Leaving Florida For Start Of My Two Week Birthday Trip - Cross Country Delta Flight & Hotel Check In
Leaving Florida For Birthday Trip
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of is Thursday, August
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7th, 2025. I'm about ready to leave
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Celebration, Florida, head over to MCO
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Orlando International Airport where I'm
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not going overseas, but I am heading to
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SoCal.
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3 days from right now is my birthday on
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the 10th. So, I'm officially kicking off
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birthday week. an extended birthday
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week, an extended week and a half, maybe
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two weeks of very hectic travels and or
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events that are taking place. First
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thing I'm going to do, go to SoCal there
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for a couple days, then go to Sacramento
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for a day or two, then back Oh, no. From
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there, from Sacramento to Vegas for a
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few days, and then back to SoCal. All
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within like eight or nine, 10, 12 days,
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give or take a day. It's going to be
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fun. Going to get going. I'm inviting
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you to join me. Shall you? All right. I
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just looked at the plans in the calendar
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and I'm not slated to arrive back in
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celebration till the 21st, which is two
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weeks from today. So, let's call it a
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two week birthday trip. Hectic birthday
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event trip. You could celebrate your
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birthday for two weeks, right? I mean,
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I'm celebrating Halloween for three
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months. So, yeah, it just makes sense.
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Going to turn these lights off. Turn
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everything off. Ready to go and head to
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the airport. Made the commute about 30
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minutes in a ride share in an Uber.
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Arrive now at MCO.
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One thing about flying a little bit
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later in the day, my flight takes off at
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like 4 something.
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Taking a chance with weather and all
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that.
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I think I should be okay. Still on time.
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Last I checked on the app.
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Walking across this very nice little
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tile floor here. Now, there is a lot of
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red up there. Any of the reds are
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delayed or cancelled.
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So, I'm going to LAX. Let's see.
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Right there. Yep. Still on time. Gate
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71.
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420 depart. 420 takeoff. Flight 482.
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Gate 71. Still on time. A little bit of
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a glare on this board. Wait time 4 to 8
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minutes. That's not bad at all. Wait. Or
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is it 17 to 20 minutes? I don't know.
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It's one of those. Flying coast to
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coast. Not on a broom though. Not like
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you're a wizard.
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I am very familiar with this airport.
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That is for sure. I fly a lot out of
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here.
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Not a real person. It's a work of art.
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It's been here for 40 years. Traveler
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has been here for 40 years now. This
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looks really mellow. So, right now it's
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a what? Let's see the time here.
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7 minutes to 3. So, not quite 3:00.
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Our plane boards I think at 3:50.
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Oh, actually probably earlier than that
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cuz it's a 420. But there's no one in
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this line. Look at this. I'm just going
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to walk right in. This is beautiful.
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Beautiful. All right. Surprisingly, that
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was very deceiving. Took a lot longer
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than I expected.
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But the good news is by the time I get
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over there, it'll be time to
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it'll be time to board. Everyone's
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trying to run on this one, but I'm good.
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I got about 20 minutes before boarding,
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which actually works out perfectly.
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>> Hello.
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Please stand clear of the doors and hold
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on to the handrails
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>> when the gate. If you're in need of
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information, they'll be back shortly.
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>> Okay. 71. I don't think I have time to
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pop up into the lounge.
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Got to get over to my gate. I might be
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able to pop up in the lounge. Yeah, I
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think I have time to get up to the
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lounge and get a coffee. Maybe. Or maybe
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not. I got about 12 minutes till
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boarding. I got time. I got time.
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Climbing up the stairs here.
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The different times there. LA, Paris,
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Orlando, S. Paulo, and Tokyo. We're
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going to move on, please.
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>> I am right here.
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>> And going to Los Angeles.
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Something's not right.
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>> These clocks are off.
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>> Always time for a cup of Joe, even if
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it's really quick. Little medium roast
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here. A little cream of sugar in there.
