José and Shay share how they love to travel the path less travel to find the adventures that best fits their travel style. In addition, they also share with us how they met and what it is like traveling while black. Check out the show on Youtube: https://youtu.be/FgOhkH-NrRw
In this episode, we have another amazing couple José and Shay. José and Shay share how they love to travel the path less travel to find the adventures that best fits their travel style. In addition, they also share with us how they met and what it is like traveling while black.
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Its deeper
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side is deeper because you was plotting.
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I was going to say.
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I was right
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I was right
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Go ahead. Go ahead. My fault.
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No, not how he got on.
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Then he was my roommate.
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They was like, he likes you.
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I was like, he doesn't like me.
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But we were just friends
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for like a good amount of years.
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And then I would say
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after I graduated, probably
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I want to say 20, 17
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when I started doing my traveling stuff.
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Anyway, they hit me up in my dreams.
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I Oh, that's a cool country.
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And you asked me questions here
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and there. Okay.
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Yeah, that's. Yeah.
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But not on some other type of thing
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No, that's okay.
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Okay. Yeah. Okay.
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Welcome to
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welcome to travel to the happy hour
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where everyone listen
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to me
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one of the challenges, the happy hour
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where we interview
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dope people
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doing dope things from around the world.
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And as you can see here,
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I have my amazing evening co-host,
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my queen,
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my wife to be Jacqueline Jackson.
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Tell you,
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I'll tell them a little bit
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about yourself.
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I'm Jackie Peuge's beyond.
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Oh, and we are accompanied by an
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amazing couple.
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Can you all tell us who you are
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and where you are from?
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You know of it.
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So my name is Shaynique.
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I go by Shay, and I'm from the Bronx.
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Okay, boogie down.
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My name is Jose from from Jetset Jose.
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I like travel.
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I like Shay.
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So
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I said, that's. That's what
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So where are you from, Jose?
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Yeah, I'm from.
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I'm from Westchester West.
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Just the boogie down.
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Meet West Chester.
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How did that come about?
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So we.
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We met in college.
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Yeah. Wow.
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Where would you go to school?
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We went to Pace University
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in Westchester. Mhm.
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And it didn't start all
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like how it is now.
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You know,
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I was just like a high bar type.
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Yeah, but, you know,
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we exchanged numbers.
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Talk about nursing
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because we're both nurses. Yeah.
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He was just the grade before me,
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so I was like, Oh, how is this professor?
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How is this class?
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Like, tips like that? Jobs.
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She begged him
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not why she's now she says,
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you know what?
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She was asking questions
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while he, she was, he was an hour.
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So she was like,
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well, what classes did you take?
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She was looking for information.
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She was a scheming.
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Okay.
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And he said,
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You're going across the work side.
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And I'm just saying.
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She said what? She said, Okay.
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And all the.
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So asking about professors.
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And then that led to
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you guys just being interested
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in each other at some point.
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Right. Well, let them tell.
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Oh, my boy, I want to know, fellas.
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And we probably going to have to hear
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both sides because we often find that
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one side of the story
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is different than the other.
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But let's see, her side is deeper.
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I think your side is deeper
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because you was plotting.
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I was going to say I would write.
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I would write.
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Go ahead. Go ahead. My vote.
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No, no.
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Now we go down.
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And then if it was my roommates,
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they was like, he likes you.
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I was like, he doesn't like me.
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But we were just friends
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for like a good amount of years.
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And then I was they
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after I graduated, probably
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I want to say 20, 17
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when I started doing my traveling stuff.
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Anyway, they hit me up in my DMs.
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Oh, that's a cool country.
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And you asked me questions
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here in the air.
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Okay. Trout. Trout.
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Yeah, that's. Yeah, but now jobs.
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Not unless some other tech thing.
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No that was
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okay.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Okay.
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So, so who made the first move?
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How did, how did it go from just friends.
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Okay. I'll see what you do. Right.
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Yeah.
