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    "name": "Midtown, West 32nd Street",
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    "notes": "The dense heart of New York City — an island of skyscraper canyons, yellow cabs, and ceaseless motion. From the towers of the Financial District to the lights of Midtown, Manhattan stacks theaters, museums, and a hundred distinct neighborhoods onto a thin shelf of schist between the Hudson and the East River."
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    "name": "Through the Native Meadow",
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    "notes": "A vast rectangle of designed wilderness in the middle of Manhattan — 843 acres of meadow, woodland, lake, and rambling path laid out by Olmsted and Vaux in the 1850s. Skyscrapers ring its every edge, yet inside there are quiet hollows where the city briefly disappears."
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    "name": "Semiwon Lotus Garden",
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    "notes": "A rural county east of Seoul where the North and South Han rivers meet, framed by low forested mountains. Yangpyeong is known to Seoulites as a weekend escape — riverside cafés, organic farms, and gardens — a green, slow counterpoint to the capital's intensity."
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    "place": "Manikandanchal, Pooyamkutty, Kerala, India",
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    "notes": "A remote settlement in the forested hills of Kerala's Ernakulam district, deep in the Western Ghats. The Pooyamkutty river valley here is thick with tall trees and spice and rubber cultivation, far from any city — humid, green, and quiet."
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    "notes": "Tokyo's youth-culture epicentre, between Shibuya and Shinjuku. Takeshita Street crackles with crêpe stands and street fashion, while leafy Omotesandō nearby turns elegant and high-end. A short walk leads to the forested calm of Meiji Shrine — a sharp, very Tokyo contrast."
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    "notes": "A huge dome of exposed granite rising abruptly from the Piedmont woodland east of Atlanta. The surrounding state park threads wooded trails around the monadnock's base, past lakes and forest — a popular outdoor escape on Atlanta's doorstep."
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    "notes": "Across the inlet from downtown Vancouver, where the city runs straight into the Coast Mountains. North Vancouver is a place of temperate rainforest, fast-running creeks, suspension bridges, and trailheads — dense Pacific Northwest greenery within sight of the skyline."
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    "notes": "South Korea's purpose-built administrative capital, developed from the 2000s to relieve Seoul and house much of the national government. Sejong is deliberately modern and planned — wide boulevards, low government complexes, and generous green space — a quiet, orderly city still growing into itself."
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    "notes": "The Dutch capital, laid out around a 17th-century ring of canals lined with narrow gabled houses. Amsterdam is a city of bicycles, bridges, and brown cafés, of world-class museums and a famously relaxed, walkable scale — water and brick at every turn."
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    "notes": "One of Tokyo's great hubs, built around the busiest railway station on Earth. Shinjuku spans neon-soaked entertainment districts, towering office blocks, vast department stores, and the lantern-lit alleys of Omoide Yokocho — intense, layered, and never still."
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    "notes": "A coastal city on South Korea's west coast, famous for Daecheon Beach and its mineral-rich grey mud — the centrepiece of the raucous annual Boryeong Mud Festival. Beyond the festival it is a low-key seaside town of tidal flats and quiet fishing harbours."
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    "notes": "Japan's brash, food-loving second metropolis, on the Kansai plain. Osaka is famous for its kitchens and street food, its comedians, and the neon riot of Dōtonbori reflected in the canal — warmer and louder than Tokyo, and proud of it."
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    "notes": "A tiny village of timber houses wedged between a steep mountainside and a deep glacial lake in Austria's Salzkammergut. Hallstatt has mined salt for over 7,000 years; today its impossibly picturesque lakefront draws visitors from around the world."
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    "notes": "The capital of the United Kingdom, spread along the Thames — a two-thousand-year-old city of royal parks, riverside landmarks, and villages stitched into a vast metropolis. London layers Roman wall, medieval lane, Georgian terrace, and glass tower block by block."
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    "notes": "One of America's oldest cities, on the New England coast. Boston wears its Revolutionary history openly — the Freedom Trail, brick rowhouses, the Common — while its universities and harbour keep it young, walkable, and fiercely distinct."
