Last Day In Celebration Before Leaving The Country - A Preview Of My Road Trip Plans For Next Year
Celebration Florida Nov 2025
Transcript
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Welcome everyone. A little little gym
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went by. Another gym. I think that might
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have been an E. That might have been an
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E2. Possibly an E4. Welcome everyone.
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Adam's a woo here as the recording of
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this TGIF. Something's going on over
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there. It is Friday. What is the date
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today? November 21st,
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2020. If I got distracted by the barking
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dogs this time tomorrow. Oh my gosh,
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look.
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That's Lightning McQueen.
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You never know what's going to pop up in
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Celebration of Florida. I'm inviting you
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to join me for my final day here in town
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for the next month. I'm going
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international.
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This time tomorrow, I will be on my
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first of two flights. I have a
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connecting flight and then going
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overseas,
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vastly overseas
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to another international destination
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that I have never been to. I also
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trimmed, shaved, did not film a a video
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yesterday, so skipped a day here on the
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Daily Woo. I would probably say I
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probably upload and film 350
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355 days a year. But every once in a
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while,
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I'll pepper in a day where I where I
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don't do that. I've gotten better at,
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you know, taking days to not to not do
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that. But usually only do that when I'm
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home, when I'm traveling, when I'm on
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the road. Always consistent.
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Nonetheless, let me get some coffee. Got
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some things to talk about. I'm inviting
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you to join me. Shall you?
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Probably pull over momentarily.
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Order a coffee. Mobile order a coffee.
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Downtown Celebration, which is just on
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the other side of these trees. Looking
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for any gators. Haven't seen any gators.
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Nonetheless, cool. A tiny gator that
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floats around. Oh. Whoa. Whoa. Oh,
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ask and you shall receive. Right over
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there
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is a little gator. Barely see right in
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the center of the screen. Hello.
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>> Can I be in the video?
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>> No.
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Right in the center of the screen
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is a gator.
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I don't know who that was that came went
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by.
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This is the town hall. It's under
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construction. They are repurposing the
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town hall. Going be nice when that's all
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finished. Finally got some got some work
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going on up. Acquired a spot down here
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even though a lot of the roads are
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already starting to be blocked off with
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the building of the upcoming Christmas
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tree. Should be able to show that. I'm
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going to miss out on the first few weeks
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of the snow.
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Also, temperature right now
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is a balmy
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82 degrees, mostly sunny. It's 130 right
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now. Now, where I'm going to be going is
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going to be considerably cooler than
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here.
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Take that number
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and knock off quite a few degrees. I'm
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going somewhere cooler than Florida will
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be in the next three I'll be gone about
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four weeks. Multiple countries.
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Well, I'll go ahead and say it. I'm
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going to two countries I have not been
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to.
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Three countries total. Two I have not
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been to before before coming back home.
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About a week week or so before
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Christmas, give or take a day. So, gone
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about four weeks. And this will probably
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starting tomorrow or once I land.
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Tomorrow's a travel day. But when I get
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to where I'm going, it'll be cooler than
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this most guaranteed. Cheers to my last
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piping hot caffeinated beverage at the
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Celebration Starbucks for over a month.
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Yeah, see the roads are all blocked off
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over there. This road's not blocked off,
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but
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a few of them are preparing.
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Getting ready for the Christmas season.
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It's beginning to look a lot like
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Thanks. All right, it's certainly Oh,
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motorcycle going by. Scooter going by.
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Tree is up. I can see it over there
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peeking around the corner. You can see
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it right over there peeking around the
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corner of
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Market Street. I almost said Monster
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Street for some reason, but Marcus
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Street. That's why I'm going to say
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Market Street. Yeah, I was just down
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here what a couple days ago and they
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were setting the tree up. You can see
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the skeleton of it, but now it is
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completely finished. Wonder if the ice
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skating rink out the fake ice skating
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rink. Every Sunday the streets are
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blocked off for the Art Flea Farmers
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Market. Well, it's more of a farmers
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market, a farmer and art market. But
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then all year long, well every year
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starting in mid November to probably the
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first week of January where they take
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the tree down. So for like a good solid
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6 weeks, the streets here next to the
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Bank of America, next to the Thai
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restaurant are all blocked off by the
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post office. You can park elsewhere and
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walk over here. You cannot park or drive
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on Market Street. Not sure have proper
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credentials or
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supposed to be here, but I'm noticing
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this is kind of this is really a good
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development. They seem to be have some
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workers out that are putting some sort
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of a new stansion system into the the
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forefront of Market Street. And
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basically what I'm just going off of,
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I'm guessing that what it's going to be
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is one of the type of deals where they
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pop up through the ground on both sides
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of the road that secure a safety
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precaution so people cannot drive up the
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road. And I would imagine when that's
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finished here in the next week or so
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before they start doing the first slope
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that they'll have the little cylinders
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pop up which will stop motor vehicles
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from driving down Market Street.
