Two years ago a group of Mongolian herdsmen and musicians traveled to Elko, Nevada, to participate in the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. (more)

This hour: a girl goes on tour with her parents and a woman returns to her homeland in Iran after 40 years away. (more)

This hour: the halls of a high school and the alleys of one of the oldest cities in the world. (more)

Cats and mice, peace and war, Russia and the USA -- do you still believe in these oppositions? (more)

You might recognize Andrei Codrescu's voice from his insightful commentaries on NPR, but Codrescu has also brought his unique perspective on American culture to the silver screen, via the movie Road Scholar. (more)

Sound artist Sylvi MacCormac tells this story about coming home by train along the Canadian Railway Lines. (more)

This hour: journeys to the far north, the moon, and other places near and far. (more)

For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck. (more)

This week: an aural trip to one of the oldest cities in the world, an unconventional love affair, and a man who eats up all the books he reads (literally). (more)

The Tourist is lost. He can't sleep or tune out the music that comes from everywhere. Secretly, he's looking forward to the journey home. (more)

Annapurna: Memories in Sound is an impressionistic sound portrait of the Ximms' trek through the Annapurna Circuit, a popular three-week hiking trip through the Himalayas to Nepal. (more)

An exercise in time condensation, or more simply time travel, in which the cave wall serves as interface between past and present, human and animal, Philip Smith, librarian, reads excerpts from two books about Upper Paleolithic cave art. (more)

What is it about train travel that inspires music and memory? And why do people tend to confess their innermost thoughts once they get on board? (more)

As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world. (more)

This hour: we head to the south side of Chicago and Japan. (more)

In the 1930's, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drove farmers and their families from the central states to California. (more)

This hour: a story about the vagaries of memory, leaving a legacy, and elevating the personal narrative above the political mire. (more)

The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with fresh ears says Aaron Ximm, sound artist, field recordist and founder of quietamerican.org. (more)

On the flight back from her honeymoon, Mary Beth loses her luggage and thinks it's a sign that her marriage might be a mistake. (more)

An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes. (more)