Finding A Central Florida Ghost Town & Hidden Cemetery On The Polk County Line
Central Florida Forgotten Town
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today's adventure begins here in
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Celebration Florida as the recording of
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this it is Tuesday October 10th
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2023 standing here on Water Street about
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to go get a coffee start the day and I'm
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going to take a commute
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about 15 20 M radius maybe 30 Mi of this
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General vicinity day two in a row we're
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wearing a collared
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shirt want to do some small towns some
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back roads easier said than done when it
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comes to Hidden forgotten places in
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Central Florida because it is a hustling
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bustling place now but there are spots
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that if you venture off just a little
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bit no one really goes there unless
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they're passing through or they live in
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said towns so I'm going to check out
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just a few of those today and possibly
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stumble on some things I have never seen
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maybe you have never seen and just see
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what I can find join me
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shall you it's nice out
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today a little warm not too warm but a
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little warm one thing about Florida
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especially Central Florida it's so far
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down into the state I going say you get
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Island fever because I'm not allow to
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get Peninsula fever cuz it takes so long
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to go out of the
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state to journey into other spots now
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I'm very tempted to just get in my car
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and go
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northbound
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but I really trying to stay in the area
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for a little while and enjoy some quote
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unquote home time so that is prompting
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me to just roll around and check out
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some stuff in this neck of the woods so
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that file this one under
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that under Adam wants to travel Adam
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wants to get in his car and
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leave but he's he's staying put for just
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a little bit not long but just a little
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bit a little bit of a sun glare there on
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the clock I did have a reservation for
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Epcot today went ahead and got rid of
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that I figure Epcot will be there when I
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finally decide to go back for now I just
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want to roam around a little bit I think
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the bicycle mve is tough to tell with
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the glare there but I think it just
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moved so I'm going to get moving and I
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decided a little coffee over at
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Cornerstone the Cornerstone market and
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deli today so a little little coffee
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from there looks like Doc Brown is
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somewhere around this area looks like
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his vehicle or kind of sort of like it
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pulling a trailer
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there this is kind of interesting this
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is old Tampa Highway here off of the
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corner of old Tampa and South Orange
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Blossom Trail used to be able to walk
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down this but now it says by order of
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Florida Department of Transportation you
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can't go past this point but it's
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basically just an empty Highway that
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isn't being used anymore and they have a
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vehicle parked down there I don't know
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if there's someone in it or not but
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you can hear all the Florida insects
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making their noise right off a bustling
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road that runs parallel to this this is
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kind of just
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hidden over on the other BM of the
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foliage
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here I am now turning in onto labor camp
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Road there the swampy areas here
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here off of the
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on I thing it's kind of neat about when
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you're driving around you just get off
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of an area that's a busy road just
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sometimes just one or two blocks
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away I don't want to say
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desolation but a little more Solitude
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than the hustle and bustle of TR
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traffic all these pine trees here and
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this is right on the county lines Oola
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so I went pass it on the busy road and
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then backtrack just a few feet onto the
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Less Traveled Road Oola
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county P canosa line there's a couple of
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these in Central Florida they're all
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spread out of course the Citrus industry
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a massive piece of Florida
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history and this little monoth guess you
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could call it
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sculpture it's been here for many years
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it's dated 1930 up
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top October of 1930 wow the same month
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now
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there's a misspelling on here however so
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this spot here is spelled
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correctly Citrus center that is a
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misspelling
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CIT
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center that is ginormous that is
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probably 18 20t tall 20t tall if I had
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to
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guess possibly
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also noticing the mailboxes for the
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residents through here some of them are
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really beat up so I don't know possibly
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if they've they don't even use those
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mailboxes
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anymore just a little hidden gym out
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here right here on the P aola
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line question is is the other side
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misspelled as
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well look over there there's a lizard
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right there on the post little lizard
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right there the tip of my glasses
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there oh there's nothing on this side
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there was nothing etched on the third or
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the fourth side the side you can't
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see little maintenance truck down there
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and some of the local folks around here
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do not want to be bothered for example
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soliciting it says
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caution no
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soliciting so don't solicit there you
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got a little little warning there and
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here's a farther away angle you can just
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see how tall that is
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just like a hidden and somewhat looming
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over there in the shadows of the tree
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lims even though the angle of the sun
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it's sun is beaming down upon it now
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entering the community of Tripoli t r i
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p o l
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i very very very small little area back
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in here see that looks like it almost
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was like an apartment
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or possibly a little
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Motel no longer in use got the Satellite
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Dish on the side
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interesting I have never been over in
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this little area before I passed by it
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but never pulled off the road to see
