25. Chicago Road Trip I-80 West from New Jersey!

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I'm Johnny Mack and travel is back. A good morning. It's five thirty

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am. I'm sitting in the parket
of the National Donuts chain. Today we're

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driving at Chicago. Should be a
straight shot across I eighty. I'm in

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the car. I've got my zoom
ahe four recorders. What you hear me

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recording on? It's on my lap. It's got pretty good pickup, so

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I could drive a car and record
and let's punch into ways here and see

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how long this is going to take
us. Now, Unfortunately for me,

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it is raining this morning, so
I think I'm gonna have a lot of

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rain across most of Pennsylvania. Ways
is telling me eleven hours twenty minutes and

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we should arrive slightly before four pm
Central. Now that's going to inflate.

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People always ask me how long does
this trip take? And I say,

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you know, eleven or twelve hours, But it depends because you definitely have

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to stop for gas and along the
way you might be hungry and you might

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need to take a break, if
you know what I mean. But as

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we head out here, it says
eleven hours twenty minutes. We'll see how

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well I can do. Hopefully,
the rain holds off pretty well, and

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I'm going to check in with you
at every various rest stop and along the

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way as I think of you,
guys. Travel is back. Let's head

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to Chicago, all right, five
fifty am. We have seven hundred and

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sixty seven miles to go Already,
I've had two eighteen wheelers riding my butt.

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So it is dark, it is
raining, do with a speed limit,

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and I just want to chill out
in the middle lane and be left

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alone. But these eighteen wheelers are
riding my butt, forcing me to drive

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a little more aggressively than I had
hoped. I was hoping for some empty

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roads. That's why you start out
early, right, But the trucks are

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out this morning. Now, let
me tell you about the new car.

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It's got a couple of features that
I love. One of them is a

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lane assist, so the car will
keep you in the lane if your attention

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does drift, as one does on
a long drive, and if you sort

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of drive out of the lane markers, you'll feel the car steer you back

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into the lane. I like that
feature a lot. I've got my side

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mirrors light up to tell me if
somebody's pass asking me somebody just passed me

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on the left, and it's got
my favorite thing. It's called adaptive cruise

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control. So if I pull up
behind a car and set the cruise,

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my speed will match the speed of
the car in front of me. So

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that's a really nice feature, especially
on a long drive like this, and

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I'm hoping to use it. I
want to pull up behind a truck and

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stay like four or five car links
back. The problem is the eighteen wheeler

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behind me has a different opinion and
is riding my butt. So we'll see

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how this goes. Seven hundred sixty
six miles to go. As we drive

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to Chicago, you hear the rain
on the dashboard. It is six twenty

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six am. I'm looking forward to
the sun coming up. We're in a

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very eastern Pennsylvania Rush stretch here the
western half of New Jersey and this first

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stretch of Pennsylvania. It's two lanes, it's winding roads. That's higher.

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Grip isn't that good now? The
outside temperature supposedly sixty one degrees, but

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I'm feeling that the grip is not
all that great. The other problem with

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I eighty here in Pennsylvania is they
didn't make the center barrier. It's tall

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enough. I tried getting in the
left lane to go around a truck,

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and I just could not see in
the left lane because between the glare of

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the headlights coming in the other direction
and the rain. Forget it, So

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I just have to sit behind this
truck. Got a couple of maniacs passing

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me in the left lane, and
I'm looking at the ETA. Not doing

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so well here, cruising around fifteen
miles an hour out below the speed limit.

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But it's kind of a mess this
morning, and I knew that when

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I checked the radar and I got
up. It is what it is.

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I'm having fun. We have seven
hundred and twenty eight miles to go.

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I didn't touch on my donuts yet, and the coffee's half gone. Let's

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hope this rain clears out and I
can make up some time on the back

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end. Hey, State troopers,
leave me alone, know what I mean.

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Nudge nudge, wink wink. Fourteen
in the morning, six hundred seventy

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five miles to go. Man,
it is pouring. At one point it

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actually got darker. I'm on Interstate
eighty mile mark, or two hundred and

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fifty three. It's two lanes and
right now I have nobody in front of

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me, which is great, wide
open skies into the pouring rain. But

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I just came through a whole section
of trying to thread the needle around trucks

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and cars and low visibility. It's
been a rough drive so far. I'd

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also like to take a pit stop, if you know what I mean,

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But it's raining so hard I don't
want to get out and get soaked,

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so I think I'm just gonna barrow
through here. I'm having a good time,

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but boy, I really need this
rain to clear out. But this

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is it. This is what it's
like driving across Interstate eighty. I've done

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this in nice weather, and i've
done it in weather kind of like this,

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and this morning I just kind of
lose on the weather. Hopefully it'll

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clear out. I had my donuts. One of the two coffees is gone.

