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Can you come outside and play? | #21 Jun 06, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

When was the last time you went outside to play?! Well, there is a lot of new science supporting that we, as adults, need to be integrating play back into our lives. There are countless physical, mental and emotional benefits to play for people of all ages. In this episode of Camp Nowhere we dive into what play looks like for adults, the benefits and my personal experience integrating play back into my life!

Things Mentioned in this Episode:

~ Lost & Found (Alaska Series)

~ Embracing Life’s Curveballs with Torea Rodriguez

~ National Institute for Play

~ Ted Talk - Play is more than just Fun

~ Play Personalities

~ Play Personality Test

~ A Conversation with Discomfort with Shruthi Lapp

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I Just Met You and I Love You | #20 May 23, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

Making friends as an adult is hard. It's tough to find your people and a strong sense of community IRL even though we are more connected than we’ve ever been thanks to social media. So how do you approach finding new friends out in the real world?! I’ve got a lifetime of practice due to moving nearly every year growing up, so in this episode of Camp Nowhere, I lay out my incredibly nonscientific but effective approach to making friends!

Things Mentioned in this Episode:

~ Meant to Be, the Series

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So Wrong but So Right | #19 May 09, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

It’s an age old story, it’s not a matter of if things will go wrong, just a matter of when. This is the story of seemingly everything going wrong from early on in our travels. Even though everything went wrong, it also is a story of everything turning out exactly as it was meant to be. Join us as we fumble our way through out time in Newfoundland and meet some incredible people along the way who turn our luck around!

Things Mentioned in this Episode:

~ Meant to Be, the Series

~ Mistaken Point, Newfoundland

~ https://christianspub.com/

~ Parts Unknown Screech In

~ Hearts Content, Newfoundland

~ Trinity Pageant

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To enjoy Bound For Nowhere’s work you can head to their website, follow them on Instagram or watch their films on YouTube!

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Triumph and Heartbreak on Old Route 66 | #18 Apr 25, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

After two and a half years of planning and preparation for transitioning to full time life on the road, we knew that our first few weeks would be memorable, but nothing prepared us for how those first few weeks turned out. Join me as I share the story of the most hilarious, chaotic and magical first two weeks on the road. Starting in Pheonix, AZ we race across the American West as temperatures rise well into the 100s… with no air conditioning… in a van built in the mid 80’s. What could possibly go wrong as we take our friend from Germany on a “classic America road trip”?! Though the trip was filled with misadventures, it was also filled with lessons that we carry with us to this day.

Things mentioned in the episode:

~ Tour of our van (a real blast from the past).

Say hello on the Camp Nowhere website, or connect with us on Instagram! Listen to Camp Nowhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcast!

To enjoy Bound For Nowhere’s work you can head to their website, follow them on Instagram or watch their films on YouTube!

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A Conversation with Discomfort | #17 Apr 11, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

What happens when you decide to step away from other people’s expectations of you? Well, you learn that you actually need to get around your own expectations for yourself. Today, we talk to Shruthi who’s a fulltime traveler, hiker and runner… but she didn’t used to be any of those things. Growing up in a South Indian family in the US meant that all the things that she’s come to love later in her life, such as the great outdoors, went against her families ideas of gender norms. Her time on the road helped her realize a deep love for hiking which taught her just how strong she is, that she can trust herself and what can be learned from having regular conversations with discomfort. Join us on a deep dive into how much our own expectations of what we are and aren’t capable of are holding us back.

Connect with Shruthi on the internet via Instagram and her website.
Watch the episode of our series where we get stuck on the summit with Shruthi.

Say hello on the Camp Nowhere website, or connect with us on Instagram! Listen to Camp Nowhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcast!

To enjoy Bound For Nowhere’s work you can head to their website, follow them on Instagram or watch their films on YouTube!

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Making Camp Tiramisu Live with GonDirtin’ | #16 Mar 28, 2025

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Have you ever looked at a plate of food in front of you and thought about all the history you could learn just by seeing the cultural influences? Well, I didn’t either until I met Linhbergh five years ago. In today’s episode of Camp Nowhere, we sit down to record a live conversation from the Dometic booth at the SoCal Overland Expo show. We talk over his learning to love cooking through necessity, rediscovering his Vietnamese roots through cooking and how we’s rediscovered a deep love for history through food. After our chat we dive straight into a live demo where Linhbergh takes us through how to make Vietnamese Coffee Coconut Creme Tiramisu. The recipe is so simple it can even be made from camp!

