Forgotten Backroads & Small Towns Of Central Florida - Abandoned Places In Middle Of Nowhere
Forgotten Towns Of Central Florida
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Thursday
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October 13th
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2023 starting off this episode in St
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Cloud Florida a place that I used to
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live just about a block from right here
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in downtown St Cloud been a while since
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I have been on these streets now I've
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been in St Cloud but been a while since
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I've been right here in the downtown
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area I'm going to start here and Venture
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off kind of around the perimeter 30 40
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mil outside of town and just kind of see
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what I can fine I'm going to meet up
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with a friend who I've not seen in a
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while she is going to go with me as well
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and just going to kind of wing the rest
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Wing the day and see is that even a
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phrase we're just going to wing it
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starting in St Cloud and then just going
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out to some smaller towns back roads and
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possibly some forgotten communities join
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me shall you fun fact about some of
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these murals they are painted on the
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side designating the history of the town
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this here the simol land Investment
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Company shows the hotel St Cloud which
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is over here the first residents that
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lived here while their houses were being
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built by this company lived in the hotel
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St Cloud there's a little placard right
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here now the hotel St Cloud is located
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right over there and it has been under
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construction for years years and years
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and years and years and it's
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all it's all kind of tarped off and it
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has the you know the little green mesh
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around it over there I'll walk over
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there and show that they have these
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little information placards around which
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are kind of nice and describe
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that I kind of wish that hotel would
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reopen I would love to stay there one
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day there's a lot of history in there
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this used to be a bank and also used to
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be a library years ago probably 5 years
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ago now there was a big news in town
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that they were going to build a
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skyscraper behind the hotel St Cloud it
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was going to be in that empty lot behind
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it and it was going to be way up here
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and I kind of had a I kind of had a
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feeling feeling that was not going to
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happen and that that idea got scrapped
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but it was big news for about 3
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seconds that clock right there is wrong
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it says 9 a.m. it is 10:45 a.m. that
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clock is broken it's right twice a day
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it was also a heavy Rumor for a long
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time that John Dillinger robbed this
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Bank used to be the People's Bank now
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it's a 10 Street produce I think that's
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been debunked I don't believe that was
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true yeah maybe one day that'll open and
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anyone that's into ghost hunting things
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like that they will tell you that that
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hotel is haunted I don't know if that's
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true or not but I've heard that here's a
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picture of what it looked like back in
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the day
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history right there oh I wonder if this
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is still around the side oh it is I love
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this phrase right here let me live in my
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house by the side of the road and be a
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friend to man and they are working on it
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there is a worker up there so there is
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some sort of progress just slow going
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progress progress very interesting what
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is designated certain laws are more
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stringent perhaps we should try
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something a little more
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stringent yeah look at this this is a
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that's hardcore right
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there hey you don't want that mean most
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places just a simple slap on the wrist
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place
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as traffic goes by showing the water
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tower over there and it looks like
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they're doing some photography or
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possibly some filming over here that
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looks like one of those light kind of
