Up to Speed — Season 1
A licensed tour guide. Kind of.
About this season
Tour guide, historian and flaneur "Speed" Levitch travels the nation visiting those monuments that rarely make it into travel guides, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.
Episodes (6)
1. San Francisco: A City Shaped by Earthquakes
Aired 9 August 2012 • 24 min
Speed takes us on a tour of renowned objects in San Francisco – a city shaped by earthquakes that makes a point of attacking the status quo and appreciating the beauty in the unexpected.
2. Chicago: To Conjure a Lost Neighborhood
Aired 16 August 2012 • 24 min
Speed spends a day steeped in the history of working class Chicago – a city of blue collar labor constantly fighting back against the status quo of their corporate overlords.
3. Kansas & Missouri: In the Middle of the Middle of the Midwest
Aired 23 August 2012 • 24 min
Speed explores the idea of borders and boundaries in Lawrence, Kansas – a city straddling the line between opposing sides during the American Civil War.
4. Virginia: The Many Flavors of Thomas Jefferson
Aired 30 August 2012 • 24 min
Speed sifts through the many flavors of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello and the University of Virginia – two historic landmarks representing the many sides of America’s most complicated founding father.
5. New York City: The Beauty of Randomness
Aired 5 September 2012 • 24 min
Speed wanders through the chaos of New York City – a metropolitan hub teeming with simultaneous bouts of randomness and synchronicity.
6. The Tour Guide Convention
Aired 13 September 2012 • 24 min
Speed goes on adventures with other tour guides across the country.