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In her DMS. Yeah.
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I posted something on my story
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one day
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because I like to eat different food
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like sushi. I like to try and things.
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So a lot of my friends,
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they weren't down to do as I think
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I posted something
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one time like,
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oh, I need more friends
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who are willing to try new food.
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Yeah. You say friends.
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Yeah.
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Did you know
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you were like, I'm
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looking for a man
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look like take me out of
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mainstream figures.
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Got an 800 credit score
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so that was a process
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that most of it
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started off with the post.
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You know some of the stories
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as you apply to the story.
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I was like, yo,
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I might not have all those qualifications
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but I have a couple of
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those qualifications are always good.
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You know,
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it looks like that it's on days just
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the receipt.
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I'll pull the receipt.
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Sure.
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Like I got the text messages, I got DMS.
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Okay. Okay.
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And so from there we go ahead.
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Go ahead.
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So from that point, our friend did me
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and she was like, Yo,
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what do you think about
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what do you think about Shay?
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I was like, she's cute,
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you know, I was like,
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Chicago had it on our shoulders.
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You know, she she's smart.
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She working hard.
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So I was like, I
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so maybe this is like an opportunity.
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She's like, doing me a little side
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to, like, go for it.
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So then I saw her put on her story.
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She's like,
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oh, I want like a man
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to, like, take me out to,
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like, dinner and stuff like that.
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I remember that.
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Yeah. Yo, I don't think it was. It was
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it was an old friend
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you ain't seen already.
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I had friend
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all right?
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I was that friend.
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I was that when I had her up,
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I'm like, so.
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So it was like
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you trying to go,
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you know, meet up for, like, dinner
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and you're like, I cool.
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So it was, it was on a friendly move,
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so I just had to go to Google
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Cool down in Manhattan.
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And I was like, that's my spot.
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That's about 5 minutes.
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And we got a member point.
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I got a place to go, and I just got
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I just got 45 points off our dinner
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in Miami. Right.
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We talked about my
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now, but it got that they,
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they in different cities in the world,
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you know, so I just got to Duke.
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It was all cool, you know, it was just
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awesome, friendly vibes.
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I was like, Oh, she's cool.
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Let me just pay for it
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just because like,
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you know,
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it's the first time, like we,
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we hang out,
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you know, not,
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I'm not trying to make like any moves,
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anything like that.
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That's when I quit being a gentleman.
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Your question.
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I would always
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I was just being nice
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because I was ready to play AB
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and I was like, wait, you're paying.
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So we that
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then I'll take you for a walk by.
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Um, what's the name of it?
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The nine 11?
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Yeah, it's the nine 11 memorial
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is, is Battery Park
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city's like one of my favorite parts
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to go to late at night
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just because everything's lit up.
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You look across the river,
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you got Jersey City,
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all those buildings lined up,
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and it was just,
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it was just a cool vibe, you know?
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So from there,
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from there,
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we ended up going to another dinner.
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You said you wanted to bubblegum.
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Yeah, because I remember a minute
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so we did that for was whatever.
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But it was all about the vibes, you know?
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And then we was like, I.
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You like traveling? I like traveling.
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I lowkey kind of like,
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liked her and stuff.
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So I was like, Hey, let's make this trip.
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So we started going through, like,
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the whole trip planning process
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and ended up going to New Orleans
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and, you know, friendly
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right?
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Yeah.
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New Orleans is like
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the most romantic city
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in all, the reuniting city.
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It's out there. It's so
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and set up.
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Okay, go ahead.
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So she hooked me in right there.
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So, you know,
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wanted to go
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the phone was what I wanted to go to.
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Yes.
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So, so that and that's and so did
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y'all do a couple things on the trip
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or they still was friendly?
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I still with friends on the first date.
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The first they happened
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like on the second to last night.
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So as I made reservations
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at the best restaurant in New Orleans
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called Commander's Palace,
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you know,
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like I
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we going to make this happen,
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but it's one of the top restaurants.
