Ending My Trip To Ecuador & Not Going To Galápagos Islands This Time - South America Travel Thoughts
Ecuador Feb 2025
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today's adventure begins walking down
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this muddy
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path here in quink Ecuador South America
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as the recording of this Sunday February
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16th
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2025 I am walking to
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church where my aunt and uncle go to
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worship not the same church I went to
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last Sunday in Kito
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quink rest of my family members are
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taking a taxi over but I have a little
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time so I decided to walk the 1.3
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miles after that I don't really know
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where the day will
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lead welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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no matter where the day leads no matter
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what I do even though it is impromptu
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and unplanned today I'm just winging
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it inviting you to join me it's good to
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have you here also I'm wearing my hat I
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will obviously take it off the church
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building was noticing last week when I
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was going to church didn't wear the hat
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it was very sunny sun was beaming down
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on me I no my uncle had his hat on took
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it off when he got to the the building
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so I thought I could probably do the
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same because afterwards not sure what's
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going to happen it's cloudy and overcast
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now but I think the sun will come out I
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have become quite the Hat Man here in
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South America the sun here in Ecuador is
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permeating because you're closer to the
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Sun hello there hello
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there I'm inviting you to join me see
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where the day leads shall you currently
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8:32 I believe the service starts at 9:
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not sure if there's a Bible study
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beforehand or if it just goes right into
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the service I think it's going to be
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about 2
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hours I'm hearing so right now 55° at
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8:30 1: p.m. however take a look at this
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it's going to be 68° 13°
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warmer by 1: p.m. that's going to warm
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up a little bit all right I think I'm
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going to Veer off of this very Rapid
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River Walk some surface
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streets really enjoying my time
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here slowly coming to an end only a
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couple more
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days but I've enjoyed being here in
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Ecuador thing I have
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noticed and traversing around the
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landscape of different cities graffiti
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is a big thing here a lot of people
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spray paint the
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walls looks like thought maybe that was
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the Grinch down there but I think it's
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a a version that looks grinches but it's
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not the Grinch here is a rat this is not
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Mickey that is not Mickey Mouse that is
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in fact a rat and this is a vampire I
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could tell maybe one of the lost boys
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right there here and one of the Frog
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Brothers maybe one of the long lost frog
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Brothers Well actually the Frog Brothers
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didn't become vampires I don't know what
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I'm saying but yeah little lost boys
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reference see the see the the earring
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there and the and the vampire
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fangs this is a grocery store
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convenience store here in
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Ecuador 2D this is also the trva line
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which is the train above ground subway
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system
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took it the other day but it's on a
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regular regular railroad tracks more uh
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more spray paint graffiti here
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cow little roundabout right
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here big Benin har up here it
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comes I'm going to walk across
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trva Rio tarkey
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L1 that's what it's set on the
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front saw this the other day but I
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wasn't able to walk across to see what
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this little sculpture
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is I love walking around no plan just
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seeing things wonderful
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things here we go
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winka I guess that would probably be
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November
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1985 great year for me
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because Nintendo ENT Entertainment
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System first time I got that in
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Christmas of
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85 in the
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USA and also Back to the Future came out
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in 1985 85 was a formidable year for
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me and probably this gentleman too I was