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Pour it in. And I got to run over to my
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gate. It's kind of nice when you don't
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have a lot of time between getting to
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the airport and your gate time. You
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don't have to wait around too long.
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Shortest day in a lounge ever. Gates
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and I'm off.
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Cheers. Think I was in there about 38
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seconds.
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I didn't time it. I'm just
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guesstimating.
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Like this carpet.
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Is it going to open?
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Am I stuck in here?
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>> Floor one.
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Gate 71's is the first one here in the
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70 gates. I have to go all the way to
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the end, which means this is mine right
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here. Sky chefs are loading some food on
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the back of the plane.
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Should be boarding really, really soon.
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I'm pretty familiar with this with the
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Delta gates. I do this a lot.
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71 the push back on gate 73 over there.
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>> Ladies and gentlemen, once again, good
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afternoon and welcome
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to Los Angeles. We are just about 9
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minutes away from getting our
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pre-boarding process.
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>> 9 minutes
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again.
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>> 9 minutes before pre-board. This is a
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pretty good coffee. Just took a gulp. We
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have requested our assistance in
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pre-boarding.
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It's really the perfect way to get to
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the airport like 10 minutes before
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boarding, but you're just kind of
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rolling the dice if
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>> you roll the dice with that because
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>> you know traffic's bad or security
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backup's bad.
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Additional costing
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Few
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sky clouds 75°
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got four excellent Los Angeles fights on
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board taking care of you. If there's
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ending, we can even make your flight
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more comfortable piece on head.
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I'm making an announcement and
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cannot understand what's being said.
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I finished watching Megan.
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Saw it when it came out a couple years
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ago and rewatched it. It's a fun movie.
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I think I enjoyed it just as much the
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second time as I did the first time.
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Even though the very end it kind of
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turns into the Terminator a little bit.
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Let's see if I can find another horror
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film to watch while I'm on the plane.
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Getting into that spooky season vibe.
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Okay, the luggage once again is fully
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forward under the seat in front of you,
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ensuring a clear exit path to the aisle.
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Lights have come up. We'll do our cabin
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check to collect any remaining service
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items.
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Heat. Heat.
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an iPhone.
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All right, exiting off the plane. I've
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arrived at LAX. I also got a new card
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and I don't have the collector card for
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the A321.
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For whatever reason, anytime I've flown
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on A321, I did not get the collector
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card. So, I asked the pilot and he goes,
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"Oh, yeah. I have an A321 Neo I can give
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you." So, there you go. And I've arrived
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here. Delta Wings and LAX Skies.
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>> All right.
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There is really quite the beeping sound
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going on as I'm walking underneath the
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Discover Los Angeles sign. And then up
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there, there's yet another one. Arrived
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in LA once again.
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It's pretty much my second home. I'm
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over here at Starbucks now. I think I'm
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going to get a proper venty sugar-free
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hot vanilla latte. I just had very small
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regular coffee earlier. Definitely could
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use some caffeine. We got the Discovery
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Series California cup and the Discovery
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Series Los Angeles. Los Angeles.
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Ah, yes. Welcome to LA and airport
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pricing. This would be $7 and change in
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Celebration, Florida. $10 and change
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here. So, $3 more. That's probably
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because it's just the airport. I don't
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think it's an LA thing. It's just it's
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an airport thing. But, you know what?
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Looking forward to sipping this. And one
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thing's for sure, this thing is very
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warm. That is a That is a true piping
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hot cafe. If ever there was one, I can
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feel it permeating even through the
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cardboard. Just from walking outside.
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I'm not even out in the elements yet.
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Just this open air little atrium area
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here. You can already tell, well, pickup
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area. Can already tell that the humidity
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is not as strong here. Feels way better
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here. Way better. I can already just
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tell. I know it's probably temperature-
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wise is pretty close, but yeah, I can
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tell with the humidity, it's feels way
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better. In order to get over to the taxi
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or the ride share area, you got to take
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this
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bus first. So, grab this. Go grab a
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Uber.
