The End of My Route 66 Journey / Meeting The Gemini Giant
The final day of my Route 66 road trip . Saw three different muffler men one of which was the iconic Gemini Giant , arrived in Chicago for a hot dog and completed the cross country trek by riding the massive ferries wheel .
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Follow my complete Route 66 journey
Day 1 - https://youtu.be/u8ALrsPAdo4
Day 2 - https://youtu.be/-0xxiWMdgiI
Day 3 - https://youtu.be/3DZNW02vmeY
Day 4 - https://youtu.be/CUWTKsLDvlg
Day 5 - https://youtu.be/WUj33SIlt0I
Day 6 - https://youtu.be/q6A4NYF2e_o
Day 7 - https://youtu.be/6fw46xSZRnA
Day 8 - https://youtu.be/Nhx751NOD3g
Day 9 - https://youtu.be/poWPG4tGFJk
Day 10 - https://youtu.be/4VQfROUkISg
Day 11 - https://youtu.be/JmPrLWH367I
Transcript
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done to the dun dun dun dun da
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welcome everyone Adam either whoo here
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today number 12 a dozen days on route 66
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my adventure starting in California and
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arriving in Chicago Illinois will come
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to a crescendo in this episode beginning
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with the muffler man not holding an axe
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but a hot dog join me and my good friend
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Jacob the carpetbagger has been tagging
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along the entire journey thus far it's
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pretty cool being able to end our
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journey here in the Land of Lincoln
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you think he's around anywhere yeah he's
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right over your shoulder
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hey no one will ever what are you doing
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in here I'm vlogging I'm vlogging in
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there I gotta get in there no just come
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just to see I'm not sure get in there
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I'm not sharing it with you close the
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door behind you well well well what have
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we here
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yet another muffler man this one with an
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ice-cream cone and a hamburger as
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impressive and towering as he is it's
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only about two-thirds of size of a
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regular muffler man and the internet
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rumor says that mark Klein of Natural
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Bridge Virginia created this as beat up
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as this old road is the one that runs
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parallel to the left is even more
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decayed you can see traffic's not even
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allowed on there certain sections was
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completely cut off the town of Pontiac
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is home to the self-proclaimed most
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popular route 66 museum plenty of
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display cases with artifacts from the
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Mother Road or the most fantastic relics
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they have here is this VW bus
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it belonged to Bob wold Mayer who was
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the son of the gentleman that created
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the cozy dog drive-in in Springfield
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Illinois this VW was also the
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inspiration for the one in the movie
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Cars voiced by George Carlin another
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interesting fact about Bob before his
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passing he did a lot of the artwork
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renditions of the mother route you could
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see it in a lot of different postcards
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and paraphernalia all over the country a
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man
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the amount of miles he's spent sitting
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in the captain's chair
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that's him just hanging out on the side
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the sliding door wide open and it still
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remains accessible for us they have
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placed a piece of plexiglass so we can't
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lean in but his personal items are all
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still inside adorning the walls and the
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roof of the bus and this is his artwork
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so if you ever see a postcard that
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resembles this style artistic rendition
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most likely it was done by Bob coming
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from someone who spent many a nights
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sleeping inside a very cold chili
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former van that I owned or my current RV
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or other vehicles as I've traversed the
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open road this fills me with emotions
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pretty awesome just hitting the old
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dusty trail and seeing some sights doing
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things and living life it's a converted
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school bus and he built a top section
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almost like an arc above it yes he
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already took when he was moving one
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permanent home this is more like his
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permanent home he had it it pet barrier
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Arizona yeah he ran a shop and he was
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there for a while quite a while and then
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he moved to southeastern Arizona in the
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middle of nowhere yeah because he found
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he couldn't get his artwork done because
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there's so many people coming through
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the heck Barry Stewart distracting him
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so he moved down there and that's what
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stayed until he came back
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brought back 2000 - I think it was
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underneath put the flag up if the flag
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cleared then he go ahead and drive this
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Sunday if the flag moved at all he go
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back to turn this around go some other
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direction there's this typewriter and
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there is his security system don't even
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attempt to sit in the driver's chair
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immortalised also on this mural and
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after looking gosh we have come a long
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way
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passing by all these towns all these
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areas just moving along of course I'm
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moving it along very much quicker than
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the real-time version but just looking
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back it has been quite an adventure thus
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far we've almost come to the end we are
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there in Pontiac and just heading north
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just a tad bit to Chicago left my mark
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for all to see until someone comes along
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with an eraser supposedly one of the
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most iconic structures is around keep a
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keen eye out if you see them we might
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have maybe yeah I think we I think we
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might have passed them ladies and
