Hwy 192 In Kissimmee Is Turning Into A Wasteland - More Closures & Empty Places / Crossroads Update
Hwy 192 Kissimmee & The Crossroads
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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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October
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26th
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2023 nearing the time frame of all
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Hallow's Eve it will be here before you
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know it and I have been on a pumpkin
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spice latte kick and I think
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today first thing I'm going to do is go
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to crispy K cream see what they have for
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Halloween and see if they have something
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of the pumpkin spice piping hot
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persuasion if not figure something else
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out and then from there going to head
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over to 535 and I4 that cusp that corner
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and see what in the heck is going on
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with the completely leveled
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property that was going to be an on and
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an off ramp for the crossroads next to
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Disney Springs formerly Disney Village
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formerly Downtown Disney right there on
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Hotel drive that leads into there where
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they have the entrance sign that you're
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entering Walt Disney World there very
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confusing and see if I can figure out if
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any progress has happened just see where
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the day leads I'm inviting you to join
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me shall you cut here through Savannah
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Square by the fountain very beautiful
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area very peaceful different Parks all
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through the community of Celebration
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love living
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here all right Crispy Cream located here
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at 5310 early Bronson Highway One also
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known as Highway
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192 stop inside get a coffee and see
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what else they have as far I'm sure they
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are baking up some nice delicious treats
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when it comes to the season for
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Halloween appropriate sugary goodness
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which I think I'm going to skip out on
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any the sugary sugary stuff but I will
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have you know I'll have a little a
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little pumpkin flavor and a little
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little bit of sugar and cream my my
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coffee but no Donuts today for me even
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though they look very very very
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appetizing freshly made
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fresh fresh breaked acquired a rather
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large pumpkin spice latte hot I know it
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does Better Together coffee and donuts
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since 1937 but I
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resisted the really look pretty tasty
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the donuts that were in there that were
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Scooby-Doo themed also I want to know
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who the heck is going to these ticket
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centers over here to get cheap tickets
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no
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tours you used to you used to watch like
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a time share type of thing and you could
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get like Discounter tickets but I'm kind
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of curious if anyone still does that as
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far as going and getting a a free gift
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out of one of those a lot of them are
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closed down but that one that one's
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still open all right I'm going to
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try going to try the
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old the old themed latte from here today
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this is I think 5 days in a row I've
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been doing different lattes all
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pertaining to the pumpkin flavoring I
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did Starbucks then the next day I did
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7-Eleven then I did Duncan then
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yesterday I did joffre and now it's
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crispy cream time this is a countdown to
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Halloween getting consuming some
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oh quote Earnest that is good except he
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did it when he had a disgusting face
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this is not I'm going to put this as my
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second favorite out of all those that I
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mentioned Starbucks I still think is the
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best but this is pretty
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equivalent oh gosh I don't know that
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actually is on
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par that is on par with the number one I
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think it might be a tie
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between crispy cream and the Bucks the
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Starbucks the 7-Eleven the Duncan and
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the
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jofre I love Duncan coffee which is
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right across the street Street there but
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they didn't have the best pumpkin spice
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pumpkin pie spice latte also there's
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pumpkin spice latte and there's pumpkin
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pie
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latte I think this is just pumpkin
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spice oh that's good but well done
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crispy K cream you make some Tasty
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Donuts but you also make some pretty
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dang good coffee
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too yeah cheers I made it over to the
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former
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Crossroads I was able to a couple years
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ago before they started tearing it down
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was able to do a video my friend world
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of Micah and myself strolled around the
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pro the property and showcase a lot of
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buildings but it looks as if these are
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some of the
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original light poles now there's a
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project you can just search
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online that
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is has all the details of what they're
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going to be doing called I4
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Beyond and according to that site
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they are supposed to
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start the road construction the second
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phase the original phase fell through
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and they're not going to do what they
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originally said they were going to do so
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they have a new plan that's supposed to
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start in Fall of 2023 which according to
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my watch not that I'm wearing a watch
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but according to my
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clock would be right about now this was
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the main entrance you could see right
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over there the hotel Drive Hotel Plaza
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Drive you see entrance to the most
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magical place on Earth right
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there used to be a Mickey D right over
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there used to be a Goodings grocery
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store tons of
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restaurants countless stores and
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restaurants that I'm guessing emminent
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noain probably took over and they had to
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sell now they did get a
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payout we're all leveled everything here
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completely leveled you see this is a
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massive
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footprint even some con looks like
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there's some construction stuff over
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there there was a big miniature golf
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course all the way at the far end that's
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gone so this thing is just sitting here
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desolate and unused at the
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moment and wide the heck open I was not
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expecting this to be wide open like this
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look at
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this why are these gates open now going
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off of their site building a better I4
