Let the Cajun Tots rain!

McMenamins is an iconic Oregon and Washington staple famous for some of the state's first modern brewpubs, historic buildings that have been renovated into funky hotels, and a wild scavenger hunt that awards you while visiting every one of the 50+ locations!

Katie and Jordan have been to every single McMenamins location twice in pursuit of serendipity and the wondrous glamor that comes from becoming a "Cosmic Tripster"!

Jordan fell for Katie during an 80s Night dance event at their Crystal Ballroom, they were marooned in the Old St. Francis School hotel in Bend during a snowstorm, and drank too much in an active construction site for a special event in their newest location.

Have your own story about your experience with McMenamins you'd like to share and be possibly be featured in a future episode of Exploregonians? Voice record or write it out and send it to exploregonianspodcast@gmail.com please and thank you!

Katie and Jordan drove across North America to visit the birthplace of "Anne of Green Gables" and her creator Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Beaches with red cliffs, a free toll bridge that charges when you leave, and a sky-high lobster roll awaited us on this beautiful island, that is the smallest Canadian province and is only larger than one U.S. state: the mighty Rhode Island.

Jordan gives Katie way too many "fun facts" about Prince Edward Island and Katie talks about how much she enjoyed visiting the actual home and property that inspired the "Green Gables".

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Katie and Jordan go to a place near and dear to their hearts - and, geographically, because Bay City, Oregon is 5.6 miles north of their hometown. Is it a different place? Technically!

Listen this week as Jordan talks about his first crush, a neighbor-girl that may or may not also be Katie's childhood best friend!

Katie reveals Bay City was the first place she ever saw those intense "Neighborhood Watch" signs and never trusted the place again.

Jordan tells Katie their lives would have taken very different paths had he not gone to a pivotal Halloween party (in his greatest costume ever) to see her.

This episode has everything except an obligatory reference to Journey's 1978 banger of a song "Lights".