The Hike To Pirate Cellar at Dungeon Rock - Theme Park Ruins of Pleasure Island & Boston Echo Bridge
Boston July 2022
Transcript
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today's adventure begins here at
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breakheart
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reserve
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i start off with a little nature in the
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greater boston area as a recording of
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this it is july 2nd
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saturday 2022
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start off with a little nature
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rocks
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scenery
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trees
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beauty
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and then head into
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closer to downtown boston and show some
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some of the wackier things kind of a
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nice mix today
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it's gonna be a good day and i'm looking
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here this says extremes gonna be very
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careful
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smokey bear not to be confused with
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smokey the bear if there's no v in there
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it's just smoky bear so bear would be
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his last name unlike
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big the foot
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smokey bear but yeah bear there's no
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thought in there
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i learned that a long time ago welcome
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everyone adam the woo here this says
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that there is a beach one mile away it
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also says
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unguarded waterfront
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and i am not here alone
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max
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has made the commute from florida
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you were here baby let's go and you so
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you this morning you said i want to see
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some nature i want to see some rocks
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i just wanted to get disconnected
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honestly for a second man it's always
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nice to take a step back and just get
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back to
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what everything
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is at in its natural place
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i like that so we're gonna do this and
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then we'll just see where the wind blows
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today
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should we go to the beach
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that's a wild walk that's kind of a wish
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we walk all the way there
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miles not that long
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do you want to do to join me shall you
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shall you you're feeling the you're
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feeling the soil there
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this grass is like
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you had one with the
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are you in one with the earth right now
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inside the very air-conditioned visitor
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center
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they have a little snack
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section over here but look there's like
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some birds and some fowl up there
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there's a an owl
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oh there's even
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a couple owls up here as well
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and i'm getting an ace ventura 2 moment
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when ace ventura went in the room
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surrounded by these we got a coyote up
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here you got a mink
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you got a red fox and you got a fisher
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up top
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i wonder if we'll see any animals today
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without air conditioning
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oh it's like a little portable wind
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right down here and inside the little
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visitor center picked up this general
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layout of the land a guide map
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not really sure what we're looking for
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we're just kind of
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enjoying the mourn
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and just find what we can find but
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here's a
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case we get lost got the map as you
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follow this path there's lots of trees
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that are growing out of the ground
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it's always neat to see a tree that's
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popping up out of the side of the rock
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itself
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look at that tree's going right out of
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the side of the rock
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i really like this trail of trees
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through here too
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just kind of very majestic
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little walkway
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and i you know i don't have a pet i
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don't have a dog
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but if i did i could bring my pet to the
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bark place which is a leash-free
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barking lot not a parking lot
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at break heart
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look at that right there
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wagon wagon's tail
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love listen to the birds
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and here are some of the birds around
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this area
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says thanks to you
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still have a home
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an eastern meadowlark which is there
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an eastern bluebird
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a rufus sided tohi
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and a black cape chickadee
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oh this one's got a little fish and then
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a little snackage
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so does this one except this one
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got a little berry approaching lower
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pond trail
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this is the beach
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not an ocean beach
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just a lake
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just love these rocks
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so watch your footing though
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there's definitely a snake down there
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too see a snake yeah look down there you
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have spotted a slithering serpent
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don't get too close i don't know which
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ones are
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safe and which ones are dangerous i'm
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just gonna
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black racer i'm pretty sure and
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go turtle
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go turtle go go total go
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and veering off this this direction
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checking the guide map there's a place
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called eagle rock trail which takes us
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up to an overlook that we've been
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looking for just got to go over this
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bridge
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through
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the foliage
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down eagle rock trail and we're going to
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go up to the top of the 206 or 208 foot
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overlook of eagle rock okay have reached
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the peak you see them down there kind of
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cleaning out the lake and whatnot
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way down there i'll kind of zoom out
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show where i'm at the top of this little
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eagle
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rock peak
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you can really kind of get a good 360
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look around
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from up here so you got the rocks all
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here
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i'm standing at this point
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and then down there that's where the
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lake is
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and then doing a little circumference
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around
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and you'll be able to see the downtown
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skyline
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of boston
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off in the distance so it's not downtown
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but off in the distance you can see the
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skyscrapers
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over there meaning where i'm standing is
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not downtown downtown is over there kind
