alright we got a check out of this
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little town now today is gonna be oh by
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the way good morning
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we are still in this hotel in South Glen
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Burnie Maryland but we gotta meet our
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shuttle driver down here
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we told the shuttle driver we've got to
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go to the Baltimore Airport which i
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think is a free shuttle for us
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that's versus paying 20 bucks for lift
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and they offer a free shuttle for people
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that travel to the airport which we're
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going to the airport not to take a
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flight but to take a train so we can
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take the train from there to Washington
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DC we still got to figure all that out
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but we don't have our van anymore
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so we have everything packed up in our
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backpacks at our bags yeah has a lock
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we've got three of these duffle bags and
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we put stuff in there we're gonna need
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for the next two and a half weeks we had
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this collapsible duffel bag I don't know
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if it's gonna be sturdy enough hopefully
01:09
we don't need to use it but this is one
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that we can pull out the secret weapon
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we got a backpack for Yoda this is a I
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think if the airline approved backpack
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another duffel bag there right now we
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just have for a litter box in this will
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probably just chuck it before we fly we
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can still buy a new one at the next
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place kids backpacks make sure we have
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everything from this room because we got
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to go downstairs now
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yeah look at the stretch both food
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there's I guess there's like a steak
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thing there's a pack of like ribeye
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we didn't plan right we didn't eat the
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food that we're supposed to because the
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weather got so crazy
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we'll see well we can't take it make
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sure we can't take it I don't know I
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don't even know if we get there
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uber will need a uber Excel which is
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gonna see lyft I mean yeah lift exhale
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$98 how much is a ribeye steak worth
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about 20 bucks but it's all of anyways
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so this would be exciting to learn about
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the public transit system here between
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Baltimore and Washington DC all right
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right this is how we're gonna travel to
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Europe like this everything that we have
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good they're gonna rain huh yeah you
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don't pull it off a little bit
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where you guys from
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over in California yeah West Covina is
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like 20 miles away maybe okay
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actually our friends live in between us
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and West Covina in Rancho Cucamonga so
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well we drove our camper from there to
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here and we were shipping it out of
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Baltimore to Europe to travel for a
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couple years and then we'll flying out
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of DC Wow so today's our moving day
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we're here now at the BWI rail station
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which is under construction I had to go
04:27
buy the ticket over there and like this
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temporary building and just so happens
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that it's also raining its first time
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it's rained since we've been here
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I'm not complaining because it's
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actually making the temperature nicer
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but today that we're out not in the
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air-conditioned room but it is making
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transporting all of our stuff very
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difficult heavy I see a train coming
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that's not our train though it's not our
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so this Amtrak train right here is also
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going to Washington DC which is where
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we're going hear that thunder
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except this train is like almost $60 a
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person because it's the Amtrak but the
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next train that's coming that'll be our
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train that is the mark train
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I forget what its stands for something
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Maryland area rail something but that's
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the train we're going on no takers also
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to Washington DC and a $7 a person so
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for five of us it's 35 bucks to go from
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here to Washington DC which is actually
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pretty reasonable considering how far of
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a drive it is except we need to be in
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Alexandria which is going to be another
05:57
train ride potentially from there to
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Alexandria so we'll see how far and how
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expensive that cost so far it's 35 bucks
06:05
had we taken a left to go from here
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directly to the next hotel that we're
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staying at I was gonna be like a hundred
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and ten dollars and on top of that we
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have like a fridge full of food which
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probably cost us like I don't know 50
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bucks that were abandoning because we
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can't carry it with us
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I have Marlene says had we gone with a
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left we would have been able to take all
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the food we'll get there in an hour so
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this whole travel day may not end up
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saving us necessarily any money but
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it'll be a good experience I hope it'll
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be one it'll be one to remember so just
06:45
doing some quick math here on the cost
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I mean I like to think that we were
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probably gonna get rid of all that food
06:59
anyway right there's not likely you're
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gonna be able to make anything to eat
07:05
with that pesto it's not likely we're
07:07
gonna well if I eat the hot dogs that's
