Long Day on The Interstates Thru Four States - From Illinois To Nebraska / Small Towns & Weird Finds
Road Trip 2022
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welcome everyone
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anime the
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woo here and just made a wish
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that i can cover lots of miles today and
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have no traffic problems no car problems
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commuting quickly as i head
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i'm in missouri right now
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been driving for a couple hours already
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went through st louis this morning drove
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a little further and now
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i will be veering
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up
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a little bit northwest into nebraska at
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some point today and i will be venturing
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west going to cover a lot of miles
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i'm inviting you
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you got a question
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you got a question there
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that's right no travel job is too big
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for me i mean i don't know which job
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you're referring to sir it's a muffler
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man right here
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got a you got a question
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or
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you needed
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tinkle
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join me
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feels good out here too feels really
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good i might put my hoodie on later
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though
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see what happens see how the weather
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goes
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shall you
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need to gas up
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mr fuel
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self-pumping
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nozzle mechanism
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also going to go inside get some coffee
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i haven't had caffeine yet so far i've
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already been up for a few hours driving
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need a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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from mr fuel and didn't take long
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for me to grab my hoodie
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kind of chilly also as the recording of
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it says thursday april 28 2022.
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the road ahead
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imagine doing a road trip on a tractor
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probably take a little bit longer and
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looking at the clouds and the rain on
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the windshield
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might be a
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wet
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off one of the exits on interstate 70
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is something called the mix stop
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mcdonald's
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obviously a truck stop
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but i've never heard of that term before
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the mix stop
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and look at the m
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those are not the golden arches but they
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are arches and there's a place tucked
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away back here called ozark land
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says road trip
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tradition
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now i'm not super familiar with
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interstate 70 use the
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i'll take i-10 i-40
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i-70 is just above i-10 and i-40
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more towards the midwest and upper
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states
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so i have this is not a tradition for me
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ozark land
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looks like a pretty neat place
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they have peanut clusters and jams and
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jellies and a fantastic
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gift shop
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notice here at tiger pond
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take a look at this
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it's a good way to advertise your pawn
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shop
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got off the
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interstate this ranch right here is
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where the budweiser clydesdales are kept
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it's called warm springs ranch
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and then just across the road is peach
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tree farm
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which has some horses made of either
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corn stalks or hay
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looks like i'm getting into casey's
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territory there's a bird up there on the
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side
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they have these in indiana where my
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sister lives
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let's say kind of general area midwest
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i did not get a pizza
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but i did get these this is kind of a
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go-to snack i get a lot on the road
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i don't know i was just like kind of
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nibbling on these while i'm
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on a road trip
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it's been a while i had a bag but i got
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one
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i am now in downtown blue springs
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taking a look at the
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facade of this building
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kind of futuristic looking
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you can tell it's been there for a while
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and in this exact spot was the beginning
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point of the world's shortest and
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smallest st paddy's day parade
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back on march 17th of 1978 here in blue
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springs missouri
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and in front of this home loans building
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is this very unique sculpture
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fun fact this little wooded area right
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back here where you see the construction
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behind that building
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that's where mickey mouse was born
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walt disney
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found a mouse in there became mortimer
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then he drew it
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and it changed his name to mickey that's
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that's the short story
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but this
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was the old laughagram studios
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went bankrupt walt ended up moving
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to southern california
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didn't give up and then
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obviously the rest is history
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but they have been promising
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a restoration of this for quite some
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time
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so every time i go through kansas city
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or at least nearby i always will swing
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by here do a little update and i am
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happy to say it appears as if
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that restoration
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might be happening because look over
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here there are some bricks that have
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been delivered here
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after reading the date on the paperwork
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it seems that it was the end of 2021 so
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it's been a few months as they've been
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sitting there
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but the last time i was here none of
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this was like busted up and broken
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they also have the sidewalk closed
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signage right here i've never seen this
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building
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in this sort of disarray before
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just walking over these rocks past the
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stanchion
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walt disney's kansas city the cradle of
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animation that's what the building
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looks like usually
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about four or five six months ago gosh
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maybe even a year ago i had heard that a
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car drove through this section plowed
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into this and destroyed it that could be
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why it's open like this but not really
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100 sure
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there are some construction workers
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walking by but they might be working on
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something else down the way
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but i've never seen this open like this
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nor have i seen those windows up top
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open before
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this looks like all new brick this is
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like some of that new brick there
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and there's one window around here that
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i'm always hoping will be open so
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basically the offices of laughagram they
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were not down here there was a
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restaurant down here and down here the
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whole building is now going to be
