WEBVTT - WE BACK - Frugal Fun, Travel Tips, & Sabbatical Takeaways #1019 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:17.120 I mean, I'm probably with us even to start starting 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.560 to talk. Now, let's do it. Then, I didn't even 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.880 change out of my names, mean neither. We're both. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.040 I wouldn't say sopping wet because the walk back from 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:27.760 the beach definitely dried us off a little bit. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.360 But we're gonna start like this, Yeah, all right, welcome 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.600 to how to Money? I get to say it this time, buddy. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.800 And we're back, we're back from sabbatical. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:37.960 What's what's funny is I don't I don't even know 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.520 how to do it because you're the one who always says, 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.880 welcome to how the money? You know, and I only say, 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:43.920 and I am. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.040 That it's easier than you might imagine. It's actually not 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.440 the toughest part of my job. You're incredibly talented, my friend. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.279 Uh No, this is an episode where we wanted to 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.560 just ease listeners back into It's. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.520 Not like worries and back into it. It's honestly us. Yes, 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:58.560 it's it's weirder for you. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.640 And me to sit down because we haven't hoarded in 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.040 six seven weeks or something like that. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:04.479 I was like, Matt, remind me how to talk into 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:05.240 a microphone again. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.000 It is a little bit different though, because we are 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.839 at a beach house that our families so have rented. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.640 We do this every summer. And what's crazy is that 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:12.479 in the I mean. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.160 The kids are older, they're out at the beach, and 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.720 I mean Kate's out there with them, but they're. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.600 Kind of autonomous more and more. Granted, the little. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:21.200 Dudes are still young. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:22.360 They need less help than they. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.480 We are entering a new phase of game playing and 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.240 we're like way past the phase of digging typools for 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.640 the baby's kind of thing as opposed to like hitting 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.520 the volleyball, playing some spike ball, swimming across the what's 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.560 it the inlet, Yes, that's your favorite thing that you 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:36.920 like to do. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.559 I was gonna say, I think our kids are staying 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.240 up later than we are now, which is like for 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:43.920 this is the first year ever where we've crossed that 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.440 threshold and so like adult gameplay, that's gonna say. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.320 It's been most noticeable in the fact that we have 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.520 not played one game of a choir. Yeah, which it's 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.440 funny because we're sitting at the quote unquote game table 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.360 and there's a game of Clue here that the kids 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.560 left out because that's what they're playing, they're getting into 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.120 the board games on their own. But how you been? 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:02.080 I've been great. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.400 I mean, does it feel weird for you to get 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:04.400 back on the mic a little bit? 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:05.840 A little bit because it does feel like it's been 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.280 a while. And I'm sure to our own answer, like 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.600 we've heard you talking, but not fresh stuff, and so 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.200 what have you been up to? And I feel like 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.760 there is probably a lot for us to relay and 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.960 as we've come back from our sabbaticals, our trips, and 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.359 we'll share I think a lot here, but we'll also 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.959 share more in the months to come about where we will. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.960 We'll have a lot of stories to regale. We're still probably. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.880 Know I'm still processing having taken a break more of 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.240 a break, a summer break, honestly, like more in line 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:30.799 with the kids. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.280 But how you there's actually a Facebook argument about sabbatical 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.560 many retirement, the words that you use, Oh yeah, what 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.840 can you call it? And so I totally would have 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.720 been interested in in that argument because and I mentioned 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.560 this at some point on one of the episodes, because 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.120 Katie North and whoever else they're talking about sabbaticals typically 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.160 being at least, you know, three months or plus like 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.840 three to nine is at least at least a many retirement, right, 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.280 So people were saying, if you're going to call it 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.080 a many retirement, needs to be kind of longer like that. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.639 Sabbatical Sure, six eight weeks. Fine, So I guess that's 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.320 probably what you and I really par took in. Was 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.240 a sabbatical, not I call it a summer break. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:04.240 Was a summer break. