TDW 1723 - The Grave of Large Marge

0:02 Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here. Day

0:02 number two of my non diet.

0:10 That's a little warm. Instead of my

0:10 usual three creams, three sugars in my

0:12 coffee, I'm going to start only getting

0:14 one cream and one sugar and always start

0:17 off with some fruit and wash it down

0:19 with some water. I used to have a friend

0:20 many years ago that had this philosophy

0:22 that if you drank a soda or a coffee or

0:25 a tea, if you washed it down with the

0:27 same ounces of water afterwards, it kind

0:31 of negated

0:33 what you just drank, the bad portions. I

0:35 don't know. I don't know if there's any

0:37 truth to that, but it kind of Man, this

0:38 is fog. Look at this. It's fogging up my

0:40 glasses. It's so warm.

0:42 It's my second channel, daily vlog

0:44 channel. It's the daily woo. I'm calling

0:47 this the non-diet because I'm not going

0:49 to weigh myself. In fact, I'm not even

0:51 really worried about trying to

0:53 dramatically lose weight. I just want to

0:55 feel better and have a little bit of a

0:57 lifestyle change in the eating

1:00 department. Just try to nestle in some

1:03 fruits, some veggies, cut down on the

1:06 sugar, and just see what happens over

1:08 the next 6, seven months to a year and

1:10 see if there's any difference. Well,

1:11 well, well. What have we here?

1:15 Florida.

1:18 It's been a while since I seen you and

1:20 it's been a while since I had a banana.

1:22 It has been 78 days since I left here on

1:27 New Year's Day. It's a good thing

1:28 they're still open for business because

1:30 I was kind of worried and it wasn't

1:32 planned, but it looks like I made it

1:33 just in time for the tail end of spring

1:36 training. I got myself the schedule and

1:39 I'm wondering is that supposed to be

1:41 Florida, man? And of course, free juice.

1:44 They let you get orange juice or

1:47 grapefruit. I opted for the grapefruit.

1:52 It's like doing a shot

1:54 of nutrients needed to fuel up the RV.

1:57 And this gas station not only has

2:00 coconuts, but they have a lots and lots

2:03 of bags of citrus. I think I'm going to

2:06 get some. I ended up getting some

2:08 peacons and some navel oranges. I'm

2:11 going to give them to my mom when I get

2:13 to her place. Crossing over the Amelia

2:16 River now and heading to a little place

2:19 tucked away in the corner of Fernandino

2:22 Beach. Okay, it's actually pronounced

2:24 Fernandina.

2:26 I think I had the Flintstones on my

2:28 mind. They call this area Oldtown

2:31 because the houses date way back. Look

2:34 at these things. They're incredible. But

2:37 I'm searching for one house in

2:39 particular that I've really wanted to

2:41 visit for quite some time now. Judging

2:44 by that tire swing, we might be in the

2:48 right area cuz that's the type of thing

2:50 that she would enjoy. I'm talking about

2:53 the one and only rambunctious youngster.

2:57 Pippy logtockings.

2:59 Oh my gosh. No way.

3:04 That's her house. In 1988, there was a

3:08 movie called The New Adventures of Pippy

3:10 Long Stockings, and I watched it a bunch

3:12 of times, mostly because my sister loved

3:15 that movie. So, it is permanently

3:18 ingrained in my head, but I can't place

3:21 all the blame on my sister because truth

3:23 be told, I really enjoyed it. It's a

3:26 pretty fun film. They have definitely

3:27 fixed it up since the movie. A lot of

3:29 the action happened on this side of the

3:32 structure, including the scene where her

3:34 and the two other kids came out of the

3:36 shed, which was right over there, and

3:38 she was spinning around rapidly, and

3:40 their vehicle went off up into the air.

3:43 As far as comparison shots go, this is

3:45 probably the best angle. You can see the

3:47 fence has been replaced and the siding

3:50 has been repainted, but other than that,

3:53 everything pretty much looks exactly as

3:55 it did and in the same spots. It makes

3:58 me wonder if the horse Alfonso and the

4:01 monkey Mr. Nielsen are around anywhere.

4:03 Pippy Long Stockings is coming in to

4:07 your town. And Santa be found. No, no,

4:12 no, no. The girl that's fun to be

4:15 around. Pippy long stockings is coming

4:19 in to your world. The freckle face at

4:23 the head girl. Now I know is get the

4:26 side to be ahead.

4:44 It is super windy out here.

4:44 Pippy has inspired a legion of girls to

4:47 go out exploring.

4:49 She the legend lives on. Oh yeah.

4:53 Heading on to 95 South. Normally when I

4:56 head into Florida, I take 75 south to

4:59 the turnpike, but I've done that route

5:01 so many times. Plus, I want to swing

5:03 through Jacksonville. Something I want

5:05 to check out there.

