Into Jungle Of Mosquito Coast To Find Lost Town Jeronimo - Getting Local Help & Accomplishing Goal
The Mosquito Coast
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday January
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8th had a double check on my phone a
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historic occasion as I'm filming this
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January 8th 2025 a
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Wednesday I am seeking out a place that
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I've wanted to go
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to most of my adult life 1986 a film
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came out by the name of mosquito co-
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starring Harrison Ford River Phoenix
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Heather mirin
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and others Andre
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Gregory changed my life in a lot of ways
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inspired me to do what I'm doing now
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inspired me to quit a job quit working
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retail move into a van travel across the
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country now the film is has nothing to
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do with that however Harrison Ford's
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performance of Ali Fox where he took
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himself and his
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family arrived in a third world
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country bought a small village that was
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nothing and started to build a town in
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it that's my favorite Harrison Ford
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movie my favorite Harrison Ford
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performance I mean I love Han Solo Star
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Wars I love Indiana Jones Raiders Temple
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of Doom
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Etc but that
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movie kind of sparked something in me
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again movie has nothing to do in in what
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I've done in in life but it motivated
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me I'm right here at Gracie
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Rock not a lot of info online about
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where the location is other than it was
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near a place called Gracy Rock about an
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hour or so south of bise
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city and I'm going to go into the jungle
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and see if I could find the fictional
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town of gono from the
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1986 movie that had holds a special
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place in my heart the mosquito Coast the
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only Harrison Ford film that did not
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make a profit only made half its income
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back in the movie theater than it did to
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make I'm inviting you to join me I am so
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freaking excited shall you nice little
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Ambiance of fog and I will say there are
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a lot of mosquitoes out here and it's
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not even
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summer I got some gnats and mosquitoes
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frolicking around my camera and around
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my arms
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but I love the fog there now you're
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hearing this little heavy machinery cuz
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there's a rock quarry at quarry Rock but
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there's also a
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town There's No street view very little
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satellite view I tried doing a little
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bit you can kind of get some blurry
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images so I got my rental car pulled
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over here pulled off the main Highway
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and I'm going down this road full of
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potholes standing water it was raining
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earlier and I believe a mile or so that
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way yeah get that mosquito off
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me should end up seeing the sabun river
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I might be mispronouncing that that is
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the main river in the film that they
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were taking the boat down Mr Hattie's
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boat also I just passed hatville which
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is interesting place called hatville I
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just went through a few miles back and
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one of the main characters in mosquito
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Coast is named Mr Hattie Here Comes
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someone on a bike maybe I could ask them
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two gentlemen on bikes riding from the
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town I guess back up to the main Highway
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they were very friend L they waved as I
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went by they we didn't stop and say hi
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or anything but we both gave ways and
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they were they seemed friendly gave a
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little wave also you'll notice there's a
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lot of standing water and I'm just
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hoping it's not too deep to drive
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through and I don't know what's going to
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happen when I get up here the river
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might be flooded because of the rain or
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I don't even know if there's going to be
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anything left of gono in the movie
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spoiler alert it was not standing by the
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end of the film but there are a few key
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relics I like to find possibly to match
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up I honestly will say I feel as if I am
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in the film seeing these big Branch
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trees here and
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the little rock formation mountains off
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in the
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distance really does give the vibe like
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I'm in that
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can't say I approve of everything that
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Harrison's character did in the film Aly
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Fox it's based on a book the row
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book again but just how driven he
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was I think that was a really good
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really good qualities that
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really really stands out kind of went
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off the rails towards the end of the
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movie obviously the end of the story but
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that's neither here they there for the
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motivational aspect of the character
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there is a little small village back in
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here named after the rock Gracie Rock
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and I might even be mispronouncing that
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but there some accommodations up here it
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looks like a little plac to
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live one of the local families invited
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me into their home talked to the lady
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over here who was the cook for Harrison
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who said right in here their house
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burned down but right in here
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Harrison and the crew would meet up and
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she was talking about making salsa and
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rice and beans and chicken for Harrison
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right in here make rice and beans I know
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a lot of rice and beans and Bullies I've
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eaten a lot of them already yes that's
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our main dishes that's the main dish
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yeah so some s chicken here and I got
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the beans there soften and I'm going to
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put this rice in there now okay and
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everything you know this is my little
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kitchen right
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here so was this where the the kitchen
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was when she was making the food for for
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Harrison and everything no we had we had
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right from this we had a kitchen over
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here my mom but every time she change up
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build different things you know yes sir
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yeah that is so cool so a whole crew all
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everybody from the movie was out here
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eating yeah they come right here my
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mom oh she she she what year what here
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was the fire that the house
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burned two years ago just
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happened and like you know never could
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get back and then see over here we got
