Off Limit Areas & Hidden Border Towns From California To Arizona - Getting Pulled Over on Road Trip
Day one of a two week Feb 2020 cross country road trip . Starting in California and taking Interstate 8 east into Arizona . Stopping at a variety of roadside items , border towns and more .
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welcome everyone Adam and the whoo here
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the beauty of the ocean on the west
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coast is where today's adventure begins
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but over the next two weeks I will be
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journeying cross-country nearly from sea
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to shining sea wait a second whoa whoa
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whoa man
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Cody how's it going are you gonna tag
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along as well I'm here for the road trip
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man spoiler alert you have flown in from
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Florida I asked you do you want to go
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with me I do and your answer was yes
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took the time off I need to do this road
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show and we're just going to see some
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stuff yep go across state line state
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line state lines no real rhyme or reason
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we have an agenda but that might change
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so we're inviting you to join me and
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Cody meet this epic road trip let's try
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that again
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join me and Cody nailed it shall you
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this trailer park in Alpine California
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just off Interstate 8 it used to be an
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old dinosaur park a land full of
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prehistoric creatures we stopped to talk
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to a couple gentlemen who live here they
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gave us the information saying they used
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to be how many 17 17 or 19 something
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like that yeah they was said about 17
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dinosaurs out here and there's only one
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left
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they went extinct like all the other
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ones
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and kind of tell based on the terrain
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where some of the others used to stand
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does make sense to have them just kind
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of perched right here on the ground in
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this section next to these rocks don't
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make them like this anymore solid not
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going anywhere where do you think you
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had to guess yeah yeah fifties do you
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think maybe older
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I'm gonna guess maybe a couple years
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older not that I'm an authority on the
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matter
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probably prehistoric very unique bark on
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this tree how it's like
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it's almost like peeling off like a
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cocoon July July not really a cocoon but
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it's almost when a caterpillar turns
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into a butterfly with I guess that would
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be a cocoon okay cocoon so yeah this
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would be almost like the cocoon bark
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there's nothing written on I'm thinking
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it was the bottom of a chair at first
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maybe parts of an old bridge that's
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probably already close to the creek yeah
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is that for liquor or is that an old
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medicine bottle you decide all right
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you're looking standing standing firm
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right there
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now we'll sit like a pirate in that
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stance over the relics nailed it
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nice angle of that bridge and I realize
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he is weed eating dirt yeah he's waiting
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in the dirt not even I not even near the
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foliage I've got a weed eat that dirt
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did you have a lot of ground to cover as
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much as you want to hang out what did
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you name him this is old clampy how do
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you know it's a male oh that's uh that's
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a you know multi-gender name I stay in
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Jurassic Park they were all females but
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this this isn't Jurassic Park it could
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be a female
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it's kind of sketchy I'm standing right
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on the edge here like look how close
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like if I just go a little more this
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like little do like a mudslide whoa whoa
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whoa whoa whoa step back man
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can you pull back away from there dude I
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don't want to have to pick you up in the
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creek now Thank You ed Lake that's one
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of those pausing for that category
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I appreciate it was a close one it's
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close kind of see the thoroughfare we're
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traveling on off to the right
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heading eastward this little cavernous
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area you can see for miles and miles and
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miles elevation of 3,000 feet that's it
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a little over half a mile up in the air
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the signage leading in a belief said
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Vista Point I cannot confirm that
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because the plaque er that used to be
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here looks as if it's been peeled off of
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this concrete slab so to use your
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imagination at this point and this Vista
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Point see what I do there now up to 4000
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180 approximate feet Crestwood summit
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and often the horizon not far just a
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matter of miles is the Mexico border
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right over there past that Valley
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hopped on to historic
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highway 80 let's see if we can get a
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peek at the border wall
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down here a few miles
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as best I can tell the closest proximity
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is at the entry point the signage
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leading into Takuma hot springs running
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parallel to the road that goes through
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town look how close it is that old
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California Road
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you're the faint sounds of a security
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radio behind us there is a jeep up at
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the top of that hill the dirt road just
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goes on for for almost an eternity
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shake it up quick he's taking off fast
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Wow
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there he goes got a sight set on
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something and an awful rush is the
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border between us and Mexico and the
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Border Patrol guys coming back yeah I
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would not be trying to get over this man
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now there's like barbed wire up top
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yes we need to get out of here as quick
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as we can kind of intense that there's
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people crossing to clear the area
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okay they got kind of intense yeah let's
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go hey let's move on chopper coming in
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the chopper hovering now
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it's like serious business out here
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we're everywhere it was right over there
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you can kind of see see the space about
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a few hundred yards away step back into
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the center of the small-town Hotel
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Vaughn pictured here in 1925 back then
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and this is current day all that remains
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is this fireplace even the pool remains
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completely covered up with dirt
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Gover against the side here you can see
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the three-foot marker that's how deep it
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used to be now it's only about three or
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four inches give or take thank this to
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the old jacuzzi
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pretty sure it's gotta be make sense cus
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the pools right over there probably
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won't even have to heat the water man so
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here you just jump in it next up we're
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gonna kind of zip towards this direction
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and head to Boulder Park at the desert
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view tower just down the road it's not
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too incredibly bad now during the late
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winter months but there is a heat
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warning that I would imagine summertime
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is way more intense and if that is not
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dangerous enough you must beware of the
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rattlesnakes especially this one this
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one has a lot of venom posted right
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there on the side says just around the
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bend
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oh there it is see in the distance
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desert tower
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birds are chirpin lots of birds stating
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a historical landmark number 194 for the
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state in a pretty decent view take a
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gander down there at all the roads going
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to and fro and just humongous windmills
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down the valley
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this almost looks like a bison head
