First Impression of My New Neighborhood - Celebration Florida Tour / Is It The Perfect Place To Live
Celebration Florida Tour and First Impression
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welcome everyone out of the woo here
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today's adventure
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begins at the celebration
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florida golf club i have never played
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a round of golf other than you know
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miniature
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and themed and that that sort of thing
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and i'm not going to do that today but
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this is the starting point
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i'm just going to walk around my new
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neighborhood
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if you will in the vicinity of this
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section and give you my
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first thoughts on where i now
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reside now i also share some memories of
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times i've been here before there were
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events that i would you know
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show up into town to see and just kind
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of wander around back then
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so i do have those memories in my head
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that i will also be
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you know kind of spouting off throughout
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the course of this video i'm inviting
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you as i just give you my first
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impressions of my new ho
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how celebration florida
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classic car alert shall you
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both sides of the road stretching along
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this canal is
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water street and if i continue on it
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takes me to the downtown
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section this reminds me a lot of venice
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california and the canals very similar
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especially with the bridge work
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over there there's a small waterfall
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it's tough to see it from this angle
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but it kind of stair steps downward
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look at the leaves building up a lot of
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leaves
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some really nice homesteads in this area
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all decorated
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properly for the season happy holidays
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and merry
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christmas most of the homes here are
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rather amazing now i did not purchase
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a house like this nor a house like this
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there are also places you can rent
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apartments
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you know as shown here there are dozens
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if not hundreds of these
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many choices on places to stay condos
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apartments above garage
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accommodations and houses if you so
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choose
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one thing that's very common in you know
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around here is when you
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rent a place it will be above a garage
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of someone that has a bigger house
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has where they park their vehicles above
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that let's say it's a two-car garage
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they will convert that loft section into
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a one a two something even a three small
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three bedroom
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one bath you go up the stairs and that's
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where
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the apartment would be that is very
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prevalent around here i know quite a few
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people
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also who do that you know around these
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parts
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it's it's kind of a celebration thing
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but of course that's not the
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the only option and anyone else getting
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any
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johnny depp nightmare on elm street
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vibes
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from the way these bridges are
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maybe i'm the only one continued walking
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and arrived at market square
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as the vehicle goes by they're looking
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at the post off rather unique looking
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post office
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there it is there it is big bend
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parliament
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water street turns into market street
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they have erected this year's christmas
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tree this is a beautiful
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fountain
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reminds me a lot of main street usa
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there is a disney tie into this
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strong walt disney world michael eisner
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tie-in
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you can get the vibes it's almost like a
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central florida
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disney main street usa their
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interpretation
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one of the well i wouldn't say it's a
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busy intersection but a thoroughfare
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that always sees a lot of traffic is
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directly behind me
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dumps out onto 192 and the toll roads
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i'm going to have to look at a map just
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the general overview of the area try to
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find some shortcuts
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you know getting in it going getting in
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and out of solid celebration
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proper but this is very nice with the
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trees here
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very peaceful you got the the moss up
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there this is almost like
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kind of reminds me of of the hub
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at magic kingdom right i mean it's kind
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of like it's got like a hub
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type of style the road is closed now you
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know for the holidays
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i believe in the evening time they they
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light up the tree
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and they might even might even have some
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some
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what they call snoke snow soap
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and there's a bank of america right over
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there which just so happens to be the
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bank that i have had for 20 years
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that's very convenient very convenient
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wow that is
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quite an impressive staircase
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to say the least right there's the
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entrance to the bank
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look at this clock here this is this is
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quite
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a time piece is it not
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oh it has someone riding a bike there
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on the end of the the arm that tells you
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the time the minute the minute arm
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established in 1994.