07:11
just a few bucks the big things are like
07:13
the sauces the steak steak was like $25
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probably gone value the way cuz I think
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taking a lift would have taken like a
07:23
good hour and a half - disregarding what
07:26
we're losing in the food that we gave
07:28
away I think we're still it's gonna be
07:31
pretty close to about paying the same
07:34
thing once we get to Union Station in
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Washington DC we'll have to walk a few
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blocks over to another train station
07:41
which doesn't make sense to me what
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would unit station have all the trains
07:46
go there but we'll find out when we get
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there we'll walk over to the other Marx
07:49
train station which is gonna let us go
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on the yellow train that would take us
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south into Alexandria
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I think presumably under the Potomac
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River and it goes by like the Pentagon
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and it goes around over to Ronald Reagan
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Airport and then from Ronald Reagan
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Airport goes to Alexandria at the
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station about a mile away from where our
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next hotel is gonna be more likely than
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not we're gonna take a lift from there
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which I lugged in an estimated time and
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cost for a lift to go from the station
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is like $7 I think this is our train
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all right now we're on the train I'm not
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exactly sure when we get off how many
08:41
stops but I'm hoping they will tell us
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so going back to the whole cost thing
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this is $35 to right this train and
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presumably when we get on the next train
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it could cost us another $35 it's not 70
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bucks and if the lift prices don't spike
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the lift XL from the end of the next
09:04
train to the hotel will cost between 7 &
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8 dollars so we're looking at 77 78
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dollars maybe 80 dollars probably at the
09:15
most for today's travels that's with so
09:19
our sort of minimal walking the only
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walking will do is between the two train
09:26
terminals while we're in DC so let's
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hope that there's not gonna be a lot of
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rain during that section right when we
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get off of this train to walk to the
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hopefully that part that's the only
09:43
unknown right now so let's see how that
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goes do you have anything that
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how's your experience so far it's fine
09:49
just the rains kind of on our back
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but the rain also helped the temperature
09:57
we're worried about Yoda said she's
10:01
enough pet carry yeah so this is a
10:03
better day for travel
10:07
for sure but it's not like we were going
10:09
to leave her in any kind of heat anyway
10:12
show beware where we are yeah let's see
10:13
if we can find some cool scenery through
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these train windows
10:18
slight change of plans after
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reevaluating our situation for one stop
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away from Union Station in Washington DC
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that's gonna be the end of this line
11:09
when we get off of there I noticed that
11:11
it was a one-point two mile walk or a
11:15
lyft ride from there to the next train
11:18
station where the other train will ready
11:21
to catch goes down to Alexandria I was
11:23
gonna cost like nine dollars on lift
11:27
whatever the train ticket cost will be
11:29
for the next train we'll probably not
11:32
worth it because we'll have to take yet
11:34
another lift once we get there so just
11:36
between the two lists we're talking
11:38
about like 15 to 20 dollars and then I
11:39
just looked to see what what it will
11:43
cost for a lift to take us from Union
11:45
Station directly to the hotel in
11:47
Alexandria and that was gonna be like
11:49
$35 so it just makes more sense to go
11:51
directly from Union Station and take a
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lift and have the lyft driver drive us
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there that's all we're gonna do
12:01
make sure we're figuring all this out
12:03
all these different options out on
12:06
Google Maps you can say I want to walk I
12:07
want to ride a bike
12:10
I want to drive or I want to take public
12:11
transportation really confusing to look
12:14
at first because you don't know there's
12:17
a little train icon a little bus icon
12:18
and there's other different like colors
12:21
and different every city's got its own
12:24
different like transit systems so unless
12:26
you're familiar with your particular
12:28
city that you're in it's really
12:31
difficult to figure it all out until you
12:32
get there and once you get there then it
12:34
makes sense okay now this icon is for
12:36
the market rate which is what we're on
12:38
and this icon is for Amtrak that's why
12:40
we're on this icon is for their their
12:42
Department of Transportation bus system
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that's why they're on so now we're
12:46
starting to figure it out well we're
12:48
actually on one of these transportation
12:50
units so it's helpful but it'll take a
12:53
little getting used to with a little
12:57
learning curve there's that that's how
12:58
we're doing it if you're wondering one
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thing to know though about Google Maps
13:02
and using that to pick your public
13:04
transportation is that it doesn't tell
13:06
you the price so there's no easy way to
13:09
figure out which method is cheaper
13:12
because obviously there's a whole bunch
13:14
of different ways to get from one place
13:15
to another using public transportation
13:18
you still have to actually go to the
13:21
station go to the ticket counter or go
13:24
to the ticket machine and figure out the
13:26
whole cost there's just no way around
13:28
just got off the mark train now we're
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gonna go up try to find a lift to take
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us all the way to our hotel in
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hopefully they haven't gone on a surge
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okay we're now in the middle of
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Washington DC just got off the train
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came out of the Union Station terminal
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we're gonna try to figure out how to get
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a lift to take us up by the way you can
14:53
also get lift from within Google Maps
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which is kind of neat and I think
15:05
Bluebird has like a integration versus
15:09
lift just gives you like a estimate on
15:13
price takes you to the app to actually
15:16
book a trip takes people 31 dollars a 66
15:22
cents do it here we go
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it is a hyundai veracruz coming there's
15:29
a lot of clouds I mean look at those big
15:33
puffy clouds all over us or like in a
15:36
clearing with clouds all the way around
15:40
this so it's not raining right now while
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we wait which is nice if we didn't have
15:44
all of our stuff in Yoda with us we
15:46
could go do some sightseeing today it's
15:47
because the Capitol is right there and
15:50
actually today is when they're doing the
15:52
John McCain's body is actually in the
15:55
Capitol building right now as we speak
15:58
and I don't know if it's gonna be so
16:00
it's just today or if it's gonna be
16:04
big firetruck wonder what's happening
16:11
when you don't have the rain and you
16:15
know don't have the clouds it's hot
16:17
we got our room here at the knee hotel
16:33
where we're gonna be staying for 14 days
16:36
and then after we leave here we stayed
16:39
two days and another hotel closer to the
16:42
airport where we're gonna be at and then
16:46
hop on the airplane and go to Europe for
16:51
now we're gonna get apparently get very
16:54
familiar with this place for the next 14
16:57
days we're having to spend 14 days
16:59
anywhere in a row and we are in the road
17:02
finally here's a long travel day it'll
17:06
be a good base for us to kind of venture
17:10
out from here for now we're gonna unpack
17:12
our stuff and try to make this place
17:15
feel like home for a few days
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