TDW 1655 - The Frog Capital Of The World !

0:04 the sun is rising a new day

0:04 is upon

0:06 us welcome everyone out of the woo here

0:09 about every two or three days I try to

0:10 sweep the floor empty the trash out keep

0:13 Large Marge clean and happy treat your

0:16 accommodations good they in turn will

0:19 return the favor I'm thinking about

0:21 getting a few more pillows for this

0:22 little area just to extend it so it's a

0:24 little more comfortable when I hang out

0:26 in here normally I just put my trash in

0:28 these old grocery bags the plastic ones

0:31 once they're full I tie them up throw

0:32 them in a local trash can oh my gosh

0:34 look at this Lumberjack it kind of sort

0:36 of kind of sort of looks like me would

0:39 you be

0:47 mine I'm getting really tired of toting

0:47 around this piece of crap but he will

0:50 make a nice addition indeed it's my

0:52 second channel daily Vlog channel it's

0:54 the daily

0:56 poo oh yeah old school Louisiana theater

1:01 right there this architecture reminds me

1:03 out of something on Hollywood Boulevard

1:06 not something from

1:13 Louisiana Joyce's Supermarket where

1:13 prices are born not raised oh yeah look

1:15 at this Old City Glass sign 1970 style

1:19 that's what I love right there small

1:21 little lighthouse in front of that

1:22 church you see that pretty often but I

1:25 never get tired of looking at them don't

1:27 touch that dial we'll be right back with

1:29 more shrimp scampy here on the seafood

1:32 station here's something you don't see

1:33 too often residential and business

1:35 combined into one a little ice cream

1:38 shop protruding from that guy's house

1:41 currently in St Martinville a city that

1:43 was developed through an unusual

1:45 Arrangement where the town property

1:48 holders paid an annual and Perpetual

1:51 rent to the St Martin of tour's Catholic

1:54 church and that Arrangement was probably

1:57 handled in that old bank right there the

2:00 roots of this tree most of them are

2:01 above ground it kind of resembles spider

2:05 or octopus tentacles and speaking of

2:07 trees right over here is one that was

2:08 made famous in a Henry Longfellow poem

2:11 this Oak marks the legendary meeting

2:13 place of imine and Louie the

2:15 counterparts of Evangeline and Gabriel

2:18 and there he is the man himself Henry

2:20 wodsworth Longfellow the poet of the

2:23 people and one can only imagine him

2:25 standing here in the flesh staring at

2:29 this exact tree it's very peaceful out

2:31 here along this

2:34 Waterway the wind is blowing the birds

2:36 are

2:43 chirping it's a good day does that say

2:43 Rambo snow

2:45 Shack John Rambo's making snow Coes hey

2:49 they your first Blood he hey they your

2:52 first Blood there is some sort of crop

2:54 plet here but I'm not real familiar with

2:56 what it is kind of looks similar to like

2:59 a plant or a weed or something out here

3:01 among this Barren landscape lots of

3:05 farms is this very

3:08 unusual Tree Line a

3:11 tunnel of trees if you will it's

3:14 designated the Oak and pine alley

3:16 created by Charles Durand in Legend of

3:19 family wedding party wrote down the

3:21 alley canopied by giant spider webs the

3:25 date said

3:27 1795 that was a heck of a long time ago

3:31 I'm doing this I'm driving down this

3:34 thing I didn't see any signs saying

3:36 private property so I'm going for it

3:38 this is something out of a movie the

3:40 wind blowing the Moss the sun being

3:43 blocked by the huge limbs of the trees I

3:47 think the dirt in Rock Road add another

3:50 special of ambiance to the experience

3:53 down at the end was a farmhouse so I

3:54 turned around imagine driving through

3:56 this thing at night it's about a mile or

3:59 so long

4:00 it just goes on and on and on it never

4:22 ends here's something you rarely see a

4:22 Coca-Cola machine not with Coke Classic

4:24 on the front but the new Coke logo which

4:28 only lasted a very very short while

4:31 decades ago look at that thing that's a

4:35 relic this almost looks like artwork but

4:37 I think it's just pipe fittings I think

4:40 it's a place that just sells pieces of

4:43 pipe I pulled over here cuz I saw all

4:45 these old ventage signs attached to this

4:48 what looks to be a general store there's

4:50 a skeleton behind the wheel of this

4:53 vehicle and he's stolen the Sanford and

4:57 Sun truck the name of the place this is

5:00 the Pioneer Trading Post and there is

