TDW 1773 - Every Place Has A Story

0:04 just fueled up now about to hit the

0:04 road welcome everyone Adam the woo here

0:09 spent a week in Pigeon Forge in

0:11 Gatlinburg and oh how it was amazing but

0:15 it's time to move on and upon departure

0:18 I made a promise to you that I would

0:19 share a little tidbit of info a secret

0:22 if you will and that bit of information

0:26 is the fact that I almost moved I came

0:28 this close to getting a homestead an

0:31 apartment renting a month-by-month place

0:34 while signing a year lease in Pigeon

0:37 Forge but I didn't I changed my mind at

0:40 the last second even though I was

0:42 supposed to meet with the realtor I

0:43 ended up emailing him and saying I

0:46 changed my mind it's my second channel

0:49 daily Vlog channel

0:51 it's I'm so impulsive I'm

0:58 so I'm all over the

0:58 place well that's

1:01 good it's the daily wo stopped off in

1:05 morrist town now and up on this hill is

1:08 one of the many stomping grounds of the

1:10 one and only Davey Crockett killed him a

1:13 bar when he was only three you know that

1:16 song actually has like 18 verses but

1:18 everyone only knows that one part while

1:21 I do love that old Coca-Cola memorabilia

1:24 what is even more fascinating is this

1:27 reproduction of his parents' Tavern

1:30 where he lived it wasn't on this spot

1:32 this is just a reproduction but

1:33 nonetheless pretty awesome established

1:36 and operated by John and Rebecca

1:38 Crockett the boyhood home of this

1:39 Pioneer and political leader of

1:41 Tennessee who was later a victim of the

1:43 Alamo massacre in San Antonio Texas

1:46 pretty cool looking I love this old

1:49 timey woodwork especially the windows up

1:52 there with the rod iron

1:56 brackets the passing train gives a

1:59 little bit of om being as

2:10 well Old Stage Coach car right there

2:10 it's not open today it's only open

2:13 select hours and today is not one of

2:16 them but it is pretty pretty cool to

2:18 just wander

2:20 around a look at the history one of

2:23 those famous pioneers and check out the

2:25 grass here on the roof the shingles are

2:28 just full

2:30 of living grass pretty neat this is

2:33 something I was not familiar with until

2:35 now it's called an ash Hopper basically

2:38 you would take the Embers and the ash

2:41 from the fireplace here put them in the

2:43 top along with corn husk and they would

2:46 basically go down here to the bottom of

2:48 it and create

2:50 soap pretty interesting homemade soap

2:52 made right

2:55 there this isn't the original location

2:58 it's somewhere nearby I'm going to try

3:00 to find where it originally was

3:03 sometimes it's tough to keep up with all

3:04 the places that he

3:06 was this helps a little bit this is

3:08 designating that he lived here from

3:10 1796 to 1806 and someone has painted an

3:14 old skin hat right there the side

3:17 of that shutter after doing a little

3:18 quick research online it said that the

3:20 original location was at a gas station

3:22 it could be the one up there near that

3:24 Coca-Cola sign or it could be here at

3:27 this abandoned station spot either way

3:30 he was wandering around here probably

3:33 along these railroad tracks when he was

3:35 a youth last night as I laid down to

3:37 Slumber I realized I was completely out

3:39 of bottle water and I went to bed

3:41 thirsty never again that's where the

3:44 city made completely of

3:47 food will help a little bit it's always

3:51 good to stay

3:52 hydrated I drink a lot of coffee and an

3:55 occasional soda but I love me some water

3:58 this looks slightly interesting tongue

4:01 tuggers see which one I

4:04 get am I the only one that thinks of

4:06 spatula City from UHF when you see Food

4:10 City no I'm the only one he just loves

4:13 having his tongue

4:15 pulled Ah that's kind of hurt oh that

4:19 hurts he likes pain don't you tug tug on

4:25 that

4:26 tongue what am I do what what the heck

4:28 am I doing currently on Highway 11 East

4:31 taking the back roads I like doing this

4:34 cuz you never know what you're going to

4:35 stumble upon out here like papaw's

4:38 Grocery and Deli I think this used to be

4:41 a gas station and the gas pumps were

4:43 right where Large Marge is sitting

4:46 there's the old gas sign there's no

4:49 longer any fuel here non-existent

4:52 there's a painting of a pig on that

4:54 side this area is called Bulls

4:58 Gap that's the name of the town Bulls

5:01 Gap Tennessee downtown area is awesome

5:04 old church up there

5:07 businesses train tracks it's also the

5:11 home of Archie

5:12 Campbell which if anyone has ever seen

5:15 heiw he was one of the main members and

5:18 next to the old General Store they have

5:20 a museum dedicated to his

5:27 honor I guess you just go in through

5:27 here into this hallway

5:56 here's an aerial shot of the Town

5:56 itself cozy little

5:58 Community that's that's him right there

6:01 Archie Campbell or at

6:03 least his

6:10 bust lot of old artifacts from the TV

6:10 show and it also looks like he was made

6:13 the honorary mayor this massive Hammer

6:17 thing this poster is tucked away in the

6:19 corner I really want to see this movie

6:21 now hillbilly in a haunted house I think

6:26 I need to see that and judging by this

6:28 record looks like he was he was pretty

