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Wild Travels

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.

Wild Travels  
  • Saturday, August 3
    6:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger visits Hot Springs, Arkansas for the annual RUNNING OF THE TUBS-to watch costumed teams race bathtubs filled with water through the downtown; he stops in for an historic scrub down & steam at the BUCKSTAFF BATH HOUSE; takes in an astounding collection of 3D advertising art at the POLLACK MUSEUM in AZ; and then attempts to pick the right square at CHICKEN POOP BINGO in Austin, TX.
  • Wednesday, August 7
    12:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger visits Hot Springs, Arkansas for the annual RUNNING OF THE TUBS-to watch costumed teams race bathtubs filled with water through the downtown; he stops in for an historic scrub down & steam at the BUCKSTAFF BATH HOUSE; takes in an astounding collection of 3D advertising art at the POLLACK MUSEUM in AZ; and then attempts to pick the right square at CHICKEN POOP BINGO in Austin, TX.
  • Saturday, August 10
    6:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger drives the Illinois leg of historic ROUTE 66 to find: the birthplace of the COZY DOG in Springfield; a city hall with a phone booth on its roof in LINCOLN; the land-yacht of itinerant Route 66 artist Bob Waldmire in PONTIAC; a roadside attraction called HENRY'S RABBIT RANCH; and then rides along at the annual bike race/eating contest known as the TOUR DE DONUT in Staunton.
  • Wednesday, August 14
    12:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger drives the Illinois leg of historic ROUTE 66 to find: the birthplace of the COZY DOG in Springfield; a city hall with a phone booth on its roof in LINCOLN; the land-yacht of itinerant Route 66 artist Bob Waldmire in PONTIAC; a roadside attraction called HENRY'S RABBIT RANCH; and then rides along at the annual bike race/eating contest known as the TOUR DE DONUT in Staunton.
  • Saturday, August 17
    6:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    In Chicago, host Will Clinger attends the parody of the IDITAROD - the CHI-DITAROD, where the sled is a shopping cart pulled by people instead of dogs; checks in to the Watergate Hotel's SCANDAL ROOM in DC; visits the studio of surrealist MICHAEL P PRICE in Arizona; squeezes himself into a DWARF CAR for a drive in Maricopa; and then marvels at an art exhibit made entirely out of PEEPS in Wisconsin.
  • Wednesday, August 21
    12:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    In Chicago, host Will Clinger attends the parody of the IDITAROD - the CHI-DITAROD, where the sled is a shopping cart pulled by people instead of dogs; checks in to the Watergate Hotel's SCANDAL ROOM in DC; visits the studio of surrealist MICHAEL P PRICE in Arizona; squeezes himself into a DWARF CAR for a drive in Maricopa; and then marvels at an art exhibit made entirely out of PEEPS in Wisconsin.
  • Saturday, August 24
    6:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger visits McMinnville, Oregon's UFO FEST to witness the extraterrestrial parade & alien pet contest; examines the MUSEUM OF MENTAL HEALTH in Salem where One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was filmed; tries not to crash in a jet simulator at the NAVAL FLIGHT ACADEMY in Pensacola; and then marvels at the huge model ships and animated "rock band" made completely out of...TOOTHPICKS!
  • Wednesday, August 28
    12:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger visits McMinnville, Oregon's UFO FEST to witness the extraterrestrial parade & alien pet contest; examines the MUSEUM OF MENTAL HEALTH in Salem where One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was filmed; tries not to crash in a jet simulator at the NAVAL FLIGHT ACADEMY in Pensacola; and then marvels at the huge model ships and animated "rock band" made completely out of...TOOTHPICKS!
  • Saturday, August 31
    6:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger journeys hundreds of feet underground to tour the historic QUEEN COPPER MINE in Bisbee, Arizona; spends the night at the nearby bucolic SHADY DELL retro trailer park; goes nowhere but up at a WHITE MOUNTAIN HOT AIR BALLOONFEST and then tries to dodge ferocious flying carp at the annual central Illinois REDNECK FISHING TOURNAMENT (spoiler alert: he fails).
  • Wednesday, September 4
    12:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger journeys hundreds of feet underground to tour the historic QUEEN COPPER MINE in Bisbee, Arizona; spends the night at the nearby bucolic SHADY DELL retro trailer park; goes nowhere but up at a WHITE MOUNTAIN HOT AIR BALLOONFEST and then tries to dodge ferocious flying carp at the annual central Illinois REDNECK FISHING TOURNAMENT (spoiler alert: he fails).
  • Saturday, September 7
    6:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger delves into the paranormal legends surrounding EDGAR ALLAN POE as well as the historic and haunted USS CONSTELLATION in Baltimore; reaches for his wallet at America's only PURSE MUSEUM in Little Rock; wanders among hundreds of critters at the MIDWEST FUR FEST in Chicago; and then tees off with Sister Cindy at an event called (no kidding) BEAT THE NUN.
  • Wednesday, September 11
    12:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger delves into the paranormal legends surrounding EDGAR ALLAN POE as well as the historic and haunted USS CONSTELLATION in Baltimore; reaches for his wallet at America's only PURSE MUSEUM in Little Rock; wanders among hundreds of critters at the MIDWEST FUR FEST in Chicago; and then tees off with Sister Cindy at an event called (no kidding) BEAT THE NUN.
  • Saturday, September 14
    6:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger feels right at home in a roomful of dummies at the VENTRILOQUISTS' CONVENTION near Cincinnati; finds all things feline at the LUCKY CAT MUSEUM; drives out to CARHENGE - Nebraska's answer to Stonehenge; and then sees where the bodies are not buried but frozen (in liquid nitrogen) at ALCOR CRYOGENICS in Scottsdale - Open To The Public!
  • Wednesday, September 18
    12:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger feels right at home in a roomful of dummies at the VENTRILOQUISTS' CONVENTION near Cincinnati; finds all things feline at the LUCKY CAT MUSEUM; drives out to CARHENGE - Nebraska's answer to Stonehenge; and then sees where the bodies are not buried but frozen (in liquid nitrogen) at ALCOR CRYOGENICS in Scottsdale - Open To The Public!
  • Saturday, September 21
    6:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger spends an entire episode chronicling the annual, KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE in Baltimore - an outrageously challenging competition among two dozen humanpowered, amphibious, all-terrain mobile works of art slogging through a 15 mile course of city streets, mud, sand and Baltimore's inner harbor. All entries are vying for the coveted GRAND MEDIOCRE CHAMPION award.
  • Wednesday, September 25
    12:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Will Clinger spends an entire episode chronicling the annual, KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE in Baltimore - an outrageously challenging competition among two dozen humanpowered, amphibious, all-terrain mobile works of art slogging through a 15 mile course of city streets, mud, sand and Baltimore's inner harbor. All entries are vying for the coveted GRAND MEDIOCRE CHAMPION award.

 

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