This week it’s a story about Amboy, CA, a ghost town 30 miles from anywhere on the old Route 66, and the chicken magnate who’s spent a fortune trying to keep it from collapsing into the desert sand. Can Albert Okura really hold back both history and nature? Read more about Amboy here and here. You can […]

This week it’s a story about Amboy, CA, a ghost town 30 miles from anywhere on the old Route 66, and the chicken magnate who’s spent a fortune trying to keep it from collapsing into the desert sand. Can Albert Okura really hold back both history and nature? Read more about Amboy here and the-fate-of-one-mojave-desert-ghost-town.php">here. You can find a video about Albert, his right-hand man Charlie and the town here. MUSIC: All the music in this episode is by the wonderful Podington Bear, a/k/a Chad Crouch of Portland, Oregon. Crouch has composed and performed hundreds of instrumental tracks that he distributes freely for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license. You can license his work for commercial use here, or buy his recordings here.  The tracks used in this episode are: * “Cascades” * “Ah Clouds” * “Pong Delight” * “Going Forward Looking Back” * “Flicker and Burn” * “Gentle Marimbas” Thanks to Albert Okura and Charlie Aceves.