Route 66 Road Trip Thru Texas - State Line / Cadillac Ranch / U Drop Inn / Midpoint Cafe & Much More
Route 66 thru Texas November 2020
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's episode begins in texola right
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on the state line of
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technically in oklahoma crossing over
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into texas
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going back to los angeles with my friend
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natalie we
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are going to do route 66 at least the
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north west portion
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below the oklahoma panhandle you've only
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you've done route 66 in some fashion
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before right
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just through albuquerque and then seeing
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santa monica but that's it so from santa
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monica the church of the pier goes to
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chicago
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and then chicago back we're gonna do the
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whole stretch we're gonna do about 180
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miles i believe to the next state line
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and just see what we can see but
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currently there's not
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unlike what we're used to in southern
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california there's not a whole
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heck of a lot of commuters and traffic
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through here in this town
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runs parallel where it says i-40 so if
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we go that way
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about a half a mile a mile across under
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the freeway
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we will connect with the one and only
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legendary route 66. inviting you to join
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me
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and natalie on route 16. shall you
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shall you looks as if we won't be the
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only one
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going to the mother road
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check this out down here there is a turn
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table
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the base of this cabin
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i kind of kind of waiting for ash to
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walk
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walk out
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is that a dust buster right there on
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this this side
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oh my gosh it is what's a turbo duster
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also noticing these ants down here these
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red ants
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do not want to mess with those those
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are yeah stay clear
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of those things fields of cotton out
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here as well
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that's quite a bit there's the
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interstate right there
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running parallel through this portion
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there it is there's the sign welcome to
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texas
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having a good one all right we're just
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passing through
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checking out 66 through the state okay
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take care i'll see you later
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oh yeah the u-drop in
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a very distinct and unique
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structure
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me of the pixar film cars i utilize this
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and remodel it their own version but
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definitely based on this facade
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as well as cars land at dca oh man
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remember dci
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inside now it's the old diner area
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there's a retro photo there in the
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windowsill
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above one of the booths the fact they
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have quite a few
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different books documenting its past
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stuff is so great over here in the
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corner
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this is the elvis booth
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right here presley dined here at the you
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drop in and sat
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in this booth back in the 1960s
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says that whoever noticed him in here
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was lifted up above the window at a
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young age to see the king of rock and
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roll
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sitting right here
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they do not currently serve any food
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they do have a mannequin
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if she serves you food then you might
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need to run there is a snow globe
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there you go of the u-drop wow
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speaking of you dropping i don't want to
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drop this
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i should probably put it back down as i
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didn't mean to make that joke but it
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just kind of worked out that way you put
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it back down
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entering into mclean
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passing this signage as well as
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route 66
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does it best that's right it is a
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burma shave add
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right here
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on the way into town seem to have missed
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rush hour
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kind of narrowly avoided it not a lot of
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bumper to bumper
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going on at the moment
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just lift it on the ground off the
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ground
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this end
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i'm guessing that right there is what's
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holding it in place
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very similar to cadillac ranch which is
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a few miles westward
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where we're heading from here
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our other automobiles stationed into the
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and about 30 40 miles away
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the one and only cadillac ranch
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a very popular spot if you paint on any
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of the cars here
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in this field whatever you tag will
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probably be
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painted over within a matter of hours
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it's a constant stream
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of people showing up to paint even along
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the ground in the dirt
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has been painted considerably
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wow it has rained
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there are puddles around the ones at the
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end down there
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oh you got we ended up stopping at the
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store
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you got your own yeah i feel like if you
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were
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to paint on these they would last a
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little longer however
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because no one can really get over there
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you see
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people really are they're not the best
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at throwing away the trash they leave
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the
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empty cans out here which is frowned
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upon there is a dumpster
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on the main road you'll notice how these
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are not well someone has painted those
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pink and those blue on the end they have
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like yeah
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they must use a lot of paint to do that
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but other than that the
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the words there's not really a whole lot