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:05.720 Man. You want to share a little bit about your trip, 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.079 because y'all took some of your time, and so that's 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.320 the most recent thing, the most recent thing. Right before this, 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.240 y'all came back from your trip. We came back for 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.240 our trip. Maybe we'll share a little bit. Let's do 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:15.799 that or adventures. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.440 And then maybe we'll get into kind of some bigger, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.480 deeper stuff that we've we've kind of been thinking about. 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.800 But yeah, what's the most fun thing you did in 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:23.880 the past two weeks? So I just want to say this. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.639 At the outset, we the first part of our sabbatical, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.440 we stayed home. It was staycation, yeah, and the second 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.040 part was travels. And I was shocked at how much 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:34.160 I enjoyed the staycation. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:35.560 I was like, Oh, the travel is. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.800 Gonna be the best part, and the travel is awesome. 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.360 Thoroughly enjoyed it. But I really really enjoyed just kind 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:41.640 of rhythms. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.840 At home, living in your own house, in your own town, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.080 doing the cool like stuff that you get to now 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.600 participate in because you're not yeah, completely slammed booked. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.640 Yeah, so it was just like, oh, three pm, let's 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.320 go to the pools of family whatever it is. Yeah, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.440 that kind of stuff. So I really enjoyed that. But yeah, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.840 in regards to the trip, it was awesome. We were 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.280 in Seattle for my cousin's wife, and I was reminded 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.960 of how Seattle is one of the great cities, not 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:05.840 just in the US but. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:06.720 In the world. It is. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:07.880 That's a beautiful one. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.120 It's a beautiful town and chock full of craft beer 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.080 of course too, which which makes me love it even more. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.600 Okay, so do you have what was the best brewery 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.320 that you went to when you were out in Seattle? 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:17.360 So did you do well? 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:18.600 You were only there for a couple of days, only 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.080 there for a couple of days, pick them up at 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.680 the grocery store. But it didn't even make it even 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.000 though I was in Ballard, which like you can't even 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.920 turn around and not see a brewery your smack dab 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.000 in the midst It's insane. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:30.839 Is that what the kids used to call the hipster 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.760 part of town pretty much twenty years ago? 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:33.360 Yeah? 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.320 Yeah, And so like I think, Ballard had all these 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.320 old warehouses, and so breweries just moved in and so 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.400 I ran. I ran past at least like six of them, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.280 but didn't actually step foot in any of them. But 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:42.760 I had a couple of good beers while I was there. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.800 But actually the best beers I had well when we 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.000 went to Hawaii, which was our next stop on it. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:53.760 And one travel tip to save money, go travel someplace 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.600 where one of your friends lives so you can stay 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:55.920 with them. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.960 Ooh yeah, so hey, you don't mind if we crashed. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.000 So this is this is the it's not horseshoe theory. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.080 This is full circle for you. You went from crawd 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:11.279 uh pad crashing to hostels to airbnb's, and now you 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.480 took your family back to pad crash. Right. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.479 So, Emily's best friend lives just outside of Honolulu, and 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.040 we stayed with them for four nights and we hit 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.440 up a brewery. I'm blanking on the name. It's right 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.240 there in downtown Honolulu. We had that beer just last night, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.520 the oh Han Mari or something like that. Yeah, gosh, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.000 they made some excellent beers that those were definitely the 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:32.599 best beers. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:33.120 I had on the whole train. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.040 Nice and just Hawaii so wonderful. Of course. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.320 So I was up in the northeast, which is home 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.080 to all the hazy New England I pas, of course, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.440 so I got some PARTI I mean, oh my gosh, dude. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:44.279 I had your sending me picks. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.880 I was all the greats of course, Trillium, of course, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.760 Bistol Brothers two. Okay, so two standouts that I was 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:54.039 not expecting that we literally stumbled upon were Hudson Valley Brewing, 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.360 which was in Beacon, New York. That's in the Hudson Valley. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:02.920 Of course, phenomenal, so good them, as well as Bellflower, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.440 which was I think it's a newer brewery in Portland, Maine. Okay, 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.680 both of the of course, we had some Maine Beer 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.640 Company beers while we're up in Maine up in Acadia. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.240 But those other two breweries though, were total standouts. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.720 Portland's one of those hip towns too, where they've got 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.640 a plethora of good beer up there. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.960 In the same part of town. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, so. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.280 That was huge for us for sure. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.560 I'm curious for you and we can get into a 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.760 bunch of different stuff here, But what was maybe your 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.799 did you have like a favorite part of your trip, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.120 like the best favorite. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.320 Leg is your best day? 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:39.440 Oh see, you're putting all this pressure on one singular day. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.440 I don't think I can narrow it down to a 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.400 specific day because I feel like we took our I 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.320 don't know, we did a whole lot in two weeks. Yeah, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.600 it was a road trip, which let me just share 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.560 with folks too that man, and we knew this going 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.760 into it. But a road trip is not a vacation. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.000 A road trip is an adventure and every waking moment 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:01.839 and I feel like, was Kate and I talking about 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.280 our next steps. We had plans, we had itineries, we 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.680 had tickets booked, but then it's us saying, oh man, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.960 we really went hard yesterday though, like are we actually 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.560 going to do everything we had planned? And kind of 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.800 making decisions on the fly, trying to figure out where 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:13.960 are the bathrooms, where. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.040 Can we refill their water bottles. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.480 It's just constant, You're just constantly on edge, which means 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:19.960 don't come back. No. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.560 No, it was a ton of fun, but just a 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.880 lot of on the go. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.440 So I'm not going to pinpoint it to a specific day, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.679 but I feel like a theme, I'll say a theme 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.840 something that we just consistently did with the kids was 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.760 that they were regularly trying new foods and being exposed 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:39.360 to different things. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:40.240 So, whether it's like. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.640 Lobster what do you call the lobster rolls, whether it's 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.280 that that we stumbled upon that we learned about this 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.840 beach a few let's see, maybe at the beginning of 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.560 summer York Maine, so we just were like, oh, maybe 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.440 we'll swing swing by up there, and we ended up 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.520 spending way more time up there, stumbled upon the awesome 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.440 crab shack. I think it was Foxes actually, okay, beautiful 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:05.440 lighthouse right there. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:06.400 It was just I don't know this. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.120 It was amazing. Kids all tried lobster for the first time, Yes, oysters. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.240 That was in Boston where we're like, all right, all 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.000 y'all are gonna try raw oysters, and just doing some 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.360 of those experiences with the kids. Aside from I think 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:20.760 a lot of folks would think, oh was it seen 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.960 the Declaration of Independence. Yes, that was awesome. So was 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:28.360 seeing George Washington's copy in the what was that I 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:29.679 guess that was the Library of Congress. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.520 So you were singing the praises about Abraham Lincoln's pocket knife. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.600 We oh, we got to see well, yeah, the contents 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.800 in his pocket. That's also there in the in the library, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.440 the Congressional lib what's it called, the Congresstional libraries, especially 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:41.920 attached to. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.280 The Capitol building. That was super cool. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.640 That was really cool for me personally, going, oh, we 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.080 got tickets you reach Oh hey, so here's a tip 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.600 for folks. Reach out to your local representative, local senator 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.480 in your state, and you get tickets to a lot 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.280 of places in DC for free. You just have to 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.200 get on the radar. So obviously the Sithsonian and all 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.560 those different places they're free. But the ability to go 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.000 tour the capital, you know, like not as a rioter, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.600 like where you're walking through, I mean, when. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.959 You're actually allowed to be there. Yeah, exactly. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.559 It's it's all inspiring because it's I think it's like 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.640 the closest thing I think we have in the US too, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.280 like a cathedral, like a Gothic can get mean it's massive, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:23.960 it's beautiful. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.400 Did your congress person asked if you voted for them before? 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.440 They said yes, no, you know, it's just one of 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.480 their one of their interns that they were just like, 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.600 oh yeah, we actually have a few passes that we 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.240 can give you. That's cool. So that was a ton 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.240 of fun that specific day there. DC also just a 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.760 cheap place to visit. Oh yeah, a plethora of awesome 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.679 stuff for very little money. Also in DC, we went 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.000 to Kate's just amazing when it comes to food and 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.560 planning trips out. We went to jose Gosh what's his 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:48.040 last name? 