The Future Of This Channel & A Much Needed Change To What I’m Doing / Looking Forward To 2026
The Future
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Welcome everyone.
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Adam the Woo here. As the recording of
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this Tuesday, October 14th, [music]
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2025, I have some things on my mind.
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Talk about the future of this channel,
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especially what is going to be happening
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for myself and the content that I will
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be putting here on the Daily Woo in
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2026.
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I've kind of teased a little bit of some
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of the thoughts that have been rolling
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around in my head, but really want to
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drive the point home today
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and just put it out into the open air on
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what's going to happen after New Year's
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of 2025. And as 2026 rears its head,
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there's going to be some changes, some
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drastic changes
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of what I've been doing the last few
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years. and kind of going back
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to what I used to do with a little bit
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of a twist and maybe even a deeper dive
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into the stuff that I used to do. I'm
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going to talk about that. I'm inviting
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you to join me. Get some caffeine, get
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some coffee,
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and have a little walk and talk or a
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little drive in mini Marge and talk.
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Shall you? Good to have you here.
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Current temperature 82 degrees.
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Earlier this morning, I walked out on my
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porch and the weather felt pretty nice.
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It was like 76° this morning. A little
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warmer now, but still not bad. Not bad.
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Not as bad. I definitely want to preface
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this just so it's clear that the plans
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I'm going to be talking about will not
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be starting till the beginning of 2026
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which is still a little bit of a ways
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off. It's only mid October. October
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still, you know, par for the course of
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what I've been doing. Halloween events,
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theme parky stuff, some travel stuff.
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And then into mid November, I will be
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going to yet another country,
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international country. And then while
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I'm in that country into early December,
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we're going to another country and
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possibly a third, but definitely two.
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One in November, one in December. And my
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thoughts for next year in 2026, as of
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right now, I don't think I'm going to go
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anywhere international. It is going to
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be a good old US of A year. And I'll
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explain a little bit more of that. Kind
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of going back to my road trip roots.
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Haven't really done that in a few years.
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Been on a lot of airplanes, flying for
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the baseball stuff, etc. Flying for the
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international stuff. And I really miss
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being in an automobile and or car van,
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RV.
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Probably will go with the automobile car
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aspect, staying in some, you know,
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classic
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motel type of things.
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But, you know, the es and flows of my
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thoughts. But next year is a full USA
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year for the most part. Made by the best
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barista they wrote on there. It's pretty
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cool. Oh, look at this. Don't give up on
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the side. I don't know if that's a Did
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they write that on there or did they
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just or is that like already on the the
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sleeve? I mean, that was like
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handwritten on there. Also, update. They
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have fixed the fence over here. They
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have It took a few months, but they have
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now put up the new railing over here. It
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was a temporary fix, but they have got
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it done. It's fixed. Look at this. They
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have fixed the railing here. Still have
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a couple cones, but the new fence or the
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new railing has been posted.
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And my car has 150,000 miles on it.
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So, I don't know if I'll be doing any
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cross country treks in my vehicle from
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now on. I could maybe do some southern
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states, but I think if I go anywhere
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really far, I probably have to rent a
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car or change it up and get a different
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vehicle.
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kind of on the fence with what I want to
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do. Just keep my car being a local car
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or if I want to get another vehicle or
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I'm just I don't know, food for thought
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for to think about for a while. I've
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done the RV thing before in my life.
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I've done the van dwelling living in a
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van thing before in my life. I think of
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the two of them. The van was a little
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more stealthy and more efficient. I
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can't see myself at 51 years old
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sleeping in the back of a van on an air
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mattress. I don't know if my if I'm
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ready to go back down that route. Plus,
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with purchasing a house, I wouldn't be
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gone full-time. And then you got to
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weigh in the options with fuel and gas,
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you know, well, fuel and gas prices
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across the US. I will not be buying an
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electric car.