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because
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you would have to wade through the
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puddle to get to those
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what's gonna be your method you're gonna
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go to the two on the end that everyone
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else is painting are you gonna
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try to traverse i mean i have boots but
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they're definitely not
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used for going in those ends oh dang
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this guy is very daring
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very trusting on the stability
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structural stability of those
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automobiles
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this is pretty awesome and look the
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wheel is looks like a watermelon
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really i guess we could put over here
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somewhere in here we're going to have to
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oh some of this looks like very fresh
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though we don't want to paint over what
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somebody already did
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maybe along here or along the wheel well
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on this side maybe up in that little
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in that little area or if you can reach
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up there you could do that
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this is your call
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it's about as good as it's gonna get a
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t w you want to put your name down there
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yeah below it all right cool abigail
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you just never know what the weather
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conditions are going to be like it's
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nice out but definitely has been some
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rain
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i've been here in the past when it was
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very very cold and brisk and windy
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i'm so zoomed down that every little
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every little
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hole in the ground is making it very
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bumpy also in the general
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neighborhood this cowboy here
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almost like a muffler man it might be a
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muffler man but
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he's not holding a muffler he is tipping
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his cowboy hat
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as well it's like it's not technically
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part of
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cadillac ranch but it is adjacent
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it's about a half a mile away oh classic
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car
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alert norman
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going to the bates motel each room with
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the shower and
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taxidermy ahead i'm going to pass on
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this i'm going to go with my gut
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instincts and just
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i'm just going to move on see you norman
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made it over to
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vega there's a
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very nice nice little town you see the
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water tower
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peeking up there over the buildings
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and over here in this yard is the famed
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boot tree next to dot's mini museum
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it doesn't look to be anyone here
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there's a closed sign there on the
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bottom of those stairs
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if you're gonna do some kicking
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these boots would come in handy
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before heading out of this town i was
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noticing here on the side
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wow that is that's a relic
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pepsi bottle top painting
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seen some years
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heading into the town of adrian now
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which also just so happens
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to be the midpoint of route 66
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still running parallel to the 40.
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the halfway point of 66 right up here
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they've drawn a line in the road
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best i can remember and also home of
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the bent door
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right there see how the door is bent
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can you tell that door's bent oh
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just a little bit yeah it's a bent door
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they got their kicks i think i don't
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think they kicked in the door but maybe
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i don't think i think it's just the
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design got the wind turbines over there
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in the distance
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as well and a classic coca-cola
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soda machine in bottles love it
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the road runner here looming over
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the center point either midway
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point i should say and there is a cafe
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affectionately known as the midpoint
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cafe okay midpoint that would be the
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correct terminology and the line in the
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road
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is still here
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the halfway point from los angeles
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to chicago one thousand hundred 139
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miles
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to go back to la which is
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the destination i am headed to
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southern california
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the greater la area 1139 miles
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you're about a thousand miles from home
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right now
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it's not the halfway point of since you
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joined me
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on this journey but it's the half it is
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the halfway point of route 66 which
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happens to be
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what we're doing today it's very
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exciting it is pretty exciting
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and really i mean you have to just kind
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of be careful that
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no vehicles come through here but as of
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you're pretty i think you're good yeah i
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think we're so we're going to go that
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way
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towards the state line which is about 21
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miles i believe
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oh you're sure there you go okay so
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you're on either side there now
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which team are you um your team ally
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yeah
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i have to say honestly me too i love
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chicago but
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oh here we go they have this this little
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display
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you can set the camera up on
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there and we could stand
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now there's a car coming in chicago that
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way one thousand one hundred thirty nine
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la that way one thousand one hundred
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thirty nine movement
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this for the completion of the journey
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back to california back to california
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the vlog is oh you know what
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this car is about to head to chicago
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it's pointed in the chicago direction
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not we're going dead we're going to la
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not chicago
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over
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there are a heck of a lot of bugs
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on the car wow look at all these flies
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what the heck