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light rigs right
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there many many many years ago I lived
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in the apartment right over there but
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before I Liv there I looked at these
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apartments that were in shambles at that
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point it had been it's been cleaned up
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quite a bit there was also an episode of
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super boy that was filmed out here in
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fact in that episode you could see that
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little window right there just one
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episode that was filmed in downtown St
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Cloud with super boy standing right
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there in the villain in this area and
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the name of that episode was threesome
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which sounds like it'd be like an adult
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film but it wasn't that's the Superman
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super boy episode it was a
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two-parter this used to be my apartment
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right here there's two apartments up
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here the door was right there now they
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have the numbers on
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there but that was my apartment these
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two windows here and then the windows
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around the other side it's always nice
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to stop back by here I used to sit right
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there all the time get off work go get
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some food go up there watch a DVD or VHS
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or I don't think Blu-rays were out then
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then I'd come back down here sit right
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there and I would watch the some of the
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locals at the bar used to be Big D's
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right here walk out late at night
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stumbling down the road and a little
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inebriated my band played in there a
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couple times too at Big D's
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there's the water tower from here anyway
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this isn't an episode about s cloud but
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starting no
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skyscraper for you Sint Cloud no soup
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for you I kind of glad it didn't happen
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supposed to be right here pretty
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ridiculous idea for a small town like
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this if you know you know if you're
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local to this
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Morse
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Market commonly referred to as Moors
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Market but it's technically Morse m o r
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s
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e if those walls could talk or at least
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the exterior could
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talk that place has seen some things
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might as well get a local signature
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blend piping hot caffeinated
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beverage oh yes
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accomplished also kind of neat that they
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they put what the stores used to be like
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this do- it best Handyman Hardware used
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to be cobbles hardware and there's a
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little image over there some guys on a
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truck or on a horse and there's some
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ladders for sale out front all right in
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the car now pulled off of 192 just past
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the reptile serpentarium we're going to
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drive and see what's back in here
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they're used to be like an RV camp back
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here all I decided to just park my car
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right here just off the road about 20
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yards off the road still want to drive
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through here cuz there might be
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Nails proba be bumped into some people
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out here I hope so you hope so yeah I
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need to make some new friends do you
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yeah I need new friends I don't like the
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friends I have now so talking about me
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yes of course
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see look
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Nails Nails Rusty Nails all right our
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first relic of the past here we got to
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go in there I'm not talking about the
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building I'm talking about this
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bicycle
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here oh yeah we could definitely check
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it out you just got to be careful with
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all these places cuz sometimes people
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will be squatting and living in them I
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need a new so so perfect example
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I would imagine someone is probably
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living in there because you see the
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sheet that's there yeah that is that's
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been placed there since it was
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abandoned so should we
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knock I'm going to zoom in on
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the cloth
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item we could check it out all right
