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the video description if you need some you know if you got to stay at an rv park because you need the
water and the dump station and you need to dump your trash and do laundry and all that fun stuff
why not stay at a fun one right this is a fun one except there's a sad story to this
and that is that big changes are underway and uh this place is not going to look the same
in the future unfortunately so this is kind of my nostalgic second and finally last stop here
at the flintstones yabadabadoo park yeah we are only 20 miles from the grand canyon national
park up that road the south rim entrance they are open uh they are doing social distancing and masks
inside places i've already been there a few times so i'm stick skipping that this year i want to
show you a little bit of this park i think you'll really appreciate this if you've seen some of
those quirky parks from the movies this is one of them and it's not going to be around much longer
right now it doesn't look like there's much to see here
it's just pull through sites however as we continue to pan left this is all under
construction this is going to be more camping over here and here is part of the old wall for bedrock
city here you can see the bones on top there and these are also small little campsites as well here
also uh this place closed down last year for a period of time when the new owners purchased it
they had grand plans of removing everything flintstone related and changing it into a raptor
park for birds yeah and as you come in you've got the raptor ranch the new logo for the new
campground there's something wild in the air and also the campground office is being remodeled
but they've got their new sign up there no longer says bedrock city and the laundry but
it's still shaped like bedrock city you know let's go check out the laundry room
see i love this i really hope they don't get rid of this i mean it's just very very quirky
this is fantastic it doesn't look like they're gonna be getting rid of this because they've
actually already made some changes inside here but you got the stucco ceilings and walls and
it's not level you know like it's all different sizes in here a big screen tv some couches and
stuff and the laundry room in here nice washers five dollars a load five dollars to dry holy cow
i've never seen that in my life holy cow yeah they gotta pay for the remodel i guess
i can definitely wait to do laundry somewhere else and also you know the campground is
1 8 full on a weekend in october 20 miles from grand canyon so it makes me wonder if
they're having second thoughts about changing it over see they left the bedrock city still open
sign and as i showed you before fred there and the yabba-dabba-doo and everything but
i don't think it's a good idea to change it but i don't know all the details maybe they couldn't
get the copyright license renewed or something i don't know but legally speaking the business has
already changed to raptor ranch so it is no longer bedrock city and like many things on route 66
this is just going to all deteriorate one day and it's going to be in our memories and old
black and white pictures or or videos like these i never noticed that car last time i was here
little foot the foot car it's definitely seen better days but it's a fun little photo op right
and the little bones property markers so cool you don't see this every day phone booths
no phones left in them but they're just leaving parts of bedrock city and there's a dinosaur
right there and the new entrance raptor ranch uh with your 75 dollar per night rv spot over there
we still get to go back behind the uh ranch store here and uh check out the scenery so
i'm gonna go look for the first time and see what it looks like last time i was here asha came here
and it was raining and snowing and miserable today it's a beautiful day so go check it out
see i hate to think they're gonna get rid of all this stuff born in bedrock or are they just gonna
re-brand it to all raptor stuff i don't know all right here we are back here bedrock city arizona
palm trees a volcano with a raptor on it actually that kind of fits their their new theme with the
raptor on there although it's prehistoric oh we got we got one hatching here yeah and fred's car
here looks like it's got some newer paint on it oh i get it it's fred's uh gas station here
kind of like the the dino gas station oh i love it and then the wild wild animal park
this would be new here this little stage here where they're probably at some point
thinking that they're gonna do raptor demonstrations and birds and stuff but
let's see in order for that idea that dream to come alive you have to create something
that is better than what bedrock city was to so many tourists going to the grand canyon
and i just don't know if they're going to be able to pull it off you know i don't know maybe
i'll eat my words in five years i don't know all right what do we got here the bedrock city grocery
store let's go check this one out watermelon we got some dino eggs in there today's special
is cactus juice we've got meats rhinoceros ribs hornosaurus ham and brontosaurus beef yum yum yum
that's great what we got over here looks like the barber shop oh the rock head beauty salon
okay oh my that that's that's one style that you could go for i suppose wow
and then next door is the barber shop right i think sandy gravel clipologist
look at those big huge pair of scissors there that's awesome and the local ups air mail
post office oh that's great see this this theming is awesome we need more of this in the country and
better yet we need companies to not buy them out and then change everything gonna be grumpy i just
realized also as i'm looking around there's a lot of people there's at least two dozen people
here also just looking around none of these people are camping these are all people who have stopped
from the grand canyon paid their five dollars to just come in and look at bedrock city so
think about that raptor ranch consider that please
you don't know your customers ah who are we taking a picture of here at least he's smiling
right thanks for the smile dude well we got dino's bowl here which means we must be
