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[@JonathanCarlin]

What should we name the deer?

[@tomnook1341]

Name it Carl!

[@isabellehanson8269]

Either Samuel or James

[@carter7359]

I think the obvious ones are James and Bambi but I like those

[@inevitablynevermore]

This isn’t very creative but prongs

[@AgVossIRL]

Dave

[@melinap3284]

The rock music during that tour killed me, especially during that caterpillar clip 😂😂

[@sadhbhcorr942]

I agree the caterpillar looks awesome! But the iguanas are even cooler!

[@morgangobin9985]

Luke’s highlight of the trip: a puddle. My highlight of your video: watching the magical moment of Luke discovering a puddle. The joys of childhood! 😊

[@WritingIsMyPassionx]

Totally get where Beth is coming from - but on the bright side: Next year you might be picking the place Luke will remember as your family vacation spot growing up!

[@twiceborn_by_grace]

I love the look that Luke gave Beth after taking that bite of cake. It look like he was thinking “Hmm, not bad mom.”

[@tega6278]

Nate Rivera I 100 percent agree it was sooo cute

[@sadhbhcorr942]

@@tega6278 It was the cutest thing ever!

[@Charlie-vj9qg]

Beth's salt at Luke for not sleeping past 5:30

[@najrenchelf2751]

The expectation subVERSION at the part „that’s the deer“ with the music KILLED ME! 😂 Also, PUDDLES FTW! 🙃

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

It's true, you can't escape fast food. Especially if you're driving because of the rest stops. I think fast food chains do that on purpose

[@sadhbhcorr942]

Also they are so addicting!

[@isabellehanson8269]

Yay! These vlogs made my weeks so much better!

[@meganfaris1264]

J's vlogs are the only reason I look forward to Mondays! 💙

[@sadhbhcorr942]

Best thing about my Mondays!

[@isabellehanson8269]

same

[@kingrybread370]

My family + my aunt, uncle, and two cousins used to go camping every year at an amusement park called Knoebels but when my family moved we stopped going. Its something that I miss so much, I wish I could do it again, even just to have one more experience there now that I'm a little older

[@Adalie_Vazquez_]

Today we learned some magizoology and that Luke loves puddles....that's concludes our daily lessons😂

[@chocolatecake6434]

Lucky! I love Florida! Luke is so cute😍😍😍

[@sadhbhcorr942]

He sure is 😊😊😊

[@tjhartley2599]

My grandparents use to live in the Outer Banks in NC and we spent every summer out there growing up. They have since moved and I went back after college after about a 5 year break from OBX and it's crazy how much the people make the experience what it is and not neccesarily the place itself. So many memories that you just cant replace or recreate without the people that made it what it was.

[@mariatapias9835]

I had a vacation house I used to go to nearly every week end growing up. My aunt got married there, we had a pool, a bunch of dogs and birds. My happiest childhood memories are all there. We stopped going when I was 12, and I miss it so much! It was really bittersweet moving away and I get so nostalgic thinking about it!

[@trying_my_bestest]

I don't normally enjoy watching vlogs but yours are just so much fun and I love watching them. Seeing little kids enjoying life and discovering it's simple pleasures, like puddles, is such a beautiful thing.

[@laurareeves1757]

Your tours are amazing 😂. Legit made me laugh out loud. Luke will get better with the water! My 3 year went through the same issues and this summer, he’s had zero fear of the water. He’s super cute!!

[@mouseguin]

There was a place we went to when I was a kid because it was owned by my dad's school and he could rent it out super cheap for a week. It was in the middle of nowhere with one shop a mile away and a pay phone for communication. But there was this lovely little river over the road and it was the best week of the year. Sadly the guy who looked after it passed away so the school sold it back to the local town and now no one uses it and it's sad. Good memories were had there.