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gentlemen boys and girls sir ma'am
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children I present to you the one and
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only Jim and I
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arguably one of the greatest roadside
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statues to ever exist placed here to
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attempt to Lauren would be hungry
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travelers at the launching pad a force
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to be reckoned with in the advertising
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world this beats a normal billboard in
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the old day the beginning of the story
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sad I lost my wife from cancer and Holly
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lost her husband from cancer two three
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years ago we have young kids to raise so
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we sat down by God's grace we met we
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decided you know what we're gonna get
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out of the corporate the corporate world
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we want to do something that's fun and
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exciting so one day we're driving down
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route 66
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Holly's from North Carolina if you look
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out the window in the 28 foot space man
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he was named Jim and I giant and we were
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looking at him taking pictures like you
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folks were and we've turned around
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looked at the building no stool and
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potatoes ready to fall in there's a for
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sale sign on it
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and so hey Holly asked let's buy it I
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probably would have said no but she said
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let's save it and then was the key
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determining factor he said yeah let's
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say this we need to save this we've
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enough Walmart's and McDonald's we have
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enough drive-throughs we have enough
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corporate America we need a small
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mom-and-pop shop money up car shows
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cruise nights sock hops movie nights and
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then that's where my fun stops then it
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comes to food and so what we want to do
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is we want to bring back the old menu
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and it includes hamburgers banana
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milkshakes and we want to you know just
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be a part of the community and we're
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having a lot of fun with it
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so we're excited appreciate you guys
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coming out today and supporting us and
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just wish us luck and follow us on
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Facebook of a watching pet and we look
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forward you coming down and not not
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having me cook for you decided to
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purchase a bobblehead which is inside
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this box a sticker and a sweet t-shirt
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this looks slightly
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entertaining look at that it's pulling
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me in like a tractor beam I just need to
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park only a few miles from the Windy
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City
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technically in Cicero it's time for a
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Chicago dog and Henry's and this is what
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we're dealing with a genuine shy town
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dog somewhere buried underneath that the
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fries there's like fries all on top of
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it
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you ready for this are they good the
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time has come after 2,500 miles the end
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is just about near the skyline of
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Chicago rears his head 12 full days on
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the mother road is about to end
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Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada
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ready yeah yeah
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da da da dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
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da da da da dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
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and to celebrate we started the Santa
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Monica Pier riding the ferris wheel now
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the Navy Pier and we're gonna ride a
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ferris wheel I am now completely sky
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high
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that's gonna do it not only for today
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but for the entire dozen days of this
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route 66 Adventure I would like to give
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a big thanks to my good friend Jacob the
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carpetbag refer not only tagging along
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but keeping the company helping the film
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a few of the shots random stuff that I
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didn't want to pull myself and it's just
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cool to have a buddy along for an epic
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road trip thank you to everyone who was
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a sponsor a patron on the Adam of
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patreon page helped put gas in the
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vehicle paid you know a cumulative
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effort to help pay for hotel rooms it
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really means a lot it goes a long way
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and also a big thank you to everyone who
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got an Adam the blue t-shirt through
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Spreadshirt and if you would like to
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continue helping in those endeavors
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links can be found down below also in
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the description box every video every
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episode all 11 of the series the vlogs
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including this one which makes 12 will
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be in the description box I'm gonna do
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is click it go back through the series
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and enjoy the night your own discretion
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I will also put a link
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to Jacob the carpetbaggers channel you
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put a video up every day as well correct
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yes you can go and delve deep into the
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Jacob carpetbagger repertoire this has
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been fun I will probably do this again
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at some point we did not have hit every
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nook and cranny of the Mother Road
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because there's a big future out there
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and we want to do it again you want to
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save certain things and we weren't on a
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time crush a time crunch to get it done
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in a dozen days and we did it
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absolutely we did it I'll see you guys
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