Driving Thru Tornado Watch In Winter 2021 Storm - Car Problems from Alabama Into Florida Panhandle
Cross Country Winter 2021 Road Trip Day 6
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here at this pilot 301 well
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219 is the
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current it's early i need coffee 219 is
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the current gas price
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here right on the alabama panhandle got
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the self-pumping
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nozzle here there's the sign
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alabama state line
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and the welcome center next accident
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welcome center and rest area combination
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with a lighthouse built to the roof line
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of it there
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it's like a beacon saying
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you're almost home you've almost made it
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out of the cold
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current temperature is about 45 degrees
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and here is a fish
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45 degrees feels incredibly warm
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in comparison to what i have been
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dealing with for the last
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week well not quite a week a day or so
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shy of a week
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and i am not shy to
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show my face even at 5
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45 a.m under the shroud of
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daylight as it starts to appear nothing
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says stress like driving through ice
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blizzard-like conditions across most of
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interstate 10 some of
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i-10 was closed down so it takes a few
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detours
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but i have successfully made it back to
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unslick
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land
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oh that's good i should be back to
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celebration florida
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by this evening or at least early
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afternoon
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and i am very happy about that this
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journey has been it
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has been an adventurous wanted to think
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i almost
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flew the only reason i did not board a
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plane
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is i wanted to get my personal vehicle
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my car
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from the west coast to the east coast
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and have it most of time in florida
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in the future i'll be renting cars to go
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back and forth but i will keep my
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personal vehicle
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in central florida that was the plan
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that's what started this whole conundrum
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and i'm almost done
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i'm talking way too much i'm hitting the
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road
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i'm inviting you to join me for the
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final day of this road trip there'll be
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others
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and i'll be doing a lot of stuff around
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florida but
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nobody gonna join me shall you also
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before
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before heading on let's show inside this
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rest stop there's a there's a octopus a
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squid here
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and there's some other sea creatures
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along the tile it is
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not a lot of people in here it's very
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it's very very quiet
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okay i'm heading out
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getting out of here
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very soon you can kind of see the it's
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also a little cloudy
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might get some rain but no ice oh yes
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that i am joyous of also will not be
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in alabama for very long at all once you
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go through mississippi which
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was in the southern tip of mississippi
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and didn't drive too far
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a couple hours through there and alabama
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will be even a shorter
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commute to make it over to the florida
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state line
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just have to go through mobile under the
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water tunnel
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which i will be documenting here are
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some
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notable figures here etched
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on the side of this is a shell
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judging by the fish over there and the
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pelican
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under the lighthouse it could be
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ah the interstate system
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i ten i have become
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well i was familiar with you to begin
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with but
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this trip i stayed i stayed the course
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on you you served me well
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i must also mention and say that i am
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not a real big
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advocate of the freeway and interstate
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system when it comes to seeing
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interesting things like this rooster
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or chicken of the very large
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persuasion and his buddy that is
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hanging out in the back of an el camino
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here
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this is the kind of thing i love seeing
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i like going at a slow pace
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through small towns and back roads and
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the nooks and crannies of americana that
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you don't really get
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on the interstates however this was an
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exception this
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road trip was a serious
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exception simply because taking the back
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roads well today
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i might kind of veer off on a couple of
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occasions even though i'm just trying to
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get back
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in a timely manner but most of the trip
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i've been on
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on the interstate because it's the only
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place you could drive in the snow and
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ice
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without the fear of getting stuck on a
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moment-by-moment basis because of the
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snowplows and
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the salting of the roads etc but this is
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more my speed
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kind of just poking along idling past
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let's cut these beauties all right
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moving on
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when i was younger go to my grandparents
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mississippi for christmas we would come
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back
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to saint cloud florida we go through
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this tunnel in mobile
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my sister and i would always try to hold
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our breath
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as we went through see if he can do it
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now over a very long
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bay bridge i think it's the bay take a
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look over there
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off on the shoreline
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i do believe that this is a brand new
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bucky's at least since the last time i
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passed through this area
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beach express maybe the first
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possibly in the state of alabama look
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how many gas pumps are over there and
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there is gas
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accessible unlike in texas some of the
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buckies
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did not have fuel i'm gonna go in and
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just kind of
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peruse around just just a quick little
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stop off
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but i've never been to a bucky's outside
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of texas before
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this is a rare occasion and they are
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looks like they're expanding pretty well
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oh there's bucky right over there in the
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corner it's pretty neat to see how these
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are
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kind of taking over more or less many
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many years ago
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when i would travel through texas
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probably 2012
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2013 maybe in 2011 was the first time i
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set foot up it's slipping down over here
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over your mouth there bucky you need to
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like pull that i don't wanna
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i don't want to get into your personal
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space there but
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if you would you know if it wasn't
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during these times i would help you out
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by
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pushing that up uh just a little bit
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yeah all right i'm going we're going
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down to this entrance i think this one
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might be this one closed off
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i was going to say they were cones but
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they are they're just they're not well i
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guess that technically is a cone it's
