The Most Ive EVER Paid For Gas - Road Trip Thru Donner Pass / Thunder Mountain Park & Train Watching
Road Trip 2022
Transcript
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here as a recording of this
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sunday may 1st
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2022
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cheers
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had every intention
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starting the intro
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with that train
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that is now stopped down there passing
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by behind me
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under the majesticness
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of this
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nevada mountain
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landscape however it stopped
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so now i'm standing here consuming this
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piping caffeinated beverage that i have
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procured from a gas station was 449 a
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gallon
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500 miles precisely to the t from where
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i stayed at my hotel last night to where
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i'm heading the destination on the west
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coast i'm inviting you
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to join me i'm not going to move from
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the spot just in case that's also wow
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that's interesting join me
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shall you not only is the train now
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moving forward
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but there's some heavy machinery on top
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of said train
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picking up stuff
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i have never seen that before
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is it just cruising across the
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countryside
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picking up debris
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look at that
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i know i am easily amused but what the
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heck
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a moving train with workers with heavy
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machinery on top of it
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this is fascinating
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or i just haven't quite woke up yet
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and i feel like i'm in the dream world
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i love it
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building america
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keeping
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communities safe
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okay it stopped now the train has
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stopped
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those are shifting around
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and they move along this rail
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and then gonna pick something up
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what is it gonna pick up
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a big chunk of okay logs oh it's like
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railroad
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wood pieces from the railroad
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oh look at that thing shifting picking
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up the weight it's a lot of weight it's
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picking up
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and the other one down here don't forget
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about this one
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such beautiful landscape out here
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i don't know if i'd classify this as
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snow it's 36 degrees
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right now but it's very slushy and the
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wind is just i guess this is snow
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okay it looks like snow
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warmed up a little now that i came out
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of the elevation a bit
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no precipitation at the moment pulled
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off an exit and onto an unpaved road
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to a very unique area called thunder
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mountain park
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right here
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it's going under a restoration project
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says enter
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at your own risk
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this is right here can be seen from the
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interstate now this section is all
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fenced off
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not only with
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the chain link style but also with
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barbed wire
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lots of signage saying do not go over
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into there
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wow
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it's almost like a bottle house
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similar to watts towers in watts
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california
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i've seen a few places across the usa
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look
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similar
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kind of salvation mountain vibes but not
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really
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nice train going by
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the other side of the interstate
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definitely has that bottle house look
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going on to it as well
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see behind that glass bottles that are
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in there
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and up on the roof
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there's a bottle house at knott's berry
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farm
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there's a lot across the u.s but there's
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one there that you can
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you can see i've visited it many times
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over in their little ghost town area
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and written right on the side of this it
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says thunder mountain nevada
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thunder mt
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nav
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slightly eerie being out here alone i
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gotta be honest
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i know the traffic's going by at a very
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rapid pace
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other than that it's kind of kind of odd
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feeling no one out here but me
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has a very skeleton-like quality to it
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there's some information here on chief
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rolling mountain
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thunder
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who is the one who spent a lot of time
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building this place
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says here
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monument is built from a collage of cast
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off items
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that was be described to society as junk
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all collected within a radius of 50
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miles
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of where it is now located
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there's also other stuff scattered
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around the property not just the stuff
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that's fenced off over there
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stuff like this this automobile
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also some other classic car alerts over
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there in the distance
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and
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looks like the caretaker
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who watches over the property over there
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in that little rv
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so it is someone on site taking care of
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the place
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out here in this very beautiful
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landscape
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mountains off in the distance got a
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station wagon down on this end
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and the plane an airplane
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perched on that tire up top there
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i don't believe this swing would hold my
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body weight nor am i am i going to try
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it
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but there is a swing here
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pull-up bar
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this says the hostel
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dated 1971.
