ZLORD podcast

Recorded earlier in December but this episode is released late in January 2020 due to technical difficulties. Speaking from Louisiana where teZa and Carter, the itinerant pair featured in ZLORD podcast are headed for Grand Isle, at the very tip of the Bayou country; Carter shares what he's learned about the Apaches. The Lords are fascinated by this particular tribe of Native Americans because they...

Two intrepid car and tent campers, teZa and Carter are on their way home! As they drive Highway 10 from New Orleans on the final lap of their six-month sojourn over a vast part of North America, the pair reflects about what they've learned and what they'll keep close to their hearts, minds, and souls forever. Soon, they'll be back to their "regular" lives in Florida. But nothing they've experience...

The Lords speak from their totally isolated wilderness campsite in Big Bend National Park, close to Mexico in Texas. teZa had a dream the night before, and she talks about it with Carter, who has always helped her understand the significance of dreams. It's what they do. The couple speaks of different ways they connect to their Source: sometimes through the majesty of Nature, sometimes in quiet me...

Nomad teZa and Carter Lord are tent-camping for the next two weeks in the Big Bend National Park, which borders Mexico and Texas. They speak from the first of three wilderness camps they've already secured with permits. Sadly, no fires are allowed here. Sharing about whatever hits their hearts, the Lords are feeling melancholic because this magnificent spot marks the beginning of their return jour...

the Lords (teZa and Carter) speak from the side of a babbling book-like river in New Mexico. They've just been visiting friends of the Acoma Pueblo, close to Albuquerque. In presenting ways of helping heal the bleeding dissent of current times in America, these indigenous ancient pueblans have much to offer: the need for more conversations, the civility of peaceful pow-wows instead of war-like nam...

The Lords first speak from the sacred place of Canyon de Chelly, which lies in the remote yet inhabited Navajo Nation of northeastern Arizona. Since leaving Las Vegas they've been running from the bitter winter cold, their tent-camping spirits warmed by campfires outside, their bellies with delicious meals cooked on their camp stove. After Vegas they visited Cochise's Stronghold, famed for the 19t...

A mammoth week for the Lords as the awesomeness continues to amaze them! They left car-camping in the bosom of Nature to head straight into the heart of Los Angeles, for a special visit to a film studio. Now teZa and Carter are on their way back to their tent but first, a quick stop in Las Vegas. That's where teZa had to do some serious pre-book-launch promo work on Wifi. Gaining Bestseller status...

ZLORD's two artist cohosts, teZa and Carter Lord find themselves in a humbled state of awe. It is now their fourth month traveling as car-camping-style nomads. They wonder at what "Art" means to them, surrounded by the highest example of artistic expression -- the Magnificence of Nature -- the awe-inspiring, sculptural canyons of southern Utah. Both Lords express what their "role" as artist means...

the Lords (teZa and Carter) are in Escalante, Utah, having left their Moab campsite and friends behind a few days ago. They've spent the previous 3 nights wilderness camping near Mule Canyon, Utah, where such thrilling sights as Anasazi ruins and the "Natural Bridges" Park kept them in a constant state of awe. Now they've met the ultimate in awesomeness! Riding out-of-the-way Burr Trail, close to...

teZa and Carter are re-visiting the 9,000-plus-foot mountain bike trail in Moab, Utah, the "Whole Enchilada" but this time as hikers. Carter relates his previous experience biking this world-famous trail some years beforehand with a friend, before he knew the importance of eating carbs to fuel such strenuous activities as extreme sports. The couple's musings glide into the high winds they experien...

After their last podcast, both Carter and teZa feel much freer about expressing themselves, because of course a podcast is so very public. Their private lives are now bared to all. teZa shares a startling dream. Carter shares how he's just learned to "watch" his repetitive thought patterns. All is well as they travel down a lonely stretch of Oregon canyon rural road, where a herd of cattle, a lone...

the Lords are in Washington State, camping on the Natches River close to Mt. Rainier. They take a day hike to bat-colonized Boulder Cave where teZa wants to explore the subject of the inner "cave" of meditation, and Carter isn't in the mood. The rest of their back-and-forthing (the next day) is a light-hearted glimpse as to how they balance their major differences, as we all do in life in so many...

