The Backroads & Small Towns of Middle Pennsylvania - Roadside Relics On Cross Country Road Trip 2022
Road Trip Thru Pennsylvania 2022
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4.85 cents a gallon on the new york
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state line well a few miles from the new
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york state line
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going down into pennsylvania today and
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possibly further
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we need fuel first and probably we'll be
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going through some back roads and small
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towns
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i might get on the interstate a little
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bit too you can see interstate 86 east
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west signage there
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and 415 highway
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north and south
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i don't know if i've ever seen a kfc
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that looks like that before in my life
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that's very unique i have crossed the
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state line into pennsylvania
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heading into the small borough they
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called it the sign said of thai yoga
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that old building over there all right
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so last night we stayed here in the
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elmira area
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crossed over just crossed over the line
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and now we're venturing down this
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direction which is the 99
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south we're now in tioga and we're just
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going to go down this way connect kind
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of sort of with the 80.
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now this atlas
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has a eastern and a western pennsylvania
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and then we're just going to kind of
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jaunt
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that way i'm just kind of
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giving a general layout of the land but
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here where this little crevice is
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is where we're going to be venturing
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across
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over towards ohio so somewhere in here
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so right up now we're up here and kind
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of go down this way
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and across
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and we're just going to look for little
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towns as we
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traverse
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it's good to have an atlas just to kind
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of give the perspective
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it gives you the gives you the good
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feels too
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yeah not looking at a phone yeah
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even though i do use my phone a lot but
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you know for directions but it's nice to
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just kind of see it from a bird's eye
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this is like giving me flashbacks to
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like
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traveling with my papa
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really using the atlas
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yeah that noise was my glasses
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scratching against my car head i always
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like these little main streets this is
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the corner of main street and
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wellsborough
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not a real beehive of activity
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but very quaint
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and very beautiful this old church right
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here with the scenic mountains behind it
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welcome everyone adam the woo here need
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my sunglasses on today it is bright
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and you were saying on the drive whether
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we've only been driving for about a half
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hour you can smell the freshness in the
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air out here in the open plains
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just the smell of all the greenery man
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this is so refreshing
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and it's not as hot and humid as florida
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sick it was 68 degrees when we woke up
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this morning that it was um definitely a
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treat
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we're gonna have a good day no real
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we're just going where the wind blows no
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real rhyme or reason we do have a
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destination in mind
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but the adventure is in the journey
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today not the destination adam says he
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wants to go find a bunch of little small
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towns along the way so that's the
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mission for the day we found one so far
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there will probably be a plethora of
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others
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you ever heard that word before plethora
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i learned a lot of vocabulary words
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samia
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what's your favorite saying so far
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what's what's stuck in your head the the
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piping hot caffeinated beverage i left
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mine in my car
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i left my coffee in the car
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fail all right inviting you to join me
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and max
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tell you you thought i was gonna say
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something else in there yeah
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in the town of mansfield now and i
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recently learned this
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a couple weeks ago that this right here
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this little flag on the
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the fire hydrant is for the snow when
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the snowfall gets too high you can
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find
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the hydrant
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also another main street this is
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mansfield there's a mansfield ohio but
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it's also a mansfield
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pennsylvania oh this is beautiful look
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at this
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it's like almost like the family trucks
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are from vacation kinda sorta not really
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this is the bel air
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the station wagon right here
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a classic car
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i walked over here because i want to
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show this side this old
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painting on the side of the brick it's
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kind of tough to tell what it says
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plumbing and tinning
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something parker
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oh this is like a really cool vintage
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bike here to even add to the ambiance is
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a huge spider right there oh there's a
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spider
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on the tire it's crawling in the ground
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towards the tire
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oh yeah i see the spider i've noticed
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this little
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church building over here well cathedral
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but then this place is awesome
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corner of center in maine looks like
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something that norman bates would live
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in
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and his mother mother
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you up there mother
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very much i don't think anyone lives
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here all right we're now pulling into
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the community of
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blasberg
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and there is a really unique old-timey
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bridge right over here
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like a metal bridge
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heading to blasburg
