The Empty Ghost Towns of Nevada Hwy 93 - Roadside Relics On My Way To Utah / Quick Update & Decision
Nevada Road Trip 2022
Transcript
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today's adventure begins
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as a recording of this wednesday june
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1st about 8 a.m
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cool chris 40 degrees at the moment
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i am at the nevada
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northern railroad
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museum
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which i believe is not open
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at this hour
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but it is a beautiful day i'm heading to
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utah
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welcome everyone adam the woo here file
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this one under not having a game plan
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and just roaming across the beautiful
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countryside
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which is what i will be doing
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stopping at spots that
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strike a core with me spark my interest
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like where i am right now
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starting from here in east ellie or east
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eli e l y
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one thing that's you know when you
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travel and you are not a local and you
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go through towns
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it's difficult to know the pronunciation
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of certain areas
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e-l-y
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there's a train
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i have my car
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will not be boarding a train
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but i will be journeying
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into the landscape
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of nevada
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sometimes i say nevada sometimes i say
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nevada
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i'm inviting you to join me
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shall you here's my shadow
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hello
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i am really
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loving being out on the road
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spent a little time in southern
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california
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drove from florida
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up into illinois and then across i-80
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and then across into northern california
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went to seattle flew to seattle and came
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back
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drove down to anaheim la area
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and now i am traversing
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through some other states and i do not
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know when i will be heading back to
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celebration florida but i
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will at some point
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the sun rose not too long ago so it's
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not quite
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elevated completely in the sky yet
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a little after eight
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i love it out here
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whoa was that a snow shovel or a
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snow plow i think it is on the front of
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that train right there
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and as i'm back in my automobile
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noticing some classics over there
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one day i'd like to have a truck like
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this
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classic truck
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similar to something like
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this if i ever you know i don't say
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retire but if i ever slow down a bit
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stay in a local area
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cool to have something like this just to
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be in a small community and
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have a truck similar to that just live
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life and there's another one right there
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nice
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and then on the outskirts of town
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while on the subject of relics
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a form of automobiles
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take a look at these
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these could tell some tails
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if these rusted out
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items could talk
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you know i don't know much about classic
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cars but they are nice to look at
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the older i get i have more of a an
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interest in them
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maybe it's a nostalgia factor
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or just a simpler time
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all on display here on the
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peaks of that little short mountain
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getting a little fuel here
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fueling up
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in the town of mcgill
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pony express
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gas mart
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5.64 cents a gallon
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i was also able to grab a coffee from
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that gas station convenience store
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zip code here in mcgill
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eight nine three
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one eight
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oh is this the theater next to it i
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think it is
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still has the awning
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marquee
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and then this old neon for from marie's
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cafe
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flower shop well no it's just a cafe
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with a flower for the neon inside the
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window is a pirate
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here at marie's cafe it's not open at
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the moment with the sun just glimmering
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over the top of these former stores
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this rexall
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closed in the 80s early early 80s
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and sat empty
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for a couple decades
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because the owner of the rexall
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his wife passed on
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and it's been turned into a museum
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a few years ago they reopened they
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opened i checked the sign of the door
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they are only open thursday through
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sunday from 10 a.m to 3 p.m i missed it
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by day because as a recording of this it
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is wednesday
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but a very fascinating
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fascinating place it was not originally
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meant to be a
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museum but everything was just left in
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here from the early 80s
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price tags
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everything still on it
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on the shelves inside this place and
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looking in the window it is on the
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national register of historic places the
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building was built back in 1907.
