My Arrival Into Central America - Walking Around Belize City / Trying Local Food & Culture Shock
Belize City January 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Monday January 6th
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2025 500 a.m. on the nose well 458 459
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let's call it 500 a.m. on the nose here
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at Orlando International Airport MCO I'm
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flying to Atlanta got a connecting
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flight there and then I'm off to Central
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America going to be spending some time
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in the jungles of
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bise for a while
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little more than a week give or take a
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day 8 Days nine
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days should be interesting I'm inviting
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you to join me it's a travel Day land
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around 1:00 in bise see some sites check
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into a hotel get a rental
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car and see how the next 8 or N9 days
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goes inviting
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you to join me shall you okay now it's
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501 51° in celebration which is you know
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30-minute commute
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from where I am now bise weather 75 at
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the moment right there look like the
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next few days there's going to be some
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showers a little warmer in bise than it
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is here first international trip
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2025 going to be a good time for b75
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doesn't look like too long of a wait now
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I will say anyone this checking bags for
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the other airlines the lines were
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absolutely insane cuz this is the end of
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of the Christmas season and everyone was
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here for the extended holiday weekend
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after New Year's and it's the first day
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after the holiday weekend and I am
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leaving the US of a thankfully I just
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have carry on you know I got to say I
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got through that line very very quickly
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the amount of people that were in the
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check baggage line for all the airlines
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was absolutely out of control but I got
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through that line to get over to the
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Delta Gates pretty quickly 10 minutes
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nothing to be said for only having
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carryon and also flying out really early
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in the morning it's only 5:30 and it's
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just like so smooth so far I didn't
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start I got to start doing more early
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morning fights
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repair overhead this they have shifted
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during take offing the island C of any
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potential trip
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F your seat back and trade tables are in
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the upright and lock position your arm
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rest are the rested position if your C
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has a video monitor that extends from
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the armrest it also must be stoed please
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ensure that larger devices such as
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mapt right now I got to find E4 so this
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is E6 I think E4 is right over there
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this is not the plane I got off I've
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walked a little bit of a way it's not
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too far but I did get a new card I did
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not have this but I do not have the 757
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card so you fly Delta you just ask the
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pilots afterwards and they'll give you
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the card for the airline or the aircraft
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that you were on I got a bunch of these
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but I didn't have the 757 yet so I got
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another one to add to my collection
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turns out my flight landed right in the
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international terminal right across from
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where I needed to go so E I went I
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landed an E3 and I fly out of E4 so
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really it's just like come in here go
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across and there's my plane right over
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here there it is E4 right there
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E4 that's what's going to be taking me
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to bise city oh this is exciting
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E4 schedule for
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10:30 Delta
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1983 good morning welcome to
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Atlanta everyone's getting off the plane
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now they're going to clean it up then
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I'm going to board I'm going to bise I
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had to go North to go south
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though a few moments of board so it was
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kind of walking around they had to go
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north from Orlando up to Atlanta and
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then Atlanta so a lot of my
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International stuff over there from now
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till whenever is probably going to be
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going out of
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Atlanta so I'm actually going to be
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going back over Orlando and then South
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an hour and a half two hours pass
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Southward into bu into Central
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America you got to go North to go south
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at least for this trip next
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stop another
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country I'm pretty dang excited about
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that I'm pretty dang excited about this
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trip and take a look at this as's the uh
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press that at the uh take off there
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taken off International bound or maybe
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uh I wonder if this gives me any
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credentials if I was to like purchase
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that little cap right there probably not
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that was my first time using facial
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recognition to board a plane no passport
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needed passports are linked up to the
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facial recognition
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we got about 20 minutes till we
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land so Biz is right below
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Mexico was etched out here you can see
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the silhouette there the white line
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around it very small country only few
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hundred miles from one end to the other
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that's the farthest distance so over the
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course of me having a rental car
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traveling around I should be able to see
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a lot of it over the next 8 n 10 days
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give or take a
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day kind of wedged in between Mexico
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Guatemala Honduras
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Salvador Nicaragua
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little blue dots where I'm at right now
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in just north of bise in part of
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Mexico and then this blue dot is where
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I'm landing in bise City
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must be at this time please check your