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Have no desire to do a road trip, you
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know, through the US and then wait
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around to charge a vehicle. I don't
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think in my life I don't think it's
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ready for that point yet to be sitting
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around waiting for something to
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rejuvenate and recharge. Now, I wouldn't
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be against getting an electric vehicle
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locally for a local car because you
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could charge it at home and you wouldn't
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be, you know, stressed waiting around a
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half hour, 45 minutes, etc. to juice up
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your vehicle. In fact, Mini Marge is an
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electric cart. So, definitely not
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opposed to that. But for me, go go go
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when I'm doing road trips. do not want
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to, you know, want have it deterred to
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to charge anything up. But the reality
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is I probably would just rent a car or
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instead of renting a car,
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maybe get another vehicle, trade my car
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in and get something else that's gas
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efficient and then as stated, just stay
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in hotels and motel
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across the across the country. That's
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kind of what I'm leaning towards. So,
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starting in January,
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thinking maybe doing some some of the
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states that are not completely cold, you
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know, driving through snow and ice, not
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the funnest. So, probably some southern
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states, really small towns, back roads,
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tiny communities, etc. And then as the
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year progresses, 2026 is the 100th
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anniversary of Route 66. I've done Route
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66 many times, but not completed Route
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66 many times. But I've been on the
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mother road many, many times throughout
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the course of my life. But I've only
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done it from point A to point B, from
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Santa Monica
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to Chicago one time. I've only done it
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one time, and that was in 2017.
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Started at the pier, ended in Chicago.
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Now, the purists, the Route 66 purists
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will tell you that is not the 100%
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accurate way to do it. Even though it's
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one road, you can go across either side
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of the road to each of the landmarks and
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you know, stores, motel, etc. So either
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way you go, you can still hit
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everything, which I did. But if you talk
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to someone who really is the purist, as
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stated, they will say that you got to
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start in Chicago and make your way to
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Santa Monica. Yeah, there's a generator
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over there, which is what I want to do
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next year. And I really want to dive
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deep into Route 66. Not sure what months
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I will be doing that, but I would like
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to go to Chicago. Now, for that, I
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probably would fly to Chicago, rent a
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vehicle, maybe rent an RV or maybe rent
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a small car, maybe do the motel. If I
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did the RV, I wouldn't have the
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opportunity to be staying, you know, in
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the Route 66 motel. But that is not the
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only historical US ofA event that is
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going to be hitting a plateau or hitting
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a point next year in 2026. The signing
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of the Declaration of Independence and
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the birth of America be celebrating its
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250th
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anniversary.
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What better year with Route 66 do at 100
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in this great country that we live at
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turning 250 years old to be hitting the
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small towns, the back roads, the states
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that I don't really show as much
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attention in these videos as I should
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used to, but been a while. I've been
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preoccupied again with the baseball
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stadium challenge that I did going to
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all the Rays games at all 30 current
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stadiums.
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which I finished, you know, a year or so
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ago. I have seen the Tampa Bay Rays in
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all the current MLB stadiums. The only
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one I have not knocked off, the Rays
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played at Stein Burner Field last year,
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so I did 31 stadiums seeing the Rays in
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regular or postseason play. Spring
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training not included. Next year or the
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following year,
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I'm going to need to go to Sacramento,
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California to do my 32nd stadium seeing
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the race, seeing the
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California/Sacramento
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A's until they move to Vegas. So, I've
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got to do that at some point. Then I
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started doing the international this
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year in 2025. Got two more countries
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that I want to go to, which I think will
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put my total up to nine, maybe 10
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countries this year. Not bad for my
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first year international tra
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internationally traveling,
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but I'm really getting a hankering to
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take it back
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and see and see the country, see the see
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the see the US again. It's been a while.
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I feel like there's things that I've
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missed, skipped past, things that have
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changed in the places that I have been
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before, and I want to do it at a little
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bit of a slower pace. Instead of just
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going state to state, doing a couple
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states a week, things like that. It'd be
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kind of nice to just really kind of dive
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deep into some some towns that maybe
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don't get a lot of attention. It's all
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still in the inner workings of my brain
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right now,
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but it's going to happen. It's going to
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happen. And I am not opposed and would
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like to even meet up with folks from
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towns that might know some things about
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their community that maybe the world
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doesn't know about or maybe it is not,
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you know, prominent knowledge. Doesn't
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necessarily have to be a social media
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person or a vlogger or anything like
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that or someone with a a written, you
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know, paper or blog. could just be
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someone who knows the history of their
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tiny little town really well.
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I'm not opposed to meeting up with
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people. Now, I will say when it comes
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to, you know, road trips and things, one
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of my favorite things is being in
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seclusion with myself and getting away
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from events, you know, conventions,
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theme park stuff,
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populated
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things.
