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I'm back in Chatanooga, TN this week after taking a week off due to illness. I really enjoyed seeing the beautiful homes and the incredible views of the surrounding valley and city below.
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hello Walkers and welcome back to City walks the channel where I walk you around interesting towns and trails and
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cities and locations and point out and find oh various things of interest or
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prettiness I guess Beauty uh today we are in Chattanooga we're above
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Chattanooga actually on Lookout Mountain uh I'm going to flip you around
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here one two three my name is Henry I will be your proxy Walker today your virtual travel guide
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uh your co-discoverer i' like to stress the c-cover bit uh because I don't I'm
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not an expert on a lot of places most places actually and uh so I just like to
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share with you my own Explorations and hopefully you enjoy that I will be talking pretty much the whole time so if
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you're looking for a quiet silent uh walk there are other channels for that
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so if you're looking for uh a nice way to entertain yourself during your
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treadmill walk this might be the channel for you so I'm going to flip you around
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again this is the entrance to Point Park and I'm going to walk us around just a
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little bit around the outside before I go in there it is a federal or a
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National Park Service site um there's some paid parking very limited free
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parking a nice little Visitor Center that explains the Battle of Lookout
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Mountain uh and uh which was a battle that took a place here in November of
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1863 uh there's also another battle site nearby called chaga and Chattanooga
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battle battle site um and it explains the overview of the
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battle uh in The Visitor Center have a nice big kind of panoramic painting not
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a cyron painting um and then they have this little Park here which is not huge
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but it is pretty and quiet and we will get some amazing views of Chattanooga uh it is November about
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almost 11 a.m. as we start this walk and it is 69° f 20°
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celius and a pretty cool pleasant day some
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squirrels over here and we'll get into I think uh I'll try and if we have time
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I'll do a little walk around this really kind of fancy neighborhood some really nice
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um homes and with amazing views of course this whole area was a battlefield
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but they didn't Reserve all of that that for uh for the
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park so we'll take a look at what they did down here and we'll get some good
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views they've got this I don't believe this uh tassled edifice was here at the
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time but uh it is now there is a fee to enter
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the park you have a national parks pass that should cover you
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um and they have a PID kiosk they also have paid parking if you can't find free
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spot looks like only 10 bucks per person
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yeah kids having a great time learning about some history burning off some
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steam I'm hoping we don't get rained on here it is beautiful fall day here
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the colors some reason my microphone's not working
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sorry about that hopefully the audio turns out all right my old mic did not connect for some reason anyway let's
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take a look out here over Chattanooga uh last summer I did a couple walks in downtown Chattanooga
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area and the chattano Southside and you can see it kind of
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stretching out there in the distance oh let me
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reframe I believe this is the Tennessee
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River should have known
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that yep Tennessee River and I believe
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chaga magwa is off to the right there we're actually I believe uh no I guess
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we're in Tennessee um and it get a big sort of Oxbow
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pattern here in the river um you can see the Fall colors I
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think I was talking about that when I had to pause earlier off to the right somewhere
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maybe off to the right somewhere there's a incline railway that can take you up
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here uh not to this specific spot but up to this area not sure what you're
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supposed to do after that it's probably not too far of a walk from there up appear to the
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park but it's hard to imagine um here's some
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cannons off the light it's hard to imagine soldiers assaulting this spot uh
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I mean you can see how steep and rugged this is it's not it's not a gentle slope now they did
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I believe start at the North End and make their Way South although
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the Breakthrough came in the uh Confederate Center uh which was supposed to be
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according to what I read in The Visitor Center just a sort of a diversion um
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they were supposed to the Union forces were supposed to dislodge the first line of defense in the center and uh and then
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hold but they just kept going um and
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uh ended up charging all the way up the
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hill there's a monument some kids playing I won't focus on them but we got
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some nice bright orange colors here as well which I'm
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loving loving that it's not warmer than it is cuz it is
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humid I want to thank our patreon supporters for your support you can find
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not seem like much to you guys but it does seem like a lot to me so thank you very
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much we'll go down here and see this view as well
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hi
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there so the reason um this battle was fought the Confederates were here cuz
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the Union forces had taken Chattanooga and uh the Confederates
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wanted to lay Siege they did so for several months and then um the unions
