Middle Of Nowhere Nevada - Ghost Town of Goodsprings & Pioneer Saloon / Searching For Lost Monorail
Nevada Desert Adventures May 2022
Transcript
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today's adventure i am venturing into
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the deserts away from las vegas and
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stopping off to get a coffee in here
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this place is called terribles if you're
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going to be bad be good at it there's a
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pirate over here
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and a plane up here welcome to
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terribles this is a neat display this
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red bull area has a pac-man machine up
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here on this ledge is a mannequin news
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boy right up there almost like out of
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something out of newsies and then behind
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me while i'm waiting in line is a as a
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car
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it's not screen used but it's a replica
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from a james bond film
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from back in the day there's all kind of
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neat stuff in here including a james
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bond car and then on the way out there's
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an airplane
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and the pilot looks very
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very similar to charles bronson
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in the plane i was noticing it looks
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up there flying around
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may have been from a wax museum maybe it
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is bronson
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this monday may 30th
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2022
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out in the desert away
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from the hustle and bustle in the
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touristy regions of las vegas about 30
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40 miles or so going a little further
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over to good springs while we'll be
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visiting the
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historic pioneer saloon for the first
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time i've never been to the pioneer
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saloon and
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i have discovered that there is a walt
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disney world monorail
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hiding if you will
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in the nevada desert so i'm going to go
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by there
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as well i'm inviting you
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to join me
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oh that's warm and you know what not so
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terrible
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join me
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shall you
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this is good springs
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i like it plenty of elbow room no
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traffic no hustle and bustle
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corner of san pedro ave
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and as
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esmerelda
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as well and there's a couple cardboard
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not cardboard but wooden cutouts
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over here
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have a cowboy cowgirl
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oh he's giving it the big old thumbs up
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there
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she's sitting here on the
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the railing that's pretty neat with the
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backdrop of the mountain in the
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background very peaceful out here
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and also hanging out with my friend ken
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and jamie
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friends plural
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jamie
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ken
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you ever been to good springs before a
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couple times
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yeah a couple times tell me a fun fact
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ken about good springs
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this is a great bar
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pioneer saloon there's a great bar the
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pioneer saloon is here
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a rustic church over here
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a boat that serves no purpose out here
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in the desert
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what's their names i named them nancy
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themself nancy and saul yeah
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i didn't realize that the wooden cutouts
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had names
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all right that's forever going to be
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their names nancy and saw
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there's quite a few relics out here some
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of these old homesteads this this fenced
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off this area
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might not be able to walk over there
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but over here on this corner corner of
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market street in esmeralda
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is
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the radio station k-g-h-o-s-t
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kg host okay ghost
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you think that's that's what their call
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letters
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yeah
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k-ghost
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ghost town radio ah that is cool that's
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amazing i thought it was kg we got to
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try to tune into that
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it says they're on air are they on here
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i don't see a person in there at this
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moment it's a go guys there's a go it's
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a ghost ghost never go up
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i love it
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am
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1610 1610
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ghost town radio usa
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okay wait you just told me you had a fun
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factoid don't get shy now ken you asked
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me
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give me the fun factoid i was gonna say
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in the town of good springs there are
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springs that are good
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are there really springs here
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i believe there are there are all over
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nevada um
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but yeah so they really are
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you don't look at these dogs
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i really like this like homestead over
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here i guess around the back was like a
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separate house or maybe like a
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a shed a guest house
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and there's the antenna right there like
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a tv antenna
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you don't see those too often anymore
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i like this
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very little quaint community here i
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don't think anyone lives here at this
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place
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anymore however
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i want to know what this what this
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little back house was
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probably their ham radio shack
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they could pick up k ghosts on that
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radio
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i always like when dogs are barking in
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neighborhoods like this because it kind
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of adds to the ambiance
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all right this is the campbell stone
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cabin
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as designated by this
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information here
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and that is
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what's behind this barbed wire fence
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most likely the family name was campbell
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and that was their stone cabin
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now that is fenced off by this rusted
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out fence and barbed wire but over here
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are a couple other accommodations from
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back in the day that are accessible to
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walk up to
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a lot of these type of areas were mining
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towns
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my foot kind of sank in just a little
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bit oh look at that
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what the heck
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it's like caving in now
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okay the ground might not be too solid
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through here look at there's like a is
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this a mine's not a mine shaft
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there's just a hole right there i don't
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know if i should get any closer to this