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you can kind of see what they have in
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mind a four-part plan realigning
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westbound I4 entrance rant from the
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southern of Pop kinland road which is
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535 improving traffic flow and giving
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motorist more time to merge onto I4
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two will be milling and resurfacing the
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PO VI road which is 535 third will be
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constructing a new Loop ramp off of 535
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and I4 will take over the entire
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section of where the crossroads once was
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and then after that's done they will
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lengthen the westbound I for exit ramp
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to a pop ofine the road to reduce
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backups onto the I4
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Mainline
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there oh there's an albino lizard right
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here it's on top up it's gone now oh
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this uh electrical box over here is
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open like someone's been rooting around
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in there yeah they're just strolling
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along the other side of the fence here
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too you can see part of
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the curb that was here
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too form a curb which will all be torn
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up once they build the on and off
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ramp check out the way that grid is set
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up with the electrical wires there
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it's pretty fancy a little closer Peak
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here at this it wasn't electrical it's
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something else
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but and the doors are
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like put Pride open
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there little piece of the foundation
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here left oh look at all these wires
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down
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here it's a bunch of wires there's even
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a cross signal still
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here obviously that will be
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omitted or gotten rid of
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so got the mulch all set down this was
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the exit or the probably this is
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probably the entrance in the other one
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was the exit
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in hotel
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drive so Springs is right that way about
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I don't know a mile and a half a mile
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and all the bricks here that was the
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entry point decorative brick that'll all
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be torn up if it ever
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happens
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which I don't know you never know what
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this stuff sometimes it just sits for so
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long and then all of a sudden it's like
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bam progress also the people here
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waiting to cross the road have been
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waiting here no joke for 20 minutes the
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light will not let them
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cross so that's got to be aggravating
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for
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them yeah I don't think that light was
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ever going to changeed I like walked
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down the side of the road then came back
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it wasn't changed they probably were
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sitting there for about 8 intervals of
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the light not changing I don't think the
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side where the crossroads was that
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section is even active anymore so the
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light for those try to cross the
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Street's not going to not going to go so
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that's probably like a safety issue
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people coming from the hotels and
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walking down 535 so I've moved down the
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way just a bit about I don't know half a
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mile corner of I driving 535 is this
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Lake waya Vista realy Place which is
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just kind of a desolate also desolate
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area back in here follow this road
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around see where this
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leads car sensor is going
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there's a sign out front that says
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eventually this might be developed
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too but this has been like this for at
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least a
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decade in this
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condition again Prime real estate right
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here so just interesting this stuff just
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sits they will not be building an on and
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off ramp here cuz this is down a little
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too far from
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I4 something one day you'll be
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here real estate
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showcase not anymore okay this is an
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update this place closes a grocery
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store so Gaylord Palms is that way this
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is really close well right off of
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192 cross from Oldtown
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CMI now I've tried parking over here
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multiple times there's a hot pot place
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and sometimes it gets pretty busy so you
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come over here try to park and there's
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hardly ever any parking this place was
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pretty busy and now it's just all
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shuttered and closed
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up all these things just go by the
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wayside you never really know the
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reasoning why well I mean obviously the
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reasoning is didn't get enough business
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but it always seemed like there were
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people
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there and you got one of the 192 gift
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shops over there with the American flag
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on is a sushi place here and then as
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this corner is turned you'll see the
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ferris wheel over there for Oldtown CMI
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and another one of those ticket places
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$150 cash you go listen to what they
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have to offer and then $35 Universal
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SeaWorld or Walt Disney World tickets
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how the heck does that work 35 bucks now
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a while back 6 months ago or so this
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Waffle House was under construction they
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were fixing it up thought maybe it was
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going to close but it has been renovated
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and still open love a good Waffle House
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little good late night breakfast at
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Waffle
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House
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but the interesting thing is so this is
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gift shop parking only see the sign
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right here but the gift shop we have
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lost another one this is a staple of
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souvenir goodness here on Highway 192 is
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now officially
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closed I did not realize until I was
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going to check out this hotel well Motel
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Next Door that is also closed now The
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Claremont Hotel we're not in CL where
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Cass was called The Claremont Hotel I
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used to work at that one years ago in
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the late '90s I used to work over there
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at the
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pool and now that's being fixed up and
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uh they're going to be opening that up
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at some point maybe I I don't know it's
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still in pretty bad shape but the hotel
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next to the motel next to it over here
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has also been closed the lobby is there
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but gifts for Less I do not know why
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they closed I mean it's probably not
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because they are using the Walt Disney
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font that's how Walt Disney the man