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definitely not structurally sound to be
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climbing up there
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a lot of just remnants from this
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just a shell of probably what it once
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was
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at least this section
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even some fire damage over here
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this is off to the wayside of the fenced
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off area
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over there
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it's like somebody else showed up
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walking over there
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also i'm noticing over here
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on the way out
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over near the caretakers
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rv
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is that a cat up there
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some sort of animal going after a bee
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hive
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or a wasp nest
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or hornet's desk
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still continuing west
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drove probably another 30 minutes or so
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off to another
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side access road
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but i'm noticing
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over here
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is a decayed property it has
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definitely seen better days
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take a look at that thing
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how is that even still standing
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it's a ginormous building
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it's just been kind of gutted out
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next to that junkyard
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and now over to fernley nevada
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drove a little bit further
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parked in this area with these boulders
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here
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and speaking of boulders
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is some artwork made out of large rocks
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a turtle
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there's the turtle's face right there
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body torso
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it's also another piece of art down
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there in that gazebo looks like a flower
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the desert tortoise
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as stated right there
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just a random wall
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ah it's called bottle cap gazebo
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maybe it's not a flower oh bottle cap
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gazebo transform discarded bottle caps
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reclaim lumbered steel the beautiful
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structure for all enjoy 75 000 bottle
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caps
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made this
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if i had not read that i would not have
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realized this flower
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this desert flower
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made out
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of bottle caps
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it was bottle house type materials back
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a ways at that one place
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and this is the bottle caps making up
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the leaves
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and other items
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of this piece of artwork
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that building is very spaceship
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earth-like
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make definitions
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over to sparks now
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you see the traffic of the thoroughfare
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going by up there very quickly
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so i pulled off the exit
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to notice this
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a spider-like creature
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that's also a vw bug
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the top of this mechanic shop well it's
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a performance shop
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arachnophobia
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the automotive edition
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was john goodman in that movie not the
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automotive edition but
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arachnophobia it's been a while i
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watched it
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don't want that to sink
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into your skin pulling into victorian
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square
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look at this old prospector right there
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standing tall
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this parking lot is closed off
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and appears as if
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the tony armstrong amphitheater
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is no longer open
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looks like they could
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have had a shakespearean
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play or two here on this stage
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got the murals up top got the train
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there
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almost looks like an airplane but i
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think it's supposed to be a train
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and then a heart that has the town's
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name on it sparks
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and the way progress works is you have
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an art deco new building
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placed in front of
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an historical building
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as that jeep goes by
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it looks like it's now
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a
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restaurant or a bar of some sort but
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the wr adam's son jeweler and gift
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science is still up there ah yes an
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agricultural inspection station that can
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only mean one thing
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i'm in california i've crossed the state
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line this is a pile of snow here all
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piled up and this is an even bigger pile
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of snow not like movie
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like magical snow that you see on you
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know a tv show or
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in a feature film that looks beautiful
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which snow is beautiful when it's
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falling but after the fact when it's all
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scraped up into a big pile
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ninety percent of the time this is what
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snow
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looks like and those who live in snowy
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areas
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have to see all the time so they're
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probably when they're watching
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a movie they're probably thinking oh i
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really wish that's how snow always
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looked but snow
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all piled up like this
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i have stopped off at this little
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i'll call it a rest stop area
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but this is on donner pass road
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that's right the donner party also
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crossing the state line into
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where was my former home granted i'm in
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northern california
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but i moved out of my anaheim spot in
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november ended november so very last day
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or two of november of last year i have
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not been back in california
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since then the
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longest tenure and probably eight years
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that i have not been in this state you
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know
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to most it would seem like that's not
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that big of a deal you know it's only
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been half a year
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but it kind of hit me going back in
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in a weird way i miss living in
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granted this like i said this is
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oh yeah okay get in the fields get the
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feels get the memories flooding back in
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now i have no immediate plans
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to move back to california and heck it i
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don't even know if i ever will
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but if i were to it would not be for a
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very considerable long time a very happy
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in celebration florida and the rather
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large sculpture i was walking up to
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there was a placard here with
