WEBVTT - Been There, Dean That: Guatemala 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.040 Hello, everybody, Welcome to episode six. I've been there, Dean that. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:11.879 I love that name. 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:15.920 Today we got a great episode for you because my 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.880 wife joins me back in studio. 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.759 I was about to put myself up yep, thanks for 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.320 doing it for me and what I was going to say. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:24.440 And you've got a great guest. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:26.880 And we've got a great guest today. It's weighing in 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:31.840 at a whopping ninety six pounds hailing from Fredericksburg, Virginia, 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.000 Kaylin Bell. 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:36.199 Are we one hundred and ten pounds? 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:37.680 But thank you six pounds? 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:38.920 I only weigh eighty two pounds. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.400 We got a really great episode for you guys today. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.320 Not only is my wife joining us, but that's actually 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.040 really the only reason it's going to be good episode today. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.320 So where are we going? Where are we traveling to? 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.000 Last week we talked about photography, well, I talked about 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:54.520 it by myself because I don't want to burden you 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.960 with coming in here and recording these things with me. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.680 Oh I'm so burdened, yep, I know you are. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.440 This week, I want to talk about one of my 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:06.959 personally personal favorite trips. Yeah, do you know which one 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:07.280 it is? 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.959 If you had a guess, well, for me it's Italy, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.119 but I bet for you it's Japan. 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.640 Nope, it's a trip we went on to Gamala, Guatamol. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.560 Ladies, gentlemen, Upton, what is it? Altallan like? 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.480 At it Lon is what you're thinking of. So how 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.840 long ago was that, Kaylen gosh Dang? 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.080 Maybe three three years October three years ago. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:29.720 I think it was more than that, because I think 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:30.399 it was before my. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:31.480 Leg four years accident. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.520 I want to say it was fifty months ago. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.880 Okay, it was October four years. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.560 Ago, October twenty twenty nineteen. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:41.320 Twenty nineteen, for sure. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.800 So what Kaylen and I did when we were trying 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:48.120 to spice up our relationship a little bit, we we 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.040 decided we wanted to bring the other person on a 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.240 surprise trip to the to a destination. So I would 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.200 book a trip bring Kaylen. She wouldn't know where we're 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.520 going until we get there ideally. And then she book 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.920 a trip and same thing. I wouldn't know where we're 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.560 going until we get there ideally. Both of those did 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.280 kind of fail. Before we even left the airport. We 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.360 got to lax and she still had no idea whe 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.480 where we were going. And I. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.160 We liked, do you remember correctly what happened? 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.320 I'm trying to remember. We like went to with terminal 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:21.880 that wasn't the right terminal, Like we had to check 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.400 in at terminal three, but then we flewed a terminal four. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.680 Yeah, but we were at the Influencer Awards, the American 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.280 Influencer Awards. First I had to present. We left the 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.639 second I presented, and then got to the airport as 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.560 soon as we possibly could. And then we're like super stress. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.320 We're like, we're gona miss our flight. We're in terminal three, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.480 and the guys like, oh, yeah, you check in here. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.000 But and we didn't have to check back, so it 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.720 was pointless for us to go to terminal three'es like, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.200 you better sprint to terminal four if you're trying to 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:48.600 get catch the Guatemala flight. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.560 How many times have you had to sprint through the 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.600 airport do you think in your life? Maybe like twice, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.640 that being one of them. Yeah, and the other one 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.160 just some other time that you can't think of right now, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.560 but you know it probably happened in another time. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.160 Yeah. Well, like you know when layovers, you have a 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.000 layover and then your first flight's delayed and you almost 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.119 missed your second flight, probably a couple Oh oh yeah, 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.440 South Africa, Yeah, Germany. 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.320 Well, we were in Germany, Amsterdam, Amsterdam on a layover. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.200 But the whole point of that story was because the 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:17.840 guy's like, if you're trying to get to Guatemala, you 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.160 better sprint. And that was the first time I heard 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:20.799 we were. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.120 Going to Guatemala, right, so he spilt the beans. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:24.880 I was so pissed. Not only was I pissed that 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.359 we were like about to miss our flight, I was like, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:27.960 do you know what you just did? 