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the town was looks as if there's a thai
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place here on this corner and
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the market known as cornerstone delhi
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yeah that's the post office walk over
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there look at that that is that's very
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unique
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the structural beams on this facade are
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very tall you don't really see see that
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too often
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nor do you see a place that you pick up
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your mail that looks like this
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pretty dang cool right directly behind
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me is a
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a body of water a lake this is looking
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down market street
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yeah it's very very quaint almost like
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it has a small town feel on purpose it
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was built this way
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lake ryan hard named after richard
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reinhard
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and it was dedicated from the community
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on november
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12th of 2005
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i now know the name of this body of
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water that is the
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hotel one of the hotels over there it's
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very expansive
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and a fountain over in that section
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and a movie theater very classic
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architecture
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here is a gen oh the birds chirping is a
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nice touch here's a general
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overview of the layout of the land and
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they're even
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you know they show all the dining and
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entertainment the shopping and specialty
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stores
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and they also have these scooters which
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would come in i've never been on any of
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these scooters this brand is called
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newt which i am not familiar with but
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maybe i'll have to start
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utilizing these just to get around and
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make things very easy you just
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i think you just use your card use your
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your credit card
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you know set up an account and then just
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roll around drop it off wherever you
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want to drop it off and
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go go about your day i've never done it
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i'm just assuming that's how it works
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for whatever reason the celebration
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movie theater is not
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open and operating at this time it's
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been it's kind of been closed down for
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probably over a decade i would say
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it is rather fantastic and i hope
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someday somebody takes it over and
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reopens it but back in 2008 i believe it
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was
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i went to a back to the future part one
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screening also
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i need i need to get a bike that would
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also help the scooters would be good but
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a bicycle i see a lot of people riding
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bikes
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but i met the first pretty much the
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first people from the cast from that
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film
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i started getting my back to the future
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poster signed
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i met bob gale claudia wells and chris
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lloyd
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right in there oh it's spouting up
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pretty good
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look down here it says walt disney world
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it's given mileage
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to different air oh my goodness burbank
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2197 miles to burbank you know that's
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i'm very very familiar with that living
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in that section in hollywood and then
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down to orange county so i've been to
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burbank many times
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it also states right over here that
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celebration established in 1994 my shoes
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are getting wet i need to step back a
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little bit
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i also have another memory back when
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castaway
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was in the theaters my mom and i went
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and saw that here this back when it was
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still open
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whatever year that was my mom and i
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walked through these doors
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and saw the tom hanks film pretty neat
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looking in there i like the tile work
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along the ground
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yeah i hope this reopens one day oh
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listen
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listen closely here church bells
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pretty cool way off in the distance now
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by being a resident have access to
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a number of community pools including
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this one right up here at the
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lakeside park this is the only one i
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know of i haven't
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haven't gone around the entire the
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entire city limits
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there's also a lot of jogging and hiking
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trails
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scattered all through
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all through here it's gonna be fun to
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explore
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over time nice little manger scene set
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up here for the holidays and for
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christmas
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hello there hey squirrel
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how are you hey buddy
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oh yeah i'm new to the neighborhood
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you're going to be seeing me around
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these parts
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you're going to always be kind of in
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this general vicinity i know as the
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summer approaches
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to next year the heat index is going to
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be
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off the charts they're not very humid
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right now it's only about 61
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62 degrees with a high of 67. and the
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fact that the weather is that nice at
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this moment for today
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might affect my my thoughts
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now but this is this the perfect place
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to reside i mean for me it's like it's
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got the small town feel
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it's got everything i need within
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walking distance
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or a very very short drive over to
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grocery stores
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disney parks not far away family 15
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minutes away
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i like the quaintness i like the
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i like the peacefulness and everyone is
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friendly so far
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there are alligators in this body of
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water
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however i'm gonna go swimming in there
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i'll utilize the pools for that
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here's one of the pools right there over
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that hedge
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and i do not have an electric car but if
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i did
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i could utilize this park and plug
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oh over there is a basketball a
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basketball court
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that's nice and tennis courts
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as well oh my gosh there
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i used to play a lot of tennis when i
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was younger
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i was never i was never good though with
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all the add-ons around you have to be
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a resident and you need the id is
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required
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here's some of the some of the rules not
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just that but this but also the
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pools etc there are quite a few
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tennis courts even at this roundabout
