WEBVTT 1 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:24.719 Good evening and welcome to a Memorial Day nightcap on 2 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:31.519 seven hundred WLW Gary Jeff Walker. Words are cheap, and 3 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:35.000 the cheap words we use or choose to try and 4 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:37.840 do justice, to try and honor those who've given the 5 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.960 ultimate sacrifice for us can never do them justice. It 6 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:49.520 can't bring them back, and it can't really really give 7 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:56.439 tribute to their loss and their sacrifice. But I want 8 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:59.240 to think a little bit about happy Memorial Day, and 9 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.479 people toss around all the time, and I would think 10 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:06.159 that some people who have served our country and taken 11 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:11.760 the oath and upheld it might take umbrage with the 12 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:14.680 term happy Memorial Day when they think about their fallen 13 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:21.359 colleagues who gave their all. Maybe we should say grateful 14 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:26.359 Memorial Day because I am grateful, and I am grateful 15 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:34.400 because that that sacrifice has meant a lifetime of the 16 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:40.359 ability to live the life I chose the chance to 17 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:44.560 talk to you, to do this career I wanted to 18 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:47.280 do from the time I was seven years old. A 19 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:51.439 chance to enjoy my family, a chance to enjoy marriage, 20 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:56.680 a chance to have this career. It's a grateful Memorial 21 00:01:56.760 --> 00:02:03.359 Day to me, and even my gratitude will never be enough. 22 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:10.000 And for those family members who have lost those in 23 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:15.800 war in combat for the United States of America, they 24 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:22.520 also are grateful for their service, and they know more 25 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:29.039 than me or most people how great that sacrifice really 26 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:34.800 is and was. And you could say that maybe I 27 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.199 have some survivor's guilt because I never paid that price 28 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:42.800 that they did, and maybe I do say I'm lucky, 29 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.360 but I even think of that, and I go luck 30 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:51.159 has nothing to do with it. It is because of 31 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:56.840 their deeds, and my words will never measure up to 32 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:01.319 their deeds. With that in mind, we have some thoughts 33 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:05.240 on Memorial Day, which my friend Peter Bronson will share 34 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.360 with us tonight, and some of the things that we 35 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.280 get to enjoy because of their sacrifice, like great music 36 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:19.639 and the chance to travel this remarkable country that's remarkable 37 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:25.479 for no other reason than that sacrifice. And we will 38 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.759 do all of that tonight on this nightcap, and maybe 39 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.840 a little fun time with Furman before we're done. With 40 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:37.879 that being said, let's get on with the show up 41 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:42.080 next to Travelogue, because this last Monday in May is 42 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:44.319 not only Memorial Day, but for many it marks the 43 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:48.479 beginning of the summer travel season. Are there some interesting 44 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:52.759 places you might want to go. My friend Flash Phelps 45 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.759 will join us in just a moment. He's been to 46 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:01.479 all fifty states, most of them except for Hawaii by car, 47 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.879 because you still can't do that by car get to 48 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:09.919 a way that is. But anyway, that summer travelogue begins 49 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:15.080 our nightcap next on seven hundred w LW. So if 50 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.000 there's some place cool to talk about, Flash can probably 51 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:23.839 authoritatively tell you where you should go. That's what what 52 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.480 we got. We got Flash on to tell you where 53 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:30.040 to go. Flash Phelps, how are you doing tonight? 54 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:30.759 You good? 55 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.399 Oh, it's fantastic. You know what a Memorial Day weekend? 56 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:34.800 Oh? 57 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:37.279 I have a trivia question for you. Memorial Day Weekend 58 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:42.360 M d W. They're the three letters of which airport 59 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:47.040 m that's a great question, md w. 60 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.680 W Memorial Day Weekend m MEW. 61 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.040 Three letter code. Somebody's probably flying through there right now. 62 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:53.839 It's a big one. It's it's next to O R D. 63 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:59.600 Oh here it's midway in Chicago. Yes, that's it. 64 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:03.199 How about that Memorial Day weekend about a week ago? 65 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:05.839 And they're like, somebody wrote Memorial Day Weekend and they 66 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:09.319 just wrote MDW And I went midway and then they 67 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:10.879 were talking about Memorial Day weekend. 