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So definitely going to need a little bit
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of that mixed in as well, but it would
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be kind of nice to to meet up with
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others and learn some things. I don't
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know a lot and you know, especially
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people when they're local to their
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community are going to know a lot more
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than I would just kind of guessing.
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Again, none of this is happening until
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next year. This year, still the same
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stuff.
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I have to admit I am a little bit burnt
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out on doing the same old same old. I
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don't know if burnt out is the word, but
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I need a break from doing some of the
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same old same old. And I've said this
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before and I know it's kind of like just
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repeating myself, but doing a lot of the
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same events that I usually do, it kind
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of is starting to get to me a little bit
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and wearing thin. I think next year I'm
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probably gonna take a huge step back
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from doing the Halloween events. I don't
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know if I want to do another year going
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to opening of HHN, going to the opening
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of Not Scary, going to Halloween
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conventions leading up to all that. So,
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I think next year, if I do any, it's
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going to be at a much smaller scale than
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what I'm doing now. Much smaller scale.
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I just really want to focus on on
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different things.
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And I just feel like it's at that point
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where I've just been doing a lot of the
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same things for multiple years in a row
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that I just need to kind of step back
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and re-evaluate and rejuvenate my soul,
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if you will, on on traveling and getting
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back to what I what I really enjoy. Not
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saying that I do not love and enjoy what
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I've been doing, but it just seems like
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it's been very very one-sided. It hasn't
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been a real healthy mix. And I can see
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that and I understand that. And I feel
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like I feel like my brain is telling me
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that it's it's just time to it's time to
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take it back. Time to take it back and
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just take it back old school, if you
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will. So, that's kind of it. It's going
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to be a little bit of a change of pace
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into next year. Next year, in a week
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from now, don't expect what I said to be
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happening because it it's not going to
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going to until until January. And there
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might be one or two things. Some friends
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and family were kind of mentioning maybe
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a cruise into next year. I don't know if
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that's going to happen. I don't know if
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I I personally don't know if I'm ready
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for a cruise, but if other groups kind
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of meld into my head and get me to kind
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of change my mind a little bit. There
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might be some stuff other than
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Americana,
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but the main focus,
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that's what it's going to be next year.
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So, there will be some little things
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thrown in, but not going to be as heavy
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of what I've been doing, you know, with
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the the kind of content and the kind of
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stuff I've been doing the last few
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years. And I'm ready for it. And I I
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have a feeling a lot of others out there
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are ready for it as well. I've also
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alluded to how I want to do a video
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podcast one day. That is still on hold.
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That is still not anything I'm going to
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be doing for a while. while I'm still
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healthy, financially able to travel,
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I think I need to I think I just need to
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keep doing what I'm doing.
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And I love I love America. I love the US
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of A. I love traveling. I love seeing
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the countries. I love learning history.
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And I love just being by myself on the
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open road.
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International travel was fun. I've
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enjoyed it, but it didn't have the same
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spark
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that the US travel for me personally
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has had in the past, and I miss that.
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Again, the international stuff is great.
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I'm looking forward to where I'm going
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in November and December, but it did not
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have the didn't have the feeling I
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thought it would, if that makes any
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sense. There was something I thought was
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going to be there that was not there. I
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also want to tone down a little bit how
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many times I go to Southern California a
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year. And I think by not doing as many
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of the haunts next year, not going as
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hard on the haunts, won't spend as much
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time out there. Obviously, I'm going to
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go to California. Route 66 goes through
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California. But yeah, time in LA needs
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to kind of diminish a little less.
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Again, not saying I won't be out in LA
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next year, cuz I certainly will, but I
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need to taper it back just a little bit.
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That place is like a magnet for me. I
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don't know. I just I love the Hollywood
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stuff and the theme park stuff out there
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and the studio stuff out there.
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It's a comfort comfort place, but got to
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break out of that in a little bit.
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So, I'll probably be out there a little
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bit next year, but not not on the same
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extent it's been the last few years.
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Also, I just renewed my Disneyland pass.
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It doesn't have to be renewed again
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until September. So, I have a Disneyland
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annual pass till next September, but I
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have to say the price just went up to
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$1,900
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for the top pass out there. And when you
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don't live out there, you kind of need
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the top pass cuz when you're there and
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I'm staying at the DBC hotel and things
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like that or I'm in the area, it's nice
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to just pop in. So, I always like to get
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that that top pass. But, it just went up
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to,900.