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update. Construction update. It's got to
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be what it is. I was also noticing as I
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was walking around downtown that they
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have restructured
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and reset up the placement of where some
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of the holiday stuff is going to be. The
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ice skating rink they moved over in
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front of the old theater. It's no longer
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in use. And they have moved Santa's
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cabin where it used to be in front of
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Starbucks. They moved that on the back
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side of the Christmas tree.
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I think honestly I think the new setup
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is going to be way better as far as the
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crowds that really start to make their
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influx down here from now until
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Christmas.
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At the very end of the month is when
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they do I saw a flyer at the end of the
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month is when they start doing the snow
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and it is a beehive of activity down
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here. So I think the the new setup would
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be really good for know crowd control
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and crowd redispersing
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based on some of the the previous
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placement of how it was.
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So, you got the fountain over here and
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they are dispersing the crowds by having
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the fake, it's not real ice obviously
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because it's Florida, but the fake
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plastic ice
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for the ice skating over there in front
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of the old theater.
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Good idea.
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I'll be here I'll be here to catch at
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least one weekend of it before New
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Year's. if not before Christmas, before
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New Year's,
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most likely.
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So, I've been doing some thinking about
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next year. I mean, I know I haven't even
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completed the rest of the travels for
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2025, but I'm already looking forward to
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2026. There's a a slight buildup of
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green film across the top of the water
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here,
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top of Lake Reinhardt.
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So, I got some international stuff
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coming up which I'm really looking
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forward to. But I am really looking
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forward to 2026. Getting in the car and
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doing a lot of road trips. And I want to
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I haven't timed out when each road is
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going to be, but I'm going to give a
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little teaser of what I'm thinking for
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26. There's a turtle right here. Look.
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Is that a snapping turtle?
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I don't know if I want to get too close.
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It looks like it might be a snapping
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one.
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You awake down there.
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He's eyeballing me.
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Stated this before, but I'm going to
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reiterate and repeat myself. The last
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few years I've kind of gone off the
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rails with the type of stuff that I used
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to do. I'm reeling it back in in 26, if
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not going above and beyond some of the
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type of stuff I used to do in the past
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when I used to do the back road stuff,
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small town stuff, the highways and
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byways across America years ago.
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Sometimes I would just kind of go
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aimlessly and not really be in a any
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sort of direct route, not really have a
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game plan. And I kind of want to have a
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point A to point B and do a lot of the
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US highways,
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bunches of the US highways next year.
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And the only thing that's really going
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to be a deterrent on which ones I do at
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certain times is going to be the weather
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because obviously starting in January,
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February, even in March, some of the
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northern states, it's a little rough to
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drive with ice and snow. So, I have to
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balance that out. But I do want to kind
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of share some of my ideas that have been
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floating around the head the last few
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weeks since I started really, you know,
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getting into the thought process of us
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in 2026. 250th anniversary of the United
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States of America. I'm here for it. This
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is such a great path around the lake.
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Downtown Celebration off in the
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distance.
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Celebration Hotel over there. Very
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scenic. Love living here.
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And there'll probably come a day when
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I'm older that I'll be here a lot more.
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But for now, while I'm healthy and I
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have the ability to just constantly
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travel, that's what I want to do. One
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day I'll one day I'll spend a little
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more time at home than I than I have
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been. I love that you can even see the
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tippy top of the Christmas tree down
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Market Street. Again, the zoom on this
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isn't the best, but I'll try to use my
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phone. That's Market Street right there.
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Probably look really cool at night all
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lit up. Find out when I get back. There
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you go. See, I took a photo on my phone.
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One thing about the camera I use, which
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is the DJI Pocket 3, does not have the
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greatest zoom on it, but I feel as time
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goes on, they'll fix that. I feel as
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time goes on, they'll get better. That
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would be the one downside. Everyone's
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using this now, but I think everyone has
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the same issue with the zoom. I'll grab
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a seat right here on this little wooden
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bench. Also like how much green space
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there is in Celebration. Now, they are
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continuing to build past World Drive in
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an area of Celebration called Island
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Village. Different phases of that, but
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they haven't really built any homes in
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Celebration Proper, which is near
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downtown, kind of in the general
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vicinity where I ended up purchasing,
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you know, in the close proximity to
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downtown. When you get past World Drive,
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that's a whole other phase, multiple
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phases, and they seem to be going that
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way and not really touching any of the
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green space. So, it appears as if all
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this for the time being is not going to
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be
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not going to be utilized for businesses
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or homes, which is nice. A lot of green
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space. Tons of green space in town. Nice
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little spot here in the shade.
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Always look for the shade.
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So, let's fast forward to 2026. Fast
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forward to
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US travels
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in the year approaching the 250th
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anniversary of the United States of
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America.
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I have already started looking at
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different events and things that are
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happening next year and I am just
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putting them all off. Next year I'm not
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going to try to do any major events. And
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what I mean by that is things that I
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usually do year end and year out. Year
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out, what am I saying? you're at you're
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out conventions,
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theme parky stuff
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that I'm usually drawn to. Unless it
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fits [music] into the fact that I am in
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a spot where that's happening, I am not
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making plans to do any of that next
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year. Unless for some reason something's
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going on while I'm home for the week or
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10 days each month next year that I'm
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not traveling, then I'll work that in.