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But I'm having a good time.
We good news. The rain has

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stopped actually see now, and I've
got a nice partner here. I've got

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the adaptive cruise control on and I'm
just sitting probably six car links behind him.

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He's going out a good clip.
I'm sure it's exactly the speed limit.

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I would never speed. I'm also
going exactly the speed limit, so

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starting to make up some time.
Here. I'm looking at my ETA is

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four oh seven pm Central. I've
just made a minute back. I did

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lose it four minutes. There was
a pit stop that I decided I wouldn't

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record. You probably didn't want to
hear what I did there. That was

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a four minute break the cars telling
me that we are by Clinton, Pennsylvania,

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somewhere in the middle of eighty Let's
see if there's a mile marker coming

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up here that I can read off
for you. Let's see here it is

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one eighty three. But it's nice
now. The road is opened up a

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little bit. The trucks seem to
be gone. Like I said, I've

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got a nice partner and we're just
trading off on the adaptive cruise. The

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police seemed to be not out today, which is making for a nice drive.

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So this is the drive to Chicago
that I like, where it's just

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you know, me and the car
and the gadgets in the car and just

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some you know, the good version
of driving where you're just kind of in

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the zone. So I'm enjoying it
now. The first three hours here We're

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pretty rough with the rain. There
was some really really big downpours. It

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got darker. At one point somewhere
in the mountains of Pennsylvania, I can

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only see about two car lengths,
but right now smooth sailing. One thing

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that's catching my eyes the outside temperature
is reading at forty seven degrees. Now

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I think in this part of Pennsylvania
there is a little bit of elevation,

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but it's getting colder. It's fifteen
degrees colder than it was earlier in the

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podcast. We'll see how this goes. But look at this. I'm looking

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at the road ahead. Three cars
in the right lane. Oh, this

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guy just got in front of me, and now my cruise is gonna cut

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in and yep, here we go. We're breaking and slowing down. Come

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on, man, all right,
I'll catch up with you guys in a

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bit. So I'm at mile marker
ninety two Interstate eighty, heading westbound in

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Pennsylvania. I just heard from my
daughter. She texted me, by the

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way, how awesome is text a
voice on a car play system? It

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really is? And she asked,
are you in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania?

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And I went, yep, exactly. So I see here from the

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highway sign. I'm approaching the Dubois
Regional Airport. Not really familiar with it,

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but I think middle of Nowhere Pennsylvania
describes this perfectly. Now I'm psyched.

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The sky has completely cleared up,
blue skies. I've got the sunglasses

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on now, so it's completely different
weather than you heard earlier in the podcast.

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And I've got some very nice highway
companions here. We are, all,

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you know, driving exactly at the
speed limit and making some good time,

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and haven't seen a copper yet.
I know I'm going to totally jinx

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myself because I keep saying that,
but I'm just sitting here in the pocket

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with some other people westbound on I
eighty, having a nice trip. I've

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pit stopped twice now. Based in
the past, I usually wind up stopping

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five times a combination of food,
gasoline, and other reasons you would break.

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So so far two of the five
and that'll probably pace correctly. I

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have eighty miles worth of gas left, so the next one will be a

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longer pit stop. Ways tells me
I should arrive at four fourteen Central,

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so the time is pretty much holding. You know, I've lost what six

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minutes from the beginning. But that's
what two stops. So doing pretty well.

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Hopefully my luck will continue to hold. Now that I'm on the other

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side of this rain, and that
I can sit in this pocket here and

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you know, drive exactly at the
speed limit while making some good time,

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people are going to think up weird, gonna pour it out of my mind.

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Here I have stopped. I needed
gas, only thirty miles left.

