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Wild Travels

Website: http://www.wildtravelstv.com

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WILD TRAVELS goes off the beaten track to celebrate America's unusual festivals, offbeat museums and eccentric characters. The Emmy award-winning series is intelligent, funny, unexpected and a bit irreverent, spotlighting our country's most colorful, unconventional and quirky people and places.

Episodes:

  • Host Will Clinger surveys the cinematic oddities including movie props, costumes and some of the trashiest films ever made at Movie Madness Videos in Portland; checks in to the Dino Hotel in Colorado so he can check out their impressive collection of dinosaur fossils; drops in on Tug Fest, the incredible tug-of-war between two towns on opposite sides of the Mississippi River; discovers some of the surprising array of amenities at the World's Largest Truckstop in Iowa; and sneaks a peek at a California bar's annual tradition of mooning passing Amtrak trains.

    Length: 00:26:46
    Usage rights: 1/3/2022 to 6/30/2024
  • Host Will Clinger watches the competitors hollow out and race gigantic, thousand pound gourds at the annual Pumpkin Regatta on Tualatin Lake, Oregon; tracks down the infamous "Unipiper", a bagpipe-playing, flame throwing, unicyclist on the streets of Portland; judges a 10- pound sundae eating contest at MacAlpine's Diner and Soda Fountain in Phoenix; visits a museum dedicated to Action Figures in Oklahoma; and revels in the cheesy art and relentless puns at Solomon's Castle in the swamps of Florida.

    Length: 00:26:02
    Usage rights: 1/3/2022 to 6/30/2024
  • Host Will Clinger enjoys the view from the highest bridge in America - 1,000 feet above the Royal Gorge; shivers near the frozen masterpieces created at the U.S. Snow Sculpting Competition in Wisconsin; wanders the halls of the world's only spear hunting museum in Alabama; and searches for the elusive Yeti with the Bigfoot believers of the Sasquatch Outpost in the mountains of Colorado.

    Length: 00:27:11
    Usage rights: 1/3/2022 to 6/30/2024
  • An entire episode devoted to the strangest festival WILD TRAVELS has ever attended: Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colorado! The annual festivals honors a deceased Norwegian who resides in a shed on a hill above town under 1,200 pounds of dry ice (long story), and features Team Coffin Races, a Polar Plunge, a Parade of Hearses and a Frozen T-shirt Contest!

    Length: 00:25:12
    Usage rights: 1/3/2022 to 6/30/2024

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