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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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22. Newport, Oregon

February 28, 2023 • Jordan and Katie • Season 1 • Episode 22

Ten years ago, Katie uninvited Jordan from Newport’s Seafood and Wine Festival and he still hasn’t let it go.
Katie enjoys the marriage of grunge and bourgeois in Newport and Jordan declares Newport as the Capital of the Coast before talking about the first celebrity he ever met: Keiko the orca, star of Free Willy.

Katie is weirded out Newport’s Ocean to Bay Trail doesn’t end at Yaquina Bay, but seemingly someone’s yard in town and once received the shirt of a barista’s back at the local Dutch Bros.

Jordan tells Katie about how Newport is the western terminus for Highway 20, the longest road in the United States, and also how he was probably unaware of highway signage as a child because he was busy creating and choreographing a jukebox musical about the cast of Super Mario Bros. to the discography of Shania Twain.