Watt's World

Nick Watt embraces the strange while searching for a George W. Bush statue, downing 160-proof plum liquor, meeting up with a 'sworn virgin' and a hip-hop prime minister before pretending to be an American on a late night TV show.

Nick Watt heads to Italy to see if cheap villas, good wine and naps are better than rent-free California RVs. He tries not to ruffle feathers with his caffeine intake and hops aboard the Cosmic Train to find the White Rabbit.

Will UFOs, lost civilizations and New Age swag make Nick fall under the spell of Mt. Shasta? Nick gets spiritual while searching for the city of Telos, looks for spaceships in a campfire and enjoys a schvitz with Native Americans.

Can Nick go off the beaten path in Venice, Italy? Steering clear of the gondolas and tourist traps, Nick explores an abandoned island, befriends an aristocrat with a playboy boat and winds up spending time in jail.

Nick paints his face and snacks on eggs in the forest, takes shots of bush rum and discovers where the Rastas grow their weed in his quest to find out if Dominica is the perfect Caribbean island.

Why do locals want to 'keep Portland weird?' Nick befriends a stripper with a heart of gold, joins the circus and paints the town red with an eccentric rock star to find out why so many are moving to Oregon's 'Rose City.'

Snobs and sophistication is what Nick expects in France, but he goes undercover with the Paris pee pee police to chase 'wild urine,' discovers a very 'un-French' sport in Marseilles and tries to annoy the staff at a Cannes hotel.

Nick treks from Anchorage to Barrow to find out just how remote you can be and still be in the USA. Nick visits oil towns and Inupiat natives, and eats all the whale blubber he can stomach.

Is the Cuba we love about to disappear? As the United States normalizes relations, Nick discovers a fledgling free market in the streets of communist Havana: real estate agents, mattress repairmen and all-male go-go dancers.

What does gobs of money mean to two completely different New York 'hoods?' Nick ventures into Harlem to play ball and out to the Hamptons to discover what potato farmers and clam diggers think of the mega-rich moving in.

Why can't Nick always get what he wants? Breaking his golden rule for travel, Nick goes where he's never wanted to: Saba, a place so famous it's left off most maps, and Montserrat, an island with a bit of a volcano problem.

Honestly, are the leather chaps really necessary? Busting bandits in Osage, avoiding a contact high in Denver, and hanging ten in Oahu, Nick is on a quest to find out if everything he thought he knew about America is wrong.

Has Nick made a terrible mistake in LA? He sets out to prove his new hometown isn't all fake smiles and bad traffic by reinventing himself as a masked wrestler, foraging for fine dining and joining a gang of street artists.

Has Nick made a terrible mistake? He proves LA isn't just fake smiles.