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when i was talking about bike and
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running trails you could see they're
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just kind of tucked away
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all through the woods that is a trail
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over in there
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and if you go down this embankment
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another one will unveil
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its location
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this is osceola county these are
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community volunteer
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patrol cars there's a couple of them a
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little community
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community watch which is nice got the
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state and the u.s flag
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up there waving in the breeze and this
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is the back side not the back side of
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water but the back side of that movie
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theater
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you see little spires there peeking up
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over another very unique looking
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looking bank building there on the
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corner of
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sycamore street which i always think of
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sycamore i think of zaiki as one of my
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one of my favorite bible stories
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climbed up into sycamore trees ikeas did
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and just so happens on this cross street
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this is this rather fantastic looking
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church building
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yeah look at that steeple
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small town life
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close to hustle and bustle once again
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this is the bank of america
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you see that clock over there on the far
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end
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yeah that it's really really neat the
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architecture here i just keep saying
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that over and over
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plenty of benches all over with the name
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inscribed in the side
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and there are either residents or
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those who were here at the opening
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of the town who have placed their names
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in these bricks
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there are hundreds of them and the logo
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and the established date 1994 right here
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the logo would be someone riding a bike
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with a dog and a nice tree
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picket fence yeah this is
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americana
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i'm a little a little blown away
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it's starting to sink in now
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i've been here estated i've been here
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for events when it's very crowded
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especially
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even in the evening a lot of people show
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up to see the christmas lights that are
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kind of strewn all over you know i think
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it's about a mile
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this i'm not i have no facts of this but
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i believe
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it's about a mile or two that way to the
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end of town and then another mile or two
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that way so three or four miles probably
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should have looked that up before i made
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that statement
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this is just the general downtown area
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within
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five or six seven eight ten blocks that
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i've been
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kind of walking around it does get very
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crowded
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during events but this time of day
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it is nice it is really nice
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for the time being don't really have a
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whole heck of a lot
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in my place that is being rectified i
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ordered some furniture
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but will not be delivered until after
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the holiday so
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pretty much bare bones
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of where i'm staying but that'll change
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you know after after new year's
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and i still have a lot of stuff that i
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have to transfer over
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from orange county california and decide
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what i'm doing
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you know with that place out there at
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least doesn't until
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end of august will i keep that spot will
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i
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uproot completely 100 downsize
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just to make the move easier repurchase
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stuff here i've already purchased
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furniture
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just waiting
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hello there
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there are a lot of squirrels
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around these parts
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and it seems as if they're very
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acclimated to those walking down the
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sidewalks
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they're very friendly squirrels they
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used to have a celebrity car show
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here every year this year they might not
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you know for 2020
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but back in the day about a decade ago i
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met quite a few people including carl
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weathers from
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rocky played apollo creed and best known
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now
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current day from the mandalorian met him
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a couple times when he was staying here
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a lot of
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a lot of the guests for the car show
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they would all walk around here they had
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all the movie cars
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movie vehicles and looking down this
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stretch of road away from the bohemian
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hotel there is a starbucks up there on
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the end i think i'm gonna get myself a
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coffee
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caramel or is it caramel brule latte
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hot piping hot beverage every cup
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is an adventure also plenty of eating
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establishments down here
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as well i feel like this could be
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dangerous
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chocolate fudge and ice cream
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oh yeah i'm at the right to head back
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over here at a later date
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get myself a cone at this crosswalk
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you'll notice
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right here it says well it has the the
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tree on there
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it has the established area and a little
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manhole
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but even the even the manholes are
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themed
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it'd be pretty nice to just sit around
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the fountain here in the evening do a
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little contemplating at one with your
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thoughts and
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you know because it wouldn't get much
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better than a nice little thinking spot
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hey what's happening fellas yep
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you're gonna be seeing me around these
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parts a little bit
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not all the time you know i'm gonna be
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doing a lot of road trips and stuff but
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you'll see me around
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that's gonna do it for today if you're
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update it's a little late a little late
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for coffee but you know heck
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staying caffeinated i need to run some
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errands get some supplies get some stuff
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for a new place
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more
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detailed researched items around the
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general
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you know town of celebration in the
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future
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i just wanted to do a first look at
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first thought process my first
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impression
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of my new neighborhood i'll see in the
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next video the vlog
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