Forgotten Places & Towns on Florida Backroads - Umatilla to Crows Bluff / Gotha Yellow Dog Eats
Florida Backroads October 2021
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this friday october 15th
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2021 starting here at the fountain
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the threshold of market street
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celebration florida i will be traversing
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55 miles up to eustis florida going to
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be doing another
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central florida back road
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excursion
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oh there's a crow this is a fun fact
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because i'm going to be going to a place
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today by the name of crow's bluff
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i'm not bluffing crow
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oh a couple of crows
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got some bread down there
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eustis is about an hour drive from there
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go to umatilla kind of do a little
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circle up and around
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and then head back down i'm inviting you
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to join me
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shall you
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now this is kind of what i'm thinking so
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head up to eustis about a hour i think
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it's 55 miles
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57 miles
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and then up to umatilla
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altoona then cut across
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and over to paisley
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and there is a crows
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there's the crow crow's bluff
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and maybe fullerville as well and then
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head
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back some motorcycles and a piece of
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heavy machinery going by
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after a
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moderately distant commute arrived in
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umatilla
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known as nature's hometown
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established in 1904
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and micah's here
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i am we're doing another back road
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endeavor yep first time in umatilla
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first time first time here first time
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here and here in this park are some very
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interesting tree carvings
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with an eagle
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up top
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and some other birds
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sandhill
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crane right there an osprey
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perhaps
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i don't know that from memory
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i'm just going off of the
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i'm going off of this little information
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placard here and just a mile or so down
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from where i just was
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there's another carving here
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of a crocodile or an alligator doing
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some calisthenics doing a very unusual
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pose
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that takes a lot of talent
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to kind of stand up there on
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on your chin
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oh and there's a fish here
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all carved
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and a dog barking
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i'm also curious what the
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the building off in the distance looks
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like a closed down establishment over
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there i want to walk over there in a
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minute too now look up at the tip top
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there there's a moon
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yeah it's like a crescent moon
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between the owl and the
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well between the two owls
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got the moon and the sun in the same
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frame and across the way there
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next to the deer
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well past the deer across the road is
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the umatilla fire department at one
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cassidy street
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that's what the sign says over there
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i do have all the information here and
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also do not climb
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on the tree carvings
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the look
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like kind of mean mugging there turkey
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there's a panther over there
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oh yeah
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very impressive though this is all done
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with a chainsaw
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that's some talent right there
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must have been done back in 2017 by cg
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chad gainey oh chad gainey yep
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okay
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all right anyone's guess is as good as
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mine on what this was
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was hoping they'd have some signage here
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with the signage has been taken down
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at this building
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very impressive home there across the
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way
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and just confirmed it is a
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church building we were just not around
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the front side
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that's the giveaway right there
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well besides the
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the sign besides the sign stating it
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over on the over on this side
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also a little clue from back here
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that it is active as the ac over there
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air conditioner unit is on and the
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downtown area around here kind of has a
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a nowlands feel to it
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a little bit of new orleans look at this
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bank over here with the
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pillars
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that's pretty awesome yeah the balconies
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like new orleans style louisiana style
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here in central florida
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and in front of the library this
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railroad crossing sign has kind of seen
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better days
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falling apart but there's
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is that a caboose up there or just part
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of a
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railroad car
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yeah i like that
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family lines system
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that's the name of it
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oh this is the depot the library
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is the former depot here at 412 the
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address
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atlantic coastline built in 1915.
