700 Mile Road Trip In One Day Thru Tennessee To Georgia & Florida - Gas Station Snacks / Bad Weather
700 Mile Road Trip In One Day
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today's adventure begins as a recording
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of this thursday july 14 2022
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i am in downtown sevierville which is
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just on the outskirts of pigeon forge
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in gatlinburg tennessee this is the
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hometown of dolly parton where i will be
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starting here
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and making a 700 mile commute
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home
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to celebration florida
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i'm going home
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it's been a while welcome everyone adam
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the woo here
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i was not able to go to dollywood this
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time around i was only here for two days
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two full days checked out my hotel this
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morning stayed in pigeon forge and now
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i'm going to be going from tennessee to
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florida in one day
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quite the commute i will be moving very
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fast i have to wonder if ollie likes
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piping hot caffeinated beverages in the
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past around here i have come in close
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proximity with dolly parton
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two times
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the next time i see her i'll ask her
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we're not on a first name basis i know
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her name she has no idea who i am
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covering some ground i'm inviting you
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moving very fast to join me
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shall you and this was dedicated back in
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may of 1987.
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not too many people on this earth who do
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not love dolly parton
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she is beloved
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she's awesome made my way over to
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knoxville now that is the sun sphere
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off in the distance home of the world's
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fair from back in the day
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it's peaking up over the foliage and the
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buildings let me just get a little
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closer to it drive up here up now
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it's gone years ago i was here and i
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took the elevator up to the top
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it's pretty neat there was a simpsons
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episode where
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the sun sphere fell apart and the ball
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rolled off the top of it
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very unique looking item
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here at world's fair park
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kind of difficult to find parking down
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here so i just pulled over
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this little turnaround at the hotel real
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quick it's also interesting as the cars
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drive by
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it's kind of a weird illusion
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up there as they go by this the the
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angle of the reflections and whatnot
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of course there's no cars driving by so
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i can't really show a perfect example
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not gonna go up there got a lot of
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ground to cover
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if it's even open who knows if it's even
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open now
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it's just one of those spots you got to
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stop off at when in knoxville or passing
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through
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knoxville
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there's an elevator goes all the way up
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to the top
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oh dad can we go on it
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no
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drove a little while longer pulled over
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at a rest stop i always like these rest
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stops you don't severe too far off
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of the interstates and the freeways
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make up a lot of time i always notice
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these parking areas with picnic tables
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no one ever uses picnic tables
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well no i don't say no one but it's rare
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you'll see every once in a while but
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it's pretty rare this will be a
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moderately uneventful day
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spoiler alert because there's gonna be
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so many miles being covered there's a
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cone over there there it comes
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but i always like to get out stretch my
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legs i listen to podcasts listen to
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music
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as i cruise along
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you know i like to do a lot of back
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roads but i also like to
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make up some time i'm trying to get home
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trying to get home i just want to get
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even with the soothing sounds of trucks
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behind me you can still hear the insects
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in the trees
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is going to be hot in florida
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i don't know if i'm ready for florida
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summer
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but it's definitely going to be
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happening it's a pretty sweet van over
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there be good for
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road tripping
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this is the i-75
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south rest area here in mcminn
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county i'm still in tennessee but soon
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i'll be going to
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be approaching the state line
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drove a little further and stopped off
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here at mckay's
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where they have books music movies and
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games
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just outside chattanooga
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they're doing a little construction on
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it but it appears to be open i'm going
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to stop in see what i can find looks as
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if even though they are open for
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business have taken down the sign on the
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front
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doing a little little update to the
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front of the building itself not really
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looking for anything in particular but
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you never know what you're going to find
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inside here
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this has enter written on the wall and
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up here
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should also be mentioned not to let the
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front of this place deceive you this
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place is a real treasure trove
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of everything whether it be collectibles
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vhs dvds cds vinyl
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all kind of stuff and books it is a
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bookstore but it has everything else i
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spent a little more time in there than i
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wanted to i thought i was going to pop
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in real quick but i probably spent a
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half hour just perusing the aisles and i
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got two items ended up getting aliens on
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blu-ray and a hard to find tom green
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film which i've been looking for a while
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and i could probably order it online but
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they had it in there for
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3.95 and aliens this is this isn't on
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dvd i don't think this the tom green
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film has ever been put out on blu-ray
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but i got it on dvd now which is pretty
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cool and now went to georgia just
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crossed the state line
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they're glad george's on my mind
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another rest stop
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and visitor center i always look at
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these hotel motel discount coupons and
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wonder if anyone ever opens these up and
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utilizes these you know there's a lot of
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different apps and a lot of different
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websites you can use to book hotels
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everyone has a smartphone now what is
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the percentage of people that open this
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up
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and utilize these must be some because
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they're still out here also well you got
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the bugs making all the noise i gotta
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say
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the lawn maintenance person over there
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who just parked in the shade
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let's commend
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them on
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the grounds out here
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so noticeable that i just had to point
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it out and this is kind of interesting
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they have these little movie posters up
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there stranger things four jungle cruise
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jumanji i'm gonna guess these are all
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things that were filmed in georgia like
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stranger things is filmed around the
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greater atlanta area and i guess maybe
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jungle cruise was
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as well