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I'm in an Amico station in the
middle of nowhere, and I'm pumping my

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gas. I'd like to think of
pretty smart. This machine is like really

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confusing. It took me a while
to get the gas even going, and

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oh my goodness, Amico, your
pump is so slow. I'm only four

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gallons in and probably heading for fourteen
or fifteen. And as I do this

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break, we'll hear just how long
this is taking gas? Three dollars fifty

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five nine three fifty six a gallon. It's about what ten thirty in the

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morning. Still got a long way
to go. I've been driving for what

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now, five hours? I guess
not too bad, feeling good, listening

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to a lot of podcasts, but
it's still in the middle of nowhere in

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Pennsylvania. It takes a really long
time to get across Pennsylvania. How long

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I've been talking, This thing is
only up to five point three gallons.

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I might hook this because I'm doing
the math, and I don't think I

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can make it all the way to
Chicago again without filling again. So maybe

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I'll only take like ten gallons or
so here and then top off when I

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have to stop again. Making pretty
good time. Have stopped a little more

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than I planned on, and now
as I'm managing the fuel heading forward,

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it definitely gonna stop more than plan
But boy, this thinks only it's six

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point two gallons. I think I'm
just gonna top off somewhere else and then

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make it all the way to Chicago. Let's get this to ten gallons and

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then we'll just move on with our
life because Ambaco man get stuff together all

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right. Back in the car now, I think that was the worst gas

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station machine I've ever used. I
gave up at seven point six gallons.

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We are now west on Pennsylvania two
oh eight, and we'll see where we

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pick the highway back up, hopefully
not too long now my arrival time that

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just costs me ten minutes. Come
on. That is awful. There better

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be a quick back onto the highway
here. But ways is showing me that

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I'm going to take this at Pennsylvania
two o eight. For quite some time,

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that was not my plan. I
was doing quick on, quick off.

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Let's check where we are here.
Four hundred and sixty five miles to

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go until Chicago, seven hours,
five minutes to go, and I now

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have two hundred and twenty one miles
of gas. It will definitely be stopping

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again for fuel, but not too
bad. I'm boy. That machine was

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just brutal and that cost me a
lot of time. Speed limit here on

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what I say, Pennsylvania two oh
eight or whatever, it is fifty five

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miles per hour. Looking around a
lovely far to the right. Now.

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I'm from Queens in New York City, so anytime I see a farm,

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I'm like, ooh, farms.
And there's a horse. Again. From

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Queens, I'm always like, ooh, a horse. How exciting. I'm

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quite surprised at how long it's going
to take me to get back onto actual

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Interstate eighty, so I feel like
I'm losing precious time here. I see

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a truck up ahead, so I'm
not the only crazy one doing this.

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Plus I have learned over the years
always always trust Ways. I've just entered

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the village of Pine Grove, some
nice suburban houses here. I'm thinking about

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what a total bust. That hole
that all stop was really bad. I'm

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also getting conflicting signs here. The
speed limits as fifty five. Ways is

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telling me it's forty five, but
I'm gonna go with my eyes over what

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Ways says. I'm just bringing that
up because I'm surprised. Usually Ways has

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the best speed limit information. Maybe
they just recently changed it. But boy,

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I'm looking at the blue line on
Ways and I just want to see

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it. Rejoining interest date eighty and
it looks like I'm gonna be on this

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side road for quite some time.
Boy, what a bust. Don't get

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off at Eggs at forty two.
That's what we've learned here, all right.

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There's a speed limit sign confirming forty
five miles an hour and a nice

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small town. You don't see these
a nice small town. Hey, coming

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up, there's an actual traffic light
warning and five hundred feet a traffic light.

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Luckily for me, it's green.
Let's see if we make it all

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the way through are we gonna make
it. Yes, we've made it through

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the green light west two six.
Oh, it's changing the yellow as we

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drive under it. All I want
to see, though, is a sign

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that says junction Interstate Haiti. Speed
limit back up to fifty five now,

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and that's exactly what I'm driving for
reels another lovely farm on the left with

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just a solitary tree. That would
make for a wonderful photo op, but

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I lost so much time in the
Amaco, I don't have time to take

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a picture of a tree. Now
passing on the right the Evergreen Farms country

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Market with a nice picture of a
cow on their logo, a red barn.

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I mean, this is America.
I always say that's my kids.

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Like you guys, you grew up
on the coast. That's not America.

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We are in America now. But
what I really want to see in America

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is it that says junction Interstate eighty. Oh. Come on, this is

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so much time, Amaco. I
just want to guess you guys were horrible.