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So as we getting dressed
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to leave the hotel,
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I was like, I guess what?
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This is a date. It's like, no, no.
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Because she was planning
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all flights
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to hotels, even dressed up for a date.
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I was like, wow, now you tell me yeah,
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I was a date.
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Now, let's be honest.
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We are in New Orleans, right?
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We in New Orleans as a travel trip.
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What time of year was it?
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Either way, it was hot.
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No matter what time it was.
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It was the week after my birthday,
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all night night.
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Okay. Okay.
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So y'all went on this day and then
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I was good vibes, food
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vibes, good food.
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She's about to say the food is good.
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Not every everything else
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falls into place,
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but they say the food is
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the key to the heart.
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That's what it is.
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Yes, that's the most visible.
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That's how you got her.
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We can talk about how we met,
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but it's not our time.
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Is y'all's time right now.
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All right, so you okay?
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We all went to New Orleans in the spring
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and came back as a couple.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dating.
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Like, my dating came my.
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It was pretty clear.
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And then we made it
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official couple months after that.
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Nice, nice.
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So New Orleans set the tone
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right for friends to dating.
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What was, like,
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the first place
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I went to as an official couple?
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And it was literally no,
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because that was it.
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I actually officially asked you to be
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my girl was the name of the restaurant
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is down
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in the financial district
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is Michelin starred
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Mr. Chow?
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No, no, it's like in some office
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building and. Yeah, yeah.
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And it's like it's a golden bar.
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Yeah, an alley music playing
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in the front.
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And then we switch our meals, right?
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Yeah.
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Because your food tasted better than me.
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And you like my
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system.
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You know, we do this all the time.
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Yo, I swear, for,
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like, the last two years,
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I've ordered drinks.
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I love drinks.
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I ordered a drink.
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I take a sip. I'm like, this is trash.
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She comes, she says,
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since, like, oh, it's okay. Yeah.
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I said, perjury.
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I'm like, yo,
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yo, let's switch.
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We better switch.
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At that point, man,
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I like drinking more
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the more that way works.
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Okay, so that was the
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so that was the date.
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But what was the first trip
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you guys took out?
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There's the couple as a couple
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now have been in March.
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No Jamaicans before that.
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Yeah.
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Oh, so yeah,
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I went to New Orleans and Jamaica
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employees.
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We did Philly
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as officially as a couple.
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It was Philly.
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Yeah.
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But international
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because it was 20, 21 visa
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and we haven't been international
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since Jamaica.
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Oh no, no.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Particles is recent.
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Yeah.
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So I mean causes attrition
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really counts as a trip.
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Jamaica Council.
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That's new.
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Yeah.
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Well leading to a relationship, right.
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So well, so so you got a New Orleans,
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you got Jamaica,
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you got these before that or so.
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Yeah, I was,
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I was just out here live in that job.
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Well, life
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without really
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what was that like this beautiful
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one of my favorite trips of all time.
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So what made your favorite
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it was just like the adventure.
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Like, we it was just like,
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I'll discover it
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because, like,
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the way I travel personally,
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I mean, both of us similar. Yeah.
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We have similar styles.
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But my main thing is like,
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as you can tell from my IG page
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is I don't really go where, like,
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all the people be going to like it.
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If a lot of people have been on like
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it's cool,
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but it doesn't really appeal to me.
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I like exploring.
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So Belize is a country
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not many people go to,
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and if they go, they always go to
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what's the name of the island
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is called Some Better.
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That's where all the people be going.
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So I was like,
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No, we're not going to go to
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one of these resort islands
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where everyone goes to.
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I was like,
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We're going to go mainland Belize
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and we're going to be up in the jungles.
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We're going to be
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I'm going to rent a car.
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She was like, No, don't rent a car.
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So once you out here, China,
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China, risk it all.
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It's the male or the eagle,
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obviously the male. Yeah.
