My 300 Mile Journey To South Of The Border - From Georgia Thru South Carolina / Roadside Attractions
From Georgia To South Carolina to South Of The Border
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not too long after sunrise the sky
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is looking very beautiful with the cloud
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formations up there
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the road's a little bouncy
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over a very impressive bridge formation
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look at that welcome everyone adam the
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woo here today's adventure begins
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in brunswick georgia underneath
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the incredible branches of lovers
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oak said to be nearly
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a thousand years old well more than 900
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years old according to the stories and
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the tales i'm going to be going through
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two different states today covering
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nearly about 400 miles if i stay
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on interstate 95 but i will be veering
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off so let's just
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assume it will probably add on 50 to 100
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miles more
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meandering off of the interstate going
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into
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out of georgia into south carolina and
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then to the state line of
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north carolina that's the agenda i'm
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inviting you to join me
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and just we're just going to have a good
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day shall you
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it's located in the middle of a
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residential neighborhood
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houses all around it and the road a
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split road
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has been built on either side
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that is a large tree it is a little
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silhouetted out now because of the
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sun behind it that is rising
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check out this homestead across the way
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here
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the backdrop of the town's water tower
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reminds me something that
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vincent price would live in in one of
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his movies
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that's awesome after looking it up i
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realized i'm about a hundred miles off
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of my estimate for today's travels not
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400 miles closer to
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300 miles right over here
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as i trounce through the grass is
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something that really pertains to
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this town's name in this
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pot was the first brunswick
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stew made on south
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saint simon isle on july 2
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1898 the first
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brunswick stew was in this pot
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right here on display for all to see
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when it comes to small towns this is the
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kind of stuff i'm always looking
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for the relics of the past
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advertisements for the good old days
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still embedded here on the side of this
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brick wall
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a bakery and confectionary
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and also curtains and stoves and carpets
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check that out there's a sh crescent
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company
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old signage up there the ritz theater
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the neon
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still up there on the side of the wall
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nice
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back on the interstate not what i always
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choose to travel on but you know gain a
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little bit of time
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and then i'll veer off just kind of mix
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it up a little bit
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keep things interesting that didn't last
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too long found a road that runs parallel
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highway 17 north tough to tell what that
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what that was at one point that antique
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little relic right there in front of
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this establishment
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now i have passed by a piggly wiggly or
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two in my day
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but i've never seen a 12 foot
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version of the mascot before is made out
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of wood
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i like that
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little piggly wiggly it's a grocery
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store
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a complete canopy of moss
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love it and then some that have just
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been planted
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very tiny pine trees
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well babies
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okay these are adults these are adult
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pine trees
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peppered in there
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just off the side here in townsend
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claims to be the smallest church in
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america
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visitors welcome non-denominational
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built in 1949 by
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mrs agnes harper
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there's an arrow pointing to where it is
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over in the trees
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no church pews there are six seats
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there's 12 seats total
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six on that side six
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on that side and there's a walking stick
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here that seems to be engraved as well a
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couple other people have stopped off to
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get some
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photographs very neat i love it
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i got some trucks pulled over here
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not just one
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but also another one here
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and not just that those two
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a third set of trucks
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up here that have been pulled over to
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the side i'm in the middle lane because
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sometimes it's a rule sometimes it's
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just
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the proper thing to do is to to get out
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of the far
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right lane when you see lights like that
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but yeah three different
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trucks pulled over and about a half a
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mile stretch
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interesting just off the savannah exit
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at the keller's flea market
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it's this gargantuan cow
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this thing is tall just looming over
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passer buying traffic to get a
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correlation
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look at the vehicles look at the cow
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that thing
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it's wearing a hat it's got a hat on up
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there
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nice good to see you cow
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it's okay commuters pay no attention to
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the
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large cow staring at you
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it means no harm i love fleas
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oh because it's a flea market
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that makes sense
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oh down near your
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near your hoove your hoof
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you have a wrist watch around your ankle
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didn't notice that at first
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which i believe takes me out of georgia
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and
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into south carolina
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road just changed if there's one thing