6:30 smooth with the ladies now this is

6:33 interesting here's his golf bag

6:35 designating Tupelo Mississippi on the

6:37 side I was born in Tupelo and of course

6:40 Elvis was as well I guess he has a tie

6:43 in to Tupelo also my parents used to

6:46 watch that show quite a bit it was

6:48 basically a comedy sketch show and check

6:52 this out this is the barber shirt of his

6:54 and Doctor shirt these are used in the

6:57 show itself and at one time there was

6:59 even a board game that you could play

7:02 that was incredibly interesting and

7:04 totally random had no idea that he was

7:07 from this neck of the woods and just

7:09 across the tracks is a little Railroad

7:13 Museum I got to check this out doc

7:16 that's a photo of the General Store in

7:18 the museum that I was just in that's

7:19 what it looked like

7:21 then

7:22 this that's what it looks like

7:25 now he's got a ticket to ride

7:41 care there he goes

8:02 nothing better than miniature

8:02 trains this is so awesome

8:50 sand this is a prime example on why I

8:50 love taking the back RS because I would

8:54 have never known this place existed or

8:57 the history

9:03 that is here in this town on September

9:03 2nd 1940 FDR stopped off in town only

9:08 for 5 minutes between 5:15 and 5:20 a.m.

9:14 and the train depot which was torn down

9:16 in the80s was on the other side of where

9:19 my RV is now that's a photo of it that's

9:22 what it looked like way back in the day

9:24 old photos definitely can tell a tale

9:28 this is Young Ruby Gilly whose family

9:30 owned the Gillies Hotel I'm going to go

9:33 outside and match that exact shot up

9:36 nearly a 100 years later it's almost

9:39 like stepping back in time isn't

9:42 it pretty incredible I love this kind of

9:45 stuff I love

9:47 history so fascinating and here's the

9:51 hotel I was talking

9:52 about SE better days but at least it's

9:55 still standing the same window Still

9:57 Remains this is where Rufus would sit in

10:00 his rocking chair according to the

10:02 article his favorite spot to watch the

10:05 trains pass by they'd have his guests

10:09 stay in the rooms and they also could

10:12 get a

10:13 view of the

10:15 tracks behind me is the foundation from

10:17 the station and the old switch track the

10:21 gentleman inside the museum was

10:23 informing me that they attempted to save

10:25 it but it was so ridden with termites

10:28 and as bestus that they just couldn't

10:31 save it I'm glad I stopped off there

10:34 that just proves that every place has a

10:37 story jump back on the interstate for a

10:40 bit found a rest

10:43 stop whoa can I squeeze through here

10:46 that's a this is a this is a tight

10:49 squeeze this is

10:51 a very very tight

10:55 squeeze I made it no

10:57 loitering that and that kind of defeats

11:00 the purpose of stopping at a rest area

11:02 right is that what you're supposed to do

11:04 just supposed to be hanging out and

11:06 relaxing no pets allowed does that mean

11:08 in the facilities or just in general it

11:11 would be kind of weird to take a

11:13 full-size dog inside a bathroom stall

11:15 signs signs everywhere is sign blocking

11:18 up my cigarette breaking my mind do this

11:22 don't there's so many signs currently

11:24 located right here if you look very

11:26 closely on that red star you can see me

11:29 very look look very very clear to be to

11:32 have like Eagle Eye to see me in there

11:34 but that's where I am I see you I see

11:38 you there dancing it up if you think

11:40 that huge flag is impressive look what's

11:45 on the side of this fast food restaurant

11:47 gigantic hamburger hot dog and soda

11:52 impressive most

11:55 impressive can you tell me how to get

11:56 back to the

11:57 freeway I'm looking how to get how to

12:00 get back to the interstate seemed to

12:02 have taken a wrong

12:04 turn

12:06 no can't help me huh all

12:14 right he was no help there will come a

12:14 time I thought it was going to be last

12:15 week but there will come a time could be

12:17 in the near future could be in the far

12:19 off who knows based on my recent

12:20 decision I don't even know when the heck

12:22 it'll be but there will be a point that

12:25 I get a home base that I have routs

12:27 planted somewhere

12:29 staying at my Homestead that I'm running

12:31 either a room or a house runting an

12:34 apartment a condo somewhere haven't

12:37 decided where I thought I I thought I

12:39 had decided but I thought wrong

12:42 evidently and the reason I decided not

12:44 to go towards a Smoky Mountains Pigeon

12:46 Forge Gatlinburg as much as I love that

12:50 area is because flying out of Knoxville

12:53 which is the closest airport is

12:54 ridiculously expensive and even though I

12:57 want to have a home Bay if you will I

13:00 want to be gone half of the time 2 weeks

13:03 off either in Large Marge the RV or 2

13:06 weeks somewhere flying I want to have a

13:09 lot of different options the math just

13:12 did not make

13:13 sense for the Smoky Mountains of

13:16 Tennessee so carrying on continuing on

13:19 who knows who knows what the future will

13:24 hold but all I know for now all I know

13:26 for now is I in Virginia

13:30 I'll see you guys tomorrow

13:33 Vlog over

TDW 1773 - Every Place Has A Story

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