Taking The Wrong Way To Helen Hunt Waterfall - Colorado Garden Of The Gods / Manitou Cliff Dwellings
Colorado Summer 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here has a
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recording of This is Friday July 21st
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2023. I'm just outside Colorado Springs
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Colorado and we'll be doing a variety of
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different things around that General
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vicinity starting off with some cave
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dwellings my mom and dad are in town and
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we're going to just do some some
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touristy things some Scenic things some
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beautiful things waterfalls are also on
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the agenda cliffs and who knows whatever
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else
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we'll see I'm inviting you to join me
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it's good to have you here shall you
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starting off right where the parking
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area is it is a teepee just right here
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and if you go over the top of the teepee
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you can see the cliffs and where the
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dwellings are right here there's a cafe
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looks like the specific name is the
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Manitowoc dwellings was twelve dollars
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to get in per person this is a general
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layout of the land here starting with
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the teepee it kind of shows everything
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that's here on the general vicinity we
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are at altitude of
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6530 feet up here
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where the museum is and the cliffs this
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is a ponderosa pine tree and the only
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reason I even know that it's a ponderosa
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pine is because there is a an
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identification placard here and this is
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a Rocky Mountain Juniper the only
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Juniper that grows to tree size so it is
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a Jew not a juniper plant or a juniper
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Bush but it's juniper tree
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the branches are called witch's brooms
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there's a pretty good view over here too
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they have these little things that you
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could put like a quarter in and look out
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over on the horizon this is known as a
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Mesa top structure and you can when you
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go inside of it you can kind of see how
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the roof is up top here so you go in and
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you see the roof itself made out of the
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sticks here
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up top and then the side of the wall
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how it's all kind of patched together
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like so and then going down these stairs
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into the Pueblo is what it's called got
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the name across their little Bridge
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bleeding into it what a view over here
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the view of these mountains with the
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clouds and
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everything
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the oldest part of this Pueblo was built
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in 1898 Native Americans occupied until
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1984.
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here they are in 1907 their Museum was
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even open back in
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about the architecture
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here on the side of this record here
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living in 1864. the ancient Indians
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believe that dreams both good and bad
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came down to us from the night sky so
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those are dream catchers that they sell
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in here in the gift shop by where I got
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starting off at the gift shop I guess oh
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hey I know I know that guy it's not big
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as a foot but it is a Big Foot
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sort of
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hot jerkies and the shop itself also
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connects up with The Rock and then
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here's some miniature Cliff Dwellings
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over there and some jewels and rocks
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along the side
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of the cliffs as well so that's the
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museum so obviously starting the wrong
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direction and going through the gift
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shop first oh it actually does have a
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roof on it up there so the this doesn't
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get get hurt or harmed by the elements
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and going outside the gift shop yeah
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kind of a view
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out here across the mountains
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got a souvenir for the fridge
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yeah that's what I usually get when I go
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somewhere because you know where to put
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stuff there it is
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how would you pronounce that Manitou
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yeah that's how I'll pronounce it
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yeah they definitely have plenty of
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items that you can buy in here look up
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on the side over here these are like
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these are not real these are like these
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are like made out of uh made out of like
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stuffing you get yourself a bow and
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arrow set over here or Wilderness
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Adventure kit
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handcrafted bow or you can be a western
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Ranger all right now into the museum
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just follow the Bear Tracks down the
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side of this incline no merchandise
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Beyond this point so we're integling out
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of
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the merchandise area and now into the
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museum itself yeah in fact it does date
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back to the early 1900s Crosby here 1904
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to 1910 and 1904 organized the the ruins
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company to preserve it in 1907 the the
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dwellings officially opened to the
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public
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here some of the old Roadside Attraction
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merchandise they go to the ashtray love
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this kind of stuff it's always stuff
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from the 60s 70s and 80s and over here
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is a 1920s spear Chief little deer the
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one who made this just so right there on
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the side in a 1916 drama
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I always like these metal items these
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like artistic renderings of animals I
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have one I got on a road trip a long
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time ago a pink flamingo that I have my
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cupboards my kitchen
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and then directly above the water and
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snack machine is a rattlesnake
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and a bear
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chest penny machine over here yeah test
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your skill Silver Dollar Saloon which is
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a gumball machine however it's out out
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of order
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got an elk right there
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also hearing the hand dryers from the
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restroom facility down the hall they're
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very loud and I'm like probably a good
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100 yards away from them when you
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sometimes when you're in there and the
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Hand Dryers are going on it's like get
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me out of here the salt this sound is so
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ear ear piercingly loud on the mountain
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lion
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although most abundant where deer are
