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So I'm coming at you today from a different location because I want to talk to you about something a little bit different and I'm tired of doing it always from my home office
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It's time to finally get out and enjoy the world a little bit. Now I'm going to apologize ahead of time for the sound because I am in the middle of a park and I can't account for what traffic and things might come by
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So please excuse that. But let's go ahead and dive into what I want to talk to you about today and that is expanding your options for vacation
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So the reason this came up is I was desperately looking for some vacations and because of budgetary reasons, I needed to look at someplace close
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Also, I didn't want to travel for very long to get there. So I wanted something close that I could do that would be easy
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The problem was I was looking at places that I had been to a thousand times and I already knew everything that was going on and it was the same things that were available to do
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There was nothing new to see or experience or do. and it actually had me thinking about how we can actually create new opportunities, create new
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vacation choices even if we're just going local. So this kind of idea didn't just stem from that
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it also stemmed from COVID because when we were at home for so long and bored out of our minds
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I remember I was scrolling through Groupon and came across something for scuba diving getting certified to go scuba diving And we always loved to go snorkeling in the past so I thought oh hey let go ahead and do this
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It'll give us something to do, and maybe we'll get certified. And I live in California, so we could
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just go to the beach nearby. Well, we went ahead and did that. We got certified. It was so much fun
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It was so cool. But one thing that I didn't realize is that little new hobby that we expanded upon
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or that we tried and got certified with opened up an entire new world of possibilities for vacation
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Now we can explore an entirely new world quite literally. So anywhere we go, we can add scuba
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diving and expand what is possible for us. So whether that is to a new destination, we're going
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on a vacation next month where we're going to go scuba diving in the Caribbean. You can even
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scuba dive in rivers, in craters, in lakes, it just opened up a whole new possibility of cool
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things to do. So now with this hobby, not only does it open possibilities in those cities of
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things that we can do, but it also creates a new genre of vacation that we can do. So we will seek
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out opportunities to go explore all of the coolest places in the world to go scuba diving
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whether it's the Great Barrier Reef or some really cool shipwreck or just an excuse to go
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diving in every country in a certain continent or on every continent perhaps
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It opened up a whole world of possibilities but it didn stop there A few months later my daughter and her boyfriend were doing indoor rock climbing and invited us along just to see what it like and we went and it was
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so much fun. It not only is it a great workout because it's a really hard workout but it's
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actually really interesting because each route that you do on the indoor rock climbing is a
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puzzle in and of itself so not only are you trying to figure out how to do it in and growing
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growing in strength and being able to do it, it actually makes it very interactive and fun
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It doesn't really feel like a workout. It just feels like something you're trying to accomplish
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and you're wanting to solve the puzzle. And we loved it so much that we joined our local gym
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And as you can see, it's not always pretty, but every time we go, we're getting a little better
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and growing in our strength and being able to do more. So once again, this new hobby now
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has opened up an entire new world of vacation possibilities. Whether it is trying out cool new
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indoor rock climbing gyms, which there are some crazy amazing indoor rock climbing gyms available
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all across the world, or it is exploring outdoor rock climbing. Whether it's something local
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because we live in Southern California, so going to somewhere like Joshua Tree or Yosemite
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or going across the world, going to Switzerland or Scandinavia or South Africa, all these different
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places now have opened up to us because we started this new hobby and now we can take
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that next step and explore and create new things to do But it doesn have to be physical If you not a physical kind of person the new hobby that opens your possibilities does not have to be physical
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It could be something like if you love baseball, maybe make it your mission or open your vacation
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possibilities to see every stadium in America. Or if you like racing, go to every race in America
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or just go to the big ones, Daytona or the Monte Carlo or Le Mans, whatever it is. If you explore
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new hobbies, new things. You can use that to open your vacation possibilities. And from the smallest
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hobby, maybe you collect, I don't know, stamps. Go collect stamps from each country in the world
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or every continent or every state in America or whatever it is that you want to do. Think about
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the things you've always wanted to learn, you've always wanted to delve into, or the things you
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already do and turn it into ways that you can create a vacation out of it. How can you use it
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to expand your vacation? And when you are going on vacation, how can you use it to create even more
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amazing things to do that will be memorable, that will help to create absolutely fantastic vacations
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Because that's what we do here. That's what we're interested in is helping you to create
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amazing vacations. So if you are planning a vacation this year, this video is going to be
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the one you're going to want to take a look at. And if you enjoyed this video, if you can give us
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a thumbs up so we can reach more people. And other than that, thank you so much for stopping by today
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I will see you on the next video. Take care. Bye-bye
