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Rounding the Bend (Season 11 | Episode 7)

Through its documentary series, Roadtrip Nation explores what it means to build a career—and more importantly, a life—around the things you love. Follow the journeys of groups of people as they travel across the country in a green RV, sit down with professionals who share their interests, and gain insight into what it takes to overcome struggle and find personal success.

Rounding the Bend (Season 11 | Episode 7)

Season 11 Episode 7 | 24m 55s | CC

The team interviews writer Beverly Donofrio at her home in Long Island before heading on to Detroit, where they talk to spoken word poet Airea Dee Matthews. She urges the Roadtrippers to reconcile the unity of opposites and see possibility and growth in an unlikely place. In Chicago, Tele’jon reconsiders his reservations about going back to school when the team interviews Professor David Stovall.

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