Season 1: Episode 06 // Part 6: Making Your Way Home (featuring Gale Straub)
UN/ROOTED is back from a little hiatus, a mid season hiatus! We’re picking back up where we left off, just after I’d moved to NYC I was looking for things to make the east coast feel like home. So, when my friend Gale Straub invited me on a snowshoeing trip in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I clung to the idea like a little life-raft. I talk to Gale about the many things that make up her home, and to her twin sister Lora, who is part of Gale’s home.
In this episode we talk to Gale Straub, the founder of She Explores.
Find out more about Gale on her website. Follow @galestraub on Instagram and Twitter.
Check out the She Explores, and follow She Explores on Instagram and Twitter.
Listen to the She Explores podcast. (Listen on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.)
Read Gale’s full article “On Constants and Holidays”
We also talk to Lora Straub, Gale’s twin sister.
Follow Lora on Instagram and you can find some of her poetry here.
Listen to Gale take Lora backpacking for the first time on this episode of She Explores.
We hear a few seconds at a live venue of the song Juniper Arms by Adam Torres.
Listen and Watch Juniper Arms.
Watch his Tiny Desk Concert here.
We talk about #vanlife. Here’s some resources:
Gnomad Home: “Diversify Vanlife and How to be a Strong Ally”
A take on the monetization of #vanlife through social media (2017 New Yorker Article)
This episode contains a brief mention of sexual assault.
National Sexual Assault Hotline/Website (RAINN.org)
Photos of Gale and Lora:
Lora and Gale.
Matt, Lora, and Gale.
Gale at Yellowstone as a teen.
Lora at Arches as a teen.
Gale and Lora, 2015.
Gale and Jon’s van.
A view from the van, California.
Snowshoeing with Gale.
Snowy mountains of New Hampshire.
Gale in the mountains of New Hampshire (autumn).
Lora in the mountains of New Hampshire.