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Letters From the Road Podcast

Jamie Schumacher

Letters From the Road sends you stories and encouragement from your traveling friends, Jamie and Clay Schumacher. The pair are nomads traveling North America in their RV with their kids and dogs, checking out all the hikes and breweries they can along the way. Grab your favorite beverage and pull up a chair to our cozy campfire chat. We share a bit about our recent travels, a letter from Jamie’s Substack, and a discussion in each episode. Join us every Sunday. lettersfromtheroad.substack.com

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LFTR Episode 51 - Embarrassment (and Tucson, AZ)

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/03/10

LFTR Episode 51 - We’re embarrassing ourselves this week. Well, we always do that but this time we acknowledge it. We pick up our 2021 travel flashback where we have a brief haunted interlude in New Mexico before kicking back in Tucson at the KOA where we celebrated birthdays and visited Saguaro NP. The letter this week was Embarrassment where we discuss what it takes to embarrass us, and how embarrassment has changed as we have.Highlights include:* Why oh wye?* Deming, NM is haunted, complete with

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66:40

LFTR Episode 50 - Mountain Roads (and City of Rocks...

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/03/03

Welcome to episode 50 of LFTR where we discuss the singular joy that is a mountain road, and some of our favorite mountain roads from our travels. Our travel recap this week continues with our time in City of Rock State Park. Highlights include:* A surprisingly delicious cocktail that we are LTTP for - Aperol Spritz* Tips for choosing campsites you fit in (and City of Rocks fail)* Sometimes giving up is the right choice* Racing the sun in the Monongahela* Monarch pass was our first mountain pass

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68:13

LFTR Episode 49 - Stationary (and White Sands...

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/02/25

Welcome to episode 49 of LFTR where we’re talking about what it means to be stationary, our new home base, why we chose to have a home base again, why we chose this home base, and how it enables our continued adventures. Our travel recap this week continues with our time in Alamogordo, New Mexico and White Sands National Park. Highlights include:* Waking up to roosters* Everything is better with hatch chili* Closing down White Sands National Park* We’re not getting off the road, we can’t. The road

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70:11

LFTR Episode 48 - Confidence

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/02/18

LFTR Episode 48 - We’re gonna make you confident! Confident at least that we started this show three times and the third time's the charm. We start with a tangent about the Wicked movie (apparently movies?), reveal our unsurprising news that we got a “sticks and bricks” in Leavenworth, and jump into how freaking amazing New Mexican food is as we continue our review of our 2022 travels.Highlights include:* What’s in the second half of Wicked anyway?* It’s already IPA season and we’re not mad* The

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61:52

LFTR Episode 47 - Running Wild

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/02/11

LFTR Episode 47 - We reminisce about running wild (now and as kids) and what that means for our family today. We also talk about some birthday fun and start into our amazing Oct. 2022 in New Mexico with our trip to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.Highlights include:* Gin & Tonics - does the gin matter?* Littlest’s birthday weekend* Working nights at the ski resort* Mimosas on the roof of the RV at the Balloon Fiesta* Other Albuquerque highlights (see links)* Responsibility and independence with age

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72:34

LFTR Episode 46 - Lost in a Different World

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/02/04

Welcome to LFTR Episode 46 and we’re lost in another world entirely. This week isn’t book club, really, but more an ode to finding books that take us amazing places, our favorite reading (and other) gadgets for travel, and more. We also talk about an adorable town and state park in Michigan as we continue our 2022 recap.Highlights include:* Clay has (walking) pneumonia* (Self inflicted) truck issues and annoying dealers* The best rest area ever* Auto level is the worst* We’re starting another

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LFTR Ep 45 - Overwhelmed

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/01/28

Welcome to episode 45 of LFTR and we’re talking about the way January is going, which is fine, really. Just a lot. The sub-zero temps did us in for winter camping and one of us is back to work travel (a bit). It’s an adjustment. We also talk about times that we’ve been overwhelmed on the road or with road life in general. Included in this episode’s 2022 escapades recap, we leave the NE and head to Ohio where we stay at a gem of a state park and are underwhelmed with a national park.Highlights

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LFTR Episode 44 - RVing with Dogs

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/01/21

Welcome to Episode 44 where we’re talking about RVing with dogs. We’ve got a tribute to our old guy Dink (AKA Stink) and a lot of tips and tricks we’ve picked up over the years from hauling our pups around North America. We also talk about sub-zero temps (tune in next week to hear how we fared) and our Summer 2022 recap continues with a week on Lake Champlain in Vermont. Highlights include:* We went on a sleigh ride!* Vermont Roadtrip Highlights* Finding vets on the road* How we deal with being away

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70:41

LFTR Episode 43 - Maybe We’re Getting Better

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/01/14

Welcome to episode 43 of LFTR where we’re talking about some of the ways we think things are getting better. There’s a lot of stuff getting worse right now and it’s easy to feel like things are bleak. Maybe they are, but we’re trying to bring a little optimism and encouragement by focusing on things that may be improving just a bit. We know there’s a long way to go. Nothing is solved. But like…maybe there’s hope.We’re also talking about our trip to the Northeast in summer of 2022 and rounding out