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the
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river river right here so that's is that
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how do you pronounce the name of the
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river Saun um sabun this is a sabon
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sabon this is sabon but
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no watch
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so this is the saboon this is Theon
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okay this is where they were going up
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and down in the boat Mr Hattie's
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boat so it's usually a little lower than
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this yeah we look people come through
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here and they come and Pi me I got a
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stair over
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there unbelievable unfreaking believable
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that was two year 2000 hurricane
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Richard I know in the movie they built a
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staircase kind of went down that the ice
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machine went down that's what I'm not TR
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to do is is that little slide staircase
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still there maybe I don't sure check it
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out and go over there you got a little
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staircase
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I break up my and everything here's a
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that's my neighbor oh really over there
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that's where he come back and he uses
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his that is so cool man see people
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coming n that is so
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cool he doesn't do that all the time he
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says the water will come up to these
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tires
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sometimes this family is so nice they're
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going to show me a
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spot they actually invited me into their
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home and I talked to his mom she's 84
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she had a lot of good stories said
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Harrison was so sweet to her and loved
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her cooking she had a bunch of
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photos but their house burned down two
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years ago she had all kinds of photos
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with the cast The Crew with Harrison
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Ford feel bad for their
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house he's
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rebuilt me photos are very recently
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within the last month or so the water
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flooded from the river and almost went
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in the house he had photos of them
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sitting up here on the little porch over
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there the water comes all the way up
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here it's like way up from the
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river so this is old school Schoolhouse
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is this actually part of a town do this
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have a town name or is this just your
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own own this area here called Gracie
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Rock Village Gracie Rock Village Ro okay
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this is all this is my property all this
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is my property and um so is there more
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of a town that way no this is just we
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don't live too close we got like Acres
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we got them independent 1980 right 81
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the tree behind it you got in 1980 and
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you planted yes it planted come here see
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here I like the old school bell you got
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there Yes
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1980 so the Prime Minister showed up and
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gave you this tree our
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school all the schools have
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old my I got to get clean up way I have
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some C they went they walk
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that's neat man the old schoolhouse so
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you were here when they planted the tree
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remember them planting the tree no I
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wasn't here I was in New York okay
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yeah all
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school have one of
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these
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Lely a lot
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of oh these are plums okay got
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get how do you know when they're ripe
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stck oh
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yeah sour kind of sour T yeah see this
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is I got to get
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in here a long time I don't know
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them are these uh this is your part of
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your lineage your family though yeah
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this is my dad over here he passed way
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to to this is your dad yeah every Sunday
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I give him a little bouet every Sunday
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every Sund he died from 2002 yes sir
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every Sunday I give him my I'm coming
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off maybe I'm crazy but no not at all
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you got the Bible here clean it
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up oh it says the Lord is my shepherd I
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shall not want yeah there you go that's
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beautiful I love that
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mhm so they don't use a school anymore
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so they take the school the kids over to
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had my brother he I got
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Gano what is this here something you
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guys have built recently yeah this is
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someone
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house this is the
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foundation really yeah that's one of the
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foundations right there
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y wow this is right
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here and been using it for a house now
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yeah holy cow so this is original here
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yep
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that's trying to think what this would
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have been used in the movie for if it
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was a house they built a big ice machine
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too but I think that was closer to the
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river wow I'm trying to match up this
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tree right here see the across the river
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there's that this is the top of fat boy
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the ice
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machine they're sliding on the ice but
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look at that that kind of tree line
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there I can't find it in my mind are
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like what where is it and I know you
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know so over over over 40 years the
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weather conditions could change the
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trees as
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well that's happen right
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here here's a photo too here's what Rano
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look like
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then really not seeing anything that
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matches
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up all
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is there any pathway down to get down to
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the river not from
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here what kind of animals do you have
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around here uh
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Jaguars um not really um we got um
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we got leard leopard Tigers leopard
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Tigers yeah like in here not not here
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right now okay in the bush the bigger
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bushes looks like you had a fire through
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here too recently yeah someone cleaning
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the P the owner C up
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and planted some trees right
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now see from here now oh yeah yeah yeah
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yeah yeah okay so there's the mountains
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there behind the scene yeah all right
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I'm not confident that that was the spot
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of gono but I know I'm really really
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really close so I was showing him this
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guy's showing me around and he's going
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to take me down a little bit to where a
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bend in the river is but this spot over
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here is where they set up camp for the
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casting crew right over in this area so