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himself signed his autograph and then of
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course Walt Disney World and Walt Disney
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Productions and all that uses that font
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and now you look at that and you think
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oh that's the Disney font but really
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that started because that's the way Walt
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signed his
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signature fun fact at least that's the
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way I've always kind of I've always
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adhered to it the best prices in town
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it's no longer open the shark giving it
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a giving it
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big thumbs up oh this says door is
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closed for renovation so maybe not for
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good maybe just for renovations time
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will
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tell look at this this Gator is very
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cool I mean not cool in celebration like
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that Gator that's that's that's the
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Gator's name at the celebration Pond but
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this one is cool in a good way that he's
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got the peace sign on right
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there it says clothes for
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renovations no food or drink inside no
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cash
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on
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hand and that's what the inside of the
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building looks like the dressing room
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over there look at this Mickey down here
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there's a c there's a cutout
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Mickey I don't
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know will it
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reopen gifts for Less maybe I have
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purchased a few things in there my
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tenure here in
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town it's swimwear they had
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towels now I don't I'm not an expert on
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any of this but my assumption would be
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this whole building might end up getting
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removed because the motel
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closed if the motel closed and the gifts
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for Less closed could they be tearing
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this down is this another piece of prime
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real
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estate and then over
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here a year or so ago I got to walk
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around in there since then they have
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started renovating it and I don't know
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what they're doing but it used to be a
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pool bar down there that I used to work
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around the back here at this
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place there are some Vehicles down there
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but I don't think this place is open
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unfortunately as of Thursday August 31st
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at midnight 2023 the hotel is
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permanently
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closed
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okay yeah it is not
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open there are lights on in there though
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checkin time at 4: check out time at
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noon no
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solicitors video surveillance is in use
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on these
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premises and there's a banana under this
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bench right down
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there good thing it's underneath there
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no one's going to slip on it be hard to
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get your foot under anything there and
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slip and fall conflicting
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reports they are according to the
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sign they are
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hiring not only a housekeeper but also
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hiring a full-time
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housan what is a house man do oh shuttle
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low
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rates gosh could you imagine if this
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place stayed closed for years and this
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sign stayed on on that's some Twilight
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Zone scrap right there also does not
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appear as if the $1.99 gifts place is
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open
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moment
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there used to be a lobster place here
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there was a a lobster that would drive
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around town attached to the top of a
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vehicle The Lobster Place is now gone
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and now this has been converted into a
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Bourbon Street cinjun boil the lobster
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mobile where is
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it dang progress smaller little Ticket
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Outlets are still open but this big one
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is closed it is for rent though you
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could lease this
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out it's like one of those things you
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can do the tours and get 100 or get a
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$150 cash or you could end up getting a
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theme park ticket for like 20
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bucks flag pole s around the back
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sometimes there's a Mr toades vehicle
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parked over here next to this 1931
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classic car by the bicycle runner
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place but I'm not seeing the toades
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vehicle he must be out for a drive a
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nice little little breeze today a little
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bit of wake here on Lake
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rustling yeah nice little breeze feels
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so good out right
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now a very nice day and a very nice
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little Community I just love
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celebrations so
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much Fountain over
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there spires of the non
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active theater H maybe one maybe one day
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it'll reopen and it looks as if they got
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the street back open I was thinking
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maybe there'd be an event down here last
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night they had it kind of staning it off
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but today it is back open also I was
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kind of like noticing that cool has been
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in the same spot for the last few days
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kind of like tucked away in the corner
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over the railing here he's just putting
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out the vibe today just kind of like
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lounging arms arms completely spread out
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just just like floating there in the
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water enjoy it cool enjoy this way
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weather I am seeing something I have
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never noticed before so they're doing
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this construction over here has a crane
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I have never noticed on the top of where
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the tie place is it used to be a Gooding
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grocery store when it opened back in '94
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95 but now it's a tie place the top of
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that building it says 1994 Oola I've
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never noticed that before there just
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never looked up there but you can see it
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says 19 on one side 94 on the other
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which is when celebration started and
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then Oola which is the county right on
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the C of the Oola Orange County Line on
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the Oola
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side
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neat and that's going to do it for
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today from celebration but dipped over
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to 192 dipped over to parts of iDrive
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dipped over to
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535 well I don't think I hit ey Drive
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scratch that out
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192 I cut through getting back over here
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I cut through South International Drive
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I don't think I filmed anything on there
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well that's going to do it for today
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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