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.480 And there's one thing about Kaylin. When she gets under 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.360 a little bit of stress, she can turn real mean, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.880 real fast, mean until the stress is gone. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:43.840 Mean yeah, not mean, but you yeah, not mean, Thank you, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:44.720 not me? 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.640 Can you stick with me? No, you're very sure. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.720 Sassy and sassy, I'll take sassy. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.440 And so you were sassy because we were running late, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.280 not because of my doing, by the way, because you're doing. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.600 You just had to present at the American Influencer Awards. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.520 And I got my makeup done for that and I 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.240 had to take my clear photo that day on that 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.480 Guatemala trip, and great photo. For four years, I had 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:07.440 a great photo. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.720 Great photo. So, yeah, so we're running late for this flight. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.480 Caylen just finds out where we're going. We're going to Guatemala. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.080 She it instantly jumps on Google and she's like, oh, Guatemala. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.360 That can't be safe. Do you remember that. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.400 No, I didn't say Guatemala that can't be safe. I 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.560 just looked up Guatemala and the first thing that comes 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.679 up is something ridiculous, like it's the most dangerous country 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:27.880 in the world or something like that. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:29.920 Yes, and so not only were you stressed about running 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.679 late for our flight, but then you're also learning information 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.800 at the time about how dangerous this country was, and 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.160 it was it took a couple of days for you 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:38.800 to warm up. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.560 I kind of remember it differently. I kind of remember 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.960 like a few days in me googling that because I 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.520 felt kind of safe, and then I was a little trepidacious. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.360 I think what you're thinking of is you google it 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.680 again a few days into the trip after there was 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.800 no danger ever, and you're like googling it more to 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.680 like maybe cite the source and see like who's writing this, 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.560 because it didn't feel like it was right or something. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:01.760 You know. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:03.719 Yeah, you know when you ask a question on Google, 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.160 and then the first thing that pops up, it's like 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.520 that might not even be a legitimate source, but you 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.599 look at it and you're like, there's my answer. Yeah, goodbye. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.720 So then here I am having to explain to her 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.040 it's not as dangerous as some random person on the 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.480 Internet says. Just because people get murdered there doesn't make 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:18.040 it dangerous. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.080 People get murdered everywhere. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.560 People get murdered Chicago, we still go there, never been, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.800 but yes, most people get murdered in Colorado. We live here. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.080 True, I will say I felt incredibly safe. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:28.360 It is. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:29.920 I mean, I know we're going to get to this, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.919 but it's such an incredible, beautiful country with great people 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.400 and great food, and I never once felt him safe. 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.200 The food was really good. So what did we do? 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.719 We flew into Guatemala City, I believe where you rented 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.600 a car, which, if you're going to spend an extended 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.120 amount of time in Guatemala, highly suggests renting a car. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.719 It's it's pretty necessary to get around. You could definitely 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.960 like bus and do it that way, but just for 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:52.760 convenience sake, I think the car rental was probably only 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.360 like fifteen bucks a day. Too, or something like that. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:56.920 You're a little burbie. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.280 Yeah, I just took a sip of coffee. If you 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.080 guys go and read car and you find a purple 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.200 hydro flask in the back seat, please return it to me. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.640 Oh my gosh, that was just devastating for you. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.360 And I love that hydroflask so much. So we got 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.240 to Watamala City, Guatemala, shilly, silly city, and what did 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.840 we do from there? We stayed the night in Guatemala City, 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.200 but then we drove out. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.840 To We stayed at this like cool boutique hotel. We 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.000 stayed at the very front, right next to the reception. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.920 It was a beautiful hotel with great breakfast, and then 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.400 we were just right by reception, so we kind of 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:27.600 like heard people talking all night. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.840 I wanted to in preparation for this, I wanted to 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.800 pull up some pictures and videos and to kind of 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:33.720 like relive it with you. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.440 And this is like what three months into us stating 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.440 four months into as stating, So I'm new to hiking, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.360 new to all these things, and Dune just was like, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:43.640 let's jump right into it. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.880 We had just done just before the trip, we had 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:46.640 done have a Suphie. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.359 Okay, so I'm not totally in novice, but still, you. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.360 Like ten miles into have a supie. We should actually 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:52.800 make I have a supery episode at some point. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.440 Yeah, and I didn't hike out. Yeah, but that's how 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.040 she returned. He's a mystery. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.240 They that for that. I have a supery episode. So 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.480 I'm going through some Do you remember these photos we 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.320 hiked actually. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.320 Oh, it was one of my favorite trips in my 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:05.400 entire life. Of course I remember. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.560 So we drove in. I was hoping that I was 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.360 going to have the locations on these. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:13.720 If you shot them on your camera, you don't have 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.320 the location. If it's on your iPhone, you do. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.520 That's probably right, That is right. Yeah. Yeah, so we 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.640 don't have city names, which is such a bummer because 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.040 this very beautiful city. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.920 Yeah, prepared more gosh darn it. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.000 Well, I this is already. I'm recording this later than 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.080 I then I would normally record. So that's why I'm 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.080 doing it this way. Look at this beautiful part of 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:38.440 the city. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.120 Yeah, it was gorgeous. I forgot about that day. We 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.040 just walked around town. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.559 So we drove this beautiful little town, just walked around. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:45.440 It was amazing. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.360 And then no, it's easy to find because there's that 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.720 we hiked, I mean baby baby hike to that huge cross. Yeah, 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.600 so if you just look up like huge cross and 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.960 Malla's city, it's easy to find that cute little town 0:07:59.000 --> 0:07:59.480 we walked through. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.400 Oh, Antigua, Antigua Antiga, Guatemala is the name. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:04.120 That's where we stayed. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.480 Yes, I highly recommend going to Antigua. You could spend 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.800 probably two days there. And I remember after walking around, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.000 we did struggle to like find touristy things to do. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.240 But we but also they remember I think that was 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.480 that time there were like cute, little like healthy restaurants. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.000 It was very like yoga hippie. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.240 Yesque As Guatemala. I think just kind of threw them through. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:25.680 It is like that. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:26.840 I loved it. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.320 And then what did we do with Then we did 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.160 a little mini hike up a volcano. We found a 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:30.760 tour guide. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.920 Many that was brutal or no. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.079 We drove to the trailhead right and we wanted to hike, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:37.640 but they wouldn't let you hike without a tour guy. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:38.480 So we found one. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.600 So we just yeah, it'll be like bumped into one 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.720 there that was like obviously willing to do it because 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.199 we have to pay him, so then that's probably his job. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.199 So he showed us up this volcano. It's pretty cool. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.280 Is the first time in my life I'd ever seen Magma. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.480 Yeah, also, I'm glad that we did, and because I mean, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.960 these guys do it all the time. They're prepared. They 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.880 bring marshmallows, you roast marshmallows. I know, some people bring 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.160 pizza and you like cook a pizza up there, So 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.040 it's really cool. And getting to roast marshmallows on Magma 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.920 that's probably a once in a lifetime thing. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.640 Yeah. So then we According to my phone it's called 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.280 San Vicente Pakaya, but I don't remember that being the 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.120 name of this volcano. But anyways, we just did a 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:16.920 day trip up on this volcano. It's like a pretty 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.120 easy hike, maybe an hour up, an hour down or 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.400 something like that. And that was in preparation for the 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.920 next adventure that we were going on. That was preparing 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.240 us for the next adventure that we were going on. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.400 So then what we did was I just want to 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.960 say too that I have no idea on this trip 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.920 what we're doing, what is being planned, Dean said. He 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.559 prefaced with You're gonna not really enjoy the first half 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.000 of the trip, but you're really going to enjoy the 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:39.600 second half. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.320 Of the trip, And you enjoyed it all I did. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:43.920 I mean, if I were to do that again, I 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.199 would definitely enjoy the first half more now because I'm 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:48.640 more fit. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:50.480 So then what do we do? We checked into a 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.800 hostel and my first ever it was your first ever 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.760 hostile experience, and it's kind of frustrating because I booked 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.520 a private room, or at least like a queen's size 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.679 bed in a room that was supposed to be private, 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.240 at least how I understood it. And so we're laying 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.120 in bed after our briefing on what we're going to 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.280 be doing the next day, which was hiking Bulkan Fuego. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.800 So we get into the meeting for that and they're 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.079 like running us through everything in Kalyn super. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.640 Steep, ten miles up, ten miles down. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.480 Yeah. Kaylyn keeps looking over at me like, what the 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.120 hell are you about to make me do? So we 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.720 go through the briefing, we stay the night in the hostel, 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.760 We get into our room, we're like kind of snuggling 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.760 on the bed watching a show or something. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.200 We're in bunk beds. I'm up top, you're on the bottom, 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.280 and then a man walks in and I jump into 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:36.760 bed with you. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.400 Yeah, French guy walks in and she goes, why is 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.400 this guy in our room? I was like, well, it's 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.199 a hostel, that's how hostles work. And she was like, what, 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.040 people just share rooms. I was like, yeah, it's a 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:47.680 cheap no, no, no, no, I'm sorry. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.840 I understood the sharing of the room. What I didn't 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.320 understand is this guy just getting naked barely saying hi. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.679 And I was like, oh, my virgin, I can't see this. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:58.760 Yeah, get he did take his pants off. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.600 I remember, Yeah, there's bathrooms. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.440 And at this point in life, you hadn't really traveled much, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.920 even though traveling was sort of your thing, you hadn't 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.920 really traveled much. Had you. You'd been to Asia? Yeah, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.240 that's it, we had been. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.840 I think we went on my trip clingha. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.960 No, that was after this trip. I was a spoiler 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.800 alert for next episode, Caylen, come on, beep, just peep 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.360 it out. And so yeah, so then we had to 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.160 deal with the French guy that was gettingnked in the room. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:24.640 It really was not an issue. It was just kind 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.120 of funny to see kill in the reaction. And we 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:28.880 woke up early the next day, took the bus up 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.120 to the trailhead for the volcano with a group of 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.920 probably what like fourteen other people. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:35.959 I don't really remember the bus up there at all. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.559 It was well, I mean, obviously we had to take 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:38.439 something to get to the trailhead. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:39.280 Yeah, but I don't remember it. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.240 I remember it. It was a beautiful drive, maybe like 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.080 an hour or two drive. But the group was big, right, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:44.920 it was like fourteen people. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.520 Yes, I do know. Yeah, yeah, we had to split 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:47.480 up into like two vans. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.040 Do you remember the group being big? 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.320 I would say it was like fifteen people. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.480 Yeah, that's exactly what I just said. Well one more 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.679 than what I just said. So we get to the 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.199 trailhead start hiking. It's a beautiful right out of the gates. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.880 We hiked for I want to say, like six or 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.559 seven or eight hours, probably. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.880 A long time, and I thought I would be the weakest. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.280 I was maybe the second or third weakest. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.280 You were in the middle of the pack, Yeah, which 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.120 is good. And that's kind of a testament to this 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.120 type of stuff too, with these guided tours. Is you 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:18.880 don't even necessarily have to be the strongest or the 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.719 fastest or whatever. I talk about that all the time, like, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.760 you'll get to where you're going eventually. So if you 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.959 think that you're not in good enough shape to do 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.480 something like this, I mean, obviously still train and prepare 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.480 for it. But if you think it's something you can't do, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.679 I can't assure you it is something that you can do. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.360 And they divvied up our food and our packs, like 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.400 they divvied everything up amongst everyone. And Dean was so kind, 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.600 and because we had just hiked have a soup by 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.400 he knew that I struggled and it's hard for me 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.520 to carry away and hike, so he carried everything and 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.480 I had to carry nothing, which is very sweet of you. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:13:01.040 Just such a lucky girl I am. So we hiked 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.079 up on the hike up, I remember there was like 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.240 halfway up there was like a food not a food truck, 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:07.719 but like a food tent and they would serve you 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:08.600 coffee and stuff. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.560 Oh, it was amazing. It was great coffee. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.320 It was really cool. And then we got to our 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.920 campsite for the night, which is adjacent to directly to 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.040 an erupting volcano. So this volcano erupts every I want 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.320 to say, like every ten minutes, to varying degrees. Sometimes 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.280 they're massive, sometimes they're kind of smaller. But it's amazing. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.360 During the we got up there during daylight and you 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.360 just see like big plumes of smoke kind of coming 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.280 out of the volcano occasionally, and you can hear it, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.520 and you're not close to it, but you're much closer 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.360 than I would have ever expected to have gotten too 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:37.440 an active volcano. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.079 And it had erupted and tragically killed a lot of 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.199 people a year prior. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.800 It wasn't in a year, it was like twenty years prior. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.840 No, no, no, no, yes, it was. I'm pretty sure 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:50.360 I'm right. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.360 Okay, I don't know, I believe you. Maybe I'm wrong, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.240 but yeah, I mean, to your point, it does erupt 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.600 semi frequently and causes destruction. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.199 But also so all the tents were set up, I 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.800 don't know if we had people hiking ahead of us 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:06.600 to set up our tents. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.160 Do you remember I think that we had some sort 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:08.600 of porters. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.440 Yeah, yeah, I think we did have porters as well. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.319 So we go there, our tents are set up, and 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.640 then the guide is like who wants this one? And 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.800 it's like front facing directly, it's like the best spot 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.760 to see the volcano erupting all night. And Dean is 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.800 never one to like, I don't know, You're like kind 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.880 of passive and you'll let anyone like have the best experience. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.200 But Deane was like, nope, we'll take it. And someone 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.880 was already someone wanted it, and then Deane was like, 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.440 oh man, we really wanted that. And He's like, oh, okay, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.320 you can have it. And Deane was like, yeah, I 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.200 don't remember that I do. And I was like, I've 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.600 never seen you be so assertive like that before. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.120 I just when it comes to that kind of stuff, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.720 I know that I'm going to have a good experience 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.680 no matter what, and so if someone needs to be 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.000 in a better position for them to enjoy it more, 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.680 then I'm happy to give it to them because I 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.360 know either way, I'm going to have a really good time. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:53.920 I think you kind of did it more so for 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.920 me and maybe the photo too. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.040 I think I was setting my camera up for the 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.920 night shots or something and I wanted to be close 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.360 to it. Maybe is why. But yeah, so then we 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.640 you know, we had a delicious dinner with this tour guide. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.800 I wish I could. I probably can figure out the 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.400 name of the tour group, just in case you're thinking 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.120 about booking a trip out to Guatemala and you want to. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.640 Oh yeah, Ox Expeditions. We'll found that really fast. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.560 Our guide was wonderful. I don't remember his name, but 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.320 he was amazing. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.200 I don't remember him being especially good, but I don't 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.280 remember him being bad at all. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.480 Oh. We enjoyed his company because we both are people 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.920 that like to be to ourselves and don't love big 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.800 group things. But we both had a great time, me 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:29.480 more so than you. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:31.920 You had a better time than I did. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.760 No, like, I like to be alone more than you do. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.520 I don't really like big groups. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.520 I think that we dislike it equally. I just can 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.760 cope with it better. Yeah, it's maybe be a better 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.880 way to put it. But yeah, So we stayed the night. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:47.840 Oh gosh, it was so cool. They cooked us a 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.200 delicious dinner. We played games with the group, like under 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.360 the tent watching this volcano or ups consistently every ten minutes, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.200 and they give you an option for the next morning. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.440 You can wake up at like what was it like 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.840 four or five in the morning, hike up to the 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.320 cause you're you're kind of camping. I want to say, 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.440 like fifteen hundred feet below the summit of the mountain 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.080