Spring Break Road Trip With My Parents - I95 Roadside Stops / Bucees Overload & Wacky Travel Spots
Spring Break 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as a
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recording of this it is Monday
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March 20th 2023 it is just about 6 a.m
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and as you can see here on Market Street
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downtown celebration
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not
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a beehive of activity at this moment I
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will be departing town
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leaving the state today
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gotta go pick up my parents
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we'll be crossing over the Georgia state
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line
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crossing over the South Carolina state
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and we will be spending a little time
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together over the next series of days
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we'll go pick them up head up high
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highway Interstate 95 I-95 northbound
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I'm inviting you for this travel day to
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join me
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it is cool and crisp 55 degrees at this
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moment
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feels good join me
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I need coffee
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first shall you I was considerably off
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on my time frame it is 7 A.M fact the
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bicycle had just moved on the minute
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hand it is 701.
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I woke up at six that's why I had 6 A.M
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on my mindset but at 7am when I am
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departing town
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I'm out of here very peaceful down here
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this time frame
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very peaceful indeed I might be able to
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see the sun rising
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like over here to Lake Reinhardt above
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the spiers of the theater
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I'm also gotta hit
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The Coffee Spot up here at the end
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I love that you could hear the birds
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chirping
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the am
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is upon us
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it's so beautiful out here
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something really nice about awaking
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early
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before everything gets into full swing
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and seeing the Sun rising
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I've always been an early bird
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it's probably for the last 11 or 12
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years
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I've gotten up around this time every
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day give or take an hour
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I just like the mornings always been a
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morning guy
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well at least the last decade or so
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and highly doubtful there will be much
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of a line over here
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right about now
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probably not much of a lie got it
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also
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because of the Christmas of the weather
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well probably the hour of the day as
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well fountain's not on yet
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doubt anybody will be kind of
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gallivanting around in the water type
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since it's off
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I can walk right over here in the middle
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it has as the crow flies distances
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Cape Canaveral Kissimmee Miami
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Captiva Island Burbank
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St Pete
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and then the logo right here in the
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middle
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all right peace out celebration I will
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see you
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in a series of dice a few days
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give or take
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I'm out of here Select Grade to begin
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fueling let's see regular is 349.
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here in Central Florida
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after driving for about the last hour or
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so
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in Daytona Beach now
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stop when you think of road trips up 95
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you think of buckies
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not sure where the sculpture of Bucky's
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is that
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oh he's over there it is pretty amazing
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how
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how many of these locations there are
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now remember when it used to just only
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be in Texas
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back in the day you know 10 12 years ago
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and I travel a lot through Texas you'd
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always see these Bucky's gas stations
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which are massive I mean there's just so
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many I didn't get gas here I got gas
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back in Kissimmee but
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Daytona Beach now plenty of fuel
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stations but now these things are
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everywhere
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over in Florida
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Georgia I think tenant was going to be
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opening in Tennessee soon
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I think Arkansas even has one don't
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quote me on all the spots but yeah this
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Beaver has really
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really taken over
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to head inside now
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maybe get some snacks kind of look
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around
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there's also well actually there's
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another one just north of here in St
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Augustine not sure if we're going to
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stop at the one in St Augustine
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but there is one in St Augustine as well
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but so there's just like one about an
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hour north of here and then there's this
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one as well
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but the Daytona is the first one on the
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top I'm gonna stop off and
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get some road trip snacks they have
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these breakfast biscuits
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this is the bacon cheese what do you
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want yeah what kind you want
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we have all kinds and they have burritos
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they get cheese stuff in it too wow okay
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maybe I'll get a salt I'll just get a
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sausage egg
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just sausage
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we
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also have some buckos over here snack
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Rings
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you've been into Bucky's before right we
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went in one yeah one time before
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Amanda
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look around first buy food your first
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your first Bucky's buying experience
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and you know what I probably should get
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some
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beaver nuggets just because people are
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nuggets are like a thing so I get some
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of these too
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over here it says let's go nuts they're
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like making the nuts in this little
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circular thing here where you can get
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some roasted pecans and almonds and
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whatnot they also have cookie dough
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station which I'm not going to get any
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cookie though but
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see some dessert items that you want I'm
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looking
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forward
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they want to be one of the few people
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that actually really likes pork rinds I
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think I'm gonna get some pork rinds too
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drop that one
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I don't know I have like a I've always
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liked pork rinds since I was young so
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I'm gonna get some pork rinds also all
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right loaded up on a few things
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did you get anything
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sandwich and a soda have you ever been
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to a Bucky's before to go
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I have
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I'm with my first Bucky's with you we
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did we did oh we were on our road trip
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together a couple years ago I think we
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came to this Bucky's we did this is the
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Daytona buckets right to use a term that