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need go
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first
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yeah see there's like shoes up there
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that are like neatly placed up on the
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thing we can't go in there yeah so
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someone's someone's living there we'll
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just look from
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anyone
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oh yeah there's even like a tent in
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there that's set up inside so they have
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a tent inside and maybe the roof is
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leaking so they're like half
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sheltered did you know this was all back
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here um now I know it's the
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end let's go through here see what
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happens see what happens yeah I know
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what's going to happen what's going to
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happen we're going to turn around we're
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going to turn around that's the you know
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the
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future you're probably right I don't
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think there's anything out here at least
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down water over here oh there's a canoe
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of some sort over there yeah or a
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boat just watch out for
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Gators I'm not afraid of gators I'm not
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afraid of them either unless I don't see
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them and I put my toe in their mouth
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true but I'm wearing shoes so that
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should protect me look there's a boat
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over there this is like wa something out
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of a horror
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film do you think there's somebody in
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there in the boat
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yeah want to swim over and find out I
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saw
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something it's like a canoe or a paddle
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booat not a paddle booat
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canoe or a little
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dingy
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I'm hearing noises over there it's not
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the Bugs somebody's
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angry you heard something too right
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mhm oh there's a door right there yeah
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that's the back door I'm not going in
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there no don't go in
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bomb okay yeah there's some tents back
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there too there a lot of bicycles out
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here
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yeah I feel like there used to be a
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building right here that one doesn't
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have wheels on it no that one or that
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one that one back one's gone both of
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these yeah I feel like there was a
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building here at one point there's a
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chair over there yeah this is definitely
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a camp back
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yeah this was someone's little this is
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compound
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mhm they even have a thing to tail
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that's yeah little lawnmower
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yep yeah I'm good on going back there it
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almost looks like someone was going to
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build like a little Homestead out here
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with this Lumber they got the ladders
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out here
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we didn't see anybody but I think there
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was somebody in that first little the
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first little house I don't know what the
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heck this
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was a roof there a roof no you know what
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that is that's a couch the back of a
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couch mhm you think you could eat
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these you've seen end of the wild right
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yes that movie traumatized me not to eat
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plants yeah don't eat anything because
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it did not end well for him no he's
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goner yeah he's goner but you would
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think you just eat anything that grows
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on a tree but or a plant but I don't
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know if he could eat these what do you
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think that
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is I don't know some sort of a berry do
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you
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know have no
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idea somebody took a hatchet into that
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tree right there oh my God there's
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somebody I mentioned the movie Hatchet
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and now there's a hatchet marks in that
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tree that might be our side we should
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probably just move
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on there we're trying to get the sap out
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of the
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bark look you see the sap dripping
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down I see
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it they were trying to to get the sap
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out of there milk in the
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sap can you eat sap I'm asking a lot of