68 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:12.560 I said, I got to use that on the air 69 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:15.439 a lot. That's food phenomenal. 70 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.319 I don't know the designations, and I'm surprised you do, 71 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:22.079 because most of your travel is on the ground in 72 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:27.240 your car. You go everywhere, and and you've been everywhere seemingly. 73 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:29.120 Now I want to ask. 74 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.199 I'm going to tell you, well before you say that, 75 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:33.959 I did a trip just two weeks ago, and I 76 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.399 drove twenty seven hundred miles and my Flashmobile got forty 77 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.319 nine point five miles to the gallon in the first 78 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.560 nine hundred miles. It's a it's all gas power. Because 79 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:46.399 it's I don't want to say the name of the 80 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.399 car I call a Flashmobile. I'll tell you what. It's 81 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.839 a palindrome. Right now, we're on a palindrome date. You 82 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:54.839 can write the date today forward and backwards. As you 83 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:59.040 probably know, yes, and so it's it's a car that 84 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:00.399 is a palindrome. 85 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:03.439 Forward and backwards is the same name. So you probably 86 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:04.000 know what it is. 87 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:08.000 Well there you go, all right, So, but forty nine 88 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:12.199 miles to the gallon, that's amazing, amazing. 89 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:12.399 Pretty amazed. 90 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.439 And these and the tires that are on there almost 91 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.600 have almost one hundred thousand miles on them. 92 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.079 Where was that proported at eighty thousand? Do you remember 93 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:24.120 where the cheapest gas was flash on your trip Tennessee? 94 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:28.079 It's always Tennessee always gives me some pretty cheap gas. 95 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:32.000 And so that's why I usually like driving the South. 96 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:36.160 The South always gives me better deals than over three dollars. 97 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:38.839 I'll tell you what it is. Part of it is 98 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:43.000 is the taxes. I mean you, just as the states 99 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:48.319 that have less state gasoline taxes, you're going to find 100 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:51.600 cheaper gas low and behold, well, isn't that a surprise? 101 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:55.720 And my parents are still alive. God bless them, and 102 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.879 God bless me for still. I'm so grateful. They live 103 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.360 in Hendersonville, Tennessee, which is just outside of Nashville. I'm 104 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:07.240 sure you're familiar where Hendersonville is. Sure up on the side, yeah, 105 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:11.800 uh and uh. When we drive from here in the 106 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.000 tri state area of Ohio and northern Kentucky. 107 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.439 And seventy five seventy one to sixty five, we. 108 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.199 Yep seventy five seventy one to sixty five and go south, 109 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:25.079 go straight through Louisville. Used to go the Gene Freighter 110 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.399 of Jean Jean Snyder Parkway. 111 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:30.879 But a lot of times they want you to take 112 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.079 the water the Watertown Waterson, Waterson Express, Waterson. That's the one. 113 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:38.000 But but I'm telling you what driving driving straight through 114 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:40.920 Louisville is actually closer. It's it's a lot cheaper and 115 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.680 there's not as many You drive an extra twenty minutes 116 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.399 on the Gene Snyder to get down to sixty five. Anyway, 117 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:51.319 when we go there, gases always, no matter what time 118 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:54.800 of year, twenty to thirty cents cheaper a gallon in 119 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:56.639 Middle Tennessee than it is up here. 120 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:57.839 So I would agree. 121 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:00.759 You have you stopped it one of the the disco 122 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:02.560 bathrooms up there in northern Kentucky. 123 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:05.079 Yet I did it, and my gosh, was that fun. 124 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:06.759 It is so cool. 125 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.920 So for if you're in the Cincinnati area in northern 126 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:13.160 Kentucky that look up disco bathroom. 127 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:15.240 You go in, you hit a button and says don't 128 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:15.800 hit this button. 129 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:17.920 You hit the button and all the lights go out 130 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:19.959 and the disco ball starts spinning around the bathroom. 131 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:20.959 It's in men and women. 