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that there some coordinates there
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Central and
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church and it's on the corner of Church
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Street is in fact a
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church right over there it looks as if
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that was the older building and this is
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the newer I mean it's not new but it's
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definitely newer than the old one over
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there x marks a spot right here on the
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road so I'm just assuming Community
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Center over here here and then the
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church is across from
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building you don't usually see like like
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an indentation in the little forer area
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like that just that sort of architecture
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where the door is embedded in then you
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got the pole there then you got this
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Long Gate
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that 214 is the
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address this is kind of exciting I've
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never stumbled on this
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little this little area
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before I don't know what this used to
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be storage shed
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perhaps I look around the window there
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got the Moss here on the ground the
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windows have been
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shattered and looks like there's some
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old Christmas decorations that have been
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placed in here I also like
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this this window unit here on the side
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it's all busted out now of course but
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little storage area here in the
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community center oh you know what it
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might have been a school because there
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are some old blackboards
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there and
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there file cabinets not many people use
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file cabinets anymore but there are some
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right there those are good file cabinets
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and those central heat and air they have
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the air conditioner unit right
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there so this
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probably was another section of the
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learning
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facility it's like a whole dug back here
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what the heck is
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this no this looks like maybe
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Apartments I don't
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know it's like someone has slung some
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sort of dung on the door over
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there it's the gateway to hads another x
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marks a spot or these are utilized to
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defeat V vampires with the sticks on the
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end
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there The Lost Boys could be out there
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kefir okay there's some furniture in
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here okay it was a living some living
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accommodations got the address on this
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one is
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210
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so the road I was on was down there but
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even that road that crosses that way
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before you turn off here pretty empty as
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well that's where the Citrus sculpture
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was as well but even that Less Traveled
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and then you turn onto a lesser than
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Less Traveled Road the windows busted
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out there address is 210 you got some
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more windows busted out here and then
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you got the window shades all torn apart
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or at least cut from that end down lots
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of sharp glass
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there got to watch your arm don't want
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to cut my arm on
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that yeah fascinating little Community
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here that's just completely
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forgotten the old pump house
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here 215 is the address here
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got some residents over there as well
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this doesn't appear like this has been
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utilized now it has been kept up in mode
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you got the little playground area over
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here little circular
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o and those look like the train tracks
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are right over there all right I stand
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corrected not train tracks it's just a
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road it's another Road over
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here they're definitely keeping up with
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the mowing even though I don't think
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these buildings are
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used the old style tire swings there
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rusted out regular swings over
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little small pullup bar oh look at those
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stairs that lead to nothing behind the
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little pull-up bar
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area stairs leading
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to what could have been a doorway or
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wanted to be a doorway but is not a
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doorway
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Church appears to still be
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active judging by the doors up front at
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221 and this is the parking lot for the
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pastor or the parking space for the
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pastor very large parking
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Pastor must have
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a rather large
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vehicle as you can see there are
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definitely a lot of empty
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houses there are a couple houses that do
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have people living in fact one of the
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local residents came out talked to me
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for a little while informed me that the
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church is still operational on the
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weekend they still have Sunday
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service but not a whole heck of a lot
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else going on right here
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on the pulk Oola
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line kind of hidden back
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all right there's a truck pulling over
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that road be another road over
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there probably some of the founding
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families from this
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area I had no idea this was back here no
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idea and I've I first moved to the
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central Florida in '
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91 and this would I guess be considered
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the CMI Davenport area had no clue this
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existed back
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here you can even see how this used to
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be a paved Road broken up and now it's
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more kind of of a dirt road the only
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Vehicles I've really seen are
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maintenance Vehicles like County
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maintenance vehicles that are are going
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by doing work on power lines and stuff
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out here this has its own fence around
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it it's got its own chain link fence
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Sally Clemens down here passed on in 48
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gates open over there some of them have
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chain link around them some of them
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don't and this is almost like beach like
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sand beach sand that's odd right here in
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Central Florida this is Beach this is
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something you would see like on the
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beach it almost looks like the
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panhandles type of
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sand this this this uh type of sand is
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what you'd see like in the Panama City
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Pensacola area which is nowhere near
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Jackson it's interesting how some of
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them have chain link fences around them
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and some don't and this is a little
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grown over it's not in bad shape but it