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information about it
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is dedicated to pioneer families honors
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all who follow the truckee river route
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in california it was unveiled in 1918
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and stands as one of the most historic
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sites
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nearby
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trapped in snow during the winter of
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1846 to 1847
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nearly half of the donner party
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did not make it
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and if you're familiar
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with what they had to resort to for food
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we have it pretty easy these days
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in comparison
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to how it was back then
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travel wise
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and many in many other ways
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but think of traveling just get in the
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car get on a plane
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hiking through mountains
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risking
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life and limb
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even
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little danny torrence from the shining
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knew about the donner party
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you mean they ate each other up
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he saw it on the television
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i don't know who i was imitating it was
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supposed to be nicholson
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inside the little visitor center there's
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a bear right here says please do not
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touch the bear and a rock formation that
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they've created
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inside here as well
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that's a pretty good display given the
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history of the donner party
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and then it transfers over into an
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adventures in travel
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here talking about road trips and travel
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that's what i'm on i'm on a road trip so
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in a way it's all kind of a tie in here
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got a fish down here
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here's a beaver
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that is a bee that is a stuffed beaver
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there's a rabbit back there
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an owl
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there's a ground squirrel
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a western gray squirrel
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oh here's a
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northern flying squirrel
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there's a raccoon
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up here's a short-tailed weasel
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a snowshoe hair
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and a bobcat
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just a little tie-in about progress and
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how things have changed and progressed
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a lot simpler now
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look at them up there just trying to
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find their way
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so many problems
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and then modern day
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just a
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fuel station back there open for
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business
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we have it pretty dang easy right now
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all of us do in comparison
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i'm letting that sink in i'm pretty
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grateful for
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living my life and
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not having the trials and tribulations
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that our forefathers and
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those that came before us had to had to
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deal with
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we got we all got a pretty dang good
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and it seems almost
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unfeasible
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when i drove a little further i saw a
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sign that says this downgrade
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goes on for 40 miles
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a 40 mile downgrade to get down to
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lower elevation
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that's wild
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side note i also need gas so i'm going
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to stop here at donner summit
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gas station fuel up
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now if all the gas prices in california
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are gonna be six dollars and nineteen
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cents a gallon
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that's gonna be
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this is gonna be a fun
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it's gonna be a fun journey officially
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the most money i've ever put into a gas
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tank
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82.62 cents i believe for about a 13
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tank my
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that my car holds
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maybe it's just because this is kind of
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out in the middle of nowhere kind of
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sort of there this price or maybe this
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is all of california
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either way
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i'll have a story always to tell six
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dollars and 19 cents a gallon
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i have made it to my destination
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i am really looking forward tomorrow
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not having to drive 500 or more miles
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which has pretty much been par for the
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course
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on this road trip since i left
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celebration florida i have arrived in
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northern california i covered some
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ground kind of went
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in a route that i usually do not take to
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the west coast usually i will take
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interstate 10 interstate 40. rarely do i
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go all the way up loop around and then
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up back down almost like up and over
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into
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i-80 and across i'm glad i did i got to
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see a lot of things definitely it was on
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a time crunch
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to get to where i'm at
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more than i should have been i should
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have left maybe a day or two prior also
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should add in the temperature
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scenery and all that change considerably
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not very windy here
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mid 70s
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it was mid 30s this morning when i awoke
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quite
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quite a different array of scenic
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wonders going across the country
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in the last series of days
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and weather temperatures
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i like it that way though keep saying
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good keeps things interesting
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thanks for watching i really appreciate
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it it kind of kind of got a little
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emotional when
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i went through donner pass into
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california have not been here in almost
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six months give or take six months
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since
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into november
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2021 so
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2022 california i've arrived granted
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california nonetheless got a little got
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a little felt some felt some emotions
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i'll see the next video
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the vlog this road trip is continuing
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there's still a long way to go before i
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go back to florida
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a lot's happening and there'll be some
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surprises in there
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driving
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to and fro
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hopping around
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might even get on a plane or two
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it's gonna it's gonna be a wacky road
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trip i'll see the next video the vlog
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i've talked that says so much yet i'm
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said so little the vlog
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is over