October 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Samantha recaps her recent trip to New York.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm welcome to stuff I never told you Production by
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour, in which if you
are participating in any happy hour ish things, do so responsibly. Also,
any of the things we're talking about, they're not sponsored,
which makes me sad because the things that I'm about
to talk about, you should sponsor us so that I
can have more trips like this. Yeah, I don't know
why I sounded so angry, is that it really entices
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people to want to help us out. Definitely, Annie, are
you doing happy hours? Is things?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I am so for listeners who don't know. Work on
another show called Saver, and we're doing an episode.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
On wine quirks. Oh yeah, and uh, I learned a.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Lot about cork tank, which is basically why they they
have you smell the wine or like. It's not to
see if you like it. It's just to be like,
see it doesn't smell bad because if the cork went bad.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
So anyway, I had an old bottle of wine and
I'm trying to go through it because if you have
cork tank, no, but now that I know what it is,
I have experienced it before.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It smells horrible. It's it smells like molds and not
in a good fun way.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't know if I've ever experienced that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's bad news. It was enough that I poured it out,
and you know me, I don't get rid of stuff severe. Yeah, no,
it was bad news.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Worry about you put a fire?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Where's that old bottle of wine?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, I'm glad to hear your mode. I learned.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I learned a lot from that episode, to be honest
with you.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I love it. I love it. I don't know any
about that. So we'll have a conversation later. M Yeah,
so this happy hour is going to be happy. I'm
giving a review of my birthday trip to Upstate New York.
Ray was like, hey, one of our favorite people's friend
of the show listener. I was like, give us, give
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us a rundown, let us know what you did. And
I was like, I got you, And it's fun. It's
fun to remember and love things. I will say my
anxiety was super high in planning this because it was
pretty last minute. I want to say last minute. Usually
i'm like six months if a trip is coming up,
at least three or four months in advance. This was
like two to three weeks before, so we're kind of
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like rearranging things. Initially, we'd planned to come up north
to a different state with my partner's family, but things
kind of failed apart, so we had to cancel that.
So I don't do refundable things because I don't to
pay the extra money. And that's just me being cheap,
I guess. But at the same time, I was like, ugh,
but the fact they do give you a year to
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try to reuse it, so we did. We decided to
take the birthday drive last minute and trying to figure
out where we wanted to go. You know, I think
if you have listened to the show previously, I am
very anxious, even more so my middle name is anxious now.
But anyway, because traveling also means a lot of like
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scares with the world and the country and the place
that our country is at. And I will say I
got a little bit of a fright at the beginning.
I'll explain a bit. And so we've been talking about
going international travels, but I'm kind of too scared to
do so, just because I don't know what people are
looking at. I don't know what is fear mongering versus
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what is not fear mongering. And I will say we
also had really great timing in that sounds very privileged
that we did all the traveling before the show down
the government shut down, so I was like, oh, my gosh,
I've heard many travels. Two days after we landed back
the airport that we were left from with the airline
that we used, they got in a crash. I was like,
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what is happening? And this has happened the past few
years where every time something has happened, we were like,
how did we miss that? Because I think it was
last year, was it last year or year before last
in which we left the LaGuardia and then a day
later it was flooded. We were like, what is happening?
And then we had another incident similar to that before
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we were like, either we were bad luck for this airport
or we just have really good luck in missing out.
I don't know anyway, but yeah, So that was we
have planned to do this and we got everything aligned.
I will say like timing in New York and I
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figured this part out was like expensive because if we
had stayed the night before, it would have been three
hundred dollars cheaper, but because of the night that we
needed to stay, it was significantly increasing, and the more
we waited, and I have feeling people are gonna come
out and be like, you know, Google tracks you and
increases prices, blah blahlahlah blah. Yes we know that, but
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there was things that were happening in which things were
getting booked out and or prices increased by thousands, not hundreds,
thousands of dollars for per night, and I was like,
what is happening. So a lot of things went down.
But we got there and we landed on day one
and it was gorgeous weather. We went and got into
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our hotel, very old hotel, wonderful location. So it was
one of those two things that were like, oh okay,
so the switch up is but the location was on
Washington Square, so it was gorgeous location. We walked everywhere.
I picked the wrong shoes, I will say that, but
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we got our bagels from our traditional bagel place when
we got there. We explored the area, We walked forever.
That day, we went to see a really cool arts
exhibit called Unseen at the Loom or for some reason,
we gonna call it loom Ma, but I'm pretty sure
it's Loom Studios in New York City, and y'all. It
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was about the North Korean women who are struggling and
there's a lot of like human rights crimes happening, humanitarian grabs,
especially with the women, and the amount of enslaved people
that are still happening, the amount of deaths and persecution.
So it was an incredible exhibit. It was very small.
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I think we may have missed the floor, but it
was so awkward going in. So my partner and I
walked in. There was one person at the front and
they were nice, except they didn't explain anything. Usually they'll
tell you take this, do this, look at this. Nope,
it just said go for it. And we were like,
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oh okay. So we walked in and there were QR
codes so that you can like get the information. So
that was nice to see. There was things like you
can touch this, don't touch this, you can do this.
Very cool. But then it was also like intertwined with
some European white women stuff that I was like, where
did that come from? I don't understand. Okay, I don't
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know if that just ran out of people. But then
we were walking it was very cool and we walked out.
Another person kind of came in and sat in the middle,
so I didn't know if they were an artist. They
were just chilling on their phone. I was like, I
don't know what. I don't know, I don't know what's happening.
So and it was just my partner and I. So
it was super awkward. But the showing was fantastic. The
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art was beautiful. At one point my partner was looking
at something thinking it was an art exhibit, and then
it turned that I was just like lighting. So we
did have that moment. But finally we're like, okay, I
guess there. We'll leave. And as we were leaving, the
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hand us a whole like tote and a couple of
the items. I was like, oh, that's so nice, thank you.
And then as my partner walks and I'm like, I
don't know if we're supposed to donate anything, I'm very confused.