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and there's a big metal door
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i mean i don't think i'm gonna sink in
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but that was that's kind of strange that
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my foot
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just touched that and it kind of fell in
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that way
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a big hole right there
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yeah a lot of these reminding towns
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in this area and yes even plants do
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thrive in the desert this train has been
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built in front of this house
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with plants in it
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well certain plants grow in the desert
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not all of some some do
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i like that idea with the train though
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okay i found a little more information
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about good springs
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technically it's goods
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spring
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g-o-o-d apostrophe s spring this spring
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discovered by
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anna
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sanzi
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and paiute
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people sustained the first mule train
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the pioneered the pack route later known
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as old spanish trail between santa fe
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and los angeles
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commander of discovery route from
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california camped here with 60 men and
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100 mules back in 1830
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and the name he called it
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little spring of the tortoise the spring
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used by minor cattlemen
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joe good of the 1860s became known as
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good springs
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there it is
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you were correct
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you made the statement that it really
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was a spring
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and you were right goods spring
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and on the front porch of this is a
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chair
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and a couple you know some spray paint
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has been placed here and this says rip
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jeff
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this little
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homestead slash store
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that was right here probably a store i'm
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gonna guess
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probably a store right here along this
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road
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now these are road runners there goes
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road runner scurrying off
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where'd you go road runner
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all right arrived at the historic
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pioneer saloon which out front
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of the pioneer so there's like a little
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general store on one side that you have
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to go through to get into the saloon and
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the salute on the other side there's a
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little placard with some information
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about this place george fail moved from
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southern nevada from calico california
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in 1904 settled in good springs where he
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later was renamed for his wife jean so
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gene nevada was named for
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the person who basically built the
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pioneer saloon
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in 1912 gene nevada and basically the
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way it works is you go into this little
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courtyard around the back they're just
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now opening up business for the day a
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few people are starting to show up and
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i'm going to go into the saloon itself
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and once you're in the saloon
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there are a few artifacts like these
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holes in the walls holes in the wall are
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still here with the information you know
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designated that a man perished at the
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table
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right next to it so there's a lot of
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very interesting history
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as well as into the dining area of the
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room is a clark gable room and
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his wife carol lombard who
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you know
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perished in a plane wreck and as the
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story goes he was waiting here at the
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saloon i don't know if it's hearsay or
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fact but he was waiting here at the
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saloon
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for her and then found out
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that
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the plane had crashed and there's a lot
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of stuff in
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inside here that kind of alludes to that
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and pays homage
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to clark gable and i really like this
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over here the stained glass has the aces
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four different aces there
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and then you got the california state
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flag i'm not sure what
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flag that is so much but really this is
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just kind of just over the california
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line is technically in nevada but there
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are some artifacts over here as well
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some antiques
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please look
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look please or look but please don't
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touch
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this is a little typewriter here
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there is a
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nuka
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cola
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spot
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got a little sarsaparilla bottle opener
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as well as this which appears to be a
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scale
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of some sort and there is a good springs
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candy dispenser there a pay phone not a
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payphone but a regular
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dial telephone and there's different
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things on the wall here
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showing some of the history around the
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area kind of scattered through one thing
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i find interesting is i don't know if
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this was used as a filming location and
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casino you know a lot of stuff on the
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strip in fremont was i think fremont but
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mostly on the strip was but over here
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this says that george carlin was here
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and they also
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outrageous fortune
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was possibly here
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so we're kind of looking around at some
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of the clark gable stuff here
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going through here so here's carol
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lombard clark gable's wife
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and it just kind of shows
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all the the info
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all along the walls and here
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is the newspaper from the fort wayne
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journal
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and it shows
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it shows all the information of that day
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it looks like some of the wreckage might
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still be out there some guys here who
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have gotten
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gotten photos 1942
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there's that photo
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very interesting very fascinated not
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realize this so i got here
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and then over on this side
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even more more photographs
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please don't waste the water
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we have to buy it
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you know water and drought a real
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real dangerous thing out in the desert
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oh here's another one fiery end to fairy
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tale up there of lombard brother
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yeah pioneer saloon that was
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january 15th of 2017.