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you've used your whole life I've slept
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since then I
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it was either this one it was another
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one well there's another one north of
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here an hour in Saint Augustine so it
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could have been one of the two could
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have been that one I like that we all
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got we got road trip snacks dude and uh
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your mom is oh oh there she is yes
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what'd you get Mom
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what day is today who cares I'm retired
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I always like that shirt
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when you're on a road trip on 95 you got
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to stop at Bucky's yes
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cool I got some bucky bucky nuggets or
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from beaver nuggets
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and I got a some pork rinds
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and a sausage egg and cheese biscuit
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this is the cheese biscuit here sausage
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egg and cheese biscuit
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I've had there
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we had their breakfast ideas for I've
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had their brisket sandwich which is
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really good but I've never had
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the cheese biscuit but the brisket's
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really good
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they got cookies
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check it out
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sausage biscuit
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you got the same thing I did
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you guys I didn't get cheese with Sam's
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cheese
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all right and just like that magically
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well not magically drove about another
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hour north about 45 minutes north I have
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now arrived at the Buc-ee's in St
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Augustine
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fun fact I went to the opening of the
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Daytona buckies and I went to the
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opening of the Saint Augustine buckies
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which was like a year before that I
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think the Saint Augustine is smaller
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than the Bucky's in Daytona I think
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Daytona at the time when it opened was
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the biggest but I think now another
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one's open since then quite a few birds
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chirping around Bucky here
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mom's throwing away the garbage from the
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last buck he's do you think he would go
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to two buckies in one day
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two in one day
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and everything yeah I think probably
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where he gets his name Bucky yes because
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he has a buck teeth yeah so he's Bucky
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oh those are nice cookies over there
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smokers yeah
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one thing I really like about Bucky's is
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how you notice how clean the restrooms
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were yes
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on a scale of one to ten how clean would
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you say the restrooms are compared to
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other gas stations 100
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isn't this a beautiful day it is
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yeah
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beautiful Florida we're about to cross
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over into Georgia and then soon after
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that cross over into South Carolina
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a little chillier the more North we go
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is today the first day of spring
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and
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winter almost
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but
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it's still nice in Florida
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I kind of like the kind of like the
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hoodie weather
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one thing that's kind of interesting
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about Bucky so you got that's got like
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100 gas pumps there's gas pumps over
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there there's gas pumps on the other
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side also but no trucks no 18 wheelers
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are allowed in this parking lot but you
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can bring I guess campers yeah I never
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want to have another RV again but if I
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was ever go down that rabbit hole again
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of having any sort of camper I would
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probably get one similar to like this
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that has like a vehicle that you could
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park and detach because driving the
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24-foot RV that I used to have back in
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the day and not having a detachable
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thing and trying to do a U-turn part it
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just it wasn't for me I'm not saying I
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will ever get one again there's a 93
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chance I never in the name of heck would
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ever get another
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RV of any type but if I did get a camper
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of some sort it would be a pull behind
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I don't know I just saw that kind of
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thought of that big gas pumps over there
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gas pumps over there
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and then the Bucky's in the middle all
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right back on the road yeah just like
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that
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arrived in Georgia
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I'm glad George is on your mind is what
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the slogan is
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I think I've noticed about a lot of rest
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stops like this there's never
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there's never really any way I'll say
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never
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there's hardly ever anyone eating at the
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picnic tables and rest stops you ever
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notice that I have
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few and far between sometimes you'll see
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it
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we were in the car and dad started
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singing the Georgia song and he only
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knows one lyric one word here he goes
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what did you say after you sang the
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lyric
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that's all I know
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that's all I know too do you know who
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sings it you know who sings the song
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no there never is a shortage of well
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there's never a if you ever are driving
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down the interstate you say let's have a
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picnic let's go to a rest stop
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something that should never go up in a
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conversation is you think there'll be
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enough tables
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because there always is enough table
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every once in a while you'll see someone
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eating at a picnic table but it's rare
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very rare
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your truck driving days you stopped at a
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lot of rest stops I did stopped at a lot
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of rest stop just like this one
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I was looking at all those trucks but
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actually it's just a few trucks over
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there there's some over that way
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and uh everywhere everywhere nobody eats
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they have picnic tables
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but they always have them they do
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maybe in warmer weather could be when
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it's warmer I I
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pointed out in the past when I stop at a
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rest stop and I see someone eating I'll
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say there's someone utilizing the picnic
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tables
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and right now you can see there's one
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two three four five six seven it's like
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10 here 12 maybe a dozen on this side
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up look there's someone at that picnic
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table over there
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there is someone eating at the picnic
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table
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or at least using the picnic table
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off in the distance over there
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it happened
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Mark that one down for what was the word
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you taught me
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foreign
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and inside the Welcome Center like a lot
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of these places you'll see souvenir
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coins now you can get different ones you
