TDW 1685 - The Best Things In Life

0:03 All right, man. It's been fun. It has

0:03 been sight travels. Same to

0:17 you. Off we go. I like that old GMC van.

0:17 And I'm filling up the tank to continue

0:20 cruising down the road. Welcome

0:22 everyone. Adam the Woo here. It's my

0:24 second channel, daily vlog channel. It's

0:26 the daily.

0:29 Oh, that's good. It's been a while since

0:30 I had a Mountain Dew. It's a daily

0:44 woo. It's always incredible to me how

0:44 you can drive through two rock

0:46 structures like this. I guess they take

0:48 dynamite and just blow a hole through

0:51 and put the road down. Stopped off in

0:52 the town of Ingram. And there is

0:55 something that lies in this field that

0:58 you wouldn't expect to see in the great

1:00 state of Texas. Talking about

1:04 Stonehenge, two about 3/4 the size of

1:07 its England counterpart. It used to

1:09 reside in the next town over, but they

1:11 moved it here in the year 2010. Over the

1:14 course of my travels, I have visited now

1:17 three of these Stonehenge locations. One

1:21 in Alabama called Bama Hinge, one in

1:24 Virginia called Foam Hinge, and now this

1:28 one, the handiwork of two gentlemen,

1:30 Doug Hill and Al Shepard. The other two

1:33 spots created by the one and only Mark

1:35 Klene, who I am a big fan of his work,

1:37 but it's good to see other people have

1:39 gotten in on Stonehenge Fever. One day I

1:42 will visit the real thing, but for now,

1:45 paying a visit to all the replicas. How

1:47 many of these things are there? Texture

1:49 seems to be a little bit different on

1:51 this one as well. It's not foam. It's

1:53 not completely plastic. It's covered in

1:56 some sort of material over the plastic.

2:01 In 1989, Doug Hill tipped on in a

2:04 massive limestone rock onto Al Shepard's

2:06 field. After looking at the rock and

2:08 joking about it for months, Al and Doug

2:11 decided to build an arch behind the rock

2:13 to make it more visible to passers by.

2:16 When the arch was built, Al was reminded

2:18 of the original Stonehenge in England.

2:22 He commissioned Doug to design and build

2:24 Stonehenge 2. It is not a replica. It is

2:28 about 23 the size of the original and is

2:32 not oriented to the sun as is the

2:35 original. It is, however, Doug Hill's

2:37 impression in steel and concrete of the

2:40 nearly 5,000year-old circle of stones on

2:43 the Salsbury plane. And there's also

2:45 this recreation of one of the Easter

2:47 Island statues. That right there though,

2:50 that's the majestic. That's the real

2:52 deal. That's not a recreation. This

2:54 thing definitely comes in handy. And

2:56 here's another one right as you're

2:58 exiting the property. I'd like to get

3:00 down there. I think the only way though

3:03 is to just walk down this embankment

3:05 under this bridge.

3:30 serene. Water rippling

3:30 by. Very relaxing.

3:37 Sometimes it's good to just take a deep

3:37 breath, sit on the edge of an abandoned

3:41 bridge with your feet dangling over the

3:46 water. Just enjoy the

3:53 view. It's the little things in life

3:53 that

3:55 matter. The cliche phrase is the best

3:59 things in life are free.

4:02 And a good portion of the

4:04 time that is true. A very good portion

4:09 of the time that is true.

4:35 I will occasionally see these signs with

4:35 the cows on them signifying cow

4:39 crossing, but I've really yet to see a

4:41 cow crossing the road. I want to see a

4:44 cow crossing the road. It's not too much

4:46 to ask, right? I think those three nails

4:50 there

4:51 symbolize the nails that were put in the

4:53 hands of Jesus at the top of the

4:56 hill. There's a huge cross. I'm guessing

5:00 I can drive up there and check it out.

5:02 It's pretty steep, but I think she can

5:04 make it. Don't let me

5:09 down. You can do

5:11 this. I'm giving it all I got, Captain.

