Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   WHAT’S UP WITCHES?!?!?   It’s spooky season once again, baby! My favorite time of year!   For our 2025 installment, we’re going to take some legend tripping adventures through the Arkansas hills and hollers. From creepy cryptids to inexplicable spooky lights, and from haunted hotels to the last vestiges of hill country folk magic, tonight’s show promises to excite your interests in the legends and lore of my home state. You’ll hear about one famous frontiersman’s alleged encounter with a beast of the night in an ozark holler, a headless brakeman wandering about in search of his gourd, and even some unexplained spooklights that your humble host has observed with my own eyes!   I hope you’ll join me tonight to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week we are once again going to explore America’s Mother Road, Route 66. This iteration takes us from from Texola to Tucumcari. This little adventure qualifies as Baby Bear’s Birthday Bash - 2025 edition.      This stretch of 66 plays host to multiple iconic sites that inspired scenes in the Pixar movies “Cars”, as well as icons such as the Cadillac Ranch, the Big Texan Steak Ranch, the world famous Blue Swallow Motel, and much, much more. Join us tonight as I line out the many highlights of this very special section of original Route 66!   Listen in tonight to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week we’re going to explore America’s Mother Road, Route 66, from Tulsa to Texola, the little town that sends Oklahoma’s portion of 66 on into Texas. Oklahoma hosts not only its own state museum for 66, but also the National Route 66 museum, as well as numerous Route 66 icons. From ruins to neon and from greasy spoons to vintage service stations, Oklahoma’s 430-some-odd miles of the Mother Road has a little bit of everything!   Listen in tonight to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   Tonight we explore an often overlooked section of America’s iconic Route 66 - Southeast Kansas. Kansas hosts only 13.2 miles of Route 66, but that 13.2 miles is all original and hosts one of the most widely recognized service stations and characters in all of Route Sixty Six-dom.   Listen in tonight to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week we finally find ourself at the oft-mentioned episode “that was coming eventually”. For our 100th episode and belated 4 year anniversary, it seems fitting to look back at how far we’ve come and where we’re heading next!   Listen in now to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

This week we explore northeastern Oklahoma’s “green country”…the Ozark foothills where Wilson Rawl’s classic work is set. Science folks might try to convince you there’s no such thing as a red fern in the American interior highlands, but we natives know better than that…   Join us tonight as we recount my daughter and I’s adventure introducing her to the real world locations of her latest favorite book!   If you’d like to get in touch send me an email at mywaywardstory@gmail.com   or visit   www.waywardstories.com  

…on such a winter’s daaaaayyyy….   Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week we recap my holiday adventures and take a quick trip to a Christmas-light-bedazzled theme park with my daughter as well as a 3-day adventure to southeastern Colorado. There will be gold fields, backcountry byways, people hanging 1,000 above the bottom of a gorge by a single rope, and peeing in parking lots in 20 degree weather! Everything you could ever want in a holiday week!   Listen in now to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

I hope you all have a great holiday season!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week we explore the famous Santa Fe trail through Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. Outlaw hideouts in the Oklahoma panhandle, trading posts on the trail, abandoned mining camps, infamous cemeteries, and my new favorite food (until I find the next one) are all on tap, and the American Wild West will be won…or at least subdued within reasonable parameters. A birthday…not unlike any other day…is a great excuse to get out and explore!   Listen in now to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week we explore some locations associated with what we would know today as “the Wild West”, or perhaps the very early American Frontier during the days of westward expansion. There will be shootouts, there will be soldiers, there will be forts, and there WILL. BE. FRIED. CHICKEN!   Listen in now to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Weeeeeellllllll…hi guys! It’s been a minute or two…months.  I’m still alive, spooky season is here…so let’s hang out for an hour and a half and tell some creepy stories! Remember, ghosts are going to stalk you no matter where you are, so you might as well get off your tail and go out and look for some that have never haunted your dreams…just to keep life spicy.   www.waywardstories.com   Swing by and drop me a line at mywaywardstory@gmail.com  