They really don't tell us again much. And as we
were leaving and my partner was like, I think there
was a downstairs portion. There's a little side that says
there's a downstairs portion. I was like, uhh, we're done.
We already walked out, we already got grabbed that gritty bags.
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We're done. I can't do this anymore. So that was
an experience, but it was really like, it has a
great exhibit. I don't know if it's there there, still there,
it's been a few weeks, but you know, whatever, whatnot.
That night we immediately had on a casse because if
I'm in New York, I'm gonna get a ma casse
at any This one was much cheaper than the others
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that we've done, and so good may have been our
top favorite.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh jealous, So I feel.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Like this may be a spot that if you and
I go back, I'm gonna take you two because you
could upgrade it. And my partner usually he's like, no,
it's just because you eat. Your eyes are bigger than
your stomach, and it's true. I like, I want everything,
and by halfway through, I'm like, I'm done, I don't
want this no more. But he was like, no, I
think we should do a whole upgrade, and we didn't.
It was so so good, so good, Like I was like,
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oh my gosh, everything is delicious, and then they came
and singing happy birthday to me. Oh I didn't want
that for you, No, I don't. I don't, I don't
like it. There was another dude, so we were both
beings saying too, So that felt less. But when I
say that, they didn't sing it. They turned the lights out,
had some music playing and people dancing. Yeah that's too much,
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but yeah, so it was still fun. And then we
got ready for the next day and we had a
train right andy, so we took the Amtrak from all
the way from New York City and Penn Station to Albany,
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rind Cellar. I believe that's how I say it. And
it was a gorgeous ride. I will say we didn't
get there early enough, so we were kind of back
in the line. So if you're doing the you know, coach,
which is big enough for me. It's much bigger than
an airplane and easy to store things like we got
a smaller window, but we got it on the right side,
the correct side, that is, so we got to see
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all the like water and then the leaves. As we
were going further and further north, it was prettier and prettier,
and so it was gorgeous to see and I was
just excited. At one point we were talking about like
trying to find the snack car and my cute partner
was trying to get in the back to get like
as a coffee or something. He got yelled at at
the conductor because he opened the wrong door. Oh no,
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he came back quickly. I was like, well, that wasn't
that wasn't right, not getting up again, and I was like,
fair enough. But it was a wonderful train ride. I
would I highly recommend if you need to. I think
you have to be on the left side, just if
you're on that specific train, because you can see all
the lakes. And then when we arrived, we got our
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car and started driving up and it was a gorgeous
ride all the way up. It was cloudy and rainy
or so like. At that point I was like whatever,
But by the time I made it, it was wonderful.
We found a small spot and eight in Albany. Great food,
probably the best lovester role I've had, I know, and
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y'all it was just a buttery, gooey goodness with no
Mayo top tier, top tier. And from there we just
made a whole adventure of the days. We arrived in
the lake View, so we were right on Saraanac Lake.
The hotel was gorgeous view. We finally woke up the
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next day, got some coffee coffee machine in there we
went I'm gonna say quote unquote hiking, but not really.
So we ended up going to the High Falls Gorge,
which you have to pay like twenty dollars just to
walk in per person. I was kind of shocked by
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this because yes, I expect to pay part fees. I'm
all about paying part fees. I think this is handled
by the state. There was another falls near this area,
and it's privately owned, so you like and you have
to be sixty dollars to walk around the areas that
I'm like, you know, I feel a certain oddness when
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it's a privately owned natural park that you do a
lot of activities with it too, so they do like
you can raft and all these things. It just felt odd.
So we were able to like look around without paying,
like they could go on bridge and to crictures and
that's what we did. But like, I get it main
but it was very touristy, like more so than I
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had expected. I will say. So White Face Mountain was there,
and a lot of people went to go and hike
that we were thinking about going to hike that. I
was kind of the plan, but it turns out they
were haavy Octoberfest and it was gonna be chaos, and
it was already pretty crowded because of the beginning of Foliage,
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like it's not super super but like pretty crowded. And
I was like, Eh, not good, we good, We're not
doing all that. My partner was like, you know, Octoberfist
and a place called White Face Sus And I'm not
saying that that's the case, not at all, y'all. Although
I did see a lot of conservative gear being sold
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at souvenir shops, really concerning to the point that when
we saw it and the fact that it was so
big that it was a souvenir shop for the Adirondacks,
yet they had political things, very conservative things, and I
was like, we gotta go. We can't be here. I
can't be There was some of that that was in
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Lake George. It was interesting because there's so many places
that you can go, like the Catskills are below Albany,
and we went above all these different places. So we
stayed at Sara Nac, which is probably about two and
a half hours above Albany. There's Lake Placid, and then
there is Lake George, and I kind of qualified each
one as like in what I know of the South,
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which is not necessarily fair, but trying to describe it
to my friends, and I'm sorry if this defends people.
I don't mean to, but the way that we had
seen it, it felt like Lake George was the pigeon
Forge of the North, or Gatlinburg rather or as where
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Saranac Lake was a little more like Ashville. If you
get my drift, I must say Lake Placid maybe more
of Charleston. Okay, if you get my fields, do you
get my fields? So people in the South, I think
I understood that. Like Caroline friend of the previous host
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slash friend, I was texting with them and told them
all of that because I was kind of shocked by
the differences of the touristiness of these areas. So that's
kind of how I describe it. I will say I
had my birthday lunch was at a place called the
Shepherds at our Low West, which is noted as being
a castle. I'm not sure if it's actually a castle.
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Someone can tell me the history of this. If they
know the history of this, anybody from New York. I know,
I've had a couple of people let us know what
to do. It goes down. It was noted to be
a castle. Interestingly small castle odd when there's a wedding
there because we showed up when the wedding was happening,
and because it's such a smaller blaze everywhere, like, even
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though we had reservations for dinner, everywhere we went, it
felt like we were in the middle of their wedding party.
So we were like, oh God, we're in the wrong place.