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like a
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new school type of cone i did get a few
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items inside i didn't get any
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i didn't get any t-shirts or any like
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you know trinkets or anything but i did
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get a beverage
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dr pepper here they have their uh nice
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little assortment of other
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of their own flavors but i just decided
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to opt with this
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and that's going to help me wash down
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the couple of food items
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that i purchased including something
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called
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true beaver tots and you can see that
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they're
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got some uh give me some of your tops
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dollar 49 there's quite a few of them in
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there and this is a
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true bacon egg
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and cheese taco
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pretty good i just love pretty much
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anything that has a mascot on it
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no wipe i'm always like pulled into
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their tractor beams
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no real rhyme or reason why i would even
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stop
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well i mean there's a rhyme or reason
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you always want to get food and
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you know a little pit stop but
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you know big the foot your bucky might
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have a lot in common
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you're both very friendly faces
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yeah i don't know something about
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mascots
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i'm just like a i'm a youth at heart oh
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yes could it be
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the recent days have a ton of the frozen
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tundra have come to an end
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florida yeah
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now just to clarify i am still 450 miles
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from celebration florida but that does
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not
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damper my excitement
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of being back in florida it's it's
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kind of signifies the end of this
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nightmarish journey across
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icy cold temperatures there's no ice
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anywhere inside it is 46 degrees
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and i am loving it look at this this is
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the sun has seen better days it's
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weather worn
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but that's fine
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i don't really need to stop because i
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was just i went inside
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the last place which was just down the
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road but
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check out what's inside the welcome
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center some of the creatures you could
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find
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wandering around this state are
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the bobcat and the blue heron
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and they're showing what their
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footprints look like down here
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now this could be a river otter
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this might be a alligator
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yeah and the reason i know that or that
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can be
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bigfoot big the foot's cousin
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the only reason i know that is because
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it states right here
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river otter i was reading that i was
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wrong
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it's not big the foot's cousin bigfoot
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it's an
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american alligator
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look i can kind of put my foot next to
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it there
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oh yeah i am really excited
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to almost be off the road of this
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journey don't really need it
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because i just had a beverage but there
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is free oj
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inside has the hours there
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oh yeah and i suppose i should purchase
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one of these a sun pass because
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usually i have a rental car when i'm out
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i haven't had my own vehicle out here
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since i purchased it a few years ago
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and the rental cars you can just say
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utilize the tag
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for the toll roads but i do not have
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that option now
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so i should probably purchase a sun pass
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got my
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complimentary orange juice and i was
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asking
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the employee at the counter about how
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this works
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there is a twenty dollar one and a five
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dollar one since i only have one vehicle
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the five dollar one will work just fine
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if you want the 20
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one which is a large one it's up to
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three vehicles so i purchased this
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and then link everything up to it
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utilize this touch pad and then i
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am connected for tolls showing where i'm
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at now
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and where i'm going to be venturing
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still going across the 10
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freeway and then i'm going to connect
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with the 75
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southbound and then that's going to
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connect with the turnpike
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and the turnpike will veer me down to
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celebration florida in that area
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appears as if this ongoing saga is not
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over yet
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just check the weather there is a
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tornado watch
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for the entire panhandle for the next
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few hours
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so that could be get that could get
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interesting
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i'm just going to stay the course and
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power through until i can
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now i'm no meteorologist at all i know
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nothing really about the weather but
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the temperature has gone up about 10
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degrees in the last
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20 30 40 mile well 50 miles let's just
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say
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wonder if that has something to do with
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the weather elements
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and it's a tornado watch also not a
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warning
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i don't think that's quite as bad also
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do you know that
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pat sajak i think was a meteorologist
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before wheel of fortune
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is that even true that was a cone
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all i can really do is continue carrying
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on in hopes that
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it doesn't happen just just
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keep on moving restfully down the
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interstate
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about to go over a bridge here well i
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guess it's just like a
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it's not an elevated bridge but it is a
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bridge
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now i'm off the bridge trying to keep up
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with the details you can see
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over off the side there past that
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railing
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it's a very murky water
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if i can just get through tallahassee
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and then
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down to 75 southbound i'll get through
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this storm
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crossing my fingers well i'm not
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crossing them now but
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across them when i have the chance maybe
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i should cross them now
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okay i'm going to cross them i'm going
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to stop
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stop for a minute cross them just to
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clarify it's going to be 70 degrees in
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about 70 miles
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70 miles west of tallahassee and it says
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national weather service tornado watch
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70 degrees the temperature is rising
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quickly
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i have veered off the interstate for a
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bit
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going through the town of quincy
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and this corner is called adams street
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go outside adam street
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that's a coincidence
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the sky is looking a little frightening
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but
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seems okay it hasn't stepped up to the
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next level yet
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something up here i want to check out
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first though
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rolled my window down just for a minute
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it's not
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it's just kind of drizzling it's not
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pouring at this particular moment
