Tom Wilmer’s Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel podcast — recorded live on location across America and around the world — showcases the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine and spirits, brewpubs, the culinary arts and more. He covers nouns and verbs: people, places, things, and action — everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls, and interviewing the "real" Santa Claus in the Arctic. Tom's feature, recorded live at Harland & Wolfe Shipyards in Belfast Northern Ireland, celebrating the centenary of the launch of the Titanic was the recipient of a Best Travel award from Outdoor Writers Association of California.
Correspondent Tom Wilmer reports from Memphis, Tennessee at the legendary Royal Studios where he met up with owner and producer, Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell. This show is re-shared as a best-of-the-best Journeys of Discovery podcast.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at Whitefish Point in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the southeast corner of Lake Superior. Join correspondent Tom Wilmer for a visit with Bruce Lynn, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Correspondent Tom Wilmer embedded with the Confederate North Carolina 58th Regiment at Chickamauga National Battlefield, located on the outskirts of Chattanooga, Tennessee and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia to discover the daily life of the soldiers and painfully long process of reloading their rifles.
Join Correspondent Tom Wilmer as he visits with Guy Mossman, co-director and director of photography for the documentary SPEAK showcased at the SLO FILM FESTIVAL following a rave world-premiere performance at the legendary Sundance Film Festival, February 2025.
Filmmaker Ben Judkins visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer at the Fremont Theater to learn about the award-winning documentary Cigarette Surfboard, showcased at the 2025 San Luis Obispo FILM FEST.
Executive Director at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum shares chilling recollections of the Oklahoma City bombing of the Murrah Federal Building
Join correspondent Tom Wilmer for a visit with Kim Bumpas, president of Visit Knoxville and Mark Ezell, the State of Tennessee’s Commissioner of Tourist Development.
Discover Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic site, an operational historic cotton-gin in Burton, TX; Joe Robertson at the Blue Bell Ice Cream factory; David Thomas the Director at the Brenham Heritage Museum; Heaven on earth—Milk & Honey Ranch; The Antique Rose Emporium; Brenham’s Camptown Freedom Colony Cemetery and Ant Street Inn & Main Street House
Sierra Gold Country denizens share their stories--Calaveras County commissioner and historian, Martin Huberty; wine pioneer Gay Callan, and award-winning Hinterhaus spirits distiller Bonnie Boglioli
Join the Indiana exploration--Notre Dame University; South Bend’s Studebaker Museum; Indiana Dunes National Park; Cedar Lake Museum; Charlestown State Park, and historic French Lick Resort.
Come along for visits with the denizens of the historic, rural Missouri towns of Hermann; St. Charles; Silver Dollar City; Augusta; Hannibal, and the circa-1856 riverboat Arabia’s artifacts on display in Kansas City, MO.
Join correspondent Tom Wilmer on the Caribbean island of Montserrat as he explores the isle’s Incredible Irish connection and how St. Patrick’s Day became a national holiday
Eric Czaja, a US Army Special Forces Major leads Monterey, California’s Naval Postgraduate School’s Regenerative Grazing Open Air Lab on 2,500 acres at Camp San Luis Obispo, CA.
Come along correspondent Tom Wilmer for a visit to Yulin in Northern Shaanxi Province with Great Wall sections constructed with rammed earth; Mao’s mountain headquarters and a premier relics museum
Feb 25, 2025•28 min
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