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they were all right here setting up camp
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when they were making the movie so
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according to the lady we just talked to
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this whole area right here was used as
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the St aging
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area she seems to think the town was
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right here around this
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corner okay so those are Mayan ruins
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there I had heard about when they were
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making the movie the director was going
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to build the town in a certain spot and
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they found some Mayan ruin so they had
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to move the town to the where it
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eventually ended up wonder if this is
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where they were going to build it then
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they found these ruins yeah could be
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what the director was talking about
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because this this this stuff got lot of
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um like like Mayan stuff they they find
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a lot on this
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thing see when he built a big ice
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machine commonly known as fat boy it was
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right off of the river so the river was
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right there up a very steep
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incline and the guy that's showing me
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around he said the wooden stairs and
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slide for where the ice would go down is
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probably decomposed after all the years
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being here said wood kind of changes
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over decades here not sure how the
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environment is but that's what he was
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saying so that might not still be there
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there was different stages of gono in
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the fil but there was always this core
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tree so look at this unique tree root
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system there and as the town grew they
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built things around that tree and I'm
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hoping that tree Still Remains there's a
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tree again I knowed down there though
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that's remember the tree
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yeah I'm just my mind just
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is getting
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back got to be that tree right here it
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was a big huge tree yeah it was in you
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can see it a lot of the movie they used
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it about five or six different times
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that built things around it around here
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that that tree
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so and and that thing what you call in
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the where they walk it up they use that
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for for
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trucks to go down when you got up you
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didn't think that some stranger from
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Florida was going to be rooting around
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is you know they change it big
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trucks they use it for the big
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trucks for the
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sand here's the river
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wow
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amazing this is a curve right
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here yeah that's definitely a curve yeah
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all the
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way I don't think it's an AB it's I
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don't think it's a sharp enough curve to
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be the spot though okay I think it's the
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other one that's a little bit farther
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down then it got a other curve that way
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like that curve like this a real real
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sharp turn yeah that's the one that's
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the one yep okay this is not part of it
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but this does look
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like kind of looks like the ice machine
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but the ice machine obviously this
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doesn't remain anymore
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thing is there really wasn't anything
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left after the movie again you have to
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watch it to see what I mean but and with
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40 38 years yeah 38 years no 39 years of
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overgrowth out
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up speaking of Harrison reminds me
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of Indiana Jones in the Temple of
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this is great I'm glad we drove all the
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way out here
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yeah this
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is go and Che those
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wonder whose canoe that is somebody
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lives over
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yeah this is just so cool
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man that's the river mosquito Coast
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River it's amazing I'm just standing
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here on this
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bridge Cann I get an actual confirmation
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on
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oh my gosh look at
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this oh my
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God
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what
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oh I hope these boards are solid man
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gosh that's a little sketchy yeah
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man I know holy cow he walked over this
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rdge before y don't trust that
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one all right he wasn't home so we're
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going back across
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don't trust that one
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yeah this is so
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sketchy Bridge what bridge come on
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hammock
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yeah I'm going to die
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what the
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hell water goes up over the bridge no
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wow I'm not even thinking right now I
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can't even think of what was being
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that's a lot more frightening than it
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should be
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look at this tree look at this look at
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roots look at the root systems that's
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similar yeah very similar
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tree but this tree would be Huger it
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could be would be bigger if it was 40
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years old older than that yeah
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whole packs of them
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yep you ever see two cans through here
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two cans yeah
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yeah right over
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there by K by
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K
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two car out I'm trying to see
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some big long Birds I don't know them
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but we call them full pot there's a
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sheep right
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Sheep all right cannot express how
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accommodating this family has
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been don't expect this where you going
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chicken where you
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going I'm going to go on a freaking
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canoe what in the
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name all right really going to put
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myself into the movie now just like they
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were on the river
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unbelievable this is happening unbeliev
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freak
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unbelievable red snapper yeah black
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Snapper black Snapper yeah that the red
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you got to go into the sea oh really
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it's a red snapper not in not in the
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river no
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so here's a good open piece of
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land again 40 Years of
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vegetation and when it rains heavily the
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water goes way up over the hill so the
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erosion when he wouldn't even really be
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able to match up most of the erosion
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yeah there you go I think this is the
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area Mr Hat he was taking his boat down
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right here right there look in this