Staying put for a couple weeks so teZa can final-edit her next book (and needing electricity for her computer), Carter keeps busy on the organic farm of our friends, which is totally without screens of any sort. He gathers wild apples and nearly burns down the motel making applesauce! After an idyllic stay in this delightful river town of Twisp, Washington, they're off back on the road, tent-campi...

Carter and teZa Lord are now in Washington State, having driven through British Columbia after leaving the Canadian Rockies. Here, in the tiny agricultural town of Twisp, they're visiting garlic growers, and taking time off from their road trip for teZa to do a final edit on her next book. The pair discuss how setting goals strengthens, not diminishes, their ability to stay in the present moment....

teZa and Carter are almost incapable of describing the beauty of the Canadian Rockies as they drive and talk from their Banff-area campground to close to Jasper. Surrounding them are glacier-topped majestic rocky worlds, the mountains, with the crystalline turquoise Saskatchewan river below. They talk of First Nation people and the difference between spontaneity and needing to plan. And ... their...

After two weeks exploring North Dakota's badlands, mostly around Teddy Roosevelt National Park North, the nomadic travelers are heading out! teZa and Carter Lord sit around the campfire the night before breaking camp talking about whatever tickles their fancy, everything from the crazy weather to a synchronistic visit from a prophetic fellow tenter. Everything is synchronistic. Everything astounds...

As we drive down the road to the next stop in our nomadic vision quest, another camping site in North Dakota's Badlands awaits us. Carter explains the complications of being a Gemini. Yesterday was tough for both the couple. teZa and he describe the hay fields they're surrounded by. Then note how hard-working hay farmers could be enticed into leasing their land for the many oil and gas structures,...

We're finally in the badlands of North Dakota! After traversing Canada for the past two weeks (to avoid the traffic of middle America's highways) we've been at the CCC camp already a week. Located just south of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, we're amazed by the landscape, and how it affects us, personally, spiritually, and in all ways. It's hot! It's cold! It's ... amazing!

Carter and teZa are speaking from North Dakota after an exhilarating trip through southern Canada, through Thunder Bay, Wawa, and an unexpected pilgrimage to visit a world-renowned writer-friend of teZa's in Saskatoon. After their rear window gets blown out by a thrown road-pebble, they are even more prepared to always expect the unexpected to happen.

teZa and Carter Lord have found the ideal spot to set up their first camp in the outback of Quebec province, after leaving the cities of Quebec and Montreal. As they commune with Nature, they share thoughts about things that might surprise you. A spot of bliss they've found, and all by following their noses! Not an "official" camp, it feels like almost a dream.

teZa and Carter speak from Maine after their family reunion. They've run into Frank, the Indigenous guy at the local market's fish counter, who inspired them to use the words "vision quest" to describe the nomadic journey they have embarked upon. Tomorrow they leave for points north, possibly making it to Canada where they'll make their first campsite of the trip. Visiting friends and family has b...

teZa's co-host Carter joins her, and introduces himself. The two are in Maine, readying to start their nomadic car-camping trip around North America. First, though, they had to fight their way through harrowing busy traffic from less-populated Florida.

teZa has signed her artwork as "ZLORD" for decades, since marrying Carter Lord, her podcast co-host. Here, teZa tells a little about herself, who she is, what motivates her. Next segment, you'll meet the other half of this duo who are documenting their nomadic journey.

While I'm trying to learn how to use the "official" and really funny looking microphone that will have better sound quality, I'm using my good old trusty iPhone. I thought it'd be nice to tell you a little background about who we are: Carter (my man) and me, teZa. He's off on a quick business trip (even though he claims he's "retired") and the dynamic will be different when the two of us are talki...

Introducing ZLORD with podcast host teZa Lord speaking. Along with her sidekick Carter, the Lords will share their nomadic journey throughout North America, and afterwards, in South America. This pair is not escaping anything. They are discovering! With big hearts and wide-open eyes!