The UFO Welcome Center Has Burned Down - Last Day Of My Road Trip / Heading Home Thru SC & Georgia
Goodbye To UFO Welcome Center
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Tuesday June
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25th 2024 mosquito just flew past my ear
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I am in South
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Carolina this will be the final day of
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this current just about two we road trip
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that I have been on covered a lot of
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miles seen a lot of things did a lot of
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stuff and I am heading home hopefully
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this evening will be slumbering in my
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own Homestead and
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bed I'm in Bowman right now Bowman South
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Carolina and anyone that has been
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watching my videos for a very you know
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considerable amount of time probably
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might not recognize the name of this
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community but will recognize the spot
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that I'm going to be going to to start
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off the video that's located down that
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direction the UFO Welcome Center which
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stood in this town this little teeny
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tiny Town gats and
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mosquitoes has burned
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down about 6 weeks ago 5 six weeks ago a
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little over a month
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ago started being built in
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'94 I have shown it many times doing
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road trips cross country north and south
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up the the coast veing off the coast
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popping into the state I have talked to
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and shown Jody pendarvis the Creator a
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couple times in fact when I did the out
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in past Las Vegas out in Area 51 jod was
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there got to get him on camera then and
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a few months ago I passed through here
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maybe four or five months ago and he was
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there and got to talk to him then so not
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sure if he's going to be on the property
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now that the UFO welcome seat Center and
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the Flying Saucer is gone but you never
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know going head over there and check it
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out I'm inviting you to join me and then
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wherever else the rest of the day
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leads and then heading home join me
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shall you got the cow over here you got
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some Lumber down here these are things
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that Bowman which was chared in
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1894 known for an 18wheeler going by
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looks like there's
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some scratchings
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here on the side of the
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signage right around this corner is
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where oh wow oh
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right across from the Bowman Lodge Lodge
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Number
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290 also next to the fire department
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there's a fire truck sign over there
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corner
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of Oliver Street and Homestead Road here
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in
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Bowman you know in a lot of ways it's
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it's sad that it's gone cuz it was the
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creation of one man sat here for three
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decades but also the entire time I've
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had any kind of Channel on YouTube both
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channels road
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tripping this has been a
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staple of my road trips my travel going
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past here I probably stopped here 30
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times documented on camera five or six
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times but always swing off the
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interstate and pop over here check it
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out last time I came
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through again was only few months ago
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some of the items are still
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here and there is a vehicle here it
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looks as if he's trying to tote
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away the missile that's right
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here he also lost his home which is the
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trailer over here I
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was obviously when the news broke I was
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reading up on it and wanted to get here
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sooner than I did but was not in the
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immediate
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bomber previous times I was able to
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climb to the top of the UFO which was
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way up here
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I would say maybe a third of the times
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that I
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visited he was on site got to talk to
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him not every time more times than not
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he was not here or was not outside
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to greet anyone that showed up but
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sometimes he was
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last time I saw him he was right over
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here his car was over here and I got to
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do a little interview with him and he
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had said he had just ran for mayor of
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the town and lost the mayor race but he
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got some votes he
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said little did he know that shortly
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after his
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creation be burned to the ground this is
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his trailer
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and from what I was reading he was
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interviewed
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after after the destruction of his
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creation that he was possibly thinking
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of rebuilding but it might be a money
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issue again I was kind of hoping he'd be
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here
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well you know what he might be here
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there's some laundry over
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here I could have been there from before
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I don't want to go any if he's up in
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there I don't want to go any farther
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than that is but if he walks
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again used to have a bucket out you can
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throw money in as an admission fee and
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I'd always throw a couple bucks in there
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so I'll wander around the other side
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maybe he's got something out I could
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throw a few dollars in
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well if he is on site he's not here at
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the moment even though there is some
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laundry over there on the line that's
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why I'm guessing maybe he's still still
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around but I'm not seeing them
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one last look and I'm sure as time goes
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on a lot of this will go away be cleaned
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up moved but I am hoping that it gets
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rebuilt there is a wasp right there on
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my freaking
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hand get out of here
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wasp get bugs I have so many bugs on
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this ro road
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trip yesterday
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today ah the
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South time will tell see what
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happens maybe I'll bump into Jody
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pendarvis once again today it was not
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meant to be hoping he's doing well still
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in the area and hope he
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rebuilds I do like this painting
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here I don't recall if that was there
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before or if that was placed up since it
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almost looks like a
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moonman right
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there all right got to move
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on continuing
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South making my way back to Celebration
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Florida hopefully there by the end of
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the evening actually not too too far
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from here but I'll get there before
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before the end of the night get moving
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this is a bummer it really is really is
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a bummer you know it's interesting in
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all the years I passed through here I
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don't know if I've ever been in the
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country store that's over
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here I was always so enamored and
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distracted by the UFO Welcome Center I
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don't know if I ever went inside the
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Bowman Country Store got myself a water
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get a little hydration here had a coffee
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earlier been driving for couple hours
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already from where I was last night
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talked to the worker cashier in there
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she was saying that jod is around riding
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Daris till next
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time be nice if I came back by and it
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was being rebuilt I don't know when the
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next time I'll be by this area is
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probably not for a very long time
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man there's some grain elevators over
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there I think it's a Peanut Farm sign I
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just passed but take a look at this
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there's like a whole field of sunflowers
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here a sunflower
