Road Trip Thru The Desert - Old Town Scottsdale / Arizona Falls / Readers Oasis in Quartzsite & MORE
Road Trip from Phoenix Arizona back to California thru the Desert.
Sean's Channel
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Transcript
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welcome everyone head of the Wu here
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today's adventure begins Phoenix Arizona
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and be cruising back to Southern
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California for the completion of this
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very very short
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Road Trip with my friend Sean who
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invited me along getting back to SoCal
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and I'm just gonna stop by a few places
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no real rhyme nor reason to what I will
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be showing in fact I have no game plan
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it's just going to be off-the-cuff and
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we're at whatever the wind blows in I'm
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inviting you to join me shall you like
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this fountain the lock this is a lizard
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or a frog of some sort that is emitting
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a stream of water he has some serious
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skills when it comes to shooting water
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out of his mouth he's got some buddies
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there's another one over there on that
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corner and over here oh this one has a
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little little face fungus
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first stop Old Town Scottsdale it's like
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kind of stepping back in time it's like
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classic truck alert over there at the
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stable home site from one of the
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original Scottsdale families which just
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right next to Phoenix Alfred ranch truck
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under 16,000 I guess that would mean
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pounds got a wagon wheel just dangling
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there a welding shop there's some tools
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of the trades here the blacksmith this
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Adobe mission it's still rather early
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how hot do you think it is already
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compared to where we're used to in
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Southern California it's hot and it's
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like I can't even keep my phone in my
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does your phone ever overheat it's
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burning up man and it's early it's not
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even way before noon 9:40 a.m. and it's
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like definitely a considerable
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difference from what we're used to and
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yeah Orange County it's got to be in the
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in the Sun like 90 right now at the
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state flag up there
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and then oh yeah just noticing
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protruding out there of the kind of
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hiding in the shrubs blessings to all by
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elk woman
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oh and then back in here look there's
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like are there sheep
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that's
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yeah she she's in there watching over
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flock
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you thought that was a real tactus yeah
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I've ever seen the top of a garbage can
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quite like this so you it's probably so
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you can't put larger items down in there
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what you get all you could do like
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gymnastics on it because I go yeah you
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could you could just do like pull-up we
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can do pull-ups we could do like those
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things where you kind of throw your legs
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around it like yeah that wouldn't end
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well for me corner of Main and brown
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Avenue at Porter's there's a horse up on
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the balcony this overlook in the whole
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town the whole street please do not
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touch these mannequins they're there
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rest it could just be that's you know
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it's still morning time that nothing's
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open
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okay so we got here a little two roads
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passing through drove by and Cybele it's
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like a cool cool area it's been a while
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since I kind of put together a a random
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no topic episode where there's no
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subject matter it's just whatever
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happens happens kind of a good feeling
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to do that occasionally shades of the
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West I do love me some shade and I do
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love me the West this is a unique cactus
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right here look at that look at the here
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at the rusty spur saloon there's a you
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know modern day door but then they have
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the the old tiny swinging saloon doors I
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would not want to be the cow that has to
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take this brand this thing's like three
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feet well four feet in diameter at about
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two or three feet tall yeah that's that
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would not be a pleasant day
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stopped off at USA I'm just gonna get a
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coffee but Shawn was his get a little
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bit of an appetite who's gonna get some
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breakfast my first thought is how tiny
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this mug is this maybe holds three
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ounces you'd say little baby maybe five
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ounces or there's a little that's per
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ticket decisive okay I was wondering how
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they were gonna do this they did bring
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the whole the whole jug of coffee so I
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can refill it myself that makes a little
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more sense now I'll be able to do stupid
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things faster with more energy oh I'm
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looking forward to the day when I'm off
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this diet I'll be able to eat this kind
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of stuff once again moving right along
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departing the American cookery of u.s.