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You know, the explorer
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either through jungles, bridges
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that is half collapsed,
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driving through that,
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like we drove all around the country.
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And it was just like that sense
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of event of adventure,
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you know, discovery. And
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there's nothing
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like being able to come back home
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and share the story together.
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You know,
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you have someone who actually
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lived with you
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even though she might be scared or sleepy
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half of the ride through,
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you know,
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the look,
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we got to know she was sleeping.
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You know, she just takes pictures of her.
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When I sleep,
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I don't share it with the neighbors
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so that
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we don't share the energy bag.
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Oh, just recharge.
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Yeah. Because we always on the go.
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So it was
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it was is fun sleeping, would you say?
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That Belize was your most memorable trip
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between the two of us? Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's probably number one 99 so.
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So outside of Belize.
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So you did Belize.
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You guys did some domestic trips
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like and you guys you
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so it sounds like it's a two year
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like a two year relationship
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so far between the time.
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Yeah.
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Now so like
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do you guys,
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have you guys gotten to a place
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where you're like, right,
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we got an a bucket list of places
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we want to visit.
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What are you like
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top five places to visit
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that you want to visit
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together, individually, together,
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have y'all even discussed that yet?
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For a couple of them.
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So yeah.
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Yeah, I got your own top five items.
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You can say
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so what's your separate top five?
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Say what's your top five?
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Then go for it asking you.
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So I know Brazil, India,
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we your top five big
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and
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small thing
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because I only have like a top three.
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That's not going to add more to the list.
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Oh, wanna give us a top
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three property group?
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Peru.
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Peru.
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You trying to go?
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You're trying to go to the
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little capsules on a mountainside
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to feature Picchu.
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We much of the city Machu Picchu.
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Yes, I know you're an explorer.
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You don't want to get out
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into the things.
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I get it. I get it.
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Okay. What's yours?
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Same.
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I want to go to
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every country in the world.
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So all our countries, they don't mind.
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You go right there.
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But if
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you if you want, like,
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the top of the top creme
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de la creme Cuba.
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I still haven't been.
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Oh, I want to go to school for a reason.
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It was amazing.
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Yeah. Yeah, I hear that all the time.
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I really want to experience that. Yeah.
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What was the second when you said Cuba?
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And then we just got caught
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in the moment of Cuba, so, yeah,
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South Korea likes so,
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like, phenomenal.
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Japan is up there.
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I want to go to Sao Tomé and Principe,
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which are islands off
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the coast of Africa.
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Like, phenomenal.
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Where else would I want to go?
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Everywhere.
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I want to go to
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what is called so Netherlands.
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As well.
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That would be nice.
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All those countries,
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I want to do them all. Yeah.
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So so we'll have your extensive
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if traveling like between a two.
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Yeah.
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Like,
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you know,
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one of the things
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that we tend
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to talk about in
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our communities
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is like traveling
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while black and brown right?
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And we all know what it looks like
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here domestically.
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Like you look different from the Anglos.
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They treat you different
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so like what has your experience
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been traveling separate
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and then traveling together
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I guess
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our first American
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I travel like
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I'm always where the locals is that
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usually when they see me,
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like I guess it's probably easier for me
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because I'm lighter skinned.
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Like I'm a I'm aware of the fact,
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but I don't
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I don't really see
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when I travel outside of the country,
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I feel more accepted
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as compared
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to like traveling through
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like the interior of this country.
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Yeah, but everything's all cool
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when people from other countries meet me,
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usually try to like learn
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the languages of whatever
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country at once.
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So I'm not fluent in Portuguese,
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but I studied Portuguese
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before going to Portugal
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and I was fluent in the language,
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so I was able to communicate
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with everyone out there.
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And it's more like a curiosity.
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They're like, Oh, you know, like,
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where are you from?
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And I tell them,
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I live in the States,
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but my family's all Puerto Rican.
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They're like, Oh, was that so?
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Also on the island,
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in the Caribbean and everything.
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And then they're like, Just in tree.
