Cross Country Winter 2021 Road Trip Begins - Leaving California / Roadside Oddities & Unusual Finds
February 2021 Cross Country Road Trip Day One
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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i am under the belly of this beast
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the cabazon dinosaurs i am about to
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embark
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on a 2500 26 27
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how close to 3 mile trek i've already
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been driving for about an hour
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current time 6 a.m i'm heading
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to the east coast back to florida not in
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a rental car
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in my own vehicle not on a plane
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it is brisk out here and very windy
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i'm inviting you to join me shall you
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so early in fact the sun is peaking up
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there
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in all its beauty and the two
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restaurants here
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are not even quite open yet
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the wheel in has been demolished now
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some of the spots i will be
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traversing down most of which well
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all of which will be on interstate 10
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and there is a valentine's day overlay
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on the dinos themselves
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you can see it says love there on the
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side
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and be mine on
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mr rex there at the end
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yeah it's very windy out here i have my
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hand
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cupped over the microphone hoping
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that will help quite a bit as well as
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the little wind
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muff that is on there
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see the gustiness there
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the trees going in the wind
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i'm about to get on interstate 10 and
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head westbound
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all of which i will be showing over the
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next series of days
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we'll be right off the i'm going to
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interstate
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to make as much time as possible tagging
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along also for this journey
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is big the foot just dangling there
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i know i think about peewee's big
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adventure very prominently
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as well big the foot
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when i look at mr rex there but i also
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think of the wizard
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with fred savage
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i always like kind of swinging by this
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spot
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classic goodness and not the backside of
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water
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but the backside of a pink dino
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all right onto the thoroughfare looks
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like there's some snow caps up there on
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the top of those peaks
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and also these windmills just spinning
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around doing their thing
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the good thing about this truck so just
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stay
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on this road no need for real directions
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just
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continue eastbound
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on the tent i'll get off at a few exits
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here and there
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focusing out on
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sunset over there back and forth
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sunrise am i saying sunset sunrise
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i still haven't had coffee yet so my
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brain is not coherent
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veered off just a bit to this downtown
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area of
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india this taco stand burger
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spot looks really fascinating
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not exactly a beehive of activity
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oh goodness what happened there at the
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moment down here
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we're all familiar with lines in the
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middle of a
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highway by the way are these petunias
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did you know that the reason for those
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the creator was dr
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june robertson mccarroll who back in
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1917
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according to this placard veered off the
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road
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from an oncoming automobile
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and personally right after that it
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states here
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that she personally
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painted the first stripe in california
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on indio boulevard separating
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the road into two sections
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i never knew that and there is some
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glass
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all right just a little little quick pit
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stop
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i'm off the interstate interstate's over
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there this is just a little highway
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current price here at this station
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325 for for unleaded i don't know if
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there's a difference between unleaded
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plus and
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premium let's just go with uh
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just the regular self-pumping
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nozzle here all you got to do is just
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put that little switch on i'm going to
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go inside and get myself a piping hot
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beverage
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once i'm filled up at this establishment
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of coffee a little caffeine for the day
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beautiful countryside out here just
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cruising through california
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the deserts of california when you think
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of los
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angeles i think a cityscape you don't
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really think of desert
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not a classic car alert
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a truck the technical population of
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desert center
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it's just about 200 people pretty much
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an abandoned town
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whenever i pass through here i always
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think of the airwolf
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episode from the mid 80s with jan
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michael vincent
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or flies the helicopter through here
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through this very stretch of road
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in fact the station was right up here
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it explodes a little bit of a fire
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had developed also this building
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the side of the ride up there was also
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utilized
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i think my favorite performance by well
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favorite thing he started
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was in the early 70s a charles bronson
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film
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by the name of the mechanic an amazing
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ending i don't want to give any spoilers
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but the ending to that film
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incredible
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yeah right here was used as an office in
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that airwolf episode
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the cafe you see someone has
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just pulled up here someone has spray
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painted on the inside
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says best coffee you best coffee
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i already procured a cup a moment ago
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from the other establishment
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you best not remove the caffeine well we
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best remove the caffeine
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truck driver driving by is looking at me
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like
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what is wrong with you sir is what he's
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saying this
