Houston Animal Road Trip was a Phase 2 episode of North Texas Explorer. It was a documentation of a performance of an educational program done by Doug Terranova and Animal Encounters Inc. at a Retriever Payment Systems corporate event at Houston's Aerial Theater. The program had a talk show format with the corporations' CEO Bill Higgins as the host and Terrannova and his crew as guests showing off exotic animals.
The animals that were featured included:
- a Galapagos Giant Tortoise
- a Timberwolf (who had appeared on Walker, Texas Ranger)
- an Asian Water Monitor
- two Spider Monkeys
- two Cobras
Offering a hot dog to the Water Monitor
Helping unload the stars of the show
Featuring[]
- Marcus Cook
- Bill Higgins
- Max Peterson
- Doug Terranova
Background Information[]
- This episode is a follow up of the Phase 1 The Elephant Man of Kaufman County episode.
- During production of this episode, short segments on the Battleship Texas and San Jacinto Monument were also produced. These were filmed during the very early stages of Tropical Storm Allison.