dead-end the Lincoln Highway ends whoa
good morning everybody microphone plugged in yeah I want to
have a good day today even though not only is this possibly at the end of the
line but last day in Iowa for Lincoln Highway look it just ends right here
it's not anti-climatic but that's it oh this is cool
Lincoln Highway Linn County seedling mile yeah I mean it abruptly ends right
here guys there's there's nothing nothing past it but luckily they can
just build a new highway right next to it and that's what happens but wait I
want to read this this is important because this is the site of the first
and only seedling mile of the concrete pavement in this state of Iowa on the
Lincoln Highway this is the only piece okay and it was built only 16 feet wide
yeah that wouldn't work into in today's automobiles look guys as far as my last
video I have good days and bad days just like you I do I share a lot of my life
not every bit of my life I even skip days sometimes but sometimes you see
some raw emotions for me based on stuff I can't control I can't control
everything on the road it's just the way it goes so today we're just getting
ready to turn the generator on it's like 10:00 a.m. right now I'm gonna run the
generator and cab air conditioner on the RV from basically noon until about 8:00
p.m. tonight so the whole traveling every time I stop windows closed air
conditioning on and I think that's gonna help me stay sane Jack stay happy and
thus all of us end up being happy right okay cool
all right let's finish up the last little bit of Iowa here hopefully
there's gonna be some fun history before we get into a new state
good thing I took that little detour oh this is so cool I can't wait to show you
this off the highway guys remember American Gothic they painted it on their
bar and that's huge the artist is M Bennish 2008 they've got
a surveillance camera on the side of the barn so that nobody is gonna spray-paint
their graffiti gang signs on it beautiful work guys that's a gorgeous
recreation thumbs up man cool so I'm gonna stick to the original Lincoln
Highway for about 20 miles and then I'm gonna head back south and connect up
with the 84 a specific stop well I am very excited about this stop I'm not
sure if it looks quite as hazy and muggy as it is to you it is thick with eat but
here wood that's not all me by the way that's my generator and his generators
wanted to point that out but the interstate 80 trucking museum the
largest truck stop in America not to be confused with the largest travel center
in America that was in Wyoming at little America Travel Center because they have
lodging and motels and stuff but this holds the record for the largest truck
stop and they have a museum the floodgates open air conditioning maybe
it'd be cold I can get like a drone aerial so you can see all the trucking
spots and the RV parking and all the signs and everything it's a massive area
there's three different pilot gas stations on the same block
that's how big it is and this is the trucking museum whoo and it's free
fantastic what are we gonna find the 1918 independent truck here we have a
1927 GMC big brute ten ton look at all those old gas pumps whoo here we have a
Bowman the 1911 Walker electric model 43 for the wood
peeling paint all over the place holy cow I am NOT gonna be able to show you
everything in here I will show you some of the stuff I like the most though this
is awesome 35 Dodge air flow 49 Brockway a 1918
Walker with the wood paneling in the back 1933 white model 612 the 1939
International armored truck like a police truck oh my gosh look at that
truck in camera that's a beautiful Ford whoo
68 250 international we got a GMC diamond T and another diamond T of a
fire truck cab over hmm alright these are getting stranger and stranger a 54
PEGI old van is it like an RV it's a moving truck okay 74 Ryder paymaster are
100 oh my gosh wow that's beautiful Kenward look at that oh here's tomaters
dad do I even need to say it come check this place out for yourself this is
awesome but Eric did you get a magnet of course haven't got one in a while
there's a limit world's largest truck stop Walt
sweet yeah still here in Woollcott getting ready to get back on Lincoln
Highway but you know if I had to live in a house if I couldn't live in an RV
I would at least want to live in a house built like a castle because because
quirky right I'll stay on the sidewalk because this is a private residence here
but apparently they just wanted a pretend Castle I don't see a moat that's
pretty cool though I like it so we're driving through LeClair Iowa right now
and a reference three of my favorite TV shows when I had satellite in my RV is
Pawn Stars storage wars and American Pickers three
shows about acquiring or collecting odd random quirky stuff makes sense right
well Leclaire Iowa is home to the starts and the shop of one of those TV shows
and we're gonna go see if they're open and see if Mike Frank or Daniela are
available now forgive me if I get out just a little bit I'm pretty exciting if
anybody recognize this storefront here that's the one guys this is where
American Pickers started there's the car out front and on the
show all the time they have this building that I don't recognize actually
might as well check it out there we are guys we're inside
look at all these treasures need a magnet - I need a magnet huh there's
Frank's favorite fun stop got my magnet I will show you later but no sign of
Frank Mike or Danielle at this location they're probably at the Tennessee
store actually this is the other store part where they just sell more stuff
basically a mini Indian they're fun stop baby smile made me smile to see
something I've been watching on TV for years and years and years right no miss
koo little out of the way now I got to go back West a little bit yeah it's
funny too because I always pictured their shop to be out in the middle of
the woods in Iowa just because they always have the driving shots in the
woods and then they pull into the shop this is right off Main Street there's
like no trees or woods anywhere it's like right off the street
there's the magnet I got I picked the Pickers antique archeology put that up
by our new trucker magnet there yeah looking good in the magnets it's weird
though in that second little just gift shop store they had five employees with
antique archeology t-shirts and in the the retail store there alone they had
four or more employees that's just when I counted so they got nine employees
running their old store and Mike and Frank and Danielle are either in
Tennessee or on the road collecting or whatever so I would say TV has probably
done them well just like Pawn Stars but you know it's that's crazy
all right we do need to talk guys cuz I'm gonna make a change again Illinois
right there I'm going to take a little break on Lincoln Highway again I have a
friend down south and so I'm gonna go spend a couple days take care of a few
things down south plug in with air conditioning and then I'll come back up
and we'll finish Lincoln Highway or we'll continue on so I always feel like
I need to address that because some people are like some people will leave
comments and be like Eric that's 15 miles off Lincoln Highway why'd you stop
there Lincoln Highway is my loose route just
so you know it's a cool park though I'm gonna look for a sign that's Lincoln and
I don't know a railroad worker let's let's find some info here and Lincoln
said to the boy on the bridge I'm mighty glad I came out here where I can get a
little rest opinion a little more fact yeah I need that too very cool
but uh I am gonna go into Illinois tonight and go to the first Walmart I
think it's in Moline Moline uh because there's there's no free campsites around
here obviously that's about all I really want to say I think I think I share it
show Jax he's doing well he's staying cool inside the RV with the air
conditioning which is obviously where I'm headed as well but I just want you
all to know that I'm doing fine doing well I know what I'm doing the RV is
still running fantastic I mean how many states have we now and still no check
engine light knock on wood no RV is running great guys and that's a really
good thing boy if I pour it a lot into this RV it's worked well for me
jeez I've had this thing what now two and a half years that is now definitely
longer than any vehicle I have ever owned in my life any vehicle of any kind
and once you get to this point you know exactly what's been replaced in the RV
when it's been replaced you know I know off the top of my head when the last
fuel pump and catalytic converter and tune-up and all this so I feel like
we're caught up I mean no matter what happens now it's just a matter of just
maintaining it and keeping it on the road she'll do two hundred thousand
miles I really believe that all right folks have a wonderful morning afternoon
evening Jackson alias Jackson I will give you an
update once we get all parked down south and let you know what's going on okay
you