Travel Day From Tennessee Thru North Carolina In Tornado Watch - Small Towns & Mountain Backroads
Travel Day Into North Carolina
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today's adventure begins by me checking
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out of my hotel in Pigeon Forge
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Tennessee
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placed with a pretty good view
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Gatlinburg right through the spur that
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direction
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a little bit of a river view down here
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with lots of geese
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the geese congregate out here every
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morning
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right along the water and in the parking
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lot
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as well
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as over there on that little berm
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I've been here for just a little over a
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week
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heading out it's been pretty nice here
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the weather has been cool and crisp and
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I have slept with the door open to the
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balcony almost every evening
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I wake up to the sounds the soothing
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sounds of squawking geese
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I like it
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looking at the weather forecast for the
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commute today it's going to be rainy
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pretty much
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the entire day over to North Carolina
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and since I'm heading in and through the
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mountains
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well even if I wasn't going there but
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this should be extra cautious probably
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not a lot of gas stations I'm fueling up
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now
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I'm just about on E three dollars and 39
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cents a gallon
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here at the Citco in Gatlinburg
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probably have a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage inside this Stop and Shop
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Market I'm gonna make myself a coffee
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too
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starting the intro now here at the
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Pittman Center City Hall
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yeah this Relic in this small town right
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along this River
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as the recording of us it is Friday
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TGIF November 11th
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2022
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I'm going to be taking some back roads
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some thoroughfares
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and heading into North Carolina
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Bound for Charlotte
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by this evening
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not really sure what this is on this
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trash can
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retro trash can
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with these seats
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next to the Riverway let me flip this
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around
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welcome everyone out of the woo here I
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checked the weather this morning and it
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said that there is a tornado watch not
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necessarily here
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in Tennessee but possibly on the commute
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through North Carolina today hopefully
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when I get to those certain areas
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because you know it's a couple hundred
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miles
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track and I'm going to be stopping at a
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lot of different places just seeing some
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stuff no real Rhyme or Reason hopefully
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the inclement weather does not affect me
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but it might I'm inviting you
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to join me
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continued on down the road just a little
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bit
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stopping off here at Doc's famous 321
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Cafe you can eat at docs there's also
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something called the cranky bear which
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is uptight up top there
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but it's more or less like an antique
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shop as well
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that also serves food there's a decoy
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duck
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right there
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however because today is Friday as a
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recording of this
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this will not be open until tomorrow
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says sorry will not be able to open
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today doc
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was up all night sick
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thanks see you Saturday
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so I hope doc had never met doc
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hopefully it feels a little bit better
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but this is pretty awesome
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there's a sideways Pig up top here now
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I'm not allowed to go in when they are
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closed let's keep out when closed but I
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can stand here
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along the edge and just kind of look at
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all this these beautiful Antiques and
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Relics that are right here
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along three try I guess this is 321.
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the Hogs back Hotel
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if I can zoom in a little bit
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and some of this a little more now bust
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there looks like there's a pig walking
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across
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we got a VW bug with a canoe on top of
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it
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a very Happy Frog wanting to give some
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hugs
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store mannequin the red hat on
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a cow
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over there
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award-winning BBQ Chilean stew
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yesterday I was at a chili cook-off I
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think I've had my fillet chili for a
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while
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this place is pretty awesome
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a goodies side
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glad I got to see this even though it's
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not open today
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all right moving on now I'm noticing the
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name on the side of this Pontoon by the
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way I'm in Cosby
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Mean Wiener
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the side of that pontoon
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but check out this old video rental
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store has closed a couple trucks parked
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out front
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but they still have the neon video
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rental sign here in Cosby
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up top there
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has the lights on it and everything
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beautiful
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it's a junkyard over here with a lot of
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old classic trucks look at those
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classic truck and car alert overload in
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there
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nice
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nice some Beauties in there looks like
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it stopped raining for now oh there's a
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dog in the road
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look out dog
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a cat dog
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excuse me dog
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this is what you would consider back
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rubs I will be taking some non-back
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roads but right now
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a lot of back roads
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catons Grove
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what's the name of this church
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c-a-t-o-n-s Grove
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okay I decided to take a rather extreme
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scenic route up to the top of a mountain
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and is very foggy and hazy up here
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so I've decided to do a U-turn and go
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back to a more direct route because it's
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very very windy I don't really know the
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road conditions too well the higher up I
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get
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the foggier it is
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but it's beautiful up here and very
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quiet peaceful and Serene
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very foggy
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very windy roads
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back down a little lower
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and elevation
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non-windy and
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newer paved Road
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pulled over here to look at this Old