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that's my best guess on why those are
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there and over here you can step into a
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scene
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take a photo and step into this seam if
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you want that beautiful waterfall
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behind you there with that stork flying
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by i think i'm gonna try this does it
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look like i'm standing in the waterfall
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i am knee-deep in a waterfall right now
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it's a good illusion i put myself in the
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scene i did it this is the skull of some
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sort of prehistoric creature with sharp
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teeth sharp and here's like a miniature
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dyno in here as well this tree limb on
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the back of this truck has hitched a
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ride
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got a hitchhiker here
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in the form of a tree limb
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way to go tree limb
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way to go now doing a little fueling up
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which is prob at probably
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one of the least expensive
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places i've gotten gas in a while
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here at this buckies
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take a look at the price
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i mean it's not cheap but it's less than
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other places 387
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per gallon this is the
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town of calhoun
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these buckies are popping up everywhere
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i've never been to this one there's so
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many buckies now i can't keep track i
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just spent the last couple days in the
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gatlinburg pigeon forge area
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and
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the rumor is that the largest buckies
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will be opening there in the future
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that's something looking look to look
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forward to it's gonna be pretty exciting
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that the world's largest buckies will be
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in the greater
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pigeon forge
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gatlinburg area that'll be neat i always
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love walking through these stores look
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there is the beaver here on the front of
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this classic truck alert when the saint
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augustine florida store and the daytona
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beach store opened by the way i ended up
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getting the orange creamsicle which is
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man i could
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consume so much as most tasty beverage
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bucky's orange creamsicle which is kind
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of like a 50 50 kind of bar but when
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they opened up the saint augustine one
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which i think at the time was the
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largest and then they opened up daytona
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which superseded the other one that
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became the largest these are i'm showing
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a little bit of a haul here
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i looked up to see if it was a publicly
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traded company to buy stock
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because i thought they're going to start
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doing really well but it's not a
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publicly traded company so someone like
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me cannot buy stock in the company even
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though it's growing by leaps and bounds
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and with a four ounce of bohemian garlic
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i won't have any vampires coming after
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me because of the the garlic four ounces
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made from solid strips of beef i'm gonna
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try these i've never tried these before
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buckies
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nuggies
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white cheddar oh yeah but this here the
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orange creamsicle oh it is so good
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pulling through atlanta now
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get a little atlanta traffic
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not stopping off here
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just passing through
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and right up in that area peachtree area
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that's where they have dragon con every
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year and will again this year stopped
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off now here at hamlin hills in forsyth
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georgia nice little stop off of
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i-75 in fact most of this very lengthy
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commute is on interstate 75.
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there's a winnebago over there
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tractor
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off in the distance and the closer and
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closer i get to home the more excited
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i'm getting
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sometimes when i i get tunnel vision
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even though i'm hundreds of miles away i
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just know
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keep going keep going gonna be there
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soon
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when i am nowhere within well let's just
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say striking distance
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of home i have no temptation or desire
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to go home that's why i can stay out
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as long as i do but once i start getting
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in the general vicinity and start seeing
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things that are kind of close
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that's a neat little boat over there
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all bets are off it's just kind of like
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just get there
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that's the mode i'm in right now
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there's a helicopter here
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the fact that i was walking down this
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hill
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i was looking at the mushrooms that are
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there on the ground there's like a patch
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of mushrooms
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and then right here pretty close to my
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head
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was this blade in fact
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i can reach up and touch the blade look
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at this oh my gosh it's hot
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that georgia sun is toasty
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i would imagine the florida version of
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the sun will not be any less cool
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almost forgotten
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what it's like to be in florida
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just shy of three months i've been gone
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not quite three months
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but almost
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that's a long time to be gone
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from a place you live at
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look at this plane just
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nose dived into the ground
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and this whole farm equipment too
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classic car alert
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there's also a 1966 bronco right here
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they make it very very clear that this
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is a smoke-free farm got an old gulf gas
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station sign up there
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and a bunch more farm equipment over
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here these tractors
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and something that you'd see barney fife
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driving around mayberry on this is
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monroe county or at least it says so on
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the side of that door so i would just
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assume
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that forsyth is in monroe county
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georgia it's written here right on the
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side there's a sheriff's car even has
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the star
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inside the little gift shop here there's
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a ram down here at the end
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big horned ram
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how's it going
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kind of hiding in the shadows lurking
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in the darkness ram there you are
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look like you belong on big thunder
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mountain railroad now it's very
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difficult to compete with buckies for
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cleanest restrooms because they are
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number one but this one says it was
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voted cleanest outhouse
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in georgia
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and any of the rules that
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need to follow here pick a seat that
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fits your backside
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put it back clean
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k-l-e-e-n
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when you're done
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d-u-n
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starting to rain a little bit now a
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little shower
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coming down
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not too bad but it's kind of nice
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the white rain is like cruise down
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75 south
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i think the foot's enjoying it also
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okay i can see better
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and since this is an interstate day
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nice little tie-in up here this bust of
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let me get through the puddle first
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of eisenhower
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who we can thank for creating the
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interstate highway system which began
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adjacent to the site created a vital