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so it was open for
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75 80 years before it closed it's
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getting a little peak inside the front
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door glass window here
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you can just see it still looks like
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going back in time
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it's like walking into the past except i
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can't walk out i just have to look
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through the window you can even see the
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washboard sign there that they put out
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for the weekends
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look at all the stuff in the cases there
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nothing new everything from
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early 80s and prior
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i find this stuff very fascinating
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and the unique story of this kind of
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adds to it as well
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someone just didn't decide to put
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products in here
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as a museum
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everything was already in here
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i don't know if i've ever seen anything
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like this before
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even have an old soda fountain in there
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and i'm glad i got gas back there i just
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saw a sign
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so there's no fuel for about another 130
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140 miles
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i'm on highway 93 north
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at the moment
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this is what i refer to as a wheel of
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fortune moment
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try to figure out
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what it says
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a couple letters up there
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this old motel that is certainly
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seen better dice
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it's a little rest stop across the
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across the way where a few trucks are
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parked
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but this side
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pretty
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pretty desolate yes the pony express
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stationed here in shelbourne well
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shelbourne station
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no longer open there's a fuel pump
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here that has been
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completely torn apart
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the inner workings there of the price
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point
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a lot of broken glass
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down below here
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looks like the name of the place was
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written
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painted on the ground down there
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this tree is falling out front as well
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kind of split at the roots there split
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at the base
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and around the back some other buildings
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i love that the birds are chirping
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even in decay
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old horse barn
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would be my assumption
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see a little makeshift rest stop over
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there
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where the trucks are
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drove a few more miles down the road i
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was on
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turning onto this
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road now
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where cherry creek is eight miles down
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this road got the cowguard here
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cattle guard
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and just to reassure that when i get
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down to cherry creek there will be no
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services and
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no fuel
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but i am fascinated
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by this one-way road
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leading to
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the town down there
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i'm going down slowing down for a moment
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just to see where this old railroad
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track used to be so i'm going over
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the tracks there
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little remnants of a tower
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off in the distance
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the railroad used to roll right through
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here this old mining town
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got the crossing
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sign there
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tracks are still there all grown over
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cherry creek
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there's an outhouse a couple of houses
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also past another sign
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stating that the pavement was about to
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end
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it's a bunch of trailers out there it
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doesn't appear as any if anyone's living
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in those
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a couple of them probably are inhabited
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but
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most of them look like they're just
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sitting there
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kind of rotting away
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there's a little foundation here as well
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here's the local saloon
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cherry creek saloon
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that door right there is just kind of
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swinging open
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no one in that but
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door still opening and closing
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certainly is beautiful the landscape
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there was another sign
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for the town museum
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does not appear as if it is still open
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however
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now there are residents out here here is
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a
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a bunch of goats a herd of goats
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some pet goats
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hello goats
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so people do live here
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and so do goats
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the one right there staring at me
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okay see you later goats
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take care
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drove a little further and pulled off
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that side over there says mcgill 63
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miles away and ellie or eli where i
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started 75 miles away so i've already
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made quite a bit of a commute
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and i am now here in curry
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or kurai
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c-u-r-r-i-e is the name of the town
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and this is a mercantile and rv shop
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cafe bar says welcome traveler store
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hours but i do not believe that this
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store
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is open
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got a few little sheds
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here houses here
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now that i'm looking at these these
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might be part of the rv camp
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that used to sit here because that is a
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restroom facility there a few
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dogs over there barking out into the
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ambiance
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a horse hotel rv sites rock specimens
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ice cream and cabins
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oh spelling out crossing
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so you got the town name curry there
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and then crossing down here spells out
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the word
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crossing those dogs are really curious
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what i'm doing
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you know some places different areas of
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the country will called call soda and
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cola pop say soda pop pop i always think
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of soda popinski
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from mike tyson's punch-out
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i like the pepsi sign up top there
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that retro pepsi sign
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around the back of the building
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all kind of items here on the side of
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this wall
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elevation
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5799 feet
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in this town
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a few old relics over here too in the
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form of automobiles
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snowy top mountains
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not a lot of traffic out here either
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not a lot of gridlock
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most of the time we got the road to
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myself
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well and of course
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make the foot
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some sheep right there this is
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this is an incredible view
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the bunch of sheep
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and the mountains with the snow in the
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background
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so beautiful hello sheep
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this is just one of those spots where i
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could just sit here for quite a few
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moments just
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let it all soak in
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love all these old signs the name of
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this community is wells
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but this arrow points to an old ghost
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town
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called metropolis
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so i'm going to head that direction out
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of wells to metropolis
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and it lies about six or seven miles
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down this desolate road
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to cattle guard
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and the road has now gone to unpaved
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sections
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i am thankful i have a reliable car
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because if it were to break down out
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here it would be
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not a whole heck of a lot of fun or if
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it didn't start back up
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remember metropolis
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in memory of the violent
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violent
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valiant pioneers
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who settled and built a city here giving
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so much to all of us pursuit of
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happiness and security
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today we enjoy the fruits of their
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efforts
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first settlers in 1910 many followed in
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1935
