I Cancelled My Trip To Colombia South America & Pausing International Travel For A Few Months
Travel Update Aug 2025
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of the Sunday, August 3rd,
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2025.
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I am using a brand new camera. It's the
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same camera I've had for about the past
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year. It's the DJI Pocket 3. Couple
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nights ago, my mom and I went to a
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baseball game, Rays versus the Dodgers.
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And during the game, my the gimbal on
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the camera just kind of bit the dust.
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So, opened up the new one. Today's going
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to be a testing of the new one
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throughout the course of the rest of the
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evening. Also,
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I canled my flight today. I skipped an
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international trip that I had planned.
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I'm going to talk a little bit about
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that.
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One week from right now, I will be 51
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years old. It's officially one week till
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my birthday. And I decided to just kind
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of stay put around the
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the local Orlando, Central Florida
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celebration area the next few days
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before departing
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later on this week.
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See where the day leads. Kind of glad
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I'm not getting on a plane today.
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Honestly, I fly all the time. always
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traveling, always going places. Had just
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woke up this morning, was supposed to go
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to the airport and I thought, you know,
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I think I'm gonna change it up a little
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bit. Decided to stay put for a few days.
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Join me. Shall you? And when I say it's
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the same camera, I mean it's the same
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model camera. This is the one that I've
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been using for the last year. You can
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see right there. Pocket 3 DJI
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So, pretty good. I got a year's worth of
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use out of it. The the gimbal just was
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not wanting to cooperate anymore.
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I'll use this as a backup and when I
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travel, I'll have this also in my
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luggage as well. But for now, opened up
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the new one.
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Cruising around in Mini Marge. Going to
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have a celebration day. Celebration Eve.
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Celebration late afternoon slash.
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93° right now in Central Florida. Where
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I was going is probably about 30° cooler
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than it is here, but again,
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staying put for a few more days.
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I changed my plans up a lot. I I changed
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my mind a lot. Today is, you know, no
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exception.
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It's like one of those decisions that I
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made as soon as I decided, you know, I
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don't think I'm going to get on a plane
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today. It was like it felt like the
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right decision. It is currently 5:15
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p.m. right now, around the time,
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probably about a half hour ago. If I
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would have got on board the plane, I
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would have been landing in Colombia for
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having the camera for I think I bought
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it about a year ago and it finally just
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kind of it kind of kind of crapped out
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on me a little bit after after a year.
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Also, I got the coffee. I feel like uh I
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feel like that's pretty good amount of
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time to to have a camera. When I was
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using the G7X for I don't know, four,
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five, six years. I was using the G7X. I
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went through like 12 of them. I averaged
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out. I pretty much figured that about
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every 6 months I'd have to buy a new
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G7X. So, this one lasted longer than the
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G7Xs were. So, you figure 365 days in a
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year these cameras are about 750 bucks.
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That's uh, you know, give or take about
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$2 a day. You know, you look at it
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because I do pretty much every day
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videos. I might might skip a day every
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so often, a couple days a month, but
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more or less it's pretty much every
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single day. So, you use that. You factor
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that into like rental $2 $2 a day in
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order for me to have the proper
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equipment to film these videos on. I
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don't I think it's a pretty good deal.
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You look at 750 bucks, you're like,
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that's a that's a pretty good chunk of
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change. But when you're doing what I do
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every single day, you kind of have to
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factor it in as just look at it as a as
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a rental price. But in all reality, I
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probably should be going through these
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about every half a year instead of like
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pushing the boundaries to like hopefully
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it doesn't, you know, it doesn't break
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after after a year. I I I pushed it a
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little too far. I should be buying two
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of these kind of like I was with the G7
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X's a year, which should be like $4, say
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$4 a day rental, which is still worth it
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when you're when you're doing daily
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videos in my opinion. If I was in
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Colombia where I would have landed, it
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would be 58° at the moment.
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But I didn't go. I've also decided that
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I am done.
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About a week ago, I mentioned that I was
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no longer going to be doing weigh-ins. I
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wasn't going to be doing any like
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particular bold statements based on
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weight loss. I was just going to try to
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eat normal, do a little more cardio, do
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some light workouts, things like that.
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Not stress over having a certain time
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frame to, you know, bold statements. It
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was really just kind of stressing me
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out. So, I am also here to announce that
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I am not going to be doing one country a
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month for a little while. That I did six
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months of it. I did seven countries in
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six months. I did one country every
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month. And the country I was going to go
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to in August, my eighth,
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but it'll be eighth. No, I did eight
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countries in seven months because I did
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January, February, March, April, May,
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June, July, and then one of those months
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I did two countries. So, wow. I guess I
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did seven months. So, I did seven months
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every a new country in each of those
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months. And I'm not going to be able to
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I'm not going to go through the end of
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the year. I've decided there's so much
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going on in the US coast to coast with
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theme parky events. Halloween season is
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pretty much kicking off very soon,
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immediately after my birthday, which is
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on August 10th, one week from tonight.
