October 17, 2024 • 29 mins
What if the true magic of travel lies not in famous landmarks but in the forgotten corners of the world? Join us as we recount our latest escapades, from Andrew's quirky Bavarian Olympics in Munich to Scott's quest for a loose meat sandwich in northeastern Iowa. We promise a journey filled with unexpected joys, where business trips morph into comedic adventures, and the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Discover how a band playing American hits in Germany and a lobster roll gone wrong in Boston transform routine work trips into memorable tales.
Our adventure doesn't end with setbacks, though. Stranded in Florida amid life's unpredictability, we embrace simplicity and find joy in bike rides and pool time. As we contemplate reconnecting with the Monroes in Central or South America, we share our insights and lessons learned along the way. Tune in for a blend of resilience, humor, and the unexpected moments that prove even the most unplanned journeys can lead to unforgettable stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome to the best 30 minutes of your week.
Yep, here it goes.
We're started, we're ready.
We are going to journey to wellin Florida and discover can we
go on, can we continue?
You are at the Kings of theRoad podcast.
We are here with you.
My name is Scott Hawkins.
That's Andrew Gere podcast.
(00:45):
We are here with you.
My name is scott hawkins,that's andrew gear, and we are
looking forward to um coming upwith a plan on what to do after
an accident in florida.
So, uh, we have a break becausewe both had some traveling to
do.
Um, you win the travel game, asit is called well, depends on
definitions.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I did travel to places that seem cooler well and
are cooler.
Like well are cooler but yes,but not like vacationing, you
know.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But you got to go and experience them where, like my
work, lord sent me northeasterniowa, that's right, I hear it's
lovely in october yeah rapidcity or something turns.
We are close orange and yeahyeah, I was like, oh gosh,
flying it out of that city.
So that's where my work sent me.
(01:39):
Where does your work send you?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
andrew.
Well, okay, it's um, it's aninteresting thing because you
see what I mean.
Well, but here's the thingabout business travel that
people don't often understandunless they do it themselves is
you hear about these greatplaces and it's like, wow, you
got to go there.
And you're like, yeah, but Iwas in an office building in
(02:03):
that place.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So was that an applause or is that just oh?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
are you?
Oh, I thought Really oh wow, Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It sounded like either applause or water was
coming to a boil.
I couldn't decide.
Maybe you're just so excited inyour head.
I didn't hear the theme musicin my ears.
Also, I didn't hear the thememusic in my ears.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh, I didn't hit the live button oh no, okay, oh, can
we fix that in?
Post.
We'll fix it in post.
I'm pretty sure I can fix it inpost.
Oops, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
All right, everybody.
Sorry, the magic fix it in post.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
These are things that we say so I went to.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I went to munich, germany, which is a little
different than northeast, Isuppose.
Yeah, um, I didn't get to seemuch of it because, as I said,
you know, I, I sat in a bigmetal tube for many, many, many
hours.
I got out of that tube and, uh,you know, went into an office,
did some things for a few days,got back in a big metal tube and
(03:07):
you also, but you like, went tosome Oktoberfest thing that
they planned for you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So don't just totally no, no, no, it was cool, I mean
, we were, we were, oh no,that's fine yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It wasn't like actual Oktoberfest in Munich, but we
did like a company thing whereit was.
It was hilarious to me becauseit was this meant to be.
We did like this BavarianOlympics thing where we competed
with you know, we broke up intoteams and we did these
different activities that were,you know, traditional.
We came in second place, so so,pretty good, like we had to
(03:44):
build sort of this bridge thingout of sticks.
We had to fling a boot at atarget.
We had to put, um, oh, what wasit?
Something, something in betweenour legs and then fling it into
a bucket.
So, uh, yeah, like, walk a fewfeet.
So that was fun.
And then they had, you know,the the traditional sort of like
beer mug holding contest, whichI did not participate in.
(04:08):
I know my limits, I wasn'tgoing to win that.
But then there was a band inthis little hut that we were all
sitting in, you know, andobviously all the food is, every
meal, everything is just likeschnitzel and potatoes.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's all they eat apparently, and some cured meats
.
But there's a band playing.
I'm like, oh, this is cool,it's like traditional, you know
bavarian music or whatever.
And then they just startedplaying like american, like top
40 from like the 70s, 80s, 90s,ands and I'm like, what's that?
(04:44):
Were they good at least, though?
Oh, they were great.
Yeah, they were great.
So it was good.
And then, you know, one of thenights we drove through kind of
downtown Munich on the way todinner, so from a bus I got to
see some cool stuff.
So that was fun.
And then last week I was inBoston, which is just a
phenomenal city, but it did takeme back.