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questions about eating things that I
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probably shouldn't be
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eating can use it as like a coffee
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creamer you should go lick it I'm not
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going to lick
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it I'm just going to keep drinking my
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coffee with the little little cream of
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sugarette there's a mosquito on my leg
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right now it's
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mosquito all right getting a little fuel
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up here Florida gas pric is Central
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Florida at least over towards hola
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$336 cents a gallon here at this
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7-Eleven sonoka diesel is a buck more
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but regular
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336
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full that much it is now
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raining maybe it'll cool down a little
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bit
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or probably should have brought some
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umbrellas I got a hat got a hat I got a
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hat
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too we'll be fine have made it to hopal
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the Rain subsided for a brief
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moment H was a stop along the CMI Valley
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extension of the Florida East Coast
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railroad owned by Henry Flagler I should
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probably
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introduce Beth Vandal oh my gosh I was
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just reporting you you were did you know
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I was behind you you were reporting me
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or recording me I was reporing you
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whatever you just yeah hopefully you can
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hear you with the wind so just hear me I
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can hear you I can hear you okay you can
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hear me I have my hand cued over the
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microphone here so we're going to go on
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a little exploration yeah I uh met you
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in St Cloud we drove through the rain to
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hola right over here near the Florida
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native Spanish mission
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area near unit 4
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and we're going to check out a chapel
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over here that's kind of falling on a
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chapel that's falling on bad time it's
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actually the other way oh yeah yeah it's
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it's over here it's over here though
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we're going to walk over there over here
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careful there might be snakes and Gators
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in
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there and it looks like the sign has
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even been removed the crosses has been
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removed it's called the Jesus Miracle
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Chapel you can see a little bit of
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relics of the name of it over there used
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to be a big cross here there was a here
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years ago I came by here and I talked to
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a guy mowing his yard out here who owned
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the property he was taking taking
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donations to try to fix it up he was
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over there now his trailer's gone he is
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nowhere to be found mailbox is open
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except you can't get to the mailbox
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there a fence right
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here I believe the backstory there was a
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hurricane once that came through one of
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the Hurricanes a couple decades ago came
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through and tore the roof off they tried
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to tried to fix it up and it never
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happened
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oh here we go it's still this says it
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right here the Jesus Miracle
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Chapel so I guess someone else is taking
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it over I really don't see this ever
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reopening if you had to place a bet what
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would you say think it'll ever reopen um
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Yes actually I'm taking it over you're
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taking it over yes okay that's what
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you've been up too for the last few
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years as I've seen you I've been
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planning this okay all
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right what have you really been up to
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what I um yeah give me talk about what
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you've been doing give me a plug uh well
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I've been playing a lot of music yeah I
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got a new band what's the name of the
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band a new Violet a new violet yeah like
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the flower like a color like the color
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like the flower like the whatever
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feeling a new violet Violet you can find
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me on Instagram what's your Instagram
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well I got my best vle page
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got a new Violet on Instagram for show
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and stuff I do I have shows coming up uh