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So, I am going to stay put until around
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the 8th and then I'm going to fly to
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California to the greater LA area, do
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some stuff there. Shortly after that,
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fly to Las Vegas. Shortly after that,
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there's going to be some baseball. Going
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to fly up to Sacramento. And then after
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that, fly back to SoCal for more
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Halloween. Early Halloween. I know
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Halloween in August. What's the world
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coming to? But it's here whether you
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like it or not.
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and do some events there. So, that's the
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plan. Haunts, Halloween stuff, baseball
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for the next couple months and then get
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back with the get back to the
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international stuff. Been spending a
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little time with my parents. My mom and
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I went to the game the other day. and
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she stayed at my place and the next
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morning we went swimming in the pool,
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spent some time and then my dad came to
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pick her up and then we ended up
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watching TV, watching some baseball on
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TV, having lunch with my mom and dad,
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catching up with them, spending some
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family time and they were saying, "Oh,
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are you going to be around close to your
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birthday?" I said, "Oh, no. I'm leaving
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in a couple days going to Colombia."
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And they said, "Well, we'll celebrate
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your birthday when you get back." Their
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birthday is on the 10th, but I don't
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plan on even coming back till like after
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the 20th or 21st or 22nd or maybe even
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possibly even longer than that. So, my
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birthday is long gone by then. So,
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this morning when I called my mom and I
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said, you know, I changed my mind. I
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kind of had a change of heart on the
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Colombia thing. She was she was happy
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because in all honesty,
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going solo to Colombia probably not the
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safest place. I mean, I went to I went
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to Bise in January and
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not not the I wasn't the most
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comfortable with safety when I when I
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felt there. So, that kind of factored.
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It was a bunch of factors, but that was
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that was one of the the few factors on
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why I decided not to go. So, not will
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not be will not, I should say, be
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gallivanting
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around South America by myself. Now, I
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had a couple things planned where I was
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going to do some some tours, like a
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group tour.
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So, obviously not doing those, not
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staying at the hotel that I had planned
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on staying in the capital city. And I
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would have been out there for five or
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six days. It would have been a day or
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so, less than a week being out there,
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but
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maybe one day I'll go to Colombia, but
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not this time. And my plans for later in
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the year, not going to go anywhere. Not
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going to go international this month or
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next month most likely. And probably not
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even in October, like August, September,
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October. Probably will not do any
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international. November, I've already
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got a trip booked somewhere
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somewhere probably a little a little
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better than where a solo person would be
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going by themselves and could feel a
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little more comfortable wandering
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around. and then December as well. And I
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might even tack on other places in
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November and December and maybe knock
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off a few countries at the end of the
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end of the year. So, we'll see. But
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again, no major game plan. No promises.
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But yeah, November and December, I'll be
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I'll be doing some more international
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stuff. That's my own fault. Having too
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many interests that I like, having a lot
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of recurring things that I always like
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to do and enjoy doing.
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You know, you like what you like.
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Sometimes I feel like I can walk away
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from things, but it always pulls me back
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in. And when you try to do other things
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and incorporate those in there and then
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also have some home time,
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it just it was honestly I don't want to
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say it's too much, but it was like
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unneeded. It didn't need to be
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happening. I just sometimes I I make
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these, you know, I have these ideas for
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myself and I have these like challenges
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for myself. And again, talking about the
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weight loss and all that, I figured that
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kind of factored into it is kind I kind
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of walked away from that idea, you know,
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harnessing myself into those
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those thoughts and promises out into the
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to the universe. So, I could I could do
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it with this, too. This dock has always
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been here, but I think they redid it. I
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think they put some new wood here.
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So, it's a lot of factors. It's the fact
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that I just didn't want to get on a
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plane today. I mean, I'm going to be
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getting on a plane to go to SoCal
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at the end of the week, not even the end
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of the week, in a few days. And then
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from there, Sacramento there a little
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while, then another plane back to SoCal.
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So, and then back here. So, a lot of
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plane travel. So, not having another
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flight day mixed into there, I'm uh I'm
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pretty content and happy that that's not
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that that's that's not going to happen.
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And the fact that I just I just didn't I
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didn't think it was the right decision
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for me to just go to South America
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and just aimlessly be strolling around
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Colombia. I don't know. It It really
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kind of hit me. I had some friends and
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family kind of all say, "Are you sure?"
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"Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'll be fine. I went to
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Bise. I went to Bise City."
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But yeah, to be totally transparent, I
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did not feel super comfortable in Bise.
