Program 406: Breakfast In America; Four Corners Road Trip; Indonesia Etc.

Listen in as Elizabeth Pisani shares tales of her year-long voyage to get reacquainted with the world's fourth most populous country ― what she calls the "improbable" nation of Indonesia. Then learn about where to find some of America’s best breakfasts on your next US road trip – the perfect places get each day started on the right note. And we explore the singular beauty of the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.

• Michael Stern, co-author of "Roadfood USA"  (Clarkson Potter)
• tour guide Rick Garman
• Elizabeth Pisani, author of "Indonesia Etc." (W. W. Norton)

• Jane and Michael Stern have an interactive website where you can add in your own road food recommendations at www.roadfood.com.
• The Sterns' classic guide to more than 900 road food establishments around the USA is called "Roadfood," and is in its 9th edition.  
• The Roadfood website includes details about the variety of "horseshoe" platters at the diners of Springfield, Illinois.  
• Tia Sophia's and  Café Pasqual's earn high ratings from diners in Santa Fe. 
• Casa Nueva serves a popular breakfast in Athens, Ohio.
• The hearty "Joe's Special" is featured at Frank's Diner in downtown Spokane, Washington.
• The National Park Service maintains extensive information online for planning a visit to Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, and Bryce Canyon National Parks.
• The rock formation area known as The Wave requires advance hiking permits from the Bureau of Land Management, and is in the north portion of Coyote Buttes in Arizona.
• A list of night sky observatories in Arizona.
• The Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center is in "Georgia O'Keeffe country" in Abiquiu, New Mexico.  
• The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  It also offers reservation-only tours of O'Keeffe's house and studio in Abiquiu. 
• Elizabeth Pisani's book, Indonesia Etc, is published by W. W. Norton.