South Of The Border Has Been Partially Torn Down - Update Tour of Bizarre SC Roadside Attraction
South Of The Border Update 2022
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today's adventure brings me to
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south of the border
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a unusual quirky roadside attraction
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here off interstate 95
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in south carolina
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and i am going to give a scooter tour
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pulled this out of the back of my car
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it's all charged up and it is brisk as
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the recording of this monday january
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17th
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2021 no not 21 2022
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is forced to have it
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2022 is the correct year
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it takes a couple weeks to get used to
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22. and i am going to venture around on
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said scooter
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past the sob water tower south of the
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border
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and to other areas
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through a wind chill that is
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crisp
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and cold out here
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and there is a room or not a rumor but i
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was reading something that a couple
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months ago
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they tore down a lot of buildings out
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here so i am going to give an update
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on what's happening
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at south of the border
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in 2022
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get on this scooter and get moving
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it's chilly welcome everyone
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i don't know what that noise is the wind
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what is that oh it's the wind
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is blowing that sign across the
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registration at the
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the motor end welcome everyone adam the
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woo here
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rarely can you go up in the sombrero but
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i'll go over there and check and see if
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you go up in the sombrero as well
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i am bundled up got the hoodie on
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got the sunglasses on because the sun is
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glaring in my face which is nice
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don't want to poke that in the eye sun
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is right there and i am not complaining
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about that because it's about
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41 degrees but with the wind chill it
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feels like it's two
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and i have layered up just a bit with
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this
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the hoodie
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got the shirt under here
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so i got a shirt a t-shirt i got the the
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studio the hollywood studios hoodie and
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i always wear this thing's seen some
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miles and then this
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added on to it
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and the scooter right there
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join me
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for an update on
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south of the border this sob
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south of the border shall you
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oh no what it is
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is the wind blowing the top of this
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chandelier
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type of item
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right up here
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hear it
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hear it rattling this very unusual
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oh it is dusty
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what do you think about those pink
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flamingos what do you think about that
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pink flamingos have my hand cupped over
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the top
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of the microphone
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because it is
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it's cold
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i can assure you there is not one person
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inside the pool
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at that motel right there and you're
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getting a view of the water tower
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there's also a bridge
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i'm going to be crossing over
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as well
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and
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a lot of sombreros
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kind of parked that there riding around
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on that thing
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oh yeah it's uh you can definitely feel
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the coolness
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when you're zipping along on the
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scooters also a truck stop back here
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and a park
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i've walked around
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areas of this before but never done like
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a full tour so the scooter's gonna
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kind of come in handy for that just
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zipping along
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i really like how odd this place is
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like i said you got
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the decent size pink flamingos over out
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there
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never stayed in these accommodations
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over here
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yes yes
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i hear you up there awning
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do not jump in that fountain you would
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freeze
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you took us off
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okay this is the
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mexico shop they call it
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there's a bear right there
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gonna go underneath pedro's legs this is
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pedro
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there's a restaurant in here
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and up ahead is the myrtle
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beach shop it's not located in myrtle
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beach that's a waste from here
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but this is called the myrtle
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beach shop
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and you can see right up here
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there's like a
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couple pink flamingos and a large sea
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shell in front and
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a blue whale and some alligators
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and it says go inside and see the great
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white shark maybe i'll go in there a
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little bit later after i do the scooter
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tour also have pedro's pantry
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it says here that they've been selling
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fireworks over 50 years at fort pedro
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in fact in 1949 1950 is when this
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originally opened and then i think like
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15 years later they brought the
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fireworks in you can purchase fuel you
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can get a meal
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you can just see some of the quirkiness
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like this alligator right here holding a
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firecracker truly quite the sight when
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you're
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cruising down i-95 and you see a very
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large
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sombrero lookout tower this place like
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you drive along and all of a sudden it's
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like wow
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it's south of the border i was reading
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at one point in its heyday there were
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700
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employees here
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local residents from the next town or
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two over they would commute in just a
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few miles
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to work here but now there's only about
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300 possibly maybe even less now they
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torn out some buildings i'm going to get
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to that in a minute
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and just kind of see what's changed
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probably should have gloves on but
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just put my hands in my pockets and
