Pink Jeep Tours In Pigeon Forge Tennessee - The Valleys and Views Tour Thru Great Smoky Mountains
Pink Jeep Tours in Pigeon Forge
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins on what was an
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overcast but now
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the sun is starting to rear its head
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pigeon forge tennessee
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where i will be departing along with
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my mother who will be taking the road
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trip down to orlando florida starting
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this evening will take us about two days
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we'll make it about halfway down that
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tenure but before that
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just kind of seeing some sights around
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town until
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noon where we're going to be going in
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and around
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the smoky mountains on a pink jeep
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tour that we have a reservation for at
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noon we were not able to get a
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reservation for dollywood
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in the last day or so we were going to
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stay throughout the course of the
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weekend however
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hotels are very pricey it is difficult
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to even
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find one under 300 250 to 300
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is the standard even for a minimum
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type of establishment to to lay your
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head which is
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a little more than normal it is very
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busy here in gatlinburg pigeon forge
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sevierville area it's gonna be a fun day
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nonetheless i'm inviting you to join me
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for the pink jeep tour after we do a
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couple other things shall you
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oh hello there goat getting a little
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a little snack smile you're
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on goat tv you'll notice up on the roof
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is a goat it's where this place gets its
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name
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goats on the roof oh there's a bunch
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up that's goats are on the roof and my
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mom
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is on the ground
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quite a few of them up there congregated
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there
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that is a rather large
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chicken
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total price for two people was 134
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dollars with taxes and fees 20. or 60
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i should say a person times two and then
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you know add on the
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the taxes and whatnot there are three or
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four different tours
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what we are doing is called the valley
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valleys and
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views and that was the only one that was
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available so that's the one we chose the
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other ones were completely booked up and
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sold out during this very busy time
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around here
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a little more info there are four
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different tours so we're doing the one
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there on the top
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corner uh the valleys and views as i
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stated we're about to head out shortly
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you know and then the other family can
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get on there
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okay we'll take this one here we got the
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got the belts get
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better pictures cause some places will
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stop and won't get out
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but you take pictures out the windows
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right you get cold we got a heater under
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there then i can turn onto the help
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we're 90 inches of rain a year here the
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only other place in the whole country
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that gets more rain than we do
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is out in oregon and califor washington
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and lately they haven't been getting
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that money we've been getting it all in
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florida
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yeah we've been getting a lot of rain
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well we're 20 inches above normal and
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got
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a little over two months to go so this
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year it's going to be around 110 to 120
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inches
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there even during the summer it's about
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10 to 15 degrees colder up there than it
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is here
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how high are we going up we'll wind up
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where we're going the last place we go
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about 3 000 feet above sea level
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about 800 square miles back from the
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farmers and the pioneers
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400 square miles of it is in east
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tennessee and 400 square miles
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in north carolina so they bought it all
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back
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in 1932 they declared it a national park
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any of the trees that were bigger than
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that and that
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they cut down when they logged them we
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actually had a couple of trees up here
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that was as big as the redwoods
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out in california today tomorrow and
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sunday out here
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when we get to worse valley
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we're having a fall festival so when we
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get about
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a mile and a half we're gonna get slowed
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down a little bit and we get through
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where the fall vegetables at because the
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traffic's backed up
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because of the traffic but it's too late
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they forgot about
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the fall festival traffic and it already
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looked mature
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we had 43 pancake places in pigeon forge
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of gatlinburg
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that's not counting the ones out here
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anywhere in ballot
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here in the united we have a lot of
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different events up here
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the second week is the most annoying car
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show weekend that they have up here
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with the fast and furious cars
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when you get a hundred hundreds and
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hundreds and hundreds of them up here
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and they all like to line up in a row
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and follow each other around it sounds
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like a thousand wheat eaters driving
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down the road
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still get your full tour i just gotta
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figure my way to get out of here
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anybody got a wife or a signal on their
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phone
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and get see if it will give you
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directions to it
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this was the reason for the rerouting
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look at all these cars
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holding onto the dashboard won't look to
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the left won't look to the right
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and telling me what's that what's that
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curve what's that tree what's
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that just constantly so two weeks ago
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she asked me can you take me to the
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roaring forks motor trail i promise i
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won't say nothing about the road
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i said only if you roll your window down
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and you look out your side and watch for
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a bear
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so she did and a half
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mile end of the road there was a bear
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and that's when she screamed oh my god
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there's a bear
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and she still hasn't got a picture on
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her phone of a bear on her own phone
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till this week and i took her back up
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there and she finally kept quiet and
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looked out the window and she got a
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picture of a big black bear
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drivers telling stories his girlfriend
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their first bear experience
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i'm gonna stop on this bridge and let
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you take a few pictures of the river if
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you
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you go there early the next day people
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have left everything
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there's the shoes closed just you can
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find anything there
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there'll be another river comes down
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another mountain that connects with this
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one and they combine to make the little
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river
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and like i said they'll all connect
