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one tree grew next to another tree and I
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said you know what I'm going to go do my
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own
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thing I'm going to go ahead towards the
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lake I admire trees
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who defy expectations and do something
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different something
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that just seems more natural to this
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particular tree
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that particular angle may not show it as
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well but it's very curved and it's just
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heading towards the lake
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there another tree same kind
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just inches from it
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growing right next to it that tree said
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all right I guess if I'm stuck with
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you I'm going to head this way
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heym down
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I've been reflecting on some things this
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morning they all kind of have a similar
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theme and that's Humanity in
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progress I think to
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my viewers like
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you you might think my thoughts were
[2:04]
rather
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gloomy but I don't feel that way they're
[2:08]
just reflections of what I see in the
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world and how I experience it when I was
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in a city the other day getting my RV
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fixed the energy there just felt
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frenetic and
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chaotic
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and didn't enjoy it
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the tight space is just to get Cofe
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navigating so many
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people you know so many cars
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and um trying to find a natural space
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for me and Bailey waiting for our ourv
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to get
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fixed um at these little local
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parks that are meant to help people kind
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of reenter themselves I would say
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but don't because you're still
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surrounded by
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chaos and you're not the only one trying
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to find some measure of Solace at that
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Park I saw a lot
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of
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well I mean the more time I spent there
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the more I just wanted to
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[Music]
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go I took Bailey to like three or four
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different Parks trying to find one that
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felt
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felt
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better they
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couldn't I don't miss City life at
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all we've
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created we've created this
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infrastructure that separates us from
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the rest of the world humans treat
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themselves
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like they're Above This
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World they dominate it
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and they just create these spaces
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that are just for
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them at the expense of everything else
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of
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course there's no balance or integration
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or the more you look at it from the
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outside the more
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just why I think you'd consider my
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thoughts
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gloomy when in reality I'm
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just finally seeing the world clearly
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for the first
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time this tr's quite a bit longer than I
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thought going to have a busy day but I
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needed to get out in nature and even
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living in you know on a campground
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um it's not the same as as being out
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here there are
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some other than that so I want to go for
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my eyes because of the
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moisture yeah this Trail seems
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practically endless I'm confused told me
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it was a mile but I know I've gone more
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than a
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mile probably gone several
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I'd love to keep exploring but I really
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do have a busy
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day I think I slept maybe five or 6
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hours
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so um wish i' got more sleep
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but I'll wake up it's one of the reasons
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I'm out
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here head into Kansas
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today um
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I'll be somewhere near
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Topeka and I'll be there for a day and a
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half and then I'll headen to Central
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Kansas not then for that one for another
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day and a half and
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then um Western
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Kansas another day and a
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half and then I head into Nebraska I'm
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not sure from there I
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haven't memorized
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my rck that
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much but eventually I end up in
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Oregon somewhere around the Nebraska
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point I
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think maybe it was Kansas felt like I
[6:44]
had gotten stuck there trying to
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find um a path that worked for me where
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I could book
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a my campgrounds in
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advance
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um they had basic
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amenities and it started getting very
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difficult I
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couldn't you started to um encounter the
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first come first serve kind of
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campgrounds and I just
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wanted I wanted my route plan that was
[7:17]
important to me it's a big Journey it's
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my first one I'm living this way
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and so at first I
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was um
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trying to get into the Pacific Northwest
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I think from Utah maybe but it just
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wasn't working I had
