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My last day Living in California
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today's adventure begins as the sun is
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starting to set as the recording of this
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monday
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november 29th 2021
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and getting a view
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well way off on the horizon
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is anaheim disneyland
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guardians of the galaxy over there i'll
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zoom in a little bit
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i'm on the balcony of my
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now well as of tomorrow morning
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former porch
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i will be handing in the keys to this
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place bright and early and hitting the
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road heading east
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over the next week to 10 days
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heading back to
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what was my
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east coast homestead but now my only
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homestead
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celebration florida
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i had this place for about two
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years and four months two and a half
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years that looks beautiful that is the
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anaheim convention center
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i'm going to do a couple things i enjoy
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in the neighborhood or at least in the
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vicinity
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before heading out in the morning
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welcome everyone adam the woo here i
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have made the very short commute
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in my car that is loaded up with every
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possession that i am taking from the
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west coast cross country back to the
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east coast i have downsized dramatically
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once again
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probably about three miles from my place
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here that will be omitted as of tomorrow
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morning to the orange circle now back in
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2015 2016 i live within walking distance
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of the orange circle now it's a short
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bike ride or
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car ride sold my bike a while back
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so decided to opt for the car that is
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loaded to the brim
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if you will it is there is no more room
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in my vehicle backseat front seat
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everything is
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crunched into almost like a puzzle
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you could say
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this is a familiar spot to me i have
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spent a lot of time here relaxing
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enjoying contemplating
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things over time in fact back in 2016
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when i moved from the orange circle area
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i did a video here how i was moving on
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looking towards to the future and that
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is happening
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again so i am just going to go to some
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of my favorite spots
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if you will around the area enjoy the
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evening
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for my last day my last day living in
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southern california i'm inviting you to
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join me
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shall you
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and with the christmas season in full
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view
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got santa here in all his glory
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it is almost
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december
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just on the cusp
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i do love the orange circle
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technically called the orange plaza but
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it is a circle
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this old timey feel with the fountain
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but the circle goes completely around
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and not too busy this evening
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i'll walk over to the fountain after
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this i'll go to buena park to one of my
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favorite faux places
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and get a bite to eat kind of a last
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meal
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like i said it'll probably take a week
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to 10 days
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no real rhyme or reason i might film
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every day i might not
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after new year's i'm really going to
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kind of hit everything hard again and
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hit the back roads but i'll do
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i'll do a few videos
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on the way back to florida
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i am going to miss it
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here i really am
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really kind of sinking in now today
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i was doing some some thinking soul
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searching
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looking back on my life and
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i really love this place
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but it's time to time to move on for now
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get to work
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start exploring some back roads and
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stop having two homesteads on both
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coasts
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it sounded good on paper kind of like my
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rv
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but in reality it doesn't really make a
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lot of sense
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i can accept the fact that others
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probably have a tough time figuring out
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what i'm going to do
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what my plans are going to be
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where the wind will blow
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my ideas and thought process and to be
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completely honest i have a hard time
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with it too because i don't even know
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even the route back i do not know the
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route i'm going to be taking per se and
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that's just kind of the way
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that's kind of the way i live my life
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and the way i want to live my life based
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on
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my current scenario
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having the availability and i kind of
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stayed at all this kind of reiterating
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just to keep it short
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really feel like i need to be back out
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doing what i started here
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on this channel
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i stated that a few days ago so i'm not
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going to get into that but just wanted
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to stop off here because this is a very
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sentimental place for me the orange
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circle i love it here now heading over
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to buena
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i'm getting some soup i turned 50 in
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about two years two and a half years
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in august of
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next year will be 48.
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so i feel like i got two and a half
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good solid years to really
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really hit the road hard
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that's what i want to do
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i will however after after this
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current move you know downsizing
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kind of confusing moved here in 2015
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lived here for a year and a half near
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the orange circle i left bought an rv
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traveled even though i had a bunch of
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van dwelling sleeping in the van for
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years before that before i moved here
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pre-2015
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after i moved out of here around this
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time of 2016 five years ago
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did traveled for in the rv large march
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for close to a year and then i missed
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southern california got a place in
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hollywood lived there two years
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then moved down here in august 2019 from
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los angeles area hollywood down to
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orange county
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meeting this current tenure in southern
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california has been about four years
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and three months
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even though for about the last 11 months
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i've had a second place
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in celebration florida and i'm here to
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say i will not be
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doing a dual coast thing again in fact i
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don't want to purchase anything big i
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already have a bed out there i have
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dressers i have a kitchen have a
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television and a couch and all that all
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that i downsized here i don't want to
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buy anything else big and bulky or even
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really anything of substance until you
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know a couple years from now if i
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purchase a house or i get a place
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wherever i decide to settle
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then i can i don't want to have to move
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again
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this is just going to be all about
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traveling and not really staying put i'm
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just gonna be using my my place in
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florida more is storage
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and a home base close to my parents and
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if i need to decompress i'll be there
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rest the time
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on the road all this i've stated but
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just on my mind
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now i know there are closer places
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to get a good bowl of soup closer to my
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spot
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in anaheim than faux 21. however this is
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this is a place i frequent pretty often
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one of my favorites
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right next to
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was that beach 101 or beach oh one
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is faux 21.
