It’s Happening! Finally Renewing My Passport- International Travel Plans & Excitement For The Future
Renewing my Passport
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it's getting more and more difficult to
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find a spot for mini Marge my glorified
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golf cart here in celebration had to
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come over here to this far away
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lot really couldn't find anything
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downtown hectic down there welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here as the
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recording of this it is Tuesday May the
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7th
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2024 I'm going to get myself a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage there's also a
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crane right
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here probably doing something
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construction oriented down town
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celebration get a coffee today is a
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historic day because I am not going to
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receive my rejuvenated renewed passport
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but I'm going to get the wheels in
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motion that consists of a few different
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steps
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one
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including printing out a form my printer
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at home is not working so I go to the
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library print out the form fill it out
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go get my passport photo taken
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staple it onto said paperwork mail
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it to wherever it needs to go I think
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Philadelphia or DC then they send it
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back to me in a series of weeks and then
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I'm ready to rock but today I am
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handling that which means international
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travel for myself is
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approaching sooner than later I'm
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inviting you to join me throughout the
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course of this
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day shall and my passport expired in
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2021
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however you can renew your passport if
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it was originally
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conceived 15 years or prior and because
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it's 2024 now 2026 I can renew my
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passport even though it is expired but I
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can't do it in person anywhere I have to
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mail it in so I'm going to send this in
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and then they're going to send it back
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with the new passport and I'm going to
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do the
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expedited which is still going to take a
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little while
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but yeah interesting so your your
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passport can be expired my mine has been
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expired for about 2 or 3 years at least
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3 years but it doesn't matter because it
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hasn't been 15 years since I first got
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it that makes any sense also fun fact
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they would probably be parking for golf
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carts down here if others had do not
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park in the spots you're not supposed to
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park in like right there not referring
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to this sweet
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motorcycle that's pretty dang nice right
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there right it's a roadm oh my gosh
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classic car alert look at this never
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seen this rolling around
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town yes where the heck did that come
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from I have never ever ever seen that
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around town so
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example big truck
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here yeah it's kind of a common problem
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around town and I'm happy to report the
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fountain is once again working there's a
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bunch of people down
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there in the fountain using it as a
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little splash Flash Pad nice as they
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should be because it is a scorcher today
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it's not even summer yet look at this is
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going to get up to 94 by 400 p.m.
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94° I guess this place has already
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officially announced that summer Vibes
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at least are here the heat certainly is
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be heading back over here a little later
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after I get the task at hand completed
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and dropping the mail off there at the
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post office that's a celebration post
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office right over there that little
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tucked away circular
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building also really not a big issue
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that cars park in the golf cart
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electric neighborhood electric vehicle
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parking like they're not supposed to
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it's not really that big of an issue cuz
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you can always just go a block or two
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away and find parking I just wish that
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the town itself would remove the signs
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just get rid of the signs or just
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they're kind of pointless at this point
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cuz at this point obviously there's not
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any there's no there's no punishment for
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anyone that does Park in the spots so
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it's almost it's almost like I'd rather
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just not see a normal vehicle wedged
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into one of those tiny spots with the
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sign behind it it's just kind of like a
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kind of little little little
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prickly little jab to you think when
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you're driving this around think you
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know I got always have parking downtown
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where those signs are and then you don't
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yeah just be a lot better if the signs
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weren't even there I don't think they're
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going to I don't think they're going to
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tow anyone you know parking in front of
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those signs with a regular car a lot of
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Towing go goes on around here but not
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for
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off to the
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library recently got a library card
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there a couple months ago so I'll be
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able to utilize the computer system and
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the
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printers I don't know what's wrong with
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my printer at home like certain things
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that will print out perfectly and then
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other files it's just
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really half empty the pages are H half
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empty I don't know I got to I got to
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figure it out anyway just easier to go
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to library celebration Library also
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known as the Oola West I'm sorry West
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acola Library part of the Oola County
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that's the county I live in Library
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System also the flag there a half
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is I'll steal the
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county I think parts of Disney World are
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are in Oola and part
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orange I think
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wdw is half and half I think it's my
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3/4 one and a quarter of the other I
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can't remember which is which but
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yeah I think it's in two counties if I
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remember right also this is the photo
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that's in my passport book and I got the
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photo taken back in 2011 when I first
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got it hopefully my photo today does not
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resemble the facial expression of
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someone who wants to take over a small
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country
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but you never know how a passport photo
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will turn out or any photo for that
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matter I used to have a passport card
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also you can get a passport book or a
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passport card when I first got it in
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2011 I opted for both I never used the
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card so this time when I renew it I'm
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just going to renew my passport book if
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that makes any sense but you can go with
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both I'm just going to go with the
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renewal of the
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book all right that was about a
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20-minute
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process $1.50 for the six page like I
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printed out now I need to go get a photo
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taken 2x two 2 in x 2 in to fit in this
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little box right here after I'm done
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with that I think I go over to either
