Hidden Small Towns In Georgia & Backroad Relics On My Way Back To Florida - Last Day Fall Road Trip
Small Towns In Georgia 2022
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as a
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recording of this Monday November 14th
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2022 this water tower right up here
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designates signifies that I am beginning
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this episode in the city of
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Zaba Georgia
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crossed over the state line out of South
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Carolina been driving for a couple hours
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already today
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but beginning here
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the start of many small towns and
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communities here in Georgia on my
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descent after being gone from Florida
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for three weeks
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hopefully by late this evening I will be
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returning
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this building right here
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is the Methodist Church built back
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in March
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of 1852.
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but it was dedicated and moved here in
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1890 when the village of hefsabah
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Georgia
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was organized
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pretty interesting
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so basically today I'm going to be
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getting in my rental car which I will be
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returning back to the Orlando
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International Airport
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tonight
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and I should be getting back to
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Celebration Florida by this evening
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sleeping in my own bed which will be
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nice but not before
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some back roads small communities and
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Tiny towns of Georgia I'm inviting you
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to join me
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closer angle there of the water tower
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just because something is called a city
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does not mean it is a major Metropolis
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sometimes it's just a
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it's just a village or a town or a
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community
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but has the title of City there is this
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little stretch of what I would you could
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consider this the downtown area like a
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little main drag here
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a couple active businesses here I
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believe this one at certain times not
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today are open this Enterprise place
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this is like a realtor of some sort and
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then down at the end you see one of
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those balloon balloon folks waving down
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there it's a little Deli of some sort or
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a diner or a food food option place
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but what always draws me in are these
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retro signs you got the RC Cola Royal
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Crown Cola up there
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side
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this former General Store
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look at that old oven in there
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that is a that's a serious antique Relic
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no roof on this building the roof
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has caved in
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this building here
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definitely is not in use anymore that
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one over there is but this one has seen
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better days still standing even though
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it's kind of shifted
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to one side
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gas and oil up here was a Grocers
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and then here on this kind of tough to
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make out what it says here
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but I always like to try to figure out
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what some of these wordings are here on
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the paint
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these advertisements
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over on the side of the brick is always
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something very fascinating to me
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one of the most prominent ones you'll
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see sometimes are the Coca-Cola emblem
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there's just something very interesting
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about
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fast-moving traffic
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past things of the past like this that
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are closed
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it's almost like Poetic in a weird sense
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the time just
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carries on even though relics are just
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sitting right here off the main
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thoroughfare
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pretty Cooperative today clear skies
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nice cool crisp air
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heading down the road I don't believe
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I've ever seen a Coca-Cola advertisement
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airplane before above a convenience
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store
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the express
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also price of gas here 329 I fueled up a
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little bit before this but for this neck
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of the woods 329 for regular
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get a Coke Classic somewhere very
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quickly by airplane
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would you like that in the can
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no I'll have it right here and just a
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lot little farther down the road
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this KFC bucket over here near this
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fence line and a bicycle
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there's no KFC on this side of the road
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anywhere near here also
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a tractor
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and Jaws which is interesting this road
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just stops right here into the mouth
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to the belly of this Beast
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the shark
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which has gobbled up a fisherman of
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sorts
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you okay sir
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now I am seeing back here
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okay there's something back there I
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don't know if I could drive back there
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so there is a road over here with
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another tractor but let me zoom in there
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are some retro pop culture signage fast
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food signage back there
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I see Wendy's I see a Shell gas station
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sign I see some round bales of hay I'm
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gonna drive back there see what I can
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see driving parallel to the property
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here but there's the kernel on the side
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I'm on a very bumpy road
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I'm kind of zoomed in got the Amaco sign
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got a fire truck
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interesting okay I can't go any farther
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than this pole here with all the signage
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so
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turned around right here
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but take a look pretty dang awesome
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these are some great relics of the past
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being preserved
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over there on that property Taylor's
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barbecue
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Gulf sign Popeyes chicken and biscuits
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well done whoever owns this
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this place
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well done indeed
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all right back on the road
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passing through Waynesboro now
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this very impressive building possibly
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the city hall here
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is a dumpster out front because they are
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clearing out
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this property which was the Waynesboro
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hardware and auto supply and then
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can't make out what that says something
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up there
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can't go any farther than this as keep
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out they got the wood the wood up
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a place called The Rabbit Hole Eatery
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right next door there in Waynesboro
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this guy is starting to fill up with
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clouds now very unique designs up there
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the way they swirl around
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I always like to see if I could see any
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images in the clouds
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if anything's popping out of me
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figure of an animal or a face or
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something like that
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arrive now
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in munnerland
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because you can classify this as a ghost
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town it's really
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nothing here there's some railroad
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tracks
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a couple trucks driving through a couple
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homesteads but nothing
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two extreme
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does not look structurally sound however
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so I'm not going to go past
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this point there's some old
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someone's dream right here someone's
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business
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probably spent most there most of their
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time in here running this place old
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Hopper's grosser
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I feel like Sam raymie can appreciate
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this
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or Bruce Campbell
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look at that thing
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foreign
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someone's former Homestead right here
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the trees have grown all around it
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incredible
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and just couple miles away is the area
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known as Perkins this looks like
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an old train depot here
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possibly
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because here are the train tracks
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there's a little corner store up here
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possibly the post office
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tracks as well
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designated a grocery store here
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Holly's grocery
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h-a-w-e-s grocer
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Hawes grocer
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a little church here right here at the
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very end
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Community Church and that indeed is the
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old train depot there
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right next to this residence over there
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people do live here a few houses pulling
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now into Millen
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m-i-l-l-e-n
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I parked in Historic downtown just as
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this train is also parking
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the train is backing up
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Millen was established back in 1881.
