Empty Small Towns On Backroads Of Kansas - Almost Running Out Of Gas / Summer Road Trip To Colorado
Kansas Small Towns Summer 2023
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welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here has a recording of
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This is Wednesday July 19th 2023
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standing on Main Street here in Cimarron
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Kansas
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piping High caffeinated beverage from a
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place called The Bakery a little local
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establishment coffee shop right over
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here and I'm gonna be heading through
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the state of Kansas
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crossing over into Colorado today gonna
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hit some small towns
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quaint communities to see what I can
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find I'm inviting you to join me
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US flag there waving in the breeze a
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nice little gazebo here
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it's like a tornado shelter down there
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City Hall here at 119 South Main
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all of these small little towns
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stepped on a stick
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one thing I'll notice sometimes in these
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really fascinating
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clocks that are in these little areas
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most of the time they're not working I
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think this is not the correct time
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it's morning time
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state flag up there
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a lot of flags in this town actually
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there's a flagpole in every corner
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very nice
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silos over there the grain
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storage areas right there along the
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railroad tracks
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it's the water tower for Ingles
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it's interesting when I crossed over
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into this town
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called Town Line it said Urban boundary
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never seen anything referred to as that
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there's the highway 50 Chapel right
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there Country Church figured off that
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road and taking some other highways kind
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of out into the middle of nowhere
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not a lot on this stretcher Road all
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right there is something out here a
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place called Midwest feeders
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lots of cows up there thousands of cows
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on that Hill
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right here is some Crossroads is a
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little rest stop
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Beersheba in 1882
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first Jewish agricultural colony in
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Kansas was established some 60
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back in 1882
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dugouts and sod houses were constructed
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for homes
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Wells were dug on the Prairie
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it's like there's some corn sprouting up
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right here
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small stalks of corn
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thing about from being out of town you
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never know how locals pronounce
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certain areas kind of like I'm from
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Kissimmee but people say Kissimmee that
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way I know they're tourists so I don't
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know half the towns are probably not
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even pronouncing correctly there's the
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town paper The Herald right there
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there's a little downtown section
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got the city hall right here
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newer building a telephone building here
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on the corner
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it's an old body shop right there
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Charlie's Body Shop
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and over here a couple relics of the
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past these old trucks
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gas pumps
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and this is looking back down
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your little Main Street there
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Heritage Hotel on that side
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classic truck
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it looks like these might have been
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working recently because the price of
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premium diesel is 356 a gallon
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this Old Phillips 66 emblem on the side
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of this
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International
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got a flat tire though so it's not
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drivable
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awesome
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get the water towered off in the
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distance too see it over there top of
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the roof line
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farm equipment through here
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all on display
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including this which almost looks like a
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this looks like a
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a horse this head tucked down or maybe a
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praying mantis or an animal of some sort
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except for interpretation but take a
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look at this
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it's a playground equipment
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wow
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this is something else
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okay I've seen a lot of these kind of
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merry-go around these wheels
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stuck on the tree
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oh wow
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this has seen some years
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this might be the oldest one of these
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I've ever seen
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you sit right here
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spin people around on this
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yeah that is that's awesome
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you know it's kind of interesting
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spoiler alert
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but by the end of the night I am hoping
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to end up
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in Pueblo Colorado where this was made
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maybe that's a sign that's that's my
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destination for the late evening
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hoping I can make it there by Nightfall
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sure I will though
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all right I am very thankful and
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grateful right now
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for this little town
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here in the middle of nowhere
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10 miles from the nearest
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fuel station which is kind of located up
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near the freeway
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price of gas 319 not that it matters I
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would have paid ten dollars a gallon
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right now
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because my gas light was on also some
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hay going by
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Gaslight came on about 15.
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to 18 miles ago
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and I pulled over here in this little
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town and asked the local
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is there gas I'm not going to make it 10
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miles up to the next gas station which
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is on the side of the highway and the
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freeway which is about 10 miles up
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because I just didn't want a chance
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chance that
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and I was starting to get really
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paranoid and Afraid SO gas here 319.
