Forgotten Towns & Villages Off The Interstate From Minnesota To Wisconsin - Cross Country Road Trip
Road Trip Summer 2022
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today's adventure begins by fueling up
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here
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4.69 a gallon
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at a holiday gas station across the way
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is a space alien restaurant i will be
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crossing over into minnesota and maybe
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further than that today
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doing a lot of covering a lot of ground
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all right cup of coffee full tank of
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fuel and a case of water for the road
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i'm ready to rock welcome everyone out
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of the woo here as a recording of this
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thursday june 23rd
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2022
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just crossed over the state line out of
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fargo into
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minnesota
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now i do have somewhere to be in about a
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week or so from now
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and i have quite a ways to get there so
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i'll be covering a lot of ground
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probably will hit some interstate some
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freeways maybe some back roads
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i have no real rhyme or reason what the
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game plan is today but nonetheless
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i'm inviting you
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sometimes the best days are no game plan
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days just travel guys it's a travel day
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but i'm gonna cover some miles join me
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that's a little warm
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oh that's really warm
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shall you the problem i have with
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interstates
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is i get very bored
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and i have to veer off
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which i've already veered off
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one thing i like about small towns is
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they almost always have
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a dollar general or similar to a dollar
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general store every one of them has one
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including barnesville which coming up at
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the end of august they have an event
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here called potato days that has to be a
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lot of fun
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i always like when these little
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communities have different events every
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year that they're known for potato days
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in barnesville now if you're brought in
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for doing no good
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oh there goes a he's a heavy machinery
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he would probably not be put in the old
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jail over here he probably put in a new
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one it is now used as a tourist and
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artisan center
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doesn't appear to be open though
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and
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fun fact it's now listed on the national
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register of historic places it has the
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old metal door here
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with the bars i don't remember bars
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being on these windows
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just a back to feature two quote
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in fact
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this department here on 101 front street
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is also on the national registry
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there's a sign there as well
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yeah a very quaint little downtown
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section here
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nice down on the end is the hardware
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store and pharmacy
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well i guess the hardware store
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stretches not only from way down there
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but there's also a hardware store here
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maybe it's all one building hardware
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hank
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is being promoted down there possibly
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that is hardware hank
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i don't see a name tag
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got the city hall
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straight ahead over there
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this is the old city hall
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dated 1899
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but the newer one which still looks very
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vintage-like is over there on the corner
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a lot of farmland out here miles and
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miles and miles and miles of farmland
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this is rothsay
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population of only 510 residents
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see some grain elevators over here
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silos i should say
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this would be their downtown also
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take a look at this tiger mart
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nice coca-cola classic emblem there
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that signage is probably from the 70s
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maybe
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got the church building up here on this
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this side on the right there
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also a place called lindbergh motors
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and the engineering company up here on
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this corner
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look at this building this is awesome
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i love that
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some areas have main streets theirs is
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known as main avenue
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the johnson blacksmith building still
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stands
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see the signage above the door there
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before getting back on the interstate
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a little parking area and picnic section
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over here
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and there is a bird some sort of foul
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up here next to this flagpole
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as i get closer it says the
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booming
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prairie chicken a booming prairie
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chicken interesting
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prairie chickens moved ahead of the
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settlers to inhabit the prairies of
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especially in this area
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this is a prairie chicken
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an oversized prairie chicken
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this thing stands probably
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15 feet tall
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if i had to guess
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hello there prairie chicken
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all right i'm gonna get moving on
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see you later continued on a little bit
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more probably 30 miles or so
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and entering the community of dalton
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and next to that is the opera house
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next to the community center is a sign
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that they're going to be having beach
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bingo
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friday the 24th
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little bait shop here and convenient gas
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station
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the dalton cafe
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and the height out here
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look at that there's the hideout
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this whole truck sits in the town of
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ashby
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and right up top there
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is the water tower the ashby water tower
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zip code 56309
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i don't see too many zip codes on the
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side of water towers
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assuming that's what that is
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i know it's a water tower but i mean zip
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code couple restaurants down here a
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viking bank
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next to the old first national bank club
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74 looks like the place to party that is
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got a retro vibe to it there's a sign
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that states state goose refuge
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and there's a bird
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another bird sculpture over here
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next to these picnic tables
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is this a goose
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this rusted out piece of metal says
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coot
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i just got to thinking there are plenty
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of times in my life where i am around
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lots of people no elbow room no space
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and then other times i'm just out
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basically in the middle of nowhere in
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areas where there's just not a whole
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heck of a lot of people
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seeing things like this
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i like having both i like having both in
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my life
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because you find a good balance that way
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it works for me it works it works for me
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i'm really enjoying this being out on
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this road trip really enjoying it
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and just up the way is a little bit more
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got on the interstate and now veering
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off
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of the freeway
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to west union