(05:04):
I told you, scott, I hadflashbacks of the motor home
being towed, yeah, and I got tohear some of that thick new
England accent again.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I had?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I had a lobster roll, but you know what it?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
wrecked me.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh no, oh no, it wasn't like like I had a
gigantic mountain of lobster forlunch.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to eatall of it, because this is
what's in front of me and I'm inNew England.
I'm going to eat lobster.
So I go out to dinner thatnight and I'm in the midst of,
like, the executive team of mycompany and some very important
(05:43):
customers.
So there's, you know, 30 of usin this room, or whatever, and
your belly says hey we have, wehave that lobster.
Yeah, we have, like you know,the first sort of dish and then
the salad, and then I look atthe guy next to me and I'm like
I have to leave and I just gotup and I left.
I just left.
Oh, you didn't come back.
(06:03):
No, I didn't come back.
No, I didn't come back I went Iwalked straight to the hotel
and went to sleep.
Yeah, no it.
I just I thought I was gonna besick and so yeah, and so I just
I had some tums, because that'sall I had, and then I just got
into bed and I just laid thereall night going oh boy, am I
(06:24):
gonna be able to make it to thebig all-day meeting the next day
.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So oh, bad decision, yeah, and then, like in the
morning, luckily I felt a littlebetter.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So then in the morning everybody was like at a
distance, like how are youfeeling?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
yeah, you I don't want to be near you, yeah, so
luckily, luckily I, I think itwas, I think it was a labster
maybe I think it was a lot, butthey do say that you tend to
blame the previous meal whenreally it's been like 24 hours
you should blame.
That's what I've heard.
But you always tend to say, oh,is that last night?
Because that's like what youremember throwing up and being
(06:58):
like I'll never have, like lastwell bj's.
And yeah, I have recentlythrown up b BJ's pizza.
I just don't enjoy it at all.
Oh, that's a bummer.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm sorry.
I still enjoy a pizookie, sodon't feel that bad about it.
Yeah, okay, those arephenomenal.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, whatever it was , I don't think, luckily, I
didn't get sick in that sense,but I was I I don't think,
luckily, I didn't get sick inthat sense, but I don't think
it'll be.
It'll be a while it'll be.
I mean, you know, we talkedabout when, when you and I were
in maine just a few episodesback, not a huge fan of lobster
but here I am, I'm like it'sjust not your thing, it's just
(07:38):
not.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Maybe it's just not my thing.
We should just own that I think, think from now on.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, I'm just like you're the scallop guy.
I'll pass yeah.
And I was upset because I thinkI was going to have scallops at
that dinner but I had to walkout before I got them.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So thanks a lot.
I've heard that a lot of peoplethink lobster, which is great,
but that you should really thinkscallop as well.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So I'm proud of you for the scallops, well, I always
.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Again we've covered this.
I always order the scallops goback and listen to whatever
episode that was I I would,should have been true to myself
a food, like tourist, becausewhenever we go on these trips,
those different places, I alwaystry to discover, like what's
the thing from that area?
Like, yeah, I heard I could notfind it, but there's supposedly
a loose meat sandwich from Iowa.
And I was like, okay, I'll tryto have a loose meat sandwich,
but I think it's just like asloppy Joe.
(08:32):
But I couldn't find one.
So I was like, okay, this isnot you know.
So it was a bummer.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But so what else?
What else about northeast Iowa?
Tell us the highlights foranybody traveling to that part
of the country voluntarily.
Highlights.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
There's not a ton of highlights.
It's a good old suburb.
It feels like a Midwest suburb.
Yeah, nice people and a lot oftime, kind of like you were
saying about church and goinginto churches and listening to
people speak, being a lot ofpeople being around them.
So yeah, it was good.
It was good, it was nice.
But again, it's no one's bucketlist to go to Northeastern Iowa
(09:13):
.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yes, finally I made it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Aha, and I would say that's accurate.
You don't need to think thatway.
It's not far from I did not dothe drive, but it's not far from
the University of Iowa, whichis, I've heard, a great little
college town and someone did dothis drive the future birthplace
of Captain Kirk from Star Trek.
I guess he's born in a town, sothat town owns it, and I put a
(09:37):
little plaque the futurebirthplace of Captain Kirk.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's quite funny.
That's quite funny.
You know what I?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
thought that was good .
Speaker 2 (09:45):
A little, a little idea, just formulated in my head
.
On social media there are,there's that noise again.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
noise that?
Oh oh yeah, maybe it's justpicking up when you do something
with the my mouth or my coughtrap boy, yeah, I don't feel
great.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You can listen.