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I do see on the waves map
within eyeshot that I am going to

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be able to rejoin the highway,
and boy, I hope I get some

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nice travel friends, and we can
drive maximum speed limit if you know what

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I mean. Oh, what a
nice pond on the left, a lot

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of ducks. Who if I had
more time, I would stay and hang

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out with those ducks. That looks
like a really cool spot. Not sure

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I'll ever pass this way again,
because next time I do this trip,

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I'm gonna remember, do not get
off at exit forty two. Coming over

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a blind hill here, had a
break. Here's that place eatery, a

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little shack and not sure what they
sell there. And of course I've now

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caught up to guy that wants to
go slow. You are killing me,

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sir. Come on right, foot, step on the gas. In half

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a mile, turn left toch Church
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you heard the good news from ways. Here's another pond on the left,

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and then we're gonna come up on
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I'll get back on Route eighty.
This guy in front of me, though,

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does not seem to be in the
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Speed limit is dropped to thirty five
as we pass through a Americana small

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town. Here's the fire department here
in nice red house with a porch that

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my wife would like. Turn left
tod Church Street, then turn light on

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the Quiston Street. Whoa, so
this turn left on Church Street. This

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is ways. Sometimes ways is too
aggressive, but I'm going to do it.

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I've learned to trust ways. This
street is barely barely wide enough to

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just have my car if two of
us had to pass each other. Now

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where it has me making a right
onto Hawkins Street. Wow, Hawkins Street

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doesn't turn laptop upler streets. This
is ways trying too hard. This street

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here not even wide enough for my
car. I mean just barely just beer.

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We didn't need to do all that. Full stop onto Butler Street here,

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a bit of a dip. Boy, Ways, you try too hard

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there. I think waste was just
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back on a normal size to street. Now that was kind of interesting.

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We were point four miles to Interstate
eighty speed limit thirty five. Guy in

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front of me going a little slow. You can hear me losing my patience

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here, Come on, dude,
come on, all right, I see

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your break, but when are you
turning? Let's go going around this guy

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in a quarter of a mile.
Keep right too, I eighty west.

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Got a cemetery on the left.
Here some sort of truck park stop on

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the right. Again, big time, middle of nowhere. But I've made

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my way back to eighty. I
can go straight to Clarion or right to

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Sharon. Let's go right to Sharon. Finally we are back on I eighty

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West. Let's see if we can
make up some time here. Arrival time

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now four twenty nine Central times.
The boy that was just awful. That

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cost me a good ten minutes on
the trip. I don't know if I'm

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gonna be able to make ten minutes
back without driving aggressively, if you know

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what I mean. Let's see how
we do here. We'll get behind this

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white van that's in front of me, continue straight for forty minutes to I

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eighty west. He's doing seventy three
seventy five. Let me turn the recorder

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off with two hands on the wheel, and you know, see if I

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can move this thing. I love
well. Finally making it to the end

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of Pennsylvania. Here, I'm laughing. I'm passing a truck. It has

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a very distinctive paint job on the
back. It says the not a typical

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trucking company, And I'm very familiar
with it. Because as we roll here,

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this is the third time I've passed
that. I guess he's driving through

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and I keep stopping and catching up. So good luck to you, sir

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on your drive. Now. As
Pennsylvania ends, I think I'm a mile

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to Goo. There's a guy in
front of me with Florida plates. He's

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been a great companion. He's been
cruising along, you know, right at

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the speed limit. So I've been
making good time. I got four twenty

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two miles to go six and a
half hours. We've got one hundred and

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sixty seven miles worth of gas.
Arrival time four thirty two pm Central.

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Again, I expect to lose another
fifteen minutes or so because I will need

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gas and I will need real food
at some point. So that would put

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the trip at about twelve hours fifteen
minutes. That's kind of around what it

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takes. I think I've done it
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but again I lost all that time
at the beginning with the rain and

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the Amico station. Cheez Louise,
But doing pretty well here, nice sunny

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blue sky, enjoying the trip,
listening to a lot of podcasts and looking

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forward to leaving Pennsylvania getting into Ohio. Now from memory, eastern Ohio tends

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to be loaded with cops and has
a lot more urban landscape, factory cities,

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etc. And then when he gets
to western Ohio it kind of chills

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out a little bit. Indiana sort
of has the same pattern. So we'll

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see what happens here. I don't
remember what the speed limits in Ohio are,

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but hopefully we can continue to make
some good time here. But then

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again, I guess Ways has already
factored all this in right. That's what

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Ways does, and Ways is saying. Four thirty two pm Central Time.