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plentiful to cover it's adequate oh it
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is a cougar mountain lion cougar can
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survive in desert's coastlines and
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forests at nearly any elevation though
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it was not used by the Ancients most
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consider the teepee as the dwelling of
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the North American Indians so this is
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the teepee and you can go inside of it
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as well pick your head in or walk fully
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inside
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as well if you so choose as the markings
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on the side of it
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kind of looking back out all right now
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getting into the dwellings themselves I
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believe so you got goes up the side of
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the hill but there is a sign that says
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entrance that way and you can even walk
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through so this would have been a four
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bedroom home I was reading the thing on
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the outside where a family that live
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with four different bedrooms connected
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a pretty good good size
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11 quarters out of the elements out of
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the rain out of the heat out of the sun
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storage bench I don't know yeah I would
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have guessed that's what that was it
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looks just like a
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storage gun trash can
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this is awesome pretty good echo in here
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too
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the circular pit was once a sacred Kiva
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it was used by tribal men as a
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ceremonial chamber when you can look
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down in there with a fire the fire used
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to be in a little Bridge it goes across
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a very tiny passageways for a 653 guy
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but you can get to anybody can get
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through there I've got this Stone Tower
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right here right kind of in the middle
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of the dwellings themselves
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and it is accessible with plenty of
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handrails and steps you can see the
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windows the dwellings behind and kind of
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stretches
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imagine living in something like this
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back in the day if this was your home
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all they ever knew
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I guess we'll put it all it's all you
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know you don't know what else there
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would be and you'd be pretty grateful to
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even just be out of the sun and the
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elements like this
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don't get me hot but
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it's amazing how they charge us out and
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make all this I got a pretty good view
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out there from the windows up there's a
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little cavernous areas that you can
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stroll through actually there's quite a
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few people out here
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people after checking it out for obvious
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reasons very fascinating
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what about you so this would be where
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you wake up in the morning from in here
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and you look out that mountain range out
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from these little Windows right here
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and this balcony structure was a
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two-story four family structure built on
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the latter part of a great public period
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with one of the most perfectly preserved
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of all the homes in the southwest and
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it's nearly impossible to get a clear
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view of there's just so many people up
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there just get it without a thousand
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people there's a lot of people out here
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yeah pretty dang cool can imagine like
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stumbling on this I mean it's just a
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full-on tourist attraction now foreign
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a lot of people kind of going in and out
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all those little crevices in there
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all right now commuting a couple miles
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from where we just were to a place
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called Garden of the Gods Park
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it's a lot of very unique Rock
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sculptures over there well not
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necessarily sculptures but
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rock formations
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that must be the parking area right now
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and it looks like admission is free to
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get in and it's more or less a driving
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type of Park you can't stop and get out
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and do a lot of hiking but we are opting
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to drive
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through most of it maybe there's some
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scenic pull-offs
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kind of a slow pace just looking at all
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these rocks
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there's Lassie
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all right they didn't have a parking
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area
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so we walked up to this little ledge
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here
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looking down upon some of the hiking
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sections that you can go down that way
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or you can choose to stand here and get
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a view
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the different Hues of the coloration
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differences in the rocks
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thankfully it's not too scorchingly hot
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out
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it feels really good
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trying to remind you of our Utah trip
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that we did
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yeah so way up top all those holes in
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the Rock like our Birds living in them
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you can hear them chirping and you can
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see them flying in and out
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or maybe possibly bats
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it might be Bass
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and they rent Segways out here too
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people pull it on returning their
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Segways
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they must have Bears out here yeah
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there's a Smoky Mountains
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I always just picture a bear coming up
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here trying to get his paw in there
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you ever seen a bear in person
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like out in the wild nope
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nope try to find one everywhere I've
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been going but never have seen one in a
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while
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little berries
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are these do you think these would be
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edible nope I wouldn't try it
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there was a move it was a bird right
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there there was a movie called into the
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wild where this guy lived on the land
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for a long time it's a true story and he
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ended up eating a berry that was like a
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poisonous berry yeah yeah and that was
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his demise he survived all that time out
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by himself and he ate the wrong Berry
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it's a bird right there in the branch
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continuing on back in the car this kind
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of has like a little bit of a Vasquez
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Rocks vibe to it the side angle
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here of these rocks
