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The Great Pumpkins
Wild Travels - S3 - E4
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; holds 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.
Wild Travels: Season 3 - 6 Episode s
3x1 - Pierogi Fest
January 16, 2022
Host Will Clinger meets Mr. Pierogi, Ms. Pasczki and the polka-loving Pierorgettes at Pierogi Fest in Whiting, Indiana; ducks for cover at Lambert's Café "Home of the Throwed Rolls" in Alabama; is shocked by the products made from endangered animals confiscated by the National Wildlife Repository near Denver; and cheers on the daring (and possibly deranged) participants at a Unicycle Football game in San Marcos, Texas.
3x2 - Whiskerina
January 23, 2022
Host Will Clinger witnesses one of the first Beard and Moustache Competitions where women have their own category; enjoys America's oldest Mardi Gras celebration in Mobile; takes on the 150 ton tower of debris at the Cathedral of Junk in Austin; uncovers the extra-terrestrial activity at the UFO Watchtower in Colorado, and then watches the unusual and amusing breed of fainting goats topple over at a farm in Alabama.
3x3 - Midwest Tugfest
January 30, 2022
Host Will Clinger checks out the film prop collection and samples some of the trashiest films ever made at Movie Madness 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; and sneaks a peek at a California bar's annual tradition of mooning passing Amtrak trains.
3x4 - The Great Pumpkins
February 6, 2022
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; holds 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.
3x5 - Sasquatch
February 13, 2022
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.
3x6 - The Frozen Bredo
February 20, 2022
An entire episode devoted to the strangest festivals 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.