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nice
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oh classic truck alert over there
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very fancy automobile
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belongs to
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oh
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that noise across the road started me
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truck belongs to
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the lube master did you climb up there
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the window's a little foggy you clock
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you climbed up in the front yeah it says
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watch your step yep
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yeah hold on to this railing
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oh yeah i see what you mean
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even around the front's the same way it
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looks like someone kind of wiped it off
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trying to peek in there but yeah
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tough to see in this kind of reminds me
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of btt f3
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is this a hold up
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it's a science experiment
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now pay no attention to the writing here
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in the road this is no longer zoned
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for what is stated
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in fact
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the road is blocked off right up here
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see these stanchions
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the middle of the road
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to use one of your words
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i always like to give you credit for the
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stanchion yo you got me hooked on saying
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stanchion
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it's a good word
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but take a look at this beautiful piece
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of architecture right here
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it's an old gas station a little corner
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convenient spot
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now just a historical building
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across from a new gas station that's on
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the other side of the road this is a
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thing of beauty right here
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this is americana at its finest
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you just have to think back to the the
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good old days the olden days
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people would
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take their vehicles past here
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pull up probably full service so it
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would come out from the service station
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fill up their automobile
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it's good to see places like this still
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standing got some wasp nests up top
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there
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and it's an installation service place
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in this day and age
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utilizing the
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relic of the past
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pumps probably used to be right here
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yeah
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somewhere in this vicinity
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i like it
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you know in a way because it has the
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halloween pumpkin
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kind of reminds me of
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halloween three a little bit the gas
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station from the end of halloween three
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yeah gotta turn it off listen you gotta
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turn it off
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dr nick chalice is in there
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a little close-up zoomed in view here
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a lot of wasps even up here
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a plethora of wasps
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you walking away yep
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next town over is altoona i really like
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this hartman's garage
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look at that
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and another unique structure
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allen's well drilling
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right here it's like an old western
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building
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now this reminds me of the type of feed
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store i used to work out in saint cloud
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florida like a decade ago this is called
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dan's discount
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feed and fence
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see there's a
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cow and a giraffe
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what if that's dan over there on the
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porch
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in front of the feed bags
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yep i've lifted many a feed bags in my
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day
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mostly i just i just wanted to show the
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fake cow here
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hello there
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this is paisley correct paisley florida
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not interested in talking
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oh you're just you're talking about me
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i can hear you whispering
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i can hear you whispering over there
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oh you're gonna okay
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you're not whispering anymore
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there's a road over here
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i'm just going to take this dirt road
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and see where it leads
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definitely could be at one with your
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thoughts out here
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very quiet with the exception of
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truck rumbling way off in the distance
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says do not enter this area unless you
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have a reservation to preview the
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facility
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and
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metal detecting is prohibited
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so if there's any metal out here you do
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not want to detect it
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jason
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yeah i know
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micah this is how horror films start
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but we're doing it
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i think if if we continue this way it
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will lead to the river
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we're just going to do it i don't want
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to get stuck in that mud though no
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uh
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what do you think keep going
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i think it'll be okay
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i like your optimism yep
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i can't camp
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in this area all right end of the line
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don't think i'm going to go any farther
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than this it does say private property
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you ever seen the movie hatchet oh yeah
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with kane hotter
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i'm getting some hatchet vibes
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i'm just gonna put it in reverse
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just back on up
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now if we did get stuck out here and we
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were gonna needed to stay the night make
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sure it's not behind this sign
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so camping here
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fine
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but past the tree
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not
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now if we were feeling really gung-ho
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3.5 miles down that way
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is the saint francis town site that's a
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hike though
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once again
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for he's
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okay all right made it out of there
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safely
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i've now arrived at crow's bluff
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lake county also in lake county now
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there is no downtown to crow's bluff but
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there's only a street sign
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and a road i'm going to follow the road
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and see where it ends it might not be
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anything
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but i said i was gonna go to crow's
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bluff
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and i'm now at cro i wasn't bluffing
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about the crows road
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at least this one is paved
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at least this road's paved
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and even though it was on a map
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looks like all there was to it was this
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little stretch of road a gentleman down
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digging in the back of his truck i don't
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i'm not going to ask any questions
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out here in the middle of nowhere what
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what's happening but
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this little diner here has seen better
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days it's closed down
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it's called the corner kitchen
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you can see the screening here has been
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kind of torn off
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this would have been the counter here
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you walk up in order
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looks like the lights are still on
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inside there the power's on
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there's the little tables here the
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benches
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address three four
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three one four
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three two
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around the side here
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this is interesting
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and i do like the silhouettes of some of
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those who are dining in there maybe
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these are the the ghosts of eisner's
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pass yeah
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eisner's corners kitchen corner kitchen
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could have the hose was on that oh it's
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a hose deal okay
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we could have got a bite to eat here if
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it was still open
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you think that's eisner
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possibly
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now no sign designating the area well
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there was one side but there wasn't a
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welcome to sign
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for
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pine
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pine lakes
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because there's pine trees over there
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and lakes over there too yep that's
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right big the foot that's a horse right
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hi
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hey buddy
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now here's something pretty interesting
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used to be a theme park in central
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florida off of highway 192 and formosa
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gardens