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now we were at the visitor center when
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we crossed the state line
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there was some information about how
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some of the mining over the years
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has polluted the water
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and the way you can tell is the
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coloration of the rocks
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evidently there's a real problem around
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here
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look how orange and reddish those rocks
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are
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not
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rush hour
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here in this community look at this
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whole bank right here
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oh there's a pay phone over there now i
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got really excited i thought there was
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going to be a physical phone in here
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but they're still the skeleton
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of the phone booth this is a relic
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yes
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that's where it was mounted there this
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is where the foam book
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would have been probably some spiders in
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there but the phone book would have been
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right inside of there no bicycle
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skateboards or roller blades
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check out the victoria theater
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i can't tell you the last time i saw
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someone rollerblading
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no way
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ask and you shall receive
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there is one in here
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does it work
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oh
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and there is a dial tone
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there's a dial tone
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it works
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what the heck
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should we try it
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i gotta see if i have a quarter i'm
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gonna try i'm gonna i'm gonna call
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someone okay i just tried to call my
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phone and it didn't work so it's a busy
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signal
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but it does have a dial tone oh i just
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got my change back
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it was busy i have not had that feeling
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in so long hang the phone up and it
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gives you your change back because it
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was a busy signal
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there's also no phone number on here i
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was thinking maybe if there was a phone
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number on here i would try to call this
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phone but there is no phone number to
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call
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there is a dial touch now passing
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through are not a rnot
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very tiny post office here zip code one
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six nine
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one one not much of a little downtown
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here this is the village
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of our knot you've been pretty much
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running parallel to the 15
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highway 15
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and this is taking us through liberty
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and there's a little motor oil sign up
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there at this little garage
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got a pepsi advertisement right there
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and sure products
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and the post office right next door
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zip code 16930
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and a fruit juice
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dispenser out front nice victorian style
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architecture there this is probably a
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general store
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at some point and up there is another
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part of the downtown area now my first
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impression would be that this old rusted
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out truck
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could be used in a horror film
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you know just jokingly thinking that
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because it's just
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the way it looks
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is horrifying
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that's something like jeepers creepers
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or something but look up in the window
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of said truck
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there's a ghoul
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behind the wheel
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it's a skeleton
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you got to watch out for these back road
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drivers
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okay along this road continuing on a bit
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we're noticing there's an old barn here
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which has seen better days
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right here along the side of the
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mountains
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see how the roof is caved in
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a lot of the items are still in their
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tires
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even some saddles see some saddles back
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in there
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see the roof is completely caved in
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i really like the
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steam valley community
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bible study
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sign kind of hiding in there
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like tucked away inside the barn
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passing now through trout run there's a
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little creek down here
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and a general store
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sign they're kind of faded away on the
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side of this building i'm noticing over
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here in the foliage
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is this very retro looking van
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this thing is
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beautiful
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it's like something from like the 70s or
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early 80s with a little topper on it
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imagine
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camping in that thing cruising around
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the countryside
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over to jersey shore
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not in jersey in pennsylvania and it's
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kind of in the middle of the state
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very uh interesting name
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we're gonna get a bite to eat at the
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number one chinese restaurant
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see over here
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there's a little map here
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see if i can find where we are on this
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map
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so we are
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see us
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lockheed in there we just passed there
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we just went through lock haven
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williamsport okay we went through there
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we are right here jersey shore
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right there jersey shore so we started
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up here made our way down going to
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williamsport
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and then we're just going to go across
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that direction
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a little snack first okay decided not to
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go there because there was no
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indoor dining
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and don't really want to eat chinese
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food in the car check out this little
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garden here these flowers
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and some butterflies
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i can't tell those might be moss never
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mind their moss right next door is a