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this is not a convenience store it's
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just a card station
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very kind local and for me where this
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was in town told me to drive to the top
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of the hill
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I guess it'd be excitement of me uh just
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out in the middle of nowhere at one with
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my thoughts
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I forgot to put fuel the car up
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so thankfully this Frontier Ag
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Incorporated is coming in handy getting
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some gas I was I was really starting to
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think it was not going to end well
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out here in the middle of nowhere Kansas
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the name of this town is Gove g-o-v-e
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and I will always remember Gove Kansas
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as the place
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I should have ran out of gas
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if they're without those pumps there I
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probably would have gone maybe two or
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three more miles
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and then been hoofing it
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for
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talking to a local and seeing if they
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could sell me a gallon of gas if they
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had one back at their house
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I had a whirlwind of thoughts going
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through my mind
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on what I was gonna do if I ran out of
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fuel
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and breathe easy now
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here's a little post office where I saw
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one of the locals and asked him where
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those gas pumps were
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and that was an experience ended well
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though
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it ended well
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unusual gas pumps that probably
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shouldn't even be there at the top of
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the hill
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you served your purpose well
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I now have a full tank
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moving on
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all right coming up to another little
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town here
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Grinnell or grino
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amongst the corn
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cabin out there
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like it's kind of corn has taken over
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here's the water tower
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g-r-i-n-n-e-l-l
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Hometown grocery there in the bank
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is it their little downtown
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is that the senior Senior Center
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Credit Union
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Town Hall
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back to the furniture store
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that's pretty much it
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that's the town
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this is another town about 20 miles from
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where I just was
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called Levant I believe it is
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at a place called Heavenly sweets
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Bakery and Cafe on the corner right
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there
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angle parking only
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post office 67732
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a nice little mural right there
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Brewster mural
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possibly an old theater
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they've been the Marquee
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or it could have been maybe not
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that looks like a garage
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Liberty garage interesting old gas
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station there
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got a John Deere tractor in front of it
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kind of unique architecture
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you see where the fuel pumps used to be
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continuing driving along here I've seen
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a few of these over the last hour too
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driving along
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the little spheres that have
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a radio station
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written on the side of it almost like a
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miniature golf ball
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that's different the water water tater
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it's not a tater it is a water tower
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stating good land or Goodland
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and almost the same size as the water
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tower
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is a big easel over here next to the dog
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park
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this thing's like four or five stories
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tall
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compliments of the Rotary
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standing before you is the big easel 80
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foot tall celebration art and
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agriculture stalled in 2001
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reproduction of Van Gogh's three
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sunflowers and a vase
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it's a big easel I could see why it's
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given that name
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towards the state line of Kansas
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going into Colorado
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a little town
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that has a an odd name but really makes
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a lot of sense
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canorado
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Kansas and Colorado
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connected
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there's a few of these across the U.S
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where you can they take the two state
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names merge them and mesh them together
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technically in Kansas
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but just a mile or two outside of town
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is Colorado
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now this rest stop unlike the other one
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seems to be a little
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more run down
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brigos Park
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right there on that sign says 1976.
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and I guess you could picnic here if you
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want to
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although these
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the roof on that building does not look
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too good
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a lot of water towers today
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Canada
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dirt roads
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well this dirt road here connects looks
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to be their little Main Street
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is paved
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a railroad car over here the community
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Museum
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all right now officially crossing the
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state line welcome to colorful Colorado
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great Vehicles here this truck
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kind of reminds me of the Jeepers
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Creepers truck a little bit all the
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bicycles in the back
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what a Pee-Wee's bike is back there
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first thing I see when I cross over into
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Colorado
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up ahead looks pretty clear even though
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it is raining
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off to the other side of the direction
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the bad weather so the ship has passed
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pretty quickly
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raindrops on the windshield
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clear skies ahead though from what it
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looks like
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Genoa
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it's a mailbox right here
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there's a mailbox on top of
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fuel pump
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it's like a car
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once was a cafe
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and the water tower should be popping up
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in view there there's also a tower
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over in that direction that I want to go
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check out
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I really am driving through a lot of
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really small
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town
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very small
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one after the other after the other
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this used to be an advertisement of some
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sort
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called this The Wheel of Fortune moment
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what was this advertising
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lawn seems to be maintained it's like
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it's mowed on occasion
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keep out signs and barbed wire fence up
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I guess the story on this the guy that
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owned this
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he would give tours it was like a
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attraction of sorts
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passed away 10 years ago
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it's even a mannequin up in the window
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it says see the states
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way out down this dirt road on the
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outskirts of town the far outskirts of
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and that's gonna do it for today
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from Kansas and then into Colorado
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I'm going to be in Colorado for a good
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series of days
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and be seeing and doing things
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in this General vicinity
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I'll see in the next video the Vlog is
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over