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11 years old in
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1985 what a year to be alive what a time
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what a what a time to develop interests
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of in all the different spray paints
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items through here all the different uh
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artistic renderings across
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town oh take a look at
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this Matthew broadrick
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movie wasn't the worst movie wasn't the
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best Mike Meers Cat in the Hat probably
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worse than the Inspector Gadget film yes
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definitely and any one of these taxis
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could be my family members heading there
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parallel a lot of taxis here o ooh ooh
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nice getting that moment and just like
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the church I went to last Sunday
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Kito they speak Spanish there's no
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interpreter that will let you know what
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they're saying and I do not I'm not
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fluent in fact I know very little
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Spanish so I just kind of sit there for
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the Ambiance and the vibe I don't really
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know what they're saying but kind of a
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cool
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experience all the shutters are down on
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these businesses here's a
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Jacuzzi business right there service
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jacuzzi service
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nice mellow Sunday morning as I'm
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filming this more spray paint got a face
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right here got a clown head turned on
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its side got an old classic truck looks
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like a bowl of cherries and then a dog
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behind that pole
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there
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oh what is this a double-decker bus what
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am I back in London
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bus that's an
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armadillo organic
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Ecuador that's a heart I believe there's
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the person's face
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oh a relic of an old bus look at this
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vintage piece of
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goodness or maybe new but made to look
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old I don't know do love the
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architecture here
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especially when you kind of get up high
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there a lot of really good overlooks
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and cityscape Views when you're up
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elevated on the side of hills and you
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really get some cool angles of these
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buildings that I have shown over the
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course of my time
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here all right I'm getting close I'm
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getting
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close oh pigeon how you
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doing beautiful white
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pigeon walking along the Stone very
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picturesque very
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picturesque there's a
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taxi some interesting artwork here we
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got a we got the Earth with a crown of
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thorns around it we got a skull there
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and check it out there's a pay phone
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there's a freaking pay
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phone oh and we got a BMX
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rider right down there
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a lot of spray paint on this little foot
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probably I don't know some sort of like
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security checkpoint station or something
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at one
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time hey
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Pooch what you doing what you doing I
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noce the dogs here they're not really
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too concerned with humans they just do
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their own thing they won't they won't
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really just just just they just they go
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on their own agenda I've just noticed
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that here I like this
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intersection very photogenic and scenic
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you got the trva line you got like a
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four-way stop or
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four-way section go going to and fro the
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hustle and bustle the cross streets all
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about Yogi Bea once said when you come
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to a fork in the road take it walking
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the
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Cobblestone just loving the
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he really mellow out through this little
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section of town through this
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neighborhood nothing but pigeons and
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me all right fast forward a couple hours
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two hours later two hours
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later heading
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out well leaving the
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church got some more artwork here on the
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wall looks like there's a cat with a
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crown right there there a
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crow was fascinated by artwork and taggy
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almost looks kind of wheat
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pasty yeah it might actually be wheat
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paste I think it is
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little fruit market over here next to
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the church there are some familiar fruit
