Walking Across The Golden Gate Bridge - Leaving San Francisco / Anderson’s Pea Soup & Bravoland
Walking Across The Golden Gate Bridge
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today's adventure begins on
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saturday morning august 7th as the
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recording of this 2021
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looking out hotel window about to check
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out and
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start the 400 mile commute from san
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francisco
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back to orange county california
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gotta stop off somewhere special though
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before heading out of the city
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welcome everyone adam the woo here not
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only well
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natalie here san francisco the end
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of our visit here and we have walked a
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heck of a lot on this from this game
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this week
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yeah like 80 miles all together oh you
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totaled it up
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yeah we did about 9 to 10 miles a day
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that sounds about right up and down
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hills
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why not end it with going across
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the golden gate bridge yeah is it one of
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the wonders of the world
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it's definitely wonderful in my eyes
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it's one of the water
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aren't there eight wonders of the world
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i think seven one of them is a backstage
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of water
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backside of water definitely won and
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there's plenty of water down there
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there's also a fort
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fort point yeah it's abandoned military
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base that you can explore
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we're not going to be exploring anything
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abandoned today but we are going to be
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looking from a distance and going
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completely across the bay
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that is very foggy almost as foggy as my
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glasses are
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just about my glasses are very very
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foggy
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making our way back to socal here in
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norcal even though you said that's a
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very odd statement to say norcal
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northern california let's let's go for a
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trek
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yeah you know exactly how many miles it
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is across or how what the distance is we
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had to guess
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oh no it takes like 20 minutes half hour
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to cross i'm not sure exactly the
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distance
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so like about a quarter of a mile okay
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it's about like a yonder
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near and far near and far all right
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everybody
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and that one shall you and this is the
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man to thank
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for the idea of creating the bridge
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across the bay
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golden gate joseph strauss
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as shown right down there oh here we go
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here's a
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another placard the man who built the
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bridge
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granted he probably had a lot of help
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from others but he's the one that came
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up with the idea
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of the bridge and it would not exist
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if for what it was not for his
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his thought process over here
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this shows construction back in 34.
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you can see they were just starting to
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put the oh oh that's neat
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yeah it starts off so we got there we go
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we got
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34 we got let's go 33
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not a whole lot 34
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a little more construction and then we
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go to 35
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got the pylons now we're going over to
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36
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30 oh here we go go back may 27th of
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1937.
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look at that
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and then we go back to 30 now we're
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going back in time 35
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it's kind of jumping all over the place
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you get the idea before heading up those
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stairs
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to cross over it's a little courtyard
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here
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yeah there's the palace of fine arts we
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were there a couple days ago
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very impressive look at that before the
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bridge was even there
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making the impossible possible
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and here's a little setup a little model
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if you will
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of how the suspension works
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suspension cable tension versus tower
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height
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pull on the rings to raise the roadway
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decks
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okay all right let me pull on this rig
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there we go
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so if i let go of the ring
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it's not good for anyone driving over or
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walking over
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the more tension the thicker stronger
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the cable must be
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a bridge design with towers twice as
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high above the deck as the golden gate
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is featured here engineers had to
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balance the advantages
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advantages and disadvantages of tower
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height and cable size
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in the final design of the bridge
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what are you doing over there you can
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see the wind speed when you press your
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arm
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oh no kidding to feel how much forces
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need to resist the wind
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okay you have a hundred you had 140
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kph pressure
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pretty close to 140. nice oh look look
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at
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look at mr wind up here stand
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back wind stand back not today wind
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i did it i don't know what i did but i
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did it you did it does seem as if the
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fog
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seems to be lifting just a little bit
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might have a pretty good view as we
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start to walk
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across there and give a little
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perspective over there
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way off in the thick fog or in the coral
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which is the fog's name according to
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some
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is alcatraz
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let's let's get moving
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just wanted to inquire bird exactly how
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many
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feet is it across the bridge
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i'm about to get to stepping i cannot
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fly across like you can
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you don't know the distance okay i'll
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figure it out
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thanks for your help how the bridge
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sways flutters and vibrates
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during an earthquake oh you're
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simulating an earthquake
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it's very safe to not only drive across
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but walk across
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give me that earthquake again
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my favorite thing about you simulating
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the earthquake is that bird i just
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talked to over there
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is just clearly not concerned at all
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that that bird is just like nope
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a little little shaking of the land
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never bothered me
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all right we're going bird see ya
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you don't want to you don't want to
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strut too fast though
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being checked by radar i thought someone
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in the road was honking
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but it wasn't it was this little vehicle
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going by not someone on
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here in the traffic was honking but it's
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this little golf cart
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going by i think we were walking too
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fast
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very difficult to even see the top
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spires
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of the bridge up there because of the
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fog now there is an overlook here that
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kind of little indentation outward that
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you can stand out on
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and look down into the fort
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that's down there oh look at the wind
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well maybe it's not the wind it's the
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vibration of the cars
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is gyrating the metal fencing here this
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the
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the chain link fence see how it's just
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like
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the cars are shaking the the fence
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getting a little bit of the city view
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there the cityscape over in the distance
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but
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yeah a lot of fog but you can see some
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of the skyscrapers
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directly below no more dry land just the
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bay
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oh and even more pelicans down there
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scurrying across
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and a fisherman
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this is wild all right have to look real
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closely but you can see there in the
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center of the screen
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palace of fine arts there on the
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shoreline
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tough to see but it's in there