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I'm really digging the way mister Florida
Plates drives here. He's just in and

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out, pulling up behind people,
ride in the right lane as much as

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we can, and then zipping over
the left side to pass. Here a

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big gigantic truck stop right at the
Pennsylvania border on my right hand side.

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Exit two thirty four. We finally
made it to Sharon, Pennsylvania and Hubbard,

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and it is time to say goodbye
to Pennsylvania. Seventy four miles to

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Cleveland, one hundred and seventy miles
to Toledo and the color of the highway

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just changed, so I believe we
are now actually in Ohio. It seems

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like a good time to take the
break. Travel is back, all right.

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We have Panera, Burger King Auntie
Annie's. But I see what I

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was smelling, Popeyes. I am
soe in on that. Oh wow,

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I'm looking at the U R here
map. We're at Middle Ridges Service Plaza,

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mile post one thirty nine five.
We got a long way to go,

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so it's time to eat. Hi
there, good five piece tenders meal

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please, spicy please, fries please, and you're everything to be seven Super

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awesome, Thanks luck. I just
found that my meal does not come with

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a drink. That's okay, I
didn't really need to sew it anyway.

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I have a bottle of water,
but I am quite surprised. All right,

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time to get gassed, super awesome. I gotta check my email too

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while on this gas stop. Well
this is unexpected. My plan here is

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to stay over at my daughter's apartment, but she says her roommate is thick.

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So I just spent a few minutes
looking for a hotel room. And

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I'm heading to Northwestern University where it
is parents weekend or something, and there's

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no hotel room to be found,
so who knows. We'll figure it out.

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Time to get some gas pulling in
here too. This is a Snoco

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three thirty two and nine tents.
Oh please pull up, sir, because

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I'm also my guest tanks on the
same side as yours. There we go,

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all right, now, hopefully this
works a lot better than the Amaco

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did. Continue straight from three hours
forty four. So right as I speak

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to you, we are leaving Ohio
and just right now crossing into Indiana.

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I gotta check the speed limit because
I see a police officer just went to

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make you turn. The speed limit
was seventy in the Ohio side, and

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I don't know what it is in
Indiana yet. Let's see here's a sign

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cars seventy trucks sixty five. All
right, we are good here on West

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eighty and ninety. In interesting development, since I last talked to you,

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it started to rain again. My
car just beeped and said warning, roads

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could be icy. That's not good. I see the temperature is down to

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thirty nine degrees. We've got three
hours and fourteen minutes and one hundred and

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eighty four miles. I did a
conference call for work. They asked where

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are you, and I'm like,
Ohio, there was just nothing to tell

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them about. And that's why I
haven't checked in with you. This is

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the part of the drive that is
just, for lack of a better term,

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mindless. You're just kind of steering
the car and if you've got a

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good cruise control system, just enjoy
the ride. Not much scenery to tell

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you about. I mean, looking
out on my right, some trees,

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looking out on my left, some
trees. Nothing to tell you about here.

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But let's see two forty two in
the afternoon. Arrival time four fifty

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five, So it looks like we're
gonna do this trip in about twelve and

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a half hours. Not bad at
all considering the weather. So I'm coming

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up now on South Bend, Indiana, No tre Dame. This is the

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first stretch in a very very long
time where there's actually some activity other than

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just two lanes of highway through farms. It's still two lanes, and I'm

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dealing with rain again. Temperature down
to thirty seven degrees. Now one hundred

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and four miles and two hours,
seven minutes to go. Still pay for

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just about a five pm central arrival. So everything's good here. I guess

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we're still in Eastern time zone here
yet. So far my clock hasn't flipped,

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but it will soon. I'm doing
that from memory, but yeah,

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South Bend and the Nore name makes
it's You start to see a little activity

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on the road, a lot more
development, a lot of ads for casinos

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in this stretch. I'm also noticing
my fuel mileage is not quite what I

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hoped. With one hundred and three
miles to go, I've got one hundred

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and eighteen miles worth of gas.
So I think I'm going to do one

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more full pit stop and fill up, take a potty break, and that

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way on my way back tomorrow.
I won't have to deal with filling the

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tank right away. I'm sure I
could make it all the way there,

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but you know, I don't want
to get there and have fifteen miles worth

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of gas left and have to deal
with it in the morning. Here's a

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sign. We are eighteen miles from
a Sunoco and a seven eleven. Very

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exciting. The Ohio rest stops are
pretty good, and I've noticed from these

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trips for they all look the same. You can go in one and then

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drive sixty miles and go in another
one, and you'd swear you were in

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the exact same place. I know
there's one that is definitely on the other

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side of the highway coming back.
That boy, you could convince me is

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the same one I went in on
the way out. They are just clones

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of each other. Here in Indiana, the rest stops get a little chinseier.