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to I tried several routes that Montana
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um nothing was working
[7:44]
so I ended up doing
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was just one of these days I don't know
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which
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one one of the camp CRS I go
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to the next one will be like a 10-hour
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drive it's going to be quite far
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I think that happened
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twice and I just accepted it
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because you know if it turns out I can't
[8:09]
do it for some
[8:11]
reason worst case scenario I just pull
[8:13]
over somewhere I can I can sleep without
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without any hookups without even
[8:19]
bringing my slide out and
[8:23]
so but I'll make it cuz I know
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me I am a very persistent person
[8:31]
when I set my mind to something when I
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have a
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goal I aim for and I don't stop until
[8:37]
I've completed it I've been doing that
[8:38]
my whole
[8:41]
life
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so I'll endure those days and enjoy them
[8:46]
too the extent that I'm
[8:49]
able
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um might even be truly enjoyable now
[8:55]
that my RV feels like it's in good
[8:57]
condition
[8:59]
I've learned how to use the cruise
[9:01]
control on it you know and um the
[9:04]
further west I go I think the less
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people I'll encounter at least I hope so
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it feels
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like you know there's a ton of rvers out
[9:15]
there
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so it doesn't feel like you can truly
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Escape people
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anymore
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and for someone like me that's very
[9:26]
problematic I I got my RV not knowing
[9:30]
about RV life I wasn't watching this
[9:32]
YouTube
[9:33]
crap I just knew what I
[9:37]
wanted it didn't take long for me to
[9:41]
discover Van lifers RV lifers
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and I mean I couldn't even find anywhere
[9:48]
along the Oregon coast to book in
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October cuz they're booked
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up in
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October and the Pacific
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Northwest
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so I'm going to constantly be at tension
[10:09]
with this
[10:10]
community CU I wasn't trying to join a
[10:12]
community when I first started my
[10:14]
channel I said this is not an RV Life
[10:17]
channel said that many
[10:20]
times it remains
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true doesn't mean I don't like
[10:26]
connecting with people occasionally it's
[10:28]
got to be on my turn terms of
[10:31]
course um my sovereignty and the
[10:34]
boundaries of myself I maintain those
[10:38]
and I defend
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them I think that's one of the things
[10:43]
that you guys haven't figured out yet
[10:46]
when I turn off
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comments
[10:49]
or I tell you stop giving me unsolicited
[10:52]
advice that's me defending my
[10:55]
borders cuz I won't tolerate anyone
[10:59]
who tries to to breach my borders caus
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decoherence within myself because I'm
[11:05]
not interested I'm
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not
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so um my thoughts on this are kind of
[11:15]
nuance when I get to the Pacific
[11:16]
Northwest I'm going to spend quite a lot
[11:19]
of time
[11:21]
just learning about that region and what
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the Dynamics are the relationships
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and hopefully there's space for me there
[11:37]
cuz if there isn't I don't know what
[11:38]
I'll do I pick that place in winter time
[11:42]
to get away from people and I couldn't
[11:45]
even find a campground on the coast
[11:49]
anywhere that to me
[11:51]
is
[11:56]
disappointing but I will figure it out
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so I guess the last thing I'll talk
[12:02]
about is cuz I'm just going to I'll
[12:04]
probably upload this before I go we for
[12:06]
the um when I get back to my RV before I
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pack up my starlink and
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stuff um it's a short drive it's only a
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couple of
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hours so it won't take me long to get
[12:19]
there very low on
[12:21]
fuel and I'm cutting it pretty
[12:25]
close but I wanted to go to a truck stop
[12:27]
I just feel like it's I'm not
[12:29]
comfortable trying to navigate a normal
[12:31]
gas station in my RV especially toing my
[12:34]
Jeep
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so it took some effort yesterday finding
[12:39]
a place along the way
[12:41]
that it's within my range
[12:45]
and has the kind of pumps I'm looking
[12:48]
for so I did find one though so should
[12:52]
be okay um this causes me a little bit
[12:54]
of tension cuz I know I know how close
[12:57]
I'm cutting it
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but I
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will remain flexible
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if um it seems like okay my range
[13:09]
isn't um holding up the way I thought it
[13:13]
would you know I'll reassess the
[13:15]
situation before I run out of gas of
[13:17]
course so
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um that's really the only I'm also going
[13:25]
to test
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my how my new mirrors do I was thinking
[13:30]
about how to stop the vibrating maybe
[13:31]
some tape but
[13:35]
um yeah cuz that's important to me I
[13:38]
really need that mirror to to work
[13:42]
correctly I know the new concave mirror
[13:44]
I attached to it will
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help especially if it doesn't vibrate
[13:49]
out of out of alignment
[13:52]
so you know
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um I'm just going to
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head back to my my home my RV and pack
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up a few
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things head out for
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Kansas and once I get there
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I'll assess my situation and decide
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where what I'm doing from
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there I hope you all enjoy the rest of
[14:21]
your
[14:23]
day that person's actions right there
[14:25]
have Ripple
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effects well literal and figurative cuz
[14:30]
you can just see them racing away in
[14:32]
their
[14:33]
bone leaving ripples behind them messing
[14:36]
with this guy over here who's been
[14:38]
silently fishing while I've been sitting
[14:40]
up
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here Ripple
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effects I'm not saying he shouldn't be
[14:46]
out there not even saying he's doing
[14:49]
anything
[14:51]
wrong at the same time if that were me I
[14:54]
wouldn't be going at the speed he is I
[14:57]
would be trying to leave his little of a
[14:59]
footprint as
[15:01]
possible I will be respecting that
[15:03]
person over
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there because I know that I'm in a
[15:07]
relationship with them right
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now that's how life Works everything is
[15:12]
interconnected so my actions affect this
[15:17]
person that person's actions affect all
[15:19]
of us including me because he Disturbed
[15:21]
the peace that we were having
[15:23]
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here this is a beautiful spot
[15:29]
[Music]
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I getting yeah somewhere to be be in the
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grand scheme of
[15:41]
things it's just a
[15:43]
momentary um
[15:45]
distraction
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[Music]
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tension then we'll go back to the
[15:50]
peaceful
[15:52]
world there are so many people in this
[15:54]
world now that it's getting very hard to
[15:58]
find moments like like this
[16:03]
one I don't think that we can support
[16:05]
the number of people that we have on
[16:07]
this
[16:10]
planet we're we're way out of balance
[16:13]
with
[16:17]
nature I've been sitting here watching
[16:19]
these waves
[16:54]
very disruptive because you could still
[16:56]
hear that bone
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oh here comes another one I
[17:15]
guess I guess we're not going to get a
[17:17]
lot of Peace here
[17:19]
today so that will be my last memory of
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here I
[17:25]
guess we have to share the world with
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each other
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trust me I
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know doesn't mean I always have to like
[17:34]
it