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Walgreens or CVS to get that done then I
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go to the bank get a cashier check CU
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they don't accept cash sending into the
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passport renew place and then to the
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post office whole process but I'm happy
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I'm going to be done with this today
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definitely not going to need a passport
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to go to
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Walgreens I will need a passport when I
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start doing some international travel
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in especially into next year heavily
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into next year a little bit this year
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but not much mostly next
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year if memory serves correctly last
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time I was in here I saw something about
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them doing passport photos at Walgreens
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and hopefully they have a stapler I can
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use to put those four little Staples on
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that piece of paper cuz I don't really
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walk around with the stapler too much
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it's been a while since I walked around
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with a a random stapler I don't know if
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anyone walks around with a stapler
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except for that guy from Office Space he
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does all right there's my new photo had
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to take my hat off no hats and glasses
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best remove them that's going be new my
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pass new passport photo for the next
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decade they give you two of them the
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other one I have removed and they let me
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borrow with stap took about a half hour
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took a little longer than I expected but
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they were very very helpful in there
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very accommodating and they basically
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just pulled down the screen next to a
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door I sat on a chair cuz I'm too tall
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to stand on it to stand in front of the
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screen and then they they get it down to
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the exact specifications 2 by two $167 I
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believe it was for two photos so this is
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going to be my passport when I get that
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I don't really know why I purchased this
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but I did it's an Orlando Florida pin
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but it's not just a regular pin it has
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all the tourist destinations you see
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spaceship earth there you see Gator Land
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on there you see the Orlando Lake Eola
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fountain look at this the sorcerer's cap
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is still there from Studios that is long
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gone and it has the multiple colors
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there that you can I don't know impulse
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bu I got this too I I threw it in with
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$17 two
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photograph passport photo 2 by tws in
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reality it's going to be a five
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part Endeavor five steps if you will
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first four are going to be accomplished
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today and the fifth step is then mailing
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it back to me and receiving it but you
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know four today four of the five steps
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will be accomplished today the third
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step is going to be getting a cashier
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check from my bank and then the fourth
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check is going to be going to the post
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office and mailing it
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in then I can scratch those four steps
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off be done with this and then wait for
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the fif step which most likely will
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happen I'll should be getting it back
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most like oh and this is a good Beacon
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of goodness a beacon of goodness a good
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Beacon of goodness I don't know if that
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like is a double negative but here comes
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another cart coming by look at this golf
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cart Community glorified golf cart
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neighborhood
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electric vehicle Community n but yeah
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look there was a car here earlier but
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that car moved and I'm able to utilize
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the proper space
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that happens sometimes sometimes
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sometimes they are
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available all right over to the bank now
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Bank of America is my bank and this
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located right over there the bottom of
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that Tower and I'm going to pay the fee
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I'm also going to pay an expedited fee
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to get the passport back quicker just to
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make sure I get it and then
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also pay a little extra for the
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nonstandard mail back I'm going to do
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expedited for them to expedite the not
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only the passport but also expedite to
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get the mail coming back expedited I'll
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show you the total my total will be
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$29536
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$29536 n53 all right it took about
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probably 10 or 15 20 minutes there was a
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few people in front of me step three
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accomplished and I got to make the very
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short
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commute over to the
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bank and mail it off
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$29 in
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change pulled out of my bank account
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cashier
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check now post office time step three
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done step four about to be
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accomplished and I am excited about some
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international travel down the road it's
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about time I've putting it off for a for
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a while now where it needs to be sent is
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a PO Box in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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the file is called the ds82 that's the
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file I filled out and had printed out at
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the library ds82 expedited service
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National passwort Processing Center Post
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Office box
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9955 Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1 19190
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d955 and I'm going to ship it Priority
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also so I got the envelope I think I'm
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going to do it in a priority envelope
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might as well just go priority all the
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way priority there priority back
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expedited just just get it done all
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right accomplished
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$9.85 for priority mail I got a tracking
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number also so I can see when it finally
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leaves he said it should arrive in
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Philadelphia by Friday or Saturday he
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said for some reason Jersey New York and
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Philly are a little bit longer I don't
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know if it's just like the process
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getting there for priority so it takes
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like a day or two more than it would to
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other areas of the country also
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Cornerstone no it's closed down a while
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back permanently closed it served for 3
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and 1/2 years pretty much the entire
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time I've lived here so I lived on
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Market Street 3 years and I've lived the
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new place for series of
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months this year's already going by
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pretty quick but nothing is nothing has
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popped back in the place where the
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marketplace was not yet anyway not yet
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any a
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TR Hitchcock wood well that guy's phone
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was on when it walked past me it kind of
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startled
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Hitchcock would be proud now
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earlier if I showed in the video but the
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fountain was on it was off yesterday and
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it was on earlier and now it's off
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again I'm also currently have no
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passport even though my passport was
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expired was carrying around that expired
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passport and now it's on its way to
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Philly and from what I was reading
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Crow I will be end up getting the old
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passport back along with the new
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passport so I'll have a little
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souvenir