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occasionally kind of switch off hold the
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camera with this hand but yeah it's uh
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fingers are numb looking at my shadow
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i wanted to show this very large
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hamburger cheeseburger
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you can't get gas at a couple different
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gas stations as i stated and over here
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is a spark plug
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which has a plethora
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of stickers on it in fact i placed a
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sticker on here years and years and
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years ago i was in a band
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we came through this area and i put a
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sticker last time i was here a couple
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years ago i checked to see if it was
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still there and it hadn't been but i
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have a new sticker to add
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to the spark plug so i'm going to add a
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new sticker now speaking of stickers
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they sell these in the gift shop
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for like
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10 cents or 15 cents they're very
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inexpensive
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so if you want to south of the border
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sticker there i'm going to go in there
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probably restock my south of the border
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sticker collection but i have a sticker
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here that i'm going to add to this spark
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plug right now i am going to leave my
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face and torso
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on the map of the us
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and it's funny as i'm walking around oh
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this thing is shaking
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this thing is tilted the wind is
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look at this spark plug
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is like shaking back and forth
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that's hilarious
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but it's funny
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check it out right here all the way from
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southern california
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ordinary adventures has left a sticker
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here i didn't realize they had been to
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this area how what how random so i'm
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gonna put this
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right underneath theirs
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so we can let them know that i have the
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sticker underneath there that's pretty
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neat
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all right i digress this is so unusual
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that
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someone i know right there is on the on
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the spark plug
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here at south of the border a lot of
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people are here like look at this
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gentleman's got his face
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right on top of there
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and then right up here
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almost looks like a wrestler yeah a lot
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of people have
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put their sticker here for posterity and
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now mine again another one
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is now added
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to the spark plug i would have liked to
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seen this place in its heyday
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when you couldn't you know you couldn't
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even find a place to park it's not that
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way anymore every time i've been here
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over the years every couple years i
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swing through here it's always pretty
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empty
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just a few cars and it appears as if
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like the building that was torn down at
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least one of the couple buildings
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that was torn down was right here it's
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all they were cones the cones have
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stanchioned off
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where the building once was not sure why
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they tore that building down
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maybe it was
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falling in who knows
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i do recall in past
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trips through here a couple years ago
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that long dog over there
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was over in this area
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could have been like right about over it
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here if my memory serves crack i've
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slept since then so
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could be wrong there was a building here
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you can still see where the foundation
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used to be
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should right over there that dog and say
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hi
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i'm on my way
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that little dog has a little ramp here
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look at this little ramp
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also here's pedro again
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right there
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i'm gonna make it over to the
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the lookout tower
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but i'm noticing over here
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as i go past fort pedro
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there's a dinosaur
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also with a sombrero
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this is the same type of rabbit except
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this looks more like a jackalope that
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they have at the jackrabbit jackrabbit
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trading post on route 66
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very very similar
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except this one's up this one's a pink
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pink jackrabbit
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right there but it's the same
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the same type right there almost the
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same one from route 66 same style
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that's cool
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it's another pedro
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oh even this even the soda machines here
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have quite an array of stickers
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i am glad i'm bundled up
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it's definitely noticeable that business
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that building there has been removed
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just basically extends the parking lot i
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don't really know if they need more
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parking out here they got plenty of
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parking
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based on the amount of tourists that
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go through this area looks like a
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maintenance truck here
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and a ram over here on a rock
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yeah this ram is overlooking the parking
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area
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there was one time gosh it's probably
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been about a decade ago this was open
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you could go up there
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doesn't appear to be open right now
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though the shop is in the arcade
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but not the
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lookout tower
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taking a gander back over this direction
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where that building used to be i guess
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two buildings
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were torn down over there for whatever
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reason and it's inside this shop where
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you can get the stickers
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for a pretty good price oh wow
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the building over here is gone too oh
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what the heck
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yeah that looks a lot different
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i also wanted to show here
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video power pinball skee-ball and pool
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inside the el toro there was a really
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large building
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right here gone
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erased
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from existence
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update
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wonder why
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oh you know what i think the chickens
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over there have been repainted too
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the two chickens this is a hippo a blue
