About this episode

The episode recounts a chaotic road trip from Santa Fe to Kansas, highlighting experiences with tornado safety and RV living.

We just needed to let the dogs out. Then the cop showed up. From the art streets of Santa Fe to the flat middle of Kansas in tornado season, this one has everything. We catch you up on the leg of the trip that took us through New Mexico to visit Kaatje Jones (co-author and now in-person friend) and into the heart of the Great Plains, where the weather changed overnight, the RV parks take cash and checks only, and one very routine dog stop turned into one of the most chaotic moments we've had on the road. Plus: what we actually learned about tornado safety, why you should never let your gas tank drop below half in rural Kansas, and why James now checks the weather three times before he trusts it. What You'll Hear in This Episode: What Santa Fe is actually like — the art district, the culture, the adobe buildings, and the hiking that surprised us Visiting Kaatje Jones in person for the first time and why her property in the mountains east of Santa Fe is its own whole experience Cara's first time doing anything physically demanding since the car accident in March, and what it felt like to climb again Why we'll keep finding climbing gyms on the road, and where to look for auto-belay…

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