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mexican street food
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taco truck and they have
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a real location here too so we're gonna
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get some tacos okay went with some rice
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and beans here on the side i got the
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beans got the rice and also went with
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some went four they're kind of doubled
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up here with the steak you got the steak
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too right got steak chicken and pork
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yeah i definitely did not think that the
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size of the tacos were going to be as
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gargantuan as they were and because
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today's friday they were 250 each i
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thought they were just going to be like
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normal size street tacos i am full yes i
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would definitely recommend
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this place
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right here in jersey shore
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pennsylvania
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pretty dang good
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do you like it
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you know
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just
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i mean honestly man
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that was so i i never not finished my
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food and that was so much food i had to
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get it to go by yes that was a lot of
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food
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i ate all mine i'm uncomfortably full
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right now but i ate all my continued on
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a ways to
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the town of snowshoe
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there's a truck here
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the windshield
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smashed in
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classic car alert
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tucked away over here in the shrubs
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and
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there's an old gas station convenience
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store here
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service station right along the way
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all right i had to pull over
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see yogi bear
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is it yogi bear yogi the bear i know
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smokey is smokey bear not smokey the
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bear
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yogi bear it's just yogi bear i've now
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made it over to doo little station and
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there is a pennsylvania
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railroad car right here as well and the
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old train station there and some kind of
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neat little roadside little pop-up
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items here in the yard as well there's a
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cafe and a creamery
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there's the signal
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a bigfoot holding an ice cream cone with
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some dinosaur eggs
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mama dinosaur is not happy that anyone
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is getting too close or
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mama dinosaur is trying to take a bite
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out of
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this bigfoot's ice cream cone right here
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has a little peppermint candy cane in
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the top it almost looks like a straw you
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think big the foot would approve
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big the foot is friendly with bigfoot
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i said the same lineage
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i think they're i think they're they're
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somehow related
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except this is
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a big foot not big the foot
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maybe third cousins yeah you never know
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yeah i've always tried to figure that
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out but i've never really never been
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able to quite get a grasp on the
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relationship this is pretty cool you can
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sit inside
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of the torso
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i guess is that a tight that's a lot a
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lion or is that a tiger it's a tiger
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it's not a bayer oh my it's a liger it's
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a liger because it has the stripes like
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it's almost like a zebra
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and a tiger it has the tiger stripes
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here hold that like that i'm gonna go
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sit
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i'm gonna go sit in there
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one to ten how
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comfortable uh one being the worst 10
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being the best yeah this is a 2.7
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wow that's pretty low it's not very
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comfy
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easy big fella
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easy
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i don't really understand this look on
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wiley's face
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looking at the chicken up top
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oh i get it now the chicken is launching
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an egg down at wiley's eyes
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but look at this look why would wiley
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have that look on his face
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it's awful curious he's like very
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curious do you think he notices the egg
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and why would the chicken be throwing
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its own egg
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at wiley's face
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maybe they got beef
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maybe all right i had to go into the
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creamery side i didn't get a hot dog
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even though that cow right there really
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promoting the chili dog
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and this gal also has a little section
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of his torso cut out i have gone with
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the mint
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called the mint tingling
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what this is and i'm already put a bite
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in my mouth i'm savoring it
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right now cow
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this is almost like a like a couch sized
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cow
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no cushions left all right i gotta give
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a hearty raise up
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because we have arrived
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in saint pete
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where's the trap
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man i almost i look over here at the
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post office and almost think it says st
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pete florida but it's saint pete not fl
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saint pete pa
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this is the fire station
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we saw this i was driving down the road
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we veered off a few miles
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this is pretty dang cool right here on
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the corner of main street and railroad
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street saint pete
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and that is also the social hall
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so it has a multi-use here in saint pete
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st p quite possibly the most
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unusual street sign i've ever seen
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fresh oil and chips
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and it must be a thing because there's
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another fresh oil and chip sign over
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there
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must have a meaning that i'm not really
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catching
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this river is impressive but
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take a look at the bridge
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that goes over
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the river
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all right i gotta rock or throw it into
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the middle of the river