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hippo
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over there is another actually there's
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about a half a dozen half a dozen pedros
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going down the side of that road those
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chickens i was talking about
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are over there and of course with all
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the flags waving in the breeze very
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briskly to see how windy it really is
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plenty of fireworks here that you can
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get
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a little giraffe in front of that
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fireworks stand also
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you can faintly read if you have an rv
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do not dump
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the sewage from the rv
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here
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it's between the it's located between
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the tower shop you can faintly read it
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on there there's also a large mushroom
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this hippo
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don't mind me foul walk in between
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i'm wedged in between
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these two chickens
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don't cross the road chickens
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if you do let me know why
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why you crosstalk it's the age-old
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question chickens all right i put the
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scooter away went back inside my car and
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warmed up i had to
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yeah i had to turn the heat off for just
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a brief moment just to warm up
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and now
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going inside
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the shop
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see what i can find
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quite an array of different items in
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here souvenirs and whatnot plenty of
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merchandise with the name of the
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attraction the roadside attraction on it
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all throughout
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this entire gift shop is pretty massive
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now there were two other gift shops
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that were torn down but this is the main
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gift shop where you get plenty of
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merchandise said i'm gonna buy some
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stuff
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definitely like walking around in here
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and just seeing seeing all the quirky
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odd things i'm gonna i'll spend a little
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money not too much but i'll buy one or
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two things ended up getting this pencil
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pedro on the top of it as well as this
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shirt
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here south of the border shirt
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and stickers
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large sticker and small sticker
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not bad
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some souvenirs
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what an unusual place and i'm looking at
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this little pamphlet brochure
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and right over here that building there
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that was shown there
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is one of the ones that was torn down so
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the t-shirt shop
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is the one that's gone that one right
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and it was located right there
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that's where the t-shirt shop was now
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all the t-shirts
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are in here
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now out front they have some cinder
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blocks
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kind of stopping the
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anybody from parking on where the
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the old t-shirt shop used to be one of
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the
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many t-shirt shops out here they tore
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this one down
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this is wet paint
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i also went up inside
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the arcade
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which is behind this
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obstructed by the el toro signage and i
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asked about going up inside the sombrero
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which i did years ago
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they said no not today i said it's been
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close for about five years right
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and the employees said yeah it's been
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about five or six years
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so will i pass through every couple
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years and just always ask well they're
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working on it right now
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so according to the employee they're
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which i believe that's what they told me
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a couple years ago another angle of the
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building one of the two buildings that
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were torn down
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this one here we've confirmed the other
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one was one of the t-shirt shops
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i cannot recall what
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was in this lot now where it's all coned
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off i also inquired
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as i peruse around where to get some
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coffee
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and was told at the hot tamale so i'm
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gonna head over here to the hot tamale
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which i read another sign that this is
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open 24 hours a day
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serving food
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if that's still true it'd be pretty
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amazing to crew sit here at 4 00 a.m
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get yourself a hot dog
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i got i'm going to confirm that when i
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walk up to the door and say
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and a closer view here
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of the size of this slice of cheese
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that's on that burger
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i'm seeing a sign here this is not say
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24 hours
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so the other signage looks like it was
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made years ago outside said 24 hours but
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this is it's only open till 11 00 and 12
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pm let's see if they have coffee in here
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though this place just screams
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retro through here look at the neon up
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they have tacos they have breakfast they
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have super dogs over there in the corner
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they have beer but look at this
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also they're nice enough to make me a
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fresh pot of coffee because the one
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they've been sitting has been sitting
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all day so they're making me a fresh pot
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a brand new pot of coffee so
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thank them for that but i'm just gonna
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look at this look at this place look at
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these seats it's like the old like pizza
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hut type seats are like
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oh and they have pressed pennies
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take a look at this you get yourself a
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pressed penny as well
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the one in the arcade the press penny
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machine
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the arcade was not working
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but this one
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is working and there's a couple pressed
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pennies down there
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just like this might be the ones that
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didn't work out well piping hot
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caffeinated has caffeinated beverage has
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been procured
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and see i was
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telling the truth it does say open 24
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hours but just confirmed
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by the side of the door that's not the
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case
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right over there
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and this is needed this is much needed
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out here at the gusty roadside