That was a whole interesting thing. But the dinner was beautiful,
the time was great. They gave us a little cute
little dessert even though we weren't going to order any
ended up going to ice cream later. It was so sweet.
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They were so kind. The next day we decided we
were going to try for a different spot and we
drove even further up and it was gorgeous. An It
was a beautiful day. The scenery is gorgeous. I need
to post this up. I just can't do the album.
I had one little like video in the fog, but
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it's on my TikTok age if y'all tho. My four followers,
including my partner but like, we went up and we
went to an apple orchard, picked our own apples, watched
them do the donuts. It wasn't the place that the
listener had recommended because I think that was far far
away from where we were, like three hours and I'm like,
we can do an hour. We can do an hour.
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But we also got apples, We got cute little trinkets.
We brought some of those apples home. I ate the
last one. It was delicious. I gave us a lot
of them away, including to contributor to show Joey because
I ended up seeing Joey. They got some apples. But yeah,
it was wonderful experience. It was so funny because I
come from a town that is known for apples in Georgia.
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Never have I ever went picking for apples. I wasn't
going through. My partner was like, we need to. We
drove an hour and I was like, fine, we'll go
and take some apples. We did explore some of the
cute little towns, which we were also kind of scared of, because,
as Ejene Carroll had said, when you go beyond New
York City, it's a lot more conservative, and I did. Again,
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I found some of those spots that I was like, yeah,
this is very conservative that I was like a little nervous,
a little nervous, but it was wonderful. It was still
a great trip. It was so much fun. And then
we came back down. We spent another day and a
half in New York City again, got to see Joey,
took them to the Golden Diner, probably one of the
best restaurants, which in New York City, best pancake, chicken, everything,
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Sojo bloody Mary, like, it's phenomenal. It was so good.
The train read back was gorgeous. We found another I
will say the only problem I had is because in
the trains some of them faced the opposite directions. Yeah,
and I get really emotions sick. Yeah, my back was
to the wrong area. Like there was no other way
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for us to see outside besides that way. So because
we again we're a little too late lining up. Oh
and getting the car back was a whole thing, Like
y'all Sundays are hard days because they are closed. We
got to see cousins of my partner who are wonderful
and they are engaged, and they were talking about wedding plans.
It was just such a lovely, lovely time. Got to
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spend time in Brooklyn, which we haven't done much of.
I love Brooklyn, great area. We stayed in a fun
little hotel and fun little area. Went shopping, tons of
coffee shops, lots of hipsters. Yeah, lot. But it was
such a great trip, and I think my itinerary did
really well. I kept saying that I picked the perfect places,
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and I picked the perfect timing, and I did such
a good job on the restaurants. I just want to
give myself a pat on the back because, yeah, I
did that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
You should. That's very rewarding when it works out.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It is it is, and I don't gloat about much.
But this trip was like high key. I did that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Mm hmm. It's a lot of work too. People.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm looking at my itinerary now so I can give
you kind of a rundown because I have a whole
itinerary here.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Mm hm oh, I believe it. It sounds like it
was great though you got what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It was so good. It was so good, and we
got to be in nature. I got to see beautiful leaves.
Our locations were great. The train ride was fantastic, and
to the fact that I want to do it again,
but I want to do more expensive ones. So I
was looking at around BEF in Canada. It's like four
thousand dollars. There's a lot of money. Yeah, I don't
know if I could do that. Sponsor US Canada please.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
My dad loved train rides and he got asked to
speak at Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
When I was nine years old, and we went to Washington,
d C. On a train and it was like the
coolest thing as a kid. I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So the train that I was on, specifically Empire Express,
I can't I can't remember, but like it is known,
like it's one of the top five trains in the US. No,
there's not many. I will give you that. A few
over California, Colorado that's really gorgeous. But this one is
over here in the eastern part of the country and
it goes all the way into Canada. So it goes
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all the way to Montreal.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
And I had a small fear that we were gonna
yeah those things, but like apparently going all the way
into Canada is gorgeous, like it continuing on is actually
worth the trip.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, I would love to. I looked already as like Amtrak,
because there was in Atlanta. It starts in Atlanta, yeah, yep,
and it goes all the way up to New York.
I can you can you know, get onto different you
have to get onto different cars and stuff. But like
at one point I was looking, it's like fourteen hours
from here to New York. But it's not the prettiest views.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Well, And the thing is like when I went to DC,
it wasn't the prettiest views, but I just thought it
was super cool, like it's fun because we had a
sleeper car.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It was like so I had like a bed to
the window.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
This is the Sex in the City episode, by the way,
where they take a train from New York to California.
I want to say, damn.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But well, my dad he wanted that was like his dream.
He wanted to take a train from I think it
started in New York. He just wanted to go from
east to west. He wanted to go across the whole country.
But he was a big train guy. And I went
on trains in Europe and they were really cool as well.
But that was like my first experience, and I just
remember thinking it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Was so like my first experience was when I was
in Europe. Of course, you know, like that was that
was fun. But again, like I was glad that this
youthfully because it was anxious because people yell at you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
This lady yelled at me in French and I was like,
I can speak French, but now I'm so intimidated by
the fact that you're yelling at me.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I can't remember single word.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Okay, the conductors would yell at you. Of course, there
was also conductors and like people who were just kind
when they were like laughing at me. I had some
people laughing at me, helping me out, but also had
like push me out the way because I was in
their way. And I was like, I have a giant backpack.
Don't yell at me.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I promised I wasn't. The woman who was yelling at me.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
She thought I was trying to because you're supposed to
get like your ticket stamped at every step. Yeah, and
I guess I miss stop And she said I was
like trying to trickerr and I was like, no, I'm
just an idiot.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I just don't know how this works. I remember when
I first got on. Oh no, I missed several trainings
like I've had, so I had so many incidents. I
was like, oh my god, Oh my god, what am
I doing? But I wanted to do this by myself
at the age of nineteen twenty. But I remember, like
I missed a few, but I got the first one
and it was so tight that everybody was just standing
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and I barely got on that. I was like this,
and I started getting first class, and that was when
it was cheaper. It was only like ten dollars. I
was like yeah, and then you would have a seat,
a guaranteed seat, and no one bothered or yelled at you.