132 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:23.279 I heard it's in the women too, but it'll spin 133 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.480 around and it'll do the whole disco and it'll start 134 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:26.839 playing Beg's it's. 135 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.360 So cool in your area. Have you been to BUCkies yet? 136 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:31.959 Oh? 137 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:35.240 Yeah, I tried to go to, especially after I went. 138 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.960 In Texas because I went to when I told the 139 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:41.360 first one out right near Austin. So I had gone 140 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:42.879 to that one. I said, Man, it should be putting 141 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:44.840 these everywhere. So as soon as they built the one 142 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.679 in Alabama, which are now four, and so I keep 143 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:49.639 on going to all the ones that are out of 144 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:51.960 the state. So whether or not it's south of U 145 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.559 on I seventy five or the one on sixty five, 146 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.279 is Smith's over there. 147 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.600 Smith Grow Smith Smiths Grove. That's where that's where World 148 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:01.919 WIF found. Can I stop on our trips homes to 149 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.320 see Mom and Dad? We stop at the BUCkies now 150 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:09.519 there at Smith exit thirty eight, and it was all. 151 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.360 In Green Cave City, right in between the two. 152 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:14.200 Yeah, it's It's Smith's Grove is right there on the 153 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:18.000 way to Bowling Green and it is. It's the most 154 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:21.240 amazing thing I've ever seen at a store gas stage, 155 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.960 the way they move traffic and people in and out 156 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:25.279 of those things. 157 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:28.000 And the tip is don't go in the first entrance. 158 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.639 There's a lot of times two entrances there should be. 159 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.240 It's so big, and never pick the first and everybody 160 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:35.120 wants to pull in the first. One tip for you 161 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:37.440 when you're driving, there's going to be a second entrance. 162 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.080 Go past those people. Look for the back way in. 163 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:41.039 It always works. 164 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:44.320 Now you live in the DC area or Virginia, is 165 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:44.759 that right? 166 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:47.960 I live in between Philadelphia and Baltimore. 167 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:49.120 I'm in that here, Okay. 168 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.559 So a lot of people in the summertime, and we're 169 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.120 here in summer vacation season. That's that's why you're on 170 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:57.200 the show to talk about some cool places to go 171 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:00.919 in the summertime. A lot of people go north because 172 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.679 the weather's nicer. I mean, it's if you're gonna go 173 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:05.440 to like, if you're gonna go to Maine. For me, 174 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:09.679 the only time to go would be summertime, wouldn't you agree? 175 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.639 That is definitely a thing that I do is that 176 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:15.679 if somebody will go out, well at the universe, it 177 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:19.240 is just open back on Thursday. You going, I said, well, no, 178 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.440 I'll wait till it gets colder to go to Florida. 179 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:23.600 So I'm going to do as many things in the north. 180 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.720 These things are open, especially now for Memorial Day as 181 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:28.600 you get into the Labor Day, and then a lot 182 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:30.600 of these places are up and beyond that as well. 183 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.320 And in Maine they have the new National Monument, Francis Perkins, 184 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:37.120 that has not even been open since it's become a 185 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:38.240 National Park site. 186 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:39.639 So I will head on up there. 187 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:41.759 If you remember when Forrest Gump was running across the 188 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.679 country and he said he runs the Pacific Ocean. When 189 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.320 he turns around and runs to the east, he runs 190 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:48.480 right in that same area. 191 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:49.960 That lighthouse that you see. 192 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.080 I went to it last year to be able to 193 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.039 go see it, and that's right near the Francis Perkins 194 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:57.559 National Monument, which is one of the new ones. So 195 00:10:57.840 --> 00:10:59.879 that's a good reason to go to Maine a'l gonquit. 196 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.080 There's just I just I went all the way to 197 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.440 the top of Maine, and a lot of people don't 198 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:06.080 go that far past Bangalore. 199 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:08.559 But when you go up into the very northern parts of. 200 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:10.559 Man, it's like going up in the northern minute snowda 201 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:12.000 and I see minue snowda. 