People who say california sucks either never leave the couch...or plainly don't realize the diversity and beauty of California...If you are ever bored,anywhere in California you need to reassess your life.
I understand the woke politics..taxes etc going on....but given the landscape and climate that california offers I could easily overlook the politics.Most who live there most likely take the climate for granted...understandably as that may be all that they know/experienced growing up there.@@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN
Jacumba is pronounced with an "H." The little settlement just across the border is El Jacume, which is also prnounced with an H. I spent a lot of time in Jacumba in the late 70's and early 80's. The town's motto back then was "Jacumba - the Rhumba lives!" The old 3-story Jacumba Hotel was still open. It stood across US 80 from the bathhouse. Unfortunately, the hotel burned in 1983. For a few years in the early 80's, a group of artists made Jacumba their home. The most famous of them was the painter David Baze, who died some time in the 90's. I still have two of David's oil paintings from that era. The Chinese Castle house [@10:24] was the weekend home of a prominent San Diego lawyer. We all hung out at the old Airport Cafe [bar], which was located across from the dirt airstrip a few miles East of town. That was a hoppin' joint in those days! One of the denziens was an old boy everybody called the "Inkopah Man," who lived a long ways up in the incredibly rugged mountains that rise above the nudist colony you passed. I could tell you stories about Friday nights at the Airport Cafe in the early 80's that would make your hair stand on end! Lord, but those were good days! It was so long ago, but it seems like yesterday ...
Came here to correct the pronunciation of Jacumba. I try to be cool about mispronounced town names, but it was getting on my nerves after the 3rd time. We used to camp here and climb the boulder mountains.
Yes, also Humberto’s Tacos is pronounced oom -berto, silent H. Adding the apostrophe S is a Spanglish thing. Technically it should be called Tacos Umberto
It's more than a weekend home of a lawyer. The Chinese Castle history: Part 1: thewackytacky.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-mysterious-chinese-castle-of.html Part 2: thewackytacky.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-mysterious-chinese-castle-of_28.html
Great video and super fun times hitting up these areas with you! One heck of a fun day and awesome times hanging out with you these past few days or so!
The abandoned amusement park in El Cajon was Marshal Scotty's Playland Park. It was used as the carnival for the filming of "Scavenger Hunt" (1979). I used to live in Jacumba, and found out it used to be a popular destination for the hot springs. Hollywood elite would travel there for a retreat. It really started to become what it is today because of the opening of the highway 8.
They're old Metra commuter rail cars from Chicago! The tracks were part of the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway, it was called the "impossible railroad", as it was through the area's mountains in the Sonoran Desert. The Goat Canyon trestle is own by the San Diego MTS. Crazy amount of train history out there!!
@@retroolschool Montreal used to have the exact same kind of double-decker cars for commuter trains on the Windsor/Lucien L'Allier-Dorion/Rigaud route right up until around the turn of the millennium. They were the train cars I took when I was a kid visiting my father's office building in downtown Montreal in the 1980s. I rather miss them.
The goat canyon trestle is awesome! A few years back Huell Hauser did an episode of California's Gold on the railroad line, the San Diego road museum, and trestle.
Totally agree how incredible it would be to go back in time and see these abandoned places in their prime! I live in a 16th century cottage in a little village in Lincolnshire, England. I would LOVE to see who was living here hundreds of years ago
The current place where you are living now will fall back in time after 100 years from now, since the source of economy keeps changing. Similar to the fact that these small towns were booming due to oil wells 5 decades ago.
@thedailywoo that lady riding the horse through Jacumba there is actually my mom Leah. She's been a local to Jacumba for over 40 years, and wouldn't mind being a tour guide if yall ever want to see more of the sites!
I visited that area around 1997. What I remember was that the railroad tracks were destroyed not by an earthquake, but by the remnants of a hurricane that came up from the Gulf of California around 1976. The earthquake sounds more plausible for the area this video was filmed, essentially given the age of the railroad passenger cars. I think the hurricane damaged track was northeast of there in a canyon on the descent into the desert east of the Desert Tower. I had also once read that passenger service on that railroad ended around 1951. The mile or so long tunnel on the railroad you mentioned crossed the border as west of there the railroad traveled through Mexico to Tijuana before once again crossing back into the United States. The reason the railroad traveled through Mexico at all is because when it was built more than a century ago the terrain through Mexico was easier to build a railroad through than it was on the American side of the border.
