Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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things off the beaten path to see how people in other areas 
of the world really live and interact with each other and 
experience, uh, places as a local instead of as a tourist.
WOMAN:
We have an 
RV
. We like to travel around in that, 
and we avoid the cities, usually. We stick to the country 
and like he said, the 
off the beaten path
places.
INTERVIEWER:
Uh-hmm. So what’s the last trip you took—I 
mean, and what was that? Where’d you go?
WOMAN:
We went, uh, down through Virginia. We went 
to Mount Vernon, uh, George Washington’s home and 
um, and then down through . . .
MAN:
Jamestown, Yorktown, the beginning of this 
nation—well, so they say, but really the Spaniards were in 
St. Augustine before the English were in Jamestown—but 
it was very interesting to learn all about that stuff .
WOMAN:
Uh, I’ve been 
riding
since I was about seven 
or eight years old, and, uh, I enjoy it as a sport. I com-
pete, but I think I also just like the relationship with the 
animal.
MAN:
We joke that it’s her second boyfriend.
WOMAN:
Yeah, we call him my second boyfriend. But uh, 
yeah, I like to train for stuff , uh, you know, and try and 
get better at it, and, uh, it’s a fun sport because it’s always 
changing, you know, and he’s really like a partner and 
you-you can’t tell what he’s 
gonna
do next, so it-it keeps 
it interesting. Every day is diff erent when I go out there, 
but I just like to be around him. It’s . . .