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you can rent this out well obviously you
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can the exteriors you can see
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from just out here so you can just kind
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of wander around and show it but if you
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would if you have a production that
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you're
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you know music video a movie
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television show commercial say you
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wanted to
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use the interiors it is a location that
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you can
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call the number and and rent it out
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real quick like though peeking in the
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window here you can see
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what's inside there it's like a kind of
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old school diner
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pretty neat would be a perfect location
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for some desert scenes if you were
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making a film
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and in that episode the episode of
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airwolf is called sweet
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riches i'm not joking that's the real
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name of if you want to look it up
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and flies right by here
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right down this this desolate road
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continued up the ways i don't know maybe
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10 15 20 miles to the community of blyth
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look at all these sheep out here in the
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field
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there's someone walking through grass
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there is that a
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modern-day shepherd
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they even see this sheepdog out there
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yeah there's a lot a lot of sheep
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i just pulled right over here off the
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off the road you see the trucks going by
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it's probably two or three hundred sheep
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here in blythe right on the state line
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almo almost over the state california
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line
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okay see you later sheep
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crossing over this river the colorado
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river
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i'm not going into colorado but i have
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just crossed into
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arizona out of california
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see you later for now california
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according to the signs
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that is dome rock because the sign said
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dome rock road leads over there so i'm
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just assuming
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that that is dome rock
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stopping off in quartzite to say hello
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to hi jolly i was gonna say hi to hi
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jolly but that just
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wouldn't make sense here's a camel
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the last camp of high jolly
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stone marks the resting place of high
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jolly
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also known as philip tedrow
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hi jolly was hired in 1857 as a camel
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herder
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little breeze there gust of wind
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i always stop by this is like one of the
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stopping points probably half a dozen
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times
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over the course of my life it is on
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the national register of historic places
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take a look at that it was also
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designated in 1935 by the arizona
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highway department with this little
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placard
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camel driver packer scout over 30 years
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of faithful service
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1902
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born in 1828
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here at coresight quartzite is one of
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the biggest congregations of
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rvers certain times of the year
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thousands upon thousands
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congregate here all right moving on
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you know what's interesting i have heard
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the stories have been told by
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by many people and i even
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i even thought i even bought into the
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fact
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that it was a camel laid over there
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in fact it was a man
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by the name of high jolly not a camel
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but he was a camel herder i was way off
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glad i'm glad i read the info here
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because that that clears it up for me
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so just to clarify it is not a camel
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well as best i can guess it's not a
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camel there
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it's a man who was known for herding
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camels not hurting her herd
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in kind of like that that modern-day
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shepherd
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a few miles back there's a photo of him
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right there and his bride
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arrived in buckeye i'm curious what is
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that
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drum looking item there on the pole next
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to the tree it looks like
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it's like a kick drum nonetheless
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next to this residential area is
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hobo joe that is the name
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the town has given him 20
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something feet tall hobo joe
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is very impressive as far as the the
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height of
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of him he's got a flower there on his
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lapel little scarf around his neck well
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actually no it's not a scarf it's a
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like a bandana almost as if he knew
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the the current situation was going to
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be happening when he was
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when he rolled into town years ago he's
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ready
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to just like slip it up over the chin
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and the nose and he's all set
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oh his shoe here
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this seemed better days but he's still
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got some
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still got some years on it
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oh there's the sculptor's name jim casey
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1967. i would have guessed it was a
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little
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more recent than that than that
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there's a car wash right over there you
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can hear a vehicle
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being cleaned at the moment hobo joe is
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overlooking the cleaning mechanism
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i could probably get a at some point on
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this journey i'm gonna get a
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get the car wash my car washed
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later on maybe another day or so
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it's very dusty out here i feel like i
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get a wash now
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it's gonna just kind of get dirty again
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in like five minutes
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carrying on it's nice to kind of stretch
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the legs a little bit but
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kind of cooped up
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okay back on the road carrying on now
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about 10 or 15 miles from the last spot
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into phoenix this yard looks very
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interesting
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there is quite a bit of things collected
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state's new york city limit that
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obviously is not correct
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there's a coca-cola piece of signage
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we got oh there's groot on the tin
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man's noggin also says chicago city
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limit also not correct
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sorry the lot is full in that very large
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bird cage