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November 3rd I have our EP release party
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coming up and the whole EP is going to
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be released onay so follow her on
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Instagram find her on Instagram a new
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Violet and then after that band thing
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you're going to rejuvenate this spot
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well I'm doing that now you're doing
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that now that's that's the current
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project that this is not that's not true
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but the band thing is true
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yes I was thinking about going over
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there but I don't know if I hop this
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fence so we probably shouldn't there was
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a sign right
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there it's like really dilapidated and
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falling down I've always wanted to go in
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there let's go you want to go in yeah I
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do all right we decided to check it out
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figured what the heck you led the charge
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and I
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followed
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right oh there's been a lot of people in
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here spray painting look at this oh
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that's so neat Bart Bart Simpson and and
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beus and Butthead is that how you spell
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Bart so there's a Simpson episode where
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he goes to a theme park and he was
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looking for like a keychain or something
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or a souvenir he was looking for Bart
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and all they had was bort so that I
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think is the joke I love
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this eat my
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shorts that's pretty good so people have
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definitely been here decorating and
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putting their their artwork on yeah I
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hired some
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people I don't never know when to
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believe you when not to believe you
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so the roof's been torn
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off oh someone's put a nativity scene
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over there where check that out the
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painting it just says nativity scene
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it's just the words it's actually not a
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nativity scene it's just a spelling
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nativity scene
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right this is
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good there's not really a whole heck of
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a lot going on with this I do not see
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this ever being
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anything this is pretty
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much I don't even know what you would do
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with this property probably just going
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to be
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bulldozed maybe we'll just stay here
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until it just falls apart on not a lot
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of
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shelter I thought there'd be more in
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here than this this is just an empty
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empty building
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yeah looks like tire tracks people have
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driven in here see yeah I see it what
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the heck how do you get a car through I
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mean I guess you would just
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drive oh yeah you can drive right in the
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back here let's go see what's in the
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back
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you could play an impromptu gig here oh
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yeah that would be great you just you
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know it's kind of like the old Rave day
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except you don't you don't play rave
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music you don't play what about
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electricity though do you play rave
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music yeah that's what my band is what
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would you describe your band as uh I
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would say it's like pop punk nice rock
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music that's a that's not
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R it's far it's the farthest thing from
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ra I think there's there's got to be
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Gators in over there Gators Gator I
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never knew there was a neighborhood back
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there so that's it that's the Jesus
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Miracle chapel and I must say this place
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really needs a
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miracle Kitty
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sucker that's weird it's like piece of
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like a well like a
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rusted out piece of well there and you
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got the mushrooms on the side of
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the the branch
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there got the tile work down here got a
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random
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Tire look like the rain is rolling in
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again as well Yep sprinklin this is
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Highway 192 St Cloud's that way and then
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cumi another 10 15 miles past it if you
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continue this way you go over to
