The Daytripper

  • : 2009
  • : 156
  • : 2
  • PBS
  • Reality Travel

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6x1
State Fair of Texas
Episode overview
02, 2014
Chet heads to the State Fair of Texas to explore its history, excitement and food. He hangs out with Big Tex (the fair’s 55-foot tall mascot), sees some prize-winning steers and ostrich .. show full overview
6x2
Marble Falls, TX
Episode overview
09, 2014
Chet heads to the Marble Falls to explore its art, adventure and cuisine. He visits the Pogue Foundry to learn about bronze sculptures, peers into historic “Dead Man’s Hole” and then .. show full overview
6x3
Lubbock, TX
Episode overview
16, 2014
Chet heads to Lubbock and explores the Texas High Plains. After a trip through Texas Tech University and its traditions, Chet eats fried cheese and calzones at a few local hangouts, and .. show full overview
6x4
Port Lavaca, TX
Episode overview
23, 2014
Chet heads to Port Lavaca on Matagorda Bay to dive into its coastal food and lifestyle. He goes fishing in the bay waters, bikes to a historic cast-iron lighthouse and explores the lost .. show full overview
6x5
Grapevine, TX
Episode overview
30, 2014
Chet heads to Grapevine, the “Christmas Capital of Texas” to catch the spirit of the season. He visits main street to eat at a French bakery, tours a winery, sees amazing sculptures of .. show full overview
6x8
Kingsville, TX
Episode overview
22, 2014
Chet heads to the home of the King Ranch covering approximately 1,300 square miles of South Texas. He explores downtown Kingsville eating at an old pharmacy and soda fountain, then heads .. show full overview
6x6
Athens, TX
Episode overview
05, 2015
Chet heads to East Texas to the town that invented the hamburger. He visits the Texas Freshwater Fishery Center holding multiple state record fish and placing over a million large mouth .. show full overview
6x7
Baytown, TX
Episode overview
10, 2015
Chet heads to the San Jacinto Battlefield where Texas won its independence. He experiences the renaissance of Baytown’s historic district including visits to a coffee bar and an artist .. show full overview
6x9
Round Rock, TX
Episode overview
29, 2015
Chet heads to the “Sports Capital of Texas.” He eats a Texas-sized donut, takes a beekeeping class from Round Rock Honey and then explores the history of town on Hairy Man Road and Main .. show full overview
6x10
Monahans, TX
Episode overview
06, 2015
Chet heads to West Texas and sleds down Monahans’s Sahara-like sand dunes. In town he finds Texas BBQ, culinary masterpieces and history at a local museum built around an oil pit that .. show full overview
6x11
Schulenberg, TX
Episode overview
13, 2015
Chet explores the “Painted Churches of Texas” and dives into the German and Czech history of Central Texas with stops to a sausage maker, polka museum and Texas dance hall serving hot .. show full overview
6x12
Devils River
Episode overview
20, 2015
Chet heads to no-man’s land to canoe the “most pristine river in Texas.” On this multi-day canoe trip, he fishes, camps on the banks of this blue river, and learns what it takes to survive in the middle of nowhere.
6x13
Tomball, TX
Episode overview
27, 2015
Chet heads north of Houston to explore a town built along the railroad. He visits its many historic sites and takes a flight on a WW2 B-17 “flying fortress” bomber. To polish off the .. show full overview

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