Desolate Areas of Southern California On My Way To Los Angeles - Backroad Discoveries In The Desert
Travels Into Southern California
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of the sunday may 8 2022 there
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are some charging stations behind me
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tesla charging stations no i do not have
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one of these type of vehicles i have a
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gas guzzling
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machine i'm old-timey well not i don't
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have a classic car or anything like that
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but i have not progressed into the
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future
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kettleman city is where i am speaking of
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progress and
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the future
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the hotel that i stayed at last night
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has solar panels up on top of the roof
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the grid
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of the roof above the room that i said i
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actually stayed in the room
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down here i'm going to be heading
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southbound into la but i'm going to veer
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off of the five interstate five and try
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to go in some of the small deserty towns
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that i have never been through i'm
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inviting you
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to join me
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as i depart get in my vehicle
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and heading towards la join me
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shall you
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these cats
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look like they're ready to pounce
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you ready to pounce cat
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you ready to pounce
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nope you're not ready to you're just
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stretching
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you're ready to pounce though
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is that your name pouncer
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you have the eye of the tiger cat
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stare down initiated
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i had a stare down with a sheep
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yesterday
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now i'm having a stare down
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with a cat
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blink cat
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you're terrifying me
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ah good to get off the interstate for a
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bit
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and on to the less traveled roads
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the sign of ways back said rough road
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ahead
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i haven't seen much traffic out here
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i've had one or two vehicles pass me in
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the last 20 miles
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about to turn onto twisselman road
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you also see some signage
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not only saying rough road but that one
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over there says subject to flooding
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you wouldn't think it by looking at
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today's weather that there would be any
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flooding whatsoever
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but when it rains out here
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it pours
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noticing over there there's a lot of
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green moss
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on the side of that hill
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there's also this desolate
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former home
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and way off on the horizon
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a lot of oil
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pumps
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and that rusted out metal ladder
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see all the oil pumps way out there
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side note i am parked directly in the
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middle of the road
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and there's no one around
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just me and of course obviously
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big the foot
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travel companion
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definitely a few working out there
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some are working some are not working
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getting that oil out of the ground
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just like jed clamp it
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except i don't think he used the pump i
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think
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he found his on accident
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he moved to beverly hills
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weezer always wanted to be in beverly
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hills that's where they wanted to be but
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chad clampett lived there
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turned onto state road 46 now
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a little more traffic on this road
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and a lot closer views
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of these pumps
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still pretty much out here in the middle
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of nowhere though
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and back into civilization for
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a brief moment
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fueling up
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under six dollars a gallon in california
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okay that's nice also coffee acquired
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and i picked up another case of water i
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always like to have a case of water in
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my back seat as i'm traveling i like to
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have water on hand i am now turning off
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the state highway 46 onto main drain
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road
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those are the coordinates
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okay now this is interesting
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these boxes right here
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i've always heard
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are full of bees
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but i guess like you could say it's a
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beehive of activity i would say that
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oh yeah definitely bees i don't want to
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get any close i don't want to have a
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thomas j moment
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you can kind of see them circling around
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over there probably should roll my
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window up
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of pallets full of about six crates each
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or eight crates each
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full of bees
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oh and then okay
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i stand corrected more than dozens and
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dozens there's even more way off on the
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horizon
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these are completely full of bees
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this is spicer city
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the market does not appear to be closed
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captioning not
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relaxing at
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that kind of reminds me of the bates
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motel even though i believe they were
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accommodations houses
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the clothesline right there
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these tim burton s creepy trees
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scattered around truck driving by
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or possibly yeah yeah it might have been
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a hotel or a motel
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another clue
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would be these mailboxes
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obviously people live there
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not just a roadside motel
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these mailboxes have not been used in a
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while
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notice the cobwebs
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to use a jim varney
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joke because i loved ernest
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these mailboxes are being attacked by
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cobs
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see not all of california is high-rise
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buildings and
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city skylines
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it's now been taken over by birds
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hitchcock would be proud
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this area is known as button willow
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i was noticing this fence
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is very tall
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it's an elk reserve it's a state elk
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reserve
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i see some solar panels over there
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all right i see three or four out there
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i'm gonna zoom way in