[@lindah.p.7506]

Guys wasn’t yesterday Luke was crawling and now he’s jumping in puddles ?!? What’s next, Luke graduated college like what is time

[@trying_my_bestest]

My family always moved a lot when I was a child. We moved from the US to Kenya to France so we never had one specific spot to always go back to. The longest we ever stayed in one place was 6 years and the only traditional vacation spot was at Diani beach on the coast of Kenya which is just gorgeous, white sand as far as the eye can see. When we moved to France we couldn't really go back there anymore so we stopped. I always envied people who had consistant traditions and vacation spots and I never considered that at one point they would have to stop and never go back when they are adults and the sadness that would bring with it. Luckily, we are planning on going back to the same place at that beach next summer! It will be so fun to revisit all my childhood nostalgia. Thanks for sharing part your traditions with us.

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

My family used to go to various cabins in th Ozarks when I was a kid. Not too much fun, being just the 3 of us, and none of us were super active (and my mom was blind). I do remember my dad taking advantage of those time-share companies getting a free night at one of their properties, and only having to listen to a presentation.

[@josephhendley3219]

I live near the Ozarks

[@egs644]

The little squawks Luke made while splashing😍 adorable!

[@jillhagen]

The tour is fantastic! 😂😂

[@Kaira90211]

When I was a kid, my parents had a boat. My dad's side of the family owned a property near Lake Hartwell in SC. We had friends that had a house and dock on the lake, and they let us use it all we wanted. Our property was just across the street. We had a HUGE camper there and during the summer, every weekend (if not just an entire week), we'd go down to the camper and stay. We'd go out on the boat and fish. My dad would pull my brother, our cousins, and I on floats behind the boat. My uncle had a jet ski and the kids got to take turns riding on it with him. And of course we swam a lot. One day while my dad and a couple of my uncles were out fishing, 3 kids on a jet ski ran into the boat. The boat and my family members were fine, but the kids that had been on the jet ski had to be taken to the hospital for some pretty bad injuries. The oldest of those kids was 15 and the accident was their fault. No more than 2 people should ever be on a jet ski at a time and the jet ski should be driven by an adult. Anyway, after that accident, the lake lost its appeal to the adults. Not too long after that, our friends that let us use their dock moved away, and the people that bought their property wouldn't let us use the dock anymore, and our other friends with a dock wouldn't let any of the kids use it without a life jacket on, not even to just stand on the dock and fish, so it lost its appeal to the kids and we stopped going altogether. After a couple of years, my dad sold the boat. Shortly after, he sold the truck he used to haul it. Then many more years after the family sold the camper, and not too long after, the property that they camper used to sit on, which brought everything to a total close. I have many fond memories of our era of the lake.

[@lyshbennett2595]

We would go to this hotel in Seaside Heights New Jersey every single year before I was even born..but then that Jersey Shore show happened, and it got way too crowded and then somehow the Boardwalk up or down ....so now it's just not the same ....when I was a kid that was my favorite place on Earth

[@lorapodgorny1114]

30 seconds in and all I can think is THANK YOU BETH FOR BEING EVERY MOTHER EVERYWHERE!!!

[@zachvetter6769]

My family and I use to go to Longbeach Washington every summer; from the time I was 5 until I was 16. I find it to be bitter sweet looking back at my memories.

[@deniseclair6100]

The matching shirts were awesome, well done 😁 My family went camping to all different parks when I was growing up, so we didn’t get super attached to any one in particular. But I am very nostalgic about my grandparent’s homes, since they have both been sold in the estate sales; tons of happy memories!!

[@TheBakerbelle]

Yes, the crunchy bits in ice cream cakes are the best! I had an ice cream cake last year for my birthday, the first one I'd had in over a decade, and it was just as amazing as I remembered.

[@candycemonroe7345]

What a post credits scene! I almost switched videos. 😂

[@AllyHerron]

As a kid, we used to stay in the same condo every year at the beach, and then we kind of just stopped going when I got into high school because my mom went back to get her masters and she couldn’t go. We haven’t been back since the summer after my seventh grade year and I’m about to be a senior, and so whenever I think about summer I still think we’re going to this place and we just never do, and you’re right, it is bittersweet. I loved going and made so many good memories, but this leaves room to make new traditions once I move out.