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eventually and that water
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winds up down in the gulf of mexico in a
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couple of weeks
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but even if we were in the middle of
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summer
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and it was 95 degrees out that water
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will barely ever make it above the
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temperature of 50 degrees
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so down here on the bathroom this curve
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is the sinks and hopefully there'll be a
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parking
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spot to pull into
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now people uh canoe down that river too
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what do they call that white water
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three miles of hiking there's a
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waterfall back there
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i know where the waterfall is as you can
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see from the road
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wow they kayak down this yeah
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it's amazing what we're gonna go see
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after we live here
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it's down in townsend and you can see
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this engine oh
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we're going to see the shrine yeah
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so they used to they used to haul the
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timber on this they used to
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pull the timber with this this is down
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there by the train
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but it's i don't think it has the wheels
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under it anymore
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but this is after the logging community
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shut down
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there's a place up in the mountains
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called elk mont that they built for the
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loggers for home after they shut down
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all the logging homes
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they made it into a vacation spot for
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people to go so that's where the train
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was then taking them
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up to the mountain for vacation
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okay so these are all people going on
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vacation yep
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and they stopped right there and that's
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where the train would stop and let them
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get out and look at oh so this bridge
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was the old train track yeah
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oh okay that whole road was the train
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track
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they just removed the tracks and put the
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road in okay
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and snapping 10 feet tight back three
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miles to the waterfall
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now a couple well they'll probably be
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right back down sometimes they go up
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just to see some of the people go up
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there and if you want to walk up
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because of how busy this area is that
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had to reroute the the path we were
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going and
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there was no cell phone signal got a
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little misconstrued on directions so
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thankfully
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a gentleman that was riding and you know
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riding in the car as well had
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had a a bar or two could tell him which
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way to go
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got back on track and now the tour is
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continuing
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it's a little brisk i should have
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probably worn a jacket when you're
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cruising along it
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if it's not too much speed it's not too
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bad but when you're going going fast
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with that wind
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it's a little chilly in that thing about
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911
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most people come down through here and
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drive right by it don't even know that's
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they go down there and they hike three
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miles back to it
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between they can just cross the river
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here on the rocks more right back
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we got interviewed on this tour
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yesterday on tv oh yeah
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yeah the people were from where were
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they from
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michigan and they didn't like it the guy
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put the camera up and said you're on
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live tv now
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and they got so embarrassed
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this train because it had to go up down
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steep inclines
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all all every single wheel on it had to
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pull
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but they come down through here they're
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not from here and they just don't
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realize how sharp the birds are
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it's a little harder for uh bass and
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catfish to live in them
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because it being so cold and so
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shallow a lot right there is a popular
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swimming area when it's warm outside
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where the river blue river is clean but
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you see the river come down over here
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so there's the old train that you go up
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and down
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several weeks ago and the name of the
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train
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before they painted it there was a said
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dorothy on the side of it
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but then this was the crane that
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followed it up put the logs on it
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let's see how the wheels are on the
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train every one of them
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had to pull
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because of all the traffic that was
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backed up over there
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so you're actually going to get to see a
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little bit more of the foothills this
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direction than you would the other
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that way made through the smoky
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mountains to connect
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uh east tennessee with north carolina
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without having to go through pigeon
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forge or gatlinburg
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and they actually started building the
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four sections
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back in 1920
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but they've only completed three
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sections
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so far this section right here that
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we're on
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was just completed a couple of years ago
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and it took
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37 years to complete it
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we had missed out all that traffic
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on the way back they ain't no way i
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can't miss it
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but i don't have another tour till four
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o'clock so it's okay and y'all we're not
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late
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we're late i don't care i want y'all to
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get y'all's
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cold tour in
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what do you think
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it's about another mile down from it the
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train is that we were at
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the train's way down there
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now y'all know why the mountains look
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blue
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or even pigeon forged in gatlinburg with
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all the city lights
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you can't see stars very good at night
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up here you can see millions of them
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if we get down here and don't get in any
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more traffic it's going to take about 20
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more minutes
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but if we get down there and get stuck
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in traffic they actually ought to do
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this
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like they do a few pound gap when you
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get up to new times down gas they have
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bathrooms up there
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they ought to put some bathrooms at a
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couple of these top
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for some reason and i can't answer why
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when they built these bridges they had
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to build them from the top down instead
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of from the bottom up
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so here's a pretty decent view
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right there i got the lights on and if
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you need to unbuckle
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that's incredible you just don't want to
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jump out over the bridge
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so do you have a rental car here that
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you got to drive back to knoxville
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no no we're going back and forth my
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son's taking me back to florida
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