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link that has united the country
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provided the backbone of support
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necessary for sustained economic growth
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provided the us
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strongest economy in the world while
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affording the citizens international
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marketplace and we have dwight d
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eisenhower
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for his administration
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to thank for the interstate system
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here in tift county outside of tifton
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you can see the seal there tiff county
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1905
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more inscriptions there on the side
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senator dineen stanford and division
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highway engineer earl
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olsen also
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had a hand in
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dedicated uh dwight d eisenhower who
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wisdom and foresight launched the
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interstate highway system in america
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quote
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the greatest transportation miracle of
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all time
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wayne shackleford
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said that
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you know in a lot of ways i love the
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interstate because you can get to point
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a to point b quickly but i also despise
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it because
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it really
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was the demise
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of a lot of small towns a lot of rural
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back roads
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communities that could not get tourists
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traveling through
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their small little villages towns
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and cities
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so while a blessing
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to get somewhere very quickly traveling
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by your vehicle
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there also is a negative aspect to it
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and there are perfect examples of that
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you know of course on my travels and
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what not route 66 a perfect example if
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you've ever seen the pixar film cars it
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goes into great detail of all that in
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animated form but that's kind of a kind
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of a good example of how the interstate
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and freeways
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kind of
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make highways byways and back roads less
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traveled
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which ends up making them kind of
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desolate in a lot of ways so
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it's kind of a double-edged sword get
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somewhere faster
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and then also some of the small towns
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just are forgotten about that's right
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big the foot most the time i steer clear
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of the interstate but today is an
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exception
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i got had a lot of ground to cover still
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got a ways to go
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still got a ways to go
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i grab a bite to eat at
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bojangles i'm almost to the florida
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state line
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i'm in valdosta right now little
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bojangles all right it's bow time
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just trying to order
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it's funny going through the
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drive-through
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at the weed eaters that are outside
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still kind of hear them they basically
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got their version
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put the napkins in here their version of
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chicken tenders
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they got five chicken tenders
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right down in there a little little
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little snack for the road
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and the fries
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look pretty good
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i think bojangles is a georgia place i
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think they have them in florida but
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i think it's like a florida it's like a
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georgia thing next lever level
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flavor i'm going to dig in
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all right
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carrying on continuing on now even
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though i am 210 211 miles give or take
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from my place in celebration florida
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it's very long kind of like california
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is a very lengthy state florida is a
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very lengthy state so when you cross the
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not necessarily right there
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it is still pretty dang exciting and
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it's also a little later than 5 pm so
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the visitor center here at the state
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line
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is closed up at close at five usually
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you can get free orange juice and
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grapefruit i think i'm not even
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grapefruit juice i think just free oj in
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there and they have a bunch of pamphlets
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and flyers and things promoting the
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state but
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right now it's 703 and they closed at
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five
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all right gas round two
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here at the circle k it's four dollars
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and twelve cents a gallon i'm 16
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106
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miles
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from home and i also went in the store
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and picked up this candy bar
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little like this is the last road trip
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snack
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of this current road trip lengthy road
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trip you know i never had one of these
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or don't recall having one of these
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until about a month ago i tried one for
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the for what i can recall is the first
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time
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and now i'm disappointed that
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i hadn't tried one sooner these are
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amazing anyway i picked up a payday bar
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pretty good
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all right moving on there is a rainbow
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tough to see
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but there is a
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freaking rainbow
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whenever i head back to central florida
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usually i will take either 75 to the
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turnpike which is what i'm doing now
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about to connect with the turnpike here
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in ocala
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and also take
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95 south goes through jacksonville down
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through st augustine daytona
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i want to take 75
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this is what i know i'm close to home
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right here at this rest stop
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that is shaped like a
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snake that's tough to see it but up here
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is a snake head
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that kind of peeks out
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oh i definitely tell them in florida
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hearing those insects
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you can even see the little snaky tongue
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snakey eyeball
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snakey tongue
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forking down right there
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on to 75 which connects with the
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turnpike
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which leads into the greater orlando
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area and celebration kissimmee i usually
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don't have any problem driving five 550
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sometimes even 600 miles a day
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stopping and filming didn't really film
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a lot today it's more about the drive
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when you're getting in the 700 plus a
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day
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that's a long time to be on the road
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on one day and trying to put a episode
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together
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i'm almost home
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i think it's just small hail it's not
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like big hail
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but definitely cranking against my car
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ah florida
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i returned
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the person in front of me has their
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emergency flashers on
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yeah it was like hitting my cars like
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that was hail
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look at the lightning too
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about 10 45 p.m right now i think i
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started driving around 8 45 a.m i have
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arrived
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celebration florida 700
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give or take miles today
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i'm pretty exhausted i'll see you in the
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next video
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not going into a hotel
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not a hotel tonight
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the vlog
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is over