Escape From Most Miserable Place I’ve Ever Been (So Far) - Leaving The Bizarre Town of Barrow ALASKA
Leaving Barrow Alaska
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Thursday
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November
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14th 2024 I have just stepped outside of
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my hotel room here at these
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accommodations at the top of the world
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Motel it's a little windy well slightly
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windy a little gust I should probably
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have the facial thing on and my gloves
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on but I don't just popping out here for
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a moment to make sure that my rental
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truck starts and I have procured a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage I have
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not had any luck was seeing the Aurora
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Borealis and Northern Lights on this
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trip right now there is a supposed 35%
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chance that I could see them but there's
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a lot of cloud cover however I am
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getting a little bit of sun the sun's
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not going to rise for another hour or
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two but there's a little bit peeking
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from the clouds over
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there oh it's cold I'll make this quick
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get my gloves on join me get the intro
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done see if the truck starts shall you
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yeah look at that
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yeah there's different apps you can use
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to look and see if the northern lights
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are going to be out those are not the
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northern lights over there that's just
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pre sunrise for the 3 hours of Sunrise
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that will be here today last night in my
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room I watched the 30 Days of Night
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horror film which was filmed I guess in
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New Zealand it was not filmed here but
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it was based completely on the town I'm
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in and after are staying here I must say
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they did a good job representing this
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place cuz it's pretty dang accurate cuz
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they have not seen any zombies or polar
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bears right it cranked I got to turn
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this back in today I'm noticing I didn't
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not plug this in but a lot of the
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vehicles are plugged in here I'm not
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really sure what this is maybe to keep
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the battery charged most of the
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automobiles here in town have a
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plugin right at the front into the
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engine
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there also speaking of polar bears I had
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heard that you're not supposed to lock
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your door here and the reason for that
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as much as you would want to it's a
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habit you know for most people to lock
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their doors thinking that whatever they
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have in their car might get
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stolen but it is proper
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etiquette here in this town to leave
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your doors unlocked in case someone is
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walking around or coming out of a shop
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or a store or their motel and a polar
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Bearer is charging towards them so they
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can go to any door and open it up to be
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safe I don't know if that's true but it
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sounds interesting this is the other
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name of the town but quiet Vic the name
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was recently changed to that from Barrow
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Barrow Barrow I believe it's how you
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really pronounce it but I've been saying
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Barrow but also known as a quiet Vic
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which nowhere in town shows that name
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everyone says everyone says Barrow or
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Barrow all the all the stores have that
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on there it's 8 de it's 10:00 a.m. right
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now well it's 9:59 a.m. sun will be
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rising at 11:50 2 and I have just lost
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cell phone signal this morning I haven't
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had cell phone signal thankfully was
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able to get my video uploaded this
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morning from the Wi-Fi in here usually I
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will just tether from my phone and the
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first day or two I had cell phone signal
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I have AT&T as my provider I've heard
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other providers here there are no cell
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phone towers so sometimes it's difficult
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but I've been pretty lucky until
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today got the video uploaded made it
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live started today's video
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and I have no cell phone signal now
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however I am flying out of the airport I
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think at 4:00 tonight there's one flight
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out of here one flight in one flight out
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every day unlike the movie 30 days at
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night where there's a certain time of
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the year one month a year where no
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planes come in I don't think that's
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factual there one plane in one plane out
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I'm going back inside my hands are cold
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yeah the airport's over there now I'm
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just going to assume those are not the
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Northern Lights I've seen pictures of
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the Northern Lights the royal boreale
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and I don't think that's it I think
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that's the pre
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sunrise or maybe that is I don't know
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either way I'm in the north I'm in the
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extreme North and those are
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lights but I don't think those are the
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once I get back inside and tap into the
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Wi-Fi I'll show you
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the the app that shows the probability
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of seeing them but it's just so cloudy
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one last look at the
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whale bone Arch over
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here yeah I guess polar bears could run
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25 miles per hour
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so you wouldn't
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have too much oh there's a like a
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grouping of
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birds flying across the water there it's
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kind of dark but look look at him you
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see
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them kind of zoomed way in
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but I don't know why it seems brighter
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today than it did
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yesterday at this hour let's like 10:15
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a.m. last look at the bone
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arch in the Arctic sea been call it the
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Arctic Ocean but this is just a sea it's
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a
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little precursor leading into the ocean
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nonetheless it's still very eerie and
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Frozen
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it's part of the Arctic Arctic oia but