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Homestead which is awesome
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look at this Relic
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not Dwayne Johnson but
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a boulder
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this is perfect the right amount of
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vines
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no tagging no graffiti the tree
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placement here this is like a photograph
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or a painting in real in real life
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just amazing still has the address on
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the side 315 here
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there's a satellite dish around the back
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that's surprising
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wasn't expecting to see this little
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satellite dish
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crossed over the state line now into
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North Carolina and immediately hitting a
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traffic jam here on Interstate 40. about
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on the freeway now
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the back roads and onto the Interstate
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a little bit of a slow down here a
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little backup here on I-40 eastbound
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now in North Carolina
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still started raining again that was a
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pretty lengthy delay in both directions
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I've already gone through it by heading
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the other way you can see traffic's
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really backed up for all the road work
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look at this there's a lot of
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congestion through here
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exited the interstate pulling through
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Canton now
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check out this paper mill up here
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big old paper mill the only reason I
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know it's a paper mill is because the
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sign stated it
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I just figured it was a factory of some
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sort but in fact it's a mill that makes
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paper
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and it's actually given the name
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Paper Town the nickname Paper Town
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Canton North Carolina
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it was a classic truck over here this
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Ford
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I have arrived I'm gonna walk around
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downtown the small quaint community
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a paper towel Canton North Carolina
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stretch my legs a little bit with the
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mill over there you see the train tracks
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and the train cars this is Main Street
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right here
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Jackson Appliance
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textbook
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Americana through here
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as far as this Main Street is concerned
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love it
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a little cafe up here on the side
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I just love these old buildings
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the old signage
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157 and a half Main Street
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billiard Paper Town Billiards up here
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this is like a soap box derby car here
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champion of paper and fiber not for sale
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there's another one over here
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and I zoomed down the road there just a
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bit to
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old Martin's drugstore and right in the
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middle of this downtown
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is a restaurant called Southern porch
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but really what kind of Drew me into the
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side of this building was this old Eat
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Here sign
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it's still mounted on the side
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classic and over to this side
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is the medical building as stated right
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above the awning that says Randall's
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1941.
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it says medical building right up there
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on the side
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starting to rain a little bit harder now
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need gas
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you can sell this place for video games
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the only if you need gas
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this mural over here has a couple of
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fish oh I like this old relic of a
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building down there as well
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cross over this is a one-way Street with
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the traffic
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coming towards me
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Vincent e Wright is the artist here I'm
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beating it over there on the side it
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described his name
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two fish this looks like this mural this
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painting has been here
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for quite some time
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Ballroom company across the way there
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and the Pigeon River Mercantile oh I see
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a Coca-Cola painting down there you can
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always tell where a dentist is because
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they'll have something like this where
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there's like a tooth
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on the side of the building main streets
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Dental
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looking at it in the reflection here a
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thing of beauty the water
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kind of permeating down the side of this
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window
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the non-reflective View
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is this
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now there is a repainted Coca-Cola mural
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here
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but there's also an older one up here it
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does not look like
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Coca-Cola try to figure out what that is
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I'm gonna have a Wheel of Fortune moment
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momentarily Factory over in the distance
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the paper mill
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this is definitely a vintage Coca-Cola
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painting here on the side of this brick
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wall which you see in a lot of small
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towns but this has been retouched up
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don't see a year anywhere on there
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that is awesome one of my favorite
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things to find in small communities
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pepper
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maybe I don't know I'm seeing something
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that resembles like a pepper
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I went ahead wiped the rain off the lens
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just a little bit try to make it a
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little clearer
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can't tell what the rest of it says but
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I believe at top there is
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something stating Dr Pepper up there
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this is a relic
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promotional paint material on the side
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of brick
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Dr
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p-e-p-e-p-e-p-p you can't really make
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out the final e and r
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but definitely a Dr pep oh am I right
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there a ghost side
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and it's kind of a neat coincidence if
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you will
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street that it's on is shares my name
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Street
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and even more murals over here next to
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the Middletown Market
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some old paintings of
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Farmers Federation
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the town clock
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the Canton auction
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I always love a good mural
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oh here's the judge
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right here holding the gavel
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guilty that is all that is all
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right now you know what I'm totally a
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correct it's an auction house owner it's
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an auction house owner this is the can't
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knock
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regarding my Mr Toad quote
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back on the road now
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water wheel here
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pretty neat stop off here at Paper Town
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from woo to paper
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we make it safer
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I think the D's missing
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from woo
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to paper
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they make it safe we make it safe
