About this season
Painter and puzzle maker Eric Dowdle travels around the world to learn from locals and experience environments firsthand. Each story and place he encounters becomes a piece of a new puzzle he creates.
Episodes (5)
1. Wild, Wild West
Aired 30 December 2022 • 24 min
Eric travels across Utah to experience the American West by riding a helicopter through red rock mesas, hiking to Pueblo dwellings with a local guide, joining a cattle drive, meeting wild mustangs and creating a folk painting for a new puzzle.
2. The Gateway to the Wild
Aired 30 December 2022 • 24 min
Eric traverses the great Alaskan wilderness to research his next puzzle.
3. Hawaii: The Big Island
Aired 1 April 2023 • 24 min
Eric explores the Big Island of Hawai'i to discover the connection between the land and sea; he dives with manta rays, roasts Kona coffee beans, hikes an active volcano and surfs in an outrigger canoe in order to create an authentic island puzzle.
4. San Francisco: The Golden West
Aired 7 April 2023 • 24 min
Eric arrives in San Francisco to uncover the city's most beloved icons; he operates the cable cars, whips up Ghirardelli chocolate, explores Chinatown's hidden gems with a local and restores a Victorian home for a puzzle that tells a new story.
5. Outer Banks: Sand and Sky
Aired 15 April 2023
Eric adventures over the Outer Banks, North Carolina to experience the story of flight; he assembles a Wright Brothers replica, flies a two-seat plane, dives an Atlantic shipwreck and climbs a lighthouse with a rare caretaker who lives onsite.