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but this revamped golf station
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kept very very old school looking but it
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has been painted
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and renovated to make it last a few more
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years
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the vintage coca-cola machine out front
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as well as the pumps
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yeah pretty neat it's neat when these
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things get restored like this
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as opposed to just kind of rotting away
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and sitting here so you got the
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the best of both worlds you got the
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history of it
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but then the preservation as well
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okay moving on
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near the community of lloyd
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is not is a is a former johnny appleseed
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that is now a johnny donut seat
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he's holding a big donut
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kind of reminds me of one of pee-wee
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herman's dreams when he's talking to
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simone she asks if you ever have any
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dreams
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and he says he's all alone and there's a
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snake wearing a vest and he's rolling a
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big
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donut
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okay she just said lady drove by with a
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dog in
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the back seat said that johnny
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appleseed's
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hand oh he has a
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moss
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ridden hand his hand
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is over at the hotel
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there's a hotel over there and rumor has
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it
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it was just stated to me that his hand
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is at the
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hands of the hotel
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i don't know where the vehicle is it i'm
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not sure if she wanted to be on camera
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so
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nor the dog the dog was trying to get
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get some look at this ant bed down here
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watch out johnny
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moss ridden johnny holding
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a donut and your hand is
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has a room for the eve i don't have to
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get a hotel tonight johnny
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i'm heading home to my place in
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i'm on a journey it has been a yes it
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has been a heck
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of a road trip thus far what's in the
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bag
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what's in the bag
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is your nickname lloyd i know people
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assume that you are johnny
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but you're located in lloyd well you are
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swaying in the breeze
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so a few miles back there was a tornado
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not a warning a watch it looks like you
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could weather it or at least like
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well or maybe not maybe that's how you
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lost your hand
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but you seem to be stancing to the
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ground pretty well
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maybe the last tornado that rolled
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through
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dislocated that possibly
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all right see you later i almost called
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you lloyd
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see you later johnny i'm gonna i'm gonna
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head home for you
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let's do it for johnny let's do it for
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johnny
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donut johnny doughnut seed i mean apple
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apple seed with a donut
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stopped off at this auto repair shop
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having a little bit of issue i was
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noticing while fueling up
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that underneath the car this has torn
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off
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there's a couple of bolts that require
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basically like a hex key
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that he's gonna in time he's gonna put
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up on the lift see if we can
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take that off i think it's valuable or
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needed
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thing is i'm not really sure how long
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i've been driving on that so a good
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thing i stopped him
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and notice it i don't want to hit like a
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rock and then that rips off
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it's not part of the engine it's just
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kind of there to protect it but it is
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definitely a hazard
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evidently it's cause he was saying it's
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caused by oil change places that do not
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tighten the bolts and i got my oil
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changed before i left
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southern california so that's that was
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the culprit they didn't tighten the
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bolts good enough so he's gonna see if
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he can
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find a couple of bolts and if he can't
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then he's just going to move it
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completely
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all fixed i definitely picked the right
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exit
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and lucked out that they were open
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because if it was a day or so ago
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nothing in that snow would have been
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opened and they said the storm
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the tornado and the panhandle is heading
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this way
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so they're about ready to wrap up shop
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as well big thanks to shivers auto
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repair they only charged me 20 dollars i
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gave them 40
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because i was so thankful for them doing
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that all it needed was a few
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screws but i did not have the screws or
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the proper lift to make it happen
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and they did heading back to the
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interstate and try to zip home as quick
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as possible
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before this rain catches up with me i
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have now turned
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southbound onto i-75
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what a completely different scenario
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than everything i have seen this week
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it's almost once i got off of the 10
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into florida
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and headed southbound temperature is 86
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degrees
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right now as i continue
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southward still have a couple hundred
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miles to go but
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wow this is like a whole different world
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all right incredible
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venomous snakes are at this rest stop
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near gainesville florida just saying
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that i'm in florida
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it makes me very content that i am out
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of the frozen tundra
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but i do need to be careful
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beware i'm venomous
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snakes and the one you really have to
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watch out for
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is in the shape of an overlook right up
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there
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see that is a snake
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it's a slithering serpent that stretches
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from this end of the rest stop all the
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way
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the sidewalk portion over there and you
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might even be able to see
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his eyes
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right there through the trees through
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the moss
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yeah look at that
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that serpent is overlooking
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the interstate about to connect up soon
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with the turnpike there comes an eagle
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there comes a bird no it's a vulture
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it's some sort of winged
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foul
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all right moving on classic
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car alert mickey nopey
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stood in for a south carolina town in
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the movie
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doc hollywood with michael j fox and i
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stopped off here
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because i thought it fitting because at
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the end of that film the town folk are
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standing right here
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in front of this very building filming
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location
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and the statement was made back to the
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interstate benstone
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back to the interstate how very fitting
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from my interstate cross country trip
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i did it i made it back
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to florida through all of that back to
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the interstate off of the interstate out
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of the woo
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off of the interstate that's going to do
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