[@AllyHerron]

that was probably a lot of run on sentences whoops

[@sadhbhcorr942]

The ending is so cute! Luke is trying to read... awww

[@biancah2171]

Wait why did you guys have to stop going? Keep it up. Family trips like that matter. Those memories mean the world. I lost my dad at 15 and family trip memories are some of my favorite. Dont stop them!

[@veronicareilly7112]

Cutest puddle jumper I've ever seen. WE used to go to Lake George in NY in the summers. We still did this until I moved to Florida 20 yrs ago and haven't been since.

[@7strSlnger678]

My family used to go to San Felipe down in Baja California every year for literally DECADES. We stopped going in 1980 (I was 8) but have returned a couple times throughout the years. We miss it, big time...

[@jazzc5632]

Love the vlogs and they are the cutest family. Did he ever say why there is a possibility they won't come back?

[@maggiegoiran]

Love how Beth is the ultimate mum wiping down the tray tables and windows on the plane :)

[@Kitashi1618]

My family used to go to a beach house that belonged to my great grandfather when he used to go crabbing in Dillon Beach, CA, & passed on to his son (my great uncle). We went there 1-2 times a year until I was in Jr. High, & I have wonderful memories of going there. There are times I wish I could go back, but mostly I don’t want to because I don’t want to taint the good memories I have of being there.

[@myra7011]

My dad was on the volunteer fire department when I was a kid and one of the perks of that was a stay at Firemen’s Lodge, which is in our town on one of the lakes and is this big secluded area surrounded by trees and the lake and it has 4 tiny little cabins, and every fireman’s family got a 2 week stay in one of them during the summer. I think the land was donated to the fire department in like the 1920s or 30s and they cut down all the trees and built everything, which is amazing because nowadays a piece of land that size on that specific lake would probably go for like half a million dollars. We always stayed with the same other 3 families and we always stayed the same 2 weeks, the last week of June and the first week of July, meaning we were always there over the 4th. A few years ago my dad retired from the fire department, which obviously means we don’t have that stay anymore, and it’s always really weird not being there on the 4th, because like when I was a kid it was not the 4th of July unless we were at the lodge swimming all day, going out on the boat to watch fireworks, and having a chimney fire, s’mores, and sparklers before bed.

[@kennedy78]

Y’all are just the cutest family ❤️ and Luke is getting so big!

[@fantasystatsguru5278]

Love the updates on your Pokémon Go experience. I went to Florida every Christmas growing up and I loved it every time. Once my Grandparents were not able to go any longer it was bitter sweet that tradition ended. But it made way for us going every other year to somewhere else awesome in the world. Australia, Israel/Egypt, South America, plenty of fun exciting new places because we started doing something different. Some day though I will have to go back to Treasure Island, FL to where I have so many childhood vacation memories.

[@SereniaSaissa]

My family never had a specific place that we went to every summer. Our preference was to travel to and explore a new part of the country every summer!!!! as a result, I have a ton of memories and tons of photos of some great places!! Luke is adorable - especially on the plane home reading the safety brochure!!!

[@moxiedawn4370]

LOL, love Luke. Water is a thing! I spent most of my life scared to death of it, and it has only been in my mid to late 40s that I figured out water is awesome. It took some work with a persistent husband. Puddles are great. Please don't be one of those parents who doesn't let your child play in the rain. Let him play in the rain. Playing in the rain is awesome, and not just for kids. Everyone should play in the rain.

[@Starrylyra47]

Luke and the puddle made me chuckle. Mom said that I was obsessed with puddles when I was his age.