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farmland
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here's the city hall and a grouping of
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lawn mowers
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and that must be the post office right
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next to i just saw those
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mailboxes right there
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not real cows though
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fake cows on that corner oh
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the cows are crossing a bridge here on
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the corner of first and main
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there's a chicken
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right there look
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that's very creative
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there's some other birds
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and a pig
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it's a pig around there
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fire station over there in the distance
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too
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made it to melrose now
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looking through my side mirror you can
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see the water tower
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peeking over the downtown area
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looks like they're doing a little
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construction here
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as well on the road and i'm noticing
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this
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alarm or a horn up top here
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my first impression is that is used for
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tornadoes
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tornado siren
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classic truck alert
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a dairy farm over here to the side some
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crops in the field
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and a
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little painted
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two flags there united we stand
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on the side of the field and some round
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bales
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as
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well round bales
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here in freeport they have a very happy
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water tower
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i like that
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how could he not like that
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made it across the state line now into
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wisconsin
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it does
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that's pretty clever
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roberts wisconsin across the state line
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there's the roberts cafe
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with a coca-cola
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it almost looks like a new coke logo
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remember new coke in the 80s only lasted
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a short while but it almost kind of
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looks like the new coke design
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has that been kind of dangling there
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since
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was it 85
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maybe and a nice little mural here of
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train station and the train going by
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here in roberts
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and now over to hammond with the hammond
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peeking up over the buildings very high
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up there and according to what's written
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on that roof there it says private
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baldwin private
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approaching baldwin wisconsin
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where there's a private airport
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the wisconsin flag underneath the u.s
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flag right there
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there it goes
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a little bit of wind
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go wisconsin flag go
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that's kind of interesting it's date
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stamped 1893 the pharmacy there but it
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has a little
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pharmacy emblem
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up on top of it
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it's kind of unique
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and then up here
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this bakery is an old coca-cola
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side
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this still has the word bakery written
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across the wall too this is a much
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better angle
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yet the wooden the wood bakery sign the
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r's been removed the part has fallen
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down
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pieces of wood make up the lettering
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i don't think this is open anymore
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a little bit of road construction out
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i've been waiting on this light for a
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while
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it's like a temporary red and green
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yellow light
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no traffic coming the other way
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look it's been red for a while i don't
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know what to do
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been waiting a while there's no one out
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ah
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there it is
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community hall in the village of nap
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hello bird
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i'm noticing a lot of these areas are
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called villages not towns or cities
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but villages
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oh
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look over here
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related
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and the water department is just this
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little building
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the reason i know it's the water
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department is because it's stated across
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the side there
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water department
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nap
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if i'm pronouncing it correct the name
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of this area is minomani
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and the sidewalk is closed they're doing
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some road work
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but this old gas station here still has
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the fuel pumps i think there's some
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apartments up top now
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i think some of the residents cars are
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kind of parked off to the side here
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little gas pumps still here in the
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ground sometimes you'll see a lot of
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these places where the gas pumps have
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been removed but the gas pumps are still
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and this kind of adds a nice little
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ambiance to it there's a spider web
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right there kind of glistening in the
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a little more traffic through this
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this area
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ten dollar sale
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turbo international
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now when i think of wisconsin this is
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what i think of
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farm houses like that and ranchers out
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on their property
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taking care of business
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making sure the crops are going to be
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thriving and bountiful
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someone right out there right now on
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their heavy machinery
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a lot of bugs out
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here the fascinating thing about this is
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after it gets done spraying where it
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needs to spray
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it rolls
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very fascinating
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i didn't realize the wheels rolled over
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i thought it stayed put but the whole
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thing shifts
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there it goes look
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it didn't go far it only goes like a
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couple inches but
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it's pretty cool
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i am getting bit up out here these
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mosquitoes
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oh goodness
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cows on the hill
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hello cows
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those cows are up on the hill
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consuming some hay
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got plenty of round bells there for you
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cows
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plenty of round bales
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they
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are gonna be
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nice
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and full
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it's like some sort of prehistoric
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creature always reminds me of a dinosaur
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just the look of it
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there's a lot of different farms that
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have these out here
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resembles almost like a dragon
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prehistoric dinosaur
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maybe a dragon
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keep in mind there's no traffic out here
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every once in a while car will pass but
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it's rare
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okay i have got to some accommodations
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for the evening hotel
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sun is setting glistening
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through the sky covered quite a few
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miles today
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sun
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glistening off of them i'll see in the
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