habits

* Seeing Mt. Joy as a date night

* Shout out to the broad squad!

* Maybe the best crowd all summer

* The beautiful and garish Niagara Falls Canada side

* A Burger King roller coaster

* Doing Niagara cheap

* Sleeping at the ONroute

* What to expect when crossing borders (plus tips for making it smooth)

* Order the apps at a brewery, not cabbage

* Looking forward to Traverse and Michigan beaches!

* Jamming at Mt. Joy with our thousands of closest friends

* Music brings out the feels

* The pursuit of joy as a family value

* Being cheesy AF

Links:

* Partake Brewing

* Budweiser Stage (Toronto)

* Mt. Joy

* Clifton Hill

* Niagara Falls Canada

* Archival Brewing

* Traverse City State Park

* Jesus and Astrovans

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LFTR Episode 69 - This week we have a (nice) chat about how the hell we ended up here? We recount the emotional rollercoaster of realizing we had issues with the rig and blowing up our plans for the week to take care of it. We also wax nostalgic about our first camper - and how our Butterfly Effect was a broken tent set off a series of events that changed our lives forever.

Highlights include:

* Flint, MI is cute!

* Airstream alignment is weird

* An unplanned trip to “the mothership”

* jk we do have frontend separation on Flo.

* But, she’s patched up and scheduled for a full fix under warranty next month!

* Glorious, full power AC

* A chance to use our 20A dogbone (at 13A)

* An epic fail of a back in (even after 4 years of this, still do it once in a while!)

* We didn’t seriously consider getting a camper until our tent broke

* We were never home for more than 2 months at a time since!

* If you have a way to trial run full time road life, do it

* The pros and cons of being untethered

* The magical Sonoran desert

* Single aisle campers are great!

* Other “butterfly effects” in our lives

* Getting out (of normal) helped us learn more about ourselves

Links:

* Tenacity Brewing

* The Terraport at the mothership

* Sterling State Park

* Bronte Creek Provincial Park

* Taxa Mantis

* The Butterfly Effect

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, and you can email us at lettersfromtheroadpod@gmail.com.

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LFTR Episode 67 - Do you ever get handed lemons by the universe? Big or small, sometimes it can feel like you got a bunch of lemons dumped on you and you’re just expected to make Lemonade for everybody. You don’t have to. Don’t worry about it. That and our time at Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin.

Highlights include:

* Getting blasted on Madeline Island (not the fun way).

* Bailing out of the island to Ashland

* A date night! Friday Fish Fry in Wisconsin!

* What’s a pasty?

* A (past) kayak adventure on Lake Superior

* Processing our emotions is healthy (thanks Inside Out!)

* Why can’t we cry?

* Appreciating a good wallow (or not)

* Life is short - Eat the ice cream

Links:

* South Shore Brewery

* Madeline Island

* Big Bay Town Park

* Tom’s Burned Down Cafe

* Kreher and Prentice Park in Ashland

* Good Thyme

* Lawry’s Pasties (we went to the original location in Ishpeming)

* Bay Furnace Campground

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LFTR Episode 66 - What is Big Life? Do you have one? Do you wish you did? Do we? Who gets to decide and why? We explore this and other Big Questions during a rainstorm. We also catch up about our week in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, Madeline Island, and how we ended up at an indoor water park in Duluth.

Highlights include:

* Jay Cooke State Park near Duluth, MN is great camping and hiking

* What do you do when there’s high wind and up to 3” hail predicted in your area while camping?

* Go to a hotel/Waterpark for a night? 🤷

* The Waterpark used to have a fake volcano. It caught fire!! 😂

* Lake Superior North Shore adventures

* A KYD meetup at a great brewery

* Some rain on the airstream in the background of the cast if you listen for it!

* All our favorite things in a Harvest Host (and brats!) at MLP Farms

* Camping on Madeline Island - the good, the bad and the buggy

* Are we still striving, just in another area?

* We don’t feel like our value is wrapped up in it

* We do need money to live…

* “The thing to do”

* Sometimes it’s just that week.

Links:

* Jay Cooke State Park

* The Edgewater Hotel and Waterpark

* Tettegouche State Park

* Split Rock Lighthouse

* Betty’s Pies

* Gooseberry Falls State Park

* Canal Park, Duluth, MN

* Ursa Minor Brewing

* Keep Your Daydream

* MLP Farms

* Madeline Island

* Big Bay Town Park

* Tom’s Burned Down Cafe

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LFTR Episode 65 - This week before the show we were in a silly mood and you might be too after you listen! We review our week driving from Indiana to St Paul where we had time with friends and saw Noah Kahan, then talk about the trap that is the before and after framing.

Highlights include:

* Stopping at ALDI with the rig.

* A weird Harvest Host

* Redeemed by another HH at Cedar Ridge

* A windy drive north

* Dinner with an old friend and a new one!

* Noah Kahan in St Paul was amazing!

* The Counting Crows Casino Gig set loves Noah Kahan

* A friend took us up on our standing invitation to join our campfire!

* Camping ass camping in Jay Cooke State Park

* Before we hit the road we were pretty happy too!

* We realized we like to go play in the woods

* It was a different configuration, with upsides and down, but it wasn’t bad. We kept what worked well.

* Weightlifting? 🥱 Climbing? 🤗

* Fitness Journeys are more about journeys than fitness

* Mom needs alone time. This is good, do this.

Links:

* Cedar Ridge Winery & Distillery

* Excelsior Brewing

* Baker Park Reserve

* John Vincent III

* Noah Kahan - “Maine”

* Review - Noah Kahan Who is he? 😂

* Jay Cooke State Park

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LFTR Episode 64 - We waited for just the right moment to talk about this one, which apparently was from another Cracker Barrel parking lot on the way back north from Lexington! We talk Railbird Music Festival, Kentucky Horse Park Campground and then get into why we’re spending all the money we don’t have this summer on Music.

Highlights include:

* Why is Kentucky Horse Park Campground so popular for Airstreamers?

* Railbird highs and lows

* The Red Clay Strays’ unreal crowd for the small stage

* Icky pastor vibes

* An Uber nightmare

* Allison Russell is a hopeful agnostic who “takes us to church” with her music

* The power of music is hard to describe with words - which I guess is why we have music

* The conversation happening between performers and audiences

* What if humans used to talk like birds? 🐦

* Once and a brief Broadway tangent

* Just any live music. Go listen.

Links:

* Kentucky Horse Park

* Legacy Trail

* Railbird Music Festival

* Our summer of song playlist

* LFTR podcast theme - Break Away by Young Presidents

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