TDW 1674 - The Road Less Traveled

0:01 looks like it's going to be another

0:02 beautiful Texas day just cruising down

0:06 the

0:07 road just cruising down the road

0:11 entering into

0:13 Castroville established

0:15 1844 need a little gas and what the heck

0:18 would we do without these self-pumping

0:21 mechanisms on the nozzles makes it very

0:24 convenient it pumps it while you sit

0:27 back and watch I mean I could easily

0:29 reach my hand out and do the job myself

0:31 but you know it's funner just to Stand

0:45 8888 and pennies I'm in the town square

0:45 area now and there are eight Flags very

0:49 tattered Flags in the park I kind of

0:53 wonder if at one

0:55 point this was a fountain and not just a

0:58 planter and then over time they just got

1:01 rid of the water

1:03 and put some foliage in it and it also

1:06 looks like someone has been using it as

1:09 a golf driving range it's a golf ball

1:13 right there that's a very impressive

1:16 steeple on that church building since

1:18 1847 the town has held a tradition of St

1:22 Louis day and his best I can figure this

1:25 is a statue of St Louis and they March

1:28 out of the church and they use the

1:31 entire Courtyard for a big Feast the men

1:35 smoke sausage and a pit barbecued beef

1:38 the women prepare potato salad cabbage

1:41 SLO and desserts now that sounds like my

1:44 kind of festivities the only question is

1:46 how does this guy stay so

2:26 that was pretty cool the door was open

2:26 so I walked in there and just hung out

2:28 in the Pew for a while

2:31 beautiful in there nice Serene Courtyard

2:34 here on the side the incredible thing is

2:37 to think that the first congregation met

2:39 there in 1870 it's amazing to think

2:42 about Generations passed way before we

2:46 were even an

2:47 inkling in

2:50 existence our parents weren't even here

2:54 grandparents people were here living

2:57 their lives enjoying life

3:00 life and now they are part of History

3:04 we are creating history what we do will

3:08 one day be

3:10 remembered in the future we present

3:14 day are history it's hard to wrap your

3:17 head around but it's true if these walls

3:19 could talk I'm sure it could tell a heck

3:22 of a few good stories Dan bar and right

3:26 down the road here is an old theater

3:28 called the rainbow looks to be an

3:32 antique store now but the sign is still

3:34 there the

3:36 awning and the ticket booth even though

3:39 there was a bunch of stuff out front the

3:41 door was locked it wasn't open I was

3:43 hoping to get in and see maybe if the

3:45 movie screen was still in there but no

3:47 such luck in 1910 this brick building

3:50 was constructed and this corner became

3:52 very very popular because this was where

3:55 the town got its meat if you were hungry

3:58 and you wanted a steak

4:00 you would get your food here at the Hans

4:02 Meat Market signified

4:06 1910 the top of the building when I see

4:08 homesteads like this that no one resides

4:11 in anymore you can't help think about

4:15 the good times that were had here in

4:18 fact there is a piano located on the

4:22 porch probably quite a few

4:25 throwdowns back in the day you can just

4:28 picture an old man with a pipe sitting

4:30 in a rocking chair enjoying the nice

4:34 Cool Breeze and now this Kitty is

4:38 remembering you remember

4:40 Kitty remember the good old days never

4:44 forget never forget oh my gosh look at

4:48 this Relic pinned against the fence back

4:53 there awesome in 1868 The Sisters of the

4:57 Divine Providence opened this

4:59 Schoolhouse and the children in town

5:02 gathered here to do their learning

5:05 reading

5:07 writing and

5:14 arithmetic it's now used as a meeting

5:17 area a

5:19 sanctuary for a local

5:37 the sign says this is God's country

5:37 please don't drive through it like hell

5:41 oh my gosh look at this old hotel

5:43 there's a value Max there now you can

5:45 see the old neon

5:48 Marquee Hotel Armstrong that means only

5:51 one thing I am in Hondo and when I hear

5:55 that name I am always reminded of

5:59 Married With Children Al Bundy his

6:02 favorite movie was the John Wayne

6:04 classic Hondo and he was never able to

6:08 watch it something always happened when

6:11 he wanted to see

6:13 Hondo I don't think it was based on this

6:15 town but whoa you have the rideway cat

6:20 here in Hondo cats have the rideway keep

6:23 this in mind for future reference if

6:25 you're cruising down this road might

6:28 want to heed that

6:42 it construction on this church building

6:42 started in

6:44 1853 about a decade later they finished

6:47 it up by adding some more of the Rocks I

6:50 really do not know the reasoning on why

6:53 it fell into deterioration like

6:56 this but it is pretty amazing looking

6:59 feel look very closely on the side of

7:01 the building is an engraving probably

7:04 with a date stamp or a name over time

7:08 the weather has worn it thin as well as

7:11 the letters d o m at the top portion of

7:16 the entryway that's being held up now by

7:20 2x4s the interesting thing about this

7:23 cemetery is that none of the graves are

7:27 newer than 1893 three now you can find

7:30 graveyards with plots dating back that

7:33 far but normally they progress and newer

7:36 resting places are added but not this

7:39 one the bunny rabbit over there startled

7:42 me you got me good bunny I thought you

7:44 were a snake in 1893 the town suffered a

7:48 massive epidemic and they needed to

7:51 build another graveyard thus retiring

7:55 this one next to this cross is a flag

7:57 pole but there's also so this metal

8:01 cylinder looking thing what is

8:10 this what is that used for I really like

