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Speaker 1: Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing. I'm a

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Speaker 1: bit of a nomad, so these episodes come to from

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Speaker 1: I'll share with you what's going on in my world,

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Speaker 1: from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health

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Speaker 1: discoveries to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay beaches. Come with

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Speaker 1: me as I share my adventures with you. Hello, fam, Bam.

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Speaker 1: Pod Diary coming to you. As I told you last

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Speaker 1: week or explained and asked for advance forgiveness. It's coming

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Speaker 1: to you a day late because we've just landed back

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and I wanted you to have an

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Speaker 1: So I'm just going to give you a quick little

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Speaker 1: full blown wyoming to a guide because Boss and I

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Speaker 1: have just spent the last five days there in a nutshell.

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Speaker 1: We really wanted to do something special for our birthdays.

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Speaker 1: We both turned forty about a month ago, exactly a

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Speaker 1: month ago. The trip was literally a month after our birthdays,

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Speaker 1: and we also had our seven year anniversary a couple

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Speaker 1: like a double whammy trip. And we really wanted to

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Speaker 1: go to yellow like either we would like to we

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Speaker 1: go over to Montana or we go to Wyoming. When

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Speaker 1: weren't sure, I being the OCD control freak virgo that

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Speaker 1: go to both national parks, both Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons,

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Speaker 1: we decided to base ourselves out of Jackson Hole and

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Speaker 1: parks and we did it in five days. We did

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Speaker 1: it all. We did Yellowstone, we did Teton National Park.

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Speaker 1: We saw moose, elk, deer, owls, beaver, a gray wharf,

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Speaker 1: which is super rare. Apparently there's only four of them

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Speaker 1: like tour guides don't see them in twenty five years

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Speaker 1: of like being tour guides. The only thing we didn't

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Speaker 1: would say, definitely get best brain. Now. I have started

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Speaker 1: like what part what loop we did, because Yellowstone, which

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Speaker 1: and all that kind of thing. Definitely pop it on

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Speaker 1: Jackson Hole is a really expensive place to visit. However,

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Speaker 1: totally base yourself out of Jackson Hole. Five days was

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Speaker 1: And there are like these deer antler arches everywhere. The deer,

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Speaker 1: we can't wait to go back. We love, love, love

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Speaker 1: And I said to Matt, I was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're we're here living in America, Like we may as

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Speaker 1: well explore all these other incredible places. It's such a huge,

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Speaker 1: get to places. So yeah, that's me, Gangles, You're Monday,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have a Ripper long Form Boss and I

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Speaker 1: are talking all things Wyoming and Jackson Hole. I'm interviewing

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Speaker 1: So you've got lots coming up, lots of planned for

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Speaker 1: you to everyone that's followed along on Instant Stories. The

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Speaker 1: adventure of our fortieth in Wyoming really means loads, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: mega love all right, hohoru bye,