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direction so they're approaching
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amazing all right so out of all the
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different bends looking at the aerial
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views this would be the only one that
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would make the most sense with the
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backdrop from some of
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the Gracie Rock would be right up here
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this is the only
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assumption it's around this Bend
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over here was where they the lady lives
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where they had all the stuff set up yeah
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these mosquitoes down here so yeah we
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showed earlier where they would have all
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the stuff set up over there for the cast
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and crew and everything was in that
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little uh spot of land there then the
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Mayan ruins where they were going to
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build the town they moved it
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closer and then you got the turn
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here really the only thing that would
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make sense would just be like right
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there it's got to be like right in
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here gosh that is so difficult to figure
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out don't see any
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stairs from this
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angle but it is the right height y right
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there so that's where fat boy could have
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been all right so just picture gono
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right there again I don't 100% know but
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that's you've kind of looked at every
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bend on the
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road I mean right there that looks like
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the same
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height as the of the
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Hill they're sliding the ice
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down oh that's where we were standing
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earlier right there y there you
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go pull back
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up just like the foxes did at gerona
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amazing so
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cool few hundred yards from the spot
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but after a pretty decent day of
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deciphering and going all the different
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curves of the sabon
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river pretty much have come up with the
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conclusion that it was somewhere in here
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both by land and by
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river so there is an area here where you
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could get down we walked down there
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earlier to where it is but right over
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here is my best educated guest not that
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I'm that educated but I am just heavily
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assuming that right in here was Dono
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right
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here because that's where the turn of
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the river is
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the only thing that's confusing is the
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tree line which is over there matching
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those up which I thought at first was
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mountains but it's not it's those trees
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the trees lying behind
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it what are the worst insects
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here worst insects yeah mosquitoes ants
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yeah and and sandflies
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sandflies look like bugs
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y there we go right
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there again years of erosion
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yep and the turn is right there right
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over there yep turn all right that's the
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turn right there see the water can
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barely see it with the screen G up there
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but they're on the canoe and right over
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there is that turn see the water making
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the and that is that corner right over
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there yeah then at that time it was more
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Brer and more clear or that is s or what
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yeah there wasn't a lot of trees and gr
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must have been a whenever they filmed it
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maybe there wasn't and the water was
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more lower it was down a lot lower down
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maybe that's why you can't see the clay
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yeah you said this is about 30 ft right
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now yeah or
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more is deep so don or ice machine there
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the town Dono would be a little farther
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up
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Inland a little
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bit it's just so many scenes good
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portion of the movie right in here it
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doesn't make sense though when they put
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the power lines in that road there
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though would have torn that tree
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them just so much happens right here I
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guess anyone that's never seen it which
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is probably mostly everybody has no clue
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what I'm talking about right here was
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the dramatic scene there's many dramatic
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scenes in it I don't want to give away
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the ending of it but this was very
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dramatic for halfway through uh fat boy
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exploding it was good reason for it it
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was a good reason why
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Harrison went to the to the point where
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his character Ally
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Fox made this happen again I don't want
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to give too many spoilers I recommend
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you're watching it but that happened
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right there that's exactly where it was
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and also right behind the town is where
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the Mayan ruins was also I was reading
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an interview too with the director who
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was talking about how he ended up
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using part of the ruins I gu to stand on
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to film a couple things so it does make
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sense that it was right here in front of
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this it's all coming together now
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taking the clay dirt road on the way
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out they said if I was ever back in the
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area if I ever come back to bise through
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this neck of the woods I'm always
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welcome at their
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home you just never know when a day
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starts how it's going to be and how
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accommodating and how kind people might
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end up being they were awesome
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really amazing that the 80 84 year old
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lady so it was the mom 84 year-old who
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ended up cooking for Harrison Fort who
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telling me all kind of Harrison Forge
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stories and she was sitting on the couch
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in the house they invited me in and
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obviously I didn't put that part on
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camera but she was very kind and said
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that Harrison was
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awesome and she would cook for him a lot
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of different days
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he especially liked her Sala that she
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made and then her son was the first
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gentleman who was doing the
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cooking and
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then other guy that showed me around who
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ended up finding the canoe and taking me
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down the river and spending most of the
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day with me he is like a son he lives on
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property there's all one nice one nice
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little family there
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all right that's going to do it for
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today I'll see you in the next video the
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