[@lenapeh8183]

We went to the same camping site every year from when I was very little til I was in my mid-teens. Then I went back a few years ago (I am 38 now) with my head full ov childhood memories. Just to find that it looked nothing like it did when I was little... I was sooo disappointed... but I will always have the fond childhood memories

[@RebekahLeiplein]

My family lived in Paradise for years and years and only moved away after my older brother was born. We used to visit all time to visit family and friends. Paradise was a small town and was totally devastated in November by a fire (We live in Northern California). Its really sad that all the things we used to do are gone.

[@jennamorgan5551]

Excellent tour. 10/10. Would recommend.

[@valerielinares2068]

Is there a place my family and I used to go to all the time growing up that I don't go to anymore? Yes. I grew up going camping with my extended family on my dad's side. There is one particular campsite that was always our favorite. Of course, it was in the forest among the tall Pondarosa pines. There was a huge boulder all us cousins used to like to climb on, and the campsite was sort of set on the side of a hill. If we walked down the side of that hill, we'd find a small stream at the bottom. We'd spend hours there, looking for crawdads and whatever else we could see in the stream. There are so many great memories at that campsite. But sadly, my dad passed away back in 2012. Afterwards, my mom didn't want to go camping anymore. It was too hard for her. She did go once with my brothers a little while afterward, but, it was too hard emotionally. Just a month or so ago, one of my dear aunt's passed away. She LOVED going camping. Here's a little side fact: After my dad passed away and my mom didn't want to go camping anymore, the rest of my extended family who went with us still went camping. But, ever since my dad passed away, they hadn't been able to get our same campsite but would get others on the same property instead. However, this last time they did get that same campsite we grew up going to. So, this aunt, one of her last wishes was to have a little bit of her ashes spread when they went camping again. So, not only were her ashes spread at the property we would camp at, but, also the exact same campsite - I don't think that's coincidence. Me, my mom, and my sister did go up to the cite for the day (it's only about 2 hrs away), and it was bittersweet. It was emotional as my cousins put a little bit of my aunt's ashes in the ground, and let some go in the wind. But, it was also nice to reminisce and catch up with everyone.

[@thomsonclan5878]

Aw first puddle 😍 My grandparents used to live next to a river, we would go punting and fishing, but they knocked down her cottage and built a university 🤷🏽‍♀️ I went back after she died and it was the closest I had felt to her since she died of lung cancer when I was a teen.

[@ah-lg6qy]

I'm sorry

[@thomsonclan5878]

ProGamer and ProGrammer thank you for reply, it’s still a lovely area to go to, I love the Oxford parks, so it’s not all sad. And at least I don’t have to deal with visiting and there being someone else living there, and hey it’s a university that’s pretty cool and I still get the connection to her there! 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@ah-lg6qy]

Are you a Christian

[@thomsonclan5878]

ProGamer and ProGrammer i don’t know what I believe. But I do attend a Christian group twice a week and have told them that. But she was.

[@ah-lg6qy]

Oh that's awesome I'll see her in heaven thrn!!!

[@SJ-qu5ep]

So you never really said why Beth's family won't be going there anymore. When I was a kid, we has a boat. We used to go to an island in the Illinois River. We would swim and ski and eat. It was always fun. Other than that we went different places for vacation every year.

[@SereniaSaissa]

I'm thinking that maybe Beths aunt is retiring so she will not longer have access to the location. Especially if this place is owned and run by the union!! I used to work for a corporation where the union also owned various cottages and holiday locations that union members could hire and rent for 1 to 3 weeks during the year!! But once you leave the business and the union, and you stop paying union fees, you no longer have access. I cannot say for sure, but that is my thinking...

[@fawn-michelemusser3684]

Also is could just be personal family issues that they are choosing not to share

[@lauragenevieve5646]

Yes!! The chocolate crunchies in the DQ icecream cake are the best!!

[@Will_Walsh]

Riding bikes on the greenway is great in Roanoke

[@ValeryValWho]

I think that Luke playing with the puddle is the most adorable thing I've seen in my life

[@EricaElena]

My family used to go to my grandparents' lake cottage every weekend in the summer until everyone grew up and my grandparents could no longer maintain the property. I do miss going there the older I get, but I think it is more that I miss spending time with my family and cousins as a bunch of kids than the cottage itself.