at fred's house that's great at the kitchen yup it's the the bedroom in here and dark in
there that's great man i live in something like this it's awesome and barney's house over here
oh i love the living room home sweet home just like i remember actually i don't know if it's
accurate to the show look at that stove a stove and oven made out of bedrock and
the rake outside of barney's house there made out of bones we got the policeman's house here
very colorful it almost reminds me of some places in slab city they're at salvation mountain kinda
dino there is actually a slide you can climb up him and slide down his tail i don't need to do it
i kind of want to do i'm going to do it i'm going to do it just like from the flintstones
intro i mean i don't think he actually walked upstairs to get down the dinosaur's tail
but that's how we're going to do it do you think that slide looks safe guys sure sure
encore oh okay one more time
look at this slithering monster guys he's hungry hungry for some humans
all right bedrock city you be well do you have a plan for the day are
you just gonna do this all day are you are you petting your own face
you're petting your own face aren't you you are so funny looking and cute
okay uh it's been brought to my attention in my last couple videos that some of my viewers
aren't used to the look um because when i use my dslr camera here you know it puts my face in
well it puts what i want in focus and the other stuff's going to be blurred in the background
that's that's the way the camera works it's a lot different than the gopro which i'll be honest
i kind of got used to just vlogging all the time with my gopro and as you know that was
taken from me in vegas and still no update from the pawn store about my property or my saddle bag
uh i i i know it kind of looks better like if i'm talking you can look behind me and always
see what's behind me so um actually i want to get your opinion so actually what i'm going to do is
i'm going to grab my gopro 7 dash cam up here and i'm going to attach the good microphone to it and
we're going to walk and talk outside actually across the street i see some quirky stuff over
at this gas station over here so we're gonna we're gonna go pro the rest of the video after
this and you can let me know if you like that view better okay just remember the seven here
doesn't have the super smooth stabilization that my eight did it's still better than in a lot of
ways it's a lot better than that panasonic dslr that i that i vlog with all the time it does show
the imperfections behind me but you know oh well uh weather i know i've been talking about weather
a lot late lately too and you know again my my videos are delayed by up to two weeks sometimes
but it's been weird because at aja's party thing it was upper 80s every day and that was about
10 to 15 degrees above normal and now tonight the low is 33 degrees so we went from it being
95 degrees inside the rv and no way to cool it down to now i got to run the heater here at the rv
park because it's gonna almost freeze and that's crazy but we're gonna cross the highway here
and go over to this uh place right over here well first place i want to look at across the street is
rocks and more here these steel creations are beautiful and they would be so cool for like
yard art or something at my house however again they are literally steel they're heavy
but they've got that cool rusty patina the ones i was looking at in illinois were actually
molds of aluminum cast a cast aluminum a lot lighter and they're all just gray
you'd have to paint them or or something but i mean they've got a lot here and they're all
priced a little differently and some of them have had a rough day oh my were you beating
up on your little brother you leave him alone you guys behave do they have a bad windstorm
here they're all knocked over in this fence i don't know but they're pretty cool eventually
i've got to have something quirky out front my house just don't know what it's going to be yet
this is what caught my eye from the other side of the road is this route 66 store with some
classic cars like the old army jeep over there and the police car old ford pickup truck with a
service attendant inside the truck yeah look at that 57 chevy bel air
it's got some of that arizona dirt dust on it like my rv does look at all these old gas pumps one two
three four five six seven pumps tweety bird lots of hot rods and rat rods coming here on this
particular section of route 66 in williams i like the flame job on this el camino too
the 396 even the bed there is clean i can kind of hear some 50s music playing out of the speaker
just for reference it's right next to the shell station it's also a route 66 museum in
there which would be cool to see but one of the things i've noticed so far being inside arizona
arizona is a state that's wide open by the way as far as cobit is concerned but
a lot of the reservation-owned places are closed they just they just don't want tourists in there
right now and they're they're going to wait till covet is completely gone before allowing us to buy
magnets i mean to them it's like better safe than sorry but they said this seven and a half months
ago back when it was only going to be 15 days you know so now it's like okay see in a few years when
you're when you think you're ready to allow our business back i gotta cross this highway i know
i know i bring up covid in every single video eric why do you always talk about look covet is
a part of our lives now guys unlike other people i am not gonna pretend like it doesn't affect us
it affects us that's that's mike i just met mike he does uh grand canyon tours over there
you know because it's just weird it doesn't make any sense right now you know how okay enough it's
real it's happening it's affecting everybody from here jax and i are going to be heading
let's see that's north we're going to be heading southeast kinda yeah and gonna be doing something
totally different i am actually choosing to skip route 66 yes because i want to see brand new
stuff in this world and i want to share brand new stuff with you so jackson i'll see you in
two days with new adventures we're very very very very excited we'll see you soon bye guys
hmm