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were able to break that Siege and uh I
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there and go see what's down here um and
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then attack to drive these folks off as you could see from earlier you know this was not too far away and and I believe
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they could fire all the way into Chattanooga from up here but aside from all that this is
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really beautiful up here really Pleasant and the kids are having a great time but
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otherwise it's peaceful and quiet
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at this Viewpoint
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man yeah and it's a primitive thing so far AI so I'm pretty
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sure in the next 10 years if if your complain is only then I don't it's going to be a of
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there
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I believe there must have been a museum down here I saw some signs I don't think
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that's the case anymore some really cool um rock
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formations
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though reminds me of a bit of the hills overlooking Budapest um where the the castle was you
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know Buddha and PES were two separate cities originally and then came
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one
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[Music] for speech
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foreign speech
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[Music] looks like the museum is open but I'm not going to take you in
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there I am going to duck down this little side quest path over here then it
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looks like we can we can loop back around the other side
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of this Museum so we'll do a little bit of uh backtracking but that's kind of part for
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the course here on this channel often Discovery means having to retrace
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your steps a little bit lots of great interpretive signs with some old
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photography that sort of thing
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interesting to have such a anyway to say loud
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conversation okay so it looks like there's another trail that will take you down to these places Craven's house
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Covenant College skuka spring Sunset Rock believe there's a cave here um on
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the mountain you can see that this is is a precipitous
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descent so unless you got a shuttle car consider whether you are going to want
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to do that or
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not another view in another
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direction there's something about uh being up high like this and getting these views
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it's a little special pretty
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enjoyable pardon the sniffles
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Lookout Valley and Browns fairy I guess Browns fairy was an important river crossing at the
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time let's see what we can see around this side of
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things for
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for
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hi there excuse me no problem
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[Music] thanks wow that leaf blower is
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quiet excuse me so I didn't have a walk out last week
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and I apologize for that as you can tell I was actually down with the
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flu and uh just couldn't managed to do it this week so hopefully this will make
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up for it
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uh I've never really been a civil war history buff but it
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is I've read quite a few books about it less the military stuff and more the
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politics uh but was a pretty decisive inflection point for the
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United States and uh pretty brutal
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stuff as War tends to be I guess despite our romanticization of
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it I believe until the Advent of antibiotics
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and penicillin it was pretty common for more soldiers to die from sickness than
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injury and for those who were injured the that look was bleak
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I should look up our elevation
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here well we're at 2,000 ft here my guess
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is we're about 500 ft above the river
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love these giant I guess it's an oak tree of some
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sort hear some birds singing I don't know if Mike's picking it
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up for
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[Music]
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so let's take a little circuit around and uh
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just this kind of fancy neighborhood we won't go go too far uh but there really are some nice
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homes and as you can imagine the views must be just
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incredible here's a newer one uh but a lot of them seem like they
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have been around for quite a while especially lower where you get the
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big columned porches and porticos and that sort of
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thing but if you're going to park up here the parking app you use is Park
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Mobile pretty simple stuff I love these parking apps it just simplifies things so much
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all right
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I think we're on Brow Street look at this old tutor place kind of neat
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large rolling
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Lawns
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there all the boxwoods around here love
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it rot iron gates look at this Old Stone Wall this place is
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pretty pretty fancy and old looks
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historic beautiful
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love these big porches too big covered porches oh fantastic
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Let's cross over and get a view of the valley
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below go wall of hydranges that have passed the season
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no picnicking private property love it
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I wonder if there was a either a public park here at one time or another house that is no longer some
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interesting Drive infrastructure type stuff or maybe it was a Carriage House sort of