[@stevemcevilly6762]

Last week was the first time as an adult that my family and I went to a place we went to consistently as a kid and it was just as great as I remembered

[@ashleekaut-turney6225]

When I was a kid I lived in Washington and we would go to Long Beach and would stay at a family friend's cabin. It was awesome we could just walk down the street and the path and you would be at the beach. And downtown is not to far away.

[@sadhbhcorr942]

Loved the vlog J, as usual! Keep 'em comin'! Also, sorry you lost mini golf... again!

[@NickiPlague]

Well before my aunt and uncle got divorced we would always go down to Savannah, Georgia to visit them at Christmas. They had a huge house, (a huge dog as well,) we always got nice gifts there, they had a pool, got to see my cousins, got to eat at their restaurant...it used to be great...

[@KiraFriede]

We used to have a holiday house in Spain where we went every year. But I have to say, I got bored by it eventually, so I wanted us to go to different places when I was a teenager. Now the house is sold.

[@Blixthand]

Hey, J, I saw the Artemis Fowl book club thing, but after the fact. Not great viewing hours for Europe, but I liked it really much. I don't know if I can comment in post on a twitch video or how that would show, so I'll just write it here: If you decide to listen to the Golden Compass like you were talking about, make sure you get hold of the version where Philip Pullman himself narrates the text and a BBC radio cast does all of the dialogue, 'cause that one is awesome (and unabridged). (I don't know if there even are any other version, but in case there are, make sure it's the Pullman narrated one).

[@drewcherry1645]

That was the best tour that has ever been given by anyone

[@kaylabettina5363]

i used to go to myrtle beach when i was little. i had great memories and i would love to come back

[@FeatherQuill2Parchment13]

There’s only one place we go to three times a summer unless we go international. Door County Wisconsin. The most beautiful place on earth that I’ve ever been. For those of you who have no idea of where I mean it’s in the tip of the thumb of the state. We will never stop going there and so far all of our family who has died on my mom’s side is buried there, and I plan to join that tradition. What’s better than to be buried in a place you love more than anywhere else.

[@tanishahogan9396]

Aww!! Luke is so cute!!!

[@adelined]

i used to go to a place with my grandparents all the time, and now someone else bought it and we can't go there anymore. I found myself driving through the town it's in and past the driveway on a road trip, and while it was sad to think about how much time i spent there and how it's over, i was just overcome with happy memories. that's my two cents! hope you can have somewhere similar with luke.

[@TheTwztdtwitch420]

Sorry to hear of your defeat. But Luke looked so happy playing in his puddle. My wife and I can't wait until next Monday when get another glimpse into the life of the "J" family.

[@kealiabigale]

I love everything about this vlog

[@carolynyangas8851]

The camp i went to as a 10 year old closed after 75 years back in 2017. I met my husband of 3.5 years, there as a teenagers and we were both on staff back in 2010. We went back up the fall of 2017 for the last official hurrah got to just see the grounds but haven't made it back to the property yet (they removed all the buildings and turned it into a nature walk)

[@Angryoyster]

We get Dairy Queen ice cream cakes for everyone’s birthday. Ahhhh there so good.

[@trlytristan]

0:46 That Lady Looked So Confused.. Ha!! I Love Your Vlogs!

[@ZGBrickfilms]

Looks like you had a fun trip, I liked your tour of the place and definitely liked how you and Luke had matching swim suits!

