My Flight Experience To ALASKA On Delta Airlines - Arriving In Anchorage Snow & 50th State Achieved
My Flight To Alaska
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Sunday November
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3rd
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2024 I am heading from Minneapolis
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Minnesota it's cold it's windy I got my
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bags right there just checked out of my
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hotel here right across from the Mall of
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America just ordered a ride share it's
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windy I'm heading to the airport and
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flying to Alaska join me for my 50
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estate if I land when I land and when I
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depart from the plane and touch the soil
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in Alaska it will be my 50th US state
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that I have been to I'm 50 years old my
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50th state I didn't do one a year did
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most of them
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later the last decade or
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so 50 Stakes pretty awesome here's my
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Uber join me shall you all right I have
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officially been dropped off right here a
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little uh little cloudy cloudy out cool
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temperatures but it's going to get a lot
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colder I think it's like high 40s right
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now it's going to be about 20° colder
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than that when I land in Anchorage have
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a direct
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flight no connecting no layovers this
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was my layover one
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night all right I'm heading in check
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that out that's pretty
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cool this kind of a neat little setup in
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here
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little swirly thing there here at the
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Delta terminal now that sign down there
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says all passengers less than 15minute
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wait time to go through the checkpoints
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that's not bad there's some national
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weather right there
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74° someone was talking to me thought
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they're yelling at me 74° Orlando where
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I just
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was
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47
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Minneapolis 21 in Calgary but I'm going
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Way North over
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Canada there's only one flight to
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Anchorage from Delta it looks like it's
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an airline partner with Virgin
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Atlantic KLM whatever that means there
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it is Delta DL
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377
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440 keeps shuffling back between a
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few not sure exactly why but either way
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gate f8 440 p.m. right now it's only
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1112 a.m. so I got plenty plenty of time
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and check out theel to 11 maybe they
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have a maybe they have a lounge here
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they can use yeah check that out 15
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minutes I like that all passengers oh
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wait that's TSA pre- clear all
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passengers less than 15 oh they're
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standard right there yeah yeah okay I
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think everybody can go through here all
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right that took about a grand total of
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about 7 minutes maybe even less than
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that and I got to say both of the agents
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that I came into contact with one to
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check my ID and the one at the the belt
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with putting the stuff in the bins and
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all that were super nice top tier nicest
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TSA agents that I probably had I've had
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a few nice ones but they uh definitely
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they were very kind they were very
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friendly very nice anyway thought I'd
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mention that yeah it's kind of
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interesting as heading over to towards
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where the gates are I'm going to be
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waiting around for a little bit out
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there's a store that was there's a store
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that's specifically Prince of course
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Prince is from this area and there's an
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entire
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store in the airport dedicated to Prince
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which is pretty cool I'm heading over to
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the F Gates just kind of look this is
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not my gate but I'm looking out the
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window here at
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F1 I got again I have plenty of plenty
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of time before leaving it looks a little
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dreary out there I mean I was just out
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in it but now that I'm looking at it out
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the window it seems dreier than it was
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even 45 minutes ago when I was outside
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it SOA is known as the land of leges but
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not just any random number of legs
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10,000 exactly 10,000 not 10,1 not
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99,999
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exactly
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10,000 artwork over here as well it's
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kind of interesting it's like some it's
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like uh glass like kind of blown glass
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mixed with other things a makeup of all
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of this very interesting and then over
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here Forest companions is the name of
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that this is called the dinky
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bird is singing the am Fula
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tree the dinky
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Bird right there's the dinky
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Bird right there's F10 of course mine is
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f8 which is located right here now it's
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still boarding is until 4:00 my flight
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departs at 4:40 it's only 11:34 right
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now so I got there's probably going to
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be a couple planes even utilizing f8
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even before it's time for mine got
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plenty of time to Rel here at the
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airport just got to find one of the
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Delta lounges get myself a coffee see my
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first coffee going on looking at the
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directory for this area I am here F7 and
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F9 f8 is right there it looks as if the
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Sky Club is back over here so I got to
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backtrack a little bit there's one here
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there's one over here at the C Gates