I agree with other comments. These are some of your best videos when you go to abandon or out of the way little towns. I have a thing for tumbleweeds. I actually saw my 1st tumbleweed in Florida. I didn't realize they had them there but I noticed I didn't see any tumbleweeds in your video today. Unusual given the conditions and the wind.
When you heard that beeping sound it made me think of Christmas vacation when she said "What's that funny sound" when she heard the squirrel in the tree lol
Nice video and exploration. Yes, I also noticed the tarantula at 21:19 as well. Also, the buzzing sound you hear is common in California deserts. It is from the male cicada insect that vibrates its tymbal, a membrane in its abdomen, which is a mating call to females in the vicinity. Remember, when walking or hiking, always look down where you step to ensure you do not step on a rattlesnake. It's difficult while filming. but using a chest or head cam can help (of course you likely know this). Thanks again for sharing. Enjoy your trip.
I remember Danny's video. It felt like one of those found footage videos. I was a bit concerned for his safety and then I thought, "Oh, wait! He uploaded the video, he's totally fine." :)
For the double decked train cars - if they have French writing - then my guess they came from the Montreal commuter lines. I recall riding those cars in the 70’s and 80’s on the suburban lines. The cool thing was the seat backs would flip so you could always face forward. That was probably not a dining car but just had some of the seat backs half turned. Yes - at least until the late 70’s you had smoking cars.
Several years ago they had plans for a tourist and dinner train (former Amtrak cars)-- there was also a dining and kitchen car. For an unknown reason they left the cars unintended on the tracks during a test run, and vandals released the brakes. The cars rolled downhill and derailed on the curve. I remember the kitchen car on its side. They up righted the car, repaired the tracks and removed the kitchen and dining cars, leaving the others on the siding. That was the end of the proposed tourist train.
As a child I lived on traincars in the 1960s...because my dad was an electrical engineer for SP. Railroad. Train cars were like mini apartments..only they were trains. That was our life until I was 11....this train was cool to see. Of course. I'm partial to trains. Can't imagine why😂. Great video. Great fun. Thankyou sir❤
Adam can I just say your videos bring me so much joy more than you’ll ever understand. Also, you have the voice of an angel lol seriously your voice is iconic I absolutely love it it sounds like it belongs in commercials, movies, etc RU-vid as well is just as good. Keep up the incredible work you do you truly bring joy to people you don’t even realize you do. 🙏🏻😊❤️
I rode my bicycle to Yuma once and I had to ride on the 8 for a while. The pavement was so smooth. The frontage road was bumpy neglected crap. Oh well I made it there and back. Good times.
I was blown away at the end of the video. I used to live in the apartments right across the street from Humberto's! That was ten years ago and I know the neighborhood has changed a lot. I used to call it MMMBerto's, because it was so good! I got pretty chubby back then! I'm so glad you checked out Jacumba! The town always fascinated me when I lived in SD and moreso once I drove though it. In January of 2017 I stayed at the Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel. I think the place is closed down now, but even back before the pandemic there seemed like nobody was around and felt very surreal. I like how the border just stops at one point and goes into a hill. You can see it from the park you were at. It's like the people who originally built the border were like, "Well, fuck it. If anyone wants to cross over here in this heat, they can knock themselves out!" I loved exploring Campo RD, old Hwy 80. Talk about experiencing surreal. In the town of Campo is the Southern terminus of the PCT which is right next to the border, so you can get a good look at the border from there. A little closer to SD along the road is the turn off to Tecate. Campo RD feels desolate and quiet, but then you turn down a road, and within a mile WHAM! A busy border crossing and a bustling town over the border with a ton of people.
Watching you hit some places I like to go here in SD has been fun. It's getting a little late in the season for desert trips, but I'm hoping to see you check out the steel sculptures down in Borrego Springs one of these days. The same artist that did that snake you saw in Jacumba created several sculptures down there and it's very much worth the trip!
Boulderous regions ! Very nice, your a natural entertainer w/a gift of gab. Desert folk Lol Did u know the prairie dogs have bubonic plague & rattle snakes love shorts & snickers ! That’s why they have a “Rattle” Stay safe out there 🥰
I did the hike to abandoned trains back in 2018, we were the only people there & had Border Patrol copters flying past us. Back then, that set of train cars was derailed & blocking both sets of tracks. I’m not surprised there’s more people there now.
