The High Altitude Of Quito Ecuador - Aerial Tram To Volcano & Virgin Of Panecillo / South America
Quito Ecuador Feb 2025
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today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this Tuesday February
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4th
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2025 I am in Ecuador Quito Ecuador I
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have a full day a for full first day
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landed late last night be spending time
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with my mom and my uncle my aunt a
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couple of their friends doing a variety
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of things I believe we're going to go up
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the side of a mountain on a
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gondola and who knows whatever else
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happens welcome everyone Adam the woo
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here starting off with a piping hot
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caffinated beverage an Ecuadorian
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beverage I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you like a pretty sweet skate park
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I don't know if it was built for that
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but
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but it certainly could be used for such
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things look can get this building over
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here I don't know if OSHA exists
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here I'm noticing it there's no there's
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no walk signals here on when you're
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supposed to walk across the
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road they ticket you for jaywalking here
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no look at that old bug
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Salazar
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Gomez Eduardo Salazar Gomez
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1976
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park that volleyball they call it Bali
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volley v o l l
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y it's like their own version of
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volleyball exactly
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yeah they take it seriously too they'll
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gamble their whole heat checks away all
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the weekend a little sculpture
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here walking through the park
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dogs out for the day and then bring them
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back in at night this the dogs have free
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raid during the day they go home at
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night yeah the officers drive around on
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these little golf carts right here this
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is a
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substation police
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substation right here by the park oh
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there's a big cross right there look at
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cool here in the park I don't know if
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this look like it's open it's like a
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serpentarium of some kind a
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vivum look at that snake on the side
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there I like that reminds me of Harry
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Potter kind of parcel tongue I don't
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know maybe because I just was in London
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favorite thing well one of my favorite
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things about traveling International and
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going to different countries are seeing
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the different styles of Transportation
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Vehicles like the taxis the buses public
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transits things like
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that this is interesting too how they
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have these little I guess like concrete
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stanions here along I guess so you can't
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drive up over the side of the curb
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that's what these are someone's already
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taking that one out though here in this
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country they no longer use Ecuadorian
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bills for
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money it's all American cash however
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occasionally they will give you back a
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coin like guess it's a 50 c
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piece that's Ecuadorian coin they also
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use US
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dollars right there there's a dollar I
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guess coins are really big here but look
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like I am going to go home with some
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souvenirs from Ecuador in the form of
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coins like to have currency from
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different countries I visit so kind of
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nice but no no bills all bills are us
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back and grabbed
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my jacket hoodie there so I think the
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higher up elevation we're going to go
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it's going to get a little cooler
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probably do without her here I think
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we're going another 3 or 4,00 ,000 ft up
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we're already at 9,000 FT
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elevation that's higher than Denver can
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definitely feel the elevation
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levels that bridge right there over here
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to get some gum at this little
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Convenience Store look at the parking
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very interesting parking where they're
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like indented
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downward never really seen parking spots
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like that before also I got more coins a
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lot of taxis around here lot of
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taxis that could be pretty easy to just
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hop in a taxi and get where you got to
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go never seen little Trident packs like
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this before they're just like five
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sticks so you pay with a bill like a 20
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or a 10 us they don't give you bills
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back they only give you coins so I'm
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going to have a lot of coins when I
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leave here plus I use them we're taking
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this shuttle van right here up to the
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cable cars hello hello
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person used to be the the monetary bunny
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here Su it's the Su used to be the
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monetary bunny here before they went to
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the Dollar okay su he was the the r from
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I know the so was he rightand man right
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rightand man of who who was he the
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rightand man
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though went through a tunnel now we're
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actually going to be going up to some
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volcano
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Peaks hey
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buddy oh my gosh look at this this is
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something
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Keo bird's eye perspective we're going
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to be going a lot higher
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what's the what's the statue there yeah
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that's the we're going up to that aren't
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we we're going up there I think
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so all right this is known as the virgin
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of Keto right here it's the backside she
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looks down over the City Skate and
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there's a couple little gift shops up
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here the local dogs
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here in the corner some little
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pups little puppies you guys
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sleeping
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hello
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hi they're in there
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snoozing just relax I got the little dog
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houses up
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here I did looking down over the
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cityscape is this place larger than you
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thought it was going to be bom
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this is just one section of it yeah this
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is the you look down the other side you
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see the other side of the
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city big church down
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there little Crest there on the side of
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the
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flag I think that is the the Quito Crest
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I'm I may be using that word incorrectly
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maybe it's not a Crest
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but how far do you have to go when you