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there's one over here at the G Gates but
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I am closest to the F Gates go over
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there and uh see what they got check out
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this Sky Club hitting the sky clubs up
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and seeing how each one is a little bit
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different they're all different in their
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own way looking out here that is a huge
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plane over there at
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G3 look at the size of that thing that
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is
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massive that's a that's a hefty airliner
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right there G3 in comparison to this
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little small one over here waiting to
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pull in topped over here in adventure
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North going to be getting into some warm
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ter warm clothing territory soon enough
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I'm playing a lot of it by ear I did
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bring a few things I ended up purchasing
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some things before heading on this trip
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see Snoopy over here take a look there's
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Snoopy right there next to the
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Minnesota store there's also a bookstore
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right there called open
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book this is the I think maybe the
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second airport I've been in that had a
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bookstore in it 100% shark
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free no
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sharks in Minnesota I didn't see an
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alcra mov or anything I'm sure maybe
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when I get to Alaska I hopefully could
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see an elk or a moose or an eagle or a
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fox or crocodilian skull there this is a
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chomping chomposaurus according to that
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that is a northern crocodile not sure
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exactly what this is oh it's like a Tusk
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of a dinosaur these photos of people in
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the snow first I thought it was people
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on a beach but I think it's just people
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in the snow and they said usually the
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lounge access you cannot get in until 3
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hours before your flight starts but a a
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little bit more than that and they go
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it's not too busy in there we're going
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to go ahead and override that and let
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you in the lounge right now if you're a
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Delta MX card member you can use the
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lounges unlimited this year but starting
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in 25 you only get 15 per year so it's
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like uh one a month plus three all right
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I grabbed a seat in here to be honest I
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won't be in here the entire time just in
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here to grab some coffee think I'm going
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to hold off on the food there a whole
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bar up there with a bunch of food and
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Buffet items but I get kind of bored
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sitting in these lounges too long so
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I'll probably be in here like an hour
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and then I'll probably go out and walk
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around all right I'm looking at the
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distance here on my laptop if I was to
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drive keep in mind this is from
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Minnesota not even from Florida I
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Florida to Minnesota's a long way too
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but where I'm at right now two Anchorage
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of O to drive it's 3,55 miles as the
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crow flies and the Delta Airliner I
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think it's going be about a 6 hour
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flight just shy of a 6-h hour flight so
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another hour more than it would be from
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Orlando to LA and LA to Orlando which is
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a flight I'm pretty used to I've gone
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back and forth a gazillion times so I'm
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used to that I'm just going to add on an
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extra hour with this one kind of like
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flying I guess from like DC to La maybe
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even a half hour longer than that but
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yeah going to Alaska so where I'm going
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to be landing is right
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here right in there
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be checking into a hotel tonight and
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then the rest of my stay I'm going to be
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in Alaska for just about two weeks it's
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call it two weeks and a lot of the stuff
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I'm going to be doing is going to be
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based on weather conditions and if I'm
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able to get a car because I did have uh
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the car rented but the credit C I rent
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credit card I rented it
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with it was in my wallet that I can't
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find so I got other credit cards now
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that are linked up and all that so if I
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can get if they end up letting me have
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have the car then the next few days will
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be rental car stuff driving around doing
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stuff depending on how the weather is
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and then at some point after the first
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four or five days I'm going to try to
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get up to the Fairbanks area which is up
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here in the general Fairbanks area so
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that's kind of what my goal is again
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it's very uh dependent upon the ice the
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snow rental cars Etc and how many rid
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vehicles are out and about if I don't
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have a rental car I'm going to be
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reliant on on that and then also public
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transit trains things like that or I
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mean who knows maybe I could hop a
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flight somewhere else in Alaska but
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probably not I'll probably just be go
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landing in Anchorage running the car
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trains things like that ride shars and
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uh going from there and then flying back
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out of Anchorage in about 2 weeks that's
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the
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goal yeah I got pretty bored in there so
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walking around a little bit Minneapolis
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St Paul the Twin Cities
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authentic walk around gift shop in here
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as
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well check out the little planes over