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okay i threw it into
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the first 1 16th of the river
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and over the river is emlington
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i'm really fascinated by this laundromat
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tanning notary
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canoe rental
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and bingo
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inside barry's laundry that's a lot here
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at this mechanic shop called donald
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donaldson's auto lawn mowers
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and of course there's there's that big
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blue bridge up at the top up here
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i'm noticing the 7 up
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signage down here on the end vintage the
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side of that wall has got a lot of ivy
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on it
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like an overload of ivy above the hedges
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there but here's the 7 up sign i was
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just talking about
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up at the top here at otto's tavern
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ott os
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otto's tavern
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and have continued the commute a little
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bit further and this is the last small
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town
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before going over into the ohio state
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line so i'm gonna end the video
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in west middlesex
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i almost forgot what state i was in
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it's been a long road trip at the post
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office right over there
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16159 is the zip code
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and this appears to be what was the
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business district at one point
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it's an ivy up top a lot of ivy
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kind of grown over there
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this door has been in completely
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enclosed and boarded up
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can't even go in there anymore
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sealed up
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this whole complex over here
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is a roasting facility a o'neill coffee
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company
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the shinago river
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that's what that bridge goes over
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i have no idea what o'neill coffee
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tastes like
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i don't think i'm gonna find out today
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too because it looks like at this time
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of the day
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they are closed
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noticing over there off in the distance
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there's an old barn that has a chew male
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pouch
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advertisement treat yourself to the best
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that has definitely seen some years
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while those companies back in the day
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would pay farmers
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money to paint advertisements on their
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barns they knew people that were
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driving
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down the road would see it and that's
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left over from
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the olden days
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treat yourself to the best now it might
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not seem like much but this is the first
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time that i can recall ever
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taking a back road a little secret
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entrance
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into a rest stop before
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usually when you take an interstate rest
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stop you get off of the freeway
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off the thoroughfare
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and go to the front but this gate is
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open around the back
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to this rest area
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not the backside of water it is the back
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side
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of a rest stop
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no one picnicking out here at these
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tables
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like i said it doesn't really seem like
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it'd be that big of a deal this is a
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first
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trucks coming in over there that's where
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i should be pulling in i found a secret
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to the facility and there is a peter
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toth
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head carving here this indian head
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peter toss
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carved a couple dozen of these around
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the u.s and there are still a few left
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here's my shadow there but
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yeah peter toth back in june of 73
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completed this one
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dedicated to the american indians seneca
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tribe
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but they won't be forgotten you remember
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it in our minds in our hearts love is
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life
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i've seen a couple of these over my
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travels
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i haven't seen all of them though
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this was still in pretty good pretty
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good condition
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back in 1973
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this is located at the pennsylvania
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welcome center even though
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going westbound
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if you're coming west to east
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you'll be able to stop off and see this
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as you enter pennsylvania
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that stated i went in the back way
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takes a lot of talent to do something
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like this of course it's
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kind of stationary into the ground with
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this concrete holding it up reinforce it
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yeah but just i would never definitely
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never be able to do something
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like this
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got the bricks holding it down there too
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and at this hour the visitor center's
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closed but there is a pike county bear
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right there
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510 pound black bear
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and it was a little bit out of the way
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about 40 miles out of the way of our
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route we were on today but there's
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punxsutawney phil
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right there one of these days i want to
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go there
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on the day they bring them out and
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celebrate the day one day i'll make it
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up there for the festivities
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there's a cardboard version of old
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look i'm peeking in the window because
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the door's locked and that's gonna do it
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for today i drove a couple more hours
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since
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the last town i was in covered some
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ground drove a lot of miles today in
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fact
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arrived at
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accommodations for the evening
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overlooking
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the freeway over there
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thanks for watching i'll see you in the
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next video
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the vlog
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the road trip
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the never-ending road trip continues
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is over