My Arrival To Mexico & Flight Experience On Aeromexico - Airport Travel On First Day Of Real ID
Arrival In Mexico City
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday, May the
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7th, 2025. I'm here at Orlando
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International Airport, MCO Terminal 3,
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which is where my flight is going to be
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departing. I booked it through Delta,
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but I believe it's going through Air
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Mexico because I am heading to Mexico
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City for an undisclosed amount of
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time. It's going to be good. It's going
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to be interesting. The only time I've
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ever been to Mexico, which I do not
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classify as me ever really being in the
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country per se because I just crossed
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the border over San Diego years ago and
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did one day a little touristy walk up
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and down the strip there in Tijana, but
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I wanted to go more into the into the
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middle of the country. So that's why I
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chose Mexico City and that's where I'm
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going to be going starting today. It's
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about a four little little more than a
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4h hour flight. Got my bags all packed
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up right down here and I'm inviting you.
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Yes you. It's good to have you to join
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me. Shall you? Bags all carry on. This
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this luggage has gone with me on all my
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international trips so far. Thus far
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this year in 25 I'm trying to do at
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least one country per month and I'm
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staying that course so far. In January I
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went to Bise and then at the end in the
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first of the month for you know a little
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while over a week like 9 days or so.
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Then for a week I went to England. Then
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I went to London the end of January.
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Then I went to Ecuador in
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February. And then in March I went to
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Canada. And then in April, where did I
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go in April? Oh, I went to South Korea
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in April. And now it's May. And now it's
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time for Mexico. Last time I went over
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to the Bgates for Delta and I realized I
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got to take the shuttle way over here,
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the Montreal thing, way over here, back
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over to sea. So this time I just had the
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Uber drop me off at C. And hopefully
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that works out. I don't have to go back
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all the way over to B. Looking for gate
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C 240. However, I couldn't check in on
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the app. I guess it's because it's
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flying through Air Mexico. I had to do
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it at a gate. So, I got to find a Delta
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gate or a G Delta agent. I don't know if
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they have them over here in the sea
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gates. Hopefully, they do. They just
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inquired and I need to go over to the
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Aero
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Mexico stand over here. I am getting my
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Delta points and Sky Miles and
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everything because I booked it through
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Delta, but I got to go check in over at
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the Aero
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Mexico. Pretty neat. I'll be on a
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different plane I haven't been on
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before. That's the Delta logo right
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there, the Delta. Same kind of Delta Sky
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priority line. See, my gates's been
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changed to 235. All I had to do is show
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the passport. They printed out the
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boarding pass. Got my Got my Crocs. I
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always try to wear Crocs on flight days.
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Makes it a lot easier and more
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comfortable on the plane. Tennis shoes
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on non-flight days, Crocs on flight
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days. 235 I'm looking for. There's
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hardly anybody in here. A total of a
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five minute wait. That's it. Fair Tal
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say beyond the Orlando experience where
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the sky is not the limit. Give it up for
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the
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Seagates. Also, this is the first day.
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Today is the first day that the real
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ID they become very strict. If you don't
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have the real ID, you cannot fly. So
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that might be why the crowds are lower.
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Could be. I don't know for sure. But
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it's the first day the real ID is in
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effect, which I do have. And I also have
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the passport so I can fly. This is cool.
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Even over here in the Seagates, there's
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a Universal Orlando store and a Walt
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Disney World store over here as well.
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I've only seen the ones over at the A&B
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gates, but there's also ones over here
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at the Seagates. All the theme parks are
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represented. Well, the two big ones. And
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Disney just announced today before I
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before I grabbed the Uber on the way
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over, but they are making their seventh
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theme park. Seventh theme
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park. I've only been to two of them.
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Walt Disney World and Disneyland. I got
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a I got a lot to got a lot of catching
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up to do with. There's a lot more gates
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than that, but that's the actual theme
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park destinations for Disney World. They
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just announced their seventh one. There
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it is. K235.
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vastly smaller plane than the one I went
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to South Korea on, which was the largest
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plane I've ever been on in my entire
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life. It was like triple decker, maybe
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double-decker. This is just a single
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decker.
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235 seat is mine. 4A is my
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seat. Going to be departing at 159.
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Boarding at 11:15 is
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12:54. 2our time difference in Mexico
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City. I think they're 2 hours I think
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they're 2 hours earlier than Orlando is.
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So, it won't be much jet lag. There
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won't be any jet lag this time, which
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will be nice.
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441 departs at 159. Weather at the
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destination right now is 76° in Mexico
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City. Arrow Mexico. Never flown this
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airline before.
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Showing you how to put the luggage in
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like a book on a bookshelf. I always
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hear the flight attendant say that. So,
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it's like stuck in my brain.