5:08 Still a pretty good ways to get down to

5:09 my parents house in St. Cloud, Florida,

5:11 which is where I live for over 20 years

5:14 in that area, the CM St. Cloud, that

5:18 Twin Cities region. And I must say,

5:21 Florida, for me personally, is a lot

5:24 more exciting when I've been gone for a

5:26 while. Once I cross that state line, I

5:29 get a moment of happiness remembering my

5:31 late teens into my early adult years and

5:34 all the memories that are down there.

5:36 Florida is very similar to Texas or

5:39 California where it takes a long time to

5:41 get from point A to point B. I'm heading

5:44 to Central Florida. Currently, I'm in

5:46 North Florida. So, got a little bit of a

5:48 ways to go, but

5:51 I'm enjoying the trip.

5:54 There's a lighthouse right there near

5:57 downtown next to a parking structure.

6:00 That's something you don't see too

6:01 often. The backside of a concrete truck.

6:05 That's where all the concrete goes. I

6:07 pulled over and parked

6:09 just near downtown

6:12 at the old city cemetery. And the sign

6:15 states that it is police patrolled and

6:18 to respect the dead.

6:23 I don't even think that they should have

6:24 to even mention that. You think that

6:26 people would do that

6:29 already?

6:31 Hey, do you happen to know where Alice

6:33 Nun's grave is? Alice? Yeah. Alice

6:36 Elizabeth Nun. I tried looking up

6:38 online. She was in the movie Peewee's

6:40 Big Adventure. She was uh she played

6:43 large marge. I know. You know what's

6:46 funny? It's like I probably should I

6:49 know you have uh the swimming's over

6:52 here. The first black doctor way back

6:54 there. You have

6:57 uh like far back that way back. Um and

7:02 then you have Do you know how the

7:03 sections are divided? Cuz I know the

7:06 section number. I I don't. The police

7:08 officer had no idea. I'm on my own.

7:12 Sometimes finding

7:14 particular headstones is very difficult

7:16 when you do not have a pinpointed area

7:20 on where to look. This might be

7:22 difficult. Wow, this one is incredible.

7:24 Look at the detail carved in there. It's

7:28 And it's very large that one compared to

7:31 the other ones. You can see just how big

7:34 that one is. Normally what I do is I try

7:36 to find a video clip of someone who has

7:38 visited a cemetery or a photograph and

7:41 look at something in the background

7:42 either like a rock wall or a tree or

7:45 some other structure. In this case,

7:48 there is not a lot of information

7:50 online, only one photo of the headstone

7:52 itself. A very close-up shot. Nothing in

7:56 the background. I'm having a hard time

7:59 finding it. For a minute, I thought I

8:00 had found it. I'm looking for the last

8:02 name. None. This is done.

8:06 Very close, but not the one I'm looking

8:09 for. If I could just find section three,

8:12 lot 75,

8:15 that would help. And sometimes they have

8:17 markers designating the areas,

8:21 but not here. There comes a point

8:22 sometimes when you have to just call it

8:24 a day, cast everything aside, and say,

8:27 "Heck it. It's not meant to be." And

8:30 that's how I was feeling as I was

8:32 exiting and going back to Large Marge,

8:34 my RV, named after Alice Nun, the

8:37 character from Peewee's Big Adventure. I

8:40 wandered down this hill in one last

8:43 attempt to find the final resting place,

8:46 and I succeeded. It's almost as if I was

8:49 meant to find her and pay my respects.

8:53 She had a 31year career in films, but is

8:58 best remembered from that 1985 comedy

9:02 with Paul Rubin's in the truck, the

9:05 worst accident I ever seen.

9:09 Alice Elizabeth Nun aka Large Marge.

9:21 Wow. 3 years after that movie was made,

9:21 she passed away in 1988.

9:41 Damn. You just drove all the way down

9:42 here? Well, a couple days. Been a few

9:43 days. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want to be

9:46 doing nothing. You don't do drugs. Cuz

9:47 you don't look like you do. No. No. I'm

9:48 pretty straight, man. That's what's up.

9:50 I try to be anyway. You know. Anyway.

9:52 Cool. Anyway. Yeah. Cuz I I knew I'm all

9:54 out here if you need it cuz I You feel

9:56 me? But at the same time, it ain't no

9:57 pressure. Ain't no pressure. I'm all

10:00 right just to be alive. That's it, man.

10:02 And out here. But I'm mad, man. Cuz it

10:05 it done changed out here, man. I got

10:06 drunk and got pissed off. Yeah. Well,

10:09 take care, buddy. All right, man. Enjoy

10:11 the Starbucks, man. Catch you later,

10:13 man. Thank you. No problem, man. Later,

10:15 man. Driving. Thanks, man. I will. All

10:17 right. Now,

10:29 there it is. The old abandoned school

10:29 still there. I did a video there many

10:31 years ago. Good old Jacksonville. It had

10:33 been a while since I passed through

10:34 here. Didn't stay long, but it's good to

10:37 see you. I'm going to paraphrase, but it

10:39 seems only fitting. It was 10 years ago

10:44 on a night just like this.

10:48 On this same stretch of road in the

10:52 dense fog,

10:54 there was this sound

10:56 like a garbage truck

10:59 dropped off the Empire State Building.