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seats for any discard pass as I come to
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the cabin thank you we'll be landing
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shortly
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airport it's it's our pleasure welcome
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to B where local time is 12:32 in the
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afternoon please stay to you with your
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Bel thank you have a nice day here in
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the police City area or wherever fond
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destination may be
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he look there's like two x's one off the
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back one off the front
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oh man I'm so excited I'm so dang
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excited I really hope I see some
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Tans while I'm here
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paperwork no I'm good thank
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you just asked if I needed a taxi I have
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a rental car so they don't want you
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filming when you're going through the
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checkpoints inside through customs and
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you go through a second bag check and
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they ask where you're staying etc etc
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also a lot of taxi services out here and
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people think people up I am
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officially in buise Central
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America oh yeah it is a little little
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humid here definitely a little
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humid definitely can feel that
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humidity it's uh it's
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thick a lot colder at home in Florida
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than it is
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here a little bit of a cold spell going
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through there no cold spell going
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through here it is it's toasting all
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right the rental car
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place is is just across the way actually
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on site it's not really a big property
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there's a control tower rental services
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they call it over
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here I love this so
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much love this so
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much and so all the rental car places
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are all in one parking lot all of
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them jabaru auto rental Crystal Auto
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Rental
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ponchos auto rental Tor Biz auto
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rental then you have some localized ones
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but then there's also some of the ones
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that people are a little more familiar
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with like Herz alamoo Enterprise Thrift
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a
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dollar so far everyone that I've have
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talked to have been helped by including
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the rental car place and the Customs
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agents very very nice very kind so I've
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come in contact with three or four
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people already and they were all very
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very nice Philip SW Goldson
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International Airport they do not have a
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currency exchange place but the lady was
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telling me who rent me the car she said
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they do take us money here and if I just
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pay with US currency more times than not
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they will give me bise dollars back for
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the US Dollars that's so that's I have a
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little bise currency the bizans use what
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they call the people who live here in
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bise also this right here says the
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ministry of Finance right there on the
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side of that door also the exchange rate
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is 2 for one here so any prices I show
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are going to be twice the price of
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American dollars or US dollars I should
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say I'm so in Central
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America so if a meal costs $40 consider
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that a $20 meal in Central Florida so
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it's like a two for one exchange
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rate which when you first see prices
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it's kind of
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jarring but I'll get used to it just got
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to remind myself it's not twice what the
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price is it's
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just the exchange rate is
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different need about 10 minutes to get
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the car all ready that's my vehicle
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there's like a some accommodations over
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there and'll be on my way
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oh I got to get out of the way
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sorry while waiting I'm noticing there's
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a couple planes just just chilling over
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here right behind that gate also seems
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to be a lot of motorcycles or a lot of
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people probably ride motorcycles and the
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Sun is definitely beating down upon me
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already okay rental car achieved they
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said it was going to take about 10
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minutes it took about
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45 for them to bring the car around also
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very interesting I've never speed seen a
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speed bump sign like that before
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reminds me of Naked
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Gun all right I'm off so when I asked
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the the original guy that told me it was
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going to be 10 minutes while they
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brought the car around he said oh my
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colleague is going to assist you from
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now
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on and then a half hour later car came
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around and she walked me around the car
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and just kind of showed me a few things
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and I said he told me 10 minutes it's
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been like 40 minutes she goes oh we're
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on island time
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okay I think maybe that's kind that
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might be the experience while I'm here
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not being a rush I have nowhere to be so
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it's fine here it
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is look at
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this oh oh that is definitely
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a welcome to believe all right first
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thing I'm noticing roads are not in the
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best shape and no one stays in the
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lanes everyone just they're just kind of
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it's all over the place like what's
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going on here
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pass oh hello motorcycle okay uh is this
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a merge what are we
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roundabout all right I ended up parking
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over here place called
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broes grocery store
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and I got a few things I got a t-shirt
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Lise t-shirt and I got some green teas I
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got a bunch of waters I got a whole
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couldn't find a case of water so I got