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I just
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glad to help
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carried on just a few miles outside town
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of where I just was on the corner of
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Luther Road
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the place called the Hot Dog King you
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cannot put a beacon up here in the sky
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like this
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and not expect me to not be tempted by
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the Hot Dog King
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I got a little bit of an appetite right
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now and I feel like it is about to be
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quenched
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by this gentleman Hail to the King the
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Hot Dog King
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look at this roadside Relic that's still
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open for business love it there's a
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demogorgon out front
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gorg like a Gorge like a demogorgon
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The Stranger Things reference right
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there I even like the Retro very retro
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vintage
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snacking area outside
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all right
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I knew I needed a hot dog
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man I didn't think I didn't know I
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needed it until I saw this place but now
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I need one because it's the Hot Dog King
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and this is what we're dealing with and
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with uh Dr Pepper over there not like an
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oversight definitely not like a foot
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long or anything just a normal size hot
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dog this is a chili dog with onions on
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there and I got the Kraut dog with a
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little onions on there as well and a and
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a bag of chips they're like two dollars
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two dollars each two dollars and 30
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cents sheets to give or take so I think
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this whole meal was like 10 bucks
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hot dog cake Burger he's a bird not
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Burger King Hot Dog King
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when you think of the king fast fast
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food Burger King but it's a Hot Dog King
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all right I'm Gonna Keep moving on that
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was pretty good I drove about 20 25
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minutes further well maybe not that far
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15 20 minutes
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over here to the Feed and Seed in
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Fletcher
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Fletcher Supply Company right here off
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kind of a busier Road flusher
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it's not really a huge Community but
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this road itself a little bit busy you
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can see the light over there
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looks like there might be a church
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building here too it says there's a
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worship service here every week
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we got the Retro signage up top yeah I
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think it is a church building now
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there's a historical
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marker up here for Edgar W Bill Nye
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not Bill Nye the Science Guy because
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this Bill Nye passed on in 1896 humorous
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and journalists retired to North
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Carolina 1891 lived in Buck Shoals three
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and a half miles west
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grave is one mile North
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a different Bill Nye
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the non science God it is raining I'm
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getting back in my car I gotta keep
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driving
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across the way there
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ferris wheel
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gone
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operational Ferris wheel she's in an
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advertisement
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for a company along this road oh I'm
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waiting at a light here in Henderson is
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it Hendersonville or Henderson I can't
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remember which by the corner of North
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Main and sixth dad's Collectibles
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there's a drink Coca-Cola mural over
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there okay the light just turned green
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I'm on interstate 26. I just checked the
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weather again and I am indeed in a
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tornado watch
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tornado warning but a tornado watch
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in this area 305
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pm
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on I-26
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and this just popped up on my phone as
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well an emergency alert for flash
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flooding
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as well different than the tornado watch
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I should be okay once it goes to a
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warning it might be a little
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might be a little worse but this also
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popped up just as I was talking about
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the tornado watch
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this shows where I am and where I'm
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going to this evening
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now if I were not to stop and driving at
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the speed I'm at be just under two hours
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of course I'm gonna probably stop at a
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couple more places but you can see both
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routes I'm taking have the have the
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watch
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in place
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veered off the interstate here well
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actually the interstate ended
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and turned off into mooresboro
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take a look at this this was unplanned
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the first thing I see is I just went
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past the little Main Street here is this
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seen quite a few of these today
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mooresboro evidently this was the
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downtown district for a while
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I mean there's still a lot of people
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living here in this area
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but as far as what was the downtown
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this is a portion of the businesses that
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are closed
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this one looks should have been
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renovated maybe someone's looked
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someone's lives there
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some old Vehicles over here some buses
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and
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more classic cars
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sitting here in this little parking area
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and now pulling through Kings Mountain
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Town of Kings Mountain
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really need to wipe off the rain from my
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lens
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strong
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it's a good name
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this is the Art Center used to be oh
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check it out right down here probably
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should roll the window because my
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camera's getting really wet this used to
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be the railroad the railroad track runs
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right there you see a cars parked down
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there and then the new railroad is on
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the other side of the old railroad Depot
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I'm rolling this window up it's raining
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pretty good
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got myself a hotel for the evening near
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the airport here in Charlotte
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that's going to do it for today
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very rainy
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drizzly and not the most Pleasant Drive
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but I made it okay
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and thankfully there was no super
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inclement weather just a lot of rain
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I'll see in the next video the Vlog and
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the street lights are on
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the lights are on over there
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listening
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to the lens of my camera look at that
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video I am on my way back to
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Florida but not for a couple more days
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I'll be here a couple days give or take
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a day
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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this tree has no leaves on it the leaves
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have all fallen off
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the Vlog is over