The Small Town of Dinosaur Colorado & Other Prehistoric Roadside Oddities - Leaving Utah Into CO
Road Trip From Utah to CO
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welcome everyone out of the woo here
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today's adventure begins in park city
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utah right here on their main street
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i have acquired a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage from an independent coffee
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place by the name of
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atticus yes
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the atticus that you might be thinking
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of atticus
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finch
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there are photos
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of gregory peck in there this is a
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quaint little community i'm inviting you
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to join me as i depart from utah and
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head into colorado today
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yeah back on the road i mean i've been
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on the road i've been gone for this is
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day 51
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out of celebration florida but i have
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been doing some
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centralized stuff around the salt lake
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city area
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and now i'm leaving utah
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join me
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that's warm
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shall you i also added on these stickers
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they were a dollar each so two dollars
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onto the price of my vanilla latte
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decided not to get hazelnut today got
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vanilla as the recording of this
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wednesday june 15th
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2022 there's a ski lift up there a lot
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of skiing around here in the winter
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times right now no skiing and running
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parallel right behind some of the
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buildings on their main street
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is this very scenic beautiful
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sounding brook
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crossing over that little bridge is shoe
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tree park i don't know if i've ever seen
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this many dandelions
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in one little area
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look at all of these
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there's like hundreds if not thousands
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of them
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not seeing any shoes yet but i am seeing
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a lot of these okay here they are
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got some boots up there some tennis
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shoes
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quite an assortment
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like there's maybe
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six or seven trees full of these from
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the limbs
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you hear the traffic going
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by thoroughfare that runs
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beside me their main street
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here in park city
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very quaint community i really like the
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downtown of it
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where the coffee shop was
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and where i ended up parking
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yeah they don't call this
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the shoe tree area the shoe tree trail
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for no reason because there are a lot of
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shoes up in these branches
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i would imagine people come down here
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and want to be part of the tradition to
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throw the truth the shoes up there
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i am not going to throw my shoes on
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there because i'm wearing them
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but if i had an extra pair
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that i could toss up there i would
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now launching them from the side of the
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road up there would take a real skill
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from down here it'd be a little easier
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if you were standing up there
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on the road
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you hear the traffic going by
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that would take some real skill to
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get them like hooked on the branches
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there
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very cute downtown and not too busy
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in the mornings as a recording of this
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this wednesday not too many people down
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here not a real beehive of activity
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during the day oh there's just a there's
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a there's just a bear franz the bear
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says right there on the side of the
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bench that says friends
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f-r-a-n-z the bear
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dated october of 2000
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what do you say oh this friends the bear
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has a butterfly
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on his paw hello franz the bear and it
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might be mellow crowd wise down here
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because it's 10 30 a.m at the moment but
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the place i parked was free parking up
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until 4 p.m and then they start to
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charge
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so i would guess just using that as a
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little
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inclination that possibly i'm getting
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distracted by this hat wearing moose
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that that's when a lot of people come
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out probably for dinner and whatnot you
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see the clock up there on the side of
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the wall at the gateway center
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stating 10
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23 just shy at 10 30 a.m i got a lot of
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road to travel a lot a lot of road to
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cover today moose
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not only a fancy
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hat
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but also a
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sweet smile
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and
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boots
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dressed accordingly
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for the mountainous regions
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i love it
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continued my commute to about 30 miles
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or so from where i just was i noticed
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this this old train station what appears
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to be an old train station
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off the side here so i wanted to show it
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in great detail not just the station
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itself but this really fantastic mural
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here on the side
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this was placed here or finished back in
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september 2020. you got some mountain
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bikers there you got a guy fishing with
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a very he's going to have quite the fish
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story because this fish
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is about three quarters the height of
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himself
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got some hot air balloons up top it's
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about 58 degrees at the moment a train
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going behind
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the fishermen there nice little breeze
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nice travel done and at my current
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elevation there's no snow but up in
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those snow peaked mountains it's a
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little icy now it will be crossing over
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the state line
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relatively soon into colorado it will be
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going through some mountains so it's
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going to be interesting to see if i'm
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gonna hit any any soap i'm gonna get up
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high enough and speaking of railroad
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just a few miles away
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here in town
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heber valley
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is the railroad station with some
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classic old-timey looking trains
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love it
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now that is quite
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the classic alert
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right there parked in this yard look at
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that
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that's a relic
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right here in someone's yard
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a little antique
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found a little pull-off here
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with this body of water which is the
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strawberry reservoir
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named after a strawberry
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or given the name strawberry
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possibly not named after a strawberry
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but it bears the name
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of the strawberry
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they're doing a little construction down
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there too
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some heavy equipment