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So the bus definitely filled up the
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farther it went around the horseshoe the
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delta gates. I think we're on two. So
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you got one, two, then you go around
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three, then you go to the international,
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then you got four, five, six. So you're
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kind of going around this horseshoe to
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come back around here, cut across. So
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really you're picking up a lot of other
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people. So it did fill up. I'm kind of
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wondering where I got off at two. But if
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I wouldn't have got on the bus and taken
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that horseshoe around to 3 4 5 6 7 and
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then cut across. If I would have just
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walked, maybe next time I'll grab it
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from two to see if there's a place I
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could just cross the street. I don't
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know. It might be quicker. I'll test
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that out another time. Another time. I
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mean, I'm already here now with the Uber
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pickup, so
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really is quite a quite a process, but
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I'm used to it. I got it down to a
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science. I mean, done this so many
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times. Back in the day, they used to
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have Uber pickup in the horseshoe. I say
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the horseshoe, it's just the name of the
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road. It's the road. I call it the
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horseshoe cuz a driver one time told me
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that name and I just kind of stuck. So
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sometimes when traffic's really bad, it
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takes me an hour to get around the
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horseshoe. And I never forgot the term
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horseshoe, which is the way the road
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goes around all the different gates and
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terminals. Anyway, I digress. All right,
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ordered the Uber. It's showing about a
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45minut
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ride over to
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Universal property.
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Sun will be setting soon. Supposed to
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wait over here by 23B.
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Let's see. You got all the different
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Well, this is 23. That's 22. That's 21.
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Three different rows of ride share
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pickup. And then the first row way over
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there. Fourth row is taxis.
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A little bit of traffic getting over to
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Hollywood proper, but I've seen worse.
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And I was able to watch two different
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movies on the plane.
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Now, I hadn't seen Five Nights at
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Freddy's in a while. I think last year
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it came out in the movie theater. I saw
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it in the movie theater. I think I liked
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it better the second time. I think I
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like it better liked it better the
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second watch. Does kind of fall apart at
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the end a little bit, but still pretty
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fun. Still pretty fun. I feel like there
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could have been a couple more kind of
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scarier scenes in it to kind of bump it
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up a little bit, but yeah, I like it.
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Took about an hour. That was about the
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time frame. Traffic was not great, but
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definitely have seen way worse. I think
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if I would have landed an hour or hour
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and a half before would have been a lot
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worse. But 7:53 right now. I'm going to
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go check in, get to my room,
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and maybe see if they have some sort of
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little takeout option I could get at the
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desk. I think they have like some
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takeaway salads or maybe even like
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sandwiches or something. I didn't eat on
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the plane. There was a food option, but
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I don't really eat on planes anymore. I
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had an issue once flying back from I
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think it was London the first time in
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January and the food on the plane made
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me feel kind of not so great. So now
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I'll just do like some chips and little
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snacks and things on the plane if I even
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do that but I never do cook food
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anymore. Very rarely. I mean there's
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been times I have but nine times out of
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10 since that that trip that I ate some
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bad plane food. I don't really do like
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any kind of cooked cooked food on the
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plane. If I'm gonna feel or feel
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a little uneasy, I'd rather do it when
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I'm not on a plane than on a plane. But
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so up here at the top of this little
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hill with the Hollywood Hills off in the
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distance with the flags, nice little
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breeze going on over there. You got the
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houses up in the Hollywood Hills and the
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really nice sunset off in the distance.
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I've stayed at the Sheridan a few times.
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It's okay. Telly Savales lived there.
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until he passed away.
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And maybe one day I'll
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live here
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at at this hotel. They know me here. I
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mean, I've been here.
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Maybe not by name, but by face.
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Been here a lot of times. This is my
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go-to whenever I'm in LA. And then when
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I'm down in Orange County, I'll stay at
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either Disneyland Hotel or Tropican and
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Sweets. I like that. All right, I'm
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going to go check in. Shouldn't be too
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bad. Check in here is at 4:00 and it's
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usually pretty busy at check in at 4,
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but it's like 8:00 now, so there's
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probably going to be a few people in
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line to check in, so it won't be too
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bad.