202 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:15.960 It's not snow up there. Right now. You're usually good. 203 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:19.519 Right now, Glacier National Park, you always have to wait 204 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:22.600 till closer to fourth of July till they can open 205 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.039 the going to the Sun road and you and again 206 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:26.879 you just can't go there and drive over. You have 207 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.120 to make sure you go online and get your timed 208 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.720 entry to get over top of But going to the 209 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:34.039 Sun Road, there's the I'm Go'll tell you about a 210 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.399 great road, the Bear Tooth. 211 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:37.960 If you've never done the Bear Tooth. 212 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.440 It's between Yellowstone National Park and Montana and between there 213 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.720 and Billings and look for the bear Tooth. Everybody had 214 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:46.360 told me, they said you got to drive this road. 215 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:48.919 So I was driving in Montana and I dropped down 216 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.519 to the Yellowstone National Park around Mamos Springs, came out 217 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:53.799 the northeast side of the Lamar Valley where all the 218 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:55.600 bison aar and it's just I got out of there. 219 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.519 You see the bear Tooth. It's a mountain that looks 220 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:59.120 like a bear tooth. And then all of a sudden 221 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.240 you start climbing and climbing, and when you hit that 222 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.759 Montowna side, you are way high and you start going 223 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.600 down the road back into Montana. One of the most excepts, 224 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:09.679 but you have to do it this time of the year. 225 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.480 That's a highly recommend bar Tooth Highway, Wyoming, Montanna. 226 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:14.960 Look that one up. You know what I used to 227 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:16.639 love when we were kids. 228 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.720 We lived in the suburban Chicago area, not too far 229 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:24.600 from MDW by the way. In Memorial Day weekend, yeah, 230 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.399 Memorial Day weekend, we used to go to the Wisconsin 231 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.919 Dell's and my parents would take us on a camping 232 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.720 trip and they had one of those Coleman pop up campers, 233 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:36.919 and you know, we'd find a campground there in either 234 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:40.200 Baraboo or Portage, Wisconsin. What can you tell me about 235 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:43.960 that area? Is it still a great destination for people. 236 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.519 It's growing. It's my photo op favorite place. So I 237 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.159 just went again last year and they're putting in the 238 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:52.480 brand new Mountain coastre. It's supposed to open here in 239 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.000 the summer of twenty twenty five, so it'll be in 240 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:56.879 that area. As you know, you go over to Baraboo 241 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.600 and that's the Ringling area. You have the whole circus world. 242 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:03.000 But you between those cities if you want water parks, 243 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:05.440 if you want especially Big Sheep one of the great 244 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.440 amusement parks with the coasters. 245 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:08.240 They started it out. 246 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:10.519 I remember when I was living in Indiana back in 247 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:12.480 the nineties and I went over the head one and 248 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.720 all of a sudden it became a huge park. But 249 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.919 just the pictures that you can get taken in that area, 250 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.919 whether or not you want the giant horse, I mean Rome, 251 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.000 It'll looks like you're the Coliseum. They have just all 252 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:29.639 these co replatives they got. Remember the Sinclair Dinosaur, a 253 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.679 dinosaur that must be about twenty feet tall. It's on 254 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:35.159 the southeast side. As soon as the Eggs of nine 255 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.279 ninety four, you'll see that one. So yes, it's just growing. 256 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.000 And there's so many great shows. It's like Vision Forge. 257 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.519 Do they still have the Tommy Bartlett water Show? I 258 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:47.919 remember that as a I'm pretty sure they still have that. 259 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.919 I have never seen that, but I'll bet it's still there. 260 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.120 And Paul Paul bunyons for Breakfast with Babe the Blue Ox. 261 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:56.639 Are you familiar with that. 262 00:13:57.399 --> 00:13:59.799 I've never been in there, but I know that if 263 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:01.720 you go up in the north you get a lot. 264 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:02.519 Of those statues. 265 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.279 There'll be so many Paul Bunions in the Blue Ox 266 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:08.399 and you'll just see those everywhere. It's such a big 267 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:11.399 part of It's a great place because if you're living. 268 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:13.919 Even in the Midwest, had on up to the up 269 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:14.720 of Michigan. 