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taking the scenic route
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today
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gonna be a lot of beautiful scenery on
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this
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very windy over here look at this flag
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it's on like a piece of pvc pipe
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it's kind of bending in the breeze
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and there's one of the sinclair dinos
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over there it's a little dinosaur
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they're a mascot
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and a cattle truck just went by
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continued on a bit and now looking at
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the water tower here in duchesne
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city
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if i read it correctly from here
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it's kind of a
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unusual type of water tower up there on
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the side of that hill home of al's food
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town i like the way al's
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spell spells the s
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with the money sign with the slash
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through it you can save money
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slashing dollars at al's food town
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kind of looks like the proplex building
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there is the old movie theater
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revamped into a store there's also a
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napa auto parts next to it that looked
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like it would have been
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the town theater at one point
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where the marquee would have been
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this coal sign is awesome too how retro
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is that
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kohl's established 1912 it's a hardware
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automotive
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and sporting goods store nice old neon
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here cowan's
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cafe that relic of the past
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love the design
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these mechanisms always remind me of
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like a dinosaur skeleton
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really it's just a sprinkler the water's
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not on
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but it's a sprinkler to water the fields
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but it gives me the vibes of a dinosaur
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there's another one out there
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see it from a different angle
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dinosaur-like
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passing through the community of might
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and m-y-t-o-n
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and i'm noticing this is something you
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don't see too often
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these merry-go-rounds
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every once in a while you'll see one of
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those that still exists
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but they're rare these days this is the
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downtown area
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zip code eight four
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zero five two
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and there's a bell right here and a dog
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walking around in the yard next to it
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well it is quiet down here on the corner
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of 100 east
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and maine
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at this moment the museum is not open
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but they do have one it's really one of
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the only
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one of the few only buildings that are
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down here
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on main street
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no horses or motorized vehicles in this
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park
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sydney
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beloved son of matilda and junkyard dog
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namesake of a three-legged dog saloon
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friend and companion
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right here beside
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the
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look at museum log cabin back here
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around the corner too be pretty neat to
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live in a
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small town like this
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be very peaceful
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country living almost
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a few old trucks in that yard over there
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this would be the band stand
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was not expecting to see some alien
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artwork
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on the stage however
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out of this world
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okay that's an interesting
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object right there
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in fact i'm seeing roosevelt
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and a logging truck
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through downtown it's a little toasty
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if that is the correct fahrenheit it's a
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little warm out here almost 90.
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do what you can with what you have
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and where you are theodore roosevelt
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this artistic rendering here
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the community of roosevelt
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there's an old theater up here marquee
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which is
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kind of a wheel of fortune moment you
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have to try to figure out what it says
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something hustle r
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hustle r oh hustle rated r okay that
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wasn't too difficult
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this old marquee
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there is a constitution park and also an
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old city park and a swimming pool here
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in town and the library you can get your
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eyelashes permed
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you get an eyelash perm this area is
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central park this municipal building
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they keep their ambulance and the garage
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adjacent to the municipal building says
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right there roosevelt ambulance in that
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garage
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this is around the corner from a closed
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up shop
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just down the way from where i just was
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i wanted to point out this mural which
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is pretty awesome
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painted on the side
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evidently
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was here when the shop was open
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and still remains now that the store is
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closed
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i think that might be a bunny rabbit
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and then a flower here on the
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on this corner
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do not climb stand or sit
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on the chief
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this thing's pretty big
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probably
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15 20 feet tall maybe 15 let's say 15
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feet tall
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give or take
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coffee shop behind them
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nope doesn't look like it
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nothing inside the pipe
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it's a big dinosaur right there
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a rather large dino
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off the side of the road
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to really see the comparison with all
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the vehicles going by
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just the height of this thing
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big dino
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looks like the dinos eyes are light
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bulbs
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very tall very very tall
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i like this
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i like anything off the side of the road
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that's quirky and odd
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and this classifies in that category
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just saying hello to all the past and
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buying traffic
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going through town
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i do love a good theater marquee
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doesn't look like this is used for
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movies anymore now for summer workshops
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look at this virtual or vernal
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oh that's a that's beautiful that old
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neon
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little retro looking
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seeing some years
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some memories through 100 gone
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underneath
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that marquee and into that movie theater
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they really do embrace the dinos in this
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town
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look at this one
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and then over here against that wall
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is a painting of a dino
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and then another painting here's a t-rex
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chasing the other smaller dinos like
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this one looks terrified
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look how scared that one looks and that
