Exploring The Empty Areas of Texas - Day SIX of Cross Country Road Trip / 8 States In 8 Days
Day six of my cross country road trip where I focus on the back roads of America . Today I wandered thru north west Texas and ended up finding some amazing things .
Day 1 Georgia -
https://youtu.be/3eNabF8aEdo
Day 2 Alabama
https://youtu.be/WyuGvv3VSBk
Day 3 Mississippi
https://youtu.be/DqxF6TEcajM
Day 4 Arkansas
https://youtu.be/eWNkxFnHPgU
Day 5 Oklahoma
https://youtu.be/DQ83E3DRWG8
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Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here today
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number six
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of an eight part series traveling
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cross-country checking out the nooks the
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crannies of Americana off the beaten
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path
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no major thoroughfares Texas let's get
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in there I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you using the road atlas for a
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general overview you can see they've
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chopped the map up into two parts
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Panhandle which normally is at the top
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is down at the bottom I am making my
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entry point right about there and this
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is the path I will be taking kind of
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right around in here and then ending up
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later tonight
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right about there starting to see some
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different views than I have over the
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past few days like that dead tree
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might be tough to get a perspective on
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how big these really are sometimes
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you'll see an 18-wheeler hauling the
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blades and they hang off the back those
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things are huge
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not a lot of residents in Odell but they
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do have this really cute grocery store
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set up the shade of the tree is kind of
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looming in this also acts as the post
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office I like the sayings they have on
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the benches there I don't know but I've
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been told you never slow down you'll
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never grow old made out of a barrel this
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cow there's a lot of dogs around here -
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they're all barking they're on all the
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side yards a nice little relic here just
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out under the elements fire and rescue
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in this community was established in
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1912 notice the fire engine there on
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that side
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but the town itself predates that by a
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few years 1883 birds are making quite a
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ruckus around the fuel pumps
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there's a small congregation of them up
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in those limbs here in quanta not only
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is at the home of a 1980s world champion
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bull rider but also this oversized shoe
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where do you even find laces replacement
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laces for something of that magnitude
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some of these downtown areas are
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nostalgia overload I always think about
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what it was like back in the day well
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this was hustling and bustling this very
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large area was placed here in honor of
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the town's namesake and while I'm
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getting this shot I'm seeing in the
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distance
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pretty sweet mural it really doesn't get
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much better than this the tree limbs on
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the way kind of add to the ambiance just
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a little just the right amount of fading
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but you can still make out the wording
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relieves fatigue and on the opposite of
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delicious and refreshing I really do
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love this stuff
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rib nuts of a simpler time it's kind of
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become a passion of mine looking for
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these advertisements you kind of go at a
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slow pace and keep your eyes open
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there's another one right up there
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you can almost always count on finding
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antique fire engines just sitting in an
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empty lot this one has the hose laid
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beside it some bullet holes in the glass
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the name displayed there on the door
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here's where all the magic happens
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Benjamin has 258 residents in this neck
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of the woods
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not counting the crows up there they're
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not included in the census look at this
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little cowpoke with the bucket he's got
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his boots and even a sweet stache how
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did you know historical marker anywhere
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to be found but that certainly does look
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like a vault from a former bank does it
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not has his bags packed up sure like to
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give this gentleman a lift I don't think
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he'll fit in the
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front seat riding shotgun though he's
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tall not much legroom
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this is virtually in the middle of
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nowhere but just over this barbed wire
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our remnants of the old railroad it's so
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fascinating how there's pieces of it
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just left here on the berm you can see
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the woodwork the rails have been removed
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but all the lumber still up there with
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bushes growing out of it that trucker is
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probably thinking what the heck is that
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guy doing staring over there into the
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woods not a lot of people probably stop
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and do this down the ways a bit it kind
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of splits off but you can still see the
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structural beams the trains would go
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over of the bridge and while on that
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same subject matter this one is no
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longer used for automobiles the new one
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is just off there to the right the river
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is very muddy
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don't think you could drink that safely
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this has now been deemed a historical
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landmark started construction in 1938
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finished in 1939 the Brazos River bridge
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the good news is now that it's closed
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off you are in no danger to walk across
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or to sit right here with a group of
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friends and play a game of cards if you
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so choose the question is which card
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game would be most relevant to play on a
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bridge that's a toughy
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Knox City don't be to see by the name
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however population is only 1103 the
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ch-check food store take some home today
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these telephone poles are guiding the
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way normally they're on one side of the
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other but this time they're on both
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Wow this is a drive-in movie theater
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screen that's fallen completely over on
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its side
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snack bar still stands the real question
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is is someone living in that RV over
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there I don't know if I want to get too
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close it might be their property as best
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I can tell that was the ticket booth as
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I panned just a bit to the right you get
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some more segments of that screen right
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here it's incredible the polls are still
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on the ground where the sound came up
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through the speaker's off there in the
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distance this was the exit it's chained
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off this is where the cars would have
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pulled out after they watch the film no
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outside food or drink allowed can
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faintly be read there on the side of the
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window enjoy the movies
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the town of rule
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City Hall is just across the street
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there
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occasionally fine stuff like this no
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rhyme or reason for it just sitting here
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a wagon here with an extended top is
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that normal
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and here the mechanics working Texas tea
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black/gold learn that from the Beverly
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Hillbillies Jed Clampett struck it rich
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you can kind of see the O'Donnell tower
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protruding up over that tree line I'm
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fascinated by this burger stand that's
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closed it was a heart logo for their
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signage and the metal has like fallen
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over and birds have nested inside the
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heart see the heart better from this
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angle
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a rattling of that 10 as the wind blows
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it and bumps it against the pole
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Hoss Cartwright right there in the
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foliage see him there against the wall
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he's just tucked away there in the weeds
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it's like hidin machetes that's not the
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only omage to him here in town they've
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erected a bust right here in this park
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dedicated in 1973 July 4th to be exact
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thanks to film Hoss Cartwright will live
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but all too seldom does the world get to
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keep a dan blocker it's just right
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around the corner from his family's old
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store this was his home town the farmer
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out there tilling the land
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getting ready for the next planting of
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crops will be springing up here in this
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field
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it's got a lot of work to go it's a big
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area
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there's a whole bunch of them out there
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more than you can count all the way to
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the horizon nothing but oil rigs
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last stop of the day is Denver City not
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too far from the next state line that's
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