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is definitely a little grown over in
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comparison to some of the other
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properties
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again there are people
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living in this neighborhood but doesn't
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look like anyone's living in this one
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there's active houses I would say maybe
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like half a dozen residents out here but
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this doesn't look like look at these
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power
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lines like stretching all the way down
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to the
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ground this is an active home but it's
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very interesting the front yard it's
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like a bubble of dirt with
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like Hub grass on it maybe it was a pool
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at one time that they covered
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up never seen anything like
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that can't tell if that is someone's
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residence or not
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most likely
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is okay that was a nice little pull off
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that was
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unexpected surprisingly
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awesome continuing
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on turned off on another road called
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it's called grass
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Street spelled just like it sounds
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look at this interesting gate over here
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it's like hidden in there but it's
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almost like a driveway or property there
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with a big metal
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gate technically in lman now which is
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just I don't know half a mile from mile
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from where I just was in the other
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little community so the name of that
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church that I was showing is the new
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Antioch Missionary Baptist Church which
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is down that way a mile but in lman
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believe I'm pronouncing that right
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there's a basketball hoop right
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here there like a little courts got a
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local resident over there could be there
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possibly theirs but I believe this is
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the the city
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park the basketball
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rim up
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top some picnic tables over there as
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well in the
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shade this old wooden
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fence this look like it's a metal rim
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though it's a plastic
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Rim the old Street lamps still out here
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too old Street Lamp and the white picket
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fence seen better
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days I feel like at some point there was
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a sign on this where you got the center
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blocks that have all kind of fallen in
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the electrical box
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there
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someone probably ran into it with the
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car possibly I'm just
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assuming but it feels like there would
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be like a city park name on the side of
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that or should
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coordinates for this are East AV and
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Parker
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Road in fact there's a sign there that
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says 6715 eav is down that
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alley it's like forgotten Central
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Florida that is for
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I got the Halloween decor over there
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that
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yard and this looks like a park of some
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sort Community Center
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here some concrete relics there don't
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know if this is still structurally sound
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or not to go up this I don't think you
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could take anything up
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this probably wouldn't be smart
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but walk around the side the no
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littering sign sure it still applies but
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no littering sign is over here in
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the lurking in the
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foliage oh this is nice yeah it's a full
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park over
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there again had no idea this is back
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here concrete picnic tables air
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conditioner unit on
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there and a baseball and soccer field
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back
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here well kept
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up onto a slightly busier road again but
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noticing this house is for
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sale kind of an Old Farm style
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house and then next to
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it this doesn't look like anyone's been
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living in this one for a while almost
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look like the Myers's house
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though he going by fast this totally
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looks like the Myers
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house that's that same kind of
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style this is kind of interesting it's a
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private residence there's a keep out
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signs over there so can't drive up the
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driveway but take a
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look they have some little art
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sculptures there even a a Hidden
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Mickey very
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interesting got a smiley face some
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CES I can't tell if it was formerly like
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a store or a business or if it's a
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private residence but
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nonetheless they got some neat
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art here in the front yard and a ladder
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right there a ladder to
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c yeah I just passed through doing some
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back road Florida
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stuff some kind of Forgotten areas just
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want to say
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hi all right I'm going to keep going
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nice to see
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you probability of gators being in that
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Lake very
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high
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these are citrus trees over here but not
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looking in the best
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shape this particular
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moment that is a small little
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building next to the big
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building small building very small
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mermaid
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alert mer get heading back over to 192
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merma now obscured by the tree
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alert now it's
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just Lighthouse alert starting to get
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harder and harder to find stuff that I
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found today within you know an hour or
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even sometimes even farther than an hour
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from where I live you had to
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really that I haven't already seen
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anyway cuz I've been in this area for so
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long so I was pretty excited to stumble
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upon those spots today I'm going to try
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to find more stuff like like that over
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over time before departing the state
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going on another road trip but as stated
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I'm trying to trying to stay put and at
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least enjoy some quote unquote quote
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unquote home
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time while being in this
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area it'ss like there might be
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some storm clouds rolling going get some
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rain
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here some times a celebration
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Hotel sign will be spinning today it's
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not
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spinning speaking of ligh