11:03 And when they pulled the driver's body

11:07 from the twisted,

11:10 burning wreck,

11:13 it looked just like

11:16 At the current moment, I'm at that

11:18 purple arrow and pin and I'm making my

11:22 way all the way down past Orlando,

11:28 little bit past CM.

11:31 And final destination of the day,

11:35 St. Cloud, Florida. Look closely to the

11:37 right there. The sign 95 South. And not

11:41 only is this a good road for

11:42 transportation,

11:44 but it also reminds us of the music

11:46 group. All my fellas, where the booty

11:48 at? There it is.

11:52 Don't know that one, huh? This is kind

11:54 of unusual. It's made of metal. Looks

11:56 like a colorful umbrella in there in the

12:00 woods. And right over here, oh hello,

12:02 state trooper. They advertise Stuckies

12:05 merchandise. That police officer just

12:07 gave those people a ride to the

12:10 Stuckies.

12:16 What a nice guy. These places are few

12:16 and far between anymore. It's hard to

12:19 find one that's still in business. I

12:21 don't need any more mugs, but if I was

12:24 in the market for one, they would be

12:25 mine. Has a what is that? like a tiger

12:28 right there and a water skier and a

12:30 flamingo or I could get a shot glass,

12:33 shampoo, a gator, some dolphins.

12:36 Yesterday I visited a dog and there is a

12:38 correlation to the store in a roundabout

12:40 way. There was a contest asking people

12:43 what they should name the petrified dog

12:45 and someone came up with Stucky. Not

12:48 because he was stuck inside that piece

12:50 of wood, but because that piece of wood

12:53 resembled a log of the peon persuasion.

12:57 I wonder if there's a dog in there.

13:00 I hope not.

13:10 These are so good. St. Cloud, Florida

13:10 to the left. Going to take a lengthy

13:14 long back road.

13:16 Almost there.

13:23 I think

13:23 I think I have enough gas. Hopefully I

13:24 got about 30 miles.

13:27 I think I should be okay. Hopefully.

13:29 Probably should have got some more gas

13:30 back there at that stuckies, but

13:32 hindsight's 2020. It was also a TV show.

13:36 They say the best gas efficiency is at

13:38 55 mph, so that's how fast I'm going to

13:41 go. I should probably also mention that

13:43 I have no cell phone service out here.

13:45 This is Nova Road. It's literally

13:49 in the middle of nowhere. And that just

13:52 happened. 49 miles to empty. And

13:55 speaking of 55 mph, you know when you go

13:57 purchase a new vehicle and on the window

13:59 it has the miles per gallon on the

14:01 little sheet that tells you all the

14:03 specifications of the car or the van or

14:06 the RV and then you start driving it and

14:08 you realize this does not get the good

14:10 gas mileage that they promised. That's

14:13 because that gas mileage is based on you

14:16 going 55 miles per hour. And that

14:19 started, don't quote me on this, but I

14:21 think it started during the Reagan

14:23 administration. So, every mile over mile

14:27 per hour over 55 m per gallon, you're

14:30 going to get worse gas mileage than that

14:32 sticker quoted. And I apologize for

14:34 being so long- winded. I'm just really

14:36 not trying to think about what will

14:38 happen if I run out of gas out here.

14:40 What about you cows? You got any fuel?

14:44 Please, I need help. But there is one

14:46 thing I've never fully been convinced

14:48 of. You get better gas mileage with the

14:50 windows down and the AC off or with the

14:53 windows up and the AC on. Right now, I

14:56 have the windows down and the AC's off.

14:59 That's where I That's what I'm leaning

15:00 towards. But I honestly I really don't

15:02 know. After nightfall, this stretch of

15:04 road is very dangerous. It is not

15:06 uncommon for people to total their cars

15:08 by hitting deer in the darkness. And one

15:11 time I was coming back from band

15:12 practice down this road and there was a

15:14 hog the size of a grown man. I'm not

15:17 even kidding. I missed it by mere

15:19 inches. But at this moment in time, I

15:22 would probably rather have a full tank

15:24 of gas and battle the hogs of nightness

15:27 than be in the situation I am in right

15:29 now. What am I saying? It could be

15:32 worse. I mean, I have a camper.

15:34 If if the RV dies on the side of the

15:37 road, I could just sleep in the camper,

15:39 be out here forever, like into the wild.

15:42 I just don't want Don't eat any berries

15:44 that you don't don't know what they are,

15:46 cuz that could end tragically. And for

15:48 those following along at home, I have

15:51 kind of lost my mind in the last 20

15:54 miles or so. You can see the descent

15:56 that I have been taking. Just the slow

15:59 descent, a breath of fresh air,

16:02 civilization

16:05 to the right. Oh man, this town. So many

16:09 memories.

16:11 So many places I lived and worked in

16:14 this vicinity.

16:16 And like an old friend, a beacon of

16:19 happiness,

16:21 still standing strong, the water tower.

16:26 Good to see you, pal.

16:29 Good to see you.

TDW 1723 - The Grave of Large Marge

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