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The Less Traveled Areas & Hidden Towns of New Mexico - Cross Country Road Trip / 9 States In 9 Days

Date: January 10, 2020 Duration: 15m 4s
Day Eight of my Cross Country road trip takes me thru New Mexico where I took less traveled roads and stopped at small towns . 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
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0:07 the reflection of the sunrise can be
0:07 seen shimmering
0:21 so beautiful and eerily peaceful out
0:21 here very quiet just starting to peek
0:34 its head up over the horizon amazing a
0:40 truck full of cattle is pulled up next
0:43 to the entry point side state line
0:46 welcome everyone
0:48 padam the Wu here today number eight of
0:52 my cross-country journey I'm just
0:56 exploring Americana soaking in the
0:58 sights the sounds and the glory of an
1:05 epic road trip it's chilly little cold
1:12 inviting you to join me shall you I
1:15 don't really have a route in mind or a
1:18 specific game plan just kind of go where
1:22 the wind blows
1:23 however heading end from right up here
1:29 in this top portion the top right which
1:31 would be the North East region and then
1:36 going going across first stop is Clayton
1:40 where they have this mural
1:44 some Cowboys there on the plains and so
1:48 the terrain behind them the the
1:50 mountains a very vintage look to it and
1:57 a flag there in the window as well
2:30 there's a dragon there on the side of
2:30 that wall kind of going in and out of it
2:32 of the building itself
2:41 next to the chamber of commerce
2:41 underneath that farmers and Stockman
2:43 Bank clock is a dinosaur
3:01 oh hello there evidently some are deemed
3:01 to be behind a fence and others aren't
3:04 for one reason or another
3:15 I've been driving for a bit and wanted
3:15 to climb up on this little this little
3:17 hill and show how far almost looks like
3:19 this path goes on forever and ever and
3:23 ever and it honestly feels like that as
3:26 you're commuting down it and the longer
3:30 I stand here I probably should move
3:34 because there might be snakes here
3:39 anyways it's a long Roger certainly have
3:46 seen some terrain changes over this
3:48 journey landscape looks considerably
3:50 different here than it has in the last
3:54 few days as I've been going
3:57 cross-country it's a circular pile of
4:03 barbed wire here at the forefront of
4:06 this destroyed facade of a homestead I
4:10 can't really get any closer unless I
4:14 traversed over this fence line you're
4:19 pretty good view from this angle
4:30 not bad the traffic is definitely not
4:30 bad
4:43 after miles and miles of nothingness
4:43 Gladstone mercantile kind of just
4:46 appears out of out of almost nowhere
4:47 with a little photo op you can even be
4:50 the horse if you so choose it could be a
4:52 horse head it's kind of awkward angle to
4:59 hold the camera through the other hole
5:02 but I think I got it am i doing it right
5:05 nailed it adjacent to the store is also
5:08 the post office the US Post Office
5:31 if I was in the market for a branding
5:31 iron I could choose this one I think it
5:38 would work also those are not real
5:42 cactus they're made of metal
6:31 enjoying the day from a distance for a
6:31 moment I thought this was pavement that
6:33 I am in correct
6:34 it's snow the shadow of this building
6:36 has caused it not to melt
6:55 next community over his elevation of
6:55 6210 feet a wagon mount I don't think
7:01 it's an act of grocer anymore
7:04 almost looks like a homestead but the
7:08 signage is incredible very vintage
7:13 oh is that Leroy
7:31 if you have a keen eye you can see him
7:31 grazing out there walking across the
7:39 rest of the herd is over there to look
7:43 very closely when are those exactly
8:04 Viva Las Vegas
8:04 the New Mexico edition that is that's a
8:09 sweet ride parked underneath those brick
8:12 advertisements of the past fade it away
8:18 relatively hidden up there safe buy used
8:23 cars promoting furnished rooms me some
8:29 old apartment buildings some sort quite
8:33 a treasure trove of history here I dig
8:36 it
8:36 oh wow Pepsi bottle top a Thunderbird
8:39 pawn shop nice the fact that this still
8:43 exists from the Patrick Swayze classic
8:45 red dawn makes me very happy
8:57 Wolverine's the clock at community bank
8:57 is very vintage and just adjacent the
9:02 drugstore sweet coca-cola classic
9:06 goodness
9:22 drove a bit more ended up here
9:30 heading that direction it's very
9:39 peaceful
9:52 says The Walt Disney film The Nine Lives
9:52 of Alfea go baka here in 1958 and also
9:57 young guns also filmed here in 1988 upon
10:06 the porch is a little memento from one
10:09 of those productions
10:40 pretty neat-looking and to look at it
10:40 from the opposite angle the Wortley
10:43 hotel furnished rooms there on the right
10:47 in the distance when it comes to scenic
10:51 beauty I think I made the right choice
10:53 going this direction it's a wonderful I
11:01 here
11:28 somehow ended up in the local jail this
11:28 is not good
11:37 send help some of the local homes here
11:37 on the side of the hill the residents of
11:40 the tab
11:53 evidently this diner was used in the
11:53 movie wild hogs check out all the pairs
11:56 of shoes hanging from the wire up there
11:59 quite a few
14:15 that is the last remnant of the Sun as
14:15 it sets over that hillside off on the
14:19 horizon that's gonna do it for today if
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14:38 that is a that is a unique sunset but
14:44 the clouds there I'll see in the next
14:46 video the vlog also that's the moon
14:54 kinda sorta it has some clouds in front
14:56 of it but that's the moon thought you'd
15:01 like to see it