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But I am not putting anything on the
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calendar next year as far as an event, a
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specific dated event with the exception
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I'm here to say the first week of July,
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July 4th, I would like to be in the
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Philadelphia DC area because
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250th anniversary
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1776 250th anniversary will be 2026
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in Philly.
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it makes sense that I need to be in that
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region around that time. Other than
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that, anything that's like, you know,
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popping up in my brain, I'm just kind of
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saying no to at the moment. Considerably
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less Disney theme park content next year
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in 26. Stated this before. Just want to
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drive that point home, not only to
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anyone watching, but also to this brain.
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All about US travels.
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Doing a lot of thorough affairs that I
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have not done before in their entirety.
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some that I have done little bits of but
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not from point A to point B. Cross
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country stuff whether it go east to
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west, west to east, north to south,
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south to north, etc. all that. And there
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might be times that I end up in the
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greater LA area on those tres, but
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nothing nothing really set as far as
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getting on a plane from Orlando and
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going to LA. Going to try not to do that
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next year. Unless that is a starting
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point for a trip. Not just going to
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casually get into my comfort zone by
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just flying to LA the five hours and
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doing LA stuff stuff for a couple of
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weeks. Haven't figured out how to
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balance out haunt season. It's going to
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be vastly diminished to what I have done
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in the past. I would like to do HHN and
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not scary next year, but not opening
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nights. probably do them after opening
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nights as the season progresses where I
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can do them back to back and not try to
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do the the two week gap between the
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opening nights. I'm really trying not to
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spend as much time in LA from here on
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out in the future. In a perfect concise
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world as far as making plans goes, next
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year I would like to do one road trip
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every month
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between 20 days to 3 weeks. Well, that's
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about the same. 20 days is 21 days is 3
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weeks.
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Two to three weeks each month. Let's say
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that I'd like to start at the beginning
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of each month, go on a road trip, either
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fly to the start of it or fly to the end
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of it and drive back to one point or,
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you know, fly to the beginning of it, go
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to the end of it, and then fly home from
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the end of it. crossing this great
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country, the vastness,
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you know, showcasing small towns and
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Americana, all that.
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There's a bird right over there.
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And whatever's on that road, I'll show
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and stop at.
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>> Hello.
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>> Hello, sir.
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>> It'll also give me the ability
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by doing a point A to point B and
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staying on one specific road and not
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really veering off too far
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to really have a
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forward motion and not just, you know,
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spinning my wheels, veering off, getting
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distracted, really just focusing on the
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task at point A to point B, which would
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be at hand. And this would also give me
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the ability to take stuff with me, drop
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it off, free merchandise I can drop off
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at places,
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maybe some little shops will let me drop
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some things off and then the next day
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after the video is uploaded, people can
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go get some free stuff. I can do some
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meetups along the way if the mood hits
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me on some of these routes. It could be
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a very good thing. Next year could be
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really cool. Look at this classic truck
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alert. Cardinal Painting Company. went
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purchased a couple celebration shirts to
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wear to my trip. Upcoming trip.
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Celebration shirts are about to go
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overseas.
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Soft as a great. They always have
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celebration merch right on Market
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Street. Also picked up a flyer for the
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events that are happening downtown.
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Again, I will not be here for them, but
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the first snow starts on November 29th,
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27th annual. Also, they're doing an art
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walk on December 13th. If you end up
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coming down here for the snow and the
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snow, make sure you parked in a real
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parking space. I know this from
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experience. If you do not park in a
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regular parking space, they will tell
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you. Rest assured, make sure you're in a
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real parking space.
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Word of warning, don't make my mistake
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from a couple years ago.
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Allotted parking spaces only. Can't
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stress that enough. They will tell you.
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I've been thinking for the Route 66 trip
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which celebrates its 100th anniversary.
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So 250th of America next year, US of a
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250th and then 100th anniversary of
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Route 66. And like I was talking about
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earlier really depends on the weather
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because I can't do Route 66 starting in
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January because 3/4 of the route will be
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ice and snow and the roads will be shut
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down certain areas or too dangerous to
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drive on. So, that had to be something
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into probably late spring, early summer.
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I'd say probably springtime, maybe even
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early spring, but definitely not winter
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time. But when it comes to giving away
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merchandise and things like that, if
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there's anything that I could leave from
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here to start on one of the highways
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with, I could take a bunch of stuff with
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me. Trucker hats, maybe some t-shirts,
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lots of pins, stickers, things like
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that. Anyone that says hi along the way,
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give them some free stuff. also do some
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impromptu meetups. Haven't really
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decided on how that's going to work. If
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it's just going to be last second type
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of thing, if I say, "Oh, tomorrow I'm
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going to be at this spot. Anyone in the
18:20
morning stop by?" Things like that. That
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is all still kind of up in the air on
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how I'm going to do that. But obviously,
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you know, when I do Route 66, for
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example, let's say May or June, if I do
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66, I'd probably fly to Chicago because
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I've done it from Santa Monica to
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Chicago, but never Chicago to Santa
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Monica. That's been seven years ago when
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I did my first the first time doing it.