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And it just turns into like
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a whole conversation
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in terms of in the States,
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there's parts where it kind of
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gets kind of like,
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like West Virginia Sea and like all the,
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the, the Civil War flags, the red flags,
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Confederate flag.
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Yeah.
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It gets kind of like, oh, oh,
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I don't want to stop at this gas station.
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Right now.
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Let's keep going.
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So we get to like a bigger town
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and stuff like that.
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So even when I was with my
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when my frat rose,
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we was upstate
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in the middle of a snowstorm.
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And it was like
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already like 2:00 in the morning.
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We still have like
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another five hour drive
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to get back to the
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to get back to Brooklyn.
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And I remember
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I was like, yo,
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let me step out of the house
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so I can knock at the door.
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So to ask where the closest hotel is
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because I don't
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have no cell phone service,
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so I'll just tell them I got them.
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My boys, I'm like, yo,
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you guys want to knock on the door?
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And they're like,
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that's you just yeah, I was scared.
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I was scared
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some guy
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was going to come up with a shotgun.
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And so that I was like, Oh, man.
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But now some old lady
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who answered the door.
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So those are like
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the tense moments out here in the States
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internationally, like even in Belize,
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you hear about like that.
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There's like drug cartels and everything.
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Now that
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I wasn't scared at all,
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I felt like at home,
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I felt like I was in Puerto Rico.
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I felt completely safe.
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It was like natural to me.
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I really felt safe in Belize.
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Felt like home.
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But like, for me, well, because of Jose,
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I started to do more domestic travels
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because I only been to California,
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Nevada, Florida, New Jersey, New York,
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like right there, Connecticut.
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And that was about it.
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I never really ventured out into the U.S.
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because my parents
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are from the Caribbean.
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So I'm used to going to different
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Caribbean islands
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England because,
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you know, a lot of family go over there.
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But about that, that was it.
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But when I would travel Mexico, Greece,
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Bali, I felt fine.
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The only thing with overseas
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is that sometimes I guess
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because I'm dark,
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I don't know what it is,
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but I guess when I see people of color
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like to take pictures
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because I have
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and Bali and then also another time
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I can't remember
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where but happened a lot in Bali
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and China. Yeah, it was just weird.
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I mean my friend, three of us, black
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we're just walking down
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the street, people
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just taking pictures from their car,
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bringing their next
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we're just like, what's going on?
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This is like curiosity.
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They were like, Oh, we're trying to see
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because even in Cuba,
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I think one person was like all Beyonce
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fans. Here we go.
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Look at my we're Beyoncé and this
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is why
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we have
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celebrities I
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guess when they see
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people of color travel,
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they think they're rich
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or they are some type of famous person
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from where they're from
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because we're
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just like we're
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just regular people
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just trying to enjoy
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and have fun on vacation.
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But yeah, other than that, it's
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been overseas.
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I feel like it's been beautiful
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traveling as a couple.
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Like,
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have you guys feel like people
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treat you
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different when you're traveling together?
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I'm trying to.
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I'm trying to think of all the places
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that we've been so together.
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I think, though,
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I think they're just like, you know,
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excuse me, Spanish.
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That's about it
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from that lady and believe
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that was about it.
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Know that was that funny.
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You know,
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sick people tell you that
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he needs to teach you Spanish. Say
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I need to work on my Spanish name.
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I know, you know,
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I got a teacher Creole,
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so that's one another.
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We're working on it.
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You know, I think
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my Post-it notes of stuff.
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I'm going to stop
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speaking of just what it's going to be
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that's going to be rough.
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I think with no like in traveling
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as a couple where
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in like in terms like race where like
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I saw like the most notice in us
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was probably Puerto Rico, though.
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It was, but it was it in a negative way.
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It was more like in a positive way
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because they were like,
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remember like,
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oh, you know,
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are you from Puerto Rico, playa? Yeah.
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And you're like, nah,
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it's from the Caribbean.
