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.

Eric traverses the great Alaskan wilderness to research his next puzzle.

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.

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.