[@Blixthand]

My family usually vacations in our caravan, so we never had any summer home or any place we would rent consistantly, we just decided a place to go and went there, sometimes a place we've already been, but mostly new places. My dads grandparents had a lease on a plot of land on the Åland Island (between Sweden (were I live) and Finland), that passed to my dad's parents, but then no one renewed the lease and we had to leave it forever in 2011. Sometimes I miss it, it was on a cliff right by the ocean, so great view, you could go fishing easiyl and with mostly forrest all around I could shoot with my dad's grandpas old air rifle without risk of harming anyone. But I wouldn't realy wanna go back, unless maybe except to see if it's still there, it was just two small houses, only one tap for water that we got from the neighbours and not even a proper outhouse, just a bucket to do your stuff in.

[@fidelianerina]

Luke trying to read the safety guide is so cute.

[@vibekerivet7307]

I live for the chocolate crunchies in a dairy Queen ice cream cake!!!!

[@hannahlgagersimonsen4799]

When I was younger my family and I always went to Norway every other year, but we just don't do anymore and I miss it. I think I have been there 5 times and I'm 14

[@mohabamin1296]

Love how amazing ur family is so good omg hope Luke has an amazing future and u live in to see it

[@linnetwiddershins1983]

Best tour ever tbh

[@jsnidarich89]

Icecream cake chocolate crunchies are the best!!

[@sillylittlechipmunk]

i think this is the most Dad vlog of all time

[@moragsharf3572]

I'm now 17 but my big brother's 23 and we used to go on vacation in the same place every year until my grandpa died like 4 years ago and i want to go back there very much

[@thegingergyrl455]

I giggled... a lot... I thank you. 🤓👏🏻🧚🏻‍♀️🦇🤠

[@jadeneaston]

My family and I all go to Montana every year to a beautiful house on the lake. I have sort of taken it for granted because I’m not sure if that tradition will last indefinitely.

[@00juls00]

I grew up going to the same beach location almost every year of my life. But we thankful still go...though not as often cuz we live farther away than we did when I was a kid. Idk what I would do if we could never go back there. It’s like home.

[@kaileymasonflowers]

4th of July. We'd ALWAYS go to my Great Grandparents house (on a lake) Family would just chill, relax, grill, have fun, and shoot off fireworks at the end of the night. But due to money issues, they had to move about 2 years ago, and now where they live, there isnt space for everyone. It was. Odd to think we werent going to spend another 4th of July there. And it was even more weird when it came to the celebration time, and we didnt go. o-o

[@baileyeasson7481]

DQ Ice Cream is the best cake! It's been a tradition for like my whole life that I have one as my birthday cake each year. Not sure why it's a tradition, I love cake cake. But DQ cake is just too good to pass up!

[@emantge7343]

I love the vids Please do a video of just people playing with Luke

[@tylergoral]

John that is funny, my family goes to Jupiter for vacation

[@quethesparkle]

I love that the tour was a copy of last year's tour

[@jordanm7132]

BEST VLOG EVER

[@aadenmiles2661]

I love this

[@nameless7838]

2:09 the shirts reminded me that Psych the Movie 2 is coming soon!

[@luxx4]

I was just in Florida! I missed you guys!🤧

[@hazelannhtd4lifer852]

Luke is so cute he is a lot like his dad he's got so cheeky

[@calebtwist8695]

A Monday vlog I look forward to every week

[@JonathanCarlin]

Thanks!

[@calebtwist8695]

@@JonathanCarlin well you and your seen so wholesome

[@cool1234t]

my family had a cabin it burnt down I wish I could go back

[@horrorzone476]

Oh, i'm sorry

[@nanners6548]

Yaay! Nice! I hope to see you here lol

[@AgVossIRL]

We used to do Disney land in California a lot when I was growing up our last trip was July 2013 (I was 16)

[@mccyndaquill726]

I used to go to Bognor Regis a few times a year, my Grandad owned a caravan there but unfortunately passed away, so we don't have it anymore, only been down once since :(

[@thethree33aj17]

I really enjoyed the tour, 5 stars on yelp. The deer shall be named Derland

[@jesscarter94]

Welcome back to FL! We practically passed you on the way into/out of Disney last time you were here! Hope you enjoyed your vacation!