TDW 1556 - Revisiting All My Old Apartments

0:11 Chance of precipitation over the next

0:11 few

0:13 days. Very

0:16 good. Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo

0:20 here. Now, I have never owned a Doppler

0:22 radar, nor do I consider myself a

0:25 meteorologist, but there is a heck of a

0:27 storm brewing off the perimeter

0:30 coastlines of Florida and other regions.

0:34 So, prepare yourself. I'm preparing

0:36 myself. I'm not going to use the

0:39 term hunker down. Well, I just did. It's

0:43 my second channel, daily vlog channel.

0:45 It's the daily. It's not bad today, but

0:47 it will be. Oh, yes. Like Yoda says, you

0:51 with me.

0:53 You with me. What about you birds? Are

0:57 you ready for the storm? You ready? No

1:00 person shall intentionally feed or

1:03 entice any wild alligator, also known as

1:06 the alligator

1:09 Mississippi. I was born in Mississippi

1:12 and I didn't even know about that term,

1:14 man. Slipped right past me. My family

1:17 moved to this town of St. Cloud, Florida

1:18 in 1991. I was 17 years old and I got my

1:22 first car in this town. And the majority

1:25 of people at that age with a vehicle

1:27 usually get their own place. And I was

1:30 no exception. In fact, I had a multitude

1:33 of places I lived. My parents lived in

1:35 this house right here. And I decided I

1:39 wanted to spread my wings and go out on

1:43 my own. So, I left this home and moved

1:45 in with a co-orker who I was friends

1:47 with at the time. He lived with a couple

1:49 other guys. There was a bunch of us

1:50 living in a house together up in

1:52 Orlando. It's a pretty good ways up

1:54 there, but I feel it necessary to make

1:56 the drive, make the track to show you,

1:59 and to remind myself of the very first

2:01 place that I ever lived, quote unquote,

2:05 technically on my own. Looking back on

2:08 it, definitely not the smartest idea to

2:09 live all the way up here, work back

2:12 there, and to live in a house with a ton

2:15 of people. I don't even think I had my

2:17 own room. I borrowed a friend's truck to

2:19 help me move my mattress and dresser and

2:21 stuff. And my dad followed me in his car

2:23 cuz he wanted to see where I was living.

2:25 He probably thought I was insane. And

2:27 the fact of the matter is he was

2:30 correct. There's something about

2:31 youthfulness that does not produce

2:35 intelligence. At least not for me. There

2:38 it is right there. That's the house. And

2:41 that

2:42 window was my first room away from

2:46 home. Oh man, it's crazy that I even

2:49 remember where it was. And I lasted

2:50 about two maybe 3

2:53 months living there before I went back

2:57 to St. Cloud. That was like 24 years

3:00 ago. It's crazy. And after that very

3:02 brief time in Orlando, I came back to

3:05 Oyola County and back to St. Cloud. And

3:08 this time, I ended up being roommates

3:11 with another co-orker. Wow. I haven't

3:14 driven past this area in a very long

3:17 time. I lived in this house for about a

3:19 year. Pretty crazy. Just sitting here in

3:22 the road staring at it. Brings back a

3:24 lot of memories. That's the back side of

3:25 the house right there. Some crazy times

3:28 in that place, that's for Sure. The guy

3:30 that owned the house that I rented a

3:31 room from, he enjoyed having get

3:33 together parties on the weekends. And

3:36 man, sometimes there would be like 50 to

3:38 75 people crammed in that little house

3:41 having a good

3:42 time. It was interesting. And while

3:45 living there, I ended up meeting what

3:46 would become my first official

3:49 girlfriend. And I ended up moving into

3:51 her parents' garage. Her dad built us a

3:53 room in the

3:54 garage. No air conditioning. It was very

3:58 unpleasant in the summertime to say the

4:00 least. Ah, the things you do for love.

4:04 And there's the house right there. And

4:06 just out of the frame of the screened in

4:08 porch is that garage. I think a summer

4:10 or two of being in that heat took its

4:13 toll and we combined forces, combined

4:16 our money, and we got our own place

4:18 together just on the outskirts of CMI.