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i've learned
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in my travels is that fiberglass
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elephants do not enjoy being climbed
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upon
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larger than the the vehicles there
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in the background very immense
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in size a gray and a pink one
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been sitting here for many years in
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front of papa joe's
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fireworks which is having a buy one get
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one free sale they are open
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the only vehicle in the entire parking
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lot
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is my rental car
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now if these were if these were the real
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deal
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i would not be meandering between both
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of them because they could lean into
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each other
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crush me they're very stationary they
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are
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i can't walk any further there's some
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weeds here
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in a a gully
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which i just almost fell in when i was
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trying to shift the camera around i
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almost took a plummet down in there
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after after just stating
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to watch my step
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all right elephants i'll see you later
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catch you later
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oh wow also advertising is something
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called a claxton fruitcake
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made it to walterboro south carolina
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that's the post office there
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it's a very unique tile work
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on that building and up here
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it's a little antique
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some neon up in there that has seen some
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years
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beautiful whoa
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that thing's moving now here's something
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you don't see every day
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this is a water tower and you see water
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towers
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pretty often however this particular
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one at the base
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i almost i almost took another tumble
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right there on that little
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only about two or three inches up i just
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gotta watch where i'm walking at the
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base of this water tower
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look what's under here
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it was used as a cell well a couple
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cells
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you'd see another one in there
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and then over here one of the doors is
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open
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over a hundred years ago so the
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information states
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it's locked up with a newer lock
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after peeking back in i'm noticing
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there's a total of three there's two
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there and another there and there's a
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little
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side passageway that doesn't have that's
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not
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sealed up with bars
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and hello
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oh yeah a little bit of an echo in there
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i don't remember bars being on these
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windows
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oh dang that's an active captain deez
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i don't even know captain d's was still
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a thing
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need to stop and get some fuel it's a
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dollar
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98 here this is an active open
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stuckey's it's good to see
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definitely not the smoothest oh
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i heard me talking about it and the road
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kind of smoothed out
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i'm gonna say definitely not the
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smoothest interstate section
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but it got a little better once i
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started mentioning it and now i'm on a
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portion of the bridge so it's
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a little rougher let's be going over
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going over some water
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my goodness i made it
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south of the border you would be
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hard-pressed to find
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a roadside attraction of this
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size magnitude and unusualness
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anywhere else in the us probably in the
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top probably top five
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if not top three on my list and it's
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been
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many years since i've stopped off here
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oh man
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still exists it's tough to even wrap
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your head around
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why it's here there's a water tower over
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there that has sob on it
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which stands of course for south of the
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border
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on the side of the restaurant is an
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oversized
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hamburger
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when i talk about how it ranks up high
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on the list it's not because there's a
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lot to do
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here so much it's just basically a big
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shopping area with a restaurant
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there's a place to get gas and there's
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like gift shops
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but it's just the it's something that
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you have to it's hard to even wrap your
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head around
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the fact that it really exists off of
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the interstate it's a real place about a
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decade maybe even longer but give or
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take a ten years a band i was in from
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florida
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we were doing a tour and we passed
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through here we placed our sticker
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it was an oversized sticker along the
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spark plug it's kind of a right of
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passage
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to do so for any visitors to take any
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sort of
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sticky vinyl and place it here
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upon the spark plug i have analyzed it
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and looked closely and even though it
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was about 10 times bigger than all the
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other stickers on here
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it is gone it is no it has been erased
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from existence i believe it was up here
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and it looks like
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all of them were peeled off and now
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other ones have been placed there but
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there's a lot yeah there's a lot of
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stickers some duplicates
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triplicates there are even some that
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have been placed
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you know half a dozen or more of the
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same
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same stickers there was a time period
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when you could go
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up into the tippy top
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of the sombrero which is that sun is
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bright
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but i do not believe you can go up there
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anymore it doesn't appear as if i see