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here they have these pretty much every
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airport oh that one's not working uhoh
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that's not good see if another one works
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let's try this
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one there we go
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more shirts little coffee mugs look at
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this little plush plush Delta this is
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that's kind of neat I like that it's a
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little plushy plushy moose this is
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wonderfully
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unnecessary that's the little that's the
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slogan of this place frivolous look like
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a birds a bunch of birds up there is a
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guy with an umbrella trying to keep the
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bird dung off of his head
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perhaps I don't know what else that
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would signify guess the bird is above it
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there little thing here on the
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ground cart or something lavender Verde
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being coming through there this is
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called you are
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here made in
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awesome very interesting take a look at
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these the officers right around on these
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through
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here they pretty cool looking looks
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dreary out there over at the dgates now
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very
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dreary hope that was taken
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off see you later
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plane at that a little puppy over there
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little dog you can pet that dog part of
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the MSP Animal Ambassadors they want you
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to go pet the dog seen anything quite
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like that before they encourage you to
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go to go pet the dog just chilling over
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here in the
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airport dog petting station in all
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honesty sometimes it's better to just to
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find an area where the plane has just
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boarded and there's no one sitting at
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there's even way more room over here
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than even going in the lounges I prefer
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this where you're just like not really
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near anyone got my charger right here my
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bag yeah just just waiting patiently to
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board I got another hour and 40 minutes
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so I can board my fight at a different
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area but yeah this area was kind of
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empty so sitting over here away from
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everyone one thing I have noticed about
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those
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lounges sometimes they get pretty full
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and you're just sitting near a bunch of
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people it's nice though I do like the
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like the perks but this is just fun too
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honestly about an hour and 25 minutes
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till I can board current temperature
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here here in Minneapolis is
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51° what's it going to be like when I
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get to Anchorage well if I was there now
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it would be
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34° I am going to be arriving I think
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7
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p.m. obviously there is a big time
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difference between here and Anchorage
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4our time difference from
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Florida 4 hours time difference from
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Florida 3-hour time difference from
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where I am right now in Minneapolis when
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I land between between 7:00 7:15 7:30
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and 8 I think I land at 7:15 it's going
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to be 35° and
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snowing boom juicing up the electronics
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there my battery my camera
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phone you like it a juice
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huh juice is good huh I get you more
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juice you like it you like it a juice
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huh
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yeah
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basically plans in Alaska a lot of them
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are going to coincide with if I'm going
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to be able to get the rental car when I
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land and road conditions but the road
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conditions I don't think are that big of
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an issue H sitting in around 25 to 35°
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usually the roads aren't too bad if it's
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a main
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thare issue is going to be if I can get
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the rental car with the credit card that
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I paid for it on that is now missing
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because of the Lost wallet have another
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credit card worst case they don't accept
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that I could cancel it rebook it with a
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different card we'll see more on that
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when I land but a lot of what I have
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planned in Alaska is based on having a
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car there's plenty of other things to do
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without a car but anyway more on that
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when I land we'll see how the day
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progresses it's
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about 6-h hour flight that time change
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kind of throws everything off because
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it's a 4 hour difference from Florida
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3-hour difference from where I'm at but
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it's about a 6-hour flight once it gets
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here since I've had a lot of time
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waiting to board got to the airport
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really early maybe I'll start a new part
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of my videos called reading viewer
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comments this is from yesterday's video
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just reading through them Rick the stick
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pcks said lasagna on the plane reminded
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me of John Candy food scene in Planes
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Trains and Automobiles as D Griffith
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some other people were saying that the
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lounge food is way
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better than the food on the airplane and
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I have to agree
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wholeheartedly with all of those this
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has been
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today's reading viewer comment section I
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maybe I'll start doing this occasionally
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or maybe even every day prob not every
