Take The Long Way Home

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Okay. I think it's recording.

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We're gonna make sure that the dog doesn't

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mess with it.

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Give me a second.

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There we go.

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Hey. Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever

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the case may be. This is Mike, and

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this is Mike Dell's World

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Mobile.

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So

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just, had lunch with the with the beagle,

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Benny.

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Went to Burger King. It was not a

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great experience, but not bad.

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And he had his plain hamburger.

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He doesn't get that very often, but once

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in a while, I'll take him with me

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to lunch.

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And the subject I have for today

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is taking the long way.

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So

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Burger King is along US 31 along the

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bay.

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And it was just a, you know, quick

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three miles maybe,

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something like that,

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between my house and there.

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And that's the way we go to get

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there.

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But going home, I always like to take

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the long way, and I do that a

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lot of times.

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You know, if I'm going out to my

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mom's, I'll go one way,

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going out, another way coming home.

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There's more than one way to get there,

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obviously.

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And

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I don't know how noisy this is.

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Got Benny, got his head out the window.

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It's kind of a nice day. It's 55

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degrees and sunny,

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and I'm driving up five Mile mile road

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of all places. Let me,

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pull off here because I don't wanna go

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really fast, and I've got a guy guy

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right on my butt, which is kinda normal.

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So let me

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get over here. There we go. Get back

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on the road.

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So, yeah, I'm going up five mile, which

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is the long way. I live on three

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mile,

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and five mile, four mile, and three mile

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road all

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intersect with

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a road called Hammond Road. And,

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anyway, I like to go up this way.

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It's a really,

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steep hill not steep, but it's a hill.

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There's a ridge, and,

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I just sort of

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like to go up there. I might close

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that window while he's not,

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got his head stuck out it. There we

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go. That ought to quiet it down a

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little. And I'm probably gonna do a little

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post processing

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anyway, so

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we'll see how much of the ambiance

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comes through or even if this recording works

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at all.

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But yeah. And

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so, you know,

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driving along here, it's through the woods and

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uphill.

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You

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know, might go up

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500 feet, 400 feet, something like that. Not

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not too much. Because like I said, we're

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kinda near the airport, so

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I don't ever

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feel like I'm getting too close to the

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ground when I'm coming in this direction. So

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it's not,

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like a huge

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rise in,

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maybe I think it's three to 400 feet

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is the total rise, but it's a nice

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hill.

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It's all, you know, heavy wooded.

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And we're a little past peak here as

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far as fall colors, although there's still a

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fair amount of leaves on the trees, and

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and, they are

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a tad colorful,

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mostly shades

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of brown and yellow.

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Not any reds left.

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I think our peak color was last weekend

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or maybe the weekend before. It wasn't

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a a spectacular

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year.

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But,

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again, like I said, I like to take

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the long way home,

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especially lunch break. You know, not much going

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on.

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Work from home. Usually, I just go in

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the kitchen and make something. But when I

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do go,

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you know, I like to take the long

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way. Same thing. Like I said, going

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other places.

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You know, when you really know a town,

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there's multiple ways of getting to everywhere and,

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you know, depending on traffic and all that.

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I try to stay off the main drag

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mostly.

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We're really gonna take the long way. In

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fact, we're gonna probably do a little backtracking

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here. I'm

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coming up to,

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I think it's called High Lake Road.

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I don't even remember.

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Yeah. High Lake Road,

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Hammond and High Lake. There's a really weird

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intersection here, but

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not too bad.

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But,

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this whole area out here is called the

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Forest Lakes area, I think.

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I don't know. I'll I'll know when I

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see the sign.

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But,

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or

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yeah. Something like that. Dog's whining

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because because he thinks we're going somewhere important.

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But, this whole area, you know, there's Spider

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Lake, Arbutus Lake,

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all kinds of lakes and woods, and

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it's really a a neat area

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to drive slowly in.

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My,

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family, my uncle had a place out here

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back in the seventies in the woods, and

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the house is still there.

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I drive by it once in a while.

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You know, it's kind of a neat

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a neat area.

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Again, it's nice and sunny today.

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A few wispy clouds.

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It's at 55 degrees.

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Dog's whining because I don't have his window

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open. I'll open it up when we get

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into the woods.

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And, of course, he's setting off the seat

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belt thing now.

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New fangled vehicles.

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I'm sure I told you about it, but

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I inherited my dad's

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pickup truck,

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which was a, 2020

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Toyota Tundra,

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and it's got a lot more gizmos and

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gadgets than I'm used to.

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Here we go. Benny got off

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the got off the seat.

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But,

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and it's got a lot of gizmos and

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gadgets, and one of the things, it's got

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the you know, it'll disable the

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airbags,

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in the front seat if not a heavy

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item there. So whenever I take the dog,

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I gotta remember

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to clip the seat belt.