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Mexico, Sky Team, that's all the
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arrivals and departures. That is quite a
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massive list of Look at this. This is
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all out of so you know whether A, B, or
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C. Departures, arrivals. I mean, you
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could just roll the dice, throw a dart
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at a dart board and pick a thing. I
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didn't do that, but maybe one day I'll
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maybe I'll take a dart board one day and
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just throw something and go somewhere.
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But today, Mexico
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City. They also have these little
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vehicles which are very similar to the
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people mover. Look at
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this. The people mover
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vehicle. There's a better look at the
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back of the plane, the tail of the
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plane. Yeah, definitely never flown this
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airline before. Also going to get myself
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a coffee. Always heard that you probably
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shouldn't drink coffee on an airplane
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because the water is not the best water.
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That's what people say. People say
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things and you don't know if they're
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true or not true, but I've heard more
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people say that than not. So, I'm just
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assuming it's probably better to get a
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coffee before you get on the
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plane. I mean, I'm not saying I'm not
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going to get coffee on a plane anymore,
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but I might as well get one now before I
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board. Piping hot caffeinated beverage
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for the
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sky. I was going to get the large, but I
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just went with the smaller version just
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because I don't want to be be uh hitting
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the facilities constantly while I'm on
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the plane. once as good, twice as good.
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Any more than that, you're just
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constantly making a steady stream to go
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uh go number one. So, just a small 4K
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coast. Happy New
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Year. We want to thank you for your
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business and I hope to see you soon.
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Now, I say goodbye. Wishing your
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birthday.
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Mommy, flying through the clouds. I
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always like looking at clouds when I'm
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flying. Probably going to get a little
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turbulence here as we're going through
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them. Usually the most turbulence is
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when kind of going bouncing around
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through the
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clouds. Be flying right over the
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ocean. Once we get out of Florida, it's
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going to be pretty much all all ocean
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below me until I get to Mexico.
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Yeah, audio books for the win on
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flights. Super easy. Just throw the
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headphones
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on. Usually I listen to podcast, but I
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kind of like the audio
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book way of doing things.
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It's an interesting green buildup on the
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on the lake down
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there. All right. Going right
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over right over the city
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there. See the shadows of the clouds?
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I guess the airport looks like the
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airport's like right by this the actual
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below. Oh wow. A little turbulence.
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Making a sharp turn here.
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There's a stadium up here of some sort.
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Baseball, football stadium,
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soccer going over the interstates or the
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freeways. Main thorough affairs of some
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sort.
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Highways actually looks like there's two
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stadiums. Here we go.
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Look at this one here.
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Yeah, that's kind of unique right there.
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Right.
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The circular one right there.
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That's
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different. Other one looks like a
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football or track stadium, but the other
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one I don't know what that
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is. Coming in for a landing
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soon. Nice
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little circular aerial view of Mexico
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City.
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All right, walking off the jetway now.
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The jet bridge, I should say. It's humid
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in this jet bridge. Very
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humid. Well, very hot in the Jeep, I
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should
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say. I've arrived in
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Mexico. Got to go through customs or my
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passport again, I would guess. Well,
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most likely. Yes.
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This is kind of cool.
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There's little windows that you can look
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out. There's
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concrete or cement I should
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say. Made it through. Was about a 15 I
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don't know about 15 minute process
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getting through all that. Not too bad.
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Going to exchange a little money over
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here. I will get some more out at during
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the duration of my stay, but for now
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going to exchange a little cash and get
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some uh get some Mexican currency. And
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this was the exchange rate. I exchanged
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$100. Here's the currency I got in
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return. has the Bank of Mexico emblem on
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it. There's 100 pesos. There's 20 pesos.
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And then down here on my bag, I have the
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coins right there as well. 200 200 pesos
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there. That's the back of it. That's the
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front side of it. Got a lot of 200 peso
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bills. And then I got the 100 and the
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20. All of this I got from $100 in cash
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US money. And I'm sure they take credit
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cards here as well, but I always like to
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to have this. And I can also go to an
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ATM and pull more out as well, but I
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always like to exchange a little bit
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right when I arrive each country. Next
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priority is going to be getting some
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sort of transportation over to my hotel
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for my stay here. Was customs went here.
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It was a couple different steps. Pretty
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quick, probably 10 minutes for the first
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step and then another 5 minutes after
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that. They do not allow you to film
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going through the process. Every country
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I've been to, there's very strict signs
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saying no cell phone use, no cameras, no
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filming,
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etc. But made it through that and now
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I'm out here getting ready to grab
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probably a ride share, get over to the
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hotel that I have for my
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stay. But basically everything now is
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facial recognition. Even when I boarded
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the flight at MCO, getting on the plane,
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facial recognition. You go in, we know
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who you are. You're walking through.
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Same with the passport. Pulled my
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passport out. Went through a little
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thing. Put my passport on a Didn't even
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talk to anybody. Well, they the only
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person I talked to was the one that was
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guiding everyone through the queue. Then
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you get to the front, scan your
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passport, thing opens, green light if
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you're accepted. If you're not, you go
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through and then the facial recognition.