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i've probably been here a hundred times
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always get the same thing
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foga
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and spring rolls
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i know it's pronounced far but i always
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just say foe oh yeah never disappoints
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first discovered this place back in 2012
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i believe it was
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2013
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played in a band from southern
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california and one of the guys in the
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band took me here he lived kind of in
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this neighborhood
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and ever since then i just love the
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broth i think it's the broth
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for me that makes this place great
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a little last meal
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for the evening before my departure
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i thought about doing in-n-out burger
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but felt more like some soup passing by
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angel stadium
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i've been to many baseball games last
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year over there
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los angeles angels of anaheim
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we're doing a little bit of a light show
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for the holidays
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i'm gonna miss going to games there you
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know if i were back in town
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go to a game or two but definitely gonna
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be focusing more on tampa bay rays
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but i will always look back fondly
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i go into angels
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and maybe i'll go to some angels away
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games if i'm
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across you know going across the country
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as well as rays but
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yeah we lived about a mile from here
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love this stadium
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right there anaheim stadium made it back
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here by 9 00 pm
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and you can see off in the distance
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there are some fireworks
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oh there you go look at that
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that was
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a hidden mickey in the sky
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you know i've wanted to show these for
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oh so long
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but i'm a very private person i don't
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really like
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to give too many clues on where i'm
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living but since
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since i'm now leaving
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kind of
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an indication of what
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i could see every night
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well in 2020 when the park was closed
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this didn't happen
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which was sorely missed
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but many times right here from this
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bedroom
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on this
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little for randall and i don't like to
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discuss business on the lanai but i will
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watch some fireworks
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off in the dis off in the distance
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pretty dang amazing
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and as stated you know very difficult to
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resist temptation
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for the two years and three months that
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i was here when i wasn't traveling when
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i wasn't in florida
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to not you know post this
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somewhere online
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but here it is in all its glory
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see the flashes up in the sky there you
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see
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the tower off in the distance
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not too far off disneyland resort
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within eye view
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and something common for this area lots
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of sirens
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wow
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and from here i'm going to walk over to
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joe's italian ice another one of my
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favorite spots
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that i frequented very very often
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still here are those fireworks out there
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very loud even from this distance from
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the park
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very echoey in here because there is no
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furniture
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i moved in here back in august of 19
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well technically
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i think it was june or july i had about
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a two month
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kind of grace period between moving out
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of my hollywood place because this place
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became available
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and i liked
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the proximity to the park so much and
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the view of the fireworks i mean the
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fireworks should be from that balcony
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that i went ahead and put the money down
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and had about a month month and a half
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to move from hollywood
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down to here in
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summer of 19.
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but this is what it would look like when
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got everything set up in august of 19. i
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had the wherewithal to take some photos
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just so i could look back on it
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yeah it fixed fixed up pretty nice with
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everything
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that's the same angle
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kind of looking out there on the
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back porch
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as well as from this angle this would
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have been the dining room
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over there had the table and chairs and
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the kit
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cat clock was there on the side wall
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and my epcot post epcot center poster
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was on this
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far left wall here in a bench and
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and whatnot
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also took a photo from this angle as
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well
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just to show what it looked like
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yeah i'm going to miss this place a
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little bit
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gotta be honest
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and what i'm showing during the course
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of this episode i have done
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dozens of times
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where i drove to fo 21 in buena
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there is a faux place here
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fauxhawa plus i've been to
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pretty decent
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but i usually would just go up to buena
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and then come back to my place
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park my car and then walk because
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parking over here near joe's italian ice
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sometimes is very difficult
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now tonight the line is not too long
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it's just a little little chill in the
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air that might have something to do with
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it and the parks haven't quite closed
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yet once disneyland lets out this place
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is a real bee hive of activity
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and for months i would drive past this
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and say why are people waiting so long
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because sometimes the line will stretch
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all the way down
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from there around the block and then all
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the way over that apartment complex
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and then i finally tried it
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and caught what the hype was all about
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italian ice
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and ice cream right there is the sign
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as it's kind of silhouetted out but it's
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going in the frame
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the joe lottie i highly recommend
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whatever flavor you get get to joe
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lottie it has like a sherbet ice cream
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on the bottom and on the top of it
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i usually get like the cherry and got
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all the different animal footprints here
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we got got the horse hooves
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the dog paws the human
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footprints
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all right i'm gonna go get in line get
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myself a joe lottie went ahead and went
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with the
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the old standby at least for me a wild
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cherry joe lottie i don't want to tilt
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this too much
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i'll lose the little delicious
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this on top there
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and with the large
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joe lottie i'm going to walk
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this direction down harbor
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not going to walk all the way over to
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disneyland but i will go
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over to the convention center
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the anaheim convention center
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as stated right there
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little circle
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next to the hilton
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marriott
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i believe star wars celebration is going
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to be taking place here
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into 22.