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    "notes": "A lakeside village on the turquoise Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland, backed by steep wooded slopes and waterfalls. Brienz is a centre of traditional Swiss woodcarving and the foot of a historic steam cog railway up the Brienzer Rothorn."
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    "notes": "Norway's second city, set among seven mountains on the country's fjord-cut west coast. Bergen's UNESCO-listed Bryggen wharf — a row of pointed wooden Hanseatic trading houses — fronts a working harbour, often under soft Atlantic rain."
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    "notes": "A prefecture and city in the Tōhoku region of northern Honshu — a land of mountains, hot springs, orchards, and old castle towns. Far inland from the coast, much of Fukushima is quiet rural Japan: rice valleys and forested hills through the seasons."
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    "notes": "A deep, glacier-cut valley in the Bernese Oberland whose sheer rock walls are laced with 72 waterfalls — Staubbach plunging nearly 300 metres being the most famous. The valley floor is a green ribbon of meadow and village beneath the cliffs."
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    "notes": "A resort town on the flat land between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, ringed by mountains and looking straight up at the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau. Long a gateway for travellers into the high Alps, Interlaken is built for the outdoors."
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    "notes": "A small lakeside community on the shore of Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland — a handful of chalets and farms between the water and the steep wooded mountainside, quiet and traditional."
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    "notes": "A car-free mountain village perched on a shelf high above the Lauterbrunnen valley, reachable only by cable car or railway. At 1,650 metres, Mürren faces the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau head-on — a tiny, traffic-free balcony in the sky."
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    "notes": "A glacier village in the Bernese Oberland, spread across green pastures directly beneath the north face of the Eiger. Grindelwald is one of the Alps' classic mountain resorts — chalets, cow bells, and cable cars under towering rock."
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    "notes": "The Czech capital, on the Vltava River — a city that came through the centuries with its medieval and baroque core intact. Prague's red rooftops, its hilltop castle, the Charles Bridge, and the astronomical clock make it one of Europe's great walking cities."
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    "notes": "The core of Chicago, on the shore of Lake Michigan — the Loop's grid of soaring early skyscrapers, the elevated 'L' tracks overhead, and a riverfront and lakefront that opened the city's architecture to the water. Bold, broad-shouldered American urbanism."
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    "notes": "A vast wilderness on Washington's Olympic Peninsula that holds three worlds at once — glaciated peaks, a wild Pacific coastline of sea stacks and driftwood, and the dripping, moss-hung Hoh temperate rainforest. One of the rainiest, greenest places in the United States."
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    "notes": "South Korea's capital — a city of ten million in a basin of granite mountains, split by the Han River. Seoul moves fast: glass towers and palaces, ancient gates and underground malls, mountainside temples and all-night neon, layered tightly together."
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    "notes": "A resort city on Jamaica's north coast, fringed by beaches and reef. 'MoBay' mixes a cruise-ship and hotel strip with a busy Jamaican working town just inland — turquoise water under green hills."
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    "notes": "The capital of the Dominican Republic and the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the Americas. Its Zona Colonial holds the first cathedral and fortress of the New World; beyond it spreads a large, lively Caribbean metropolis."
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    "notes": "Haiti's second city, on the country's north coast — a historic port of French-colonial townhouses below green mountains. Nearby stand the Sans-Souci palace and the mountaintop Citadelle, monuments of Haiti's revolution."
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    "notes": "The largest city of Belize, a low, humid port at the mouth of the Belize River on the Caribbean. Built on swampy ground and threaded by canals, it is the country's busy commercial hub and gateway to the cayes and barrier reef offshore."
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    "notes": "The capital of El Salvador, set in a valley beneath the San Salvador volcano. It is the country's dense, energetic centre — markets, plazas, and traffic — within sight of green volcanic slopes."
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    "notes": "The dense heart of New York City — an island of skyscraper canyons, yellow cabs, and ceaseless motion. From the towers of the Financial District to the lights of Midtown, Manhattan stacks theaters, museums, and a hundred distinct neighborhoods onto a thin shelf of schist between the Hudson and the East River."
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    "notes": "The oldest and greenest of the main Hawaiian islands — the 'Garden Isle,' a place of dramatic sea cliffs, deep canyons, waterfalls, and lush rainforest."
