27: The Deep South — Road Trip Pt. III

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The conclusion of the road trip.

  • 1m05s  Day Eight
  • Windy KOA campsite
  • Tucumcari, New Mexico (1651 miles traveled)
  • Diner, Route 66, windmills, pastures, cattle, hawks
  • West Texas border, sandstorm, dog
  • 3m47s  Austin, Texas (2200 miles traveled)
  • Clint and Melody, aka The State Parkers
  • Sushi, hot saki, pork katsu
  • 5m44s  Jam session with Bryan and Clint
  • [r in-the-press]Featured in Outside Magazine[/r]
  • 6m29s  Day Nine
  • 6m58s  Reimer’s Ranch (2214 miles traveled)
  • [geo lat=‘30.3638’ lon=’-98.1224’ adr=‘23610 Hamilton Road, Dripping Springs, TX 78620’ tel=‘512-264-1923’ url=‘https://parks.traviscountytx.gov/parks/reimers-ranch’ trail=‘usa:texas:milton-reimers’]Milton Reimers Ranch Park[/geo]
  • Wildflowers ( bluebonnets) and pencil cactus
  • Cavernous gully with sycamore trees, maidenhair ferns, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy
  • Ball mosses and scarlet penstemon
  • Stalactites and stalagmites
  • 9m00s  Overgrown poison ivy vine
  • Elm leaf, false dayflower, and fern fronds
  • 10m46s  Cypress trees
  • 12m13s  Pedernales River
  • Memorial Day floods
  • Desert false indigo (part of the pea family)
  • Lunch: breakfast tacos
  • Froghopper nests, brown cockleburs, and bluecurl flowers
  • 15m29s  Indian paintbrush
  • 15m52s  Vulture and huge nodding thistle flower
  • 16m44s  Climbing, white limestone, and river currents
  • 18m54s  Cypress sapling and great egret
  • 19m19s  Testing the waters and seeing a rainbow
  • 20m23s  Mesquite tree
  • 20m53s  Carpenter ant
  • 21m20s  Prickly pear flowers, agarita shrub, pincushion cacti, and antelope horn milkweed
  • 21m59s  Lunch at a Tex-Mex place
  • What’s a michelada?
  • 22m43s  Rollin’ out
  • Blue Bell ice cream
  • Is Graeter’s from Ohio not good enough?
  • 23m31s  Last night in Texas
  • Houston (2365 miles traveled)
  • Tim V the Texan Camper, aka Trail Aesthetics
  • 25m35s  By the way, water boils faster at higher altitudes. — Tim V the Texan Camper
  • 25m47s  I think we have concluded that we have the greatest viewers and fans in the world! — Robby
  • 26m01s  Random middle of nowhere [Mont Belvieu] (2422 miles traveled)
  • 26m13s  Don’t let the exterior fool you — this is a **** hotel. — Robby
  • 26m22s  Day Ten
  • Entering Lousiana
  • Slab car
  • 27m11s  Oak Alley Plantation (2713 miles traveled)
  • [geo lat=‘30.00500’ lon=’-90.77889’ adr=‘3645 Highway 18
    • (Great River Road), Vacherie, Louisiana USA 70090' url='https://www.oakalleyplantation.com' tel='225-265-2151' trail='usa:louisiana:oak-alley-plantation']Oak Alley Plantation Restaurant & Inn[/geo]
  • 27m35s  A beauty to behold
  • 28m35s  Louisiana dinner
  • 30m40s  Coffee decadence
  • 31m15s  Mistakes of the past
  • 33m19s  A better tomorrow
  • 33m24s  It’s important to learn history, not just to understand the past, but to reflect on what we as a society are doing today and how that will affect the future. Unless we examine the past, and think critically about what needs to be changed today and how we can change it, history is rendered useless.
  • 36m40s  Golden Mississippi River
  • The American Queen cruise ship
  • 38m51s  Join us in the hot tub
  • 39m48s  The key to a happy life is to take advantage of all of your opportunities even if they’re not exactly the way you want them. — Robby
  • 41m12s  Day Eleven
  • Complimentary breakfast
  • 42m02s  Fontainebleau (2713 miles traveled)
  • Canoe on the bayou
  • 46m58s  Southern wildlife
  • 49m00s  Snack: boiled peanuts
  • 52m42s  Gators
  • 54m43s  Snack: Pontchartrain pecans (pie and praline)
  • 55m35s  You wake up and an alligator’s next to you and you’re spooning it. — Robby
  • 55m40s  Teeming with life
  • 57m35s  [geo lat=‘30.4735’ lon=’-90.0886’ adr=‘19130 W Front St, Covington, LA 70433’ url=‘https://thechimes.com’ tel=‘985-892-5396’]The Chimes[/geo]
  • Camping at a nearby park
  • 1h00m46s  Day Twelve
  • 1h02m22s  Nashville, Tennessee (3232 miles traveled)
  • 1h03m40s  Foraging with Tim Lawson
  • 1h04m25s  Broadway
  • 1h04m58s  Day Thirteen
  • Evansville (3385 miles traveled)
  • 1h07m01s  The final night’s reflection
  • 1h11m11s  Credits
  • 1h12m30s  Credits, continued
  • 1h13m04s  Patreon shoutouts: Matthew McConaughey, Rick and Morty, Khajit (Elder Scrolls)
  • 1h15m03s  Extra footage
  • 1h16m24s  O Brother
  • Epilogue: [v slug=‘hiking-mount-katahdin’]Thomas hikes Maine’s Mount Katahdin[/v]