Finding Roadside Relics Traveling Florida Backroads - Oviedo Chickens / Bithlo & Geneva Small Towns
Central Florida Small Towns October 2021
Transcript
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welcome everyone
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adam is the woo here as a recording of
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this wednesday october 20th
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2021 i'm going on another back road
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excursion adventure this time heading
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about 45 miles give or take northbound
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ish
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two well i'm gonna one of the places on
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my radar is biflow but before going
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that's kind of on the way back
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gonna be going to oviedo a lot of o's
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in there starting with oviedo see what's
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in that little general area and then
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kind of loop up
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and around and go back i'll show you on
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the map to kind of the general layout of
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the land but keep in mind everything
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will be changing and kind of fluid as i
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you know see different things and find
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different
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back road thoroughfares it's exciting
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i'm inviting you
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to join me
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shall we
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now once i get up there i might even
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venture up to black hammock geneva
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and then as stated biflow
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even wedge field and see what else is
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kind of in that
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that that layout of the vicinity have
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made the commute to oviedo
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and here at address 381
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very interesting there's a plane here
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and because it is approaching halloween
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the very near future there's a
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pumpkin
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pumpkin man removing his noggin
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from the plane
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that says do not climb
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on this item
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so i will be abiding by that for sure
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look at that
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has a the front of the plane has the
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propeller
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and also a mouth and eyes
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name of this place is goldstein
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motorsports
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okay you never know what you're gonna
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find when you're just
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driving down the road
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hoping to find some of the famous oviedo
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chickens today
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town is known
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for their wandering chickens and
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roosters
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this spot is reserved for
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innovators only
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i'm gonna find those chickens
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current day it's a portrait studio also
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look down here
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this hydrant has an attachment to it
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but back to the portrait studio used to
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be a restaurant obviously with the
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drive-through over there
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i might be one of the few people who
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remember
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the restaurant racks
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used to have them in the panhandle of
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florida
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when i lived up there when i was a youth
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this kind of
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looks like the old racks restaurants
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i don't think that's what that was
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because i don't think they were all the
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way down here but yeah
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definitely was a restaurant of some sort
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not anymore
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passing this water tower now it does not
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say the town name
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it says nelson and company
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stopped into the quick stop and asked
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where the chickens can be found
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an employee
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didn't have any clues said she hasn't
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seen him in a while
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next door at this roofing facility
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it's a nice old-school gas pump right
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here could count this as a chicken
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even though it's made out of metal
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stands about almost as tall as i am is
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probably
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well not quite as tall as i am six three
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that's probably about five feet
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tall chicken
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it's a big old chicken
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where's the real chickens
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this town can clay many contributions
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one of being
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introducing the temple orange into
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around the year 1900
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it's also a community of
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when seminole county was carved out
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of orange county back in 1913
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but it grew to 800 when it was
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incorporated back in 1925.
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this former bank is now a thrift shop
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or a store of some sort right up here
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through the drive-through however
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is a mural a little painting
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dedicated
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to a chicken
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still have not found
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a live chicken yet
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but where the atm used to be
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has now been taken over by this rooster
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oh look you can even see the slot there
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that's something either went in and out
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of
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where's all the real chickens
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where are they
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just talked to another local
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and they were saying that they haven't
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seen the chickens in a while they would
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have been in that former bank parking
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lot
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i also wanted to show out this discount
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beverage place that's seen better days
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the way it's depicted on the side of the
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window there
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with that kind of barn facade is nothing
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of the way this place really looks like
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more traditional style
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but i do like the
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the nod to the
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nostalgia there and across the parking
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lot from that discount beverage place i
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was just at
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i discovered one of the elusive
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chickens
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hello there chicken
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oviedo chicken
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where's your friends
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i could hear you crowing from all the
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way over there that's what gave you away
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heard you're making the noise
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walked over to say hi
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now i know geese i've approached geese
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before
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geese
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are not friendly so i'm hoping you're
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friendly chicken
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you're just gonna go behind the tree
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okay i'll let you be
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but now i can say i saw an oviedo
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chicken
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and now it's gone
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this is very interesting through this
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area
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down this road is
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palm tree farm just rows and rows
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of palm trees
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as well as an american flag up here
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from the tree branch
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this canopy
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of branches over the road
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no real town out here
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but the area is known as black hammock
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on to geneva
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population of about 3 000
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residents
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a little tower over there
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and i am standing in front of
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the geneva community center here
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as of this moment
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nothing no activity taking place inside
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there
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and next to it is the
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museum of geneva history
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and next to that
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i got a water treatment plant or some
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sort of
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building of that nature i was incorrect
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it is a phone facility
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by appointment only the museum
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is accessible today is not one of those
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days
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but the signage
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up on the top here
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dates 1837 most likely when the town
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was established
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a little picnic area around the back
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quaint little community
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got the garbage truck
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over there taking their break
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could have been a former home at one
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time
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back in the day
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and then they added all the community
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center
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extra items
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including this
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shuffleboard court
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eva could play a little bit at night
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with the lights out here hello there
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got a couple horses here very beautiful
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horses
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hi
