27: The Deep South — Road Trip Pt. III

The Deep South in 4K | Hiking Texas, Canoeing the Bayou, and Exploring Oak Alley Plantation

Watch | Episodes | 2018-09-04 | 1:17

Tags: Andrew, Bryan, Robby, Thomas, Texas, Lousiana

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
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]