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   It is my daughter’s birthday month. So this week’s show is going to line out her birthday gift.… a big 3 Day Weekend road trip!   Of all the options she was given to choose from she chose the absolute nerdiest, much to my delight. Check out tonight’s show to hear all about Poverty Point, Louisiana, Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the haunted antebellum McRaven tour home! Join us on this week’s adventure dubbed affectionately as “Nerd Trip 2024”.   Listen in now to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   It’s been a long six week hiatus, but we’re back! Life has been crazy and I’ve been running like a maniac trying to keep things on track, but excuses aside it’s time for a new episode. This week we’re going to talk about some truly hidden gems…since modern travel writers don’t seem to know what the term “hidden” actually means. We’re going to explore the Ouachita Mountains…the Ozarks far lesser known compatriot to the south.   Listen in now to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to       mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week I embark upon both literal and philosophical adventures as I contemplate the importance of seizing the moments of our lives before they disappear like dust in the wind (see what I did there?). In addition to this philosophical sidetrack, we talk about some of my recent adventures as well as some of our listener’s adventures to boot!   Listen in now to hear all about them!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to       mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week we explore Arkansas’…and America’s…First* National Park…Hot Springs!   Listen in now to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome Back to Wayward Stories!   This week…well, we all know what happened this week.   It was the much anticipated 2024 total solar eclipse, and it scurried its way right over my head in this great state of Arkansas. This week’s episode details my adventure to find a wilderness setting in which to experience and capture it.   This experience truly moved me, and I think it’s evident in tonight’s show…this is possibly the most real I’ve ever been on the mic.   My entire day truly was a classic Wayward Son adventure from beginning to end, complete with a whole group of new friends.   Listen in now to hear all about it!   If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome back to Wayward Stories! A little sidetrack adventure a few weeks ago inspired an idea within me…more of a question really, at first. Why doesn’t Arkansas, with all of our glorious forestry roads and backcountry trails, have designated backcountry byways? A short fact-check indeed confirmed we have none so designated, so your ever-benevolent host (mòi)  decided to designate a few of my favorites for your consideration. Tune in tonight to hear about some of the Arkansas backroads that I’ve enjoyed exploring, and get your notepad ready! You’ll want to take a few notes! If you’d like to get in touch with me, just shoot an email to   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   -or-   check out    www.waywardstories.com   Thanks for listening!

Welcome back to Wayward Stories! This week we continue a series we started last year and digitally explore Bend, Oregon! Join me this week as I look at the many incredible aspects of Central Oregon and discover why Bend belongs on top of everyone’s bucket list! From waterfalls to the Cascades, volcanic landscapes to backcountry byways and including a National Park and a smattering of State Parks, you won’t want to miss this one!   If you’d like to get in touch send me an email at   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   Or   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   to learn all about everything we’re up to here at Wayward Stories!   Thanks for listening!

Welcome back to Wayward Stories! This week we wrap up a series we started about this time last year, and head back to Cali for the final installment! Join me this week as I reminisce on exploring some of the beaches and sights to see along California Highway 1 from Watsonville to Point Reyes Station.     If you’d like to get in touch send me an email at   mywaywardstory@gmail.com   Or   Head on over to   www.waywardstories.com   to learn all about everything we’re up to here at Wayward Stories!   Thanks for listening!

This week we take our yearly philosophical sidetrack and explore the direction of the podcast, the outdoor sub-culture at large, and purpose in production, as it were.  No new wilderness adventures this week, save perhaps the wilderness of the soul…   I want to thank you all for tuning in, and encourage you to reach out if you’d like to get in touch at mywaywardstory@gmail.com   If you’d like to connect on social media or see any of the most current projects and photos from the ol’ Wayward Son, visit us at:   www.waywardstories.com     Thanks for Listening!