I was like, all right, from now on, I'm getting
first class tickets. I think it's changed because I was
looking at upgrading with the Amtrag and I was like,
fifty dollars more. I was like per person. I was
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like that significant anymore what I thought, But like, I
remember that. And then when I did the euro Rail,
which was really fun, although like you just sit in
darkness for hours because it goes under everything. I just
a giant. It's like you're sitting at a dining room,
a small dining room place, and I was like, yeah,
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what is this. I was so disillusioned, like I was tricked.
I was gas lit by that train, thinking that the
rest of the trains were like that.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You know, well, my final I have to tell this
quick story. Give me When I was in Europe. The
only flight I've ever missed was when I was in
France and I was flying to Italy and it was
Ryan Aires.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It was the cheap flight, you know, and it was
the faraway airports. And I told the taxi driver that
several times he took me to the wrong airport. Oh sorry,
I was like, listen, this flight goes up, Well we're
gonna do. And so he took me the train station
and so early I had to wait for it to start.
I get on it and they went on strike and
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the train stopped.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Walk out.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Red incidents. Before we left that they were striking. I
was like, we might be in trouble.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Good for them, But man, was that bad timing?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yes? I mean I did the same thing with like
trying to figure out for the rental car, and I
was like, we're going to be so late and if
they cancel our thing, we're going to be stuck in
Albanie and we're not gonna like I had get I
do too much. But because of like an hour to reading,
how many trains are delayed, how often are they delayed
like that delayed quite often for two or three hours.
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I'm like, actually, it was fine. And our apparently our
car rental was at the training station, so they knew
and they're like, what time is, what number is your train?
What's your train number? Okay, we'll get ready for you.
So they were ready. So it was perfect, but like, yeah,
it's a whole lot because you never know what's gonna happen.
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Tragedies happen, accidents happened. We did sit for a good
ten minutes in the darkness while they were trying to
figure out what's happening in the back car.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
We were like what, yeah, what it's not come reading?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
They have no But it was fine. Everything was And
then like listening to people listening to each stop they
barely stopped at some of them, They're like, you got
get off now, get on this car, get off now,
And I'm like, what did they do that to us?
We have so much stuff, And like as we were
coming to uh Albany, the actual station, the people next
to us gone up like fifteen minutes early and stood
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in the middle of the way, like they were ready
to hop off, as if they were the you know,
trade hopping.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Are the people who like get up when they announce
zone two in their zone seven?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yes, so, but like, hey, we're in the middle of
the way standing so we couldn't even get up and
get our backs. In my head, I'm like, do we
need to get do we need to get ready? Are
we gonna miss stop? And when we finally stopped, there like, oh,
we're stopping for an hour? Look, wait, why did everybody
do this? Like I get you need to get off,
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but standing fifteen minutes before we even arrive, like before
the announcement even happened, that we were approaching, which takes
another ten minutes to get into stop position. That I
was like, is there something we don't know? Like, are
we are? And they only had a backpack. It wasn't
like they had huge amounts of you know, luggage, And
I was just so confused by this point.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I mean that's the thing. I love traveling, but there's
always that layer of uncertainty of no, I've never been
here before, so I don't know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Exactly that those are the moments that have the hardest
time with but like I really really enjoyed it. My
partner sister was asking pre before we started, like is
it gonna be a good ride, and we were like,
we don't know, what'll let you know, and then we
sent her decks were like yes, worth the right, like
specifically this train ride is worth it, and like the
amount of space there was, like I get motion sickness
(27:48):
again in the air as well, so I don't have
the deal with like air pressure problems or like the bouncing,
although like didn't the train was rough, but like there
was a lot more like that. I could see obviously
out the window and all of these things, so it
was much much better. Eight out of ten, eight out
of ten, Like the two is because the two taking
(28:09):
office because of the whole snack car incident really confusing,
but it was such a great trip. I feel like
I love being in nature anyway, but also love exploring
new areas. So this kind of is that similar to
being in Seattle Mountain and are in Portland where we
can both have the nature portion but also enjoy a
(28:31):
new city portion, which New York City we've been many times,
but as many times we go, there's so many more
things to do. Obviously, New York is never ending. Brooklyn
is always so much fun anyway, and so being able
to go and see all of that. We actually walked
the entire Brooklyn Bridge. Annie. Oh yeah, it's painful and
(28:51):
a little nauseating because it bounced. Why did it bounce?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's my That's on my lists things I like to
do when I'm in New York.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Well, we did it. Yeah, I'm very proud of ourselves
that we did it. And then met up with Joey
and them. So we were gross and sweaty, but yeah,
it was fun. It was nice to do. But yeah,
so a ten out of ten trip. Glad we got
to do it. Had a moment to kind of relax
and not think of anything outside of good food and travels.
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Thank you for taking care of Peaches. I always know
she's in good hands.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
We had a great time. She had a blast when
I had my friends over.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
She she that she loves having parties and we don't bant.
