Exploring Forgotten Tourist Spots & Closed Attractions of Arizona - Final Day of Cross Country Trip
Day number 9 of my cross country trip ended up a little differently than planned based on weather conditions . I ended up taking interstate 40 and checking out all the closed up spots off the exits .
Day 1 Florida
https://youtu.be/H9fmgbaMYvo
Day 2 Alabama
https://youtu.be/LzjX_cD4CeE
Day 3 Mississippi
https://youtu.be/i7pGKf_MU1k
Day 4 Louisiana
https://youtu.be/nSA369kb7n0
Day 5 Arkansas
https://youtu.be/WKDDncJAqVU
Day 6 Texas
https://youtu.be/WtsE7KzP1fg
Day 7 Oklahoma
https://youtu.be/V8AQ3H7PzSI
Day 8 New Mexico
https://youtu.be/eP7kmKOQmrE
Transcript
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current conditions cold snowy and icy
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this is gonna make things interesting
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not exactly the type of road conditions
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I prefer driving in to be honest
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the sun's rising it is beautiful to look
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at but not the best to commute in
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especially when you're doing a
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long-distance journey through the
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backroads might have to change up the
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play and just a little bit today just a
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little
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I'm really liking these long shots of
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the trains in the distance
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this one has a shimmering lake in the
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foreground
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crossing over the Arizona state line for
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date number nine of my nine day road
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trip
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welcome everyone Adam is whoo here I
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have deviated from my original thought
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process due to the weather elements ice
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on the streets and the roads I don't
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think my rental car would do best
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sliding off of a thoroughfare getting
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lost in the back roads of the state so
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what I'm gonna do is take Interstate 40
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across and veer off at each exit some of
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the ones that have historical items some
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roadside attractions which have closed
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over the years and just see what has
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become of them it's a little safer
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inviting you to join me shall you most
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likely will see the conditions clear up
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as I had westward if I would have
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ventured into this region where I
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originally had planned probably would
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not have been so would have been heavy
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duty to say that for another time of the
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year and for now a different path
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starting off with this gas station which
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has seen better days
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and adjacent is this gift shop which
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appears to have the front door is
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accessible
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at one time this was full of objects you
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could purchase as a tourist driving
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through a Pepsi machine wow look at this
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bank vault
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you know there was a time many years ago
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that I stopped off here and parts of
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this were open for business not the
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pancake house but the gift shop right
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over there was active now the entire
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premises is closed out
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it is always fascinating to think about
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what makes these places fall completely
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by the wayside why they close up and go
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out of business
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it's very faded but states reserved for
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mail bus Monday through Saturday for
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courage was the name of this place
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probably has quite a few people stopping
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off to take photographs it's right by
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the main interstate
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I like the little guy painted up there
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on the water tower
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according to this signage they are
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remodeling that's interesting
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this could be seen in the John Carpenter
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mid 80s film star band Jeff Bridges was
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in that and they shot a couple of the
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scenes right inside that structure just
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down the ways a bit is this beauty
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some of the enclosures and cages still
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exist this little staircase
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unbeknownst to most travelers on the
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interstate probably don't realize a lot
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of this is back here including this
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cavernous area and a Radiator Springs
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esque bridge that's pretty much
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unaccessible from the freeway well I
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take that back
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suppose you can drive across it if
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you're feeling Derek there is a dirt
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road dirt path the leads out to it with
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any abandoned location you have to
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wonder what it was like when it was
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thriving and people were just bustling
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all around here it was a long time ago
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must be careful of this barbed wire
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don't want to don't want to get hung up
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in that as relics look pretty cool with
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the mountains off in the distance those
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icy peaks and the trucks going by the
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rapid pace
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some of the other buildings on property
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just up the hill probably a hundred
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yards or so up the hill not really much
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left of that when the a-frame has
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collapsed a lot of an ass
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it's been ages as forrest gump ran by
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this trading post cafe
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it's obviously not in operation anymore
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but the building's still here as well as
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these iconic landmarks still holding
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strong can't really say for how much
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longer however they are starting to
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decompose just a little bit twin eras
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this is a diner portion over here is
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where the guests would have set on the
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counter had their meal it's fallen over
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still has that nostalgic retro Americana
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vibe to it I don't he follow the spray
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paint and behind the weeds
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they served hamburgers and breakfast
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I always like stopping off in this
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little town when I'm on this pathway
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oh goodness I don't know what happened
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here this guy's in the dog ass
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and who the heck is in this window why
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what are you staring at oh my goodness
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don't want to be misbehaving around
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these parts you'll end up in the 1860
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Arizona territorial Jail
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got him a cowboy hat and a lasso
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madalasa careful sitting in the seat of
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this automobile it a little prickly and
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it looks as if the snow is pretty much
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cleared up from here on out a smooth
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sailing
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that's gonna do it not only for today
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but for this nine part series where I
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right now I'm going to I better head
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home I rest my weary head I'll see you
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