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of zoomed in
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a little overcast uh which is nice it's
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not too terribly warm and sunny at the
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moment the sun is kind of behind the
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clouds
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kind of gives me some stone mountain
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vibes
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because i'm on a stone
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looking at it downtown except it's not
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atlanta
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it's boston it was kind of breezy for a
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minute but now the the wind has stopped
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so i love the birds that are tripping up
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we're at the top up here
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mount everest
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it's kind of like a bonsai term but like
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when the roots go crazy like that yeah
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and they're like huge and you can see
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like the rings in them
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like they call it nabari really
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that sounds like a mushroom
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so it's got that mushroom look to it but
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it's really part of the root
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it did kind of start to rain for a
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little bit the rain has subsided and the
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mosquitoes are starting to rear their
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head but thankfully there's something
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called
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bladderwort
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which i did not realize you noted this
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max you were kind of like say she said
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take a look at this
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that
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bladder wart helps control
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the population of mosquitoes
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give it up for bladder wart i never knew
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that existed
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you hide your cowbell right now you'll
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be showing the bladderwort
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coming over here oreo
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look at this this oreo's heading our way
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oh no it's not it's getting some getting
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some food
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found a little something there
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just going to town
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or just keep eating okay made it back to
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my car and commuted over three or four
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miles to another area called lynn woods
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reservation established in 1881
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where there is a parking area next to
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this very unique rock work and of course
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someone mowing
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mowing a section but something up here
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we're gonna hike a bit to a place called
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dungeon rock okay gonna veer off of
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green loop and head down jackson path
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towards the destination
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a rock that has a stairwell
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with a little pirate history
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and this is also uphill just a little
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bit very
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rocky terrain there is a pathway carved
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out of footsteps here with some pine
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straw
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going up the side of this hill
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looking for this rock sound of the wind
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amongst the trees
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this is about a mile hike one direction
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and then a mile hike back to the parking
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area where i parked my car so it's a
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little bit of a hike yeah this is like a
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whole vibe through here look at this
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we're the only ones out here we really
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haven't seen anyone on this little
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particular trail
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past a few people the parking area but
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not in this area all right we reached
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the top and there are a few other people
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up here getting photographs on top of
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the rock kind of reminds me it looks
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like a almost like a skull
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looks like a skull rock
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like the format of this
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this is like really cool like a little
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neat little hideout
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here as well
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take a look under here
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there's supposed to be a big metal door
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look at these little cavernous areas
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yeah i really have no idea where the
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metal oh here it is right here
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here's the metal door
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look at this it's like oh it's open
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dude it's open
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wait a second look look look
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oh
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is that i can't okay no it's bored it's
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locked up it's sealed
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it's got a chain on it yeah it's all
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chained up
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holy cow man this is the door
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look at that
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that's the dungeon door right the door
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is freaking 400 plus years old isn't
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that awesome
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so the story is a guy lived here hid
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some pirate treasure
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there was an earthquake he perished and
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all supposedly all the loot was still
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down in here and someone else bought it
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they moved in built a homestead nearby
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he was digging and digging they could
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not find the loot so supposedly the
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treasure might still be in there
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that's kind of paraphrased version of
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what i was reading
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oh my look at that that's the door it's
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the cellar door right there
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i thought it was going to be open oh
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yeah so you got to get the flashlight
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kind of zoomed
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pointed down there so those are a bunch
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of stairs leading down into like a like
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a mine shaft sort of it's just all
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stairs
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and i wish this man i wish this wasn't
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locked up dude i'd just totally walk
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down there
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supposedly there's like
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they say some say there's there's ghosts
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i mean who knows it was true or not but
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wow all right pretty dang awesome
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we're the only ones up here there's
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another family up here so the rock
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itself so the stairs go down
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into like a cellar right below
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man i wish that was open
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that is incredible that that still
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exists
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pulled away at it yeah
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i was kind of noticed first when i first
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saw the door i didn't notice all the
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like brick work and spider webs that are
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up here but look they've like bricked it
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in
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as well like right up there look at all
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the spider webs and stuff
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man that is so
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cool i wonder if that you could like
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peek out of there at one point
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quite a lock on there too
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just like
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assuming like bats probably congregate
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yeah i just love this look at this
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brickwork here all right heading back
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out now back down this staircase this
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whole area is so cool through here
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it's like something like you'd see like
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in like an old western or something like