That made it even better.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
She had a good time. I'm so glad it was
such a good trip.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I would love to see pictures and hear about this
macasse that was so good.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Oh got you some maple syrup.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Oh okay, okay, well well we'll talk about that later.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour, in which if you
are participating in any happy hour ish things, do so responsibly. Also,
any of the things we're talking about, they're not sponsored,
which makes me sad because the things that I'm about
to talk about, you should sponsor us so that I
can have more trips like this. Yeah, I don't know
why I sounded so angry, is that it really entices
(00:42):
people to want to help us out. Definitely, Annie, are
you doing happy hours? Is things?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I am so for listeners who don't know. Work on
another show called Saver, and we're doing an episode.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
On wine quirks. Oh yeah, and uh, I learned a.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Lot about cork tank, which is basically why they they
have you smell the wine or like. It's not to
see if you like it. It's just to be like,
see it doesn't smell bad because if the cork went bad.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
So anyway, I had an old bottle of wine and
I'm trying to go through it because if you have
cork tank, no, but now that I know what it is,
I have experienced it before.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It smells horrible. It's it smells like molds and not
in a good fun way.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't know if I've ever experienced that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's bad news. It was enough that I poured it out,
and you know me, I don't get rid of stuff severe. Yeah, no,
it was bad news.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Worry about you put a fire?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Where's that old bottle of wine?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, I'm glad to hear your mode. I learned.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I learned a lot from that episode, to be honest
with you.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I love it. I love it. I don't know any
about that. So we'll have a conversation later. M Yeah,
so this happy hour is going to be happy. I'm
giving a review of my birthday trip to Upstate New York.
Ray was like, hey, one of our favorite people's friend
of the show listener. I was like, give us, give
(02:26):
us a rundown, let us know what you did. And
I was like, I got you, And it's fun. It's
fun to remember and love things. I will say my
anxiety was super high in planning this because it was
pretty last minute. I want to say last minute. Usually
i'm like six months if a trip is coming up,
at least three or four months in advance. This was
like two to three weeks before, so we're kind of
(02:47):
like rearranging things. Initially, we'd planned to come up north
to a different state with my partner's family, but things
kind of failed apart, so we had to cancel that.
So I don't do refundable things because I don't to
pay the extra money. And that's just me being cheap,
I guess. But at the same time, I was like, ugh,
but the fact they do give you a year to
(03:07):
try to reuse it, so we did. We decided to
take the birthday drive last minute and trying to figure
out where we wanted to go. You know, I think
if you have listened to the show previously, I am
very anxious, even more so my middle name is anxious now.
But anyway, because traveling also means a lot of like
(03:28):
scares with the world and the country and the place
that our country is at. And I will say I
got a little bit of a fright at the beginning.
I'll explain a bit. And so we've been talking about
going international travels, but I'm kind of too scared to
do so, just because I don't know what people are
looking at. I don't know what is fear mongering versus
(03:50):
what is not fear mongering. And I will say we
also had really great timing in that sounds very privileged
that we did all the traveling before the show down
the government shut down, so I was like, oh, my gosh,
I've heard many travels. Two days after we landed back
the airport that we were left from with the airline
that we used, they got in a crash. I was like,
(04:12):
what is happening? And this has happened the past few
years where every time something has happened, we were like,
how did we miss that? Because I think it was
last year, was it last year or year before last
in which we left the LaGuardia and then a day
later it was flooded. We were like, what is happening?
And then we had another incident similar to that before
(04:33):
we were like, either we were bad luck for this airport
or we just have really good luck in missing out.
I don't know anyway, but yeah, So that was we
have planned to do this and we got everything aligned.
I will say like timing in New York and I
(04:54):
figured this part out was like expensive because if we
had stayed the night before, it would have been three
hundred dollars cheaper, but because of the night that we
needed to stay, it was significantly increasing, and the more
we waited, and I have feeling people are gonna come
out and be like, you know, Google tracks you and
increases prices, blah blahlahlah blah. Yes we know that, but
(05:15):
there was things that were happening in which things were
getting booked out and or prices increased by thousands, not hundreds,
thousands of dollars for per night, and I was like,
what is happening. So a lot of things went down.
But we got there and we landed on day one
and it was gorgeous weather. We went and got into
(05:38):
our hotel, very old hotel, wonderful location. So it was
one of those two things that were like, oh okay,
so the switch up is but the location was on
Washington Square, so it was gorgeous location. We walked everywhere.
I picked the wrong shoes, I will say that, but
(05:58):
we got our bagels from our traditional bagel place when
we got there. We explored the area, We walked forever.
That day, we went to see a really cool arts
exhibit called Unseen at the Loom or for some reason,
we gonna call it loom Ma, but I'm pretty sure
it's Loom Studios in New York City, and y'all. It
(06:20):
was about the North Korean women who are struggling and
there's a lot of like human rights crimes happening, humanitarian grabs,
especially with the women, and the amount of enslaved people
that are still happening, the amount of deaths and persecution.
So it was an incredible exhibit. It was very small.
(06:41):
I think we may have missed the floor, but it
was so awkward going in. So my partner and I
walked in. There was one person at the front and
they were nice, except they didn't explain anything. Usually they'll
tell you take this, do this, look at this. Nope,
it just said go for it. And we were like,
(07:03):
oh okay. So we walked in and there were QR
codes so that you can like get the information. So
that was nice to see. There was things like you
can touch this, don't touch this, you can do this.
Very cool. But then it was also like intertwined with
some European white women stuff that I was like, where
did that come from? I don't understand. Okay, I don't
(07:25):
know if that just ran out of people. But then
we were walking it was very cool and we walked out.
Another person kind of came in and sat in the middle,
so I didn't know if they were an artist. They
were just chilling on their phone. I was like, I
don't know what. I don't know, I don't know what's happening.
So and it was just my partner and I. So
it was super awkward. But the showing was fantastic. The
(07:47):
art was beautiful. At one point my partner was looking
at something thinking it was an art exhibit, and then
it turned that I was just like lighting. So we
did have that moment. But finally we're like, okay, I
guess there. We'll leave. And as we were leaving, the
(08:07):
hand us a whole like tote and a couple of
the items. I was like, oh, that's so nice, thank you.
And then as my partner walks and I'm like, I
don't know if we're supposed to donate anything, I'm very confused.
They really don't tell us again much. And as we
were leaving and my partner was like, I think there
was a downstairs portion. There's a little side that says
there's a downstairs portion. I was like, uhh, we're done.
We already walked out, we already got grabbed that gritty bags.
(08:28):
We're done. I can't do this anymore. So that was
an experience, but it was really like, it has a
great exhibit. I don't know if it's there there, still there,
it's been a few weeks, but you know, whatever, whatnot.