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64:20

LFTR 42 - Realistic Affirmations for the New Year

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2024/01/07

Welcome to episode 42 of LFTR where we’re talking affirmations. We’re leaning heavy into the encouragement part of “stories and encouragement from your traveling friends” and we hope you find it a little funny. And if you’re here for the stories, we’ve got plenty of those, too. Don’t worry. We also resume our summer 2022 recap with our second week in Acadia National Park.Highlights include:* It’s Dry January! Why we do it and what we like about it* The robe monster abides* A review of Mana

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72:54

LFTR Episode 41 - New Year’s Special

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/12/31

Welcome to Episode 41 where we’re sharing an overview of our route from 2023 and highlighting some of our favorite stops. Buckle in because we covered a lot of miles this year and we include a lot about our travels in Baja, which hadn’t been covered on the cast before. We also share some of our travel plans for 2024 - we hope to see you out there!2023 highlighted stops include:* Steckel Park, Ventura County* Malibu RV Park* Santa Cruz Redwoods RV Park* Samuel P Taylor State Park, Marin County*

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LFTR Dragon Talk - Empyrean Book Club

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/12/24

We got so excited about book club that it went very, very long - so we split it up into two episodes. This one is a bit of a bonus where we get into all things Fourth Wing and Iron Flame. Happy Holidays friends! Get full access to Letters From the Road at lettersfromtheroad.substack.com/subscribe

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LFTR Episode 40 - Book Club #2

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/12/24

Welcome to LFTR Episode 40 - Book Club (#2) where we’re talking about a bunch of the books Jamie and Clay have read over the past 20 weeks and a bunch of recommendations from our listeners and friends. Highlights (other than books) include:* A cocktail that tasted like hand soap* Happy Holidays from Christmastown* A recommendation for “old” people learning to snowboard* Continuing our NE Travel series - Maine: Camden, Bangor and a couple Harvest Hosts + a holiday weekend travel hack* LFTR Bookclub

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LFTR Episode 39 - The Call of the Road

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/12/17

Welcome to Episode 39 of Letters From the Road where we’re talking about “The Call of the Road” and what that means to us. We talk about our skiing and snowboarding experience this week in Washington, plus our NE summer recap continues with our first week in Maine at Acadia.Highlights include:* Clay’s busted tailbone & adventures in snowboarding* Winter camping mishaps* Boothbay and our first week at Acadia* Hiking Cadillac Mountain* How we got hooked on RV travel* Summer 2024 plans preview* Budget

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LFTR Episode 38 - All the Pretty Hobbies

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/12/10

Welcome to LFTR Episode 38 where we’re talking hobbies! We talk about picking up new hobbies as an adult and what hobbies are “allowed” for grown-ups. We also continue our recap of our Northeast trip with a review of our time in New Hampshire.Highlights include:* Get in your book club reviews!* We finally got snow!* We had our first ski lessons and had a blast* Greenfield and Lincoln, NH - things to do* The “menu of acceptable hobbies” for adults* What makes a hobby?* Finding time for your own

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LFTR Episode 37 - Being Bad at Things

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/12/03

Welcome to episode 37 of LFTR, where we talk about trying new things, which we are usually bad at because they are new. Sometimes we stay bad at them, but we still have fun. Sometimes, we have so many hobbies we don’t have time to get good at any of them. We also start our winter travel recap series this week, talking about our time in Maryland, Delaware, and New York in the Summer of 2022. Highlights include:* Leavenworth at Christmas is Disneyland with Times Square mascots* Harvest Hosts and

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LFTR Episode 36 - Festive

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/11/26

Dear Friend,Welcome to episode 36 of LFTR where we’re talking about feeling festive. Stories of holidays. This week we’ve been climbing and back at Icicle Brewing. *Disclaimer to anyone listening who gave us Christmas gifts, when we talk about taking kids’ toys to Goodwill, we’re talking about after they’ve had them for a few years, not right away!Highlights include:* Climbing and chicken wings* First Leavenworth hike & a not-so-awesome off-leash dog encounter* Think twice before getting an RV with

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LFTR Episode 35 - The List

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/11/19

Dear Friend,Welcome to episode 35 where we talk about “getting on the list.” What do we mean by that? We mean, standing out too much or saying too much about certain issues that might draw attention. For the first half of the show, we talk about what we’ve been up to lately. Highlights include:* Will someone please talk to Jamie about the ending of Iron Flame?* We found our home climbing gym for the next few months* Some winter RVing tips* Book fairs and reading diverse authors* How to care without

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71:44

LFTR Episode 34 - Game Night

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/11/12

Dear Friend,Welcome to Episode 34 of LFTR where we talk about our time in Palm Springs and driving all the way up to our winter spot in Leavenworth, Washington over the course of two and a half days.This week’s highlights include:* Palm Springs favorites including Village Fest* RV maintenance* Tips for surviving long drives* We finally got back to Icicle Brewing* Favorite games we keep in the camper* Having an “open” houseThanks for being here friends!See you down the road,Jamie and ClayLinks:Become

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LFTR Episode 33 - Rivers and Roads

Letters From the Road Podcast ·

2023/11/05

Dear Friend,Welcome to LFTR Episode 33, Rivers and Roads. We’re talking about being carried along by the current of a busy fall of activity. Maybe you can relate? Highlights include:* Lumberyard brewing in Flagstaff* We moved into our other RV!* Las Vegas featuring Container Park* Disagreeing on organization standards* Clay and Jamie burst into song* Funny stories from our wedding* Being so early you’re lateThanks for being here friends!See you down the road,JamieLinks:Lumberyard BrewingContainer

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