Awesome Sauce Small Town Road Trip Bucket List

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, start your day on a positive note. Awesome saw
us six ten weekday mornings with the B ninety three
Morning Show, brought to you by Modernistic. One young traveler
is crisscrossing America, not for fame, not for views, but
for something far more meaningful. Today's story is all about heart, curiosity,
and love for the overlooked corners of America. Meet Seth Varner,

(00:23):
a twenty five year old historian from Nebraska who is
on a mission most of us would never even think
of attempting. He wants to visit and document every small
town in the United States. Well, I love that idea,
and he means every single one of them. What Wow.

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What started as a childhood dream to visit every town
in Nebraska, where he's from, has now grown into a
full time passion and a publishing company called Wandermore. Seth
says it doesn't matter if a town has ten people
or ten thousand. Every town has got a great story
to share. Over the past five years, he's already visited

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every incorporated town in places like Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota.
It's getting awfully close to Michigan. Hey there go, He
takes photos, he uncovers quirky landmarks, He learns local history,
and he shares it all on Facebook and in his
travel guides and his book sales while they fund the
next stretch of the journey. This adventure isn't just a

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solo one anymore. He now travels with his wife, Elise,
who's getting a first hand look at how much love
and effort goes into honoring the towns that most people
simply drive right past. But Seth's mission is bigger than
just the road trips. It's about preserving America's hidden gems,
the stories, the people, the memories before they fade. As

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he puts it, I can take a small town and
immortalize it in a book, so people hundreds of years
from now can see what their grandparents' town looked like.
That's pretty neat, that's so cool. It's history, it's heart,
and it's a reminder that sometimes the most extraordinary stories
come from the smallest places. So slow down, look around,
because even the tiniest towns have big stories that are

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just waiting to be told. And that is how you
start your day on a positive note. Awesome Sauce six
ten weekday mornings brought to you by Modernistic