Mount Rushmore - Getting Up Close / My Emotional First Visit
For the first time in my life I went to visit Mount Rushmore . Took me a long time to get here but it was worth the wait.
Impressive ...most impressive !
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here to a
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very windy a very cold and crisp day in
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the Black Hills of South Dakota Keystone
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to be exact and I'm sitting next to a
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man who needs no introduction the one
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and only Abraham Lincoln which is a good
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segue for the content of today's vlog
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because today my friends you see I will
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be witnessing I will be experiencing and
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feasting my eyes upon Mount Rushmore
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it's a bucket list item for sure in my
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life join me
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shall you before heading down the road
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just a bit to our destination stopped
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off here at the Gutzon Borglum statue
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he's a sculptor we have to thank for the
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carvings that we're about to see got his
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pickaxe in hand and standing tall proud
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of his achievement you might be familiar
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with more of his work if you've ever
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been to Atlanta to Stone Mountain he did
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that as well this statue also created by
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the man himself the only self sculpture
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he ever did him and his son Lincoln who
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took over the project after his father
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died in 1941 and next to Honest Abe
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another piece of his handiwork
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he has inscribed his signature next to
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the president's top hat
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just about there have to pass underneath
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this archway and all will be revealed I
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feel like this might be the appropriate
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time to remove my glasses and see it
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with my own Grand View Terrace provides
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the grand reveal look at that I don't
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know if it's cold weather or emotions my
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eyes are a little watery that is
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impressive
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most just think of all the time and work
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the patients there went into creating
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that and now it stands for all to see
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one of the most famous landmarks in all
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the u.s. you could see the chipped away
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rock at the bottom of the hill remnants
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from the dynamite that was left and
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ultimately revealing the faces of these
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four gentlemen through painstaking
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effort just try to wrap your head around
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that for a second this is in the side of
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a mountain this isn't a painting this
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isn't made out of clay this is carved in
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the side of a mountain starting from
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left to right we have George Washington
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the first president of the United States
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serving in office from 1789 to 1797
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forever immortalized in stone
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next is Thomas Jefferson the third to
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take office but also one of the primary
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principal authors of the Declaration of
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Independence Theodore Roosevelt the 26th
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president is famous saying
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speak softly carry a big stick
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old teddy up there and next to him the
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16th commander-in-chief Abraham Lincoln
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he completes the four images that are
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placed on the side of this rock
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through the beauty of this zoom lens I'm
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able to get this iconic shot but I
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didn't want to walk down on my own see
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if I can get a better view personally
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paint trail has been constructed to help
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you get a little more up close and
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personal it is cold today
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you see there's snow on the ground it is
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freezing temperatures this is worth it
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definitely worth it
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made my way up this wooden platform and
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have just about reached the end of the
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trail but that's okay
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because it doesn't get much better and
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close than this
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hello founding fathers rubble behind me
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years of blood sweat and tears to create
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the president's looming over my head
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safe to say I'm I'm having an emotional
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moment add to the fact that I'm one of
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the few people on property and the only
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person in this section it adds to the
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experience there are times in my life
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that I have to step back and realize how
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blessed and grateful I am to be doing
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the things I am doing when I was young
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going to some of the places that I have
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visited as an adult just in the last
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five six seven eight years I never
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thought would be possible but I have
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stood on the cliffs and looked down into
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the Grand Canyon and afterwards
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reflected these same thoughts I have
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looked down as the water rushed over
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Niagara Falls and at that point
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thought wow what a wife I am living
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seeing and doing the things I am doing
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and I'm having that moment now standing
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under these four gentlemen Mount
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Rushmore I'm here there are many other
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occasions and moments that I have felt
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these thoughts but the feelings are real
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it's awesome if you make your way a
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little further back down the trail
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there's this cave completely accessible
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and it's not off-limits you are allowed
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to come in here in fact they have a
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little gate set up and if you look up
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through the hole right there George
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Washington I see you didn't mean to get
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so heavy back there life however life is
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life as a funny thing moving on until
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next time fellas I'll see you see you
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around
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however can't leave without some
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souvenirs to document the occasion
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miniature version perhaps or an even
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miniature miniature version some socks
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perhaps could have used an extra pair of
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these on my feet today it's a little
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chilly out there
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I collect magnets and get them from
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different locations that I go to this
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one looks good you know what yeah don't
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worry mr. Borglum I understand that you
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break it you buy it policy not that I
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broke it but you know I bought it you
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understand what I'm saying with all the
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excitement and coldness on my brain I
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forgot to check out the museum it's warm
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in here which is a good thing
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this was the plaster model used as the
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measurements would be the finished
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product and it is 112
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scale meeting one inch on the model
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equals one foot of the mountains carving
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there he is up on the shoulder standing
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next to the head even that looks massive
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and this is just a percentage of what
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what would be what would be the things
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to come on the fourth of July 1930 the
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Washington image was revealed and there
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was a flag placed up there for the
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dedication they still have it here
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behind this glass case display shows how
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the creation took place starting with
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the scaffolding that they had to
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construct just to get all into the nooks
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and crannies of all the facial features
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to make the magic happen workers would
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climb 700 stairs to get to the top and
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then later they made these wooden
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buckets that would hoist you up in the
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air screwing up on something of this
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size would be bad enough but that size
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that's a whole different ballgame his
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original plans he did not want to use
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dynamite he was completely against it
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but after a few weeks of drilling he
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realized the old-fashioned way just
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wasn't gonna cut it and dynamite was
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brought in all right we're gonna
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detonate it i detonated
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do in my part pretty cool interactive
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experience you just press a button of
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the image you want to detonate push this
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down there you go
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explosion if you look closely behind the
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heads it's a little passageway it's an
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unfinished room back there called the
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Hall of Records this is what it looks
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like right here there's the door and
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this is an image from back then there's
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the heads and then tucked away behind
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them was a staircase leading up to the
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Hall of Records untouched and uncarved
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in 1925 that's what it looked like and
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that's the ceremony announcing what was
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gonna happen there's Borglum hoisting a
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flag atop it he had a vision that's
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gonna do it for today from Mount
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Rushmore if you enjoyed this video
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