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This time I'd like to do it from Chicago
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down. Wouldn't be able to take a lot of
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merch with me simply because, you know,
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I can't take three and four suitcases
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full of t-shirts and things like that.
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So, it'd be smaller items like pins,
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stickers, things like that. That'd be
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cool to come up with a really neat logo
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of myself on Route 66, the emblem,
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something of that nature to give away
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and just, you know, print out print out
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a few thousand stickers and a few
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thousand buttons, 1in pens, things like
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that. But anything that I'm leaving from
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Florida, like let's say I was going to
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do US1 starts in Key West and goes to
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Maine, could rent the car here, load it
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full of t-shirts and things, stickers
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and pens, hats, go down to Key West,
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start it there, and do the 3 week drive
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up to Maine. Obviously, I wouldn't be
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able to do that in the winter also
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simply because, you know, we get into
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Maine in January and February be pretty
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rough on a rental car driving through
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the icy, you know, the icy roads and
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very dangerous. So, I have to probably
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do that in the spring or later as well.
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There's a few other few other highways
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in my once I get back to the house, I'll
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kind of show on the laptop the general
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idea of what I have. But I do like the
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idea of bringing stuff with me, dropping
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it off at stores that'll let me place
19:58
stuff in the in the shops and then the
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next day when people watch the video,
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they can go, "Oh, we can cruise down
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there and pick that up. He left that for
20:03
us for free." Kind of a fun thing I've
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been kind of thinking of doing with the
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with the US road trips. We'll see how it
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goes. And obviously any of the the
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highways that I'm going to mention I'm
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going down next year. Anybody that's
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along those has a small business or
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anything like that and you want me to
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stop by, that's a possibility. Can't
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make any guarantees,
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but all everything I'm going to post is
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going to be in a straight line across
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the country, all different directions.
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So be pretty easy to figure out which
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towns I'm going through. Just saying.
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Also, there's another way I go about
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getting merchandise at the start of
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trips.
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Can always find a screen printer at the
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start of one of the routes, one of the
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highways,
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point A, before I get to point B. And if
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I were to fly and next year, the only
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flights I'm really going to be doing as
21:00
far as what I have planned now is to fly
21:03
to the point A to get to point B simply
21:06
so I can return the rental car. Let's
21:08
say if it's cross country, if I'm going
21:10
all the way from south to north or
21:12
obviously I'm going north to south, I
21:14
would fly up start in the north and then
21:16
come southward and then just head home.
21:18
But if I'm going starting in the
21:20
starting in the south here and going
21:22
northward once I get to that point, I
21:24
would fly back home for a week to relax
21:26
before starting the next one.
21:28
But I could always find a a place that
21:31
does screen printing. I think trucker
21:32
hats are the probably the best simply
21:34
because you don't have to have a bunch
21:36
of different sizes. They're more or less
21:38
one sizefits-all. and I could just pay
21:40
the screen printing company at those
21:42
places, get the merch there, pick them
21:43
up when I land before I start the road
21:45
trip, and give away the free merch on
21:47
the trip. So, there's that to look in
21:49
look into as well.
21:55
That I think that that would be a good
21:55
solution to not taking stuff with me if
21:58
I'm starting off by getting on a plane
22:01
and going to point A, if that makes
22:03
sense. So, anyone that sees the
22:06
particular
22:08
highways I'm going to be taking or roads
22:10
I'm going to be taking and you know I'm
22:11
passing through an area, if you happen
22:13
to do screen printing, want the
22:15
business,
22:17
give me a little contact
22:20
or if you know of someone.
22:26
Again, I can't make any guarantees at
22:26
all,
22:28
but I am willing to to think about that
22:31
that aspect.
22:36
Easiest way to get a hold of me is
22:36
Instagram. Adam theWoo ATW on Instagram.
22:40
That's Adam theWoo atw. send me a
22:42
message and if I don't respond as I get
22:45
closer to those trips and announcing
22:48
those particular roads I'll be taking if
22:50
you know I'm coming through. That's
22:51
that's the that's the best way for a
22:54
direct message.
23:01
And if I don't reply, feel free as I get
23:01
closer to your area to let me know.
23:04
Or if there's any kind of unusual stuff
23:06
you want me to see on those on those
23:08
routes and routes and highways and
23:10
byways and back roads, etc.
23:13
Trying to stay off the interstates next
23:15
year. And try not to do any flights
23:18
unless they are going to the starting
23:20
point or coming back from the ending
23:23
point. So I will be flying. Make no
23:25
mistake about that because I've got to
23:27
get home. And the reason I'm going to be
23:29
renting cars as a versus to buying a new
23:31
car, the car I have now has many, many
23:34
miles on, 150,000 miles. So, probably
23:36
don't need to be taking that thing
23:37
across the great US of A, you know, into
23:41
the vastness. I said, I got to get to
23:44
where I got to get to get to where I'm
23:45
going and turn around and come back.