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items through here but we're trying to
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figure out exactly what these
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are pretty interesting right there what
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that
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is look at these things too they kind of
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G
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up hey
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buddy classic car FX C
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alert there taxes everywhere here you
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can pretty much get anywhere across town
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for like two bucks anywhere across
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quink you can be in a taxi for like 10
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15 minutes it's like two bucks
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amazing we're walking
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though oh here we go I see some
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pigeons see some pigeons I could need to
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get a cup of cup of joe cup of coffee
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here another church right here ladies
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here every Sund
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makas andanas on the
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corner but over here tough and some Bag
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hello I have seen more pigeons here then
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I have and a long I saw some
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pigeons obviously when I was in London
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but there weren't as many pigeons as I
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thought they were going to be here they
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have all flocked over to Ecuador it is a
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pigeon Haven and they they don't get
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startled like normally when you walk up
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to pigeons and you start strutting your
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stuff through there they all fly off
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nope these they have no fear these
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pigeons have no no fear
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whatsoever this is s
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sabatus this
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Cathedral take a look at the excuse me
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Birds excuse me coming through here take
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a look at the front of the doors here
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with the carvings on them right over
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here you got it's like this is rendition
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of Jesus
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here all right my mom and uncle are
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going to taxi back to his place I'm
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going to go over here looks like that I
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see a little Bakery and coffee shop get
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a cup of coffee success this was a
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little bigger than a teeny tiny coffee
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it's just kind of it's I call this a
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small but this is larger than the
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regular coffees I've been getting in
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fact he was like hey you want a regular
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which is a teeny tiny or a large he goes
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this is the large I go give me the large
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but in reality this is smaller than a
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small that I would get in a
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us it's just it's just interesting the
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coffee however is stronger so it's
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probably a good thing I'm not drinking a
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a
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grande all right we got a sculpture here
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guy with a really sweet
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mustache right there take a
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look yeah
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got the sweet stash action going on
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dated uh 1936 it looks like his name is
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Miguel Marino right here is a museum
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Municipal Museum of Modern Art yeah pop
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in there see if it's a see what's
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happening inside looks to be open so
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check it out yeah the sun is definitely
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out right now GL I got this hat look
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like this building was established in
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1882
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sign
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in but there's no fee at all no entry
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fee at
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all just had to sign the name where
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you're from how was it got a nice little
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Courtyard here full of flowers
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there's also another thing I've noticed
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here since I've been in this country no
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place will tell you that you can't bring
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a drink in so if you have a drink they
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just they never say put your drink away
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every every kind of place like this like
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a museum or a public entry place or a
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tourist attraction all of them let you
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bring a drink in but it's not that way a
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lot of
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places this is interesting look at this
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Barb
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exhibit okay this is a fly on a park
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bench with some
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Ooze seeping out of the sewer there and
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he's got himself it looks to be like a
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newspaper
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all
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art every person that looks at Art
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interprets it differently so I don't
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know what I think about
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this okay this is a little different so
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you have the artwork here you had a
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tomato there you had a bed with a window