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go into the jungle
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drive you want to go into the
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jungle that is
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something what do you think that's made
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out of just Solid Rock I think it's
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silver
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silver it's got stained glass windows
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too yeah you'll see those when we go
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inside what does that say John I'm G try
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you doing doing the translation yeah
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translation
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app lurel apocalypsis
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yeah like the mother re something the
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mother Revelation the mother of
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Revelation
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yeah this is really cool
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here this is
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something amazing
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view what a great
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day it's just incredible right I've been
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in a lot of overlooks of cities I have
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to say this is in the upper echelon top
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tier
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of overlooks of bigger cities that I've
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ever been at I mean just just a really
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good
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angle all the buildings
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out try one of these passion
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first a similar to a passion try one
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yeah I want to try one is that a
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some water this is how they make them
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they boil them yeah it's like a a juice
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yes it's a juice so this is this is like
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Blackberry this is orange Pine
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Coco chickle chck what what's that one
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that's more that's a
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black I'll try the Blackberry yeah try
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black that's a fig yeah that's bigs yes
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okay and then you put well kind of what
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do you call it and then you put the
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and the Fig
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juice what did you get I got coconut it
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really good coconut and it's hot and I
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know you don't like coconut but I do
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iink I like coconut water I don't like
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coconut flakes yeah I don't like the
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texture of coconut I like coconut water
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yeah this is a piping
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hot non-caffeinated
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Ecuadorian beverage MOA it's called MOA
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herea yeah Mora Berry but it's black
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berry it's good very
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hot
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okay good stuff wow
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good Mom liked mom's liked everything
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she's had here so
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far take a check of that out want one of
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those I want one of
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fascinating are the prices so appadas
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are only a dollar each drinks are a
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dollar everything was a
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dollar kind of reminded me like an
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elephant ear like a fair or something
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like that it kind of had that that style
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texture and taste to it but it was a
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buck that'd be like 12 or 15 bucks if
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you went to like a fair or an amusement
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park or if you weren't at one it'
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probably be 10 bucks somewhere else
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think I realize now I probably do not
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need the jacket hoodie I'm sitting here
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put it on for a little bit realize I
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think I'm good without it see what
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happens the more elevation we go up
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this all right heading up to to the meet
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the tram now Market here that sells
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hydrating
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drinks she says that hydrating drinks
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snacks handicraft is that cotton
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candy oh yeah look at that
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it's like the Skyliner at Disney same
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kind of set setup smaller though yeah it
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is very very Skyliner
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is all right mom and I are getting our
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own little compartment here we got
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number 16
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okay keep it okay thank
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you all right heading
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up side of the mountain was it was all
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right made it to the top definitely a
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few degrees cooler up here we went
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straight through we're basically in a
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cloud right now look at that that's the
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way we're going through all the way
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up was amazing up here amazingly cool
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and crisp now glad I have the hoodie on
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what are those
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raccoons don't know what those animals
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are
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itself because it's so cloudy you can't
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see it in the City skate but we got some
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good views of it this must be a rock
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where everyone puts their initials and
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hearts and I love you Etc on
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Peaks way up here 14,000 ft up 14,000
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ft I'm going to assume that says don't
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feed the birds don't feed the
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wildlife feed the
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birds very Poppins would not be
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happy yeah that's the thing we're
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talking about eating these are here
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called okay yeah you know the instrument
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beautiful and medical so smaller higher
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pitch yes bigger lower pitch bigger and
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low lower pitch see see okay
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paper trees
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yeah for example maybe in the
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Grove how many 10 years is
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the the after grow grow so that is very
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wow it's called paper tree because of
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the this is old this it only grows at
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high
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elevations I've never seen anything like
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this before
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that is so cool like the the bark I
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guess you would call it's like flaky
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paper look at that all right coffee
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times I get a little coffee
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action an elevated high
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elevation coffee here at the nest
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number
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seven thank
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you back down for keto Iber and the
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highlands see this is very important the
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param because in this part stay the
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reservo water
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reservoir all
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Highlands so the water is is only for
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this
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part uh is important the raining because
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the this par is like a
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sponge getting a little bit of a City
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View going down clouds are kind of
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opening up a little you can see the C
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man pretty cool yeah this is the high
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all these
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Tel only these poers
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guys has clear it up a little bit is it
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was really bad coming
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up how many people live here 2 million
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uh yeah 2 million near 3 million 3
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million 3
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million buto for
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example is
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uh not all people is from Kito are the
