Key West Conch Train & Walking Tour - Southernmost Point & Mile Marker 0 / Key Lime Pie on Duval St
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam dewoo here as a
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recording of This is Tuesday January
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there is a rooster right there
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at first I thought that was you Crow and
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Mom
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I do Crow but I won that time my mom is
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here this is It's a rooster this is our
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first official full day in Key West we
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got in last night
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watch out rooster I always want to know
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why the chicken crossed the road but now
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I want to know why did the rooster cross
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the road you see a lot of people kind of
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riding around in there
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we are gonna spend the day in Key West
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starting off with the world famous conch
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tours is that how you pronounce it conk
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train George
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have you ever done a conch tour before
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no
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no I haven't either
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we booked a tour we're gonna take a
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train around get some info and after
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that just see where the rest of the day
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goes
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what are you looking at looking for more
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roosters looking around all this
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activity a lot of activity going on all
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right let's head out I think we got a
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check in over here wait for the train
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and do some caulking join me oh there's
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a Key West fire department truck right
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here pull it in
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I can't believe you saw a rooster now I
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just got to see you find one of those
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iguanas they have like a lot of they
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have a lot of wild roosters around and
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they have iguanas
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and a lot of golf carts there's a real
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beehive of activity out here
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join me shall you
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and bikes these are conch shells the
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peacock symbol of conk
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Republic I really hope I'm pronouncing
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that correctly oh it's like wind chimes
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but it's with seashells
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she sells she she sells seashells by
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the seashore that's that is a tongue
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twister pulling into
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the station
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evidently this is a drops off four times
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there are four spots around Old Key West
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and this is the train we're gonna we are
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gonna jump on you can jump on and off
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throughout the course of the day at four
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different stops around Old Town here is
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the guide map oh you got a hat
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you buy yourself a little sun visor hat
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here's the guide map
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and if you want to hold that I'll give
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you your sticker you have to put on like
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a little on your shirt there to
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designate that we are on the train
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tour okay right here so I'll give you
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that okay and then this is not the first
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stop I thought it was but she said we
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need to walk down there the next one
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departs in about 15 minutes so we got to
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walk down there to the first stop got
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the sun glistening there above the top
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of this world famous
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tour train here in Key West
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and we're going to kind of use this as
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our first day here so we're going to use
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this and kind of see some things we want
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to see on later days while we're here
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throughout the course of this week this
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will give us some ideas there's not only
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the Train the overseas railroad but you
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can also these do these Trolley Tours as
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well we're opting for the train though
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because you know I like trains a train
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departs out of the first stop 90 miles
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from Havana Cuba this size and 157 miles
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to Miami it departs here from Mallory
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Square they're giving a little bit of an
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announcement so I should probably go
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ahead and get on board
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this is the
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on a stop sign or cut us off well if
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they do that if I have to jam on my
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brakes and you're standing up we might
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end up right here trying to sit down
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and I feel a whole lot of people working
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I don't need these things to happen so
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please What Remain seated we go into
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motion okay guys please keep all body
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parts inside my train we go down some
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very narrow streets passing by a lot of
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big buildings trees and vehicles
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yeah I know this is Key West but no
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alcohol the trade if you have any
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alcohol thirds you can pass those for
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your engineer and he will dispose those
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properly
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so if you're going to speak to a
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neighbor please do so in a quiet whisper
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so we can all share the narration and
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please refrain from cell phone use
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unless you're using the text or take
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pictures with and then feel free and
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speaking of picture taking I'm not a lot
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of stuff for just the taking the picture
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sporting facts at me they're like I'm
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the last Dorito on the face of the Earth
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not one of our stop guys I am not
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allowed to drop off and pick up there
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tourist attraction on this island a
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place called The Key West aquarium open
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first by the U.S government during the
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days of the president
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because it is like walking through your
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own little Fishbowl also on right hand
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side that beautiful red brick building
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there we call that old 91. that's
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because that building what's good for
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the 1891 and at that time all federal
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Builders fell in his cruisers for two
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Spanish treasure gallions these were the
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atosha and the Santa Margarita that's
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all right hand side guys a beautiful
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presidential game those Gates were
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constructed in 1906 and at one time only
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open for U.S presidents the first
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president of the passenger case
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president half in
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getting in the end of the road that road
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is one looking to your right you'll see
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the miles your marker designating the
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beginning of US1 and if we want to
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travel all the way the north of us
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native us one will follow this road for
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2209 miles from the border of Canada
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United States at a city known as 14th
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May
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continuing down while history guys we're
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getting ready to hear a few episodes
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he got here commissioner Freedom small
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little scooter the name at the mosquito
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Squadron and within two years the
