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Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures

Jordan and Katie Wolfe

Trapped in a village on Thailand"s tallest mountain! Kicked off an Italian train! Evacuated from Yellowstone National Park! Join couple Katie and Jordan as they recount travel stories from across four continents over the course of a decade and the mishaps they always seem to get into.

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47. Bayocean, Oregon

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/11/12

It’s time to visit an Oregon town that time nearly forgot! Katie and Jordan live a couple miles away from a peninsula that was once home to a cutting edge resort town literally and perilously built on sand and is now buried beneath ten feet of it. Bayocean was built on a spit of land that separated Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It existed from 1906 and was battered by the elements for decades before the final structure collapsed in 1972. It was promoted as “The Atlantic City of ...

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46. Mexico City, Mexico

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/11/05

Insect caviar! An urban green space twice the size of Central Park! The 52,000-pound Aztec Sun Stone! The oldest and highest elevation North American metropolis dives straight into the hearts of the Exploregonians as they venture to Mexico City. Katie and Jordan make a friend on the plane and after landing, has her parents give them all a tour of the historical heart of the city and then a pitstop to a secret doughnut experience. Katie gushes about Mexico City’s art scene and Jordan lov...

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45. Halloween in Oregon

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2025/10/29

How do two scaredy cats celebrate Halloween? Katie does it by closing her eyes in haunted houses and Jordan wears a visor to weave through corn mazes in the daylight. Tricks and treats abound as Katie and Jordan talk about some of their favorite memories of Halloween in Oregon, a famous movie that shot in the town of St. Helens, and Katie talks about a Care Bear costume that was just too snug in the hands as a kid and a handmade Tinkerbell costume that Katie enthusiastically cut way too short...

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44. Portland, Maine

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/10/22

Katie thinks she’s hilarious as the podcast goes back-to-back Portlands! Jordan says it’s taking a bit of a “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” approach. Find out if Portland, Maine is the actual, true Original Recipe Portland and how a flip of a coin changed the destiny of both big-city American Portlands. Katie loves the brick and ivy in the Old Port area, but really wishes she saw more people in yellow rain slickers and matching hats. Jordan is confused by New England Boat Cult...

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43. Portland, Oregon

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/10/15

It’s finally time to journey to the City of Roses! Katie and Jordan scratch the surface of a dozen years of adventures in Portland, Oregon and reminisce about the dance injury that led to Jordan giving Katie a piggyback ride to urgent care. Jordan’s earliest Portland memories are wrapped around nearly being abducted by the circus and going to his first concert to see the dream performer every 90s kid was dying to see: Neil Diamond. Katie claims Portland is kinda goth and Jordan cl...

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42. Disneyland (Halloween Edition)

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2025/10/08

Katie and Jordan reckon with possibly being Disney Adults in Denial as they return to The Happiest Place on Earth for Halloween time. The duo attend the popular Oogie Boogie Bash and wear unexpected costumes (that Jordan was 80 percent sure would be allowed in) that ultimately led to very fun interactions with everyone in the park. Katie goes on a deep dive in a rabbit hole exploring the convoluted backstory of the event. Jordan shares his wisdom-nuggets about the first Disneyland Hallo...

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41. The Oregon Vortex

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/10/01

There is a famous anomaly in Southern Oregon that Katie and Jordan finally physically find themselves in this week. The Oregon Vortex has confused, frustrated, and mystified people for nearly a century. People appear way shorter or taller than they usually do! Things roll uphill! A broom can stand by itself! By. Itself. This mysterious sphere of a vortex has even inspired a Disney animated series. Katie and Jordan discuss what it was like to visit the legendary place in Oregon that is e...

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40. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/09/24

Battling intense allergies and/or a sinus infection, Katie discusses her first solo outing as a traveler: the Galápagos Islands. She journeyed from Colombia to Quito, Ecuador before hopping on a plane and a boat to the archipelago, which is an excellent word. Jordan throws out the trivia nugget for the old definition of “galápago” then proceeds to make two excellent puns on the word that impresses nobody. Katie’s first time snorkeling was off the islands and when she wasn’t in the water...

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39. North Umpqua River, Oregon

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/09/17

The river is calling Katie and Jordan’s name this week as they head south along Oregon’s Highway 138 (a.k.a. “The Highway of Waterfalls”) along the special North Umpqua River! Katie takes Jordan whitewater rafting on a “ship of a raft” for his birthday and she is still unsure if he could do a full day on the water. Jordan is moved as they navigate downriver along an area important to the Umpqua people, which is a tribe he is allegedly descended from. They soak their aching bodies in the Umpqu...

