good morning a pleasant one to you from Park Forest Illinois everybody this is
actually Lincoln Highway out here six lanes in a turn lane a major portion of
US Route 30 in Lincoln Highway and behind me is something really unique
that I had to pull around and take a look at be mindful this is somebody's
private property here off the sidewalk but they've turned their house into a
Chinese looking house
it's pretty unique cook on the garage there it says compassion glue for broken
people no idea why they did it like that that's kind of different so for me the
day is still up for grabs but it's possible that we get into a new state by
the end of the day today we shall see what happens and what we find on Lincoln
Highway so for the record this portion of Lincoln Highway is possibly the most
congested heavily populated part of Lincoln Highway but maybe that means
there'll be more interesting stuff or at least Lincoln related stuff here he is
accepting some flowers from two little girls and the monument itself says on
the road to greatness how neat is that and then you've got a Capitol building
of sorts there as well so there just might be more to actually see even
though it's like heavily heavily popular populated oh well guys it looks like old
Bertha's doing some advertising outside this restaurant here we're in the chef's
hat I don't think if she knows that she might be on the actual menu yeah well
they do have some nice artwork on the ass I named it go check it out for lunch
Hey a spared Betsy's life and went with chicken today stuff now kind of random
off Lincoln Highway the Stone Depot wouldn't you know it looks like it's
going out of business soon but it is still open right now
I like the animation art and the pink gorilla with the American flag can't go
wrong with that right that would get you in see how it almost has that unkept
field overgrown everything I mean that could be somebody's yard aren't right
there the big kitty cat huh well I'm glad it's open right now I got to see it
anybody want to build a house out of sod 349 4 6 foot by 18 inches yeah you could
probably build a house for like a thousand dollars out of sod like that
one I'd share with you a couple weeks ago it's got to hold up better than my
RV Oh bazinga too soon sorry yota you're doing well or your very own palm tree I
didn't this isn't really the right area for palms though we're not quite south
far enough hey be cool Indiana I'm not very impressed you're not off to a great
start you don't even have a welcome to Indiana State sign on Lincoln Highway
nothing thankfully Google Google Maps knew I was in Indiana and welcome to me
but the state of Indiana had nothing to say but we're in dire Indiana
there's no point waiting for traffic to stop because it's not gonna stop oh wait
that is gonna stop red light look the Lincoln Highway head of states first
transcontinental highway constructed in 1913 228 New York City to San Francisco
dedicated the memory of Abraham Lincoln and the other side talks about the ideal
section 1.5 miles of Lincoln Highway completed in 1923 designed and built as
a model for the road construction so this is what Indiana had in mind for the
entire country for Lincoln Highway what do you think it looks pretty commercial
to me let's get out of this big city I got
about a half mile to walk just a fact of life there is no way around it because
as the roads get busier as the towns get bigger bigger there's just nowhere to
stop there's nowhere to park now we're gonna do a lot of walking no biggie
so I'm parked in the fancy neighborhood there of Castle wood yes by the way this
is not what I came back for Myers castle with a gargoyle and I don't really know
what it is we'll come back to that I might we'll see it was private property
or what's up all right this up here is what I came
for and it's only accessible 1/2 mile walk on the sidewalk there's a Lincoln
marker they're talking about the ideal section again I'm going to take a
picture of this so I can get some ideas for later for Indiana had some
restoration in 2009 does the traffic almost ruin the mood
I don't know it kind of does for me I feel like I'm yelling all the time says
what was the ideal campsite there was no auto travel a roadside motor court you
go to a motel for a dollar to 350 and then they bought the property of the
castle for $3,400 so it's Lincoln Highway right there and here we are at
Alban s the chocolate and gummi bear factory oh yeah
feel like we're in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory see what that is
chocolate coming down from the room yep
and
no photography or videography up there they don't want you filming their
factory stuff so we'll honor that but they got gummy bears coming off the
conveyor belt right now so magnet choices they they have the really flat
ones or they have the more three-dimensional globe dome ones by the
way I know I butchered the name when I came in it's pronounced albanese that's
that's the family name of the candy I honestly I have never heard of it before
I don't think I've ever seen it in the store but I'm gonna be more mindful when
I look around because they are literally making the gummy bears right here in
Indiana which is pretty cool so let me get to the Harvey and I'll show you what
I got what I stocked up on well you wouldn't like it Jax no no no it's
delicious man you wouldn't like it okay so I got a full pound of the twelve
flavor assortment there I got a quarter pound of the green apple and the blue
raspberry and the passionate peach and fresh strawberry and of course my
Albanese magnet right there with the 3d gummy bear it like it this needs to be
clean there yeah you know for whatever reason it seems that youtubers are not
allowed to complain or be negative or even talk about any problems they have
in their life because the outside world just thinks you know hey you guys have
it made you get paid to make videos and that's no work at all we're not gonna
get into the work aspect cuz i don't really care i can't change anybody's
mind you know we can't be negative we're only allowed to share the good times of
our lives any time we talk about our our problems our struggles what we're going
through day to day because people are sitting there watching that video and
they're comparing their lives to what we're doing it's like this guy can't
complain he doesn't pick up 80 pound bags of cement for a living all day you
know and that's that thing that comparison thing so your work is
harder than my work it's harder to do your job you're working hard you deserve
your money more than I do because you're doing something different than I'm doing
and so for the last couple months I have made a strong point to drop all my old
complaining and negativity and just talking about bad things that happen
stuff I can't control but to cut that out or to resolve it somehow by the end
of the video you know but okay I get it my bad days are nothing compared to
everybody else's bad days I get that okay I get it my life's a cakewalk and
everything's just peaches and cream all the time okay it's not but I can't argue
that effect anymore it doesn't matter I'm gonna finish Lincoln Highway either
way one way or another we're gonna make it guys I have downloaded my high
clearance app that I had from two years ago when I was in New York City so I've
got that app I'm gonna utilize Google Maps as well and a couple and all stays
also has a clearance measure so you can plan the route each day not necessarily
the stops of each day but I can plan the route so if I need to go this way and
Lincoln Highway has a 9 or 10 foot bridge somewhere I can go around that
and come back if I need to so there's gonna be a lot of pre night planning as
far as the map for preclearance Heights at least which is no problem I don't
mind but yeah are you pooped Jax you just look like
you had such a tiring day today how about you relax okay actually that
sounds like a good idea I'm gonna go back west about a mile to the Walley
world there and I'm gonna edit Jax is gonna stay at my side and hang out with
me while I work oh maybe multitask and watch last
night's Mariners game that I forgot to watch and that'll get back on the road
that's the winner green apple gets it I do want to make a
point that these gummi bears from albinus albanese had I already forget
Elma nice way better than any other temp it is so much moist flavor in them but
all the flavors are so strong the
I'm out at the place was probably a lot more fun - that's how I narrowed it down
to just those four individual flavors but uh that was a cool stop I don't need
a whole lot of candy well I don't need it I don't need any chocolate like
you'll almost never see me eat chocolate but gummy bears and starbursts and
strawberry frosted sprinkled doughnuts from Dunkin Donuts are also my favorite
with an iced coffee in the morning that's my day guys hope you enjoyed come
along for the journey Jackson I'll see you in a couple days back on the Lincoln
Highway back