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Melbourne and the coast but we're we're
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going to go back this way and then cut
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up that direction see what we can find
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I'm not going to go over to the coast
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today but maybe some point yeah that
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range rolling in we probably should get
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back to the
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car any G any Gators in
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here oh you got the brick down here too
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TR for that very
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nice and before pulling away from here
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wanted to show the organization which I
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guess is still trying to renovate it for
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anyone interested check it out Puna
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Norte
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elcia did I pronounce it right I mean I
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definitely don't have the best
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inflection but that's where you can find
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information about this playing Place
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being renovated and if it ever
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reopens I will visit
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it I don't know if it will probably not
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but you never know I just wanted to to
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mention that there is someone out
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there doing their due due diligence all
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right moving on this is kind of neat
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it's an old General
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Store see the gas pumps used to be right
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here and there's even an old ice ice
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cooler right
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there I was passing by this so the road
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we were just on was down there it almost
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looks like this used to be like a motel
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or a hotel at some point cuz you could
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see back on this gentleman's property
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over there an old accommodations there
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with
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the and he's on he's over here sitting
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out sitting out in his chair said I
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could get out and take a photo he's
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resting over
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there you know what used to be here what
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if you had to guess what do you think
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was was here way back in the day I feel
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like that was
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a
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ceramic
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Garo
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probably not a ceramic gargoyle so let's
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Okay think about this being a thare back
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in the
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day you pull over here to get little
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snacks and things but then you needed
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something and you'd pull up here to get
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it this is probably like an original
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Little stop here for gas
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PPS he's going back in I was going to
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talk to him
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but didn't want to talk to us that's
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fine he said I could he said I could
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film just didn't want to be interviewed
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no probably
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notore in here thrift store stuff in
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there
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yes oh man I wish it was open I know
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right I like the old truck he's got over
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there classic
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truck I don't think it's open though
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because they have this up so you cannot
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go in the door
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on
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the don't take a dump
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here take it
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easy pretty neat look at the
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old wooden slats there there's a mud
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doers Nest up
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there this is kind of weird look at all
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the bottle bottle caps I've never seen
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anything like B bottle caps that are
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like in the
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concrete that's cool look at these old
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bottle caps here guess You' put it into
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the cement
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mix that's a big one oh that's not in
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mix what do you think that
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was was an old gargoyle all right this
24:50
is awesome there's an ouse
24:55
there I really wanted to talk to that
24:57
guy but he High tailed it yeah he
25:00
did he was
25:02
nice very nice but I wanted to talk to
25:06
him what's in
25:11
there it is open but I don't think I
25:11
want to open cuz that gentleman owns
25:13
this you can't go you you don't want to
25:14
go P oh you got to have written
25:16
permission I've never seen a sign like
25:19
that that says written
25:24
permission look at this Indiana Jones
25:24
and the Last Crusade motorcycle over
25:35
that's great that is
25:35
great super
25:38
great yeah it always reminds me of
25:41
Harrison Ford and Sean conry and it in
25:43
that type of vehicle in Last
25:45
Crusade my whole life is based around
25:48
movie
25:49
references well a lot of my
25:51
life even though I've only seen like one
25:54
100th of
25:55
movies I've seen a couple of
26:02
what is that you seen Indiana Jones in
26:02
the Last Crusade right I'm pretty sure
26:05
yeah Sean conry sitting in the little