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38. Laurel, Mississippi

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/09/10

We’re in the Deep South now, according to a pair of high school girls working in a Laurel, Mississippi ice cream parlor. Katie and Jordan discuss how they never expected to romp around Mississippi and visit the homeland of the popular HGTV show “Home Town” and realize our best friend is a Ben Napier doppelgänger. Jordan wonders if Laurel overemphasizes fun, eye-catching design in its downtown over quality businesses and Katie reminds everyone the city is home to one Lance Bass.&nb...

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37. Cannon Beach, Oregon

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/09/03

Hit the deck! This week, Jordan tells Katie how Cannon Beach got its name — and it definitely has to do with a shipwreck. Katie talks about her favorite four-legged roaming residents of Cannon Beach and Jordan tries to untangle his own childhood socioeconomic mental block with the popular Oregon Coast town. Katie saw Little John smoking a cigarette outside the local community theater and Jordan tells the tale of two Haystack Rocks and John Quincy Adams erasure in downtown Cannon Beach.&...

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36. Missoula, Montana

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/08/27

Missoula, Montana holds a special place in Katie and Jordan’s hearts because it was the first big stop on two separate road trips. Why is Missoula called ZooTown? Katie instantly figured it out and Jordan is probably still struggling with it. The duo have never been to Missoula in the daytime and once rolled into town right when a major concert was starting in the university’s football stadium that neither knew about, but ran to listen to against a chain-link fence like a pair of ...

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35. Pendleton, Oregon

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/08/20

Yeehaw! Katie lets everyone know Jordan has pronounced “Pendleton” incorrectly for his entire life and Jordan argues there shouldn’t be a silent “D” in words. Katie’s grandfather was born in Pendleton, and the duo discuss wandering around one of her ancestral homelands with her grandparents in their 90s. Jordan is disturbed by a broken weather widget on Travel Pendleton’s website and Katie is excited about a museum that chronicles western expansionism from the perspective of the Native people...

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34. Phuket, Thailand

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/08/13

DIY cheek-peekin' chaps and a bag full of melted truffles marked the beginning for Katie and Jordan's sweltering time on Thailand's largest island: Phuket. Before they could even step foot on the island, they were trapped on the plane waiting for a "VIP" to fly out -- and they have some guesses as to who it was. Katie reads verbatim from the travel journal they kept on their three-month honeymoon around East and Southeast Asia and Jordan reminisces about hitching a ride from the wrong h...

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33. Beaverton, Oregon

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/08/06

Katie and Jordan venture into the Portland-Metro by exploring Oregon's sixth-largest city -- and one-time hopeful to be second-largest -- Beaverton! Katie talks about how the city's modern multi-cultural identity helped introduce her to different cultures and cuisines at a young age and talks about the now-shuttered Beaverton Bakery and Jordan wonders if it was a "Ratatouille" situation. The city is home to one of New York Times top pizzerias in the U.S. and the duo talk about the pies ...

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32. Tillamook County Fair, Oregon

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/07/30

It's the most magical time of the year in Tillamook, Oregon! The biggest, most unifying event on the local calendar is the Tillamook County Fair and the annual four-day extravaganza is an explosion of all the pent up magic in the community. Katie and Jordan discuss this year's upcoming 100th anniversary of the fair's marquee event the Pig-N-Ford races, three-lap races around a horse racing track with stripped down Model T cars, squealing piglets, and a whole lotta history. And Katie may...

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31. Arches National Park, Utah

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/07/23

Katie is absolutely "breathless" when she visits the otherworldly Arches National Park, which is described as a "red-rock wonderland." Both Katie and Jordan bring the same facts about the geologic formations to this podcast, which means they must be true, right? Arches National Park contains 2,000 natural stone arches and the park has the highest concentration of them in the world. Katie wants to do an arch audit to see how accurate that number is. Jordan tells Katie the alternati...

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30. Ashland, Oregon

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/07/16

Jordan immediately goes off the rails with "Chronicles of Narnia" references

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29. Tanzania, East Africa (with Special Guest!)

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/07/09

Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti (even though it’s, like, 200 miles away), Katie and Jordan take a very special trip down memory lane this week with guest Jessica, who spent eight weeks in East Africa, primarily in Tanzania, during a study abroad trip in college! Jessica was on the worst boat ride ever on her way to the paradise that is Zanzibar and bought spices that are probably stale by now. Jordan attempts to impress everyone with his Zanzibar knowledge but is im...

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28. Oregon Coast Fourth of July Spectacular!

Exploregonians: Travel Misadventures ·

2025/07/02

It's Independence... Week? Katie and Jordan discuss iconic Fourth of July events and memories across Tillamook County in Manzanita, Rockaway Beach, Oceanside, and Pacific City. When Jordan was, like, three, a stray bottle rocket attacked him, but he was protected by his San Francisco 49ers sweater and the spirit of Joe Montana. Katie's first time watching fireworks on the beach resulted in a sulfurous fog that obscured the rest of the show. After nearly twenty years, the duo final...

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