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here but take a look at these these
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locusts they are locusts mounted on the
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side of each of the
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frames okay this one's a little bit
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unusual I walk through these drapes in
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the corner I thought maybe there'd be an
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exhibit in here but in fact the art
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piece is the drapes look at this let me
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flip this around so I'm in the back
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corner flip it
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around there are
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some little cloth drapes and that's
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it that's all it
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is but I started by walking in thinking
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that it was going to lead to something
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but the reality
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is that was
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it that sign there says BOS which is the
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restroom and I guess you got to walk
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through all these hearts
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again always up for interpretation
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Modern Art is a lot of us like that but
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look you can see the silhouette of a
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lady laying here with her
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diary
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perhaps and then different stages life
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and the mirror
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this looks like a tree
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stump and oh some money oh no
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advertisements up on the
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wall right there and thought maybe they
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were fingerprints but they're not
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they're just
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little I don't know what the
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significance of this
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is but it looks to be like there's an
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apron it's all this these paintings and
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there's like an
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apron above the chunk of wood
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symbolizing
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something and the artist is here
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Christina Novas
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like this beautiful Courtyard as well
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leads out to another little Courtyard
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and if you follow that this direction
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you got more paintings and murals over
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here on the side got a dragon right
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there and all this can be seen by people
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driving through quink
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because the cityscape is off down the
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hill a little bit so i' imagine as
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you're passing by you can see all of
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this elevated it up just a little tiny
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bit the ladder
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a real ladder right there for some
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reason has to be some more wheat pasting
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over here
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see how that's kind of peeling off
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showing that it's a paste paper pasted
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on a wall more than so much paint
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perhaps
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evidently this is this artist rendition
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of Britney Spears
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all right kind of getting my bearings
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now if you look down past this Barb Wire
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and this rod iron fence I can
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see the river down there so I got to get
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back down to the river also this wire
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probably shouldn't touch loose wire that
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runs along a rod iron fence but the
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river is down there so I got to find a
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way
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to get down to the river loose wires
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everywhere look at this loose
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wires loose wires exposed
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wires like there might be more taxis
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than personal vehicles here
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here oh oh almost stumbled also you got
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to watch your
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footing no Ubers either no ride shares
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only only taxes you go on the Uber app
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or lift or any of the ride share
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apps done I mean I don't see how they
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can even compete with a $2 taxi they get
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you 3 or four miles across town for less
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than two bucks I don't see how anybody
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can compete with that it's pretty
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inexpensive I'm really enjoying walking
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around stretching my legs doing my own
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thing also my uncle has a like a moped
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motorcycle scooter type thing you do not
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need a driver's license here if all you
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have is a motorcycle or a
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scooter just R in the streets
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a quink lot of roundabouts too
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roundabouts are utilized here
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pretty pretty often of course most
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people are just going straight they're
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not going around the roundabout but you
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get the
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taxi there's a bus city bus there's
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another city bus over in the distance
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there that another city bus coming in
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hot off to the side around the