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day but occasionally and obviously I
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took a flight yesterday and I'm taking a
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flight today and I'm also not eating in
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the lounge even though the food is
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better than what they serve on the plane
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the reason is cuz if I would to ate a
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couple hours ago in the lounge would at
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probably would have ate more than I
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should have cuz the food is so delicious
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then I would have had an upset stomach
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on the plane and yes I will eat what
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they serve on the plane but usually that
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do not serve till about halfway through
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the flight so really I can hold it until
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I get off the plane I never really want
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to you know go to the fully go to the
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restroom on the plane from what I've
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eaten
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so I feel like if I would you know if I
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eat too much in the lounge some of that
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delicious food I'd be on the plane very
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uncomfortable and would not be feeling
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Pleasant so usually all I'll have is
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just you know water juice or coffee and
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then when I'm on the plane that's not my
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plane by the way I'm just kind of
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showing this to talk about it and kind
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of explain it then I'll get the meal
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from the sky chefs even though it's not
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as good as what they have in the lounge
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it's a couple hours after the fact and I
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can usually hold it my stomach feels a
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little bit better and if I got to use
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the facilities when I get off the plane
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that's what I do this has been an
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explanation from viewer comments now
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check that out Team
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USA this big old plane's going to Paris
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should his bail in Alaska go to Paris
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that'd be quite a an upheaval of
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changing plans doing something to the
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engine down there too
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never been to
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Paris never been to Alaska either but
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I'm not changing my plans I'm just
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giving a hypothetical like what if check
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out all the Bigfoot merchandise in
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here look at this Bigfoot's crammed
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inside a snow globe right there what are
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you doing in you getting some snow here
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Bigfoot getting a little snow on
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you there's a little chew
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toy solid milk chocolate
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Minneapolis St Paul
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Bigfoot not to be confused with the
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Minnesota black
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bear all right there's a side view of f8
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that's my plane it's been sitting there
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for a
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while been sitting there for a few hours
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but it doesn't take off till 4:40
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got a window seat it's going to be
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really dark when I probably get to
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Alaska so probably won't see much but
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probably see some lights out the window
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and stuff some mountain ranges maybe
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possibly we'll
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see halfway there I guess there's a
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lovely diagram on the back of the bin
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this shows you how to do this we do have
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a completely full flight so we are
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asking that you kindly help us out by
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only placing larger roller bags in the
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overhead bin smaller items like
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backpacks purses
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voice is
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not the captain has asked to remain
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seated while we go through some
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turbulence wanted want to sit to get
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up have a complimentary Coca-Cola just
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exact
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service do have pre frustrated items
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that are available for purchase
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including snack boxes for your and
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alcoholic bages pleas
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haven't seen anything out this window I
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think we're about to the land in like a
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minute not one shred of anything no
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lights no
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oh I see
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trees I see
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snow that's freaking snow holy that's a
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lot of
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snow wow wow wow freaking Alaska
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snow oh my
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Lord that a little snowfall here
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it's a pretty long day of flying 6-hour
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flight 5 hours waiting for the boarding
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process that checking out pretty long
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day of
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travel now I got to get off get a rental
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car get overdo my hotel welcome to
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Anchorage with the local time at is 7:07
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p.m. please St St with your SE fasten
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and carry an item Stone until the
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captain has turned off the fast SE sign
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be careful when opening overhead
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B 11:00 Florida time and please ensure
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you of all your personal belongings
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before de
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planing as we reach your gate we invite
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you to use the have for package
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information on be of this mini space cre
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than you chose Delta to seeing you again
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I'm so freaking excited to be
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here really is
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amazing Alaska
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what the heck am I doing
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here officially off the plane and
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greeted by these little items this looks
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like some luggage that's covered in snow
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is that what that is can't really tell
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also talk to the pilot on the way out he
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was waiting out of the
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cockpit I said do you have any of the