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a
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like a little hideout in the rocks
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it's a little bit of a little bit of a
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walk about a mile here and back but not
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too bad well worth it we can make the
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trek
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look at that that looks so cool those
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those rock stairs so this is giving me
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some some serious like chatsworth north
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of la vibes you know they did all the
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old westerns like lone ranger
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bonanza stuff like that
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the old john wayne's old ronald reagan
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westerns and stuff that kind of what
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this area terrain reminds me a lot of
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i don't know why but it does yeah it's
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really tough to tell but i can hear them
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making a little honking noises
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talking to each other kind of right
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there in the little gap of the water
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way over there
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a little congregation of geese all right
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we made a little bit more of a commute
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probably about 20 minutes from where
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just were
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now back in the day there used to be a
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theme park here by the name of pleasure
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island no affiliation to what is now
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disney springs in central florida
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which used to be pleasure island but
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there is a disney
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tie-in in a way even though disney did
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not have
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you know any ties
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you know in a corporate level or
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anything like that but this was given
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the nickname
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the disneyland of the northeast
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which is very interesting
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you know so they would just kind of use
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that as like a reference point or way to
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describe themselves
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but there used to be a big whale here
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not in this spot but this is part of the
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remnants of it
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some pretty good information online and
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there's a a lot of mystery and confusion
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on what happened
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to the whale
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out here
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and the best i can figure i was looking
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at kind of satellite images this island
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was pleasure eye this little tiny island
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over here was what was known as
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as pleasure island like some old rusted
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metal beams oh yeah left sticking up out
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of the water yeah good eye over there
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there's some
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very rusted out pieces of metal
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we're all sort of amusement park
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attractions and themed
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things out here and that's one of the
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kind of rusted out
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pieces that is left there on pleasure
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island
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it's hard for me to even say those words
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without thinking of the pleasure island
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you know dance party island that used to
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be
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at disney world back in the day and then
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over here
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there's a few turtles just like chilling
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out on a log just for a little reference
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point there is the whale popping out of
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the water have the water coming out of
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the blow hole and
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the gas going by on the boat
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supposedly
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the whale is now sunk at the bottom of
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this water
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some side and also on the same property
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well just adjacent are some apartments
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but then look at these look at these
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beauties these satellite dishes
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i'm trying to just go around and look at
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another view of the island now this one
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looks
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well no that's not plugged in it's not
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definitely not being used but this one
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over here is completely overgrown
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yeah way before
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streaming services and cable and all
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that you had to just have us you had to
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get a satellite
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yeah what a different different time
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television watching
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kind of found a little path here through
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the woods
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get a different view of the island
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again there's not really a whole lot of
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relics left
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i think i just walked through a spider
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web
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that was it right over there
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there's another view of that little
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rusted out
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item over there there's a lot of bugs in
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here look at these bugs flying around
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so this is a different angle of where
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it's looking from another perspective
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but there's that
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and then along the shoreline there's
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kind of other little chunks of items
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including this i'm not sure if this is
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kind of current but there's like a
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piece of like metal siding there
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it's kind of a stretch i know but you
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know it's one just i wanted to see this
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with my own eyes
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all right let's go get some food
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you hungry
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now we're not gonna get pizza but here
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at prince pizzeria is something known as
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the leaning tower of pizza
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i love it
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a smaller
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recreation of the leading tower of pisa
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this is the living tower of
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pizza i like it
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all right looked up a couple places and
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we have chosen
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faux 99 vietnamese and
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chinese cuisine a little i know
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it's pronounced pho but i always say fo
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fo
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99 it's time
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for some vietnamese soup
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i'll probably get some spring rolls too
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i usually get spring rolls they also
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have fresh smoothies
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and once i was inside i ended up getting
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what i usually get i will get you know a
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couple spring rolls actually we both got
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sprinkles we had a total of four spring
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rolls and i went with the faux guy which
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basically just chicken
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like a noodly chicken soup oh for some
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reason i was going to foga or
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which is just chicken
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and mac's got the like a beef
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the steak
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what's the technical name of what you
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got
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i mean i asked him for beefo but like i
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guess it was i guess it was technically
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a steak and i'm seeing an old
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sign down there a little relic in the
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side of the building an advertisement
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right there on the side of the wall
