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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.
Episodes
24 episodes
23. Osaka, Japan
The box read “We want to go to Kyoto in your car” in Japanese, and a pair of women driving to Osaka for a One Direction concert gave the hitchhiking Katie and Jordan a ride from a roadside Starbucks. They were close to Kyoto, but to...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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1:12:16
22. Newport, Oregon
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 be...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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56:55
21. Midtown Manhattan, New York
Jordan won front row tickets to Hamilton in New York City, which spurred a crazy two-day planning spree. Katie and Jordan have been together almost ten years, so it's only fitting they have now seen ten shows on Broadway. When they ...
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Episode 21
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1:24:55
20. Pacific City, Oregon
Because it is Valentine's Day, Jordan reads an excerpt from his memoir recounting pivotal moments in their relationship at Pacific City.Katie once drove Jordan to an interview in Pacific City and dropped him off like the good babysitter she...
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Episode 20
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1:10:22
19. Budapest, Hungary
Katie forgot a swimsuit for a European trip so went to a Budapest bathhouse in just her underwear and Jordan talks about getting his chest hair in someone's pizza.Budapest is, to Katie and Jordan's surprise, two cities named Buda and Pest, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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58:57
18. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Wizard Island! Old Man of the Lake! Phantom Ship! Jordan thinks Crater Lake National Park is the GOAT of naming things. Katie accuses Jordan of not liking lakes and suggests he is backwoods, being raised on rivers and fed crawdads, jus...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:07:02
17. Doi Inthanon Village, Thailand Part 2: The School
Katie and Jordan are off to school! Without any teaching credentials, the Inthanon school headmaster begrudgingly allows the honeymooners to assist the local English teacher, who quickly became Jordan’s favorite person in all his travels.
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Episode 17
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1:06:39
16. Bend, Oregon
Thick clouds dumped an inch of snow an hour for 15 hours straight during Katie and Jordan's second wedding anniversary, marooning them in Downtown Bend an extra night and leaving the whole city seemingly abandoned for themselves to explore.&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:02:26
15. Doi Inthanon Village, Thailand
Katie and Jordan get the ol’ Chiang Mai Shanghai in this week’s adventure. What started as a trip to teach English turns out to be ten days in a village atop Doi Inthanon, the highest peak in Thailand where Catholicism rules and the priest is a...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:01:13
14. Manzanita, Oregon
A tornado (or waterspout, depending on who you ask) tore through downtown Manzanita; Katie and Jordan rushed to cover it for the local newspaper, without really considering how storm-chasing would go in the town Katie used to call home.Jord...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:09:40
13. Yellowstone National Park
Katie and Jordan were evacuated out of Yellowstone National Park and need to tell you all about it. As the snow started to dump, it made the bison look even more magnificent and somehow made the duo think that coyotes were wolves and a single c...
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Episode 13
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1:02:50
12. New York City
December 13 is Katie and Jordan's wedding anniversary, and to celebrate, the duo reminisce on one of their most treasured anniversary adventures to New York City! Jordan finally sees his first proper Broadway musical with a revival of "Hello, D...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:28:29
11. Christmastime in Oregon
When the weather outside is frightful, Oregon is always delightful! The month of December has Katie and Jordan reminiscing on tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago! Jordan tells his wife about his first experience to ZooLights that...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:08:55
10. Victoria, British Columbia
Sorry, Vancouver, but Victoria is, apparently, the capital of British Columbia! Katie and Jordan visit the city on the world's 43rd largest island (a fun fact Katie says may be a little too obscure to be fun) and Jordan talks about donating his...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:04:50
9. Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon doesn't have any witch trials (that Katie and Jordan are aware of...) but the capital of Oregon is home to many great parks and one contains the wettest nutria, a legendary rodent Katie had always heard of on the farm but never sa...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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56:35
8. Guadalajara, Mexico
Guadalajara's Colonia Americana district has recently been named the coolest neighborhood in the world and Katie and Jordan stayed in the heart of it!Vibrant colors! Mariachi music! Lucha libre! Guadalajara is considered by many to be the c...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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58:56
7. Baker City, Oregon
Eastern Oregon is much farther east than many people we talk to realize and this week, Katie and Jordan talk about vibrant Baker City, named not for baker potatoes, but the only sitting U.S. senator killed in military combat - and Katie researc...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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47:54
6. The Dolomites, Italy
Romantic images of pizza and gelato conjured within the minds of Katie and Jordan when they thought of Italy -- only to be replaced by a deserted alpine resort town and eating the tavern's last sandwich. The Dolomites are a mountainous...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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59:25
5. Astoria, Oregon
In the land of canneries, historic buildings that transform into breweries, and exactly one might column, Katie and Jordan visit maybe Oregon's film mecca: Astoria! (Sung to the tune of Rihanna's 2008 masterpiece "Disturbia".) The city is the o...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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51:34
4. Chonburi, Thailand
Every day in the city of Si Racha, the ancestral home of the namesake sauce, was a strange adventure as Katie and Jordan watched raw hunks of meat slap tigers in the face and elephants trunk-chugging beer. The plane landed in Bangkok a...
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Episode 4
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1:00:51
3. Tillamook, Oregon
That's right, kids, we're visiting our hometown of Tillamook, Oregon! Land of cheese, trees, and ocean breeze! Katie grew up on a dairy farm and, because he was raised within city limits of Tillamook, Jordan will always be a city boy in her eye...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:00:21
2. Bruges, Belgium
The streets are lined with genital-shaped chocolate, the sweet scent of waffles waft from a window, and the Belfry is ringing! Belgium was the first overseas country Katie visited and has a special place in her heart and is the home of one of h...
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Episode 2
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50:14
1. World, Meet Katie and Jordan
In 2004 they met in band class on the Oregon coast; little did they know they'd travel the world together less than ten years later. Meet hosts Katie and Jordan as they recount their relationship with travel and introduce themselves to you, dea...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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