That night we immediately had on a casse because if
I'm in New York, I'm gonna get a ma casse
at any This one was much cheaper than the others
(08:48):
that we've done, and so good may have been our
top favorite.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh jealous, So I feel.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Like this may be a spot that if you and
I go back, I'm gonna take you two because you
could upgrade it. And my partner usually he's like, no,
it's just because you eat. Your eyes are bigger than
your stomach, and it's true. I like, I want everything,
and by halfway through, I'm like, I'm done, I don't
want this no more. But he was like, no, I
think we should do a whole upgrade, and we didn't.
It was so so good, so good, Like I was like,
(09:21):
oh my gosh, everything is delicious, and then they came
and singing happy birthday to me. Oh I didn't want
that for you, No, I don't. I don't, I don't
like it. There was another dude, so we were both
beings saying too, So that felt less. But when I
say that, they didn't sing it. They turned the lights out,
had some music playing and people dancing. Yeah that's too much,
(09:43):
but yeah, so it was still fun. And then we
got ready for the next day and we had a
train right andy, so we took the Amtrak from all
the way from New York City and Penn Station to Albany,
(10:07):
rind Cellar. I believe that's how I say it. And
it was a gorgeous ride. I will say we didn't
get there early enough, so we were kind of back
in the line. So if you're doing the you know, coach,
which is big enough for me. It's much bigger than
an airplane and easy to store things like we got
a smaller window, but we got it on the right side,
the correct side, that is, so we got to see
(10:28):
all the like water and then the leaves. As we
were going further and further north, it was prettier and prettier,
and so it was gorgeous to see and I was
just excited. At one point we were talking about like
trying to find the snack car and my cute partner
was trying to get in the back to get like
as a coffee or something. He got yelled at at
the conductor because he opened the wrong door. Oh no,
(10:52):
he came back quickly. I was like, well, that wasn't
that wasn't right, not getting up again, and I was like,
fair enough. But it was a wonderful train ride. I
would I highly recommend if you need to. I think
you have to be on the left side, just if
you're on that specific train, because you can see all
the lakes. And then when we arrived, we got our
(11:12):
car and started driving up and it was a gorgeous
ride all the way up. It was cloudy and rainy
or so like. At that point I was like whatever,
But by the time I made it, it was wonderful.
We found a small spot and eight in Albany. Great food,
probably the best lovester role I've had, I know, and
(11:35):
y'all it was just a buttery, gooey goodness with no
Mayo top tier, top tier. And from there we just
made a whole adventure of the days. We arrived in
the lake View, so we were right on Saraanac Lake.
The hotel was gorgeous view. We finally woke up the
(11:57):
next day, got some coffee coffee machine in there we
went I'm gonna say quote unquote hiking, but not really.
So we ended up going to the High Falls Gorge,
which you have to pay like twenty dollars just to
walk in per person. I was kind of shocked by
(12:18):
this because yes, I expect to pay part fees. I'm
all about paying part fees. I think this is handled
by the state. There was another falls near this area,
and it's privately owned, so you like and you have
to be sixty dollars to walk around the areas that
I'm like, you know, I feel a certain oddness when
(12:41):
it's a privately owned natural park that you do a
lot of activities with it too, so they do like
you can raft and all these things. It just felt odd.
So we were able to like look around without paying,
like they could go on bridge and to crictures and
that's what we did. But like, I get it main
but it was very touristy, like more so than I
(13:03):
had expected. I will say. So White Face Mountain was there,
and a lot of people went to go and hike
that we were thinking about going to hike that. I
was kind of the plan, but it turns out they
were haavy Octoberfest and it was gonna be chaos, and
it was already pretty crowded because of the beginning of Foliage,
(13:24):
like it's not super super but like pretty crowded. And
I was like, Eh, not good, we good, We're not
doing all that. My partner was like, you know, Octoberfist
and a place called White Face Sus And I'm not
saying that that's the case, not at all, y'all. Although
I did see a lot of conservative gear being sold
(13:44):
at souvenir shops, really concerning to the point that when
we saw it and the fact that it was so
big that it was a souvenir shop for the Adirondacks,
yet they had political things, very conservative things, and I
was like, we gotta go. We can't be here. I
can't be There was some of that that was in
(14:04):
Lake George. It was interesting because there's so many places
that you can go, like the Catskills are below Albany,
and we went above all these different places. So we
stayed at Sara Nac, which is probably about two and
a half hours above Albany. There's Lake Placid, and then
there is Lake George, and I kind of qualified each
one as like in what I know of the South,
(14:27):
which is not necessarily fair, but trying to describe it
to my friends, and I'm sorry if this defends people.
I don't mean to, but the way that we had
seen it, it felt like Lake George was the pigeon
Forge of the North, or Gatlinburg rather or as where
(14:51):
Saranac Lake was a little more like Ashville. If you
get my drift, I must say Lake Placid maybe more
of Charleston. Okay, if you get my fields, do you
get my fields? So people in the South, I think
I understood that. Like Caroline friend of the previous host
(15:13):
slash friend, I was texting with them and told them
all of that because I was kind of shocked by
the differences of the touristiness of these areas. So that's
kind of how I describe it. I will say I
had my birthday lunch was at a place called the
Shepherds at our Low West, which is noted as being
a castle. I'm not sure if it's actually a castle.
(15:36):
Someone can tell me the history of this. If they
know the history of this, anybody from New York. I know,
I've had a couple of people let us know what
to do. It goes down. It was noted to be
a castle. Interestingly small castle odd when there's a wedding
there because we showed up when the wedding was happening,
and because it's such a smaller blaze everywhere, like, even
(15:57):
though we had reservations for dinner, everywhere we went, it
felt like we were in the middle of their wedding party.
So we were like, oh God, we're in the wrong place.
That was a whole interesting thing. But the dinner was beautiful,
the time was great. They gave us a little cute
little dessert even though we weren't going to order any
ended up going to ice cream later. It was so sweet.