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the elevator going up
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i don't see anyone at the top just went
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inside
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at the base of this and they said that
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it has not been working for
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quite a while no go
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see an rv parked over there
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there's some fireworks for sale
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there's a t-shirt shop here
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video power i don't really know what
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that is pinball
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skee-ball and pool inside the arcade
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if you count the billboards going down
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95
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there's probably more than 100 or 200
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they start from 150
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plus miles back very reminiscent of
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the thing out in the desert near the
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west coast
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where there's just a plethora of
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billboards for that as well
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oh jeez what is in your mouth there is
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that a cigar
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i don't really know what it is
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got something in your mouth i'm gonna
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lean up on you rhino
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i'm just gonna lean up on you say hello
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there is a bridge right here
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i can't imagine if anyone ever traverses
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across the top of it though you just
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cross over the regular road
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this leads to
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pedro's pleasure dome
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the pleasure dome kind of wish i could
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go up in the sombrero
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i'm not gonna not gonna lie
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was not meant to be
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the fountain at the main entrance of the
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hotel
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motel well it's called a motor lodge
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i think that means i think that means a
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motel
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if memory serves me correctly
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the shop over here had some rather
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inexpensive stickers and merchandise
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and if that's still the case i might get
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a couple souvenirs
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look at that thing next to the shopping
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carts which are not the world's largest
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shopping carts they're
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about half size got a handful of items
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including this
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one dollar bag that you can get is like
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a little
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carrying tote
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and a few take home items a couple
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different sizes of bumper stickers
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and different designs as well and
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instead of getting another coffee mug
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which i have too many of i
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always use an extra drinking glass i got
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this plastic one
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it's 2.95 these were like 10 cents each
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so everything including the bag was only
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like
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five bucks but maybe these were actually
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these were a dollar
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smaller ones were 10 cents bigger ones
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were a dollar
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in fact i think these were 10 cents so i
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think three dollars
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99 cents a dollar and then 10 cents each
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for the old school style it was like
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five dollars and change
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plus tax picked up a pamphlet also
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just showing some of the things they
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have here on site have a campground
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and a reptile lagoon
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you never sausage
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a place or with some clever
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clever anecdotes different attractions
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an indoor outdoor pool
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amusement ride i didn't see any
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amusement rides five restaurants and
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seven gift shops a 300
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foot tall observation tower with a glass
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elevator
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that is not working and there's the
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motor in
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it's the talk of the town by
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different birds they have chili
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hot tamales and there's a steak house
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here called the peddler
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south carolina's world well south
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carolina is just right over the border
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of north carolina
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that's where it gets its name south of
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the border
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right on the state line drove over this
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way a bit
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never noticed this before the steakhouse
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is
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also a sombrero look at that
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reading off all the different
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attractions quadzilla a merry-go-round
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the red baron a ferris wheel pedro has a
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railroad bumper cars hot wheels
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wow and a convention center
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south of the border has a convention
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center
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under the sun glare i found the
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attractions over here
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on the far end got a little excited
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that i found them however the sign
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says closed with no admittance
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but they do have them just not open
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at the moment oh there's the bumper car
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area right there look
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when i see something closed like that
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that i would like to
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partake in i always think to myself
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son of a also a truck stop on that side
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of the road can't stop over there though
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because
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i'm not not driving a truck looks like
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most the truckers though
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are siding with going to porky's truck
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stop
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huh and a pantry where
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cigarettes are sold by the carton
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yeah so it says right there on the
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awning what is this the silver arcade
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never noticed this before in the past i
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mean obviously it was here i just
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skipped over it
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the silver arcade there's a glass
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slipper
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there and
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how welcoming they are they have two
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items
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in front of the door it's a flea market
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that's what it says says there's a flea
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market on the door
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and an internet cafe what
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i have to admit i didn't know an
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internet cafe in this day and age
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still up north carolina line just
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crossing into north carolina
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really wish that sombrero with the
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would have been open and the other
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attractions
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and the little rides