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it's actually the sea version yeah
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actually getting getting some good
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little pre- Dawn over
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there at this hotel so the flight up
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here was not cheap the flight back is
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not cheap to get here is not cheap the
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food here not cheap at all groceries
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insanely expensive food very pricey and
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this
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hotel a little over $300 a night stayed
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here two
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nights but I'm glad I did it it's kind
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of a once in a-lifetime thing I never
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ever thought i' would get up here but I
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made it and check out is at noon my
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flight does not board till 4:30 so if I
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want to have an extended checkout till 2
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is an extra $100 so I could do that
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relax in the warmth of my hotel room or
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I could just sit in the rental truck
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till I turn it back in till my flight
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boards at 4 I don't know what to do yeah
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I think I will check out at
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noon and just peruse around town
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until till it's
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time so this is the Aurora map and the
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probabilities so I'm kind of right in it
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the green and I guess that orange would
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be the high
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probability the problem
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is the problem is so you can see it's 10
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1012 right now I've tapped into the
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Wi-Fi but I'm on SOS which means I do
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not have cell phone signal at the moment
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so thankfully I have Wi-Fi here and got
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everything needed I needed to get
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done as far as the innerwebs go as far
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as the get the videos uploaded and all
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that and when I get to my destination I
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should
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tap back into cell phone signal however
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look at clouds look at the cloud
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formations here so this is like how
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cloudy it is so that's why can't really
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see much of it however it does seem
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again it does seem a little brighter
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today I mean it's not bright by any
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means but does seem a little more
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visible today so who
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knows Aurora map still haven't seen the
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Aurora yet nice little view here out the
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window kind of opened it up just get a
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little I'm going to close it back cuz it
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is cold out there
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but little view here of the post office
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down there and the lights over
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there I think you might I might actually
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be able to see a sunrise kind of kind of
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sort of see a Sunrise from here before
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Departed
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Sunrise little heavy machinery scraping
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the snow and ice there off the parking
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area of the post office
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all right I've decided to go ahead and
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check out it's
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noon right now one thing I'm
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noticing whenever I go to touch any of
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the metal door handles the whole time
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I've been here it shot it's like oh it's
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because of the cold it's always like a
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little a little shock I got my
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backpack
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luggage let's get out of here all right
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getting some
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gas price here
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$6.90 a
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gallon fueling up in a place called
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Eskimos
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Incorporated this is the most northern
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point I willever never fuel up and get
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gas and self
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pumping Northern most self- pumping gas
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nozzle in the in
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America think about
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that I just
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happened that guy got to fill up a
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snowmobile right there also first time
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I've ever used these hot hands I brought
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some with me I don't know why I didn't
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use them till today but yeah work pretty
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good you just open the package and
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they're pretty warm you keep them in
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your pockets if you're not wearing
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gloves which I'm not when I'm driving
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around you have these in your pockets
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and then when I go inside I can always
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like dip my hands on the pockets take
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the gloves off and these are kind of
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nestling and War they're pretty good
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never used those
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before I would imagine just as many
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people fuel up their snowmobiles or snow
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machines here as they do automobiles
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still haven't seen a polar
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bear got a little time though so the
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lady at the rental car place where I
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rented it yesterday going to drop it off
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here in a little bit said that the
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airport building does not open till
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about 2 or 2:30 my plane boards at 440 I
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think it takes off at 5ish a little
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after 5 this guy looks very unusual
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right but basically there's not like
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it's not like an area you can go in and
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just really it's not really a
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comfortable spot to wait around cuz just
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one room so I don't know how long I want
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to be there so I probably not might not
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show up until just before it's time to
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Eerie not your traditional airport here
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that's for sure show this yesterday the
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police
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department wonder how much C crime there
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is here in the snow snow areas there's a
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little place over here that's open
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called asakas dog is saying hello oaka
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restaurant I think I'm going to grab a
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bite to eat I have nothing but time I
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got to burn a little time beforeand
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plowing the snow over
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there go
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inside attitude of gratitude
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oceans right over there the Seas right
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over
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there keep on
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wailing polar Haven look at
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that polar Haven there's a bear there's
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a polar bear right there I'm hoping that