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In eastern Indiana they're still pretty good, but once you get to western

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Indiana they kind of shrink down to, like I said, a seven to

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eleven and a gas station. And
you know, I would plan better make

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your stops in Ohio, But as
we've heard on this podcast, I have

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not planned my gas breaks well at
all. And welcome to Central Time.

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I wish I could tell you there
was something interesting about it other than a

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sign on the highway that says now
entering Central Time. But here we are

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in Central Time, Indiana. So
I'm coming up on this rest stop.

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Here, I am going to take
the stop and fuel up. As I

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look at eighty six miles to go
in ninety eight miles worth of gas.

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This one's got a burger king,
so I'm hopeful that it's a little more

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thorough than those ones I told you
to skip. I also from memory,

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think this is your really your last
good opportunity for a proper pit stop once

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you get into Illinois. Now that
last hour of driving is the hardest you're

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going to have on this entire trip. Well, this one here says next

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travel plaza, thirty four miles.
I'm not risking it. I'm taking one

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while I can get it again.
Once you get in Illinois, now there's

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a lot more traffic and you kind
of have to wake up after ten eleven

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hours of just kind of being in
the zone on cruise control. So let's

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take this rest stop here and see
where we are. Starbucks, Burger King,

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Sabarrow. A little more traffic now
that I've seen all day long.

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It is four o'clock eastern, three
Central, so heading and this is a

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Friday as I record it, so
heading into the weekend. Probably people getting

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a jump on wherever they go.
All right, as I pull into this

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rest stop, not that impressed.
I don't even know where there would be

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a burger King in this one.
It's a little better than the seven eleven

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ones, but not great. The
ones in Ohio are better. But you

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know this will get the job done. The wilbur Shaw Travel Plasma. You

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and I just learned, don't judge
your rest up by its cover. That

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was pretty nice. And the seven
eleven was not like a Northeast seven eleven.

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A lot of Northeast seven elevens no
offense, aren't the nicest places.

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This one was pretty good. It
had a shop. If you wanted to

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buy a souvenir I guess Indiana or
no tre name or something T shirt,

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you get one in there. Does
Borrow look pretty clean? I'm impressed.

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It's time to fill up at Sunoco
again. Twenty five minutes to easy Past

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only lanes. Well, now you
know what my next move is. Thank

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you ways, but I'm not ready
because I don't have enough fuel. Oh

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yeah, I forgot to bring I've
got to tell you the big news.

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That's my car reminding me it's snowing, all right. That was another thirty

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eight dollars and forty cents worth of
gas ten point seven gallons, So that's

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two full up. So that's two
phillips plus the seven gallons at the Amago

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many hours ago, and the car
I had filled it before I headed out

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on the drive, So use them
quite a lot of gas here then again,

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it is an eleven hour, twelve
hour, seven hundred and seventy mile

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drive. Now with the snow here, I'm curious to see how that will

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affect things. And that was a
relatively longer stop that I just made.

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There. Oh, my car warning
me ice possible, drive with care,

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So I'm gonna put the recorder away. Estimated arrival ten minutes after five.

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It's three seventeenth Central. All right, we'll see how we do. Next

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time you hear from me, we'll
be in Illinois. Well, here we

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are lake Shore Drive, US forty
one North. It is a four seventeenth

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Central. So I did the trip
in just under twelve hours. So if

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you're wondering, hey, I thought
you said it was another hour or so

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to where I'm going. Where my
daughter lives is another fifteen miles and forty

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eight minutes. So it is a
Friday afternoon. I'm assuming the Lake Shore

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Drive traffic is horrific. I won't
make you suffer through that part. But

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if you were driving from say New
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you would be where I am now, approaching the Chicago River, and you'd

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probably be getting off one of these
exits, and going straight to your hotel,