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Otherwise, the the seat belt warning will go

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off.

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Yeah. Sometimes when he gets on there, he's,

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like, right on the the cusp. Oops. Let

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me let his window down. We're in the

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slow area now. Woah. Sorry, bud.

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Anyway, then he's got his head out the

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window and,

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go

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just cruise around a little bit here.

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Go and buy a little store,

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Cortez grocery.

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When I was a little kid,

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I'd ride with my dad out there. We

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had a VW Beetle,

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and he'd ride out here, and he'd always,

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one of the my treats was stopping at,

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Cortades for a yellow pop. That's what I

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called it, a yellow pop. Come to find

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out, it was probably mellow yellow.

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Mountain Dew existed, but, it was in green

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bottles, so I couldn't tell what color it

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was. I think it was mellow yellow or

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some other,

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maybe Faygo,

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yellow pop.

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We'd always stop at Corte's on the way

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back,

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from my uncle's place or sometimes on the

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way to my uncle's place.

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And from our house, this was quite a

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ride because we had to come, you know,

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all all the way across Traverse City

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and and then,

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out a little further than that

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to this side. So

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I didn't see the sign.

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Yeah. I think it's called Forest Lakes area.

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Main

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feature out here

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is all the little lakes, and, you know,

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there's Spider Lake, which is kind of a

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well, if you look at it from the

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air, it's a spider shaped. It's got a

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lot of little tentacles

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and bays and

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coves and whatever.

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And, it's kinda spread all over the place.

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And then there's Arbutus Lake that's very similar.

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And all these roads kinda twist

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and and turn through the woods.

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You know, think of, you know, hardwood forest

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and some pine trees and and then, you

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know, going close to all these little

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little, coves and whatnot on the Spider Lake.

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And then, like I said, Arbutus Lake is

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similarly shaped,

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although a little bigger.

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You know, it's just a

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a really cool place to just take a

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nice little ride.

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Yeah. Haven't done one of these sound scene

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tour things in a while, so I am

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way out of practice. You know, it's funny.

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I was

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playing with this recorder this morning trying to

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figure out, well, does it still work? Does

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it have batteries?

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Do I need to change the batteries? Do

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I need to do any of this stuff

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and and just how to work it. And

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then I, pulled the card on it and

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looked,

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at it. And the the last time I

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recorded

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anything on this

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was in 2020.

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So that's that's how long it's been since

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I've done a either mobile or walking

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podcast,

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and I really don't know how well this

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microphone is working.

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It,

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let's see. I guess I can look at

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the meters. It seems alright.

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I guess if I crank it up a

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little bit

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did I crank it up or down? I

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don't know. We'll save it.

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Audio quality on this may not be as

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good as

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other recordings,

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but

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who knows?

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Yeah. And this is gonna end up being

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kind of a long way around to get

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home because, I made the wrong turn and

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ended up,

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I think I'm coming up on High Lake

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Road again.

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So I made a loop through the woods.

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That's alright. I gotta get back to work,

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anyway, here shortly.

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But

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just have to remember,

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which way to turn. Oh, this is Supply

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Road, okay

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Cool. Now. I know where I'm at

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Supply Roads also a kind of a unique

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drive

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around here

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is it goes between here and a little

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town called South Boardman,

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and it goes through the woods and, through

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the Boardman River Valley.

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Well, not really a valley, but the Boardman

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River area.

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And then comes out on, US 131,

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which is the

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one of the major highways going, into Grand

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Rapids.

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So when we head south, we we don't

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usually take Supply. We usually, take

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M 113,

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which is, a little further south,

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and then we join one thirty one just

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before it turns into a freeway.

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But,

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Supply Road, is real famous for,

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you know, people that drive high performance cars,

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you know, that handle well and

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and,

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you know, like, think think of if you're

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into car videos on YouTube, The Tail Of

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The Dragon

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is a famous mountain road

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in Tennessee that all the, you know, high

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performance car drivers

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like to drive the the the Tail Of

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The Dragon. Well,

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Boardman

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or South or whatever. Supply Road, going from

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here to

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South Boardman

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is kinda that for here. And and when

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I used to ride motorcycles, it was real

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popular to ride your motorcycle. So it's just

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a whole bunch of curves through the woods,

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and, you know, it's just a lot of

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fun to drive. You don't even have to

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go fast. In fact, it's better not to

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go fast

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because you end up in the

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up end up in the trees, but it's

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a challenging road.

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We have another look road like this that's

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become somewhat famous,

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M 22.

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That's, Michigan Highway 22. It goes from Manistee,

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Michigan

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to Traverse City, but it goes all the

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way up and around

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the Leelanau Peninsula, which, if you're looking at

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the back of your hand, it'd be the

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pinky finger of Michigan.

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So it goes way north, and then, it

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comes back 22 miles back to,

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Traverse City on the other side of the

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peninsula.