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this is you can this is a sit down
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inside type of
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place I would imagine it is I know some
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of the places in town are just take out
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but hopefully this is a sit down
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place I got a map here
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here map here of the town there it is
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Osaka
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hello oh I just want to I want to eat
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want to get some
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food
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here all right they got Sushi and other
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assorted
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items Japanese
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dinners Sushi what Sushi before getting
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on a plan
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definitely don't want to be out in the
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elements sit in here inside thank
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you I think I'm going to do a Alaska
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roll Alaska roll yeah and then uh just
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some like chicken rice let go a couple
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of things I'm kind of wondering so the
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window is right there so I can see I can
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see my rental and my bags are in there
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but I wonder if the whole leave your
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doors on lock so the polar bears if
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someone's running from a polar bear they
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can get in your car thing or something I
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don't know just a weird thing I'm
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thinking what if that's what they tell
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tourists that way when you have your
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bags in the car they're just open to you
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just open the door I don't I I don't
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maybe I'm overthinking it but anyway I
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can see it right out the window so it
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should be good this is chicken fried
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rice and I ordered it an Alaska roll
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I figured you know when on Alaska why
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not
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right which I think is just a California
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roll with salmon on top is that what I
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think I put the minu
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side a little
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uh soy sauce on
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this a California rooll with salmon on
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top
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yeah okay
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there you go that's an Alaska R in
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Alaska this might be the uh might be the
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most northernmost sushi
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place Total
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$47 without the
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tip my meal yesterday was $48 when I ate
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at the other restaurant
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Chinese food place
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eaten Japanese Cuisine $1 cheaper look
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at this shirt right here there's a polar
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bear and the shirt says top
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of the
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world about 15 20 minutes till 1 again
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my flight doesn't board
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till so
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dog all right heading
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out look how many people have pushed on
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this at the coloration of the
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paint has
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changed back out into the
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elements it is a pretty cool view there
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across the Horizon across the airport
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that I'll be heading over to
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soon I SLE like sun coming up there for
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just a short while
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beautiful W take a look so this is not
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the plane I'm going on but evidently
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there is a smaller maybe a personal
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plane that either just landed or is
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taking off
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soon right here so there is more than
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one flight that lands here but as far as
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the main flight going to Anchorage it's
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just the one one in one
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out and on occasion
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those flights will be cancelled due to
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fog and low clouds so I'm hoping I'm
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crossing my
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fingers that that does not happen cuz
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I definitely would like to leave here
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toight I think this is about to take
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off maybe maybe not
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not oh there it goes you going yeah yeah
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there he goes there it
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goes that's a small
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PL much smaller than the one I'm going
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to be on I'm also curious to see how
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many people are going to be on the
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plane coming in there was surprisingly
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more than I thought there would
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be there he goes that little one taken
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off into the clouds look at that right
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off into the clouds see you
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plane that is so cool looking look at
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that just a SM uh little inkling of the
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sun over there that's about as much as
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going to come out today here it's
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interesting to me all these little metal
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dumpsters through here trash receptacles
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all have things written on them this one
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says when Mom and Dad smoke the whole
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family
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smokes that's a very interesting
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accommodation it's like this little
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little trailer here combined with a
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house
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do look like anybody's living in at the
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moment though nice little iglo looking
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building right
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there this might be the most unusual
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Road
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that I've ever seen name
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wise look at
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this cake eater
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Road I like
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that that's an unusual Road name
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right not a whole heck of a lot to do
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here in this town I would imagine if you
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live here and you work here that would
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give you something to do but I think
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I've pretty much
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seen most of the things that can be
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seen the majority of them the hot spots
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if you will
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also happy to report that I got cell
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cell phone service
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back I keep checking to see if I've
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gotten any kind of alert that my flight
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is not happening and it seems to be that
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it's good to
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go my accommodations for the evening
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when I arrive in Anchorage if I arrive
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in Anchorage are dependent upon I'm
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going to wait till I am on the plane and
