TDW 1703 - The Best Stuff Is On The Backroads

0:01 get your motor running head out on the

0:04 high freeway interstates looking for

0:08 adventure and things to Vlog in this

0:12 state Bor to be

0:16 W bought to be w

0:33 welcome everyone Adam the woo here got a

0:33 little choked up there not because my

0:35 throat was getting a little raspy from

0:36 that singing Because I get very

0:39 emotional when it comes to the lyrics of

0:41 George thur good it's my second channel

0:44 daily Vlog channel it's the daily wo

0:48 getting off the interstate and onto some

0:50 back roads cuz there's more to see in

0:52 these small towns like this old

0:55 Coca-Cola sign looking at the dates on

0:58 the top of some of these buildings

1:01 1896 way over a hundred years old this

1:06 downtown has been active well moderately

1:10 active looks like Bobby stuman had a

1:12 place an auto supply shop kind of

1:15 resembles an old movie theater Marquee

1:19 as it deteriorates you can see some of

1:21 the mesh protruding through from the

1:24 structure and there's some old display

1:27 pieces out front here as well as part of

1:31 the window has been

1:33 shattered relics of the past cobwebs all

1:38 over the front door knob around back is

1:41 an old hotel the Great Southern Hotel

1:44 probably uses Apartments now but they

1:46 still have the painted bricks in the

1:49 sign on the side of the wall the fire

1:52 hydrants are made to look like

2:00 dalmati what's up buddy

2:00 just hanging

2:07 out there goes the

2:07 train that thing's moving it sometimes

2:10 if you walk down some of these small

2:13 town alleys you can see promotional

2:17 material from the

2:19 past on the side of the walls this one's

2:22 called kiss me gum it states that it's

2:25 the best gum made I wonder if it

2:28 increases your chance of kissing

2:34 maybe what's

2:34 happening what you doing you just

2:37 hanging out it's a nice day today isn't

2:40 it all

2:41 right see you later

2:45 Carl Carl you in there mhm it's always

2:49 an interesting feeling to look at these

2:51 buildings that were once

2:52 thriving no longer in business a view of

2:56 the past it take you almost take you

2:58 back in time just by staring at it one

3:01 thing common in smaller

3:03 towns is the cash only option A lot of

3:07 places don't accept credit cards and

3:10 they have boxes of free stuff that's

3:13 cool an old keyboard down there some

3:17 dolls some books a Richard Simmons dance

3:22 VHS I'm currently in Brinkley by the way

3:26 as seen on the water tower in the back

3:29 ground I found a slithering

3:32 worm on the concrete

3:35 there just making his

3:38 way across the pavement after the cotton

3:41 was planted here they stated it by

3:46 erecting that

3:47 sign in front of the old train railroad

3:51 car and the way it

3:53 looks the doors open it's accessible

4:08 it's pretty

4:08 awesome inside the Caboose some sort of

4:11 closet

4:22 area whoa what is

4:22 this it's like a huge

4:26 wrench what the heck is that peace some

4:30 Machinery it looks to have been like it

4:34 was taken down the railroad tracks so

4:37 you would basically mount it on the

4:39 tracks

4:41 themselves I think that's the inner

4:43 workings of something there may have

4:46 been a platform on top of there maybe

4:49 possibly I I have no idea what I'm

4:50 talking about now I am certainly not an

4:52 expert on relationships but next

4:55 Valentine's Day do not get your

4:57 significant other some something from

5:00 that store you'll probably be in the dog

5:03 house that is an incredible house

5:06 something out of a movie right there the

5:08 former pool hall in town States very

5:10 bluntly no drinking outside you can be

5:14 arrested by the police lots of buildings

5:16 no longer used for businesses

5:19 anymore obviously those who grew up in

5:22 these areas know all about the

5:24 communities and towns but I feel like

5:26 those of us who would never normally get

5:29 off the inter State we would never know

5:31 these places even existed we didn't take

5:34 the back roads this is wheetly Arkansas