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    "notes": "A vast city straddling Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus — capital of empires for sixteen centuries. Istanbul layers Byzantine and Ottoman grandeur, domes and minarets, ferries and bazaars along its strait."
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    "name": "Gyeongju",
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    "lng": 129.2247,
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
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    "notes": "An ancient city in southeastern South Korea, the thousand-year capital of the Silla kingdom — an open-air museum of royal burial mounds, temples, and stone monuments among quiet hills."
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    "name": "Scott's Run",
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    "notes": "An affluent suburban community in northern Virginia near Washington, D.C. — a green, wooded area of large homes, with nature preserves along the Potomac nearby."
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    "notes": "The capital of Georgia and the great hub of the American South — a sprawling, fast-growing city set in dense tree cover, with a deep place in civil-rights history."
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    "notes": "China's largest city and financial powerhouse, on the Yangtze delta — where the colonial waterfront of the Bund faces the futuristic skyline of Pudong across the Huangpu River."
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    "notes": "The capital of Iceland — a small, colourful city on a windswept bay, the cultural and creative heart of the island, with mountains and sea on every side."
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    "notes": "One of Tokyo's great hubs, built around the busiest railway station on Earth. Shinjuku spans neon-soaked entertainment districts, towering office blocks, vast department stores, and the lantern-lit alleys of Omoide Yokocho — intense, layered, and never still."
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    "notes": "The largest city in the American Midwest, on the shore of Lake Michigan — a city that invented the skyscraper, with bold architecture, a broad lakefront, and a famously distinct character."
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    "name": "Expressway to Narita Airport",
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    "timeOfDay": "night",
    "notes": "The expressway run from central Tokyo out to Narita Airport in Chiba, roughly 80 km of elevated motorway. This drive covers the first half — from the Gokokuji entrance on the Shuto Expressway to the Narashino toll booth — in heavy rain."
  },
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    "id": "live-oak-texas-drive",
    "name": "Live Oak",
    "place": "Live Oak, Texas, United States",
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    "lng": -98.3422,
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
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    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "A suburban city on the northeastern edge of San Antonio, in Bexar and Comal counties, Texas — residential streets and commercial strips along the Interstate 35 corridor."
  },
  {
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    "name": "Dongducheon",
    "place": "Dongducheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea",
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    "lng": 127.0606,
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    "timeOfDay": "night",
    "notes": "A small city in the hills north of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province, ringed by forested mountains — seen here by car after dark in the rain."
  },
  {
    "id": "gwangneung-arboretum-drive",
    "name": "Gwangneung Arboretum",
    "place": "Gwangneung Forest, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea",
    "lat": 37.7503,
    "lng": 127.1623,
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
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    "weather": "rain",
    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "The Korea National Arboretum, set in the Gwangneung Forest northeast of Seoul — a centuries-old protected woodland that grew up around a royal Joseon tomb, now one of the country's richest temperate forests."
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  {
    "id": "hollywood-hills-drive",
    "name": "Hollywood Hills",
    "place": "Los Angeles, California, United States",
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    "lng": -118.337,
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    "weather": "rain",
    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "The winding hillside neighbourhood above central Los Angeles, draped over the eastern Santa Monica Mountains — steep canyon roads, view lots, and the Hollywood Sign on the ridge above."
  },
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    "name": "Olympic National Park",
    "place": "Olympic National Park, Washington, United States",
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
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    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "A vast wilderness on Washington's Olympic Peninsula spanning glaciated peaks, temperate rainforest, and wild Pacific coastline — one of the rainiest places in the contiguous United States."
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    "place": "Manhattan, New York, United States",
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    "notes": "The dense heart of New York City, a thin island of skyscraper canyons between the Hudson and the East River — here threaded by car through traffic and rain."
  },
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    "id": "springfield-il-drive",
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    "place": "Springfield, Illinois, United States",
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    "weather": "rain",
    "timeOfDay": "night",
    "notes": "The capital of Illinois, in the centre of the state — a mid-sized prairie city best known as Abraham Lincoln's adopted hometown, with his home, law office, and tomb preserved there."