4:20 On a side note, I'm being very selective

4:22 of how much I show some of these

4:24 properties because they are people's

4:26 personal homes now. So, just keep that

4:29 in mind. Go ahead, buddy. Do

4:33 it. Why did the goose cross the

4:37 road? Cuz he wasn't chicken. Tucked away

4:39 in here was the next spot that I resided

4:43 for about a year or two. There's still

4:47 plenty of fowl around here. And that was

4:50 my apartment right there. That little

4:52 corner unit. It wasn't much, but I liked

4:56 it. My girlfriend and I eventually broke

4:58 up and then a friend of mine moved in

5:00 with me. Go on across. You got the

5:02 rideaway. It's all you fellas. It's all

5:06 you. There was even one point here where

5:09 there were three of us living in that

5:12 apartment. Me, my friend Rob, and my

5:14 friend Carlos all shared that place. It

5:17 was always so difficult to get out of

5:18 this exit. It looks like nothing's

5:21 changed. This hotel here on the left, it

5:23 looks like they're renovating it. But

5:25 right in that little office area, they

5:26 used to have a breakfast buffet. It was

5:28 a $1.99 all you can eat. That's what I

5:30 would eat in the morning and that's all

5:32 I eat all day. So, I'd spend $2 a day on

5:34 food by eating in there. Casey Neistat.

5:37 We are now approaching one of the

5:39 longest places in this area I ever

5:41 lived. Right up here on the left hand

5:43 side. There were many, many, many of

5:45 nights my roommate and I would get our

5:47 dinner from that 7-Eleven because our

5:50 apartment was right up here. And they

5:53 really have fixed this place up

5:55 considerably since way back then. It's a

5:58 lot nicer than it used to be. And there

5:59 it is, the top floor. That was our

6:03 balcony right there. And my room was

6:06 right behind that tree limb. I lived

6:09 there for probably almost 5 years. There

6:12 used to be a tree right here that they

6:13 have cut down. And I remember around

6:16 Christmas time, I took a big humongous

6:19 ball of Christmas lights and I launched

6:22 it from the top of the balcony onto the

6:25 tree. So there was this really gawky

6:28 string going across the sidewalk. The

6:31 apartment complex did not appreciate

6:33 that too

6:40 much. Right there was my apartment. And

6:40 they've added screens around the porch

6:42 since my day, which is kind of nice. And

6:44 we had many a get together and there

6:45 were times that we would get 20 to 30

6:47 people on top of that little balcony

6:51 porch. Probably not structurally sound

6:53 enough for that kind of weight, but we

6:55 were wild and crazy. I used to ride my

6:57 bike to work down this road and

6:59 sometimes in the winter months it was so

7:01 cold I would ride with no hands. So, I'd

7:03 basically have my hands in my

7:06 pockets at like 4 in the morning

7:09 cruising to work. Ah, the good old days.

7:12 It's incredibly hot in Florida most of

7:14 the year, but there is that one or two

7:16 months, especially during nightfall

7:18 where it gets a little chilly. Also, in

7:20 this neighborhood, there was a huge drug

7:23 bust right in this neck of the woods.

7:26 I'm not going to pinpoint what h what

7:27 house it is, but it was like it was a

7:29 pretty big deal. All the neighborhood

7:32 was talking about it. I ended up leaving

7:33 there and moving back to St. Cloud with

7:35 my parents before moving into the final

7:38 apartment that I lived in for about 5

7:41 years until the story culminates into

7:45 its crescendo. This car coming up beside

7:48 me is an Imperial Stormtrooper. I know

7:51 that cuz it says so right on the

7:53 windshield. Correction, I think it

7:54 really said Imperial

7:57 Transport. I could be wrong.

8:05 Probably one of the most favorite places

8:05 I ever

8:07 lived right here on the left hand

8:10 side, the top

8:17 floor. There's two apartments up there.

8:17 Mine was this window. That was my

8:20 bedroom. And my living room were those

8:23 three there. There's another apartment

8:25 up

8:26 there, but I lived there for

8:29 about five years, give or

8:31 take, and that was where I made the

8:34 conscious decision to move out of my

8:37 apartment and start basically staying in

8:40 my van in order to pay my van off early

8:43 so I could start traveling. And the

8:46 reason you're watching this

8:48 vlog is because I decided to move out of

8:54 this apartment that I really enjoyed

8:56 living in. I lived there by myself. It

8:59 was the first place that I had all by

9:02 myself. No roommates, no live-in

9:06 girlfriends, nothing of that nature. But

9:08 because I gave that

9:10 up, it has now culminated

9:13 into me traveling, me doing vlogs, me

9:16 doing videos. I have an announcement

9:19 coming soon. Don't want to give it away

9:21 yet, but stay tuned in the next few

9:26 days. Vlog over.

TDW 1556 - Revisiting All My Old Apartments

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