(16:17):
They were so kind. The next day we decided we
were going to try for a different spot and we
drove even further up and it was gorgeous. An It
was a beautiful day. The scenery is gorgeous. I need
to post this up. I just can't do the album.
I had one little like video in the fog, but
(16:38):
it's on my TikTok age if y'all tho. My four followers,
including my partner but like, we went up and we
went to an apple orchard, picked our own apples, watched
them do the donuts. It wasn't the place that the
listener had recommended because I think that was far far
away from where we were, like three hours and I'm like,
we can do an hour. We can do an hour.
(16:58):
But we also got apples, We got cute little trinkets.
We brought some of those apples home. I ate the
last one. It was delicious. I gave us a lot
of them away, including to contributor to show Joey because
I ended up seeing Joey. They got some apples. But yeah,
it was wonderful experience. It was so funny because I
come from a town that is known for apples in Georgia.
(17:20):
Never have I ever went picking for apples. I wasn't
going through. My partner was like, we need to. We
drove an hour and I was like, fine, we'll go
and take some apples. We did explore some of the
cute little towns, which we were also kind of scared of, because,
as Ejene Carroll had said, when you go beyond New
York City, it's a lot more conservative, and I did. Again,
(17:43):
I found some of those spots that I was like, yeah,
this is very conservative that I was like a little nervous,
a little nervous, but it was wonderful. It was still
a great trip. It was so much fun. And then
we came back down. We spent another day and a
half in New York City again, got to see Joey,
took them to the Golden Diner, probably one of the
best restaurants, which in New York City, best pancake, chicken, everything,
(18:09):
Sojo bloody Mary, like, it's phenomenal. It was so good.
The train read back was gorgeous. We found another I
will say the only problem I had is because in
the trains some of them faced the opposite directions. Yeah,
and I get really emotions sick. Yeah, my back was
to the wrong area. Like there was no other way
(18:30):
for us to see outside besides that way. So because
we again we're a little too late lining up. Oh
and getting the car back was a whole thing, Like
y'all Sundays are hard days because they are closed. We
got to see cousins of my partner who are wonderful
and they are engaged, and they were talking about wedding plans.
It was just such a lovely, lovely time. Got to
(18:51):
spend time in Brooklyn, which we haven't done much of.
I love Brooklyn, great area. We stayed in a fun
little hotel and fun little area. Went shopping, tons of
coffee shops, lots of hipsters. Yeah, lot. But it was
such a great trip, and I think my itinerary did
really well. I kept saying that I picked the perfect places,
(19:13):
and I picked the perfect timing, and I did such
a good job on the restaurants. I just want to
give myself a pat on the back because, yeah, I
did that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
You should. That's very rewarding when it works out.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It is it is, and I don't gloat about much.
But this trip was like high key. I did that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Mm hmm. It's a lot of work too. People.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm looking at my itinerary now so I can give
you kind of a rundown because I have a whole
itinerary here.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Mm hm oh, I believe it. It sounds like it
was great though you got what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It was so good. It was so good, and we
got to be in nature. I got to see beautiful leaves.
Our locations were great. The train ride was fantastic, and
to the fact that I want to do it again,
but I want to do more expensive ones. So I
was looking at around BEF in Canada. It's like four
thousand dollars. There's a lot of money. Yeah, I don't
know if I could do that. Sponsor US Canada please.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
My dad loved train rides and he got asked to
speak at Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
When I was nine years old, and we went to Washington,
d C. On a train and it was like the
coolest thing as a kid. I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So the train that I was on, specifically Empire Express,
I can't I can't remember, but like it is known,
like it's one of the top five trains in the US. No,
there's not many. I will give you that. A few
over California, Colorado that's really gorgeous. But this one is
over here in the eastern part of the country and
it goes all the way into Canada. So it goes
(20:54):
all the way to Montreal.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
And I had a small fear that we were gonna
yeah those things, but like apparently going all the way
into Canada is gorgeous, like it continuing on is actually
worth the trip.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, I would love to. I looked already as like Amtrak,
because there was in Atlanta. It starts in Atlanta, yeah, yep,
and it goes all the way up to New York.
I can you can you know, get onto different you
have to get onto different cars and stuff. But like
at one point I was looking, it's like fourteen hours
from here to New York. But it's not the prettiest views.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Well, And the thing is like when I went to DC,
it wasn't the prettiest views, but I just thought it
was super cool, like it's fun because we had a
sleeper car.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It was like so I had like a bed to
the window.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
This is the Sex in the City episode, by the way,
where they take a train from New York to California.
I want to say, damn.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But well, my dad he wanted that was like his dream.
He wanted to take a train from I think it
started in New York. He just wanted to go from
east to west. He wanted to go across the whole country.
But he was a big train guy. And I went
on trains in Europe and they were really cool as well.
But that was like my first experience, and I just
remember thinking it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Was so like my first experience was when I was
in Europe. Of course, you know, like that was that
was fun. But again, like I was glad that this
youthfully because it was anxious because people yell at you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
This lady yelled at me in French and I was like,
I can speak French, but now I'm so intimidated by
the fact that you're yelling at me.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I can't remember single word.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Okay, the conductors would yell at you. Of course, there
was also conductors and like people who were just kind
when they were like laughing at me. I had some
people laughing at me, helping me out, but also had
like push me out the way because I was in
their way. And I was like, I have a giant backpack.
Don't yell at me.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I promised I wasn't. The woman who was yelling at me.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
She thought I was trying to because you're supposed to
get like your ticket stamped at every step. Yeah, and
I guess I miss stop And she said I was
like trying to trickerr and I was like, no, I'm
just an idiot.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I just don't know how this works. I remember when
I first got on. Oh no, I missed several trainings
like I've had, so I had so many incidents. I
was like, oh my god, Oh my god, what am
I doing? But I wanted to do this by myself
at the age of nineteen twenty. But I remember, like
I missed a few, but I got the first one
and it was so tight that everybody was just standing
(23:25):
and I barely got on that. I was like this,
and I started getting first class, and that was when
it was cheaper. It was only like ten dollars. I
was like yeah, and then you would have a seat,
a guaranteed seat, and no one bothered or yelled at you.