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priority had not destroyed and bled off
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to either Cuba or Puerto Rico wow
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back in 1941 as author by the name of
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Thelma stroval came here always a very
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lengthy line for the southernmost point
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but you can see the line stretches just
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look at the line stretches all the way
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down here 18 inches
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the southernmost southernmost house
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that is the original southernmost house
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that beautiful queen in Victoria Mason
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been there in 1896 by judge just from
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riding Harris and his wife
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as well they are named scarlet and red
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yep just fight Gone With the Wind
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working over 160 factors on this island
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handling more cigarsier than any city in
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the world it was originally built there
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in 1917 becoming home to the Cuban
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Social Club if you were Cuban or Cuban
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is it in those days you could belong hey
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Shannon you've been over that career for
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a very small weekly fee that's something
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else that we could see included if you
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happen to get Secrets making a turn into
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this parking lot now I think we're gonna
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stay on the train and then after after
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we get off to the final stop we're gonna
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walk back down here's our little moped
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that's enough for that after we get off
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the final stop we're going to walk up
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and down Duval and go get a photo at the
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southernmost point and maybe go to the
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Butterfly Conservatory butterfly museum
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one of two stories right now
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yep really loud for me to hear what
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story you want to hear the first one I
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can say is about that street we're
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getting ready to turn onto over here at
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home Truman Avenue or I can tell you why
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there are chickens running all over the
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island of the Key West you don't know
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what story you want chickens all right
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all right
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three the guy's not too long after this
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before the ease the key left
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in jail
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mess with the chicken you get a 500 fine
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or and or 500 six months in jail
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don't mess with any chickens while
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you're here
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in January of 1958. based on this
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business oh number 97. the guy by 1971
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the trolls had several trains as well
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foreign
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no doors on that truck
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open air Truck Yeah
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the English-speaking people here people
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who spoke no Spanish so they
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phonetically corrupted or they
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anglicized that Spanish name of Kai
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oweso into what they thought those two
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were expensive
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mysteriously blown up and that became in
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that Spanish-American War the guys
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inside our Cemetery there are some very
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unique headstones to some are unique
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citizens one of these unique citizens
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was a local hypochondriac by the name of
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Betty Roberts her headstone actually
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says I told you I was sick another
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headstone in there says well I'm just
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resting my eyes that's very my favorite
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they quit replacing because they kept
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getting stolen all the time it used to
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say at least I know where he is sleeping
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tonight
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save our first civilian governor his
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name was William took the guy who carved
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that balcony five years out of mahogany
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a lot of these places look familiar
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Sloppy Joe's he said this is not the
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original spot for Sloppy Joe's Sloppy
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Joe's is now here though I definitely
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heard of sloppy joes this was a mansion
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that was built here it's now the Hard
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Rock Cafe I've never seen a Hard Rock
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Cafe that's in a house here nowadays no
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we get out when we're done I think we're
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gonna walk over here and get some key
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lime pie from Kermit's talk to the the
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driver of the train at the last stop and
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he said check out kermits and right
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there on that corner is a Wendy's fast
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food place
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untraditional style
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check it out the Strand Theater is now a
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Walgreens
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pretty cool there's the green parrot
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I've heard of that place the Green
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Parrot Bar
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is the key website hey guys about 50
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years ago during the daytime
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you see back in 1949 our strippers
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discovered a very unique kind of strip
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that was called Key West pinks oh this
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is interesting this is the where the
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very first Pan Am Ticket Center used to
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be they still have the Pan Am logo on
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the side birthplace of Pan-American
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World Airways building first office
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October 28 1927 pretty good tourists
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over here now at the Shell Warehouse
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they give you a free gift when you get
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off the tour it's a vacation decision
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maker head or tail whatever you decide
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to do you just flip this little wooden
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coin now we're gonna take a little bit
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of a stroll about a mile walk down
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Duvall and some of the other parallel
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streets
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over to the southernmost point
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and try to get a photo it's gonna be a
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lot of people online but want to get a
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photo with the southernmost point buoy
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gotta cut back through Mallory Square
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some big big uh teeth down there from a
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shark Mallory Square Market and here's a
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fisherman right here with some pelicans
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and a little like a pitchfork and stuff
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right here
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an old man I'll say it's the old man to
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see but
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it's a man
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he's probably very familiar with the sea
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there's a roots on this
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look at this
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I don't really know which you're
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supposed to take a photo in front of so
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you got the end of one you got the start
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and the end of Mile zero so those people
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over here taking photos there's also the
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end here I feel like maybe we should get
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one in front so this is where the zero
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mile art place is
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like everyone's taking the photos over
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there so I feel like that's the spot but
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maybe this is the spot just to be on the
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safe side we'll get a we'll stand in
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front of both of them just so we know
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we're standing it right in the front the