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roundabout someone on a scooter going
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across the little section
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there sometimes people ask me what I do
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for a living and I say I just take a
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camera out and I point out the obvious I
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think that's pretty much the job
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description I have it's awkward and
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weird and different but yeah that's what
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I
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do rock wall has been painted and also
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some
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signatures been written in the side
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I don't know if I've seen anybody in my
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time here walking around
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filming I get a lot of I get a lot of
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looks walking
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around talking to a camera here it's
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beautiful Roaring River down
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there these little blue
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etchings along a possible bike walking
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path more spray paint spray paint
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everywhere oh look at this look at this
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look at this we got a really rapid
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makeshift waterfall over here in this
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portion oh and the river
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splits so evidently my uncle was telling
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me when I first got here I think there's
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four
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rivers here in town
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I don't know if this constitute as two
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of them linking into one
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but take a look at that right out here
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is where Pennywise lives right in there
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you know from It the clown that lives in
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the sewers or maybe it's alive maybe
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that creepy movie that baby it's alive
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ooh gave me nightmares when I was young
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that one scene where the baby's like
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eing in and out of the
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sewer it's been a while since I watched
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it though I don't know if still holds up
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it's alive
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but yeah when I think of demon babies I
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think of Dead Alive
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also that was that was a good one the
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whole playground scene Peter Jackson
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classic way before Lord of the Rings
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just make sure if you're going to watch
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it watch the unrated version don't watch
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the chopped up edited version because
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it's just boring you want to watch the
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you want to watch the
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unrated insanely gory
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classic Peter Jackson classic before
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Lord of the Rings oh we got another
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little
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water waterfall here look at this let's
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flip this around that is I mean that is
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like some dirty
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water dirty water you know I don't know
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why I just thought of the band green
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apple quickstep they had a song called
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Dirty Water ocean I don't even know it
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was a hit but it was like their most
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popular song a non one hit wonder I
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don't know if anyone out there has ever
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heard a green apple quickstep but they
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had a song dirty water ocean when I
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think of dirty water I think of that
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band I have no
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idea wonder if anyone from the band
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green apple quickstep has seen any of my
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videos probably not couple different big
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venues in
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town one of them is the soccer stadium
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but there's also this
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one it's like a Dome I seen some signs
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and I was talking to my aunt and uncle
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evidently sting either just performed
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here or is going to perform here I think
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at the soccer
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stadium it should be a pretty good
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turnout Sting from the
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police probably very popular here I mean
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Sting's probably popular everywhere I
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think of Rob
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Schneider that SNL skit making copies
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when sting was on the SN
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H yeah I'm all kind of Pop Culture
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references in
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the this is just a random day just a
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random day today something else I've
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noticed here there are either well it's
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probably because a lot of the dogs are
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wild dogs but there is just a lot of
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defecation dog dung
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everywhere and at first I was thinking
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maybe people weren't picking up after
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their pets but then I got to thinking
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there probably are some dogs that are on
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their own accord just using the
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facilities right along the sidewalk and
