This Week in Travel – Episode 186

Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guests Chris Staudinger and Tawny Clark from captainandclark.com Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

OnTravel Interview in San Clemente, California

Last week I was in San Diego when I drove up to San Clemente with my friend Shannon O’Donnell to meet with Paul Lasley and Elizabeth Harryman. We met for dinner at South of Nick’s, a local Mexican restaurant and then did an impromptu interview outside the restaurant on the street. Podcast: Play in new …

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Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point

Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point UNESCO World Heritage Site

From the World Heritage inscription for the Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point: Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point owes its name to a 19th-century plantation close to the site, which is in the Lower Mississippi Valley on a slightly elevated and narrow landform. The complex comprises five mounds, six concentric semi-elliptical ridges separated by shallow depressions …

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Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

Of the 59 sites with a national parks designation in the United States, the oddest of the bunch has to be Hot Springs National Park. Hot Springs isn’t a park in any real sense of the word. Not only is it the smallest national park by area, but the biggest attraction also has nothing to …

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