  },
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    "id": "iruma-saitama-drive",
    "name": "Iruma",
    "place": "Iruma, Saitama, Japan",
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    "lng": 139.3911,
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    "timeOfDay": "night",
    "notes": "A city on the Musashino plateau in southern Saitama Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo — a commuter town surrounded by Sayama tea fields, with the Iruma River and a Self-Defense Force air base along its edges."
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    "id": "orsta-hellesylt-fv655",
    "name": "Ørsta to Hellesylt (Fv655)",
    "place": "Ørsta, Møre og Romsdal, Norway",
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    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "A drive in the fjord country of western Norway, from Ørsta toward the village of Hellesylt — climbing through the dramatic Norangsdalen valley beneath the Sunnmøre Alps."
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    "place": "Nagoya, Aichi, Japan",
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
    "mode": "drive",
    "weather": "rain",
    "timeOfDay": "night",
    "notes": "Japan's third-largest metropolitan area and the manufacturing hub of the Chūbu region, on Ise Bay — home of Nagoya Castle, seen here by car at night in the rain."
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    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "A clear-weather drive out of central Tokyo toward Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak — leaving the city behind for the foothills of the 3,776-metre volcano on the Yamanashi–Shizuoka border."
  },
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    "name": "Dubai Harbour",
    "place": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates",
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    "lng": 55.1419,
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    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "A large waterfront and marina district on Dubai's Gulf coast, between Bluewaters Island and the Palm Jumeirah — high-rise towers, a cruise terminal, and the open shoreline."
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    "place": "Affi, Veneto, Italy",
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    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "A small comune in the province of Verona, in the Veneto region of northern Italy — set in the morainic hills just east of the southern shore of Lake Garda."
  },
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    "name": "Côte d'Azur from the Italian Border",
    "place": "Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France",
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    "lng": 7.4965,
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
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    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "The French Riviera, the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France. This drive begins near the Italian border at Menton and follows the corniche roads westward above the sea."
  },
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    "name": "Grimsel Pass to Andermatt",
    "place": "Grimsel Pass, Switzerland",
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    "lng": 8.3375,
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
    "mode": "drive",
    "weather": "dry",
    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "A high alpine drive from the top of the Grimsel Pass — a 2,164-metre crossing in the Swiss Alps strung with reservoirs — over to Andermatt, a mountain village in the canton of Uri."
  },
  {
    "id": "kobe-japan-drive",
    "name": "Kobe",
    "place": "Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan",
    "lat": 34.6901,
    "lng": 135.1955,
    "youtubeId": "Nq5FlbTk7Us",
    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
    "mode": "drive",
    "weather": "dry",
    "timeOfDay": "night",
    "notes": "A port city on Osaka Bay in Hyōgo Prefecture, set on a narrow strip between the sea and the Rokkō mountains — known for its harbour, its beef, and the night view from the hills above."
  },
  {
    "id": "breckenridge-colorado-drive",
    "name": "Breckenridge",
    "place": "Breckenridge, Colorado, United States",
    "lat": 39.4817,
    "lng": -106.0384,
    "youtubeId": "ZluHUNIw8-o",
    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
    "mode": "drive",
    "weather": "snow",
    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "A high-altitude ski town in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado, on the Blue River below the Tenmile Range — a former gold-mining camp turned year-round mountain resort, and one of the highest towns in the United States."
  },
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    "name": "Toronto",
    "place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada",
    "lat": 43.6532,
    "lng": -79.3832,
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
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    "weather": "snow",
    "timeOfDay": "day",
    "notes": "Canada's largest city, on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario — a dense, multicultural metropolis of glass towers gathered beneath the CN Tower."
  },
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    "id": "fukushima-niigata-drive",
    "name": "Fukushima to Niigata",
    "place": "Fukushima Prefecture, Japan",
    "lat": 37.4948,
    "lng": 139.9296,
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    "recordedAt": "2024-01-01",
    "mode": "drive",
    "weather": "snow",
    "timeOfDay": "night",
    "notes": "A night drive across the mountainous spine of northern Honshū, from Fukushima Prefecture west toward Niigata on the Sea of Japan — through the Aizu highlands and the heart of Japan's snow country."
  }
]