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called splendid china and it was
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abandoned for years
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and they moved the miniatures
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over to this place which used to be
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a store of some sort and now it's like
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they just rent
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trucks
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and those miniatures used to sit here
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for years
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and if you look on the internet it still
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says
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that the miniatures
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are located right here in this parking
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lot but update
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there are no splendid china miniatures
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here anymore
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and they used to have like a space pod
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ship
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right over in here too but it's gone as
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well
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a little update for what i remember
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because i did go by here years ago as
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i think they have like
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yard decor and whatnot inside there that
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was the shop
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all been cleaned out this is an apopka
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wonder what happened to the miniatures
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let me drive the other side of the
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parking lot and see no luck finding them
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if those dumpsters are any indication
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they probably ended up in the trash
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somewhere
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all right moving on made it now to gotha
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or is it gotha
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very interesting stretch of road here
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someone's yelling saying down the way
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saying watch out for the wasps
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a lot of wasps through here
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one of the workers up here just yelled
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said
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watch out for the wasps
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it says private property so you can't go
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past this area
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but you are
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granted access to just either drive down
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this road or
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to walk down it now it's been passed
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here before like a year maybe a year or
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two ago
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i thought it was pretty fascinating it's
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a lot more overgrown
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now than it was then there's a
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rhinoceros
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tucked away right there and there's
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shrubs
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some centurions
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oh she did
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something i can't remember what she said
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it was from something uh
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one of the you know amusement parks or
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something or you know or you know a
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resort closing
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and so she bought it all at auction
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but it was like 60 something of them
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they go all the way around the whole
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property so she lives behind all this
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yes okay
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that's cool
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yeah there's a quite the array
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but yeah watch out there's some pretty
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big nests on a lot of water
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a lot of wasp nests
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okay thank you
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looks like he's doing a little surveying
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out here
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you ever seen anything like this before
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no
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just uh no idea outside of someone's
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property yeah it's crazy
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it's just all so random it's random yeah
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it doesn't make any sense so the lady
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lives behind you know this fence line
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there it is i finally got to see a bear
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there you go
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mission completely this is the same type
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of bear they have in the knottsbury farm
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gift shop
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where people will get photos sitting
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on the paw
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yeah that's so cool
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and here's some other bears have been
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carved out of
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a check from a chainsaw
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a florida snowman and next property over
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the adjacent property is a dog barking
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behind there
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one didn't know better you would assume
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i was
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going on a safari
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with the wilderness growth
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the elephants
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this is no safari though
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it's a central florida outside of
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someone's property
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in gotha
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or is it gotha how do you pronounce this
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town micah
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you say gotha yeah i say gotha
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potato potato
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look at that horse is smiling right
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there he is he's a happy dude
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oh so random and when in an area it's
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nice to try out some of the local
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establishments and some of the local
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cuisine if you will well not really
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partial local to the cuisine but there's
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a
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place here some food called yellow dog
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eats
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this is the front of the building around
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by the parking lot
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a couple different
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a couple different vehicles
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themed for the yellow dog eats
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i'm gonna grab a bite to eat here
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never been here before
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how awesome are these trees this canopy
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of
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of leaves and limbs here and across the
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way this church is
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pretty awesome too yeah old timey church
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over here pretty neat vibe inside
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just the way it's all set up it's an old
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house
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two-story old house where you have an
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eating area
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outside before you go in the back porch
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of the house there's an eating area but
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then also an eating area upstairs which
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we chose you walk up the stairs and
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there's an eating area the food was
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really really good got a appetizer a
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little snack before and then of course
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the entree
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as well and definitely like the artwork
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on the walls and the you know just the
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the setup of the general layout of
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everything pretty neat i didn't expect
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this place to be in a little small town
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called gotha or gotha
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florida but i liked it a lot and the
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menu item i ordered was something called
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a roast malone which is basically a
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roast beef
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sandwich with a clever name you know
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roast malone what'd you get micah
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where'd you end up
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florida cracker you got the florida
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cracker what did that consist of had
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pulled pork on it because i can't get
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enough pulled pork in my life lately
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yeah coleslaw um it had pickles it had
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some peppers uh fried onion rings and
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you got red hummus for an appetizer red
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pepper hummus and i got potato salad and
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it was a healthy dose of potato salad i
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went with mountain dew to drink what'd
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you get to drink they had a mango
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strawberry unsweet tea
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and the flavoring in it and everything
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with the mango the strawberry was sweet
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enough it was great i'm chewing on ice
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right now it might be distracting
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i didn't know this place existed you
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told me that we were in town we should
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go by here you said this place reminds
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you kind of a little bit of the
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beetlejuice town it does especially with
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the church
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right over there you say beetlejuice is
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named three times
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you can't see it one more time he will
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appear that's right
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i'm sorry
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i was kind of hoping to maybe see a
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rooster crossing i know why the chicken
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crossed the road but why'd the rooster
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cross the road it'd be really dangerous
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though because this traffic through here
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is there's a lot of traffic going across
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this road right there
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whoever's waiting there is being very
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kind
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because they see me filming so i'm gonna
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carry on
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very kind folks here in this town
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i love this church
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see this building with the steeple there
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up top got the bell tower
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now it is located closer to the ground
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level
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instead of up there where the tower is
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and with that
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that's going to do it for today
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i'll see you the next video the vlog
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is over