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cards he goes oh yeah so he gave me this
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and I told him I just accomplished my
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50th state I've done all 50 states now
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well once I get out of the airport say
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congratulations flight attendant said
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congratulations he gave me this card I
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have a few of these cars you can always
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ask the Delta Pilots after the flights
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over or probably even before and they'll
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give you the uh the airliner that you
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were on so I got a bunch of these well
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not a bunch but I probably have 10 or 15
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of days so far I don't know if I have
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this one yet but I have another one
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historic occasion I cannot believe I am
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in
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freaking Alaska look at these birds
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right here there's birds on the
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roof right up
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top oh man I'm so freaking excited
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Spirit of the Wilderness There's A bear
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catching the fish right there oh
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my gosh look at this moose it's a
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freaking stuffed moose it's a stuffed
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freaking
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moose oh what the heck I thought it was
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going to be just like a sculpture no
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it's like a fullon it's a literally a
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full-on stuffed freaking
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moose over here oh here's an Anchorage
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shirt Alaska shirt $29.99 if you so
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choose has Anchorage written on it AK
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right
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there very
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nice I've
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arrived the Last Frontier
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when I landed and I saw the snow and I
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we touched out I started to get I got a
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little emotional I just it's just crazy
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that I'm here there have no real reason
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to be here other than I wanted to do the
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50 state it's just so far you know I've
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been to Hawaii that's pretty far away
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from the Continental us but yeah the
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continental US was 48 then you got
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Hawaii which is a little little more
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difficult to get to but I think Alaska
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out of all of
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them is the is the one that usually all
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of us from the US don't really go to too
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much or the Continental don't really go
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to too much
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so yeah I was just like wow I don't know
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it just kind of blows my mind here we go
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here's the Seal of the state of Alaska
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right there the Seal of the state Alaska
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here's Ted Stevens US senator for Alaska
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up to 2009 right there you can sit on
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the bench with him there he's got the
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little uh he's got a rolled up paper
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there it says Stevens has the seal on
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the side there and he's kind of like
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almost like you want to like Shake Mr
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Steven's hand thanks for having me
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thanks for having me TD it's good to
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it's good to be
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here the flags up there space force W
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Navy Marine cores Army
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fing unbelievable I'm here unbelievable
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I'm here oh my gosh look at this there's
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a stuffed Buffalo right
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there and there's a big old
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fish right there too there a big old
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fish got to go get a around a car get to
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my hotel I'm here I made it I made
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it look at those there's a bear there a
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bison
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whatever this
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is oh my
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gosh car rent down this way it's very
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dark slightly horrifying
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Corridor what the heck the rental cars
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are like in an obscure little cavernous
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area all right weird tunnel ever to a
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rental car section
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cake no issues with the card cuz I
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already prepaid it gave him another
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credit card explain what happened he
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goes oh you already prepaid with the
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other card you're
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good I can see my
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breath I like that you know you're in a
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wintry area when they give you this
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brush and window scraper you scrape the
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ice off in the morning or during the day
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off the front windshield got the
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rental all right see how the roads are
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get over to my hotel
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yeah little different conditions
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here then where I came
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goodness let's go so
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excited so freaking
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excited little bit of snow pile
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up over here
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yeah a lot of people recommended that I
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should go to Alaska in the summertime
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which I know is probably very beautiful
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but I wanted my first time in Alaska to
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be very
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alasky and I wanted it to be snowfall
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and it is certainly not
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disappointing with what I wanted
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yes little snowfall
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that's a pretty pretty good deep snow
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there too that's not like a thin layer
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that's going to melt off pretty
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plow all
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that's going to do
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it
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for today
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I have made it to
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Alaska I love I love this so
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much two weeks
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here I am so
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ready thanks for watching I'll see you
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in the next video the
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Vlog it's over
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J eyes