5:37 population

5:42 355 which means your

5:42 ex-girlfriend probably currently is

5:45 dating your best friend which can

5:47 definitely be a little awkward after

5:50 looking at this a little more closely

5:53 what do you think those 10 cans

5:56 hanging from that pole are for there

5:59 three or four of them there what's the

6:01 purpose of that very flat

6:03 landscape out

6:06 here which means a lot of

6:10 tornadoes oh

6:12 man Bill

6:18 Paxton rest in peace man seriously

6:18 though look at this you can like skip a

6:21 rock off the

6:23 landscape like completely flat cruising

6:27 through Palestine now

6:32 681 the convenience store not

6:34 operational anymore but the wall can be

6:37 used as a checkerboard I think I'm

6:40 entering I think I'm entering the

6:42 downtown I think this is it I could be

6:44 incorrect in this but I think that siren

6:48 there past the

6:49 branches is for the

6:52 warnings of tornadoes just over the

6:54 railroad tracks you see a lot of

6:56 Coca-Cola signs there's an old Pepsi one

6:59 right there vintage Pepsi goodness

7:02 little swamp area over here as

7:05 well might even be some Cypress knees

7:08 back in

7:09 there I don't know are Cypress knees in

7:13 this particular region or is that just a

7:15 Florida Louisiana thing low bridge

7:19 clearance 14 ft I think we're good

7:22 though I can't decide if this guy is

7:24 trying to get

7:27 in or putting up wood paneling just an

7:31 update he has removed the paneling taken

7:34 a look what's inside maybe there's

7:36 buried treasure in there it is however

7:38 to follow A good rule of thumb of never

7:40 messing with someone with a crowbar oh

7:43 wow even in these little places Best Buy

7:47 has totally cornered the market it is my

7:50 personal opinion that this city hall is

7:52 pretty cool looking and if you don't

7:55 care then I

7:57 suggest go in there and and can change

7:59 your mind here at the Sho and save they

8:03 are very stringent on the

8:06 rules of no loitering so no hanging outs

8:09 in this neck of the woods this gentleman

8:10 walking back here his name is Larry

8:12 Bryant he's the mayor I talked to him

8:15 for a few minutes and he told me some

8:16 information about the town he's lived

8:17 here his whole life and he was saying

8:19 way back in the day next to these three

8:22 original buildings from the downtown

8:24 right here was the old movie theater

8:26 Forest City was the name of that

8:28 Community oh check it out another old

8:30 Pepsi sign little towns like that are

8:32 not used to having people coming and

8:35 videotaping their downtown they give you

8:37 looks very bizarre look sometimes and

8:40 others they send the mayor out to speak

8:42 with you and I just realized I reverted

8:45 back to my youth and called it

8:48 videotaping there's no tape there's no

8:51 tape involved here we go crossing the St

8:54 Francis

8:55 River love these old bridges

8:59 kind of narrow though you have to kind

9:01 of Veer a little bit into the middle of

9:03 the road just so you don't hit the side

9:06 side of the bridge the road I'm

9:08 on little to no cars

9:11 whatsoever just off the Horizon there

9:14 you can see the interstate people

9:17 zipping by at a higher rate of

9:20 speed I like these little roads just my

9:23 personal preference

9:32 peas

9:32 please never tried these the other day I

9:34 bought them a few days

9:36 ago and haven't delved into them yet

9:39 they look like little fries full of

9:43 nutrients and

9:50 whatnot wow they're actually not too bad

9:50 I am in the North Eastern portion

9:54 currently of

9:56 Arkansas there is a major storm on its

10:00 way through over the next couple

10:02 days I don't think I can really outrun

10:05 it and go in any general direction to

10:07 get away from it I'm still trying to

10:09 decide what I want to do I might get a

10:14 motel just in case just in case I don't

10:18 know yet I'll keep you

10:21 posted

10:24 Vlog over dang it almost forgot these

TDW 1703 - The Best Stuff Is On The Backroads

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