23:47
Just easier to do a one-way rent a car.
23:49
That way, if there's any problems, I can
23:50
just call the rental car company and and
23:52
they'll take care of it.
23:55
That's the plan.
24:01
Pretty excited about it. Again, you
24:01
wouldn't know that I was flying
24:02
international tomorrow as much as I'm
24:03
talking about US trips, but I'm really
24:05
looking forward to the international
24:06
coming up tomorrow as well. Tomorrow's a
24:08
long lengthy lengthy travel day
24:11
tomorrow. So, going to turn in early
24:13
tonight or at least try to before
24:16
heading to the airport in the morning.
24:18
Got a couple flights to get where I'm
24:20
going.
24:21
Cross the seas.
24:24
And no international. I think I stated
24:25
that, but no international trips next
24:27
year. Not one on the on the agenda.
24:32
I think when it's all said and done this
24:33
year, I'll have gone to nine nine new
24:35
countries. Not bad for my first year of
24:38
traveling international. Who knows? If
24:40
I'm still around in 2027, I might do
24:42
more international stuff. But
24:49
the great Adam the Woo US road trip.
24:49
What should I title it? The great the
24:52
great US road trip
24:54
2026 with Adam the Woo. That makes that
24:56
makes that's better. Something like
24:58
that.
25:08
The great US road trip of 2026
25:08
with Adam the Woo
25:21
I did get some new pins made. I'll not
25:21
be giving out the couple years ago I did
25:24
the PO box. I closed that PO box. I no
25:26
longer have it. I don't do the free pin
25:28
giveaway anymore. It was a little too
25:29
overwhelming. But I would like to carry
25:32
them with me wherever I go on these
25:33
trips. And then again, if anyone says
25:36
hi,
25:38
some free pens,
25:44
free stickers, etc.
25:44
and some drop off some merch drop off
25:46
points.
25:48
Yeah, if you got a merch drop off point
25:51
on any of the travels I'll be doing, let
25:53
me know where some good spots you think
25:55
would be. Again, it's all just kind of
25:57
whirlwinding in my head.
26:01
Nothing set in stone, but got some good
26:03
ideas. Kind of want to make it an
26:05
interactive road trip in a lot of ways.
26:16
That's the one good thing about going
26:16
from here
26:18
to there. But let's say I was going from
26:20
that cone to that cone or that cone to
26:24
that cone and I'm only veering off very
26:27
very small doses, you know, a few miles
26:29
in either way and staying on those
26:31
roads.
26:33
It could be a fun little follow along.
26:35
And everything I have planned is in that
26:38
fashion from there to there. Not
26:43
like I usually am. It's just
26:48
again, you know, veering off a little
26:50
bit here and there. You know, a few
26:51
miles few miles off the main course, but
26:54
my goal is to stick to that from that
26:58
to that up to that. Disregard that one.
27:02
That one stretch of distance per month.
27:04
two to three weeks per month. Again, 66
27:07
will be I'm I'm doing trying to do the
27:09
whole month. Some of the other ones
27:10
might be a whole month as well, but
27:12
sticking to one per month, I think, is a
27:15
good template. I can knock out a lot of
27:19
the United States of America in that
27:20
time frame. And can meet up with a lot
27:23
of people. You know, if you're in a
27:24
certain area and you see I'm coming
27:26
through and you have some neat ideas,
27:27
you want to say hi, grab a cup of Joe,
27:29
show me around your town,
27:32
I might be down for it.
27:35
I think it could be fun. Well, I know it
27:38
could be fun. It could be fun. This is
27:39
called Savannah Square.
27:42
And I've always interpreted it and I'm
27:44
pretty confident in my thought process
27:46
that this is based on Savannah, Georgia
27:48
and the squares in Savannah, Georgia,
27:50
similar to the one that Tom Hanks sits
27:52
at in Forest Gump. He says, "A life is
27:55
like a box of chocolates on the bench
27:56
that would have been right over here."
27:58
Very similar to that. I love how
28:00
celebration each of the little parks is
28:01
a little bit different. And fun fact,
28:04
one of the highways that I want to do
28:07
next year is going to be starting in
28:10
Savannah and going across the lower
28:13
portions of the US. I believe it's US
28:16
80, not Interstate 80, but US Highway
28:20
80, which kind of hugs the South. Starts
28:23
in Savannah, goes to San Diego. Now,
28:26
there are some portions of it that are
28:28
decommissioned and broken up, but that
28:29
would be a fun trip to find the old
28:32
abandoned sections west of Dallas,
28:35
Texas,
28:36
cuz US80
28:39
exists from Savannah
28:42
to Houston and then it's decommissioned,
28:44
but there are still sections over to San
28:47
Diego. That could be a fun one.