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restored supposedly
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but on the back side not the back side
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of water like jungle cruise but the back
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side of this building are a few windows
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that's where his offices were where all
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the animation was the atlas cartoons all
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that
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yeah look
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all those windows are wide open over
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there
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wow
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now this building has been torn down
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since the last time i was through here
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so all this is being leveled and
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destroyed
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this building
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not gonna be leveled and destroyed
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because that that's the historical
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which should be preserved and it appears
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as if
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they're doing something on it
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this has been an update this is one of
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those spots just like in chicago his
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boyhood home which is supposedly being
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renovated as well i have just been
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waiting patiently to be able to get
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inside of so i am hoping they go through
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with this this becomes a museum but one
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day i can get inside the thing is
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i don't really know
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they might not be working on this
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this might have just been where the car
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plowed through the front of it a while
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back they put these boards up and now
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it's just been sitting here
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that's the only thing i can really think
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of it doesn't look like they're really
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doing anything active here
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tough to tell
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time will tell
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that whole area there is fenced off but
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over here
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there's a little pathway where people
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have walked i'm going to walk up here
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see if i can get a peek in that window
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i've always tried to get a peek in
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right over there so it's the last two
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windows
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which is where the office was
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the other one's covered up with a sheet
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then there's the second one so just use
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your imagination against that wall in
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there actually you can see the wall
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kind of
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kind of see the bricks in there
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there's one photo of walt
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at a desk in there right over against
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that wall
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but that getting in there is for a later
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date
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if it goes through i'll return this has
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just been an update
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i was in the area i thought i'd drop by
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a lot different than i was here last
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time though that's for sure
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glad i stopped off okay moving on
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kansas city skyline over there
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and traffic
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here in the town of fawcett off the exit
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off the interstate
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used to be a truck stop here
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it was torn down they built a new
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new one
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just down the way but the truck that was
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here to advertise said truck stop
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still exists just now
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right here off the interstate oh there
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goes the birds flying away
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got a full
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18-wheeler truck up there
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elevated those bars
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also this tv tower a radio tower
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as well
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see you later truck
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when it's all said and done by the end
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of the day we'll have covered
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another 500 mile commute
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a lot of interstate stuff
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but to also stop off at some small towns
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just to mix it up
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look at this old theater the state
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theater
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mound
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city the name of this area
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this is a thing of beauty right here
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look at this
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the only reason i know that is it says
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it right there
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on the paperwork
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but still have the ticket booth out
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front
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oh there's even some tickets inside the
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old doors
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not really a hustling and bustling town
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this theater is awesome
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yeah this is awesome
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now this sign is not for the state of
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oregon but the town
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of oregon
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this insurance company well the
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insurance companies closed as well
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farmer mutual insurance company used to
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be the bank of mound city you can see
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the mound is spelled with a v instead of
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a u
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right there in the middle
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with a farmer's exchange
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and dollar general almost every
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every town has a dollar general or some
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sort of dollar store
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now i will not be in iowa for very long
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just a few miles
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but the root i'm on
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just touches the corner
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i also need fuel
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time for another fill-up
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4.38
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from sap brothers
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self-pumping nozzle this is my second
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fill-up even though i have about another
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hour drive so
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you won't use the whole tank
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the reason i picked this place over the
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pilot next door
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is because they have a coffee
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coffee kettle as a as their little
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mascot
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in fact
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just crossed over a bridge in a river
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i am now in nebraska veering off of the
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paved road onto an unpaved farm road
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supposedly there is
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a historical marker up here that's
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pretty interesting
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but i'm not seeing it
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okay i found it
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1862 the first self-propelled road
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vehicle used west of the missouri river
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was invented by joseph r brown of
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minnesota
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it started on his first trip
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from nebraska city
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to denver on july 12th of 1862
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was disabled and abandoned a thousand
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feet northwest of this spot so it didn't
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make it very far
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did not get too far down the way
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it was a noble effort
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this this little placard is pretty
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awesome that's pretty dang cool this is
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all the way out here
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look at that
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i'm getting some castaway vibes
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555 miles
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from lincoln nebraska where i'm stopping
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for the evening get my bags there
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to marion illinois where i started 555
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direct so i probably
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probably did close to 600 with veering
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off and filming
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about an eleven eleven hour drive pretty
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tired
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it is now 703 i left it a day up so 11
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hours
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all right i'm going to turn in for the
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evening i'll see the next video the vlog
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is over