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I'm not here in LA for very long. Just a
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few days and then Sacramento and then
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Los Angeles or no, Sacramento, Las Vegas
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for a while and then back here to SoCal.
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All over the place. I've arrived into
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the room. Kind of mixing it up a little
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bit than what I usually do. Usually I
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have the Universal Studios Hollywood
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theme park view room, but because I
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changed my room because I'm here for a
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couple days. Originally, I was not going
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to check in until tomorrow night. I was
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going to fly into LA tomorrow,
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but I decided to fly in today. So, by
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trying to book another room, the other
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side of the hotel was not available
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tonight. So, had to book it on this
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side. And then I just decided since I am
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staying a couple days after that,
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instead of trying to check out tomorrow
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and then check into the theme park view
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side room, I'm just going to be in this
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room for a few days. So, I just said,
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heck it. I'll try something a little bit
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different. But I'll show the view
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momentarily. You can kind of see the
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glare. I'll turn the lights off so you
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can kind of get a better view. But this
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is the room. Showed it before, but
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really enjoy staying here. You got all
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the waters up here. Here you have the
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coffee maker, etc.
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And then over here you got the
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facilities
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with the Rodeo Drive commode.
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Plenty of mirrors,
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the tub style shower. Some rooms do have
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a not a tub, but the complete walk-in
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with the sliding door. This is not one
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of those rooms.
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There's me.
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Ended up getting a few food items, a
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sandwich, and a salad, some chips.
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Nice big bed.
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And if someone else was staying, there's
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a pull out couch here. So,
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you could get an additional person, pull
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that out. It pulls out into a bed. Very
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cozy little accommodations. And you get
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some snacky stuff. I got a little salad,
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a little grilled chicken salad and some
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sort of a sandwich there. Got a little
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bit of an appetite now without not
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eating all day and not eating on the
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plane. So, I'll utilize that. Fill the
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belly up. Let me turn this light off so
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you can get a better view out here. Nice
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view of the flowing traffic. I kind of
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like this. Something a little different.
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I have a pool and hot tub
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side view. And you get the Hollywood
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Hills. You got the Universal City
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overlook way up there, which I've shown
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before. Nice little view of the sunset
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off on the horizon. The Sheridan down
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there.
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And where I was just out there showing
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the front of the building is right down
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there. You got the Sheridan parking
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garage over there as well.
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The Valley, North Hollywood, Burbank
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over that direction.
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Traffic flowing pretty good. There's an
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In-N-Out Burger right down there.
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There's also, if you go this direction,
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couple other little fast food
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establishments with that In-N-Out
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staple of SoCal.
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Maybe during my stay here,
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during my birthday, two week twoe
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birthday extravaganza, I might uh I
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might get a little In-N-Out at some
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point. I haven't had it in and out in a
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while, but I love it.
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All right, that's going to do it for
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today. Thanks for watching. It's dark in
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this room, but I really like turning the
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lights off, getting the view out the
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window, cuz if not, you get the glare.
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Oh, yeah, by the way, here's the pool. I
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do plan on taking a dip in the pool and
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the hot tub
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at some point while I'm here for the
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next few days staying in this hotel.
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The thing that's neat is when you're in
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this pool in this hot tub, you would
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never know because you're up on the side
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of a very large hill, a burm,
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and you wouldn't even know the traffic's
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down there. I mean, you can see it from
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here,
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but when you're down there in the pool,
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it's kind of secluded and hidden. They
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really did a good job hiding the fact
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that there's the freeway right over
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Back in SoCal,
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not uncommon.
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Not uncommon at all. See you in the next
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video. Thanks for watching.
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Got some fun stuff coming up the next
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couple weeks before heading back to
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Celebration, Florida. Two weeks gone
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from Florida before going back.
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Action-packed full of events.
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The vlog is over.