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I will always have a pass at Disney
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World because I live here. But I'm kind
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of thinking maybe next year in
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September, I might not renew my
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Disneyland pass. Might be the first
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time. I haven't had a Disneyland pass in
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a while. Like they're setting all the
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stuff up on Market Street. They do an
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event coming up pretty soon. And I think
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it's at the end of October or maybe
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early November where they drop the
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leaves kind of like they do with the
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fake snow, the snow in December, but
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they do the leaves during fall season.
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The leaves down Market Street. So,
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they're setting up for that. It's not
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happening now, but it'll be happening in
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in the future. Got a couple very lengthy
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flights to international destinations
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again at the end of 2025.
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Another thing, I'm really kind of tired
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of being on planes all the time. I have
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racked up a ton of airplane miles, gone
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a lot of places. Just feels like the
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last few years, this year especially
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with the international stuff, but the
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last few years bouncing around for
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events and baseball stadiums and things
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like that, I have just been on so many
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airplanes.
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It'd be nice to kind of take a little
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bit of a step back from that. Come on,
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wind. Give me the flag. Give me the flag
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wind. There we go.
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and just hit the open road, the good old
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US of A
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for the 250th anniversary of the country
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and the 100th anniversary of Route 66.
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And not going to not going to forget
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other states, too. Not just the not just
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the original ones and not just the Route
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66 ones that came later.
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Going to be f I have been to all 50
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states, by the way. I've been to all 48
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continental and also Alaska and Hawaii.
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So, I've been to all of them,
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but it's time to return. It's time to
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return.
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Ah, the Celebration Water Tower. No
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water in that thing, but it's fun to
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look at.
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The beacon off of Highway 19, Highway
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192, what I refer to as no man's land.
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out of the bubble of celebration.
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Nice little breeze. I bet that flag is
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flying high
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over at the post office. Now I'm over
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here by Publix. They always like showing
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some interesting things. Let's put some
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stuff out there. Let's put some good
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stuff out there onto the interwebs that
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may not have been documented before.
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Let's do that. Let's make it a thing in
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26 across America.
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Look at these.
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That's a thing.
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Yeah, it's always been my philosophy.
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There's no water pumping in. Where would
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the water even go? That's a fake tube.
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And plus, you can see the holes in the
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slats. There'd be water spilling out on
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me. And what would the water in here
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even be going to? Anyway, just my just
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my thought process. I'm no expert.
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There are experts out there with things.
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I'm no expert on really anything. So So
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next year a little bit be a little
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different. The rest of this year, 2025,
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I'll add a couple more countries here to
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my country magnet,
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little collection that I got going on.
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Also, next year is D23 again. It was in
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24. I skipped this year. D23 Expo out in
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Anaheim. They've already announced the
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dates for August of next year. And to be
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honest, I'm not 100% sure if I'm even
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going to go.
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I feel like I I feel like I need a year
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break from a lot of the things that I
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usually do or that I've been doing for
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the last few years. So, get back into
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get back into the road tripping. Less
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flights. I will still take I will still
20:05
take some flights and I will still do
20:08
some events, but a dramatic tapering
20:11
back. If you will, I'll add some more
20:15
of my US magnets, my US road trips,
20:19
things like that. But yeah, I'm still on
20:21
the fence with maybe doing D23
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next year. Maybe not doing it, not going
20:28
through the stress of trying to get
20:29
tickets and going out there. Also,
20:33
Midsummer Scream next year, I think, is
20:35
like the week before D23. So, if I did
20:38
do Midsummer and D23, then that means
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I'd be in SoCal for a solid two weeks,
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which should kind of just get me back
20:46
into that same rut again. So,
20:49
I'm thinking maybe maybe not going to
20:51
either one of those again. And I'm on
20:53
the fence with it, but
20:56
it' be kind of nice to to mix things up
20:58
a bit and take it back
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take it back to the the old days, if you
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will. At least for a year. Try it for a
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year,
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you know, with the with the the major
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events of anniversaries of next year
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with the 250th anniversary of America
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and the 150th or the 100th anniversary
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of Route 66.
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But that's going to do it for today.
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
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next video, a vlog.
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Ah, there's some great places in
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America.