270 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:16.279 That's one of my favorites. 271 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:19.399 But when I travel, I'm always looking for the high 272 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:22.639 pressure system. So the way I love traveling is I 273 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:24.559 say I'm going to take off for a week, and. 274 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:26.039 They'll say where you go, and I say, well, I 275 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:27.720 don't know. Let's see where the weather takes me. 276 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.399 And I look for the high pressure system because I 277 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:31.960 know all my pictures and I'm going to get some 278 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.759 pretty good blue sky weather. And then I find places 279 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.000 to stay along the way and I get good weather. 280 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.399 So you go where the weather's going to be good. 281 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:41.480 That's where I really try. I try to think about 282 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.240 a week and a half off and say, all right, 283 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:44.000 where's the high. 284 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.039 Pressure right now? Oh, on this day, it'll be this this. 285 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:47.840 Okay, if I hit here, I might be able to 286 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:51.120 go here, and I change my plans during the entire trip. 287 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.320 Not for everybody, but it is so much fun because 288 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.240 you don't know your destination. It sounds like a blast. 289 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:00.200 You look for dairy bars with good mill bars, is 290 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:00.840 what you're telling. 291 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:02.399 Yeah, that's a very good thing. 292 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:04.240 And you know when you started, you talked about you 293 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:07.720 played Holiday Road from the movie Vacation. And if you've 294 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.120 never seen the family Truckster, they have one that's set 295 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:14.799 up and it's down in Trinidad, not on the island. 296 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:16.360 Trinidad is in Colorado. 297 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.320 It's I twenty five, very southern Colorado, almost at the 298 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:22.919 New Mexico border, and they actually put Edna on top, 299 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.440 so it is it's a great photo op and that's 300 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.919 part of the road that they were really driving. 301 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:31.200 When they went out to Pagosa Springs. 302 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.720 And you can see a lot of the things along 303 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:35.320 the way from the movie Vacation. 304 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:38.120 It's note I really enjoy that it's not exactly a 305 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:43.000 summer destination. He would know it's a better weather in summer. 306 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:48.480 My birthtown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. I think we may 307 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.320 have talked about this before. It's in Henry County, Iowa, 308 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:54.279 and they're in the southeast corner of the state, right 309 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:57.559 off Highway thirty four. If you go straight from Galesburg, 310 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.879 Illinois on thirty four, you'll hit Mount Pleasant and town 311 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.759 of about nine ten thousand people and every year they 312 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:09.320 have the Midwest Old Thrashers Reunion, which is an incredible 313 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:14.360 festival of old steam engines and farm equipment, and then 314 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.120 they have modern tractors and they have country music artists there. 315 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:20.360 They've got an old steam train that runs around the 316 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:24.399 entire fairgrounds that you can ride. I highly recommend that 317 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:28.480 for you for a future flash trip when the barometric 318 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:29.399 pressure is right. 319 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:31.679 Well, there you go. 320 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.440 Well, Burlington, the town right next to you as well. 321 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:36.360 They have a place called the Phelps House. And if 322 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.519 you can find the Pelps House, they have the Snake Alley. 323 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:41.200 So if you're very familiar with a road that would 324 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.720 just like Lombard Street in San Francisco. It's just like it, 325 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:46.879 and it's next to the Felps House and it's right there, 326 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:49.919 and he goes directly down almost towards the Mississippi River. 327 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.799 But look for Snake Alley if you're in Burlington, not 328 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.840 too far away from Gary Jeff's place of Mount Pleasant, 329 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:57.600 which is a lot of fun. Here's another way, and 330 00:16:57.639 --> 00:16:59.399 I bet you know about this. In the Quad Cities 331 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.039 area on the north side, there's a town called Leclair. 332 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.519 On the other side, there's a place called Port Byron, Illinois. 