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And that stretch between Manistee

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and,

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Northport

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is pretty famous amongst

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car drivers and motorcyclists

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and just plain old tourists goes up through

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the Sleeping Bear Dunes.

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It's really quite

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the quite the road. But being a Michigan

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highway, you would think

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it would go someplace. Well, yeah, it kinda

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does. It ends up in Traverse City and

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Manistee, you know, on either end.

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But

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there's really not

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a lot of traffic on that road,

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trying to get from a to b. You

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know, they it's

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it's more of a recreational road or a

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tourist road,

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that way.

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And,

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that one kind of made national news,

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a few years ago.

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And

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to this day, they have to secure all

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the signs on it because of it. But,

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there's a local company here, a tourist trap,

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selling t shirts and

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and mugs and stickers and, you know, god

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knows what.

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But,

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call them 22,

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and they actually got a trademark on the

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highway sign.

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I never heard of that before, and they

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actually

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will sue you

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if your company uses a highway sign

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as their trademark.

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So, you know, it's

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I don't know. I kinda hate that.

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So I sort of protest the m twenty

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two company, but the road's cool.

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I don't know if you ever, watch on

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YouTube,

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the Hagerty channel,

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Hagerty

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car insurance. It's a classic car and boat

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insurance company based here in Traverse.

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Anyway, Hagerty,

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they're pretty famous amongst car collectors and whatnot.

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And and Hagerty,

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will do some some drives on their YouTube

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channel along M 22.

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One of the famous ones was the

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they drove a,

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Citroen

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two CV, one of those weird little French

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cars,

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and, that was filmed on M 22.

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That was from a few years ago as

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well. But,

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anyway, I'm, here at, 3 Mile in Hammond.

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Here by Roy's General Store.

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Roy's is kind of an institution around here.

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They,

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kind of an everything store. They sell

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tractors. They sell hardware.

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They sell groceries,

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gasoline.

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They work on small engines or a Husqvarna

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dealer.

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They just sell all sorts of stuff.

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Good old Roy's.

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And they have a really good

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lunch and breakfast buffet.

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You know, the food's really good.

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I'll do that sometimes.

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But, I was driving down three mile,

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south of of my house,

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and they just opened this part of the

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road up after rebuilding it.

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They made it three lanes, and

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it's all fresh,

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asphalt.

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It's a real pain in the butt when

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it was, well, excuse me, when it was

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closed,

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but

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we got it reopened.

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And, of course, you know, there's only two

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seasons in Michigan really, and it's winter and

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construction.

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Although

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fall is my favorite time of the year

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and

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November,

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especially,

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just because

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most of the construction is done.

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The snow hasn't hit just yet. Now it

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could happen any day. Sometimes it happens in

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October.

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But,

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and the tourists are, for the most part,

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gone. There was a lot of leafers here

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up until last weekend,

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and people coming up looking at leaves and

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doing the fall color tour.

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So the restaurants were still busy. Oh,

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stupid light.

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I swear I get caught at every traffic

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light there is.

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That's another reason to take the long way

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home

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is,

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less traffic lights.

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But,

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hey, you know, I just was thinking, here

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I am podcasting

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while driving.

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Of course, I got a lavalier mic on.

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I'm not

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manipulating my phone or anything like that while

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I'm doing it. So I'm just sitting here

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talking. Well, the guys pulled up next to

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me at the light

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probably just thinks I'm talking on the phone.

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You know, five years ago or maybe ten

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years ago, that wouldn't have been nearly as

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common.

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And people would think you're weird sitting here,

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you know, well, I don't know. I got

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a dog with me, so

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could possibly be

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normal to be sitting here talking to a

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dog.

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Anyway,

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so just going by the,

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approach end of Runway 28

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in at Traverse City Airport,

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just across the center line.

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Anyway,

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the wind here is crazy today. I've been

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listening to air traffic control, and they're calling

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winds.

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So 20 knots

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gusting to 30,

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but it's coming right down the runway. So

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there are some

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students out flying in it.

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But,

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anyway, I wouldn't fly today

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just because,

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you know, that's a lot of wind.

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And,

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you know,

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I just assume fly when the conditions are

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such that

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that it's better. So, anyway, I'm just about

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to pull on the driveway here. Of course,

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there's a traffic

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light 100 yards up the street from

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my house. And

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as of as is normal, I get caught

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at it every time.

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So anyway, I'm gonna probably do some more

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of these mobile ones.

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I I have a couple of

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ideas,

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for

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podcasts,

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mobile.

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This Saturday, I'm gonna actually,

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possibly record one from the airport.

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I'll bring my mobile setup and see if

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anybody wants to be a taker,

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at my, EAA group, but, who knows? I

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don't know what the subject is tomorrow, but

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I will be back

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tomorrow. But he have a good day,

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and catch me later.