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wow this is fascinating this is in
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someone's yard
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quite the collection oh i see ronald
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back in there there's
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oh ronnie mcdonald and check that out
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a vintage muffler man these are
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scattered all over the u.s
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i always try to find them i don't think
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i've ever seen this one before i've
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never been in this neighborhood
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that is great he's holding an axe not a
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muffler
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the reason they're called muffler men is
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because they
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they used to be utilized by
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establishments that would fix your car
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and they would have a muffler out front
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they would fix your muffler so he would
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be holding a muffler
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you can see by the design of his hands
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that it would be set up to have a
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muffler just kind of
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teetering there in his arms
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so hence the name muffler men
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is that hercules i think that's hercules
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over there also and someone yelling it's
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like an
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usher that is yelling
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it says speed limit nine and a half
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right there yard of the month okay this
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got an award
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for yard of the month and there's a
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mcdonald's
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golden arches up top this is great
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it says beware of dog i wonder if we
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have a dog on site i don't see a dog
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you have better beware of that muffler
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man that
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is that's awesome
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they got the right idea with the thumbs
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up
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yes all right heading back over to i-10
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now
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this is great i had no idea there would
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be
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this much stuff tucked away in this
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there's a cactus with a mustache
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tim tracker well
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vintage tim tracker cactus
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tim doesn't have the the rolly fingers
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mustache
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style anymore he's got a beard
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that's how that's how i always
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refer to anything with a mustache
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there's the statue of liberty with
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glasses
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and a lucky number seven and some bold
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broken bowling pins there
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and a snowman
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so good there's a real cactus
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off in the distance see the real cactus
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over there very tall
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real cactus the next corner
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going westbound the opposite direction
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of the way i'm going
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it is very backed up for
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gosh probably 5 or 10 miles there was an
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accident
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and i passed a few miles back everyone's
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out of their cars
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wondering what's happening
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quite a bit of a backup
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you see it's just all a complete stand
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still it's like this for
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probably the last three or four miles of
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as far but far
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down the way as i can see
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just outside phoenix
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heading in westbound i'm heading east
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smooth sailing for me but for everyone
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else over there
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you got to be patient i've been there
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i've been i've been in that situation
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before where you just have to wait
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be patient
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current price 241 here another
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self-pumping nozzle and i'm gonna go and
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get another piping hot beverage inside
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this circle k
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no luck on the coffee there was quite a
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bit of a line inside and only one
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cashier
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so got in my car drove a little farther
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down the freeway
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and i'm noticing this in front of this
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restaurant side
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which is no longer there's a little
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gazebo and
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picacho peak
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which is this mountainous formation
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look there used to be something here as
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well
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it has been torn down but this used to
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possibly a muffler man
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style figure that went up
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just basically to his torso just to the
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waist
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it's all been removed it's got a fence
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around it
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not really serving any purpose
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whatsoever but it does have a fence
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there's another restaurant here the
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series
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of forgotten relics along this road saw
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and this road that runs parallel to i-10
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really is not utilized you can see it's
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pretty desolate
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it's a very busy traffic just off to the
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side there with the other side oh
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hello there b you should not be on my
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steering wheel b
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can i help you
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uh go out the window i open the window
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fly
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out the window b okay now you're hiding
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b
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there you are b go on
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go go go go get out there go go whoo go
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go get out let go stay out there stay
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out there b
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whoo close one
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really are a lot of cactuses through
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here
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there's a very retro rv parked over
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next to that tower but yeah there's just
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like hundreds of
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cacti through here
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i know i'm moving by at a very rapid
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pace and it's way over there
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but there are a lot of airplanes that
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are no longer being used
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a bunch of airplanes way over there
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just parked in the middle of nowhere
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way over there kind of zoomed in but
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going by very rapidly with the foliage
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zooming by
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you can see about lots of them
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not accessible to the public
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pretty neat found yet another muffler
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man
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holding another pickaxe this one right
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on the outskirts of
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tucson arizona and i believe i'm gonna
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stop here for the evening
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by all accounts i looked up the distance
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and just about
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500 miles i accomplished today
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i think that's a good that's a good
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start for this cross-country road trip
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