Here are the things mentioned in the episode:

~ Linhbergh’s Series GonCookin

~ Linhbergh’s Recipes

~ Dometic CFX5 Fridge

Say hello on the Camp Nowhere website, or connect with us on Instagram! Listen to Camp Nowhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcast!

To enjoy Bound For Nowhere’s work you can head to their website, follow them on Instagram or watch their films on YouTube!

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Untangling the History of a Recipe | #15 Mar 14, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

In this episode of Camp Nowhere MAK tracks down the origins of a recipe that has long been in her family. The recipe for Kalua Pork is steeped in lore and has feed more people than just about any recipe in MAK’s family cookbook. After seeing how a recipe she grew up enjoying has evolved over the years, MAK starts at the present day version of the Kalua Pork recipe and follows it back in time and talks with each of the people’s hands the recipe has passed through, from friends to family members. This episode is a fascinating tale of how food brings people together and inadvertently becomes a record of all those who you have shared a meal with.

Here are the things mentioned in the episode:

~ Blog post with images of the family cookbook and recipes mentioned in this episode

~ GonCookin - Kalua Pork/MAK Episode

~ Linhbergh’s Campfire Kalua Pork Recipe

Say hello on the Camp Nowhere website, or connect with us on Instagram! Listen to Camp Nowhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcast!

To enjoy Bound For Nowhere’s work you can head to their website, follow them on Instagram or watch their films on YouTube!

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Processing Grief in Nature | #14 Feb 28, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

In this episode of Camp Nowhere, MAK sits down to take a hard look at processing grief in nature. MAK has a candid conversation with long time friend and fellow traveler, Aimee Bartee about their shared experience of traveling around Alaska for a summer while in the depths of grief. Even though their experiences were years apart, they compare notes on the what it was like to process loss during prolonged periods in nature while being completely alone. Their open and honest recounting of their experiences are shared in the spirit of helping anyone else who is experiencing grief in their own life.

Listener warning: This episode details grief, sadness and all the complicated feelings that comes of it, which includes strong language. Take care while listening.

Connect with Aimee’s (Tight Loops Fly) work through their films, website, Aimee’s Instagram, as well as Tight Loops Instagram.

Things Mentioned in this Episode:

Our Alaska Series called Lost & Found

Listen to Camp Nowhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcast!

Say hello on the Camp Nowhere website, or connect with us on Instagram!

To enjoy Bound For Nowhere’s work you can head to their website, follow them on Instagram or watch their films on YouTube!

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The Art of Observation | #13 Feb 14, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

We dive into a chat with Chase Bartee a filmmaker, scientific illustrator and multifaceted storyteller to discuss the value of observing the natural world. Both Chase and I had ideations of growing up to be scientist or biologists of some kind but ultimately pursued art in our college level educations. Over the years we’ve both come back to a deep love of observing and learning about the natural world. We discuss the depth of understanding and learning that naturally comes of observation. How our work is influenced by what we’ve learned from years spent in the outdoors. And how we use story telling to educate and help others fall in love with the natural world.

Connect with Chase’s (Tight Loops Fly) films, website and Instagram.

Things Mentioned in this Episode:

Chase’s Scientific Illustration Work

Merlin Bird ID app which I highly recommend for all the bird nerds out there!

ZeFrank’s Ray episode

Listen to Camp Nowhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcast!

Say hello on the Camp Nowhere website, or connect with us on Instagram!

To enjoy Bound For Nowhere’s work you can head to their website, follow them on Instagram or watch their films on YouTube!

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Tokyo | Japan Audio Diary Part 3 | #12 Jan 31, 2025

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Join us in Namibia July 2026! Read about what we love about group trips & our experience hosting them here.

Public Lands Rule: Let your voice be heard and submit a comment to your lawmakers! Here’s more information about the Public Lands Rule.

In this episode, we wrap up our unforgettable journey through Japan, from watching the sunrise over Mount Fuji to exploring Tokyo’s artsy side. We talk about our morning biking adventure, indulging in sushi pizza, and getting lost in immersive light art installations! Plus, discover how we found an incredible photography book in one of Tokyo’s most beautiful bookstores.

Things mentioned in the episode:

~ Episode 1 & Episode 2 of the Japan Diary

~ Kotori Kawashima Mirai Chan

~ Tsutaya Books

~ Savoy Tomato and Cheese (Tuna Pizza)

~ Perfect Days movie & Tokyo Public Toilets

~ Team Lab & Team Lab Borderless

Listen to Camp Nowhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcast!

Say hello on the Camp Nowhere website, or connect with us on Instagram!

To enjoy Bound For Nowhere’s work you can head to their website, follow them on Instagram or watch their films on YouTube!

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