The Backroads and Small Towns of Alabama - Day TWO of Cross Country Road Trip Challenge / BBQ Bonus
Alabama was the subject of my Day 2 cross country road trip back to the west coast . A challenge to film one state each day until back in California .
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Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the
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woo here today
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number
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two
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of an eight-part series
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driving cross-country i have exited
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georgia and am now
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in alabama
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just taking a look at the nooks the
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crannies
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the lesser traveled
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areas no interstates no freeways no
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major attractions no theme parks
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just soaking in the ambiance
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of americana
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i'm standing on
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some sort of abandoned
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seating area looking over
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the water
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let's get moving i'm inviting you to
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join me
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shall you looking at the road atlas
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the lower portions right around in here
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is where i will be focusing my energy
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making my way
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kind of in to this general
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section and then
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darting upward northbound just a bit
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and then later on today
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end up right about over here this is all
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approximate
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give or take but this is a good
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good way to get an overview
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before i get too far
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need a little gas
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fuel is necessity
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the town square in clayton
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there is a small child that's having a
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bad day however
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slightly faded out by the sun
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you can see parts of this mural here
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that were painted on the wall
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check out the angles and dimensions of
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this home
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looking at the placard
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appears as if it's referred to as the
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octagon house
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built between the years of 1859 and 1861
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by benjamin franklin petty
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who was a carriage and furniture
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merchant
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and a native of new york
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came here and settled in clayton
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it's located just an eyeshadow of the
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main square
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just a few feet away in fact
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and just a short walk down is the
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cemetery after randomly meeting the
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mayor
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at the local newspaper office
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she told me of a pretty interesting
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item in here a whiskey bottle shaped
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tombstone
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the inscription reads 1863 is when this
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gentleman passed away
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i was told he was an alcoholic
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and his wife said he didn't stop
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drinking
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she would do this that way even in death
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he would be known
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for his actions
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continued on to louisville
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the old school
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established 1916.
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feel as if it's worth seeing from
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different angles
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it's a very impressive structure it goes
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a lot farther back
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than i expected
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a couple add-ons and additions
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would be fun to look peek in those top
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windows but i don't really know if that
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staircase is structurally sound
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looks pretty rusted out
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may or may not be
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free candy
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in the cellar
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don't go
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it's a trap
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near this site which is now all trees
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and shrubbery
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stood the pike county courthouse
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from 1822 to 1827.
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gotta love these informative placards
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learn quite a bit
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if you notice them off the side of the
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roads
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we're in pine cone territory
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you don't watch yourself
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it could fall from the branches
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hit you on the head
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they're everywhere
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it's like probably six or seven dozen
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down here on the ground it's almost like
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a
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a miniature tree
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that's fallen from a tree
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very decorative but
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kind of prickly if you touch it in the
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right spot it could leave a mark
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they celebrated their bicentennial back
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in 2017
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even though it was incorporated in 1887
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it was settled
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back in 1817.
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this could have been a railroad station
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depot
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not seeing any tracks maybe it was moved
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here at one point
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that's my best educated guess
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how's it going
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it's a beautiful day for it
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especially by a waterway like that
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i just wanted to stop off and say hello
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just passing through
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okay i see you're preoccupied
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not really in a in a talkative mood
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i'm gonna get i'm gonna get moving even
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though carroll's driving is no longer
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quite operational
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and the yard is being used for wood
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storage
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still has that antique sweet
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coca-cola signage
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you see that pretty often which is also
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evident
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at the drugstore here in clio
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the port festival must take place here
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it makes me happy to know that nearly
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every community has a painting similar
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to this one just to summarize
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the history and what has taken place in
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their area
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all kinds of classic vehicles
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even on the opposite shore
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what are you fellas up to
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oh you're just eating too huh
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let's do it get a little chow there
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the grass
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all right
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i'll leave you bee
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see you later donkeys
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quite a few classic items
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on this property
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that's a rather unique looking city hall
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right there isn't it
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where i currently am
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this homestead
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has seen better days
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but the drapes are still in the window
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the thing that's fascinating about these
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places
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people shared memories
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and moments of their life
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inside them
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sometimes it's easy to forget
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when you see a broken down structure
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like this
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starting to get pretty cloudy up there
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some cumulonimbus action
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formulating
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my first impression is
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that was a bank
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here at the cross streets
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the more i look at it i think maybe it
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was just a
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grocery store of sorts
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there are bars on the windows
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however
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i haven't seen another vehicle in
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a long time
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something you don't see every day
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cows
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kind of tucked away in a little swampy
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area
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look closely they're down there
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resembles a swampy area but
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no water
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all right bike house
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antique fuel pump
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here in front of this little teeny tiny
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former station
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there's a car over there under that
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that tree
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maybe it ran out of gas because this
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place was closed
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this is union town
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where the dogs run wild
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lots of dogs
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fire truck over there near the woods
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still has the light on top of it and
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everything
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and not far from there
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you can read the water tower peeking up
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over the roof line
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fawnsdale
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this is pretty much the entire downtown
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as best i can tell the fire department
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isn't even active at this point
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unless they move to another location
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this section's a little bumpy
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did their best to
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patch up the potholes
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look straight down that avenue of
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branches
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it's a mansion tucked away back there
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it's like something out of a movie
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that driveway is
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and the house also
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sitting somber and quiet
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kind of out here in the middle of
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nowhere
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pulling into livingston now
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which will be the last
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of our stops in the state
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named after the
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secretary of state under president
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andrew jackson
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on january 10 1835
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the town was incorporated
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the courthouse
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can faintly hear a train going by
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off in the distance
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it might not seem like much but this
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little pump system
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has a huge historical significance
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in that spot and artesian well was
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completed in 1857
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people began to claim that the mineral
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water
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had medicinal value
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so this whole area became very popular
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as a health spa
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in 1904 the water quit overflowing
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and the hand pump was added
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very interesting
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however in 2005 a geological survey
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came to the conclusion
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that the water was not fit for
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consumption so
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yeah you're taking a big chance by
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drinking out of that thing
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so much driving today that kind of lost
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track of time finally
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stopping for a bite to eat sweet tea
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got to do that win in rome
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and
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a little barbecue will be happening
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these are my options
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smoking south
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bbq
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is the name of the establishment
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just waiting for my food and then i'm
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going to chow down
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too much sauce
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i don't like to drench it but i like to
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put just a
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and put enough on there where you can
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taste it for sure
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when it comes to sides this is what
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we're dealing with
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beans mac and cheese potato salad oh
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yeah
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you know you're having fun when you
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forget to eat
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until it's almost nightfall
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that is a rather large mound
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of fire ants
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should i just
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i guess that's fire ants right let me
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oh yeah
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check it out
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didn't disturb them too much but
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they are active
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down in there
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gosh if i had to put my foot deep down
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in that
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they'd be like a hundred thousand of
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them
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instead there's only like maybe
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20 or 30 there at the top
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but they're scurrying
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around fire ants
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you don't want those things biting you
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cross country journey eight states not
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counting florida not counting the ending
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point of california but those eight in
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the middle i will be documenting each
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quite the challenge going from
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state line to state line tomorrow
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m-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i
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is waiting not not very far from where
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i'm standing now it's almost starting to
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get dark enough i really don't need
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these
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