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you gonna have to say hi
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good to see you
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okay have a good day i'll see you later
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okay
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i gotta get going
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okay nice seeing you
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hey bye horse
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oh another horse up there
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as well
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get a little snack
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hey just chewing on a little
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little snack huh
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right there amongst the foliage
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i gotcha
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it's a nice day out today i'm just
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taking a drive going through geneva now
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that's where this is geneva right
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there's other stuff down here keep going
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okay thanks for the heads up i'll see
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you later horse
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thanks for the tip
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oh my goodness
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cuteness overload up here
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there are a lot of animals out here
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grazing
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don't want to disturb you too long but
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just wanted to say hi
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is that good that soil tasty
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all right carry on
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ya
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okay bye
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all right making it into the town area
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here
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a couple old businesses through this
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like this building as well as the feed
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store
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it's like an old general store converted
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to a now feed store
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this is the first baptist church
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established in 1875 according to the
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sign there
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above the front door
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yeah this place so that's that's a
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it's a thing of beauty right there
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old school building
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amongst these trees
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very nice very nice lakefront view here
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through the trees got some sand hill
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cranes down there
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seeing a lot of different animals today
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watch out for
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four he's
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anyone that takes that canoe especially
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during this
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now i did drive past it but had to pull
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back around the stop
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notice the pole up here
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obviously used to have a sign
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for a business
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this rusted out pole
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can't go inside
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obviously due to the signage
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and everything listed
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a little establishment here
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store of some sort
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back in the olden days
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this is good this is real good
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not good that it's closed obviously
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someone's dream
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put their heart and soul into this
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probably were very excited
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when it first opened and then ran it for
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many years
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but it's good that it still exists
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still a conversation piece and
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a piece of americana out here
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look over here the side
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the windows have those
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wooden doors built on the shutters there
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so cool
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that sign has been torn out of the
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ground should probably put that back up
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address is number two
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you see there was a light there
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just think of all the people who walked
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across here
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went inside that door to
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you know buy a snack a beverage
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maybe some fishing bait
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out here in central florida
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i love the front door
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that screen door right there wow that is
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a relic
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yeah some things you just drive past and
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others you have to stop get out
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and look at and this is one of those
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definitely
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one to stop off at
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also get it from this angle with the
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metal signage holder
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on the road so you're seeing where the
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road now back when this opened the road
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would probably been dirt
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or just one lane not even two lanes like
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it is now
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the hitching post and chuliota
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a little bar here
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and the front door as well one of the
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sets of front doors
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have some old western saloon doors
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painted on the front a couple of murals
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here on the far end as well
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a couple of
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of people here frequenting it during the
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day
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showing some of the paintings
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a cowboy there
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and those saloon doors painted right
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and some cactuses for some cacti
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down there painted on the wall
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made it to bifla
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just about tripped right there on that
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curb
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also
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there's some rain clouds formulating
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over there off in the distance
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hello ducks
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scurrying very camera shy huh
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camera shy
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going back to the water
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oh coming back over
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feeling friendly
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yeah okay
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oh someone's fed you someone's placed
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some feed down there
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next to the fence line that's what's
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happening you weren't coming to say hi
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to me
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all right
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see y'all later
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wow maybe not a storm cloud
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but a fire of some sort even though it
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kind of looks like a tornado now
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according to that signage over there
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cannot go that way
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ends up being a direct end at the
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end of that road
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you see here someone's been doing
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some circles in the road here kind of
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peeling out
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and whatnot
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also running parallel to a toll road
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over there i believe so a lot speedier
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going that way but i have chosen to just
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go along this route for the moment
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it's a preserve
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crosby island marsh preserve
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and as i was going along here a deer
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jumped out of the woods and
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ran across the road
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so a lot of deer through this area got
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to go kind of slow
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definitely putting some miles on my car
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today i'm all over the place
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back in kissimmee now
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the city threads place
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back in the late 90s
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used to be a 16 000 movies
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video store
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i have no idea why i just brought that
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up but it was passing by here i thought
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i
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thought i'd just chime in with that fact
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and back in kissimmee i've been putting
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a lot of miles on the car today you
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never really know how a day is going to
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go or how you're going to veer off or
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how your thoughts
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oh whatever speed up there
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also the leaves are changing through
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here used to be called the osceola twin
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cinemas
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and the one over by the osceola mall on
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the other side of the property a couple
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hundred yards behind me
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has been renovated into something else
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but this one just sits here empty
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even still has the marquee out front
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take a look at that
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the old movie theater
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here in kissimmee florida
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next to the osceola county mall
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the mall's changed the name too it's
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always amazing to me when i pull back
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into celebration
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and i see this little complex here
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right off of 192.
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very random
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didn't know where i was gonna end up
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saw some cool stuff
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sometimes it's nice to just go where the
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wind blows
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and arrive back home
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not not that i live inside this pillar
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but well this pyramid
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you know what i mean
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i'll see in the next video the vlog
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is over
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big ben
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parliament