5:14 I'm giving it all I got. This was not

5:16 made for an RV going up this incline,

5:20 but we're almost there. I made it to the

5:22 top up high. And that down there is down

5:26 low. That's why there's a Lowe's cuz

5:29 it's because it's down low. When you get

5:31 to the top, you see Jesus standing at

5:33 the base of the cross and some sort of

5:36 construction

5:38 vehicle hauling dirt. It's very

5:41 beautiful up here and they're doing a

5:43 lot of construction to continue how

5:45 beautiful this place is. Pretty nice up

5:48 here. No matter what your belief system

5:49 is, there's still some pretty good

5:51 stories in the Bible like this one where

5:53 the son of God is washing the feet of

5:55 Simon Peter, which teaches us we're

5:58 never too good to do something that some

6:00 people would assume we would never do. I

6:02 think the word I'm looking for is

6:04 humility. It says here that the cross is

6:07 77t 7 in. So 37s, which is kind of the

6:11 counter number to 666, the mark of the

6:15 beast with Satan. 777 would be the

6:18 evangelical number. Very interesting

6:20 they chose that height. And I also

6:22 noticed that from an aerial view, not

6:25 only do you see the tall cross, but also

6:27 the landscape is also a cross. And this

6:31 is something you don't see too often.

6:33 prayers that are left on the side of

6:36 rocks and placed all along this

6:45 pathway. People have written out in

6:45 Sharpie what their prayer is and left it

6:50 along this entire

6:53 stretch on both sides. Hundreds and

6:57 hundreds of prayers. There's even a few

7:03 markings of those who have passed

7:07 on leaving a little piece of them here

7:10 as

7:11 well. Look at this request. Please let

7:15 me stay single forever. I didn't write

7:17 that, but kind of wish I would have. Off

7:19 to the side of the road here looks to be

7:21 like miniature golf course material

7:25 grass. It's not what it's for. In fact,

7:28 I'm not really sure what it's for, but

7:29 it makes me want to grab a golf club and

7:34 play a little mini golf, doesn't it?

7:36 Okay, now it's getting even more

7:38 strange. They're watering

7:40 it. Why are they watering the fake

7:43 grass? I'm getting a little hungry. They

7:46 don't have barbecue in here, and for

7:48 that, I am grateful. Tuna sub with lots

7:51 of veggies. BBQ detox begins. Side note,

7:56 this reminds me more of a coffee shop

7:59 than a sandwich place. This is

8:02 Frederick'sburg. Pretty cool looking

8:04 place. I'm going to wander around the

8:06 historic downtown for a bit. Some pretty

8:09 cool t-shirts. This one promoting Willie

8:12 Nelson for president and Whan Jennings

8:15 for vice president. It's an old neon

8:17 Buick

8:19 sign. Looks like there used to be a

8:21 Buick dealership at one time. And the

8:24 sign still here might be a

8:27 reproduction, but it also might be the

8:30 original one. It's no longer a hospital,

8:32 but the Kaidell Memorial Building is

8:34 still here. Late

8:37 1800s that was built. There just seems

8:39 to be something a little extra special

8:41 about a town that is way older than a

8:43 100red years old. Once it crosses that

8:46 century mark, it kind of has a little a

8:49 little something extra special. Look at

8:51 the palace theater there. It's an

8:53 antique clothing store now. But man,

8:55 that place, that place has had some

8:58 memories. The Bank of

9:00 Fredericksburg. Just imagine all the

9:02 dreams that became a reality or were

9:05 crushed inside those walls. It's been

9:07 some very majestic sunsets lately here

9:10 in

9:15 Texas. This brings me back to my earlier

9:15 point.

9:17 Sometimes it's good to just sit back for

9:20 a second

9:21 and take a look

9:25 around. It's a

9:27 beauty that the world has to offer. As

9:29 the night comes to an

9:31 end, I'm gonna have some frozen yogurt.

TDW 1685 - The Best Things In Life

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