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And then they were like, interested
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by all the islands in the Caribbean.
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So that's probably it was
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it was a positive. Yeah.
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The the interesting part
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about that is, like,
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some Latin American countries,
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they don't automatically assume
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the person is from there.
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Because there's a
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there's a small subset of people
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from those countries
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that don't think that Afro-Latinos exist.
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Right.
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Well,
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I mean,
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I rephrase that
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to say that they don't exist,
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but they're not acknowledged as much.
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Right.
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And so there's this huge push
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to recognize that
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like Afro-Latino is a thing.
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And, you know,
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because when you look at the media most,
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it immediately looks like Jose,
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no matter
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if it's Cuba,
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Dominica public,
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if it's Puerto Rico, it's Belize, Brazil,
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like the entire Latin America,
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they have a look that they want people
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to look like. Right.
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And so it's interesting
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that you mentioned that they were asking
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whether she was from Puerto Rico because,
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you know, they're Puerto Ricans.
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I don't think they're black.
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You know what I mean?
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So and it's and it's
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and it's it's interesting that
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we you you mentioned that.
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So with
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that being said,
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like what has your new normal look like?
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Because prior to the pandemic,
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we get up, we go, we travel, we move.
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We don't have to worry about anything.
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What has change from
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then to now for you guys?
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More
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easily?
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Right now, we're in the
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we're in the middle
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of like planning a trip
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and it's like, yo,
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what countries require
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like a which test to go in yeah.
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Some place like more
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so a couple of months to go.
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But they were looking into like
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the vaccinations.
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Sure.
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Like a lot of countries
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where like
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even if you're vaccinated or not,
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you still need a COVID test.
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Certain countries like Mexico,
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you don't need anything.
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You just show up, you go.
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Yeah, but coming back
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is a different story.
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You got to test within one day.
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Let's
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see a little bit
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more planning on that part.
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Like, all right,
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if we're going to go,
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where are we going
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to find like these tests now?
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We're going to come back within one day
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so we could get on that flight
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to come back
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because we both where you can't
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just be missing work
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just like that, you know, right
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so it requires
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a little bit more planning, I would say.
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Okay. Okay.
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So what is some travel?
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So like before a pandemic
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we all would have a different tip
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for somebody that was like
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that's looking into travel, right?
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We know that's changed a little bit.
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So let's kind of like provide
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the audience
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with like some travel tips,
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how to get started,
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what to look out
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for now that we're still in a pandemic.
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Right, because people are
00:24:04:19 - 00:24:05:15
still on the fence
00:24:05:15 - 00:24:07:13
on whether they should travel or not.
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Right.
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So like what are some substituting
00:24:09:23 - 00:24:10:21
you will provide to
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encourage somebody to travel?
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I would
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say just do your research honestly.
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Like even before COVID,
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you should research the language
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customs traditions like certain certain
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things in the U.S. maybe.
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Okay. But overseas is not okay.
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Like you always have to do your research
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and then
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if you thinking about going somewhere,
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check the numbers
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the positive
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cases, the rules that they are enforcing.
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Because I know when I came back
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from yeah,
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from Puerto Rico,
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it was a lot like hand sanitizer stations
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I feel like they were more strict
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with COVID.
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Then when I went to Las Vegas,
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like a few days after Puerto Rico,
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people had no masks walking around.
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I was like,
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I don't even feel safe in my own country.
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Like I know what a RICO is, the US.
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But to me
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it's like it feels like
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another Caribbean island,
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like it just feels like it's own country.
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But I know it's not but in Las Vegas,
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it was just like, wow, so, so different.
00:25:04:07 - 00:25:05:02
So I would say
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definitely do your research
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wherever you're deciding to go
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because you just never know.
00:25:09:02 - 00:25:10:06
And things always change, though.
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Always plan for the unexpected.
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Yeah, that's a good tip that research do.
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You're going
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to be prepared, not surprise, you know?
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Yeah, right. Right.