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they don't have an owner to pick it up
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but when you're walking you really got
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to be careful where you
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step there's an alien right
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sure I'm not sure what this is supposed
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to represent
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be but I am loving all
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this gorilla style artwork probably not
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sanctioned by the city but they artist
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come in here and do
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it I love some
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artwork don't really love this so much
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but I love artwork I'm going to miss
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this
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River yeah there's the Coliseum of sorts
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Jefferson Perez
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to be completely honest I don't even
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know if I'm walking the right way I'm
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just following the river but I haven't
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walked by this section of the river yet
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so a little confused but feel like I'm
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going the right way
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look at this archaic piece of playground
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equipment you don't see these too often
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anymore look at that
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thing I'm telling how old that is
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some more spray paint
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there yeah look at this thing this is
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like
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retro I don't even know what you're
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supposed to do with
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oh there's a mirror right here you can
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kind of see me in
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it top of my coffee cup he back up there
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we
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go there I am so speed
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limit kilomet not miles and then I
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believe this means no parking my uncle
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was telling me something about this this
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court here I'm not sure if that's what
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they're using it for now might just be
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like a family function but this court
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over here is what I would know as a
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volleyball court they don't call it
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volleyball here though it's like a
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makeshift version of volleyball called
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volley it's very popular here in
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Ecuador but I don't know if that's
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what's going on over there but what that
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is in that little area there looks like
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a tennis court volleyball court
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something called volley which she said
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is very very
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popular all around Ecuador that looks
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like a voodoo
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doll what kind of advertisement this is
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but if you need to get back at your
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enemies evidently this might be the
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place to do
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it may have heard of Club 33 at Disney
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The Exclusive Club it's very difficult
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to get in but did you know here they
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have Plaza
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33 right there Plaza
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affiliated it's like the metamorphosis
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of frog got the small frog bigger
33:41
frog the biggest
33:43
frog oh this looks like the Rays logo
33:46
Tampa Bay Rays logo spring training has
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already
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begun pictures and catches
33:53
reported yeah I don't know if I'm going
33:55
to go to any spring training games when
33:56
I'm back back to I'm not going to be
33:58
back too too too too
34:04
long before leaving again but I will
34:04
probably go to a couple regular season
34:06
games but I might go to a spring I don't
34:08
know I haven't I really haven't decided
34:09
I think I'm back over to the family
34:13
neighborhood think I'm going to relax
34:15
for a little bit hang out with the fam
34:18
and then maybe go out a little bit later
34:20
when it's not so hot and the sun has
34:23
subsided definitely feels a lot better
34:27
than the shade of the
34:28
balcony overl looking and right down
34:31
there like again the sun is just so
34:33
incredibly hot here I fig I probably got
34:37
more sun walking around the last couple
34:38
hours than I would have in like 3 or 4
34:41
hours in
34:43
Florida I mean maybe I I don't have any
34:45
scientific evidence for that also the
34:47
elevation here thought it was going to
34:49
be a big issue the first couple days I
34:51
could definitely tell that being up you
34:53
know I think it's 8 or 9 10,000 ft I
34:55
think 8 or 9,000 ft
34:58
so almost 2
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miles hasn't really affected me too much
35:03
the first couple days I noticed it the
35:04
only time I really notice it if I climb
35:06
a few flights of stairs or went to the
35:08
zoo the other day and was hiking up the
35:10
side of the mountain really get winded
35:13
quicker than you would if you were just
35:16
walking you know straight you notice it
35:19
more if I was walking two or three
35:21
flights of stairs in Florida no big deal
35:26
or you know I could definitely
35:28
feel it in the lungs a little bit but
35:30
when you're here after after a few
35:33
flights you kind of need to just stop
35:34
regain your your
35:36
composure and carry on you definitely
35:39
notice the elevation more here but it
35:41
hasn't been too bad hasn't been too too
35:43
bad I think I'm starting to get
35:44
acclimated to it just in time to
35:46
leave time has
35:49
passed few hours
35:53
later it's now raining this is the other
35:56
side
35:58
I'm going to miss this
36:01
view I travel a lot so I go to a lot of
36:04
hilly
36:05
places where you get some good views but
36:07
this is
36:09
definitely one of the better
36:15
ones got the mountains off in the
36:17
distance rain coming
36:26
down I get back home to Orlando in a
36:26
couple days very flat not as
36:30
Scenic no mountains no
36:39
Hills another country next month trying
36:39
to do one
36:40
country one international country at
36:43
least one international country every
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month from here on
36:48
out sometimes it might be a week
36:50
sometimes it might be two weeks
36:51
sometimes it might be more some might be
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less
36:53
but that's what I'm trying to do