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mile marker zero photos but these people
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are taking a photo of it which one do
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you think we should get the photo in
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front of Boom we'll do both of them all
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right one down oh zero okay now directly
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across the street this says Florida
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Scenic byway begin one North mile marker
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zero right here and take a look here
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comes the here comes the train
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Four Guys point that one out I'm
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confused okay for posterity there is the
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begin sign and now we gotta go over and
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get one with the end that's the begin we
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have
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a friendly couple that was walking by
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get there let's go get one at the other
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one all right so we got the beginning
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and the end both mile zero I don't know
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which one's the appropriate one to be in
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front of but you know what we knocked
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both of them yeah but two bucket lists
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achieved
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it's a win in Rome
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this side says into the rainbow big
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truck going by
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into the route Key West US-1 limited
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opportunities and tropical vacation land
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it's a very impressive tree classic
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car alert
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fits right in down here oh we got some
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youngins down here with the mama
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how stinking cute
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chicks
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thank you
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it made it over to the southernmost
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point
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a spot scene in many postcards
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photographs things like that
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playing conch shell here
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here's the ocean so this is the
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southernmost point
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of the US in fact here's the here's the
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little buoy right here
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a couple little placards here this one
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is kind of faded and worn out weather
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worn
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dedicated
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Timber 33 or 83 93. I can't tell hey
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this says October 10th 1993 and on a
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generosity of the United States people
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in Cuba
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dedicated to thousands
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lost flags at Sea Looking For Freedom
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okay so this must be 83. I can't really
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tell
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the southernmost point which means I
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guess Cuba would be right over there
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perhaps
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we went ahead and got in line it doesn't
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look too bad it's maybe
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40 people in front of us who's going to
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be patient and get the photo for
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posterity all right do we stay in this
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line
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heads we stay in the line Tails we stay
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in the line yes all right ready we're
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not getting out now
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it is Tails we stay in the line we're
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doing it we're doing it we're halfway
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there
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I like this though we can make a lot of
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decisions will I get key lime pie today
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Tails we get key lime pie heads we get
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two key lime pies
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and it is Tails one key by pie each yes
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that's all we need as I'm standing here
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I pulled up satellite view you see the
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blue dot is us right there the
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southernmost point all the way
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down here right next to the straights of
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Florida almost there maybe a dozen or so
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people in front of us now slow moving
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but that'd be worth it right over here
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too is a little Hut
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oh it's kind of echoing in here hello
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it's called the cable hot concrete
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structure was built in the mainland
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transported by flagler's railroad to the
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current location at night so it's been
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here since
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1917 right next to the southernmost
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point well I guess this is I saw the
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most point as well
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you guys want to go down
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three there you go
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awesome thank you so much for you guys
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train going by that we were on earlier
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in fact I think that's the same driver
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worked out pretty well because we just
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asked the family behind us take a photo
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we took one for them
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teamwork yeah this place is just hopping
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down here
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oh they're up on the curb another tires
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on the curb
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a lot of people what they'll do is
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they'll won't stand in the line they'll
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just kind of stand up there and get a
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quick little one and we waited in the
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line just so we could get like right up
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on the buoy or up on the southernmost
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point classic Carl is that the same look
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at the same classic car we saw earlier
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it might be there's another rickshaw
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so that photo op so the most point is
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the southernmost house as shown here on
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the side of this Frozen drink on
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alcoholic frozen drink called blue
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raspberry a little a little souvenir
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right here the frozen raspberry inside
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here
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you got one too it's good yeah one
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Cheers Cheers there's no alcohol there
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but you can still cheers with no alcohol
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very cool this blue raspberry it's the
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only thing they had over there that
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didn't have alcohol in it but everything
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else had rum in it
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I think Pirates drank a lot of rum I
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think that's what I've always heard take
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a look at this Kitty got himself a
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little bit of a mouse there this cat
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caught a mountain oh no it's a fish
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it's a catfish look at this cat fish
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plus we sat down for a bit we're gonna
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walk walk out a little bit I'm the
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wrestler old woman
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wait a minute don't move
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the condo Apartments rentals
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we're thinking of this cat right here
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it's a catfish
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I've always heard that you take your
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thumb
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press on the top of your mouth it'll
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stop the drink and it's not the brain
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freeze
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the water's nasty I was looking at our
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shadows here we both got the same kind
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of hats on
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yeah yours a little bit wide I think
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it's just because there's like seaweed
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in there is that why you're saying that
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or it's just
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you wouldn't want to swim in that I'd
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probably be more clearer this is Rhett
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and Scarlet both born on February 14th
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2012.