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kind of fading in
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now headed over closer to downtown
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boston
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where right here on this very block
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is the
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skinniest
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house
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in boston
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known as
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the skinny house also the spite house
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because it was said it was built out of
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spite
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to block the resident that was right
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next door which has since been removed
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they built these new buildings here
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this is only 10 feet wide looks like
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it's number 44. yeah it's only 10 feet
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so you figure this the length of a
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basketball goal
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laying down so i'm six foot three so if
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i lay down it'd only be like another
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three feet and
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what nine inches not even four feet so
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this this is the length of like a
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basketball
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hoop
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not go a basketball hoop
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would be
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the spite house you can kind of get a
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kind of perspective of you know what it
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looks like from here
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it is kind of amazing
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the fact that
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it's only 10 feet across
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the skinny house of boston
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it's definitely noticeable in comparison
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to the one next to it which is probably
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twice as thick
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or more
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what's the date on it
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1670. that was a long time ago
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1670 the neighborhood this is in is
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adjacent
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to this as well
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yeah some of the dates on these
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it's really incredible and across the
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way there's a ship
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and now traverse a little farther to the
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other side of town and found some public
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parking
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for hemlock gorge
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which is located
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right over there
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and also at hemlock gorge
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is echo bridge so states that sign
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charles river
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hemlock gorge and echo bridge
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i got this house right here
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pretty awesome looking right next to
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the bridge and the staircase itself is a
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staircase it goes up to the top
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but imagine at some point you get
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underneath it
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and you can hear an echo
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let's head down here and see what we can
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see okay heading down this staircase
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this goes over the river maybe that's
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where the echo is
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hello
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this one's gonna be good you think so
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yeah
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this one's way way way bigger
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okay there's a little area here
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possibly you're supposed to stand
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underneath there
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oh wow
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holy cow
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whoa
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dude that works so good
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dude it sounds like we're in space or
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something right now
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dude that is amazing dude it feels like
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i'm in a cartoon right now
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hi
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i think the higher pitch you go the more
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you can hear it so if you do like
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it
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yeah okay guys i don't know if this
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sound is gonna be like as pronounced as
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it is right here but i mean this is
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absolutely ridiculous
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i can't even believe this
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whoa that was good
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two at the same time
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one two three four
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this is the coolest thing
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i'm glad we came to drove over here
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we'll do a few echo spots
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in my day probably the two most notable
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that i know of
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walt disney world has a deco spot at
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epcot
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disneyland has fun
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and tomorrowland this thing leaps and
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bounds better than either one of those
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two
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man that is so cool
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look at okay right here's a good
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just that simple
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all right i gotta say i didn't know what
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to expect when we were driving over here
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that was awesome well worth
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going to the hemlock gorge and
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echo bridge
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open dust hill dawn that sign says do
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not show up here after hours
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because they probably don't want people
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yelling and screaming into the bowels of
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nightfall
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with people in the neighborhoods you
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know just over the way probably thinking
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quiet down
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should we go up top to the top of the
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stairs and look over let's do it yeah i
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got to thinking about it probably should
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end the video
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up top here at the top of the staircase
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looking down upon the gorge
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and the echo spot
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hell of a staircase it really is we have
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certainly got our steps in
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today we have walked some miles walked
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some elevation got the
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got the stair steps in
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and now we're about to walk across
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this bridge now from down there i
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thought you could drive across here so
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you can drive underneath it
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but across here this is just a walkable
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not drivable at least current day all
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right
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that's going to do it for today
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covered a lot of ground did a lot of
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stuff
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did a lot of hiking did a lot of walking
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and had a good day
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it's a little overcast now
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still got some clouds out some
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cumulonimbus
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got the u.s american flag right there
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off in the distance very appropriate
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we'll see in the next video the vlog
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from the top of this majestic bridge
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is
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and directly below where i'm standing
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is where we were just yelling
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and hooting and hollering
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in fact there's that
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piece of what i assumed was a wooden
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boat
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i'll see the next video the vlog
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over it's kind of odd the way this is
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with the houses in the distance and then
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a little stairwell down
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to the top of the bridge
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yeah just one last final footnote