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very cool and crisp and windy up here
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cannot express that enough very gusty
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brisk there's the fort down there
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you have found a non-windy spot out of
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out of the the cold air away from the
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wind in this little corner
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underneath the the p g and e
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tower which is named for the pacific gas
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and electric company in appreciation of
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its gift of light
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to the bridge but you're just standing
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there because you want to be away from
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the wind
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which i totally get because whoo gusty
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i've seen this in other places too along
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fence lines usually on bridges
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people will put locks they will take
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these locks and they will clamp them
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on
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this is more or less the middle right
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through here
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in between the two pylons that kind of
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go up
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a little bit of some construction
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scaffolding down there
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it's so foggy alcatraz has been
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completely engulfed
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in the fog straight ahead there's also a
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light right here
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like a beacon possibly to ships or maybe
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to see from the shoreline
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there's a boat coming across the bay
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right there
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yeah this is the middle of the bridge
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you want to grab the middle of the
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it yes all right now heading back
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into the wind now we're walking into the
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wind
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we went halfway across now going back
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oh yeah more gusty walking this way
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we're going directly
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into not only the traffic but also the
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this is an experience and if you ever
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have any
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ideas about climbing the bridge
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they have not only they have some barbed
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wire here
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razor wire going up to the top and if
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you decide
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to head up this little stanchion into
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the fog
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there is another barricade up there
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makes it very difficult
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starting to lift again just for a moment
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getting that cityscape view
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it was pretty thick but kind of goes in
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and out
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the fogginess
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now i just checked the distance to walk
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to the halfway point
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of the bridge and back meaning that if
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you were to walk
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the bridge in one direction one way
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was five thousand four hundred and
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eighty one steps
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got about halfway boy it was brisk up
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there and very windy
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also paid to park for two hours and it
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was getting pretty close
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so headed back dang i was
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halfway across the bay there on this
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classic landmark
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yeah we're gonna drive are we gonna
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drive across the bay bridge
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across the bay bridge to get back so
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when we leave
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you're fixing your hair because it was
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windy so we're gonna hit both bridges on
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the way out
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and there's a toll on the way into the
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city but out on the way out
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so if you come across this way when
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you're heading in
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so across here would be berkeley oakland
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over there
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no that's sausalito berkeley and oakland
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okay sausalito
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that's like marin county gotcha
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berkeley over in that direction
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sausalito sausalito marin county bay
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bridge is um
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oakland and berkeley okay oakland
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berkeley
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and alameda
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over there okay i'm getting my bearings
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the bay bridge past alcatraz over there
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is the way we're exiting out
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of the city and southbound i can kind of
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see it over there
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through the haze the bay bridge
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walked across one gonna drive across the
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after driving a couple hours arrived at
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this windmill just off
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of the freeway off the five
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santa nella is the name of the town and
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there is a place called
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pea soup it's a pea soup restaurant
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called anderson's right underneath the
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windmill blades
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santa nella wonder who's cooking up the
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pea soup
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oh you're cooking up the pea soup i
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don't know why but i think
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i'm smashing something with a hammer am
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i smashing the peas with a hammer
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now i also got a chicken sandwich but i
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did get a bowl of the soup because of
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the side but i asked for a large bowl of
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soup
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inside the gift shop i got myself a
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magnet for a refrigerator i would like
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to collect souvenirs
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and a little to go can of anderson's
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split pea soup here 15 ounces
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i should have bought more than one but i
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think one will be will be good
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anderson's pea soup here in santa nella
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right underneath the windmill
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traveled exactly 99 miles
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down the road now arrived at a place
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called bravo land
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here in the middle of the desert a
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little stagecoach over here
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a few horses they're not real horses
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made of plastic
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out here in the desert no wind look
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these flags aren't even moving and check
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it out
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bravo land got a windmill up there
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oh what was that noise
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something coming from out inside this
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water wheel no water it's all dried up
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so there's no wind and no water and the
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heat index
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considerably different than we were
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earlier this morning
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going across the bridge because it is
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gosh it is hot out here major difference
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in the weather
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i'm gonna i might have to get a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage
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oh this is cold coffee maybe they have
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no way hey wanna hear a joke i do
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cowboys go for their meals on the ranch
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they cook their meals on the rain and
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they did have a hot coffee
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very very warm in fact i'm holding on to
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the little cardboard sleeve and it's
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even seeping through the heat of that
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and you can see just behind the
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buildings all desert out there
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go up to the second floor and walk down
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through the shack here
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pretty neat little little pit stop like
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an oasis almost
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oh what's this 25
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10 cents per show i have another dollar
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does it take dollars yeah you could do a
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crow a chicken a school bell a train
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horn a sign or a stamp mill
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which one do you want to do they're 10
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cents each
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this chicken just laid an egg for 10
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cents actually it laid a couple of eggs
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you can see the eggs
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down in there wait what's the next one
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you gotta do school belt
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oh oh that's cool
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wow okay train horn
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there's the train horn up there
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okay what's the next one uh sign
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oh train horde's not done sign it
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i don't understand what he said but let
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me press it again yeah do it again
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okay and lastly the stamp mill
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there it goes oh the stamp mill okay
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stamping down there
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this is pretty dang cool i would have
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never guessed this was in this little
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shack
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oh no he's not feeling not feeling good
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oh my gosh that was disgusting crow
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i've never seen a crow
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that had a bowel movement as a tourist
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attraction before
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first thing for anything get the crow
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again
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that's gonna do it for today made it
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back to
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the greater los angeles area
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only a few miles down to orange county
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see you in the next video
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