5:03 lots of very entertaining things on this

5:06 porch this former mermaid is now just a

5:09 skeleton dangling here what are you up

5:11 to oh I'm just sitting here holding my

5:14 horseshoes I just like to hold my Hors

5:18 shoes and I certainly do love myself a

5:20 cigar store Indian he's looking for

5:22 something though I wonder if he's

5:23 looking for me I'm right

5:26 here I'm right here now they're not

5:28 normally open today but he's going to

5:29 let me look around and see some of the

5:31 stuff inside so that's pretty cool W

5:33 look at these guys this is like some

5:36 kind of voodoo doll looking things I

5:39 know this guy I remember him from

5:41 California that's Bob's Big Boy whoa

5:44 this is kind of creepy they're just like

5:46 blocked inside there he's got a little

5:54 banana that's the shrilling chicken This

5:54 creepy thing here it's an isopod it

5:57 actually attaches itself to a tongue of

6:01 a whale and becomes the host is that a

6:03 piranha back in there y next to that

6:05 toad sure is some shrunken heads there

6:09 there's one here and then there's like a

6:10 double set next to them what kind of

6:12 animal is this little guy that's a pig a

6:15 fetal pig bugs from the prehistoric area

6:17 actually look right here you can almost

6:20 see a piece of one oh yeah you can kind

6:22 of see one wedged down in there what is

6:24 this that's a giraffe skull oh my

6:27 gosh and you can buy it for $800 50 yep

6:31 so I could buy this and put it in my RV

6:32 and travel around the country with a

6:34 giraffe skull I've seen them in the wild

6:35 but that one hopefully has no real

6:37 Hornets in there but normally there'll

6:39 be like hundreds of hornets inside there

6:41 y gosh that is a pig in there uh

6:45 actually I think it might be a

6:47 cow just looking at the yeah oh my gosh

6:51 and what kind of like solution is in

6:52 there is that just water no that's got

6:55 to be some sort of

6:57 alcohol uh fala

7:00 yeah you know it's something that keeps

7:02 it from deteriorating porcupine is

7:05 mounted to the wall without a care in

7:08 the world if these guys are playing a

7:09 round of Poker no cheating I'm assuming

7:13 the gator head is real but is that hand

7:15 a real human

7:17 hand hopefully not what is the story on

7:20 this guy this is super creepy so that's

7:22 called a woolly booger it's a

7:24 taxidermist trick that they make uh it's

7:27 actually made out of three or four four

7:29 different skins but it's a deer rear end

7:34 oh a deer rear end I see it now oh my

7:37 gosh yeah that's wild imagine that thing

7:40 clamping down on you gosh that was

7:42 pretty cool big thank you to the Pioneer

7:44 Trading Post for letting me Snoop around

7:47 on a day they're not normally open whoa

7:49 vhe Street watch out for Jason yes I

7:53 know it's spelled a little differently

7:55 Just Go With It check out that loaf of

7:56 bread it's just spinning around

8:00 I've never seen a loaf of bread do that

8:02 before just Spin and spin and spin did

8:04 you miss Dixie I I guess I don't know

8:08 did I I don't know precisely what this

8:10 is but off the side of the road looks to

8:12 be maybe some sort of former Halloween

8:16 attraction with the roof falling in I'm

8:19 going to go through here there's a

8:21 dangling rusted out chainsaw look at

8:24 this what the heck why is all this stuff

8:26 still out here months

8:29 after Halloween this is moderately

8:32 terrifying I know it's set up as an

8:34 attraction but it is kind of bizarre

8:36 that it's all still left here in the

8:38 woods maybe it's something they do every

8:40 year either way kind of creepy

9:34 they put some serious work and theming

9:34 into this he's looking deep into my soul

9:38 this is the office and across the road

9:40 it looks like it's called fright Trail I

9:43 bet this thing is super awesome during

9:46 the Halloween season hopefully it's

9:48 still open if you're in the area check

9:50 it out Lafayette Louisiana down this

9:53 road is a little town by the name of

9:55 rain and what animal thrives in the rain

9:59 frogs yes I know it's a little bit of a

10:01 stretch and it's spelled a little bit

10:03 differently but this is the Frog capital

10:06 of the world they are everywhere here

10:08 even little statues of them I have never

10:11 seen a place so

10:13 infatuated with that little creature

10:15 every mural in town is adorned with

10:20 frogs next to Mr Toad this might be the