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these big Crystal drinking waters for
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the back of the car and then for the
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hotel room and I pay with American cash
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I pay with US dollars I should say and I
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got back some Central Bank of bise cash
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2020 a hyy which is really $50 US I pay
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with $100 US Bill and this was the
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change I got back so you figure that's
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really
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$10 what I'm used to but $20 believe
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money I like having these these are I
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can use these throughout the course of
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the time frame I'm here and if I don't
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spend them I want to start collecting
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and having different currency from
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different places so it
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begins yeah I needed some water though
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because it's uh they say there's a cold
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front here they say it's not hot today
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but I'm definitely feeling the humidity
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this is an interesting
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concept I like it keeps the keeps the
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sun off everywhere you're riding your
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scooter around that's pretty smart
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actually lot of
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roundabouts roundabouts everywhere no
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left turns anywhere you got to go around
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the roundabouts if you want to take a
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left I love this
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place just
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a right here along the water you got
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theat boats
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out I want to go to bise for many many
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years Pelicans go man look at the
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pelican fly
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Pelican not a very good Pino invitation
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but
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yeah all right this is the bise marine
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terminal right here looks like there's a
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really cool kind of like
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Coca-Cola vintage Coca-Cola place over
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here too I'm not sure what they serve in
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there though
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little artwork here on the
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side guess there's like a water taxi
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here you can take this is kind of
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interesting it's a little Crossing
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vehicle over what is this right here
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it's like you walk up on
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here but since I've been here I've been
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offered pretty much anything you can
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think
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of so if you're in the mood for a little
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something it's all here it just form of
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drug
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use it's pretty casual though and I
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probably shouldn't be standing right in
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this middle section cuz now I'm in like
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a little circular area here we got to
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cross this
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road get out of the
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way it's super nice here though everyone
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everyone I've talked to has been like
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very very
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nice is that an officer it might have
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been over here is the central drug
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store right here
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look at this they have a license up
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top they have a license to sell
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poison oh I like this well not only the
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pigeon just down here look at the little
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circular circular sign it's like going
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around here has the crystal
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water and it has the Coca-Cola on it
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right there that's pretty cool
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right I got myself a little power rate
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over here it was 250 250 B they also got
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other little uh this is basically the
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little convenience store of of source
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you's up what's up man want to be on the
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video I don't want to be in a video I
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want to just one thing I
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have noticed here a lot of people ride
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around the back of trucks you don't see
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that too much in the US in fact I think
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you're not allowed to in the US but seen
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a lot of people here doing it talked to
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one of the local guys he was saying hey
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vlogger
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vlogger and I said he didn't want to be
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on camera but then talked to me for a
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couple minutes he said just be careful
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around here he said you can take care of
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yourself but just be careful here's a
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wellworth this is the Presbyterian
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Church right
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here like this paint in the front up
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here this might be like one of the main
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main streets like thare business-wise
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one of the main drags right there here
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if I can tell I'm starting to get a
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little hungry and I find maybe a local
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place to grab a bite to eat I was
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talking to a guy on the plane and he
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visits here on occasion he got family
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here and he was saying the majority of
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the food is rice and beans come is hard
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hard hard to find stuff other than rice
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and beans I go I love rice and beans so
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I think I might get some rice and beans
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serving rice and beans can I get a let
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me get some rice and beans
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I'll take a take a bowl of
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it how much is it um it's $ okay I'll
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take a
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bowl does it go is it just that by
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itself or is there anything else that
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goes on it y okay it's go it's pork it's
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whatever you want to okay I'll take
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whatever you want to give me and I'll
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okay tell me how much it
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is so it because of pork chicken or just
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just pork we have pork and chicken I'll
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do the chicken actually I'll just do the
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rice and beans and a little chicken
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thank
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you like onions and stuff yeah onion and
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pepper yeah throw a little bit of that
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on there yeah throw some of that on
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there let's try it thank
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you I appreciate it thank
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you all right thanks all right hope you
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have a good day thank you so much D