I'm sorry, sorry, you know,sorry, I'll have to.
Um, maybe lay off the dropswhile we're on no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Please take care of yourself.
So I'm thinking.
My thought was there's allthese travel influencers that
you see everywhere, but they'realways going to places that are
exciting.
Ooh, what if there was a newkind of influencer that went to
the places that are not excitingand real people go to?
(10:36):
Yeah, like yeah, hey.
We and real people go to yeah,like, yeah, hey we're gonna go
to northeast iowa exactly inoctober.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You wouldn't?
You wouldn't?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
yes, I would and, and you know you, I don't know if
you still wear like flowy linenclothes and you walk around and
twirl and take cute pictures ofyourself like is this what we do
?
I feel, like you and I would begreat ambassadors for instagram
I just I just saw something likethat from a comedian who was at
(11:07):
like a pumpkin patch,pretending to be like the guy
who owns the pumpkin patch, like, oh, they're not gonna buy any
pumpkins oh, they just picked it.
Oh, the foot popped up, Yep notgoing to happen, not today, I
think we should start.
That might be our next endeavor.
Scott Could be.
Somebody had a show calledPlaces Unknown right.
(11:28):
Was that Anthony Bourdain, orwas that somebody?
No, anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Remember those girls in high school.
Their dad was on a show showlike the dangerous places in the
world.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, that was like yeah, the safest places in the
world, the most.
The most intentionallyuntraveled places in the world.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What's there?
You can bowl a ball and go allthe way to the ocean.
Pretty cool.
How far is the ocean?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
200 miles.
It's that flat.
200 000 miles, yeah, 200 000,yeah.
Where we just like travel totowns where there's really
nothing of significance to talkabout, but we're just there,
people would love it and maybelike anticipate our traveling.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yes, they're coming.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
The two white guys are on their way I think we do
it and like the big thing islike well, we went to the gas
station and they had moon piesthose are good sandwiches, and
loose meat sandwiches.
Is it worth coming out of yourway for it?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
oh no is it not at all?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
but, no, but, but it's here we hey, check this
pizza hut out.
It sort of reminds me of whatpizza hut was like in 1988.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh those, are great, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Onto the next town, on to two, two, two.
We could get like a coolCadillac or something Drive
around in.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh, cadillac, cadillac, motorhome, we'll have
those.
That would be awesome.
So this is where I wouldtypically turn it over to you
and say, hey, where are we inthe journal?
But, as maybe you remember fromthe last episode or as I don't
know if we said it, but Andrewgot lazy I'm not disputing that.
(13:09):
I don't know if that's whathappened or if really the wheels
came off the bus on the tripand that event was so important
that you just listened to.
I guess, to be more accurate,the pooper tank came off the
pooper tank.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, the wheels stayed on.
Luckily the pooper tank didcome off the bus.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So we don't have the journal.
We have a couple of highlights,like where we go.
This happened, that happened.
Then he wrote down events.
But as far as daily ditchingyou've been giving us, which has
been phenomenal- it's done,it's over.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Folks, we are mourning the loss of more than
just our pooper tank.
We are mourning the loss of my22-year-old written wit.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Sometimes, a little dark.
Sometimes a little crabby, yeah, which stays accurate to 43
year old andrew.
So I am who I am yeah, so youare.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So from here, where the journey is, is sadly coming
to a close on the road trip.
However, that is not the end ofour journey, because, as we
just decided we're going toleave it all behind and travel
to places.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Nobody would really want to travel to sell the house
already up on Zillow Go.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Look Perfect, but yes we do have some notes, like
Scott said, so we're going tokind of chunk it up and it's
basically what do you remember?
From here on out, yeah, it's,it's true it's.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We could open it every time with that theme song,
and I do think that there wassomething about the fact that
your writing stopped and thetrip just turned Because we did
not have a return home date.
We did not have a return homedate.
We got home before Christmas,but I don't think that was our
(15:02):
plan to be home before Christmas.
The only thing that I'mremembering is we had to be home
before Allison's wedding, whichI think was February.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay, I thought probably before Christmas, but
maybe not.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean, I think we ended up.
Sorry, go ahead.
We ended up being home a littlebit before Christmas, like a
couple of days we were closealready.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
The 11th.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I don't think.
Oh, it was the 11th.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We got home on the 11th of December.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I thought it was more like the 18th or 20th.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah now, but we might have gotten closer to it,
or yeah, maybe we would haveflown home and gone back or
something, I don't know.
I don't know.
We didn't really have much of aplan, did we no?
But it did kind of mark a turn,and we'll explain why.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah well, go ahead Because there was.