I was like, all right, from now on, I'm getting
first class tickets. I think it's changed because I was
looking at upgrading with the Amtrag and I was like,
fifty dollars more. I was like per person. I was
(23:45):
like that significant anymore what I thought, But like, I
remember that. And then when I did the euro Rail,
which was really fun, although like you just sit in
darkness for hours because it goes under everything. I just
a giant. It's like you're sitting at a dining room,
a small dining room place, and I was like, yeah,
(24:05):
what is this. I was so disillusioned, like I was tricked.
I was gas lit by that train, thinking that the
rest of the trains were like that.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You know, well, my final I have to tell this
quick story. Give me When I was in Europe. The
only flight I've ever missed was when I was in
France and I was flying to Italy and it was
Ryan Aires.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It was the cheap flight, you know, and it was
the faraway airports. And I told the taxi driver that
several times he took me to the wrong airport. Oh sorry,
I was like, listen, this flight goes up, Well we're
gonna do. And so he took me the train station
and so early I had to wait for it to start.
I get on it and they went on strike and
(24:53):
the train stopped.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Walk out.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Red incidents. Before we left that they were striking. I
was like, we might be in trouble.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Good for them, But man, was that bad timing?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yes? I mean I did the same thing with like
trying to figure out for the rental car, and I
was like, we're going to be so late and if
they cancel our thing, we're going to be stuck in
Albanie and we're not gonna like I had get I
do too much. But because of like an hour to reading,
how many trains are delayed, how often are they delayed
like that delayed quite often for two or three hours.
(25:31):
I'm like, actually, it was fine. And our apparently our
car rental was at the training station, so they knew
and they're like, what time is, what number is your train?
What's your train number? Okay, we'll get ready for you.
So they were ready. So it was perfect, but like, yeah,
it's a whole lot because you never know what's gonna happen.
(25:52):
Tragedies happen, accidents happened. We did sit for a good
ten minutes in the darkness while they were trying to
figure out what's happening in the back car.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
We were like what, yeah, what it's not come reading?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
They have no But it was fine. Everything was And
then like listening to people listening to each stop they
barely stopped at some of them, They're like, you got
get off now, get on this car, get off now,
And I'm like, what did they do that to us?
We have so much stuff, And like as we were
coming to uh Albany, the actual station, the people next
to us gone up like fifteen minutes early and stood
(26:26):
in the middle of the way, like they were ready
to hop off, as if they were the you know,
trade hopping.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Are the people who like get up when they announce
zone two in their zone seven?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yes, so, but like, hey, we're in the middle of
the way standing so we couldn't even get up and
get our backs. In my head, I'm like, do we
need to get do we need to get ready? Are
we gonna miss stop? And when we finally stopped, there like, oh,
we're stopping for an hour? Look, wait, why did everybody
do this? Like I get you need to get off,
(26:57):
but standing fifteen minutes before we even arrive, like before
the announcement even happened, that we were approaching, which takes
another ten minutes to get into stop position. That I
was like, is there something we don't know? Like, are
we are? And they only had a backpack. It wasn't
like they had huge amounts of you know, luggage, And
I was just so confused by this point.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I mean that's the thing. I love traveling, but there's
always that layer of uncertainty of no, I've never been
here before, so I don't know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Exactly that those are the moments that have the hardest
time with but like I really really enjoyed it. My
partner sister was asking pre before we started, like is
it gonna be a good ride, and we were like,
we don't know, what'll let you know, and then we
sent her decks were like yes, worth the right, like
specifically this train ride is worth it, and like the
amount of space there was, like I get motion sickness
(27:48):
again in the air as well, so I don't have
the deal with like air pressure problems or like the bouncing,
although like didn't the train was rough, but like there
was a lot more like that. I could see obviously
out the window and all of these things, so it
was much much better. Eight out of ten, eight out
of ten, Like the two is because the two taking
(28:09):
office because of the whole snack car incident really confusing,
but it was such a great trip. I feel like
I love being in nature anyway, but also love exploring
new areas. So this kind of is that similar to
being in Seattle Mountain and are in Portland where we
can both have the nature portion but also enjoy a
(28:31):
new city portion, which New York City we've been many times,
but as many times we go, there's so many more
things to do. Obviously, New York is never ending. Brooklyn
is always so much fun anyway, and so being able
to go and see all of that. We actually walked
the entire Brooklyn Bridge. Annie. Oh yeah, it's painful and
(28:51):
a little nauseating because it bounced. Why did it bounce?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's my That's on my lists things I like to
do when I'm in New York.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Well, we did it. Yeah, I'm very proud of ourselves
that we did it. And then met up with Joey
and them. So we were gross and sweaty, but yeah,
it was fun. It was nice to do. But yeah,
so a ten out of ten trip. Glad we got
to do it. Had a moment to kind of relax
and not think of anything outside of good food and travels.
(29:22):
Thank you for taking care of Peaches. I always know
she's in good hands.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
We had a great time. She had a blast when
I had my friends over.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
She she that she loves having parties and we don't bant.
That made it even better.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
She had a good time. I'm so glad it was
such a good trip.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I would love to see pictures and hear about this
macasse that was so good.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Oh got you some maple syrup.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Oh okay, okay, well well we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And thanks to all the listeners he sent in suggestions.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yes, thank you, I very very very much appreciated that.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah, we love when we hear from people who are
from the area because again we don't know, so thank
you and yes, listeners, if you would like to write
into us, you can our emails Hello at stuffanever told
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Speaker 3 (30:23):
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Speaker 2 (30:28):
Thanks is always too, our.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Super producer, Ris Sine, our executive producer My and a
contrictor Joey. Thank you and thanks to you for listening
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