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got Georges on your mind Georgia coast
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and take a look at this one you can go
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nuts in Georgia now evidently there are
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seven wonders of Georgia there is I'm a
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koala Falls there's Providence Canyon
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there's Radium Springs there's Stone
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Mountain there is talua Gorge and
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there's Warm Springs I think that was
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only six though maybe the okafa Okie
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finoki swamp might be the seventh maybe
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that's the Seventh Wonder the land of
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the
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trembling Earth eh when you're here you
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could also if you so choose you can
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purchase a winning we could we could win
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a million dollars dad right here we give
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them five million
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really yeah you spend 50 bucks scraps
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that off you could walk out here with
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five million because someone tries to
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steal it from you what can you do for a
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nickel
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you have a nickel
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it's under surveillance so if they're
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going to see that you won and then I
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don't know what'll happen then but for a
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nickel now the cheapest you can get is
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the dollar five times the money for a
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dollar you can win
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for this one to dollar
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I don't know what you went dollar but
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it's big oh it's when you go in three
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you can win 300 grand for five bucks I
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don't know what the odds are here's a
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three million dollar Jamboree yeah wait
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oh there you go
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Georgia welcome to Georgia
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Georgia Peach
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so bring back memories of when he used
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to live here back in the day long time
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ago
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I was back in the olden days
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got married we live in East Point
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Georgia
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East Point 54 years ago that's where you
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and Dad met right East Point Atlanta
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Christian
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College
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have you ever seen anybody having a
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picnic at these picnic tables and a rest
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stop before
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rare right that's what I'm say that's
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what Dad and I were talking about what
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is very interesting is that
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all around there's got no picks allowed
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yeah and everybody in the world is Pets
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yeah so where do their dogs go do their
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business but they're they're all over
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the place it says no pets allowed
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no one's obeying the rules I mean I
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guess I don't know dogs around they
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probably have a dog walking area oh that
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guy's having a picnic over there
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or he leaves at least is using the
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pigments there's somebody with a dog
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over there too maybe there's one over
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here because see over there it says no
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Pets Alive so maybe there is an area
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from just that particular thing because
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everybody everybody has a dogs
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veered off the interstate now we're over
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in Woodbine
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to either one of you know what IGA
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stands for
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stands for international Grocers
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Association I think you're right
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there's a very unique antique store here
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it has a well the store is not unique
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but the signage is unique there's also
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the Woodbine Pharmacy over here
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this was a mailbox but I think it's like
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a chicken coop
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oh wow there's a dog there's a dog right
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there
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looks like the store is closed
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take a look at this sign and how they're
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promoting
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what antiques you could buy
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I think it's shut means that they're
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closed I think yeah I think so
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it's a good marketing palooza
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time to fuel up again
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339
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there it goes
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there it is 339 or 335 a gallon
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here it's a fuel pump on there it was
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getting down to about a quarter of a
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tank stopped off here next to Georgia
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Peach world
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which I think I've been here a couple
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years ago I think there's a petting zoo
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over there it's like there's some
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machines over here they're not like
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Vegas Style
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offshore Angler
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see if I got my name over here
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that's right here it is
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there's me this guy going down the water
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slide there there's like a tiger a
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flamingo
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something called a
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I guess it's like a minor Miner's tunnel
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over there
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do a little mining
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Georgia Peach world
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was this uh it's got a heart that looks
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like a peach so that's Georgia Peach
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world for the love
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peaches
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and like I said it's been a I don't know
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a couple years since I passed through
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here well stopped off here
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there used to be animals over here
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but I don't see the animals anymore
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maybe I'm thinking of a different place
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the last time I was here a year or two
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ago there were like goats and stuff
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through here
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got rid of the animals
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Georgia Peach World
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peach season
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merchandise to buy
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it's too cold for peaches right
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here
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oh look at this
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it's like some of these type of things
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you'd say oh wow these are like really
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these are relics here this is like the
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kind of things you see in front of a
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grocery store back in the day it's your
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antiques
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did you
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hey
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do you want a little Peach farming
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but no peaches too cold
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too cold for peaches yes away from next
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season
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oh yeah you go you dig you try to like
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you take this you Shuffle it around till
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you find some mining
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now you are a Georgia Peach
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I'm delicious yes you're delicious
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uh Georgia Peach
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carried on northbound just a little bit
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further
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to the self-proclaimed smallest Church
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in America now I have been here once or
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twice over the years
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but I don't believe my mom
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dad have been here
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it's like another car is over here
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so we went to one of these a year and a
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half ago
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you and I did a trip to Atlanta back in
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October 2021
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and there was one of these smallest
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chapels churches in the U.S on 75
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but there's also one here on 95.