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wedged on the side there I believe you
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can go up to the top or a small
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admission fee yeah sneaker well hello
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sneaker I'm like I'm busy you know she
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just walked in here now in the middle of
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nowhere yeah just came in here on stage
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she had glitter on her cause she was I
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think she's ignoring me pretty good
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pretty good spot here looking at over
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there sleeping leave me alone there's
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the old the old admission board now
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costs seven or eight dollars to go up so
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sixteen for the both of us in this
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motorcycle just hanging out here in the
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lobby or at the base of the tower
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stylin what kind of animals us this elk
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that's an elk and the other one is
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called a lesser who around a lesser flew
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kudu hey you do you have a ticket
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indeed we do one and still more stairs
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there's almost two upper sections there
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is the middle lookout with the Bell
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and then they make shift wooden steps
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the lead up to another one see anything
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oh yeah
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gotta come up
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are you gonna let me lend me a hand if
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you want a view is slightly obstructed
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by this wrought iron
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take a look
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at this
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traffic the coordinating numbers
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designate some of the mounts and some of
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the areas you will be looking at up top
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you can see 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and then if
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you just kind of peek down below them
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directly underneath those numbers shows
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you what they are like right there would
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be under number 2 and number 1 which
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just so happens to be the old skate
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stagecoach road and the DOS cab is this
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kebaya have been fezzes what this does
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are you ringing that notification bell
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in the 1930s WT Ratcliffe carve the
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stone animal figures which lurk in the
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rocks surrounding the tower that's where
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we're going in directly behind this
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monumental item enter at your own risk
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kind of adds to the excitement just a
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little bit it's a turtle oh yeah Oh
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there's a face right next to you right
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there well like move toward more towards
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me come towards me now turn around and
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look no no to the right right there this
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is I oh you're right there's one right
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there - what what he was looking at me
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doesn't get much more bolder s than this
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see another one you see that barely
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getting a little closer where is it it's
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ahead the giant head around every nook
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and cranny it's a skull
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did you say find every nook and cranny
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um I didn't about I like that you like
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that but I'm here all week
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Shh two weeks two weeks two weeks on
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this trap don't fall almost there you
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know moisture I almost caught your
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following this isn't made for guys my
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size and stature
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moving on I really want to show what's
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inside the front of the trailer and show
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it oh yeah I want to show it that's
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something peek it through right there
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pretty cool stuff you know I'm a I would
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consider myself a believer in certain
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things you know like RVs and cool
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motorcycles like that Vespa that's
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sitting right I'll do that so cool the
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old Vespas but really back there he is
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who donate yeah that's a trick you
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beamed up to Scotty grabbing the camera
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back on my side it's the Flying Saucer
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on top of that vehicle it's called the
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slow zone there's a canoe popping out of
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that to school bus it's being worked on
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by that gentleman
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different parent you're getting ready
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for something huh
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kind of curious what kind of plant pull
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over here
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another terrain change kind of a plant
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that is in this farmland gone from the
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boulder is sections to lots and lots of
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fields farmland
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smells fresh there's an assortment of
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bees down in there lots and lots of bees
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on a butterfly see you butterfly right
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there on that stem up flutter into
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swings and that's quite a few gnats out
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here hovering okay back to the car look
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up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane
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it's neither of those two things
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got a shoe tree here off the side of the
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road they're not completely uncommon you
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see them on occasion but just stumbled
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on this one by chance
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it's not always a reason why folks will
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throw their shoes up in the branches
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some might have a purpose and others
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might just see the others dangling and
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they toss theirs up everything from work
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boots to sneakers
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currently in Yuma Arizona cross the
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state line
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straight ahead is what is known as the
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bridge to nowhere it was built that is
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no longer functioning
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the suspension version cautioned these
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stay clear 800 feet long according to
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what I just read the shadows of the Sun
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are starting to kind of set in there
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against the formation does he spin
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around you can get a better angle the
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magnitude of this thing not operational
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all alone obviously can't go any further
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than this point and the back story is it
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was named after a Yuma resident the only
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one that became an Arizona Ranger Henry
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Harrison McFaul faintly make out the
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letters there says McFaul bridge or Li
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si used to the letters have been taken
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off but the silhouette of them so
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remains there amongst the one piece I
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look really closely to read it
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yeah that was used to wholesome how many
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impromptu parties you think took place
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how plenty for sure look at my hair is
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it good
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I like the part
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the Sun is just about the set I thought
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was soon be rearing its head
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Ares you notice those lights I thought
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it's not technically I guess it is a
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police officer it's Border Patrol
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because the areas we were driving
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through or kind of suspicious I guess I
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traffic area or something
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okay gotcha yeah yeah we got the
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checkpoint up here and I ate usually
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when we see cars coming through here
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that it all worked out all right he's
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now taken off just doing his job we are
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in an area where is being patrolled
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however carrying on
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located in Gila Bend is their monster
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about 15 feet long or five feet high if
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I had to guess I have a tape measure but
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let's gloss his name the Gila Beast a
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Gila monster the gila gila come after
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you
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continued on just a trek about another
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hour so to the neon sign park of Casa
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Grande this is considered an outdoor
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museum and you know how much I enjoy
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neon this is a relative gold mine
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sitting here the roadside goodness
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painstakingly restored mementos
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including that gentleman that's waving
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you usually have to search high and low
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for these type of things but they're all
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just in this one little area this one
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tiny property
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