My next stop is a pub - with separate bars for smokers and non-smokers.

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My next stop was a small hotel in the small village of Tubagua, located about 33km west of Cabarete.

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It will take me 11 hours to reach Romney's safe, solid state: Utah, my next stop on this American Quest.

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My next stop was to see Jarrett Wrisley, an American-born chef whose Bangkok-based Thai restaurant, Soul Food Mahanakorn, has received many accolades.

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My next stop was an auto repair parts shop, where I had hoped to find a new bracket to staple a broken luggage rack onto by bike.

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Evernote took a long time to synchronize my account, and the Kindle app had to stop every few pages to fetch the next section of a book, even if the book had been downloaded.

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