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I know I'm taking off where I book them
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because if I don't go there I don't need
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a hotel cuz I'll be here
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tonight I drove by this
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yesterday but now I pulled over to get
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out and take a look at it
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deeper there's two of these in town the
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other one's over by the Wy post
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Memorial or by the airport where I'm
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going going I mean the town's pretty
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small it's all a couple
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miles London's four
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4,114 mi from
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here New
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York
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3,380 says love always it's also
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interesting they changed the name to
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this town sever years
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ago but everywhere in town still still
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States it as its original name a
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barrow right there look at
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that the top
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point of
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America the
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farthest far far farthest tough to talk
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my lips are starting to get numb
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farthest northward
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town in the
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US so glad I made it here and it is so
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cold just being out for like four five
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minutes at a time starts to sink into
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your
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bones so I'm usually pretty good I can
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jump in and out of a car go inside go
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out go inside of a building outside of a
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building I'm good for the first few
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minutes but if you were out in this for
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an extended amount of
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time it would not only be uncomfortable
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but it probably would not end well at
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least for me okay I've dropped the
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rental car off it's almost
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2:00 so I'm going to be getting to the
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very teeny tiny one room airport a
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little earlier than I thought
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but turned the car in I checked the
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mileage didn't go that far in it filled
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it up took care of
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business got my
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receipt and now going to walk along the
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only paved Road here in town this is the
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only one all the other ones are unpaved
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and they're just from dirt
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or you know
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packed non concrete non cement unlike
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this one and that's due to
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permafrost which is kind of nice driving
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around I mean this road has a lot of ice
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on it you can see but the other roads
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didn't because they were not concrete
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certainly like new experiences and this
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whole trip this whole Alaska trip
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especially the last few days well the
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whole
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trip it's not over yet it's almost over
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but still continuing on going back to
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Anchorage really like experiences and
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this has been one this almost looks like
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something you see in like
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a like a Southern state
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Farmhouse but there's one here in Alaska
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too so not too far of a walk not too far
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of a commute over to the little building
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there that is the airport
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he this
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says Alaska natives are the healthiest
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people in the
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world that the side little smiley face
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there okay yeah this this is concrete
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pavement it's a little slick a little
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black ice accumulated
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there very
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unique Airport terminal
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right this is
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it here's the North Slope burrow Police
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Department look at the
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Little
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Whale polar bears
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right
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there here it
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is crossing my fingers this flight gets
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off it's kind of hard to cross them when
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you got gloves on kind of kind of
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crossing my fingers are it's bulkier
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than
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normal but I
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can I can get out of here
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today I've seen it I've seen the town I
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did it
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no overnight parking here
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either here it
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is my gosh there's a working pay
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phone this is where I'm going to be
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camped out for a couple
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hours check this
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out pre-engineered metal buildings
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that's what this
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is Alaska Airlines
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terminal here Barrow
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architect was out of Anchorage where I'm
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flying was completed in March
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1998 was
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given metal architecture design award
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achievement all right so I'm just going
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to hang here for just a little bit
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so it's like almost like the checkin
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desk is there check baggage desk is
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there TSA is over there it's all in one
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room everything's in this one little
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room all right current temperature here
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at 230 is
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7° so I get to Anchorage assuming I get
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to
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Anchorage 21°
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and the sun will be sitting there at
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4:30 either way by the time I lay in the
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Sun and both spots will be completely
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gone but Anchorage the
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sun 2 hours later so the sun sets here
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at
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2:20 and then an Anchorage where I'm
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going
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4:30 I'm looking at the map right here
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there actually not a lot of people in
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here at the moment I can't imagine it's
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going to be really full probably until
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the next flight rise and everyone gets
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off kind of like I did a couple days ago
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just to show how big Alaska is you got
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the southern portion all the way down
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here all these islands you got Canada
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over there but all this big chunk is
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Alaska and where I am out of this