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so we're developing a little history of
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visiting these little small
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chapels
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dedicated by Carter's
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with their family
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look at that one little Lily
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here it is
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one little Lily
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some little figurines over here
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's an older couple holding hands
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there's Jesus with the youth down there
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it's a smile you're on camera there's
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even a church bell here
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this is nicer than the other one right
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we were on camera so smile smile you're
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on camera you think this church bell
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right oh it does ring
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may this bell ring out to the praise of
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the Lord
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to ring the bell maybe you wake that up
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from his nap he's taking in the car
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been open it's open
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yeah this one's one of the nicer ones
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with the stained glass here
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I think the last one we're going to have
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a little church pews this is the seats
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this is nice
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whoever's taking responsible for it's
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taking good care of it
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and when you open the door the lights
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automatically turn on so it's on like a
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yeah it's on a switch timer
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you know I've seen a lot of these in my
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travels across the U.S and I never see
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anyone in them
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I mean I would imagine people do come in
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here and
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you know have like their own personal
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service but I never really see anybody
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other than tourists
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it was just something
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what's the date
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today is March
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20th as a recording Yeah March the 20th
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yeah okay first day of spring
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well it'll be one two three four five
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six six people been here today and here
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is an artistic rendering of the little
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building as well
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okay this is to tell you
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there's
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somebody been here from Ohio today
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somebody from Virginia
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somebody from Pennsylvania somebody from
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Whitesville Georgia another for
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Philadelphia Pennsylvania so a lot of
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people traveling stopping off just just
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today
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this looks like some like on like needle
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point or something you know made out of
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cloth or like a of the church itself
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so this is made out of like paint
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obviously on a canvas
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but this is made out of cloth here
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all right continuing on
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the flag out front
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there's not really sure which one of
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these is the smallest you know church
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building in the U.S but there's a lot of
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them that say they are
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this is probably one of the nicer ones
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though of all of them
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another rest stop now
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I'm noticing over here so there's a
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wooden swing there then there's also
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this very interesting building it almost
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looks like a toll plaza of some sort but
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it's not used for anything anymore but
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it's going to kind of kind of reminds me
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of
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I don't think that's what that is
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but it was something it was used for
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something at one point
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hello
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what's his name cupcake
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cupcake
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nice to meet you
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nice to meet you cupcake
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have a good one
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hey we're cones pine cones
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looks like a random porch swing right
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all this rest stops
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all right evidently I don't know how to
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pump water maybe it's dried up
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it's having a picnic a lot of birds up
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there in the trees
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just up the ways a bit in Hardeeville
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kind of interesting I have stopped at
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these elephants these this pink elephant
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this gray elephant years back
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but they have built a little overhang
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over the top of it here at Crazy Joe's
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firework stand
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not my friend crazy Joe that lives in
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the Philadelphia area
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different crazy job
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is removed from just down the road into
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this spot
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or now they are placed on
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some sort of like mini golf
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type of grass there
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Hub grass
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and they've got a little roof over their
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heads now to protect themselves from the
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elements
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that's gonna do it for today
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made it to South Carolina from Florida
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through Georgia
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it's awesome stuff did some things
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traveled to miles
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I've heard of the back side of waters
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the back gonna be the back side of an
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elephant
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see in the next video the Vlog is a busy
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should be thinking used to be gas pumps
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right there
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there's like a little flower bed popping
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out of there some plants
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this is that 116 Hummingbird Lane
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it says right on the sign
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see you in the next video the Vlog is
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never look into the eyes of an elephant
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the Vlog is over