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.000 We talked and Andrece. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.679 Yes, he's got this taco place in DC that's like 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.480 right between it's like right off the mall. Had an 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.600 awesome time there with the kids. It was just it 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.160 was fun because it was slightly more refined food that 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:01.760 Kate and I could both enjoy, but the kids were 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.520 digging it as well. They tried beef tongue there for 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.520 their first time, so they're like, what's is that an 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:07.880 actual tongue of a cow. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.439 We're like, yeah, and it's really good. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.040 They know what they're doing here. Uh. Some of those 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.720 culinary experiences really stand out, but obviously just being able 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.760 to learn a whole lot about our country because it 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.760 was kind of a quasi US history sort of road trip, which. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.080 Is taking them up, taking them to World Schooling during the. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.280 Summer, and taking them up to Acadia, which is the 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.760 place that Kate and I have been to before, having 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.079 prosecco and popovers at Jordan Pond like that, that kind 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:32.440 of thing. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.880 But yeah, it was. It was a great trip for us. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.720 But like you, so I wanted to lude back to 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.160 what you were saying as far as living kind of 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.520 like quasi normal life at home and having just more 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.160 time in your hands. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.960 I'm totally with you, man, It's great. It's so nice 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.760 to be able to have downtime. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.880 And for us Kate and I, I mean, we love 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.480 working on projects at home, and so I spent a 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.439 lot of that time, like doing stuff around the house 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:56.520 that I normally don't. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.800 Have time to do. Or you were in the yard 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:58.280 a ton too. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:10:59.720 I was in the yard a ton. Well you know, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.200 you know the problem is that Kate ordered a chip drop, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.640 which is free, and you know this because you were 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.920 actually you you pitched in a little bit. You're like, hey, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.480 I'll shovel af you not more than a few shoveled 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.280 several wheelbarrows full of moulsh and hauled them to far 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.280 corners of our of our Backyardeah. Yeah, just doing stuff 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.440 like that, being able to hang with the kids at home, 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:22.559 that was a lot of fun. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.080 The one thing I didn't get checked off my to 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:25.640 do list was to clean out our garage. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.400 Well, I was on your list. It's still on my list. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:28.400 I'll get to it at some point. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:29.920 Your garage isn't really messy, it's. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.360 Not too bad, but like, I really want to organize 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.680 my tools and stuff, and I just look at you. Yeah, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.480 getting tired of not being able to find stuff when 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.800 I need it. So I say the cool I think 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.400 maybe if I was to pick one of the coolest things. 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:40.200 Oh yeah, what it was. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:41.080 We went to. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.680 Volcanoes National Park and there are episodic eruptions right now, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.200 you got to talk about that volcano there, and so 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.120 it's uh, we actually got to see a live lava flow. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.440 It's literally lava erupting into the sky and it was crazy. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:55.960 It was one of those things where we kind of 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.760 got in earlier than we thought. The airbnb we're going 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.959 to stay out wasn't ready and see, let's just National 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:01.920 Parks two miles up the road. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:03.360 Let's go blessing in disguise. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:04.240 Yeah, it was. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.439 It was totally was because we got to see it 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.880 and it cut off before dark that night, so we 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.199 got to see it for a couple hours from different angles. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.280 Literally not even interrupt the rest of the time you're there. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:14.240 And the rest of the shutout. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.000 Yeah, So it was serendipitous and it's one of those 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.760 cool things that none of us will ever forget. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.760 Well, that's the thing. You can't necessarily plan on that. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.360 Like you can plan a trip to Hawaii, but you 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.560 can't plan on there being a lava flow because that's 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.160 up to mother nature. Man. Yeah, and okay, so the 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.600 time that we're recording this, there was also like more 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.280 action going down there in Hawaii or I. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.280 Guess it was the Warner tsunami warning. Yeah, like it 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.200 seems like why I avoided the worst there for sure, 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.280 and and everybody else to it sounds like minimal impact anywhere. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.640 But that still would have been crazy, like a tsunami siren. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:44.880 It's got the alliteration. So I know you love it, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.040 but you probably would have been a little frightening there 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.480 with the kids. Yeah right, oh, my kids will have. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:48.960 Been freaking out. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.360 The biggest money saving tip on what you got the island, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.280 either the Big Island or Owahu, but especially the Big 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.319 Island is have a costcome membership. Really yeah, so not 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:01.920 only just to breeze and get a hot dog if 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.920 you're hungry or whatever, which you can do for sure. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.160 You know. Still our family still has not had a Costco. H. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.040 I'm trying not to judge you for that. So breeze 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.199 in there and get that. But the biggest thing is 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.880 everything on Hawaii is significantly more expensive. Sure, so you 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.840 want to drop in and get a beer, a single 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.000 beer X you think, maybe not two X, but it's 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.839 definitely more expensive. And Costco keeps their prices the same 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.800 on the island of Hawaii as they do on the mainland. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.120 I bet it's so popular there. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.800 So like my cold brew the two pac same prices 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.320 when I get it, the Stoke Stoke cold Brew, same 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.960 exact price, same with like loaves of bread or whatever. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:39.480 Impressive. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.080 They have certain other things that they sell only in Hawaii, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.479 which is cool, so you can get some local stuff. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.080 Local flavor. Yeah, but I really appreciate that, and so. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:48.920 I was like, thank god, I don't have to drink 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.439 some local like Hawaiian coffee. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:52.840 I can get my stoke cold brew. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.880 We were trying to do, especially in on the Big Island, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.120 we were trying to do more of our eating at home, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:13:59.640 and so we're. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:00.800 Like, let's that's played some groceries. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.040 We landed, went straight to Costco and got a bunch 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:05.080 of stuff so we could cook meals. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.360 All right, okay, so our I'll share a travel money 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.959 saving tip. So this is so predictable people are gonna say. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.319 Of course, Joel talked about Costco and Matt talked about Aldie. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.760 Because look, get this, guess we're not sponsored by them, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.080 so sadly we. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:19.480 Just love it. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.520 We were just out on the beach, so literally, you 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.120 don't have a shirt on. My trunks are soaking wet. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.840 We just jumped back in here to record a little bit. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.200 Just before we came in, we looked over and there's 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.640 a couple and he had an Aldie bag. Looked like 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.600 they had all the beach chairs and maybe it seemed 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.320 like one of them had an Aldie bathing suit. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.000 Does that even exist? It was all like the Aldie Rainbow. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.960 I wonder if they worked for Aldi Corporate or something. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.239 We need to go ask them when they go back Aldie. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.320 Schwag, Yeah, what was Oh so mine is Aldi related? 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:45.480 Oh? 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.080 I was gonna say, guess how many times we ate 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.480 because we'd love eating at Chick fil A? 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.560 Like, if we're going to drive to the beach, that's 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.240 probably going to be our stop for lunch, right, like 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.120 we're gonna put our order in. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.640 Guess so many times we ate Chick fil A on 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:57.240 the road trip? 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:57.920 Twice? 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.880 Zero, baby, oh zero. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.320 And it wasn't even something that we were trying to do. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.240 I wasn't like this is going to be great fodder 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.120 for the show. It literally didn't cross our minds because 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.200 we had planned on and we did this earlier in 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.560 the summer. We went up to Michigan Lake Michigan for 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.840 some time with family, but we stopped at Aldi on 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.040 the way back and not only bought groceries that we 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.920 knew that we needed for back home, like eggs and milk, right, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.800 like just some basics, but we said, wait a minute, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.560 let's just stop in there and we'll get food for 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.280 dinner as well, and put together kind of a meal 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.240 on the road, and we're so much more food, better 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.680 quality stuff than fast food, you know then stuff that's 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.320 that's deep fried, and you're saving just a ton of money. Yeah, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.560 I mean our typical Chick fil a order, there's six 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.880 of us. Our typical order is like fifty bucks. Yeah, 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.160 and that's just for fast food, and it's not well rounded. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.840 There's not whole, not granted, there's protein, right, And so 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.480 we took that mindset, and so for the road trip, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.360