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egg down the ways a bit have now arrived
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at gr Herberger Park sitting on the
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property is Arizona Falls in order to
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get to the Falls themselves you have to
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walk through this piece of tubing metal
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tubing
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very circular you said back in your
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heyday you would have skated this oh
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yeah we've been funded just I'm sure
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many kids do but nowadays they got
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actual skate parks when I was a team we
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were skating on anything that was
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stainable around the year 1900 from the
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Arizona magazine volume 1 number 6
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well the photograph was from 1900 but
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the magazine was from 1911 that's what
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the Falls look like then and classic-car
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alerts going over the top of them
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that is a power that's a powerful amount
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of water down there
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oh my goodness they're very loud
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we got the lock set back there one
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pretty good a very good stream coming
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through here pretty rapid pace
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three's a lot of gifts of the water
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there
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whatever you do
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pulled over real quick for gas and look
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at this signage here it says that bees
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up at watch out for the bees if I hear a
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few times the fascinating thing about
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this place at the reader's oasis books
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I'm not sure if if he still owns the
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establishment but the the guy who works
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here wears very few if any usually no
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clothing whatsoever that's right none so
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you ready for this and here is an
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artistic rendering of him
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oh it says here he is photo friendly no
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charge
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just ask except I don't I don't not sure
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if I could heal Al's video
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Wow just look at look at some of these
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books or like the dates on this they
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even have you know VHS
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yeah a lot of a lot of videos oh my
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goodness there's like a whole other
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section here
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I'm guitar guitar they're hanging from
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the ceiling it's a good size bookstore
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signature of day and blocker right up
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there Hoss and Bronson there's old
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Charles Bronson
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stating read or else all you really here
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is the freeway traffic which runs
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parallel to the road that runs through
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this town
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I was just informed that back in 2014
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they made it into the town made it into
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the Guinness Book of World Records for
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the largest queue made out of people and
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you could they have a shirt here
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designating that occasion and there is a
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photograph an aerial photo of the queue
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600 people she stated they made his maid
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history
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I was just informed that Paul the
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gentleman who used to run the
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establishment the one that he was known
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for not really wearing many clothing
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items became very popular it was
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necessarily world-famous but he was
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famous famous in this area especially
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with travelers going down the 10 freeway
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and how many our viewers stay here in
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town I was lucky enough to meet him I
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don't remember if I got I probably did
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not get a picture but I did say hello
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sad to hear but at least the bookstore
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is still continuing operation and quite
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the selection and a lot to look at you
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can wander around in there for hours and
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not see everything not a lot of cloud
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cover today not a not a lot of cloud
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formations the Sun is is beaming down
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this is see Leah's rainbow garden in
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memory of Celia and as I was saving a
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lot of the local RV years of the
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tourists that stay here
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they kept expanding on this just started
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basically as a garden but now there are
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different items kind of scattered
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throughout
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what a coincidence didn't realize I
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would stumble upon Adamsville it was
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moved from Castle Rock Shores RV park
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near the Colorado River started building
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the village in 1974 I was born in 74
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another coincidence and now they have
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they have moved it over here than in
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this location since 2001 there's a mule
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down there hauling a wagon there's a
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barn a general store a homestead maybe a
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saloon or a little jailhouse another
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house an outhouse if you will what is an
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outhouse before indoor plumbing that's
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all you could really utilize out in the
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elements like this the weather has taken
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its toll there's a windmill some stables
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firehouse oh yeah that's a firehouse the
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horse-drawn carriage would pull the
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water along schoolhouse and a church
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building and there's a little figurine
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there that has fallen off the steps of
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the schoolhouse are they well I think
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since it was since it was created there
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have been other memorials place out here
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so it's a possibility
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it certainly does look like an ant hill
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that is a rather large one we're gonna
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keep gonna keep away from that how to
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bridge you we're talking about that you
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notice from a distance was over there
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but there's this recreation with this
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baby be the golden gate maybe their
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version of the Golden Gate do you know
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what this is this is the frisbee version
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of golf this is a frisbee frisbee golf
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course hole so the frisbee would go in
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here you would hit these chains your
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frisbee would fall the next putt or the
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next hole is over there you can see it
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way over there so this this is hole 14
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see another one yeah Oh
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way over there past this playground
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equipment that's here randomly and
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virtually the middle of nowhere
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just about to the state line over the
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Colorado River here and then an
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inspection station
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the town of desert center not a very
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thriving community in this day and age
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but at one point there was quite a few
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more residents than there are now and
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there's a school that has seen better
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days over there runs parallel to the
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freeway
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one piece of notable television history
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here in desert center as Texaco is
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prominently seen in season two's Airwolf
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back in 1984 when the helicopter flies
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right over the top of it
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in fact the entire area here was used in
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that episode the episode name was sweet
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britches
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that I'm not joking that was the name of
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it and you could see all this there is
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an active post office right here you see
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the flag and the diner which I believe
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they film the interiors on but right
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here there was a vehicle a truck or a
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car that exploded it was right in front
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of the desert center market just pull
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over and jump out
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by crossing crossing the road here down
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there is that Texaco so helicopter
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flying over circles around there was a
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police station right here in this empty
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spot that was destroyed Colin fire
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designated as the family cafe used to be
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gas pumps here to get some fuel I passed
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by the spot probably 50 times in my life
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I always like to just kind of stop off
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it's a little bit of production history
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out here at desert center in fact this
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kind of asset for could be used as a
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diner is available to rent you know if
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you're a Hollywood production we're
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still two or three hours from Hollywood
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but if you wanted to come all the way
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out here and utilize it it is available
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oh wow the roof of Kate has caved in on
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this building last time I passed by this
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it was still intact it is caved in you
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see the the coolers over there to the
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far end they're kind of still holding
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strong but the center of the roof has
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seen better to take a little peek in
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inside the window here could have been a
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hardware store maybe an automotive yeah
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maybe auto parts I'm tough to tell
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