TDW 1882 - On A Mission To Go Home
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check that out $3.74 a gallon
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Wow welcome everyone Adam a value you
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will we hear knock on wood and good Lord
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willing and the creek don't rise both
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those things that's not wood that's a
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steering wheel I after 18 days 18 days
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on the road we'll be back for a little
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while in Southern California I should be
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home this evening
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cross your fingers dot your eyes and do
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a cartwheel
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oh that's good it's my second channel
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daily vlog it's the daily the majority
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of the trek will consist of a long and
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lonesome road known as interstate 15
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southbound
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I've often wondered what they do out
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here in the desert the solar-powered
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farm is gargantuan the size of that
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tower probably about 15 stories you can
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see the light illuminating and shining
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off of it and there's another one here
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on the far left the beauty of this zoom
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lens is you can get ride up and get a
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pretty good shot look at that
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what's going on over there California
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California still a long ways to go till
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home the view mostly consists of dirt
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filled mountains and trees that resemble
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cactuses they're basically cacti that
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have flourished into the tree formation
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which I don't know the difference that
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might be Joshua trees but I think a
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Joshua tree is a totally different
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species a plant than they's whatever
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they are they're beautiful in their own
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way
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oh look there's some crows hanging out
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on that one there in the middle it's a
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nice perching area aha this answers my
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question the yuca breve folia grows only
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in the Mojave Desert
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it is a Joshua Tree this rest stop is a
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veritable wealth of knowledge all kind
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of placards and information just hanging
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out here in the courtyard including the
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satellite image of the area I am
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currently in a place called Valley Wells
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from this point looks to be about 200
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miles to LA
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the aliens landed here in Baker years
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ago and it looks as if their business is
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still going strong
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in fact the front of their building is
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undergoing some sort of transformation
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to bring it back to its original
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spaceship glory something about these
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particular guys remind me of those candy
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peanuts did you ever have those when you
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were a kid that's what their noggins
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look like I almost want to just take a
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bite out of their skull just now
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noticing there are binoculars on the
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dashboard they're keeping a keen eye out
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looking for trouble have come to the
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wrong place they're on watch
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they're on watch I'm now going to insert
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my dollar see what my fortune is tell me
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my fortune
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not a whole heck of a lot going on in
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this town but they do have the world's
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largest thermometer which clearly states
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that it is now currently 104 degrees and
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every time I swing through here it is a
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tradition to get a shake at the mad
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Greek cat why is that guy up why is that
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guy up on the why is he up on the roof
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and if you ever stop off in here I also
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highly recommend the zucchini sticks
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they're amazing this is what I'm talking
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about and I like to dip it in this ranch
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goodness maybe like I don't think it's
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blue cheese I think it's ranch but
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either why it's
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these are incredible and highly
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recommended
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a little strawberry action with the
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parasol slash umbrella
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so good every time I see the vastness of
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wide-open spaces like this
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I just think of how much this land would
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be worth if it was in a major
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metropolitan area I guess it is true
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what they say location location location
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the trees have now dissipated into
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little shrubs little bushes not standing
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tall just lying low to the ground
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traffic slowing down just a bit because
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straight ahead is an agricultural
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inspection station
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pulled over real quick in the town of
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Yermo check out this old neon garage
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sign of course the service station has
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been closed for quite some time as
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almost everything else in this town
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it is however home to Peggy Sue's which
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is not only a diner but a cool little
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gift shop and around back they have
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dinosaurs truer words have never been
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said the joy is in the journey not the
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destination
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pretty cool statue of James Dean they're
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standing in the corner Jeff the chef
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he's looks just a creepy clown but he's
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also a chef he's the baby shop
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he's your chef does he cook you food
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what's his name oh look okay well look
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him out after all this time this young
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lady's been sitting here at the soda pop
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fountain counter and that must be Peggy
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Sue herself right they're serving up
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some beverages the play on words here is
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very strong diner soar Park or as a
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diner sourpuss it's a diner it's
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basically just a Dinosaur Park back here
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I think the last time I pass through was
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probably close to a year ago and this
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guy still just hanging around after all
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he's got some strong arms to be just
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dangling like that for over 300 days
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there's not too much to do in the
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stretch between Las Vegas and Los
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Angeles so this nice little pit stop
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really comes in handy helps you stretch
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the legs or in that guy's case his neck
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it's nice and windy out today the
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California flag underneath the American
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flag is flying proudly counting the
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times I used to take this route on tour
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with vans and my own personal travels
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I've probably done this stretch of road
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about nine hundred and fourteen thousand
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times that's just a rough estimate but
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it's been a lot that's a little gross
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exaggeration but it's been a lot of
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times and it doesn't get any more
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exciting the more you do it there's not
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a whole not a whole lot
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through this thoroughfare I will most
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likely not do a road trip of this length
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three weeks give or take a day or so
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that I have been on the open road
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enlarged by the way this is the first
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time in California historic occasion
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paying rent on a place in Hollywood and
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being on three quarters of it doesn't
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mathematically make sense but this was
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very necessary to get the RV to the
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destination where I am now residing now
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I have the options of flying places you
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know going places far enough where the
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RV can travel to get back at a moderate
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time frame pan being able to take it out
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into the open terrain in the future lots
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of big plans this planet mentioned a
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while back that there was two steps to
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planting my feets and back in Southern
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California and this is the end of step
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two the first was getting a place
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getting stuff for said place getting
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settled getting the everything together
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more or less getting comfortable and
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then flying to Indiana driving the RV
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cross-country I went a little bit out of
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the way I could have taken a much more
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direct route a little bit quicker I
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stretched it out a little bit longer
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then probably I should have just so I
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could veer off and do a lot of things
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that I wanted to do I did a lot of
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things on this particular trip
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that I've wanted to do for years and
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years that was pretty cool I went down
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different roads I'd never taken before
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and that will continue traveling will
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always continue I'm a huge advocate in
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my mind always mixing up not only
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content but also mixing up what I do in
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my life to keep things interesting for
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those that are watching and keep it
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interesting for me it's been fun we'll
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do this again soon sooner than later