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different Province and the other
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cities this is a pretty neat little
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mural over here called lost lost island
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no lost
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city more new school but it's got some
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aliens saying H Good Vibes over here
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take a look at this say Good Vibes in
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this Al aliens got the heart right there
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brainless clothing is who did this
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according to face stuff I'm reading
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there it's about 20 Dees warmer down
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here than it was up
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there this little gift shop over here
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had a few almost like uh handmade items
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they had a Mickey
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Mouse like crocheted Mickey Mouse head I
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guess it's supposed to be Mickey Mouse
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inside
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there something about this angle just
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really cool to me the flowers here I
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guess their weeds turn into flowers
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taking them down
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I just bought a bag of plantains out
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here from this gentleman also looks like
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Pennywise the clown is making his way
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towards the hello
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no all right I stopped off at a Overlook
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now over here in qua qua it with me and
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very very sketchy dangerous Bridges look
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at what the am I supposed to even be
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going across this
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like what the
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heck I don't know if that's I don't know
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if we should all be walking
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across that's not the most safest bridge
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I don't know if I'd go AC go first I
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don't know if I'd go across there Mom H
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you going to go across there wait a
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second don't go across there don't do
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that but I want to I watch you do it uh
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okay
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look at Mom way to go mom holy cow that
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is so scary way to go
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Mom all right that is a it's a long fall
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that's very I was getting worried for
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you this is has all the locks on this
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one
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too
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relationship boyfriendfriend look at the
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it's like a make out point
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pretty neat little view here of this
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Valley between these two
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peaks we parking on the other side of
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the on this side of the road we parked
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on the other not going to go by this
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church building
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here notice when we're pulling down the
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side of the Hill
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sculpture there an amazing view you
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start here on him kind of pan around to
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see all of them up top
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there all the buildings up on the side
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of the hill we were kind of up there at
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that Overlook a minute ago and then you
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continue around and you get this
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magnificent church building
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inct
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oh exactly what is
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Cathedral the 17 Cy yeah 90% cap here
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so filming through the window because
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the door's not open but that's what the
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inside looks
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like
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beautiful that's a mess load of wires
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right there I don't even know if I
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should be standing so close to these
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but like look at that what is going how
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beautiful bird pretty
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bird look at
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this look at electric wires so I'm
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noticing down
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here where the aluminum roof is it's
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been weighted down by bricks and rocks
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oh you're looking at right here that's
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what I'm saying those are hanging down
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like a trumpet plant but they're small
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red little small
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ones I've never seen those
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before a little bit of everything in
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here you I'm sure I'm sure they have all
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kinds of plants I have never seen here
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got trumpet plants Cactus and bamboo W
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right next to each
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other there's a bunch
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there
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Brazilian what is it Brazilian
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Brazilian from braan
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beautiful
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wow I got lots of beautiful plants down
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there looking down over the wall there
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all beautiful plants in there bar about
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having the trumpet plants and there's a
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bunch of them down in there oh there we
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go we'll see the Botanical Garden here
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we made it to an area that has a few
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eating establishments and we're going to
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get some food this little kind of like a
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little square area over here this
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gentleman right here is selling
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cigarettes he has a boxes of cigarettes
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ready for
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sale selling
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cigarettes place is called
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Mis going up to the third floor of a
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building overlooking that little square
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that I was in pretty good over here I
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got our group guide our group and the
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driver all together over discussion
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about presidents this
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yesal tea good for altitude the altitude
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sickness free the bread contains flour
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nice sure what meat that is but it's
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definitely very very tough chew very
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chewy and tough I think it's pork pork
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pork yeah look at that I think she and I
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ordered the same we got some uh St
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arrived over here this is the that's a
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guinea pig y That's yeah oh yeah we got
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to get a shot of that okay that's a
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little different than what I've had just
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came that's not g pig is it here is my
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entree right here the chicken and little
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potatoes and a little
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salad clouds looking pretty dark might
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get some rain up
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doggy no up here there's a bunch of
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umbrellas above the roof or not the
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above the street I should say saying
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roof see them all right there all
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dangling above the street line over
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there maybe they're ready for the rain
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lemon cart coming lemonade fresh
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lemonade all right that's going to do it
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for
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today from Ecuador first full day here
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was a successful one more full days here
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quite a few to be honest look at all
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those
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wires that's kind to do it for tonight
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you'll see you in the next video the
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Vlog is what wire goes to
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what the Vlog is offered