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You walk in quick and easy. Just like
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that. This is probably the simplest and
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shortest line of all the ones going
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through. going through customs so far
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that I've gone through. I really enjoy
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flying. It's a really quite an
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experience to land somewhere that you're
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not familiar with and just uh just be
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kind of out of your element
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and see what
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happens. I'm in Mexico. There's also
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taxis you can get. This is the line for
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taxis. There's a taxi booth over there.
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There's also taxi booths here. There's
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taxis everywhere. But not just people
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hailing taxis, but taxi stands.
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This is
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something. Think I might just do the
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taxi. A lot of people trying washing
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windows and sewing things with the
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lights.
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You can see this guy's always snacks and
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things just drinks fountains of some
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sort of team. I checked into my hotel,
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relaxed for just a little bit, put my
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stuff away, charged my phone and my
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camera batteries, and now I'm just going
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walking around the general vicinity of
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where my
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hotel is before it gets too dark. It's
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going to be dark in about about a half
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hour or so, dusk right now. just kind of
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see what's going on in the general
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vicinity of where I'm staying. There are
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a lot of officers over there. I'm
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noticing, check it out. You got
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Pennywise here and then you got old
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school Tim Curry Penny Wise over
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there. Old school, new
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school. I'm in Mexico. Weather feels
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really nice. It It couldn't be any
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better temperature- wise than it is
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right now. I'm sure during the day it's
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very very warm, but at dusk it feels
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great. A little bit of a breeze. Very
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very nice. There's a dog urinating over
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there on a a pallet. Kind of food items
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here. Hot
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dogs, elotees, churros. I'm not going
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I'm going to dive into some food a
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little bit later with my trip, but not
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tonight. Definitely have to come back
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down over to this area during the day.
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During the day. These are police
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trucks. Look at this.
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There's a guy selling churros. But then
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all these are like police full police
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vehicles at the go mart. Get some waters
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and maybe some
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Gatorades for my room. There's a little
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information about this building. 1835 to
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1900. Little monument, historical
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monument. Prices. I keep in mind these
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are all in pesos.
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So you got $19, $21. And they all do
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have a dollar sign, but that is not US
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dollars. That is pesos. So 38 pesos for
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that Gatorade right there. And then 28
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pesos. $28 in pesos. 28 pesos for for
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that one. So it's got a little
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confusing. You're used to US dollars.
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But as for a bag, they gave me this. I'm
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not sure how much that was, but the
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ghost store bag. Couple green teas and
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water just to have some stuff up at my
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room to stay hydrated.
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There are officers everywhere. Most of
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them armed just casually. They're all
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just kind of hanging around. They're not
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even really doing much. You're just
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usually in conversation with each other.
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There'll be a group of them. Like behind
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me, there's three or four just sitting
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by a sitting by a ledge having
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conversations, fully armed. Really
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beautiful out here at night. It's all
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lit up.
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Vendor selling things that put little
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projections on the ground.
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So evidently they like do something over
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here. They do the they get rid of
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the guess the bad spirits or something.
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Very interesting. Street corn looks
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really good. Also, a lady selling
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lottery
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tickets. Some filming going on out here.
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Take a look at
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this. It's a film production.
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Just walking the streets of Mexico City.
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Yeah, they're filming something. They
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did film something out here. Or maybe
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they're filming tonight. That's
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cool. Yeah, they're set dressing this
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whole this whole street or tearing the
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set dressing down. Probably tearing it
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down. Maybe setting it up. Either one.
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architecture. Here's where the Here's
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where the TV stars, their dressing
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rooms. We'll just drive motorcycles on
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the sidewalk here, too.
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I was hoping I could get a hat tonight
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before tomorrow begins, but I might have
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to get one tomorrow. I haven't found any
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hats I like. It's a dump
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truck. Another cathedral
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here. A lot of
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motorcycles. Pretty happening down here
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at night.
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There's also a lot of these bicycle
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taxis like that. See, there's a lot of
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those around. Here comes another party
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mobile. Look at this thing. It's like a
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party mobile right there. This guy's got
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a bunch of little puppies. Look at all
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these little
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dogs. Look at
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that. Going for a ride. I like how they
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had the officers coming in, but these
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are, I guess, workers that are going to
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be doing other things. They got their
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safety vests on, but they're just all
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piled in the back of a van. I've just
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Yeah, I've never I don't think I've ever
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seen anything quite like that before.
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But I guess that's how they get a group
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of people to one particular spot. Well,
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that's going to do it for today. Thanks
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for watching. I am now in Mexico in the
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greater Mexico City area for an
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undisclosed amount of time. Thanks for
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watching. I'll see you in the next
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video. Vlog is