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attraction off 95. i still need to go
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over into that beach shop check out that
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come in and see the great white shark
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it's hot i have never been in here so i
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am excited about
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seeing
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the great white
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shark there's an alligator and a sea
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shell before walking in there's this
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guide map a kind of a general layout of
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the land of the entire property
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and off to the side of the guide map
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shows you are here
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which is going into the beach shop
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interesting thing about going in the
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beach shop you cannot have pets unless
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you're carrying them so if you have a
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if you're carrying your pet you just
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bring any pet in here that's unusual and
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the shark
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in the back is basically just a t-shirt
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gift shop as well
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in the back the shark is completely made
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of plastic it looks like yeah it's a
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huge plastic shark not a real shark
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however over here it says the story of
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the great white shark magnificent
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creature was captured off the coast of
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barbados in april
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of 95 it was taxidermied
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27 feet long
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this says it's real
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i don't know that's up for except for
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discussion on that one looks like
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plastic to me
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there's also a campground here on site
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at the moment there's only one or one rv
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back in there not a lot of rvs
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this might not be the time of year to be
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camping here on site because the
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the winter weather
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but it looks as if there's a neon sign
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in the window of campground registration
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says it's open and then there's also the
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silver arcade internet cafe
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over there where they're doing some work
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on it
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the silver arcade
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like there's a slipper like a
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yeah there's like a high-heeled slipper
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for the marquee as well as the hideaway
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you can redeem something in there
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adult games
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not really sure what that means but
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don't ask don't tell this is much more
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comfortable than how it was on the
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scooter
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my fingers were getting a little
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they were going numb
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also the peddler is still here
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it's a steakhouse
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yeah see it big the foot there's the
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convention center south of the border
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convention center
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i don't know when the last time i had a
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convention was but they have a
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convention center now i have never seen
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the amusement park open ever
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and all the years i've passed through
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this area
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every couple years or so i've never
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maybe i'm just showing up at the wrong
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time of the year
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but i've never seen the
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carousel working or the bumper cars or
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anything or the slides
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none of it the attractions shown there
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on the sides side a sign
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i hear a train
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there's a train within ear ear
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ear view
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eye view
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i don't see it but i hear it so with an
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and of course who could forget
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porky's truck stop
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now this says that the shop in there has
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import teas from all over the world
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look at that it says
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the beach shop import shop
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tea shop t-shirt shop imports from all
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over the world
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all right i never knew this was back
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here either
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there are some hotel rooms or motel
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rooms
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some very old-timey equipment here
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in the yard look
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oh yeah these have seen some years
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like this this item
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swings here
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dang that's cool that's an antique right
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the two rockets with the slide evidently
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there was a train that went a miniature
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train not the not the full size that
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went by but here's some
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some of the train tracks that go through
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this dinosaur i'm noticing has lost
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its arm
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right there one of his arms lost his arm
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oh my goodness i had no idea this was
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all
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here on site
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nor did i realize
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there is a freaking alligator in here
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the american crocodile
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i'm just going to stay here behind the
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fence
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like you've been slithing around there
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in the sand
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on the dirt
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oh yes
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here's the snake room
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this is all i thought this exhibit was
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going to be was just snakes
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there's a king snake right down there
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the salt water siamese crocodile
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are you looking at me crocodile
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you're smiling for the camera i like
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all right i'm gonna walk on crocodile
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okay
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have a good one
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i thought maybe the crocodile was gonna
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move but
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crocodile didn't move
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a few more over there they have a lot of
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alligators and crocodiles in here
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get myself this little photo off of me
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holding this big snake
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yep nice photo off
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another crocodile
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yeah never been in there before there
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was a slithering snake going up that
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water tower there
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and that's gonna do it for today a
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little update from
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south of the border a couple buildings
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torn down did a couple things i've never
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done before explored a little more
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spent half the time on the scooter then
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it got too cold then got in the car
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got some coffee
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it was a good day
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oh there's a snake
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wrapped around pedro here i didn't
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realize that there's a snake
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wrapped around him
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right up see it's a snake
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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it's over