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maybe vidcon
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as well as d23
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will like
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fly back
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or drive back to attend those
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it's tough to say
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as of right now probably not
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you never know though
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i know those are taking place
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i feel like
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i'm just gonna
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venture off other avenues for a while
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but you never know
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you could always hop on a plane i guess
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if they if they even still happen and
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i'm certain i've stated this recently
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but i have not been this excited
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about
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very near future plans
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in a long time
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i am so
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ready
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to take it old school
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it is much needed
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get out of the theme parks
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get out in the open road
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for long periods of time and not be in a
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rush
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i always had this mindset
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that i would cover walt disney world in
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orlando
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and then also
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cover disneyland
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and now that i do not have that mindset
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now that i have erased
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all that from my
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my brain
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as doing that for content
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now i would not be in a rush to try to
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get back from one coast to the other
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in seven to 10 to 14 days
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because that was it i could do two weeks
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of back road stuff and i can just go
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right back into the theme park stuff but
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now the theme park stuff
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for me at least
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is not going to be covered
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so i will not be in a rush
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i'm just i'm really
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really looking forward
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to new year's and beyond one thing's for
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sure when you're chowing down on this
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wild cherry
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your lips get a little bit red
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from that
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also the fountain got very shy very
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camera shy the fountain's not working
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the fountain should be
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come on fountain
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show your stuff
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kind of out here alone i've spent a lot
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of time in the last couple years
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out here at leon
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as clue so
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peter sellers would say
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did a lot of the bike riding around here
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in the food reviews
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it's such peace so peaceful
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this is this is walkable from where i
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lived walked over here many times riding
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the bike was a lot quicker maybe the
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fountain shuts off at a certain time
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i've been out here late at night before
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and it was still emitting
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liquid upward but
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yeah it's been stagnant for a few
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minutes
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i just wanted to cover some of the
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some of the stuff i usually would do
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on a regular basis
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mostly so i could look back upon this
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you know later
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a little documentation of my last day
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living in southern california
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leaving my place
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the end of 2021
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first in orange county
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well this is orange county but first in
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orange back in 2015 lived there a year
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and a half hit the road for a year came
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back moved to hollywood lived right off
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the boulevard
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right on the corner of hollywood in the
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101 freeway
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halfway between sunset and hollywood
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boulevard
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over on carlton in that area
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near tommyberger
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lived there two years and then
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came down here back to this area
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for two years and three months
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notwithstanding the 11 months i had the
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secondary place over in florida yeah
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this is this is not working anymore
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it cannot end on a triumphant colorful
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water display
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i'm going to miss you so cal
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no i'd be lying if i said i wouldn't
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i got things to do
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you know back when i left in 2015 well
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2016
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when i lived near the orange circle
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it really honestly was the most
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motivational
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thing for myself or my mind
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and for my career
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here on this platform
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i really saw a big jump
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in interest from others
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kindred spirits i like to say viewers
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those that watch followers
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those a support by
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just simply viewing every day
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and i think that's about to happen again
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i think that's
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there's going to be a resurgence of that
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and if there's not at least for my own
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well-being
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change things up a little bit this thing
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is not working
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i'm kind of dragging out this outro so
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that this
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will start to
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spit upwardly
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some liquid
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that's going to do it for today
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the next video i will see you in the
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next video from the road i do not know
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which way i'm going
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i just know i'm going eastward
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could take i-10
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could take i-40
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could take back roads
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all i know is
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tomorrow morning i'm handing my keys in
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to my former homestead here
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southern california orange county
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and departing
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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let me flip this around hold on
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hold on i'm flipping the screen up
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i had to flip the screen up
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man my lips are very red
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i'll see you in the next video cheers
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the vlog
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goodbye living in southern
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california is over
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a perfect way to end this
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with some palm trees a plethora
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would you say i have a plethora
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of palm trees