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one over there looks a little petrified
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too this one here though it's just like
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just kind of smiling
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got a little smirk on this dino's face
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look at that
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this is right next to the theater
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so you just turn the corner from this
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t-rex
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and then you got
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the marquee
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this is called the curtain call
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and there's a dyno up there too
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right there you can see the silhouette
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of that dino now that that artwork is
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something out of the flintstones
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i didn't even notice there's a guy
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standing in front of that piece i didn't
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even realize there's a guy standing
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in front of that piece of artwork told
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right now
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but instead of fred flintstone
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driving that vehicle a dinosaur does a
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couple more looming over there another
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just looming over that fence line
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it's like dino central
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now heading out of town from the other
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end this is the welcome sign coming from
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the opposite way
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it's a big pink dino holding something
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that says utah's dinosaur land
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this town really embraces their dinos
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every time i see a car like this classic
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car alert
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every time i see one that has
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horns on the front of it i think a boss
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hog from dukes of hazzard his car
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kind of similar to this one but it had
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horns on the hood also
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you could just see this bad boy parked
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in front of the boar's nest a little
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further down the road
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underneath this
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sign called donny's
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in jensen utah is another dino
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this one appears to be a lot older this
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is more of a relic
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yeah that's an old
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roadside rally had to get out of my car
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and take a look at this one
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kind of cracked up the belly there
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and the hands are kind of exposing the
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metal
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the rusted out teeth
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the snout has kind of fallen in a caving
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in eyes have been removed
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right next to this food truck
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the mountains off in the distance
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all right got some bulls over here
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in the shade
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just enjoying the day
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got their horns
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quite a few of them
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i was drinking a little water
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all right see you later bulls take care
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gotta take a nap
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that'll blame you
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yeah
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look in your shoulder
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you can lick your shoulder big the foot
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you know i just kind of tried i think i
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i think i probably can lick my shoulder
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it's just not something i normally do
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not something you really think about
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of colorful colorado
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there is a dinosaur colorado
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who knew
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imagine living in the town of dinosaur
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like where do you live i live in a
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dinosaur i mean i live in the dinosaur i
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live in
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dinosaur
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colorado pretty awesome
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appears to be the fire truck
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well a former fire truck is right here
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behind this glass encasing
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and over here is an old motel
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that has since closed
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some shells of it
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it's really tough to see with the glare
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on the window it says i am a
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1938 one and a half ton dodge
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fire truck
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yeah a lot of glare on this class
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standing over there by the road are two
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more
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dinos that are blocked off by like some
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wooden
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posts and stanchions
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i guess they don't want anybody getting
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close to those two
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don't know the back story on that
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you know when i left this morning
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started traversing to my destination for
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the evening
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didn't know what i was gonna see did not
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know i was gonna see this many
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prehistoric creatures
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sure is beautiful out here
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i am enjoying this drive
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be hard to walk across that pipe because
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i got that
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other metal piece above it probably why
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it's put there
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definitely not a lot of traffic out here
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it's not rush hour
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just moving right along at my own pace
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taking my time enjoying the scenery
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that is a couple big piles of tires
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some tires
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here on this waterway the current's
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running pretty good pretty strong
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through there
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kind of just rippling right along
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also underneath that bridge
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wind is picking up and that's a newer
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bridge
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but there's an original bridge right
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here
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as i was driving over the other one
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i noticed this one off to the side so
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pulled over
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check it out
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could have been a railroad bridge at one
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time maybe not for traffic
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tough to tell
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well i'm gonna say no because
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over there the railroad runs a different
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direction
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so it kind of crosses like a t so this
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probably was a regular
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bridge for cars
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the name of this town is silt
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s-i-l-t
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there's a non-moving union pacific train
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over here
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i'm going to stop for the evening in a
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town by the name of glenwood springs or
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a city named glenwood springs
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got a hotel
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hotel
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right here along the river
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those mountains
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kind of obscured by the foliage up
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there's a couple birds
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they just flew off
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covered a lot of ground today
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a lot of it was just nature and scenic
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stuff
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more than finding any
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amazing relics of the past but i found a
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few i saw a lot of dinosaurs
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tomorrow heading into denver colorado
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from here
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we're going into denver tomorrow
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thanks for watching i'll see you in the
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next video
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there's tree limbs all around me
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i'll see the next video the vlog
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is over
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these mountains really are beautiful
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a lot more greenery on them than i was
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expecting
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dang that would be a lot of fun taking a
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raft down the river
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is that an owl
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i don't see it but i hear it