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all right pretty neat place a lot of
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history in here okay driving a little
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further
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more or less into the middle of nowhere
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i'm really curious what this is up on
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the side of the hill
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a house
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or just something that appears to be a
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house
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okay i have arrived where
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the monorail in the desert used to sit
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a little disappointing to announce that
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the monorail is no longer here
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now it could possibly be over there
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underneath that tarp however if you look
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at satellite images
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it used to be
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in the yard
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way out here in the desert
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in front of this homestead
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now i did a little research online and
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figured out where it was and it was
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confirmed by my friend who does a
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youtube channel called adventure stop
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and he documented this i don't know six
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seven eight months a year ago
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he was able to come out here and see it
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with his own eyes
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and he clued me into the location
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so i just wanted to mention him
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if you would like to see
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what it looked like
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but you could see here
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where the monorail used to be it was
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used
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over in las vegas after it was
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originally used at walt disney world it
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was a walt disney world monorail
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took over to las vegas and then from
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ended up here
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part of it was sold online but there
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were still sections of it
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that sat right here in the sand
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there's also a classic car over there
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kind of rusting away
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kind of hoping that someone would be
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home and come out and
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say hello and ask him if they sold the
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rest of it
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or if they moved it and hid it
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underneath that tarp
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i would imagine this is probably used to
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move the monorail
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the mystery of the monorail begins
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it's a bird making quite a bit of noise
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crow over there
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just gonna walk around this way maybe
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maybe it was just moved
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the shark right here is providing
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surveillance
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and ambiance of a dog that's working it
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does say beware of dog
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got some horses over there oh classic
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car alert oh
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is the monorail in there
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no that looks like a separate property
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i guess the monorail has been erased
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at this point just got to use
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my imagination
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that it's still sitting out here in the
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desert
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it's like a wooden wheel
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some sort there too and then that old
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rusted out car
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and just to show the satellite view
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perspective
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see that's the home there
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and that right over there is where the
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monorail used to sit so the last most
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recent satellite image
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still there
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but obviously
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it's gone now
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it's gone
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it's no longer there
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the monorail's gone
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it's history
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let's go okay it's very dusty over here
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but there is a donkey right there
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hello
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just wanted to say hi
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shaking the dust off
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just shaking it off
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shake it off
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there was a song
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good to see a bunch of horses out here
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too
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i can't i think if i lived in this area
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i would want to have a horse
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so i feel like he could just ride horses
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on the open plains out here all the time
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and i probably have a donkey too and
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cannot forget cattle got some cows over
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here
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there's like a long horn a couple
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longhorns over there
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and some little calves hello there
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some little
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calves here
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how's it going
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see the law you don't see too many
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longhorns
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there's a few over there a couple horses
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just enjoying the day
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i hate to break it to you the monorail
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is gone
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i know
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that's how i feel
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i know you're gonna
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not sleep very well this evening
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thinking about how the monorail has been
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removed but it's a fact
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bad news i know
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oh do they know like are they going over
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oh no they're going to the water
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that maybe they're
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okay this monorail bit has run his
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course
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okay we stopped off in this convenience
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store and they have a map
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that shows the general layout of the
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land
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so i am there says you are here
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and you can see this so this is the
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nevada state line
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and
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just on the state line the california's
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over here not crossing back into
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california but
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this is the area
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sandy valley
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which is where the monorail was
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i don't know if i've ever seen a bike
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rack
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that is labeled
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as a bike hack
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i mean i've seen these before but i've
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never seen one that just says
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bike rack and one thing i've noticed
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around here
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that's a corner of quartz road there
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there are a lot of boats but there's no
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water just boats everywhere
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like that's over there says sandy valley
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yacht club painted on the side of that
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boat
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and that's that's like the first of
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about a dozen boats i've seen it's kind
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of scattered around this town
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is there a lake nearby okay we found
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this dirt gravel road couldn't drive up
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too far because this
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didn't really the most drivable road so
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we parked and we're walking
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are these hugos
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i don't think i've ever seen so many of
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this type of car all bunched together
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like this
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just out here in the desert
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yeah this is a hugo though
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efi
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these are tiny cars
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oh my gosh
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you like old classic classic vehicles
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and rare cars
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hugos gremlins and pentas yeah
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they're all like gremlins and yugos you
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don't find anymore
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gremlin was the car from wayne's world
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right yeah
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that is cool i would love to own one of
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these but i don't know if i could fit in
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one
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that's the thing
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and oka
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okay
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there's a bunch over there look at all
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those
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it's like a treasure trove tiny cars
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tires are like 10 inch rims
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i don't even know what this is this is
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not either of these
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i like this one this one has like the
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the coolest look to it it's almost like
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the
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like half a studebaker it's like so
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small
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all right nicely never know what you're
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going to find out here in the desert
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didn't find a
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monorail we found some hugos
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all right this is very bizarre
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over there
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on that land
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is that used for fireworks
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that is that's a that's large
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all the things you see in the desert
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okay we're trying to get back onto the
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interstate what's the what vote is that
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is that 15.