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I did it,
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but did not feel completely comfortable
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being there by myself.
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You know what I'm talking about,
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squirrel?
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Plenty of fun times on the horizon.
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Plenty of fun times. Lots of fun events
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coming up. Lots of good things. I'm
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going to be
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knocking off another stadium seeing the
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Rays play. I've done 31 stadium seeing
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the Tampa Bay Rays play a regular or
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postseason game at which is pretty nice.
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I don't count spring training.
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my 31st. So, I did the three. It took me
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three years. Last year, I finished up
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the 30th stadium, 30 current stadium,
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seeing the Rays play. You know, some
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people do go to every stadium, but I I
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kind of I try to do it with a little
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little twist on it and only see my Rays
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play at the stadiums. I did 30 stadiums
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in those three years. Finished up that
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last year. And then this year, of
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course, they're playing at Stein Burner
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Field, which is the Yankee spring
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training facility, but they're playing
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regular season games there. So, I
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knocked that out. So, that's the 31st.
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said, "I'm getting ready to do my 32nd
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for no other reason than just to say
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that I did it." So, there are some
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things I stick to.
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You can never I I can never figure out
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exactly what I stick to or what I don't.
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But
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that's one thing I'm sticking to.
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Isn't it crazy that Halloween time is
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now?
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I'm kind of looking at my birthday a
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week from tonight being the unofficial
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kickoff of Halloween for me
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because right after that, I mean
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immediately after that,
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well, after that and then the baseball,
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I'll be in Vegas. Little Halloween
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stuff's kicking off and then right after
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that, more Halloween kicking off in
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SoCal.
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Doesn't take a rocket scientist or a
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psychic to figure out where I'll be.
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But yeah, the squirrel is following. Are
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you climbing up my leg, squirrel? Are
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you climbing up my leg? No.
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The squirrel is like following me. I was
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walking down the path and then I look
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over and the squirrel's walking down the
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path towards me. I don't got any snacks
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for you, squirrel.
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So, yeah, slowly eliminating the crazy
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proclamations.
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thought I'd be able to do a country
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every month in 2025,
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but I just look back on it and really
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the only person that even cares about me
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doing that would be me.
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And it's just wasn't meant to be. It was
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really starting to
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to kind of really kind of fold over into
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other stuff.
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And today it just hit me with for the
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other obvious reasons I already
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mentioned, but then also the fact that I
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was like, you know, it'd be easier if I
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just stayed home a few more days. until
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I flew to the west coast. So, just
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having a relaxing time here. So, that
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would give me the rest of the day and
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then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
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to do stuff locally. So, there might be
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some I don't know, might be some theme
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parky stuff. Maybe pop over to Disney.
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Got my Crocs on
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localized stuff. And then before I leave
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town, the night before I leave town,
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which is a couple days before my
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birthday, but closer to my birthday,
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going to get together with my parents
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and
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have a little birthday celebration with
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them,
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which I don't always get to do because
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sometimes I'm just go go go.
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Granted, it won't be on the 10th, but
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it'll be close enough.
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Better to do it, you know, two days
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before than three weeks after or two
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weeks after, right?
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Go buy Publix, get some food, maybe
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watch a movie. The Rays played earlier.
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They lost the Dodgers. So, they lost a
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series to the Dodgers
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two out of three. They won yesterday,
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but lost today. So, Dodgers won that
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series, which is totally expected. I
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mean, the Dodgers have what, five times
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the payroll of the race. So, the do, in
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my opinion, the Dodgers should never
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lose a game. I mean, how can you lose
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when you're just buying all the good
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players? But
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one thing about the Rays ownership,
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which the Rays are, there's a very
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strong rumor. I don't think it's going
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to be announced till September if it
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even happens. But they don't really
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spend a lot of money on big names and
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and all stars, but the Dodgers got it
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dialed in. So, I guess you really can't
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can't blame a team owner for spending
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some money. Kind of wish the Rays the
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Rays would do that a little bit, but
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still pretty happy with the Rays being
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such a low payroll team and, you know,
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staying in the race. So, got to hand it
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to the Rays, too.
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There's a possum. There's a wild hog
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right there.
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Never seen a wild hog around here,
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though. It' be kind of neat if I saw a
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wild hog, even though they're probably
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not friendly cuz they're wild and
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they're hogs. So, I updated the software
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and evidently that helps the zoom a
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little bit. So, I think the zoom is
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still not great on this, but it might be
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a little bit better. So, when I open
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this new box,
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it said that you have an update
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available. So, I updated the available
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on my iPhone connected to the DJI app.