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massive massive massive State the
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biggest state out of all the US states I
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am right up here at the tippy tippy
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tippy top right there
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that is me
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I walk back outside get a little fresh
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air pacing around stretching
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legs see the sun's gone down already
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almost time to board about another half
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hour it's filling up in there now
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definitely people showing up people
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getting dropped off in a little little
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taxi
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good small
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doses okay that's enough back inside
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or maybe the other
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door thank you for flying with us today
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for those guest on know it's important
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for you to have access to your items
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there's the arrivals and
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departures Anchorage to here here to
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Anchor I don't know if one arriv though
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I think we're just going there one way
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that's the depart that's the departures
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on arrivals right there also a picture
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of a polar Bell right there I never saw
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one in the flashl all right that was
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something all kind of cored over
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here this little area right here
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now went through the little checkpoint
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now we're all just kind of coralled
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waiting to go
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outside thank
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you okay we're going into a tent
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outside little waiting area
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outside that's where the plane's going
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land going into a tinted area look at
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this yeah this is something else this is
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something
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else inside an outdoor little heated
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tent section and this is the already
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gone through security tsa's pass and now
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we waiting over in this little en Clos
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kind of I want to say it's warm in here
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but it's warmer than it would be
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outside right wild there is the plane in
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fact there is are people getting off of
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it that's flight 51 that's the same
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flight I took up here the other day I
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guess I've been in town 48 hours two
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days two full days from my plane landed
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day before yesterday flight 41 51 came
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out 51 it say 41 so once you get all
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coralled in here then everyone embarks
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off the plane out
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there and I'm now getting on flight 50
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back to
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Anchorage it's definitely an
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snow I never been in a portable Igloo on
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a Tarmac on the tarmac
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before first time for everything
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this is definitely not par for the
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course on uh for normal
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flights to show my ID of boarding pass
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going through security I show the bo
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pass again getting out of this little
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inflamable Igloo thing on the tarmac
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tarmac
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Igloo I going to be sitting in cat 23A
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which I believe is a window C towards
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the 3/4 of the way back in the back of
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the
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plane something's backing up
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outside right outside
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the power in this thing that's keeping
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this thing inflated I guess and also No
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actually that's probably pumping the
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heat in well maybe a a little bit of
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this is not the same exact plane as I
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flew in up here on two days
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ago it's the same style of L 737 800
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Dash 900 with a raft system last time I
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think I was three rows back in 26 maybe
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and I was on that side of the
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plane on this side of the
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plane get closer back
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there as I'm getting off the ground I've
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gone ahead and booked my hotel and
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Anchorage Captain said clear skies that
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should be good A little cloud cover but
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nothing major you know it would be wild
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is if I was able to
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see the Northern Lights from the plane
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oh my gosh could that would be like a
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Magic Moment yeah it's not looking good
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it's a little
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bit we're to the east where the plan's
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taken off a blue dot is
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me never know that let's see what
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myself no connecting flight on this one
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just straight down to
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Engish and I didn't see any
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vampires while I was in
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Bara it was pretty wild watching the
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movie 30 days night last night in my
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motel
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room here it
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be you were something you were
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definitely
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it's the moon out there looking really
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bright bright moon tonight
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side should be touching down just about
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55 minut so just about 30 minutes from
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now parking at gate B1 more different
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the gate than we normally park at that's
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over uh on the other side of the TSA
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security1
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ler items like that laptops and tables
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keyboards must be done completely under
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of the seat in front of you or overhead
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if you SE an exit route open window
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sheets and unbooked gear devices ensure
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your seat belt is fastened and remain
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seated for the rest of the flight the
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laborator will remain closed until we
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arrive at the gate we'll be completing
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our final safety checks now and
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collecting all remaining service items
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we will be arriving in INRI shortly
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turbulence man there's a lot of CH on
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Landing in there going right through a
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big cloud
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descent be one of the most turbulence
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I've been on in a while this whole thing
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is just bouncing
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around there's some pretty thick clouds
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I guess
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nailed
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it back in Anchorage