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And so as the as couple, what is that?
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What was it I thought it was done.
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You got,
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um, I would say
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based on like the situation,
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like understand what your
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comfort zone is like
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just because
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you see people
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going to different countries,
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you know, you know,
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if their jobs allow them
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to have a little bit more flexibility
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and stuff like that,
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do what's comfortable for you
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if you don't feel comfortable
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going to another country
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because they have high positivity rates,
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yeah, that's fine.
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You don't got to go
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that maybe you could switch it up
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to a different destination
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that's more to your, your suiting,
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you know, or even,
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you know, travel domestically.
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That's what I would have done
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for like the last two years.
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I mean, right now
00:26:05:00 - 00:26:05:13
we're sort of planning
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our first international trip
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since before the pandemic.
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But hey,
00:26:10:23 - 00:26:11:22
these last two years,
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we didn't like a whole lot of exploring
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within the US
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and it's so, so much more to see.
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You know, we can
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so just go
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based on your own country's zone.
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Okay.
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So and then
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and then what would be a tip
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for you guys as a couple,
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like four couples
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trying to challenge, trying it out
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for the first time? Like, yeah, yeah.
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When you have the gusto,
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the most romantic city in the world
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while in the United States that is
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what would you say to,
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you know, a young couple
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to kind of
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let's just take that leap to travel.
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Yeah.
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What's a couple travel to expectations?
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Oh, that would be
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that's that's a big one
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as I set your expectations
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because if you want to be adventurous
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and your boyfriend
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go find that adventurous, then it's like,
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how is it going to work?
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Because I know
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I totally went to Puerto Rico
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all into the zip lining.
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I know you're
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a little nervous about that.
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I know what I was hoping brings up,
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like, adventure love.
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Like I swim. He doesn't.
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So I'm not going to say,
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okay, we're going to school.
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With Dove in.
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Like, you know,
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you got to be realistic
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of what the person may want to do.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Oh, there's that.
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Or if the person
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only wants to relax beyond the poolside,
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but the person wants to go out,
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I feel like you got to say, okay, maybe
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half the day we relax, have to go out.
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Like you have to set
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some type of expectation
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of what you want for the trip,
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because if not, then it's
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going to go back.
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Compromise, compromise on that part
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and be kind to each other.
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You know,
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I know it goes without saying
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but it's kind of like,
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what was I going with?
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This one is like, for example,
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we're planning a trip right now, right?
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And it can't just be like all one sided
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all the time, like,
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you know, someone picking the country.
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That's because
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then the other person
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are going to feel left out
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so in just in your interactions,
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don't be like, oh,
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are you always picking a place?
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You know, it's like, you know,
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compromise, come together,
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write down everything
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and see where you have common ground
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and then whichever location
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fits the mode of both places.
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Hey, that might be the most ideal
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vacation to take together.
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That's awesome. Awesome.
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So tell us,
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where do we find your
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what you got going on?
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I mean, you're air told us
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where are you going next?
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But don't feel free to tell
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so repeatedly. Yeah,
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yeah.
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Repeat it again. Where are we going?
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Mexico. Oh, okay.
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I guess
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Mexico also
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we're in the middle of planning it, so.
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Okay, so
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so tell us where we go
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find you guys individually
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and then you know what
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you guys got going on
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so you can find me.
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I should venture
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right now, I'm not posting as I used to
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because I have other stuff going on,
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but eventually
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I'll try to return there,
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but venture for, like,
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my old travels that I've done and tips
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and tricks with those. Okay.
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And for myself, I'm Jetset Jose
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I'm on Instagram YouTube,
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Twitter, Pinterest,
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you name it, I'm on there.
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And my whole thing
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is just like finding, like, hidden gems
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and going to places
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that most people don't
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even think about, like, journey into.
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Okay.
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Awesome. Awesome.
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Well,
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I appreciate you both for jumping on
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and taking
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the time out
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to tell us about your stories.
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Stay on for a second with your mind