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And I think the zoom's a little bit
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better. I mean, it's still grainy, but I
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don't think it's going to be as grainy
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as it was before. It actually I I mean
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it's hard to tell. I can look at it when
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I'm editing it, but
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it looks as if it's not as grainy when
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you zoom all the way. And the zoom is
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the definitely the weakest link of this
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camera. Camera review. This is what This
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is what most people use. Everyone used
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to use the DJI, not the DJI, but the
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this is the DJI Pocket 3, but they used
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to use the Canon G7X. I think that was
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probably the most popular vlogging
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camera, and I would say that this
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probably is. Now, people use other
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stuff, but this is what you'll see most
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people walking around with that are
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doing what I do. One thing that's nice
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as well about not leaving yet and just
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kind of having a casual day today and
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maybe even a casual day tomorrow or the
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next day or whatever I decide to do,
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it's just some alone by myself time
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because it's about to get very hectic
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with around groups of people. So, it's
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nice to have I like I like detaching
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myself and just being alone with my
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thoughts. That's what I did most of the
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day today and it may be what I do before
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I leave. But we'll see. Like to have my
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I like to have my my me time, my alone
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time. So, getting ready to do some
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conventions,
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some haunts, spooky things, theme parky
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stuff, stadium stuff. Going to be around
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big groups of people. So, I got to do
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half and half, sometimes more than half
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and half. That's I got to have my alone
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moments. I have also decided after
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taking a year off, after doing 10 years
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in a row, I needed I needed to skip last
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year. So, I did because I knew if I
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never stopped, I would never ever stop.
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So, I walked away from going to Dragon
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Con last year. Was the first time after
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10 times in a row, with the exception of
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it not happening in 2020, that doesn't
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count. But for 10 times before that, I
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went to every Dragon Con. I skipped last
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year, got a breath of fresh air,
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regrouped my thoughts, remembered how
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much I loved it and missed it, and I'm
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here to announce I will be back again
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this year
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for Dragon Con. So, that's another thing
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to add to the arsenal of things that I
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am doing. Wow. And that just sunk in.
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That's the end of this month. Also,
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that's the very end of this month.
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Where's the time going? So, for the next
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couple months, got some things in the US
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to do and then most likely we'll be
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doing no international until
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probably November or December. And I'm
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going to try to load up what I already
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have planned. I've already got some
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flights and hotels and things booked and
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travel plans already for November and
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December. But now that I'm not doing the
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one country per month thing, I might as
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well just load those months months up.
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So again, no promises, but I might lean
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into doing that, which makes more sense
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when I'm going way over to another
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country, you know, way over to another
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country and I'm already in that neck of
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the woods. Why not incorporate other
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places and stay over there longer, which
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I think is going to possibly be the
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future of the international travel for
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the end of this year and into next year.
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Awesome. As of now, I have a flight
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booked to SoCal on Friday.
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Maybe I'll film every day till then, or
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maybe I'll skip a couple more days. I I
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I never take time off when I'm on the
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road, I never take I never skip a day.
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Let's put it that way.
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Meaning, when I'm gone, if I'm not home,
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if I'm not in Central Florida or in
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Celebration or in my house, I never skip
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days. I just go go go. I'm out and
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about. I always think there's just so
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much I need to be documenting and
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putting out there.
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But when I'm home, I'll take a day or
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two, skip a day of filming.
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So, as of now, I'm leaving on Friday and
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I'm here till then. And I might I might
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not film every day till then. So, if I
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if you see me miss a day, you know why.
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Or I might film each day. And that's
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going to do it for today. But before
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before I end the vlog, show the
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international magnet collection I got
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going on
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is seven months international. Let's see
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if off top of my head I can remember.
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January
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would have been Bise.
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Where's my Bise? There we go. January
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was Bise.
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End of January I went to England for the
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first time. I got all my England ones up
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here.
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February, I went to Ecuador,
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which would be here.
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Ecuador was
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February. So that was three. Let's let's
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say that was the two months. Third would
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be the England. So that's January and
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February. March,
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where did I go in March?
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Canada.
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April, South Korea.
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So we got January, February, March,
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April. May would have been Mexico City.
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June would have been the Netherlands.
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July.
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Where did I go in July? Oh, France.
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So January, February, March, April, May,
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June, July. 7 months plus England. Eight
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countries in 7 months. Not a bad first
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year
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of international travels. And November,
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I've already got something booked.
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December, got something booked. Probably
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will load on more as well. So, I'll at
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least finish the end of the year. Good
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Lord willing. In the creek, don't rise.
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I'm still around. By the end of 2025,
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I will have done at least
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10 countries,
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maybe maybe more, but not going to be
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going to another international country
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unless I get a, you know, wild hair up
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my you know what,
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and just pop over to one. Probably not
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until November or December. But
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nonetheless, thanks for watching. I'll
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see you in the next video. The vlog
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is over.