28:50
It's going to happen. All right, let me
28:52
count. I'm back in my garage now. Pull
28:54
mini margin here. uh count the amount of
28:57
countries that I've been to. I did take
28:58
a break for Halloween season, which I
29:01
kind of regret doing. The Halloween
29:04
stuff is great and I really love it, but
29:06
I kind of wish looking back on it I
29:09
would have continued kind of put
29:10
Halloween on the back burner like I
29:12
should have and stayed with the one
29:14
country per month. But that's neither
29:17
here nor there. And what's done is done.
29:21
still did a lot of countries my first
29:23
year traveling international in 2027
29:27
starting with Bleise last January or
29:30
this January January 25
29:33
started in Bise
29:40
after I did 10 days there give or take
29:40
went to England for the first time that
29:42
was in January so I did two in the first
29:44
month and then I continued doing one per
29:47
month after that I believe
29:50
February
29:52
was number three which would have been
29:54
Canada all the way around in the
29:56
Vancouver area.
29:58
Did a week or two and then in the Canada
30:01
area so that have been three and where
30:04
did I go after that?
30:06
South Korea perhaps
30:09
fourth. Well, if maybe not in maybe not
30:12
in particular order. South Korea fourth.
30:16
Went to South Korea. Went to Mexico.
30:20
That's five in no particular order. I'm
30:21
kind of losing track on which ones I
30:23
went in a certain order, but South Korea
30:27
and Mexico would have been four and
30:28
five.
30:35
Went to Paris. Went to France. That
30:35
would have been number six.
30:43
Again, in no particular order.
30:43
And then also
30:44
I went to Amsterdam, went to Holland.
30:55
Gosh, I'm lo I'm actually kind of lost
30:55
track of what order I did these in to be
30:57
completely honest. But a total of seven.
31:01
Got Bise one, England two,
31:06
Canada three, South Korea four, Mexico
31:11
five,
31:19
Amsterdam six. In no particular order,
31:20
Holland
31:27
and then France, seven. Seven countries,
31:27
and I'm getting ready to do eight and
31:29
nine. So, I'll knock off nine countries
31:32
in 2026 for my first year of
31:38
Good thing I have magnets.
31:41
It's been a busy year. It doesn't seem
31:43
like it's been a busy year, but then
31:44
when I look and I try to remember all of
31:46
it, I'm like, I've had a pretty hectic
31:48
year. Pretty good, pretty good non-stop
31:51
year, not counting all the events and
31:54
all that kind of stuff that I did. And I
31:55
figure once I start doing the US stuff
31:57
again, I'm going to need I'm going to
32:00
need more magnet space for my US magnets
32:04
or maybe I can slow down on the magnet
32:06
buying. I definitely need to buy more
32:08
magnets internationally. I got to get
32:09
add to the two countries.
32:17
Yeah, good times. Good times. It's been
32:17
a fun year. Been a fun fun year. I've
32:20
seen and done a lot of stuff.
32:23
And here's some of the one-inch buttons
32:25
that I ordered. I'll probably take a few
32:27
with me over to the international
32:28
countries that I'm going, but these are
32:29
mostly saved for the US travels. In
32:32
fact, got a new one here.
32:36
Has me there in front of the the US,
32:38
continental US.
32:40
Probably going to make a lot more of
32:42
these. These are just for starters.
32:46
Yeah, these are just for starters. But
32:48
got some 1-in buttons for the road trips
32:51
that I'll always have on me in 2026.
32:54
All right, back home now doing a little
32:56
pre-mental pre-planning. Haven't written
32:58
anything down yet. Haven't bought a page
33:00
by page daily calendar as of yet, but I
33:04
do want to show some of the some of the
33:07
roads I want to take. Obviously, the
33:10
most obvious is going to be Route 66,
33:14
which goes from Chicago
33:17
to the Santa Monica Pier.
33:25
So, I would fly to Chicago at some point
33:25
next year. I'm thinking maybe
33:28
May, May or June, but I'm leaning
33:31
towards May.
33:33
Not sure how bad the weather will be in
33:34
Chicago in May, but should be drivable.
33:37
Maybe
33:39
starting in Chicago and going down Route
33:42
66. This is the obvious one. I'm going
33:44
to show you some of the other ones I
33:45
have in mind. Then there's the Lincoln
33:47
Highway.
33:50
Goes from San Francisco to New York, but
33:53
I believe technically starts in New York
33:56
City.
33:57
So, if you were going to do it the the
33:59
correct way, you'd start in New York,
34:01
end in San Francisco. I believe that was
34:03
a way it was originally
34:06
conceived and built, but I would end up
34:09
in San Francisco. So, making the most
34:11
sense would be fly one way to New York,
34:15
pick up the rental car there, do Lincoln
34:17
Highway through Philly, over through
34:20
Pittsburgh,
34:22
south of Chicago, De Moines's, Iowa.