26:07
wheel well there a little side
26:13
car oh this is a company that sells
26:16
sidecar
26:17
motorcycles there's only one for sale
26:20
though says it right up there I mean
26:21
when do you ever see those on the road
26:24
rarely classic sidecar motorcycles
26:31
never in all the years that I've lived
26:32
in this area have I ever noticed that
26:33
that says H laa on the side of the
26:36
roof that's the greatest thing ever
26:38
right there that I had I got really
27:15
all right that says something across
27:15
here I think it's just numbers I can't
27:17
tell if it's letters or
27:26
not and then up
27:26
top
27:33
an antenna pre-s satellite dishes use
27:33
these antennas to get
27:42
television it's fascinating is that
27:42
definitely over there was some sort of
27:44
like a motel had to have
27:46
been it's like a nice little compound
27:49
he's got out here there's someone on a
27:51
scooter just went by they're staring at
28:04
it's mostly just trucks out here now
28:04
continued on about 4 miles this is very
28:08
interesting this is a little rest stop
28:10
right here you got this truck stopped
28:12
off over here for a moment working on
28:14
his
28:23
engine illaha illaha station has a one
28:23
loone
28:25
concrete picnic table
28:32
I would guess no one's had a picnic here
28:32
in a long time we didn't bring any
28:35
picnic supplies so we won't be having
28:37
one
28:38
either this thing is
28:45
solid so where's the railroad track the
28:45
railroad used to run through the
28:47
railroad doesn't run through through
28:48
here anymore like it went through
28:51
there let's take a
28:57
look once part of Henry flagler's
28:57
Florida East Coast railroad Nitto
28:59
station was a stop on the railroad that
29:01
ran from weah hooti to okobe nah became
29:05
a sawmill town so this is a ghost town
29:09
used to be a ghost town this used to be
29:12
right here that's the Nitto
29:21
station it's pretty neat to think
29:21
about illal and illal was a turpentine
29:24
operation located near here on the
29:25
Florida East Coast railroad owned by
29:27
Henry Flagler they had a post office in
29:29
1923 was closed in 35 the mill closed
29:32
after the pine trees were closed down or
29:34
torn
29:36
down there's no railroad tracks left but
29:39
it probably was over there if you
29:41
continue to follow this sometimes you
29:42
can see some of the railroad Remnant so
29:44
if we see anything as we're going that
29:45
way I'll point it
29:47
out got some Citrus Dr Citrus Groves
29:50
over
29:51
here citrus
29:54
trees oranges possibly
29:58
probably oranges I think they are you
29:59
think they're oranges yeah they're
30:00
definitely
30:13
here we're now turning onto Old Post
30:13
Office
30:14
road which I would imagine I've been to
30:17
the keenville old post office but I've
30:18
never taken this road to get to
30:28
it and kind of like the John Dillinger
30:28
Robin the bank in St Cloud rumor that
30:31
has never been completely factually
30:34
checked some say the Heartbreak Hotel is
30:37
where Elvis stayed when he came up with
30:39
the idea to write the song Heartbreak
30:41
Hotel but I think it's just a clever
30:43
name be need to stay there one
30:47
day turning here onto North Bow Street
30:51
which is where the old post office is
30:53
it's technically not on Old Post Office
30:56
Road it's a half a block up from Old
30:57
Post Office
30:59
Road it's on Bo Street and South Canoe
31:02
Creek and all the years I've been in
31:04
this area and passed by this probably a
31:06
half dozen times I've never seen it
31:08
anyone in here or it opened so we're
31:11
going to go inside see if we can get a
31:13
look around inside cross from the First
31:15
State Bank you know what it wasn't a
31:17
post office that's the bank on the
31:18
corner over there wait where was the
31:20
post office it probably was at Old Post
31:23
Office road which was over there the
31:25
post office is gone that makes sense
31:27
what happened it's a
31:33
bank I can't tell if this is a residence
31:33
or an office I think somebody lives here
31:36
now all right that explains it it's a
31:38
private office no longer functions as a
31:41
hotel I will not be staying here I'm
31:45
heartbroken I'm heartbroken I'm
31:46
heartbroken at the Heartbreak
31:52
Hotel always wanted to go inside this
31:52
building me
31:53
too they should call it the Heartbreak
31:56
office
32:04
wouldn't have the same ring to it the
32:04
song wouldn't be wouldn't be quite as
32:06
exciting the Heartbreak
32:07
office look how long the street sign
32:11
is it's a massive street sign that's a
32:14
long word all so we're going to go back
32:17
up here a couple blocks take a right and
32:19
head to yha Junction there someone
32:21
renovated this a few years back and
32:23
every time since then I passed by this
32:25
is never open either for either either
32:28
or
32:29
either oh I just lost my hat oh there it
32:32
go it's very windy out here there's a
32:35
tornado
32:43
coming dated 1914 this Tower this place
32:43
I are so bad yeah they have the guest
32:47
book there this is so neat it's never
32:49
been open all the times over the years I
32:51
come by
32:52
here trying the
32:57
door oh I want to go in the Heartbreak
32:57
Hotel and I want to go inside the old
32:59
Bank look at
33:06
this got some little momentos here on
33:17
desk an old phone peeking through the
33:17
window there you see that old airplane
33:19
model
33:20
there this is
33:23
cool what are you doing I was looking at
33:26
myself in the that close to the there's
33:28
a mirror in there oh there's a mirror in
33:30
there saying hello
33:32
okay I always like the dragon lights up
33:37
here I've never seen
33:49
that it's like rod iron that's like it's
33:49
an antique right there one day I'll go
33:52
in here they add in the Heartbreak I
33:54
want to stay at the Heartbreak Hotel
33:55
I'll just stay in the office play Elvis
33:58
Tunes all night there is the Kenansville
34:01
Florida post office
34:19
code there's like nobody on the road
34:19
there's yeah literally no one on this
34:21
road and this is right out here the NR
34:25
Family Ranch has a train car over here
34:28
can't get to it but it does have a train
34:56
that so I wanted to point out a piece
34:56
piece of the old
34:58
railroad kind of like a maintenance shed
35:02
that was from there way back in the day
35:03
they cleaned it up and painted it but
35:04
this is where the railroad went
35:18
by there's a bunch of these on this
35:18
road so right in front of that or behind
35:21
it is where the railroad went by
35:22
probably in front of it right where that
35:23
fence is
35:30
they fixed it up though it's still in
35:30
good shape now made the commute over to
35:33
the former desert in used to be a sign
35:36
right there this place always reminds me
35:37
of the bats motel at least this
35:39
section stopped off here a few times
35:41
stopping off here again every time I
35:44
come back by here which is every year or
35:47
so I think I Was Here by four or five
35:50
months ago I went down of Miami and I
35:51
stopped by real quick but even since
35:53
then it's even in more just repair see
35:56
they bust busted in the windows over
36:15
here just wash your wash your head on
36:15
that
36:22
glass I stayed in one of these rooms
36:22
back when the desert end was open this
36:23
is like a long time ago 10 years ago I
36:27
stayed in that room down
36:29
there it was quite the
36:42
experience feel like Norman Bates is in
36:42
there somewhere what the heck I had no
36:44
idea I thought there was par here I
36:45
didn't know that it was broke
36:58
heck it's like a
36:58
full full truck cab here a lot of trucks
37:03
pull through here I guess that one just
37:05
decided to pull over it didn't end well
37:07
it's like it's like a horse something
37:09
have a horror film what happened to this
37:13
driver
37:24
Conor I am amazed they have not leveled
37:24
all this
37:33
yeah I believe it was either this room
37:34
or this room I stayed in ah
37:49
here this is on the national register of
37:49
historic places the national register