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field beautiful sunflower
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and some grain elevators there they
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don't look like they're used anymore
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there's another semi familiar stop Crazy
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Joe's
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fireworks been passing through this area
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again just like with the UFO Welcome
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Center also passed by this many times
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and the last couple times they put up a
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little little awning little sun
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protection for the two
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elephants so obviously you to be a gas
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station of some sort cuz you can see
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where the gas pumps were right
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here I don't know what year they put
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this awning up or why they did it I'm
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glad they did give the elephants some
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shade from the southern
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Lane continued on now at the Georgia
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state line Welcome Center
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Georgia is
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now on my mind well it's hard to see but
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it says Georgia on your mind
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there Sun's kind of blocking it
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out always love this rest stop so much
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so Dam
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cool you got these fake trees in
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here of course when you think of Georgia
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I think a savannah celebration has a
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Savannah Square which I'll
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be returning to soon
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enough which is made to look
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like the squares in Savannah with Forest
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Gump those look like comfortable
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shoes he just felt like black
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gator little teeny tiny Gators in the
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back of the Gator
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there little baby
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Gators and a turtle
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oh look there's a face in this tree over
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here right
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there there's a face in the
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tree Henry
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Ford's car
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here another way of saying please do not
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is is please refrain please refrain from
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sitting we're standing in or on the car
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thank you please refrain
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it's the kind of
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dialect Mr Ford would probably have
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spoken in please
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refrain there's the
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horn steering
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wheel classic car alert
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I pulled over for a minute as a rest
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stop
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here might go run into the rest
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area if it stops raining if not I just
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continue to drrive but waiting for it to
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slow down a little bit it was
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downpouring dramatically downpouring but
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starting to slow down now
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there was a a big burst of a storm but
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it's it's mellowing out a little bit it
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was a lot heavier than this to the point
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where I just felt to be better just to
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pull off and go to the
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restant all right after the rain the
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humidity well there's a lull in the rain
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I can definitely feel that humidity the
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pro the closer I approach
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Florida price of gas
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$35 a gallon you can tell this is the
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most popular one of the three cuz that's
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the one that's worn out the most I don't
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even know if it makes any difference to
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do UNL Plus or UNL
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premium plus it's a rental so I'll just
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go with regular still 200 M from my home
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celebration however I have just crossed
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over Florida state line that is the
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Great
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Seal of Florida
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that Sun is bright it is hot out here
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and between the normal Banker hours late
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if you show up late late at night they
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don't they don't have any but they have
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orange juice complimentary orange juice
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inside as well you can also get
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grapefruit juice so you have grapefruit
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juice on one side then you have orange
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juice on the other side they asked which
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one I wanted I said I'll take a little
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OJ so I got a little little sample cup
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of some Florida
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OJ and here's a wild turkey side good to
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be back after a couple
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weeks got more trips coming up soon in
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the not so distant future but I will be
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home for a little while not too long but
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a little
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while it's good to be here Florida this
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sun is
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permeating right
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now cheers to you
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Florida that's good woo little vitamin C
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little
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nutrients the soul for the mind the soul
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the
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body the
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heart the nether regions
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and I realized when I was at the rest
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stop up there at the state line my
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glasses were broke broke my glasses they
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chipped off there only like a $10 pair
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they lasted me a few months I believe so
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I need some new pair of glasses and a
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snackage over here at the
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second
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bies on 95 going Southward I skipped
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over the
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one and St Augustine and this is the
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Daytona one so I'm going to toss
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these use the facilities in
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here get a drink maybe a snack and say
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hello to
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Bucky and a new pair of sunglasses I
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don't know if I mentioned that look how
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cute these little sipper look at this
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little sipper right here it even has a
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little sipper straw right there old
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Bucky and I think I'm going to get
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myself a Arizona green tea right here so
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I'll go with that I don't really do the
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soda thing anymore but out of the soda
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fountain is some Arizona green tea let's
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also have Arnold Palmer which is half
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tea half lemonade but let me go with
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that green tea right got a couple
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items always good to see you Bucky
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always good to see I ended up getting a
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chopped brisket sandwich that brisket is
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really really really really good got a
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little BBQ sauce on there got some
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napkins also got some chili lime peanuts
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some bohemian garlic beef jerky the
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green
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tea and then I also got these orange
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blast sour surprisingly with vitamin C
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and
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sugarfree yeah little little road trip
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snacks I probably got about another hour
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and a half before I'm home and I'm not
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turning the rental car in tonight I'm
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turning the rental car in tomorrow so I
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don't have to deal with deal with
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without today but road trip snacks road
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trip snacks one thing about bies there's
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no tables or chairs outside so if you
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eat you got to eat sitting on the
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concrete or using a trash can like
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Epcot festival style or sit in your car
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eat while you drive they also don't
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allow 18 wheel there's no tractor
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trailers in here yeah I can't even say
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how awesome I mean I can say it's good
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it's great the their brisket I mean it
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Rivals any place I mean it's just it's a
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Texas based company even though they've
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kind of branched off they're starting to
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pop up everywhere across the US it is
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taking over it has definitely been a
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nasty Drive day good portion of this
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drive has been pretty nasty weatherwise
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and that's going to do it for
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today and this current road trip another
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one will be happening soon I'll be
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traveling again soon but for now I'm
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home for just a little
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while I'll see you in the next video the
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Vlog is over