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many who lived here aspired to become
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teachers lawyers
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civic leaders church leaders
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best reared
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great families and homes
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and the town does not exist anymore
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it's been erased
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with the exception of this little marker
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and a few structures from
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existence
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the last items post office
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school in 1940
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were the last things still opened
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so it has been
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80 years 80 plus years
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since anyone lived out here
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any businesses thrived existed
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see what's left quite a bit of debris in
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this foundation
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scattered around some graffiti
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get this stairwell that leads down to
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basically nothing now
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you can definitely see tire tracks
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people have been out here i'm not the
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only one
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but is not a beehive of activity
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way up on the top of the hill
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there's an archway
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i'll walk up there and now that i'm
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thinking about it probably should have
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drove my car
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from down there to here
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you just never know what kind of animals
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are out here coyotes and whatnot
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too late now i've already walked it
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i probably should have drove my car up
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here
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very impressive
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and i was just thinking to myself
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probably snakes out here and i looked
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down for a brief moment i stalled
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and realized that's just a burnt banana
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i thought like for for one moment i
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thought what that was a snake
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wasn't though but i guarantee there's
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snakes out here
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someone has painted on the side here
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welcome to paradise
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the stairs
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more stairs leading up
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look at this
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flies out here
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looks to be somewhat structurally sound
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except for some of the bricks that have
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kind of fallen caved in over there oh
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wow i spoke too soon
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look at that
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not structurally sound
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at all
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probably a few scorpions out here too
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snakes and scorpions
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lots of red ants
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arrive now at the last town before
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crossing the state line into utah or at
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least one of the last little areas state
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line
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and salt lake city where i am bound
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where i'm headed
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is that way
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across the salt lakes
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and then we'll be going
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to the greater
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salt lake area
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but the utah state line is over that way
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a few miles not too far
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but i wanted to show wind over will
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and in my video here and i also have
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some new developments that just
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came to my attention a few minutes ago
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as i was driving and i pulled over
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started to figure out how i was going to
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announce this
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and how i was going to
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to show what i documented a couple weeks
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ago a week or two ago give or take
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i'm going to explain that now and then
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also talk about my time that i will be
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spending in the salt lake city area i
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recently had the opportunity of going to
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a filming location
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that has been on my radar something that
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i've wanted to do wanted to document
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wanted to see with my own eyes wander
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around in great detail
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for close to a decade and really within
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the last five or six years i've been
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trying
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extensively as someone hawks they were
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excited too
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about me getting in there and that is
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the warner ranch
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now i've done videos on the tour at
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warner brothers studios
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which the general public can pay a fee
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get on a golf cart and do
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this is a whole other scenario
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and i was able to do that
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when i was in los angeles
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but i just want to clarify the way i do
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this channel the daily woo channel and
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always have
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is not to stockpile footage
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not to film more than one video a day
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basically what i do i wake up in the
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morning i will film a video i will edit
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at night and i will upload
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have it on private make it live the next
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day that's why i always clarify or
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started clarifying within the last year
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documenting the day that i am filming it
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so
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what i have decided to do
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is upload the footage
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from warner ranch
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the holy grail
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bucket list for me
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some might not be into it
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some might
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but i will upload the raw footage it
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will be edited but i'm not going to work
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any movie clips into it or anything like
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that i am just going to put
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my day at the ranch
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am i some stuff i might not put in there
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and use those for future projects
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because oh man
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am excited that i am able to
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upload this footage and it will go on
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the adam the woo channel not here on the
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daily woo
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because i do not want to ruin
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the formula that i have
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here on this channel the daily woo
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so because this was filmed when i was in
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los angeles not to confuse anyone and
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not to break the routine that i have set
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for myself
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over on the adam the woo channel by the
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time you see this
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because i'm going to upload it
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tonight
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as the recording of this it will already
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be up by the time this is uploaded
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because the way i do this daily channel
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not to reiterate myself but i'm going to
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i film during the day i state the day
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at the beginning of each video and then
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i edit at night and make the video live
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the next day that's why when you watch
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these daily videos
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i say the date from what would be the
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viewers point the day before
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go to the ad in the woo channel i will
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also give a little preface on that as
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well
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it's not something
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that i would usually upload on that
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channel in fact i haven't uploaded on
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that channel in a couple years and they
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were big projects
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this is a rare video look
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into the warner
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ranch
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not warner brothers studios
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you want to see what's in there go check
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out the adam the woo channel
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it's been a while since i've put a video
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up on that channel and i'm going to end
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the video here
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i'm going to oh buster by the way
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getting in there what took a long time
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and i was told that i would not be able
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to upload the footage
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for possibly
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a year six months until the ranch was
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torn down because it's going to be torn
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down
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that is now changed that information
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that i was given
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has now changed
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and i can upload the footage now i was
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told
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just a few moments ago
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that i am able to upload that footage
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so i'm uploading it
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all right that's going to do it here on
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the daily woo
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i'll see you in the next video which
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will be tomorrow i am on a streak now
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uploading daily again here
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and i feel good about it it feels good
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to be on the road it feels good to be
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traveling oh i forgot to mention i will
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be in the salt lake city area for almost
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two weeks
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12 days 13 days maybe 14 days give or
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take i'll see you the next video
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the vlog