http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/14May24-Newberry-Volcano-Monument-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In central Oregon you’ll find a cave tour that is quite popular.  In fact, you’ll most likely need a reservation…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/13May24-Newberry-Volcano-Monument-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)South of Bend, Oregon you’ll find a vast volcanic field.  It’s a place with a wide variety of geological features…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/10May14-Stand-By-Me.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The movie Stand By Me is considered a classic by many. It’s a film that is still quite popular with…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/09May14-Oregon-Trail-Wagon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thousands of people traveled the Oregon Trail as pioneers headed west and almost all of them made the trip in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/08May14-Mount-Hood-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Very few people climb Mt. Everest, but there’s just something about the experience of climbing a really tall mountain.  Perhaps…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/07May14-Mount-Hood-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early days, many people were simply trying to get around this place.  Then after the years passed, some…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/05/06May14-Barlow-Road.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This road wasn’t necessarily a short cut.  In terms of miles traveled it was a longer route.  However, it soon…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/04/03May14-Government-Camp-Oregon.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a trip becomes a real haul because of all the stuff you are carrying with you.  That was the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/19Jan23-High-Desert-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are plenty of museums across the country to visit, but it’s fairly rare to find one that cover 40…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/18Jan23-High-Desert-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As settlers moved west, rail lines were not far behind them in most cases.  However, when you look at the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/17Jan23-Boring-Oregon-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes you run into someone, who when asked about where they live, will tell you they live in a boring…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/16Jan23-Boring-Oregon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A trip to Boring, Oregon is anything but – especially if you stop by the place Cliff Barackman established back…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/15Jan23-Boring-Oregon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The term “sasquatch” is one that invokes a variety of images for people.  To some in may be merely a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/12Jan23-Thompson-Mill-Oregon-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us are fascinated by those old mills that use water power to turn wheels or turbines that in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/11Jan23-Thompson-Mill-Oregon-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the Willamette River valley you’ll find an old mill with quite a story.  It’s legacy dates to the 1850s…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/02Nov23-Fort-Clatsop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/01Nov23-Fort-Clatsop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805…Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter camp. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/07/27Jul22-McGloflin-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today it is just a historic site overlooking the Oregon’s Wilamette River…yet the man who lived here is regarded to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/08Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a foreign attack on the U.S. mainland…yet few have heard the story of Japan’s balloon bombs and the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/07Oct21-Balloon-Bombs-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans know of the bombs Japan dropped at Pearl Harbor…yet few have heard the story of the 9000 that were…