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fast because rocks out of Southern
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California
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I don't know if Kirk's ever been to
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Colorado
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then again it was fictional Southern
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California Vasquez
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wasn't really supposed to be
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so maybe the Gorn has been here
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travels a lot more
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looking off way over on the horizon now
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see a lot of homes
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mountain range
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there's even more really Jagged rocks
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from this little Lookout up here right
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in the center of the screen down there
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I'm going to zoom in
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this is a pretty good view here pretty
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good reveal if you will when you're kind
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of walking forward through these this
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little corridor
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boulderous Corridor out here onto the
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ledge you can see very unique
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Rock
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Jagged rocks there people hiking all
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through here and I believe that's called
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gray Peak right there so I don't know
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the side now traversing up the side a
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gold Camp Road
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which looks all the way down
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into Pueblo down there
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look at that
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all right I was incorrect that is how do
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you pronounce it Manitou Springs Manitou
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Springs close to Pueblo
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have Pablo on the brain
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Manitou Springs
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I pulled the car over
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another view from this Overlook here
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now we're heading over to a water
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someone's riding a bike up the side of
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the Hill heading over to a water Hall
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waterfall called Helen Hunt Falls
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don't believe his name after the actress
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though maybe it is all right this says
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road damage proceed with caution
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should we chance it let's go for it
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less than two miles we'll find out
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what's happening
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all right this is kind of cool
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we're now about to go through
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the tunnel here
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One Way tunnel
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well not one way but
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one lane
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all right we just realized we went the
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scenic route
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way up that way when there is another
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route that connects with pavement
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we would have gone the other direction
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but we made it
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oh they were okay so this says there are
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bats around
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address is 3440 North Cheyenne Road the
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Helen Hunt Falls Visitor Center come
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inside look around cool off
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look at the exhibits maybe this is her
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maybe this is Helen it is Helen Hunt
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Jackson
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there's a hummingbird right there
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I saw one of those a little bit ago
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you were saying this is pronounced
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Canyons yeah that's the uh that's the uh
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with a little thingy on the top
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fanatical emphasis Spanish singing
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making making it say gunman
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so you guys okay
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maybe Kenyan
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oh there's the hummingbird feeders right
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there
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30 miles
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an hour
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an hour 30 miles really I saw one over
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here I think I'd looked good with a
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mustache like this Mom if I did like a
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temp tracker Circa 2015 mustache
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I think it would suit me no not really
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but
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I think I would look good with a
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mustache like this
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um
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one day
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you know throw your clippers away and
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yeah let it grow yeah well I still have
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to shave all the wax yeah
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the handlebar mustache this is William
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Jackson Palmer and when we got here were
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you expecting to see the actress Helen
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Hunt here I was expecting Helen to be
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here in person to autographs uh you know
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water rocks and things yeah
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different different Health it's Helen
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Hunt Jackson a photo of her inside I
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know you had your you had your hopes up
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he said it's a different person totally
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different person
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now that would be that would be more
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your style the beard yeah
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so that's Helen right there yeah that's
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her she was a famous authors
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they had some of her books around the
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corner here she's a poet
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expecting the day when they use the U
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word Optimus
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for a female author
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they don't use that anymore they
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probably just call them
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book writers
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made the commute back to Downtown Pueblo
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now
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just wandering around by myself downtown
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back to the hotel relax
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saw a few things with them today now I'm
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just gonna
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Traverse around
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on my own
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like these old ghost signs
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little advertisements right here on the
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side of the
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on the building this wholesaler Grocers
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kind of interesting
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I want to call it quaint downtown but
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definitely stuck in the past in a lot of
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ways a lot of history here
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Downtown Pueblo just as far as things
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still remaining how they were back in
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the day at this hotel sign
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take a look up there an old Crest
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building
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sign old Five and Dime Store
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nice this building over here is being
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repurposed and used for another business
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but there's a old Neon
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old bar side
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right here next to this very well
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manicured
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lawn
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here's part of an old neot
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anyone's guess is as good as mine on
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what that one says
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The Far Side
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and
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that's gonna do it
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for today
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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