8:10 the fact that even though the headstones

8:12 are dated

8:14 1846 there are still flowers here people

8:16 come out and pay their respects to the

8:20 original Town

8:22 settlers all these years later their

8:24 memory is still

8:35 I find old cemeteries very fascinating I

8:35 love history and for a lot of people

8:38 this is the last momento or tidbit of

8:42 their life that they can share with

8:44 future Generations in the world some

8:47 people are not in the history books some

8:49 people may be forgotten but by seeing

8:51 headstones and reading who they were and

8:54 their names and the years they lived a

8:56 little bit of them will always live live

8:59 on and the state of Texas obviously

9:01 feels the same way they erected this

9:03 monument in 1936 dedicated to the former

9:07 town of danas I think I'm the only one

9:10 out

9:11 here the only one on this

9:14 road just me and Large Marge well I

9:17 guess that makes two of us okay there's

9:19 two of us on this road not just one but

9:24 two and that's how many it takes to

9:27 tango no traffic jams in this neck of

9:30 the woods don't have to worry about

9:33 Bumper to

9:35 Bumper congestion beautiful landscape

9:39 out this way

9:40 though lots of

9:42 cows see all those

9:48 cows lots of cows what do you think's

9:51 behind that big metal

9:53 fence very heavily

9:56 guarded dinosaurs kept back there there

9:59 is

10:00 that is that the real Jurassic Park back

10:04 in there I am virtually out in the

10:06 middle of

10:07 nowhere driving down this very bumpy

10:11 road not really sure where I'm going to

10:14 be honest look at this look at this I

10:17 mean I'm seriously where the heck where

10:21 the heck am I for real what are they

10:24 keeping back there I've wandered down a

10:27 road of secrecy

10:29 Less Traveled yes but also home to

10:35 mysteries on either

10:37 side what's behind those fences

10:40 whoa we have some civilization or at

10:44 least what looks to be civilization and

10:48 a huge

10:50 Lake Straight Ahead some Cliffs up there

10:55 this road was not made for an R

10:59 V going straight down it's been spray

11:02 painted out it says something not

11:04 allowed on bridge I'm doing it though

11:07 I'm doing it I'm going over this thing I

11:10 made it to the

11:12 top look at this water on one side dry

11:17 land on the

11:29 other that dog doesn't want me here

11:29 well hello

11:31 there well hello there oh hello there

11:34 little

11:36 baby hope you guys are having a good

11:39 day you're following me this yard is

11:41 like a boat full of Santa Claus

11:44 dummies very

11:46 random very random and then there's a

11:48 baby doll on top of a burned out

11:52 airplane dangling from that tree

11:56 limb the entire property is just C

11:59 covered in weird stuff I got to be

12:01 honest I'm getting a very weird vibe

12:04 about this little town I'm in when I got

12:07 to the top of the hill to overlook that

12:09 Lake there was a guy looking out the

12:11 window of his little two-story Shack and

12:14 he was kind of giving me the evil eye

12:16 that's when his dog start started

12:18 barking and when I pulled over to get a

12:20 view of that yard the property owner was

12:23 driving by and stopped started to like

12:26 walk towards the RV and I just kept

12:28 driving

12:30 I don't think I'm supposed to be up here

12:32 maybe the name of the town is Mo m i and

12:36 I'm fairly certain they don't get many

12:38 out of town visitors up

12:42 here going to start heading back to San

12:45 Antonio now have a very special

12:47 announcement that I want to tell you

12:49 about this Sunday February 5th at 2:00

12:51 p.m. sharp I will be doing a Meetup

12:55 right

12:56 here next to these boots

12:59 I'm not sure if they were saying hi or

13:00 if they were just excited about the

13:02 boots we will be congregating at a store

13:04 inside the North Star Mall I know you're

13:07 not paying attention to where it says

13:09 North and star you just can't keep your

13:11 eyes off Texas's largest boots I guess

13:14 the real question is are you going to be

13:18 there there's no reason to bring

13:19 anything except yourselves wa that was

13:22 very close that guy almost got in a

13:29 wreck

13:29 this is a pretty big place so I need to

13:31 tell you the specific location of where

13:33 we're going to hang out the name of the

13:35 place that is gracious to host this

13:37 event is called Think Geek and it's on

13:42 level B which would be right next to the

13:47 food

13:52 court right

13:52 here I meant to say section B but it is

13:55 on level

13:57 two

14:02 once you're on the top level in the

14:02 midst of all the eating

14:05 establishments just look across the way

14:07 there and there it is Think Geek just

14:11 keep a keen eye out for this guy cuz

14:13 he's probably going to be looming around

14:15 from the bottom floor pass hellberg

14:17 diamonds go up the escalator and it's

14:21 right next to the Dallas Cowboy shop

14:25 parking at the mall is free and

14:26 obviously admission in the store is free

14:29 so all you have to do is just bring

14:30 yourself maybe your camera if you want

14:32 to get some

14:33 pictures and just show up it'll be fun

14:36 this is something I never knew existed a

14:39 Back to the Future book decorated like

14:42 the hoverboard from 2015 it's like a

14:45 notebook it's like a diary I hope to see

14:47 you here this Sunday February 5th 2:00

14:51 p.m. at the Northstar Mall the second

14:53 floor at Think Geek I'll be here will

14:57 you

14:59 Vlog over

TDW 1674 - The Road Less Traveled

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