In this episode of Journeys Tour and Travel, Andrew DeGroat, N.D., explores Ellis Island as both a physical and historical threshold. From its coastal landscape to its deeper roots in Indigenous land displacement, this episode examines how immigration, quarantine, and policy intersected to shape one of the most defining gateways in United States history.

In this episode of Journeys Tour and Travel, host Andrew DeGroat, N.D., reflects on the environmental displacement caused by Hurricane Katrina and what happens when home becomes uninhabitable overnight. When water rises and infrastructure collapses, movement becomes survival. This episode explores forced migration, resilience, and the long arc of rebuilding identity after disaster.

Plus — a special segment announcing Andrew’s upcoming Book Signing & Book Sale at Central Rappahannock Regional Library this May.

In this episode of Journeys Tour and Travel, host Andrew DeGroat, N.D., TheBodyworkDoctor, explores the Great migration, one of the largest internal movements of people in American history. Between 1916 and 1970, millions of African Americans left the rural South for cities in the North and West. This episode examines what happens when travel becomes an act of resistance, reinvention, and cultural transformation.

In this episode of Journeys Tour and Travel, host Andrew DeGroat, N.D., TheBodyworkDoctor, explores the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s, a journey not chosen, but forced by environmental collapse, economic hardship, and human miscalculation. As families fled the Great Plains for California and beyond, this episode examines what happens when land can no longer sustain the people who depend on it and how travel becomes survival. 

In this episode of Journeys Tour and Travel, host Andrew DeGroat, N.D., TheBodyworkDoctor, examines a journey that unfolded behind barbed wire. During World War II, over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and transported to incarceration camps across the United States. Framed through the lens of travel, place, and memory, this episode explores how fear reshaped geography and how ordinary landscapes still carry the weight of extraordinary injustice. 

In this episode of Journeys Tour and Travel, host Andrew DeGroat, N.D., TheBodyworkDoctor, explores the Trail of Tears. Not as a destination, but as a forced journey marked by violence, loss, and survival. Examining the Indian Removal Act, the realities of forced migration, and the lasting impact on Indigenous nations, this episode challenges how we think about travel, place, and memory. A necessary reflection on land we move through today and the stories carried beneath our feet.

In this episode of Journeys Tour and Travel Podcast, Andrew DeGroat, N.D., The Bodywork Doctor, explores the history of The Negro Motorist Green Book; a travel guide created to help Black Americans navigate the dangers of Jim Crow–era travel. 

More than a directory, the Green Book was a community-built map of safe passage, dignity, and resilience on America’s roads. This episode reflects on travel, memory, and what it has meant and still means to move through a world that hasn’t always welcomed everyone.

What if travel isn’t about escape, discovery, or consumption—but about reckoning?

In the Season 2 premiere of Journeys, Tours & Travel, Andrew DeGroat invites listeners into a different kind of journey—one rooted in memory, land, and historical truth. Traveling to Osage County, Oklahoma, this episode explores how places hold trauma much like bodies do, and what it means to stand on land shaped by violence, wealth extraction, and silence.

Before oil. Before money. Before murder.

Andrew traces the forced removal of the Osage people, the discovery of oil beneath their land, and the devastating Reign of Terror in the early 20th century—when Osage citizens were systematically murdered for their wealth while institutions meant to protect them failed or participated.

Through the lens of bodywork, trauma, and listening, this episode reframes travel as an act of witness rather than consumption. It examines the birth of the FBI, the limits of justice, and the enduring sovereignty and resilience of the Osage Nation today.

This is not a guide on where to stay or what to see. It is an invitation to listen—to land, to history, and to what still lives beneath the surface.

Some places don’t ask for admiration.

They ask for honesty.