37:51
sign was removed someone either stole
37:54
it or salvaged it
38:00
how is this thing still standing with
38:14
wind I had heard a rumor that this was
38:14
bulldozed a few months ago and that
38:16
rumor obviously is not
38:18
true obviously not true I didn't
38:21
survive oh they even took down all the
38:24
fences okay so yeah they put fences all
38:27
around it saying keep out they have come
38:30
in the company that put the fences up
38:32
they've removed the
38:35
fences I think that was a GU Brooks
38:37
album no
38:39
fences or someone came in stole the
38:42
fences and use
38:45
it look at
38:48
this did that fall from the sky no the
38:52
truck smashed into this so a truck of
38:55
that size drove through this
38:58
intersection and smashed into this at
39:00
full speed in the middle of the night
39:02
were there people in there no one was
39:06
hurt as far as I know right here was
39:08
where the national register of historic
39:10
places sign was that has been
39:13
taken we just broke the whole historic
39:17
sign off of
39:26
there some say this place was also
39:26
haunted I did a video where I stayed
39:28
overnight here eight in the diner in
39:31
there there's an old Tom's machine look
39:33
at
39:41
this chip machine got the oven up top
39:41
this was the bordello up here this was
39:43
actually a bordello at one
39:47
time and this is the closest I've gotten
39:49
into this in a long time it's been
39:52
damaged years ago but now that they've
39:54
removed up you lost your hat
40:01
you lost your hat too it's
40:02
windy both losing our
40:04
hat very Gusty and windy out here yeah
40:07
it is interesting now it was like keep
40:09
out keep out they had all the fences up
40:12
now it's just open to the elements and
40:14
to anyone that just wants to walk
40:15
around I guess they decided we're not
40:18
going to keep anybody out
40:20
so we won't even
40:23
try yes they are open
40:33
now this place is not structurally sound
40:33
so we don't want to go too far in but oh
40:35
you can actually go in here
40:37
okay that's good just got to be careful
40:40
of the roof we don't want to go too
40:47
far so here's the restrooms the ladies
40:48
the men here's the speaker where people
40:49
would sign their names this is back when
40:51
it was
40:52
open hey didn't they have something in
40:55
the ladies room like some weird they did
40:58
I don't doll or something yeah I don't
41:00
remember what cowboy there was something
41:02
in here let's look
41:08
hello H nothing in here nothing in here
41:08
now just the
41:20
toilet oh the toilet is Inta the
41:20
toilet's intact
41:23
yeah I mean looks like a bathroom to me
41:27
yeah oh wow yeah that wind blowing the
41:30
roof oh gosh probably shouldn't go any
41:32
farther than this yeah cuz that's all
41:34
caving in so here's the bar the kitchen
41:38
was back there the food wasn't the best
41:41
but I did eat here from while
41:49
back that wind I believe they had like a
41:49
lot of bars do they had the dollar bills
41:50
all along the top those are all of
41:52
course people come in here and grab
41:53
those oh yeah for sure
42:08
here I just picture 18wheeler truck full
42:08
force right into that and you can see
42:12
where all the dollar bills were pinned
42:13
up there on those little push
42:25
pins all along the roof there just
42:25
hundreds of push
42:33
pins it's like
42:33
a that's the kitchen back there yeah
42:36
that's where the kitchen
42:55
was I'm going to classify this place as
42:55
not structurally
42:57
sound not safe to walk really any
42:59
farther than The Way We
43:26
Were
43:26
lost my
43:34
hat goodness we're losing our heads out
43:34
here just hold it yeah he just likes to
43:37
hold
43:40
it yea Junction formerly called jackass
43:43
Junction then they changed the
43:48
name here's one piece of fence to
43:50
someone didn't
44:02
it's old bench glad that no one's tagged
44:02
this up yet this was painted back in
44:12
2011 oh that is creepy what is that
44:12
there's a doll up there a real oh doll
44:15
yeah see it
44:23
yes oh my
44:23
goodness I think it's a reindeer it's a
44:26
reindeer yeah I think it is look at this
44:29
like electrical thing up here it gives
44:31
them like Blair Witch Vibes
44:37
tling yeah this seems to be the
44:37
stairwell to the
44:40
bordell these walls could talk could
44:43
tell some Tales kind of like Mor's
44:46
Market in St
44:56
Cloud why is this still Stu dangling is
44:56
why is it left here I don't know it's
44:59
weird just come in here and tear it down
45:01
but who who would want to tear it down
45:04
it probably won't be torn down till
45:05
someone buys this property to build
45:07
something
45:10
else can you eat those see those over
45:14
there no I don't think you can eat those
45:16
don't eat those either don't eat them
45:18
don't want to have an ENT the wild
45:19
moment yeah know not
45:29
all right moving on starting to rain
45:29
again all right we have veered off is
45:31
that an alligator in the road it's a
45:34
branch yeah it's moving its tail all
45:37
right go go closer that's a gator if
45:40
that's a
45:42
gator I'm going to be so happy maybe
45:44
it's not a gator from here it looks like
45:46
a gator in the road doesn't
45:49
it yeah it's a bran it looks like a
45:51
freaking Gator it's a branch it does
45:53
look like a freaking alligator it did
45:55
yeah okay it's just a palm tree
45:58
leaf darn okay we have to take an
46:00
alternate route we're taking it that's
46:02
very bumpy we had to go
46:03
around trying to take a different route
46:05
back to St Cloud
46:08
but yeah no through access let's turn it
46:11
around Man From a Distance that looked
46:12
like a freaking alligator I'm so
46:14
disappointed it's not I am too now all
46:16
right we found another road that's going
46:17
to lead us I think back to the turnpike
46:19
that goes to s cloud and on both sides
46:23
on my
46:24
side is is water there's probably I
46:28
stumble on a Gator out here over on your
46:29
side you got some water lots of water
46:33
there's a bird down below it's not a
46:36
gator we're going to see some Gators
46:38
through here I think we're going to see
46:41
gators this is Gator Alley or alley
46:45
Gator Alley alley Gator
46:53
Alley looks like there been some rain
46:53
through here we're going to get some
46:55
more it's all
46:57
flooded go Bird go go
47:05
go yeah I'm definitely going to keep my
47:05
eye out for some
47:08
Gators why in the heck is there a bus
47:10
down here what the they giving tours
47:13
through the middle of the
47:18
swamps there's like no one out here M
47:18
and then just a random
47:20
bus big the foot is
47:27
confused I think some of big the foot's
47:27
relatives probably live out
47:28
here a good area for Sasquatch to
47:32
hide why is there a full bus out here or
47:36
was there that was weird right yeah that
47:37
was weird we almost saw a gator in the
47:39
road and we just saw a tour
47:42
bus no one out here there's nothing to
47:45
do out
47:46
here maybe that's the tour they like
47:49
nothing to do Tour all right we got some
47:51
horses over here we got a horse feeder
47:54
well actually looks like the horse is a
47:55
attached to that and then they walk
47:57
around they spin that mechanism
47:59
around I think that's what that is that
48:02
looks like
48:04
torture it has a purpose for it but I
48:07
don't know what the purpose
48:08
is make horses walk in circles yeah
48:12
walking around there's some horses maybe
48:15
we'll see some cows out here oh look at
48:16
the little one over there there a little
48:18
little tiny horsey hello
48:26
horse those are Arabian
48:26
those are Arabians
48:34
yep all right pulled over here made it
48:34
back into St Cloud it's raining now
48:37
raining on the ice machine raining on
48:40
the vacuum over there coming down looks
48:44
pretty
49:00
and that's going to do it for today
49:01
thanks for watching I'll see you in the
49:02
next video seem like the clouds kind of
49:04
sort of cleared up it rained a little
49:06
bit overcast a little bit Sunny a little
49:08
bit confusing weather the Vlog is over