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RICH: My father once said to
me, stand still and stare,

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and you will notice things.

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[music playing]

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It is absolutely true that if
you stand still longer than you

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would otherwise be
comfortable doing,

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you will see some
very subtle things.

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JULIE: I think being
a designer really

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does change the
way you experience

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everything because you're
constantly looking.

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Here, we get to design for us,
and we get to build the space

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that we really want to be in
and focus on the details that

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are important to us.

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You do notice more when you
take the time to find it.

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[music playing]

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[splashing]

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[music playing]

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I've been coming to Maine with
my husband, Rich, for 26 years

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or so and just fell
in love with the area.

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RICH: I grew up
in Southern Maine.

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I spent summers
here in Machiasport

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because my father was a
teacher, and he got summers off.

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So we would come up here,
where we have deep roots

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going back 150 years even.

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He would take us
lobster fishing.

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It's certainly a part
of the culture up here.

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Most people are fishermen.

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[music playing]

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This area is trapped in time.

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So my daughter really does get
to experience the same things

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I experienced when I was here.

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JULIE: I also love that
it's really unplugged.

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If we're out on a hike, just
stop and take in the view

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and look at the trees and
look around on the ground

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and, you know, try
to notice things.

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[water rushing]

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We live in Providence,
Rhode Island.

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And it's a solid eight hours.

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It usually takes us
10 to 12 because we

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like to meander along the way.

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[music playing]

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We always make it a point to
take the coastal road as well.

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We have our favorite
stops along the way.

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GIRL: Thank you.

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Thank you.

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JULIE: Places that Rich stopped
at when he was a kid, now

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our daughter loves.

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The journey is definitely
part of the draw.

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RICH: When we
bought this cottage,

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we bought it just
because of the view.

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All the buildings
face the water.

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The boat is a lounge
and a library,

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where we listen to records,
read books, and just hang out.

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The main house is used for
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being able to cook, being
able to sleep in a large bed.

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And the third space, the bunk
house, is just a single room.

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We had the boat well
before we had the cottage.

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We discovered this boat sitting
on the side of the road.

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It was falling apart.

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It looked pretty lonely

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JULIE: Well, every time we
drove by it, we would stop,

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and we would look at it,
and we would think, what

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could we do with this boat?

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We need to do
something with this.

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You know, the designers
and us, we need

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to do something with this boat.

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And so we looked at several
properties in the area.

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We came upon this
place, and we knew

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right away that it was perfect.

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RICH: Partly because
this home is so simple,

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such a minimal shape,
that it allowed the boat

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to be sort of the centerpiece.

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JULIE: We designed
everything before we

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put the boat in place.

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You know, if you
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the dock has a relationship
with the front of the house.

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The width of the dock
lines up perfectly

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with the front of the
house so that you have

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this really nice, even flow.

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[gulls squawking]

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We rebuilt a lot of the
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because it was just
structurally unsound.

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RICH: It has a long
cabin because it

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was used for scallop fishing.

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It would contain
things like scuba tanks

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and other gear
for the fishermen.

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JULIE: Watch your head
coming in the door.

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RICH: This is a lounge.

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You're meant to really
relax, drink, read.

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This boat is basically our
permission to be playful.

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I don't belong steering a ship,
a real ship, out on the water.

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So this is a good
way for me to--

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Pretend.

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--pretend to be a captain.

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[chuckles] The boat is
something of an homage

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to my father, who was a
writer and, of course,

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obsessed with the sea.

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His ashes were scattered
in that body of water

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that the boat is
pointed towards.

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When we're on it,
we can think of him.

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In a way, we were
pretty ignorant.

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And in a way, I'm glad
that we didn't know more

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about how difficult it
would be to renovate a boat,

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keep a boat steady and secure.

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JULIE: Fishermen take their
boats out of the water

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all the time, and they put
them on these boat stands.

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But we're also going to be
living, you know, in a sense,

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on this boat.

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So it can't be askew.

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It has to be perfectly balanced,
and it has to hold our weight.

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We were also concerned
with the winds,

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so that boat is strapped
down, tied down, chained down.

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RICH: Multiple supports.

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JULIE: Yes.

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Here it is standing.

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And we've been enjoying
it for years now.

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JULIE: We're two
creative people.

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Yeah.

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And when we put
our heads together,

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we can come up with
some great things.

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So it just took time to figure
out what that was going to be.

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[rumbling]

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The cottage itself is about
15 feet wide by 40 feet long.

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So it's compact.

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[music playing]

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So we did a lot of
work to the cottage.

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When we first
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it was actually covered in
a light-gray vinyl siding.

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RICH: It was a
pretty new structure.

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So using a lot of
wood, it helped

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kind of create a
sense that it's been

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here a lot longer than it has.

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You know, the boat's quite
old, so we wanted it to,

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you know, all feel like
it came from the same era.

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JULIE: When you
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there's the open
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room, dining room, kitchen.

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I think the first
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is the connection to nature.

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I mean, I could sit
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just staring out the window
and watching the light change

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and the birds fly by outside.

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I love that corner.

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JULIE: We are both designers.

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I'm a lighting designer,
so I'm always looking up.

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RICH: I'm a graphic designer.

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I also teach at the Rhode
Island School of Design.

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My memories of this area from
the '70s, the few objects

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we have play well with,
you know, the time period

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that we're trying to evoke,
which is '60s, '70s Maine.

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Here in this dining
nook, we have a few items

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that are dear to us.

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One is this table.

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And what's distinctive
about it is that the chairs

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nestle into the table.

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It really does have sort of
this notion of economizing,

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you know, but with style.

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The primary bedroom,
another light-filled space.

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JULIE: We had to go with a
full-size bed in this room

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because if we went with
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able to shut the bedroom door.

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RICH: If we had a phone,
it would be a dial phone

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because they're analog,
because you use your hands,

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because you have to, you
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you know, with these objects.

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The choices we've
made in this home,

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there's some quirky stuff.

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There's stuff that people
won't have seen before.

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And that's a way of
slowing people down.

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[water rushing]

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This is our back deck, where
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and our morning coffee.

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[music playing]

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You have this beautiful, lush
field that just meanders down

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to the edge of the
water and creates

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this beautiful foreground
for the ocean view.

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RICH: The boardwalks
wind around the property

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to slow people down
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conscious of their environment.

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The bunk house is the latest
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that we did to balance the
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actually, more space to use.

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The bunk house is
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mostly for younger people.

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It kind of feels like camp.

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We even have
walkie-talkies as a way

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to communicate to people
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JULIE: We actually
bought a shed.

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And on the other half, we have
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and the yard stuff.

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But then we finished
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We put in this rectangular
window, which perfectly

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frames the view of the boat.

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And then we put
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on this side, which gives
you the view of the ocean.

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[music playing]

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You want to stop and look.

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I think that's the
biggest difference here,

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is that it does slow you down.

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Your eyes are always open.

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Cheers.

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One.

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What's really important to
me is that my daughter also

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fall in love with
this area and start

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to create those
memories that I have

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because I know how powerful
those memories are.

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JULIE: But we
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fortunate to have
this place to come to,

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to have the opportunity.

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[music playing]

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[water rushing]