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that's got a little kick to it I think
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it's got I bit into like the pepper
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there a little M roll over here
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let's keep our C plastic
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free there's the Home
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Depot the spge Home
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Depot right there this is pretty good
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little uh street vendor another little
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store down there so this is the pharmacy
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and this is the library right here this
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is the turton library Center National
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Library service and there is an active
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library inside there and and the post
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office is right over here here is the
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post office right here there's a traffic
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department
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vehicle one thing I definitely well I've
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noticed a lot of things but it appears
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as if everyone just kind of does what
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they want on the road it's kind of
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just wherever if you got to everyone's
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got the
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rideway also so that was some spicy rice
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wheo mouth burning trying to plan out
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the week I'm going to be here
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not sure exactly what I'm going to do
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I'm not spending all my time in B City
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I'm going to be going farther in some
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more secluded areas away from hustle and
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bustle when I get out the jungly areas
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and I might do some of the seaside stuff
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but I haven't decided I know any tourism
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here usually is like Seaside stuff but
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kind of interested in going more Inland
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we'll see how it goes
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there's some really interesting
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architecture through here some of it
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still in use some of it not in use like
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this building this big tree that I got
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uprooted right
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here you got some little Manatee
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paintings here on the side of this fence
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line there's a lighthouse right there
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and perfect timing with the boat going
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by behind the bise
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sign piece of artwork
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here look like someone's laid to rest
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here in memory of
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Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss Jr of
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Marlo County Buckingham
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England and I believe this at least out
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that way away is the Caribbean
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Sea all right back in the car now
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continuing driving around see what else
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I can find for the
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evening it's interesting there's like a
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little Lock and Dam system through here
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like some of the little intersections
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will have like a lock system here this
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one doesn't but I noticed something up
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here I want to show too there's a place
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called Publix I had to go up here and do
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a little bit of a
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U-turn oh it's right here look at this
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Publix p u b l i c k s it's a grocery
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store not as congested down this way but
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there is a little little little PP in
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the
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road job
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doggy job doggy
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go around you okay
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okay more of those waterways here I
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think I've seen more stray dogs in one
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area here than I ever have ever before
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another Coca-Cola
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sign a lot of these Coca-Cola signs
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speaking of I saw this Coca-Cola place
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here and I drove by I
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realized looks like they have some food
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in
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we got testas and
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patas I didn't know what a panata is but
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they explained it to me and they're
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making some fresh ones
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up so what are these here what what
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these are the salutas what are they
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called salbut oh salbut that's what I
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ordered okay mhm then started T Tas
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again she was super super
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nice said a good thing good I said I
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just drove by I saw the Coca-Cola thing
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she said good thing I opened up and I
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was here when you drove by $7 for all of
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this $7 and keep in mind that's
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twice what twice what us would be so it'
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only be$ 350 gave her 20 and I said just
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give me 10 backs so really it would have
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been $5 only $5 am I getting the math
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right on that $5
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us for all this that's still pretty
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freaking
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good I love it does it have a name does
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a horse have a name six okay horses for
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sale for 600 the kid
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Su update ate one of these man these are
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really good whatever this is freaking
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good these are tasty too again not 100%
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sure what it is but man good stuff
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another Publix
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p u b l i CS now it's still kind of the
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same font as Florida's Publix I don't
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know if it's Affiliated though probably
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not nice little sunset going on I think
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that's going to do it for today I made
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it to
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bise very interesting place I like it I
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like the vibe of it there's definitely
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an I don't give an f vibe to this
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place I don't know if it's good or bad
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but definitely picking up on that like I
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don't even think in my travels just I
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went out all day here cuz I was
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traveling most of the day to get
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here but I don't know if I ever saw an
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officer of the law today at
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all
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anyway that's going to do it for today
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is over all right I take that back there
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were some security guards I did see
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those maybe
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that's so I guess there were some I saw
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quite a few of those are different but
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those are more privately hired
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people I don't know