34:26
portions of it split off to Denver, Salt
34:29
Lake, and all the little small towns,
34:32
the nooks and crannies of the Midwest
34:35
along the Lincoln Highway. I've done
34:37
portions of it, never done it in its
34:39
entirety. Now, this one I would not be
34:41
able to do in January or February simply
34:43
because the road conditions will be
34:46
really undrivable and unsafe in certain
34:48
areas.
34:50
Maybe April,
34:53
March, Aprilish.
34:56
possibly. Again, just kind of
34:58
spitballing, thinking out loud. But this
35:02
is on there. Route 66, Lincoln Highway.
35:05
Those are two of the many I want to do
35:07
next year. One per month if all goes
35:09
well. The third major highway that I
35:12
want to do is US Highway number one,
35:16
which goes from Key West, Florida to
35:18
Fort Kent, Maine. Now, I don't know
35:20
which which which way I would go,
35:23
whether I would start by renting a car
35:26
here and driving down to Key West and
35:29
starting in Key West and taking US1 up
35:33
through Wayross, through Bradley, up
35:35
through Augustus or up through Augusta,
35:37
South Carolina, South Carolina, up
35:40
through Raleigh, through DC, through
35:43
Newark, through Boston,
35:46
and ending at the starting point of Fort
35:48
Kent Or do I fly to the closest airport
35:53
near Fort Fort Kent and then drive back?
35:56
That way I don't have to catch a flight
35:58
when I get back. Maybe fly up just north
36:02
of Boston. Drive up. I think there's
36:04
even a closer airport than Boston to
36:06
Fort Kent. Drive up to the Canada
36:08
border. Start in Fort Kent and make my
36:11
way southward hitting all the little
36:14
nooks and crannies of US
36:16
Highway number one.
36:19
all the way back down. That's the third
36:21
highway I want to do next year.
36:24
Hitting every little town. Some of the
36:26
major towns are mentioned, but there's
36:28
going to be some other little small
36:29
towns, back road stuff, forgotten
36:32
communities, abandoned buildings,
36:36
you know, empty storefronts, new
36:38
storefronts, thriving places, unthriving
36:41
places, all through some of those
36:44
original colonies. Then we're getting
36:46
into another one. PCH, Pacific Coast
36:49
Highway, which some would be considered
36:52
from Los Angeles up to San Francisco, I
36:56
maybe even up into Northern California
36:59
up towards like Eureka and all that. But
37:02
in reality, Pacific Coast Highway goes
37:04
from Seattle
37:06
all the way down through Atoria, Eureka,
37:09
San Francisco, Santa Barbara, LA, and
37:13
San Diego. That is another one not to be
37:16
confused with US one which goes from
37:20
Maine down to Key West. This one is on
37:23
the west coast Seattle down to San Diego
37:28
just hugging the west shore.
37:31
Nice scenic views. Some smaller and
37:33
bigger towns, little shore communities.
37:37
Been wanting to do this one for a long
37:38
time and in 2026 it's on my agenda. So
37:42
that would be the fourth
37:45
of the great highway road trips planned
37:48
for next year. Again, trying to
37:50
coordinate which month of each of these
37:52
I want to do. I want to do about one per
37:54
month. And there's a lot of them. Now,
37:56
this one might be one of the particular
37:58
highways that I do early on. Let's say
38:00
even maybe even January or February.
38:02
could even be a good first one to tackle
38:05
and jump into simply because it's so far
38:08
south in the US that it won't be as
38:11
inclement weather when it comes to, you
38:13
know, snowstorms. You know, there's a
38:16
possibility, but it won't be as bad as
38:19
it would be in the northern states. This
38:21
would be Route 80,
38:23
Highway 80, which starts over in
38:25
Savannah
38:27
right there on the east coast and makes
38:29
its way through Statesboro, Georgia into
38:33
the center point of Georgia, and then
38:37
into Alabama. Right through the center
38:38
of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, right
38:41
through the middle of Texas. This is
38:43
what it gets a little confusing right
38:44
through here because once you get
38:46
through the Dallas Fort Worth area,
38:48
there's some sections that's
38:49
decommissioned, but not all of it is
38:51
decommissioned. So, I would have to
38:53
bounce off of the highway, go a few
38:56
miles, get back on, try to find some of
38:58
the old road. Some of it's abandoned,
39:00
some of it's not drivable, some of it is
39:02
drivable. Some of it reconnects once you
39:04
get over into this area, and then make
39:07
my way into New Mexico, out of Texas,
39:10
and then over into Arizona. and finally
39:13
end up in San Diego where I would catch
39:16
a flight back to the east coast knocking
39:20
out that one. And I'm guessing this will
39:22
probably one of the early ons of 2026.
39:26
But look at all these towns. Some small,
39:29
some big, some historical, some
39:31
forgotten, all along USA. There's also
39:34
US Route 90, which I probably will not
39:36
be doing, which runs more along I 10.
39:39
This is kind of more through the middle
39:42
of all those southern states. So, this
39:44
would be number five road trip I want to
39:46
do next year. That's five. Another one
39:49
I'd love to do is the Great River Road
39:51
Trip. River Road runs just beside
39:56
parallel to the Mississippi River.