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here at the old Depot
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sits this classic truck
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sold Ford here
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actually it's the fire department truck
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dated
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1929 on the side of this
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the type of item that you could see
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going down Main Street USA at Disneyland
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it's parked in front of the old theater
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the old pal theater the pal
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pal still has the Marquee
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up top
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and a very unique bricks here where the
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ticket booth is down below
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doesn't look to be like an active
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theater anymore in fact the where the
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booby posters are empty
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peeking in the window here front door of
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the theater
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yet the coming soon attraction movie
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posters inside as well
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that are sitting barren
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quick little pass through the town of
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Garfield that's the water tower
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up ahead
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they may or may not have a cat here in
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town by the same name
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just an assumption
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Maybe
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made up some time and drove for a couple
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hours over to 95 now heading Interstate
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95 southbound stopped and got a little
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road trip snack
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and sometimes I'll get the additional
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garlic Rye chips and put them inside
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the other bag just because sometimes
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this bag doesn't have as many ride chips
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as I want so
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thankfully the store I stopped at had
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extra Rye chips but I have opted to get
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on the interstate try to make up some
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time
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so I don't get home at too late of an
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hour tonight
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took an exit off of 95.
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over here to Townsend or South new
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Newport it's kind of
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the address is in Townsend but if you
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look it up on map
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it is South Newport
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the smallest Church in America it was
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kind of interesting
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I've been to this before it's been a
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couple years I stopped off with this but
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I've probably been to five maybe six
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like a half a dozen smallest churches in
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the U.S
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across the country
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I guess it's just one of those things
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like who really could claim to have the
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smallest church building
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it's kind of like saying
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you know the coldest beer in town or the
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best coffee
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in town
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can it really be confirmed because most
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of them are about this size now this one
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is very very tiny so I'm not doubting it
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I've just never confirmed it completely
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with all the other ones
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oh the light automatically turns on this
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is awesome
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you got the pulpit up there got the
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stained glass window got the Ten
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Commandments the artwork over there
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no pews just chairs
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some of them have little pews on them
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church pews
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bumpy get out of here all right back to
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the interstate
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I am ready
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to get to Florida
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feared off again over to a place called
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White Oak
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sometimes you can tell where
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railroad tracks used to be example
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I'm just going to say there was a
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railroad track here at one time now it's
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just a pathway
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you can see where the tracks used to be
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here's an old Mercantile with the drink
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Coca-Cola sign up top
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getting the Vibes with these trees here
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very nice
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White Oak Georgia
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up on blocks
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and right next to the Mercantile
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with a chimney and everything the brick
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chimney
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fireplace
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newspaper stand that's empty no papers
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in it
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and then also a post office
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three one five six eight
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is the zip code
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town over is Woodbine
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where there's an antique shop
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that has this very interesting
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promotional sign out front
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in front of this antique store
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of course at the moment the antique
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stores closed at this hour
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here's another store
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antique shop through a store this mural
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on the side of the Riverboat and of
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course strong carriages and whatnot here
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in Woodbine officially have crossed
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the Georgia state line into Florida
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and even though I am 180 plus miles
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from MCO Orlando International Airport
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where I'm dropping off the rental car
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that I'm driving
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and then a little bit of a commute from
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there to my place in Celebration Florida
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I am technically
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oh these are my home state
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I do love living in Central Florida I
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think the two downfalls would be the
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brutal heat in the summertime and the
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humidity that goes through most of the
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Year probably nine months out of the
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year it's very humid
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and then also the fact that I live in
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Central Florida so in order
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to get back down after traveling if I'm
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if I'm driving which I usually am
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you know it's another three hours that's
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right across the state line but other
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than that
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I like it Florida
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is saying hello
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the Sunshine State even though right now
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it's a little overcast
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and with the time change
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last week you know in the last recent
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days
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it's going to be dark here in the next
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hour or so
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I'm at this rest stop
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I'm gonna stretch my legs get back in
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the car and complete the bomb in the
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video here
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at the Florida state line and that's
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going to do it not only for today but
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for this last road trip that I did even
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though I flew a lot drove a lot kind of
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mixed it up 22 days
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and it is good to be pretty much home
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I'll see you in the next video
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next of it I travel a lot I travel this
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whole
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this whole year I think I've been gone
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more than I've been home which is pretty
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much par for the course of my life
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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I'm on Florida soil
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is over
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it's also going to be nice to sleep in
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my own bed