37:01
stay active stay
37:01
busy see the
37:06
world we go walk around a little bit
37:06
hopefully I don't get too wet I should
37:08
probably have an umbrella of some sort
37:10
on me but I
37:19
don't hoping it stopped raining but it
37:19
might
37:20
not I mean it's raining it's not pouring
37:24
the old man is snoring
37:42
I don't even know where I'm going just
37:42
feel like
37:44
walking having a rainy
37:47
walk inside for a
37:52
while that guy's getting
37:55
wet oh this is a
37:57
interesting I don't even know if this
37:59
still applies I mean obviously you
38:01
should always wash your hands but 2
38:08
m and then they still got this I don't
38:08
know if this is still still active I
38:11
thought about going to a soccer game
38:13
today got excited there's a soccer team
38:16
here in quink but evidently they're they
38:20
had a game today at
38:21
3:30 but it's an away game also there's
38:25
really no baseball and Ecuador I mean
38:28
there's some but not a lot I was think
38:30
that' be kind of neat to watch a little
38:32
baseball even a baseball practice or a
38:33
city League or something couldn't find
38:36
anything any baseball going on
38:38
today there are some teenage M Ninja
38:40
Turtles over here though that I showed
38:41
the other day it is raining on me I
38:43
think I'm going to go inside I'm going
38:44
go find a place I can get a cup of
38:46
coffee I probably should have brought an
38:47
umbrella my aunt said hey take this
38:49
umbrella with you I go I should be okay
38:52
and now I wish I would have grabbed the
38:53
umbrella so I'm going to head back the
38:55
lady in front of me has a good size
38:57
umbrella
38:58
she's
38:59
wise all
39:02
right didn't have the O see they don't
39:05
they don't have an umbrella though
39:06
they're not why everyone's riding
39:07
motorcycles out here just a random patch
39:10
of wiring dangling down and
39:15
exposed well there's even spray
39:17
painted artwork underneath there look at
39:20
that I'm not going to swim across there
39:23
i' get swept down the stream
39:30
wow look at
39:30
that coming
39:36
out
39:36
rain pay no attention to me standing on
39:38
this bridge cars I'm just from out of
39:42
town filming a river for the 19th time
39:46
today nothing to see here just a guy in
39:48
a hat without an umbrella filming the
39:54
river under a tree here
39:59
yep I'm going to grab some coffee over
40:01
here right over here this is tasty it's
40:04
small but
40:06
tasty all right I'm back to walking it
40:09
slowed down a little bit remember it's
40:12
hard to read
40:17
this I got to step in the road to
40:17
actually get a a better
40:24
angle well it's faded off since the
40:24
other day stay
40:25
chill right there
40:28
guess the rain has washed
40:51
here this trip was a little different
40:51
than a lot of trips I go out on my own
40:53
with this is kind of similar to how when
40:56
I went to Alani and December early
40:57
December of last year with my mom my dad
41:01
my sister her husband is more of a
41:03
family trip next time I go to Alani if I
41:06
by myself I'll Venture off and do other
41:10
things around the island of aahu but
41:13
when you're with the family you have to
41:15
coincide putting videos out along with
41:19
family time spending time with family
41:20
and doing things
41:22
on their agenda and their
41:25
template and up to their
41:33
specification speed Etc it's been a good
41:33
time I don't know if I'll ever come back
41:34
to Ecuador with the exception of one
41:37
thing Galapagos Islands I was not able
41:40
to go to I was talking to my uncle about
41:43
it I said hey would it be worth it going
41:45
from here over to the galpagos islands I
41:48
would have to go back to keto fly from
41:50
keto over to the islands he said you
41:53
really need a few days or more and it
41:55
really didn't fit into the game plan
41:58
of doing the family thing and the their
42:00
friends along with the
42:02
group but he suggested I should come
42:04
back one day and then fly over to
42:06
galpagos and stay there a week so I will
42:09
put that on my agenda one day it
42:11
probably will not be this year but one
42:13
day I want to go back to the galopagos
42:16
and fun fact if I am remembering this
42:24
correctly I believe the Philly
42:24
Captain told me that the Philly fanatic
42:28
what in his opinion is the best mascot
42:31
in sports at DJ Kitty is still kind of a
42:34
new thing and Raymond for the race so
42:37
you know Philly fnatic's been around a
42:39
lot longer so he has that that clout I
42:42
suppose but evidently the Philly fanatic
42:46
originated and came from the galpagos
42:50
islands so that's kind of a fun fact if
42:53
I ever get over there I'll have to see
42:56
if I can find any of the Philly
42:58
Fanatics
43:00
relatives
43:02
there but I'm not I'm not going over
43:04
there this
43:06
TR we're on the home stretch here in
43:09
Ecuador couple more days in
43:12
fact in order to get home cannot
43:17
fly out of here home can't fly out of
43:21
quink got to go back to keto so that
43:24
will be on the agenda here in the next
43:26
day or or
43:28
two he'll be back in keto for a short
43:32
while and then look at this this is like
43:35
a something you would see like a manhole
43:38
like a sewage hole but usually you would
43:40
see a road across there but all and now
43:43
it's like a chimney that's
43:50
different but if all goes well I should
43:50
be home in a few days I should be home
43:54
in a few days if good Lord willing and
43:58
the creek don't rise which it is rising
44:01
you never
44:03
know you never know and then I who knows
44:05
I can't sit still so I don't know if
44:08
I'll go anywhere the rest of the month
44:09
but I've already got something planned
44:11
into the early portions of March another
44:20
country this thing is ripping roaring
44:20
look at
44:22
this all right so today was just a
44:24
casual day I thought I'd be able to walk
44:26
around a lot more but this weather is
44:29
nasty nasty
44:31
muddy we're going to order some Chinese
44:34
food from a local place that we had I
44:37
think the first night I was here later
44:40
in the evening and I enjoyed it so we're
44:42
going to get it again everyone said okay
44:45
that's fine that's what we're going to
44:46
do for dinner a little bit later so I'm
44:48
going to go hang with the
44:51
fam and I'll see you in the next
44:54
video thought I'd go to I thought I was
44:56
I thought I was going to impulsively go
44:57
to a soccer game I call it football
45:00
here I played soccer when I was young at
45:04
Rocky Bayou Christian School when I
45:05
lived in the panhandle of Florida in
45:08
nville don't really watch soccer what
45:12
they call football back the only sport I
45:15
even really watch is baseball love
45:18
baseball I don't even consider it a
45:19
sport I just consider it something I
45:20
really love looking forward to the
45:22
baseball season coming up but it would
45:24
been cool to go to a a soccer game here
45:27
but didn't work out and if it w if it
45:29
you know honestly probably would have
45:31
been rained out because it would have
45:32
been happening right right now or at
45:33
least halfway through it do they have
45:35
rain delays in soccer I don't know I
45:37
know nothing about that sport other than
45:40
I used to kick the ball
45:41
around many decades
45:44
ago on my team all right thanks for
45:47
watching I'll see you in the next video
45:49
these people are climbing a tree and
45:50
they have umbrellas they're smarter than
45:53
I am on one aspect and that is having
45:55
the umbrella I'll see you in the next
45:56
video the Vlog is a bonus footage you
46:00
think anyone has ever
46:03
walked across
46:06
this I mean you can walk across the
46:08
regular bridge there but what about this
46:11
pipe
46:12
Bridge what about this it's also
46:15
interesting there's not one sign saying
46:17
don't walk across this if in the US
46:20
there would be a fence around this there
46:22
would be a sign there would be something
46:25
covering the legal aspect specs if you
46:27
were to climb on this and fall through
46:28
the pipe or fall off of here there's not
46:31
one sign there's not one stinking
46:41
sign signs signs everywhere is signs
46:41
remember that song by Tesla when you
46:44
used to say Tesla you would think about
46:47
the band now no one does they think of
46:51
an electronic or not electronic a
46:53
electric
46:55
car I wonder if any of the members of
46:58
Tesla have ever driven a
47:00
Tesla while looking at a photograph of
47:03
Nikolai Tesla for real though for real
47:06
stay chill
47:08
Stay Stay chill I'm not kidding just
47:12
just stay ch