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i-15
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going back towards las vegas that way
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and this is on a monday which is a
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holiday today so i guess you could kind
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of say this is like a sunday traffic
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everyone trying to get back to la
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that way and it is so backed up
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it is really backed up
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so we decided to get some snacks
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and gonna get back in this line of
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traffic
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but you can just see
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it kind of bottlenecks in five or six
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different spots so you got traffic
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trying to pull in here
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got traffic trying to pull in there you
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got traffic backed up all the way over
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we were kind of way on the back roads
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and all of a sudden
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we're back
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around a lot of cars
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this was unexpected okay it's 1 38 i am
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marking the time just to see how long it
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takes to get from here
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underneath the 15 over there to get over
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towards the road back road to seven
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magic mountains which we're trying to
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head to so it's 1 38
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right now to see how slow going this is
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going to try to see if people can let us
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in here let us in up there there's an
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off ramp an on-ramp traffic on the 15 is
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complete gridlock
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see how see how
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how kind time is to us now this is a
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bacon cheeseburger it said from the
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terrible's gas stop there is the front
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package of the bacon chi okay update
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it's been seven minutes
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we have moved this far
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seven minutes
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we were right there where that truck is
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seven minutes later
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we've merged into the fight and i'm not
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the only one fascinated by this there's
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a news guy over there
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with a camera
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documenting this experience as well
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who knew traffic and gridlock could be
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so fascinating
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i think he's probably walking up to get
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a better view maybe we'll be on being
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the news
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it's now 153
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moved up a few more feet i just want to
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show the line of cars over at the gas
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station
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waiting to merge into one of the
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four lanes
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to get onto
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the freeway
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a couple cars over there there we go all
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right thankfully we're not going to la
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because that is the on-ramp
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and this looks pretty good from this way
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like we're going
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i think we got through the worst of
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everyone's going back to l.a
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we're going back to vape towards the
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vegas area
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up there's a prospector
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it's also 157 so that there's another
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prospector
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so it didn't take as long as i thought
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what 20 minutes
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paper take
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to go a block a few years ago when this
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was first constructed
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i walked over to seven magic mountains
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and it was like me and two other people
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today
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a little more crowded
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there's a lot of people out here
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hundreds it says here that this art
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installation opened in may of 2016. so i
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guess that's when
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first time i saw it i think i maybe it
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was two thousand maybe it was open maybe
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we were hear about it for a year before
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i went through it but there was
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definitely not
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the amount of people that there is today
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out here and it probably has something
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to do with how many people are leaving
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las vegas and heading to la you probably
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don't want to wait in that traffic
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i like let's just pull over and see some
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art here in the desert
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it kind of gives me vibes of
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trying to think of that place in
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with the cars cadillac ranch
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kind of like ranch vibes
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with the amount of people with tourists
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whoa it is really windy
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out here this guy has a snake around his
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neck
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it looks like
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you know speaking of cadillac ranch
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people are now starting to kind of tag
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this up and
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spray paint on the side of these which
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i don't know if you're supposed to do
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that but people have
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like this right here
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i guess this is going to turn into a
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cadillac ranch type situation
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oh yeah people are all signing the sides
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of them
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i don't think that's what these were
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designed for but
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i guess it is what it is at this point
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it is pretty neat i always always
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fascinated by stuff like this someone
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build something off of a major
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thoroughfare you know about a mile or so
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maybe not even a mile
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and then people pull off the side road
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and it just becomes a thing
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a wonderful thing
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and it'll be around for a long time
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it'll just become
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a legendary
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landmark
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seven magic mountains because there are
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seven
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magic mountains these pillars here one
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two three four five six seven
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it's a helipad over there and a few
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helicopters
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i'll see you in the next video just
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looking at the clouds and the mountains
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standing here in this parking lot
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back in the las vegas area
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checking out of my hotel in the morning
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and moving on
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i'll see the next video the vlog
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is over