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so you could do the trip in
about twelve on. Are the interesting

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things about the trip that I've forgot
is you start in the dark and then

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the sun comes up and it's November
December. Now the sun sets and it's

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back to being dark, which is
kind of cool. So I'm on Lake

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Shore Drive, which is if you're
not from Chicago or know anything about Chicago,

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it's the street you're familiar with.
It runs along Lake Michigan. It's

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I don't know, if you're in
New York, it's kind of sort of

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like West Street but nicer. Go
back and listen to episode one of the

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Travelers Back podcast and you'll actually hear
my Chicago episode where I can tell you

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about all the places that I'm about
to mention as we drive past them here

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on Lake Shore Drive. And yeah, traffic is really starting to bunch up,

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so I can see why these last
fourteen miles are going to take forty

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seven minutes. It's this is a
furthest trip and I've done this drive before.

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The last hour is always the hardest, especially because you're coming off ten

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eleven hours of just smooth sailing cruise
control and now it's bumper to bumper it,

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so that's why I'm gonna put the
recorder away in a few minutes.

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So coming up here on the right
is Soldier Field, the new version,

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which looks like if you dropped a
UFO in the middle of a Roman coliseum.

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They kept the old exterior, but
they built a new style football stadium

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in the middle of it, and
I don't think it works. I think

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the Bears are looking to move.
I'm a big fan of the ways.

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App waves just recalculated and found hey, there's a better route and found me

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four minutes, so that's good.
Apparently in nine point four miles, I'm

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going to take West Hollywood Avenue.
Now I'm wondering what I don't know.

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I'm in the second to right hand
lane, and the all the way right

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lane has no one in it,
so I'm wondering what I don't know That

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the locals are avoiding that lane and
not just zipping pass, So I'm going

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to stay where I am because there's
no reason that lane would be completely empty

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and no one would be in it. So I'm coming around here on Lake

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Shore Drive. Now, this is
the part where normally when I'm in town,

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I run over. On my right
is the Planetarium. I just passed

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the Field Museum and the Shed Aquarium, which would do. Two great places.

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Coming up on my left Millennium Park
and the Bean Again. Go back

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to episode one. We'll be coming
up to the Chicago River and I see

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nothing but red tail lights all the
way ahead. A little in the distance

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on the right hand side, Navy
Peer, also a fun place if you've

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never been to Chicago. My car
has a trip computer, so we did

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seven hundred and forty nine point nine
miles. We averaged twenty four and a

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half miles per gallon that middle tank
of gas there. I don't feel like

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I got good mileage out of it. I was looking at the trip computer

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you heard me talking about it,
and I wasn't getting the calculations I expected.

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Now, since I refilled at that
last place in Indiana, I feel

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like I'm getting much better mileage.
Eleven hours, eight minutes, thirty eight

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degrees and snowing in Chicago, and
I think the time has come for me

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to pay a little more attention to
the roads. Let's do the segment.

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If I had one day to drive
from New Jersey to Chicago, what would

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I do? Let's see. I'll
tell you I would not stop at the

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Amaco in Pennsylvania. I'd tell you
that for sure. If I had to

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do it again today, I'd barrow
through Pennsylvania a little harder, maybe eat

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in Ohio, and definitely fuel up
in Ohio and see if I could cut

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my stops. I feel like I
stop one or two times too many.

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Again. That one side trip at
Amaco where I only bought seven gallons of

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gas kind of cost me some time
and some fuel efficiency there. But that's

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it. So I'm heading out on
the town. I'm going to see a

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show with my daughter, head out
to dinner, and then head back tomorrow

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because I'm crazy. Follow this show
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good pods, wherever you get your
shows. If you enjoy what I

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do. I also host a podcast
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available wherever you get your podcasts.
But I'll be back here see you soon.

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Travel is Back. That'll put a
wrap on season one of Travel Is

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Back. Hope you enjoyed it If
you were new to the podcast, We've

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been to Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Vancouver, Cleveland, Nashville, Philadelphia,

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Princeton, San Diego, a bunch
of other places, Iceland one of

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them. I'm gonna take a break
here over the holidays and hopefully do some

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international ones. I've been too Barras, London, Australia. I want to

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tell you about all those places.
So let's take a break and put some

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episodes together back in the beginning of
twenty twenty two. Happy Holidays. Follow

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the show if you don't already,
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where you get your shows. Seeing
next year.