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a male and a female Rhett and Scarlet
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here inside the butterfly conservatory
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and I must say there are so many
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butterflies in here it's just like a
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really a sight to behold now I've been
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to other butterfly areas before
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including Epcot when they have the
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flower and garden festival and they have
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a lot of butterflies but this really is
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a massive step up from that I don't even
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know if you could even put a count total
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on how many are even in here I mean I've
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already probably seen thousands upon
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thousands of them just kind of
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fluttering around such beautiful
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creatures the bug look at that they're
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just like oh they're just trying to like
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make a friendship there of some sort a
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little flutter flutter your enjoying
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your meal there enjoy your little snack
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looks like it look it's tasty looks like
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this one up here is kind of making a
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nest or like rooting around maybe like a
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little nesting of some sort this one up
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here is like looking up there asking
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like what are you doing up there yeah in
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this butterfly okay we're supposed to
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check for butterflies you see any
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butterflies really quiet in here
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no no the butterflies wanted a hitchhike
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come with us
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take a look at this coat over here
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the window
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it's like something from the future
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you're getting
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ready you want that next Christmas for
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Christmas
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I don't think I need you tomorrow I
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don't know if I've ever seen a Circle K
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that looks like that before
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no gas no fuel
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okay this caterpillar Blends into my
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shirt I have a caterpillar on my shirt
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look at this Mom
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it's a little caterpillar on my shirt a
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little butterfly easy in my bed you
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think so it looks where else would it
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come yeah you're right I mean you just
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set them free
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if you can get them off there and put
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them on the put them in the
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put them in the shrubs
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give him a leaf to eat and Chow down
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there he goes there he is right there
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all right be free he escaped
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he escapes
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he'll be a butterfly soon made it over
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to Kermit's key lime pie spot
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I was highly recommended from a few
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different people including the train
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driver a little bit earlier in the day
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and I looked up there's an address
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there's another one kind of over where
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we parked then there's this one here on
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Duvall
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that it's also going into as well and
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it's kind of nice because
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well they had a couple different options
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like a strawberry key lime and
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gluten-free keep on my mom and I just
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got the regular key line key line and we
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have moved out back to a little seating
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area which is kind of nice we've been
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walking quite a bit
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and there's not a lot of benches
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on Duval Street in Key West so
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thankfully this place has some some
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benches
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you can sit back here and enjoy
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an hour
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key lime pie
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they also try to gave us a sample of Key
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Lime fudge they're pretty good yeah it
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was
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gone by time it's pretty tasty two key
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lime pies well two slices of key lime
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pie
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we're just kind of known for we passed a
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few different key lime places
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but a place called kermits
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I don't know so that could be pretty
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good
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very good
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it's like a win in row moment we're not
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in Rome
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we're in Key West but
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key lime pie really hanging
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so you're gonna Focus the area
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it's Tangy
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Tangy and tart
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beard that is very very tired
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hopefully they have napkins
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because
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it's really good lime it's party
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I like it
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I think we were the only about this
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people that have walked in here
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I'm noticing over here this says oldest
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house store entrance so I'm guessing
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what is now a store used to be the
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oldest house there or is the oldest
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house oh that's the oldest house right
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there so this is just a little fake this
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is the shop next to the oldest house
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there you go but all these houses look
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pretty
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pretty old
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according to the sign
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I feel like we're out of place without a
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golf cart
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and that's gonna do it for today
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ending where I began here at the concour
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train did a lot of walking did a lot of
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riding
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did a lot of sightseeing I'll see you in
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the next video the Vlog
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is over