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roaming the plains
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that's cool
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this area is reserved only for elk
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that's why it's called an elk reserve
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i just i just made that up
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during the evening hours
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there are some animals that roam around
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this area
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like a great horned owl probably a great
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horn all these animals will probably be
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out during the daytime too but at night
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when the sun sets in the west the area
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becomes
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the area
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comes alive
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animals that have been sleeping and
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hiding during the day begin looking for
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food
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like a striped skunk
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opossum oh
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a possum
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a bat
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bobcats raccoons mountain lions and a
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mule deer
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not a mule and a deer
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but the correlation of the two a mule
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deer
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did you know that the raccoon is
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titled nicknamed the masked
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bandit
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it's a good name i wonder if this
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creature of the night can be found
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around here
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rat man
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nice little nice little picnic area
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through here as well next to the elk
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this is the post office here in tupman
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california
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and a big tree growing in front of it
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town of tupman small community and
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directly across from that is a yard full
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of art decorations
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and a car that's lifted up
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and smashed
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there is a coyote over there going
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across the
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the field
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hello i think it's a coyote
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traversing across the field there
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out here across the plains
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hello there coyote got back on the five
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for a bit through the grapevine and
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every time i go out of this mountain
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range
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i kind of feel like you're pretty much
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getting into la
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once you pass through the grapevine in
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that area
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i always enjoy a good bridge
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old-timey bridge
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and railroad tracks
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which this bridge used to have railroad
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tracks on it but i also like filming
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locations i've been here before
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a while back
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this was the bridge that was the
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railroad trestle
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now uses a walking trail and bike path
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to people driving their bikes located
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directly across from six flags magic
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mountain
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right over there
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the theme park across the way
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across from the five freeway
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of course the railroad tracks have been
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removed i did a whole episode on this
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years ago
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i wanted to stop off here again because
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you just get out of the car stretch my
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legs and it's right along the route
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going from northbound
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southbound
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into la santa clarita
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new hall i think valencia that's what is
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valencia right on the cusp
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is where this railroad bridge is filming
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location from the lost boys
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pretty cool do not dangle from this
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bridge
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it's a long way down
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this is pretty neat too
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some of the landmarks that are around
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here you got lions station
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mintriville
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melody ranch a little television movie
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history
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also
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1842 the oak of the golden dream which
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is not where i'm standing but you know
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within the vicinity
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right next to the disney back lot
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that they have kind of on the way to
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vasquez rocks i guess it is kind of a
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little bit of a waste from here but
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same general area
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and fun fact the oak of the golden dream
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is right next to an area
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though called golden oak which is also
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a housing development just outside walt
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disney world there is a tie-in outside
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the disney ranch
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here in southern california and then
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golden oak ranch or golden oak
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in florida
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drove a little further into north
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hollywood
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stopped off at this park
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which has oh very much just
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foot got stuck in that hole
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universal studios hollywood i passed six
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flags away back the universal studios
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hollywood there's the minion on top of
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the parking structure there
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making eye contact with me i'm not going
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to universal today however
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i believe i have an annual pass that's
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good for oh another six months or so
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or maybe five months i got it before i
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moved out of california at the end of
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november
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but i lost it so i'm going to try to go
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up to guest services and see if i can
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get that rectified
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once again not going in the park today
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but it'd be nice to have a hard copy of
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an ap
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or a yearly pass whichever they refer to
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it as
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so i'm going to head in there and then
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after that
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continue down south towards towards the
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oc the orange county orange county not
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the orange county
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but orange county
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there's the orange county sign right
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there
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amongst those trees
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i've arrived back
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in orange county california
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dad and that's going to do it for today
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from orange county california where i'm
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ending this video
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i am back in the area that i once used
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to live in
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i'm just here visiting now i'm not
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moving back
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thanks for watching i'll see you in the
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next video
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the vlog
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oh it's good to be back in southern
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california i'm starting to get the feels
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is
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over