39:59
starting up in northern Minnesota,
40:02
runs along either side of the
40:04
Mississippi River through all these
40:05
states, 10 or so states, dumping out.
40:10
Well, obviously I wouldn't go into the
40:12
ocean, but it ends right there at the
40:14
the bottom southern tip of Louisiana.
40:17
Now, the question I have to myself
40:19
basically is, do I go up one side and
40:22
keep crisscrossing over the bridges to
40:24
the other side of the Mississippi, or do
40:27
I do one lengthy trip at some point next
40:30
year where I start in Minnesota? That'd
40:32
be super easy. just fly up to the
40:35
Minnesota airport there by Mall of
40:36
America
40:38
in Minneapolis, rent a car, go to the
40:41
start of Great River Road, make my way
40:44
down,
40:46
turn, go, you know, maybe do two weeks
40:48
down, 10 days down, 10 days back up,
40:52
hitting all the little small towns,
40:55
the old mighty Mississippi River, great
40:58
river road trip. I feel like I feel like
41:01
I got to do both sides. Go all the way
41:04
down hugging the Mississippi all the way
41:07
down and then hugging it all the way
41:09
back up. Or could fly into Louisiana and
41:12
do it that way and go back down. That's
41:14
a possibility as well. I could even just
41:17
rent a car from here, take a day to get
41:20
over there, start go up, come back,
41:22
return the rental car back in Orlando.
41:24
But that's going to be that'll be a
41:26
lengthy trip going both ways. But this
41:28
is something I've wanted to do for a
41:30
while as well.
41:32
So that's six, right? That's six road
41:34
trips. I think that's a good start.
41:43
I'm out hoping [music] to find some
41:44
deer. One last look at some deer at dusk
41:48
before I leave.
42:11
Well, the deer stayed very elusive this
42:11
evening, but at least I get to see the
42:13
lights.
42:15
Christmas tree is not lit up yet. They
42:16
haven't done the Christmas tree lighting
42:18
ceremony yet, but the other lights on
42:20
Market Street are. But no deer. Elusive
42:23
deer. Deer were very elusive.
42:31
church has some very very beautiful
42:31
lights put up or they're putting up
42:32
their very beautiful lights. This is
42:34
also the time of the year where every
42:36
place well there's a spot right there
42:39
but downtown starts to get really hectic
42:42
when it comes to parking because
42:44
so many streets are blocked off and
42:46
there's already little parking to begin
42:47
with and people just circle around they
42:50
can find parking. There was a spot back
42:51
there if anybody needs it.
43:06
Nice little view of the sun setting over
43:06
there. So, a little bit of the nightfall
43:09
here in downtown Celebration. And
43:12
evidently, I was just talking to
43:13
someone. They said they were going to
43:14
put the little pylon stansions over here
43:16
as well. Maybe that'd be kind of neat.
43:20
Have them from all three angles. Look at
43:22
that sunset there. You're going to be
43:23
able to in the upcoming weeks be able to
43:26
skate there on the fake ice skating
43:27
rink. The sunset at Celebration. Very
43:30
beautiful. They're having something
43:31
going on down here. A little food little
43:34
food uh food trucks. Ah, Christmas in
43:37
celebration. At least they'll be back in
43:40
time for Christmas Day. Look, they have
43:41
the little icicle lights up there all
43:43
lit up. Very nice. Toways on though.
43:46
Tow. Keep that in mind. Towways. Got the
43:48
lights stretched all along the lamp post
43:51
here. Very very nice. And the
43:53
decorations and everything. Christmas
43:55
lights and ornaments. Oh wow. They have
43:59
really gone out over here at this house.
44:02
Take a look at this over here off to the
44:05
side. This they have really gone full
44:09
Griswald. Wow. Love it.
44:13
Love it.
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You know, I think I miscount earlier.
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I've been to eight countries so far this
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year. eight and counting the two I'm
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about to do before a year end. That'll
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be 10 countries. 10 new countries I've
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gone to in 2025.
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Not too bad. Not too bad. So, you got
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Bise,
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Bise, Ecuador, I forgot, France,
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Mexico,
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South Korea, that's five. Six, England.
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Seven, Holland.
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and eight Canada and then nine and 10
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upcoming
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plus all the Halloween stuff plus the
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40th anniversary of Back to the Future,
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40th anniversary of Goonies and 40th
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anniversary of Peewee's big adventure I
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celebrated at all those spots. Pretty
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good year. And that's going to do it for
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today, but not before I put my porch
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pilgrim away. It's time for him to go
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inside me to put me to put my
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Thanksgiving stuff away.
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Can't leave that out while I'm gone. And
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when I return, Christmas stuff will go
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out. Much more bountiful and plentiful
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than my Thanksgiving decor. I have a lot
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of Christmas stuff to put out.
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But for now, I'll be celebrating
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Thanksgiving
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Porch Pilgrim
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signing off. I'll see you in the next
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video. The vlog is over.
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See it a little more ominous with the
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shadow.