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if that is the correct assumption
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they'll have the old passport and the
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and a new passport with the new
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photo feels good to be to be done with
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that feels really good to be done with
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that now assuming I did everything
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correctly which I did I double
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checked all the
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appropriate addresses appropriate
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costs double checked everything a
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multitude of
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times I will have my passport back in uh
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I think they say what they say 6 weeks
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I'm just kind of guessing now I probably
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should have looked it up but yeah it's
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going
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to should be it should be a month or so
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maybe even sooner month and a half two
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months even two months is
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fine what does that
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mean for the rest of this year not a
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whole heck of a lot I do need it to go
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to Toronto to a Blue Jays game because
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as I've stated before I have been on a
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quest to knock off all 30 current Major
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League Baseball stadiums all MLB
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stadiums that are currently active
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there's 30 of them down the road there
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will be more more because there will be
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expansion teams teams will get new
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stadiums teams will play in other areas
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like Oakland days this they're last year
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playing at the colise Oakland Coliseum
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so they will be playing in Sacramento
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next year for two years and then go into
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Vegas but as of now there are 30 current
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stadiums and if all goes well especially
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now that I am getting the passport
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renewed by the end of this year by the
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end of this baseball season all 30
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stadiums that are currently happening
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will be visited by me while rooting for
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team that I go for Tampa Bay
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Rays and after that it will open up a
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little more availability in the schedule
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because it is a little challenging to go
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to all the stadiums while rooting for
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your team because with the new rules and
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the new scheduling if you do not go to a
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certain Stadium to see your team play
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you might not be able to go see them or
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you won't be able to go see them for two
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more years for example I just went to
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Milwaukee the Rays unless it's like you
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know a World Series or a
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postseason which you know the odds of
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that happening slim to none for both
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teams to to match up in the World
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Series a lot of the stadiums they only
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play at them every two years so this
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Quest would be put off till
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2026 and I want to knock it out this
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year and me getting the passport renewed
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really helps with that and once I'm done
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with that next year opens up an
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availability to do international travel
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I won't be locked into the baseball
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thing I still will be going to a lot of
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Tropicana Field games Tropicana Field is
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going to be getting I don't know if it's
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so going to be called the trop it's not
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be called the trop or Tropicana Field
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they might even get a
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new a new name and a new sponsor but the
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Tampa Bay area is going to be getting a
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new stadium in 2028 the last days of the
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trop the last game will be played in
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2027
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if I'm reading in in the the news heay
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is
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correct so I'll be still going to games
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I'll be going to certain Stadium away
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games and obviously still rooting for
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the ray following the Rays but it will
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not be as intense and locking me down to
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a lot of travel plans so I will be able
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to finally start going on
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cruises the international Disney Parks
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all of them
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and traveling worldwide not just
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Stateside
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us wide wide wise wide
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wise one of those I I put off
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international travel long enough and I
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know this is going to open up the
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floodgates for 2025 for international
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travel be prepared what does that mean
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per se to the future of videos for me on
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the interweb I'm still kind of at a cusp
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with my thought process on that but it
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definitely motivates
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me to keep going I don't know if it'll
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be in the same facet as it is
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now I'm really kind of up in the air I I
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definitely am kind of wishy-washy on all
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that but traveling International is
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going to be is going to be fun and all
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that's a long way off obviously going to
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Toronto and Canada that's I don't say
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that's like deep international travel
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but but now once I you know get the
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passport back get the baseball stuff out
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of the way and I just have that thing in
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my
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hand and as impulsive as I am I'm just
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hopping on
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planes also got to figure out which
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airline I want to choose I haven't
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really chose an airline that is my quote
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unquote my airline that I can
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utilize you know over and over and over
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I've tried to fly all of them just to
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kind of weigh the options and play the
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field when it comes the the so you
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chooseing I don't I haven't decided
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which airline is going to be my Airline
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I'm going to start locking into or if
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I'm even going to have one now that I've
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got this out of the way just step by
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step by step by step sometimes gets
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overwhelming with things you have to
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know adulting and getting doing adult
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things like renewing things buying a
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house taxes all that kind of stuff what
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I just get knockof one after the other
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after the other this is another one of
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those tier things I needed to take care
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of and it'll be good for the next 10
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years for 10 years I could just be plane
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hopping traveling around seeing the
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world 2025 and
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on and I also need to get not today but
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I also need to do what I stated about
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getting the the pre-check the pre-check
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is going to be the next one on my list
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I'll try to get that done in the next
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few days I need to do pre-checking
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instead of having to wait in all those
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lines cuz international travel going to
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airports and waiting in those long lines
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it could be a little easier if I had
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pre-check and I don't even know if the
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international the daily wo goes
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International would be anything anybody
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even want to see I've kind of tied
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myself into the US soil but
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maybe it it might it might work and if
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it
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doesn't I'll be on my own accord travel
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in the world enjoying it for myself
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we'll see what happens well that's going
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to do it for today thanks for watching
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the Vlog good to have you here as always
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thanks for watching is over