10:23 coolest frog in the world tipping his

10:26 hat hello my honey hello my darling

10:28 hello my rag time yeah right smack dab

10:32 in the middle of this mural looks like

10:35 the hypnot from Futurama doesn't it

10:38 don't look in his eyes do not look deep

10:42 into his Ras say hello to officer Ribbit

10:45 protecting and serving from the comfort

10:49 of his Rock shouldn't he be on a lily

10:51 pad there's a place called frog City

10:54 they even have a casino inside and a

10:56 restaurant wonder if they serve frog

10:59 legs they're even painted on the

11:02 underpass there's they're everywhere

11:04 here you cannot get away from them

11:07 here's an old school mural that Gator is

11:09 looking at that one frog that's stirring

11:12 some sort of witches brew even the town

11:15 paper celebrates them why do they still

11:18 have Merry Christmas on the Marquee

11:21 maybe the frogs maybe the frogs have

11:23 taken over there's frog City eat I

11:27 wonder how many people around here have

11:28 got gotten no tattooed on themselves

11:31 this all 5 and 10 is really cool but

11:34 yes there's more

11:46 frogs there's kind of an Unwritten rule

11:46 never to go number two in an RV just

11:49 keep the odor down and whatnot now I

11:50 know a lot of people do but I learned

11:52 this little trick from being in a band

11:54 traveling in an RV as well as other

11:56 friends and acquaintances and people who

11:58 have left me opinions and comments

12:00 saying unless you absolutely have an

12:03 emergency do not open that door to do a

12:07 dung now I'm sure the day will come when

12:08 it does happen maybe if I'm just sitting

12:10 around but as of right now I rarely hang

12:13 out in one spot I'm always moving moving

12:16 moving moving moving this RV is a tool

12:19 to get from one point to the next to the

12:22 next that's what it's here for it is a

12:25 transportation device that makes it easy

12:27 for me to pull over get some food have a

12:30 place to chill and edit maybe take a

12:32 catnap move on and stay for the night

12:35 without checking into a hotel and of

12:37 course taking showers in here is pretty

12:40 nice too I guess the biggest thing is

12:41 it's hard for me to comprehend taking

12:43 something that's meant to be mobile and

12:45 making it immobile the exception to this

12:47 being if I'm going to stay somewhere

12:48 more than a couple days then maybe a

12:51 campground does make sense but paying 25

12:53 35 40 50 60 sometimes 70 or even $80 a

12:58 night just to get a few hours of sleep I

13:01 can't wrap my head around that I think

13:03 the other exception would be if it was

13:04 an event or a certain location that I

13:07 couldn't normally get to then obviously

13:10 I would stay there off the side of the

13:11 freeway is this oil rig in a little area

13:15 called the gator Chateau dedicated to

13:18 the people of Louisiana in memory of the

13:21 oil Pioneers Doug Phelps Charlie Noble

13:26 contractor Elmer DOB

13:30 sank hris and Scott Haywood I didn't

13:35 know who those people were I was just

13:36 reading as I approached this I thought

13:38 it was a mural oh no it's not these are

13:42 live alligators behind a real chain link

13:47 fence and that guy is staring very

13:50 attentively at me you got a staring

13:53 problem

13:55 buddy why don't you take a picture it'll

13:58 last long and if you have forgotten your

14:00 map they have designated distances from

14:02 this point to different areas Lake

14:05 Charles New Orleans Houston Lafayette

14:07 Canada even France very friendly animals

14:11 around this park my favorite is this

14:13 little guy down here riding the

14:15 commissioner's name he doesn't want to

14:17 be left out he's got a paintbrush and

14:19 he's riding along this little thing good

14:22 job buddy what kind of heinous law did

14:24 you break soda machines they're behind

14:27 bars

14:29 they're incarcerated this guy is

14:31 submerging his head rather quickly in

14:33 the

14:35 water what are you doing buddy playing a

14:39 game trying to catch fish oh you're

14:41 cleaning

14:42 yourself I see well you just I think

14:45 you're clean enough I think you're clean

14:49 enough I think you're clean enough you

14:51 are clean enough what do you got a date

14:59 tonight thanks for watching I will see

14:59 see you guys

15:00 tomorrow

15:02 Vlog over

TDW 1655 - The Frog Capital Of The World !

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