333 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:09.920 Do you know that they play tugle war against each other? No, 334 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.599 this is one of the coolest things you look up 335 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:16.480 look up tugle war from from Leclaire in Iowa. 336 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.640 So imagine the people of Leclaire, Iowa. 337 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.480 They take a boat and they take the rope all 338 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.000 the way across the Illinois and the Port Byron. People 339 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:25.960 on each side are pulling on the rope, trying to 340 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.000 pull each other into the Mississippi River every years. 341 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:30.000 Real story. 342 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:32.880 I gotta find out when that is, because the next 343 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.440 time I make a trip to Iowa, maybe this summer 344 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.759 will make a trip up to Leclair and Port Byron, 345 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:44.559 Port Byron and wats the I don't know if I'm 346 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:46.519 I don't know if I'm going to get involved. I'd 347 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.559 like to see it though. You know, speaking of the 348 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.880 speaking of the Mississippi River, there are so many cool 349 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:56.799 destinations and and it's you know, a day and a 350 00:17:56.839 --> 00:17:59.960 half's drive from here, more than likely unless you're a 351 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:05.400 real dedicated traveler like a flash Phelps. The Mississippi River 352 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:10.400 is rife with all kinds of great destinations and locations 353 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:15.279 from the Tom Sawyer you know, Huck Finn, Hannibal and 354 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:22.359 that whole area. Any any recommendations along that trail, Yeah, definitely. 355 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:24.680 Now you can ride each side and they both are 356 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.640 marked with paddle wheels. So if you get the Mississippi River, 357 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:29.640 whether or not you're on the east side or west side, 358 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:32.400 you'll see the paddle wheel trail and you can follow 359 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:34.599 along the river. One of my favorites. If you can 360 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:37.640 go up to northern Minnesota, you actually can see the 361 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.279 start of the Mississippi River. So you want to go 362 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.680 up to brain the brain Er Bamidgie area. So if 363 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:44.680 you're in Bamidgie here, I'll get the map out. I'm 364 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:45.519 a point at for. 365 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.200 You as well. There's park rapids well as soon. 366 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.480 As you are here and you can actually go to 367 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:52.279 the very start of the Misissippi River. You can walk 368 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.799 through it because's only about a foot deep once it starts, 369 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.079 so it's one of the coolest things that you can 370 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.079 see up there in the midge and then make your 371 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:03.359 way down until it gets to the Twin Cities gets 372 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:05.359 wire and wider as you know. So that's one of 373 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:07.960 my favorites to definitely see along the Mississippi. 374 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:09.119 I love that, you know what. 375 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:11.400 Another great one is Mud Island in Memphis. If you 376 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:14.039 get the Memphis you walk over the bridge, you just 377 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:15.920 get on the Mud Island. That's where they have the 378 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:18.559 giant Memphis sign kind of like in Cincinnati, you know 379 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.799 the Queens City right there, a big li says Memphis 380 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:25.400 on Mud Island. But they have the lower part of 381 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.559 the Mississippi River, which would include everything from Missouri all 382 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.279 the way to the Gulf, and it would go all 383 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:31.759 the way down and you can do it, and they 384 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:35.640 raise and lower the water depending on where the Mississippi 385 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:37.720 is at that time. And right now, as you know, 386 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:39.839 it's been pretty high from all these rains. Well you 387 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:42.119 have flooding there in Cincinnati, didn't you. 388 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:46.400 Well we've had some flooding earlier in the year. Right now, 389 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:50.960 we're still dealing with the aftermath of the terrible, deadly 390 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:55.960 tornadoes that took place near London, Kentucky that claim me, yeah, 391 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:01.240 twenty one lives and you know they're by the way, quick, 392 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:03.720 quick chance for me to just once again plug Matthew 393 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:06.519 twenty five Ministries, which is located here in Cincinnati and 394 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:09.319 Blue Ash and they have drops all over the place. 395 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:14.759 They're looking for a number of items from anyone who 396 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:17.920 can bring them to these people who literally lost everything 397 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:23.359 in the twisters of last week in London, Kentucky and 398 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:24.400 Somerset area. 399 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:26.519 Just south of Lexington. 400 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:28.680 So I tell you what, Flash, If you'll hold on 401 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:30.720