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thing we're going to head back here um oh
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wait this is the vertical the uphill train or what I call it incline railway
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which a lot of people might have called I would have called a finic I believe let's just check it out real
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quick it's really you know 5 minute walk from the park which is Handy much closer
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than I was saying earlier so you may I mentioned Ruby
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Falls I think which is a I believe a cave in a waterfall there's Rock City near here somewhere um
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which is this is closed November 4th through
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15th um looks like judging from the signs inside it's 20 bucks round trip
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for an adult uh so uh we found looks like the one
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window where it's not open but kind of cool to see anyway
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uh the lookout mountain incline railway so
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I often comment on real estate prices as I walk around because I'm curious and I
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think it's indicative of the economy often times and other things it's not always
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positive or negative uh uh seen a couple for sale
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signs I don't know what the prices are like here if you do or you have a comment please let me know in the
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comment section of the YouTube channel also check out the city walks virtual tours.com
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by uh location and runtime oh and I started a Facebook
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group uh I queried my Facebook page users if that would be more
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helpful and they said it would be or a couple people did anyway and the reason
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I did that is to make it possible for you guys to
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uh for you guys to contribute walks look at this
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place we saw that earlier it's the wall of hydrange I was talking about in the covered porch just beautiful um anyway
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share feel free to join that group it's not a public group in the
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sense that you just click join and you're in uh you have to basically agree to the rules which is
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Relentless positivity and kindness um pretty simple and then I'll
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approve you and you'll be good to go it's quite the
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mansion that's a covered porch right there tell you what
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as you can see there's several signs for Resident parking only uh so you just want to be aware of
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where you're parking uh they also have signs around to a number to call if you get your car
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gets booted uh if you're not familiar with the boot
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it's a big thing they put on your wheel basically that keeps you from
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driving away it's easier for them than Towing I guess look at this
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place
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um that's let's go back this way and see signs towards Ruby
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Falls few other things but this is uh so if you were to once you go past
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the point you loop around this oneway road and you would come out here but one of the things it's going to do is give
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us a view to the West yeah think guess West Northwest
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uh looks like there's some parking spaces over here I suspect you still have to pay
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looks like some spaces are opening up
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just giant homes beautiful giant
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homes pretty
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cool if you're not familiar with United States signing signage these do entner
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signs are just just telling you it's oneway traffic the opposite way it's not saying it's not a private
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property sign or a a no access
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sign it's funny I was reading an article the other day we forget the little things that we just
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take for granted that we know uh read an article about someone who moved
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to it was France and they
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uh had have a real hard time navigating the bureaucracy because they didn't understand the way
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the system worked they hadn't grown up with it it was just different and unusual to them and they didn't know the
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little words and definitions and stuff I'm interpreting a little bit here
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um and so it was very frustrating to them and I can imagine you know I think
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a lot of those European countries have a reputation for having a lot of bureaucracy and having it be difficult
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to navigate but you know I have to wonder if those people came here and
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wanted to build a house how easy it would be for them to navigate the bureaucracy or if they
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wanted to get a driver's license how difficult it would be because they wouldn't
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know even which office to go to you know or what the signage is and some of the
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definitions of the words that are used in the brochure so you know
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it's it's uh it's a trick I not a trick It's Tricky um and then I read another
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article about how these people had moved abroad and how much they
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loved the lack of certain what they called micro uh stressors right
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so the need to drive every everywhere the difficulty of getting around um the
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constant bombardment of marketing that we sort of take for granted here um in the states and uh it's not a judgment
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but uh well they were um but I thought it was an interesting thing to think
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about so we are back at our origin having made a couple different Loops
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here there's a gift shop here the battle of Chattanooga I want to thank you guys for joining me here in or outside of
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Chattanooga today in I haven't decided if it's in Tennessee or Georgia we're
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right on the line here so right near the line anyway thanks a lot I'm going to try and get another walk or two in while
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I'm here in Chattanooga and I hope you will join me for those I hope you enjoyed this one we
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will see you again soon until then keep on stepping for
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