Yeah, well, go ahead Becausethere was yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So here's the deal, folks, I did not intend to just
do like a Joe Biden thing rightthere.
Here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Here's the deal, folks.
Hey, I'm serious right now.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Shouldn't do that.
This isn't a political podcast.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You're pretty good, I don't know.
I don't know.
The impression's not great,especially by the fold.
Shouldn't do that.
This isn't a political podcast.
You're pretty good at that.
I had a Donald Trump I would do.
You know me.
Impressions Not great, right.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Might be good.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
That could be better maybe.
So we got back to the murderhome, we drove back to Janet and
Janet's house, Uncle Steve's,and we are kind of like, well,
what do we do now?
That's where we are.
So now go with your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, so you know, I'm sure there's a lot of Scott
calling his dad, me calling mydad.
What do we do?
What are our options?
You know we had insurance, sowe started.
I mean, we probably called theinsurance and we started calling
around to.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
RV.
I actually remember I remembercalling their insurance and they
had Geico.
The people who had us yeah, Iwas the one who called it.
I just thought of the callingin our relationship interesting,
and they were so easy to workwith.
They're like, oh great, okay,and they're trying calling.
I think we had state farm.
It was significantly worse.
I'm like man, oh, we should allget geico.
(17:18):
Like they were just like on topof it with all their questions
and they do everything, whereasour search is like, yeah, we'll
call you back in.
Like I don't know two weeks orsomething.
They're like okay, we'll havesomeone call you back in 24
hours.
Sorry, do you need anythingright now?
Wow, geico, thank you, littlelizard caveman.
What else?
Yeah, they have a couple ofother spokesperson.
They're great, thank you.
(17:39):
We future.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Proudly sponsors.
Kings of the road podcastpotential sponsors of guide.
So yes, yeah, we'll, uh, we'llhave our people reach out to
them.
So so we started calling aroundto all these shops, and this
was one of those times where,you know, in our naive, um, uh,
(18:02):
optimism, we're like, okay, wejust have to find a shop that
can fix our tank like that.
That's all we need, right,because in our minds what we
thought was well, we'll get itfixed.
At least we have a place tostay.
We'll go back to yeah and janAunt Janet's house and we'll get
it fixed.
It'll take a couple of days,we'll be on our way and the road
trip will continue.
Yes, but as we called, we gotsort of laughed at and saying
(18:30):
there is a two-year wait list toget an RV fixed, because I
don't know if you know this, butas scott just looked up and
told me before we hit record,yeah, we were, florida was just
coming out of sort of a weatherphenomena yeah, phenomenon
hurricane season like fivehurricanes ripped in the state
(18:51):
tore up.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You know, trailers tore up all the things in
florida, including motorhomes.
So we're not getting ourmotorhome fixed in a week.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah.
So we were like oh no, whatdoes this mean for us?
Because we can't use thebathroom, we can't use the
shower, we can't like.
Our kitchen and bathroom aregone.
And we can't like.
Yes, our kitchen and bathroomare gone and we can't get our
(19:22):
car.
Now we're just in a really hugecar, yes, that we can sleep in
comfortably, very comfortably,very, but but so so they kind of
changed the tune for us, so itdid.
So we kind of had to deal withthat realization that like this
changes things significantly.
We can't continue on the waythat we've continued.
(19:42):
We cannot do Walmart parkinglot anymore, right.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We can't do church parking lot, Walmart parking lot
.
We were so self-sufficient andthen we became a car.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I don't even.
Could we have even done acampground?
Could we have?
I don't even think we had a wayto directly connect.
No, because when you flush thetoilet you can see the ground.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh no, I'm just saying we would have had to use
a bathroom at the campground.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I thought that's what she meant.
Oh yeah, that's true, that'strue, that's true, but
absolutely it was.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
we were in a horrible gas mileage vehicle at this
point.
That's what we got into, yeah,and so it was a what do we do
now?
Question, because it's a biglike we had our plan Walmart's
churches.
It's worked, it's been great.
The only problem we've ever hadwas up in Maine where it
stopped for a moment.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Everything else like she's been doing awesome Until
bam, all of a sudden, sudden,it's all over.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Right, it's all, it's all it's all over, and so
that's where we're like well,what do we do?
I think, right, I think wealready had it, we'll get there.
I think we already had arelationship with the
tallahassee church through yourmom, so we were heading up there
and that was already scheduled.
Other than that, we were reallylike what do we do?
Where do we go?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah.
So I mean, first thing you dois you just you know you settle
in to you what you've got, whichin our case was a beautiful
community we go back near thebeach, back to your favorite old
ladies.
We had to go back to my mysenior citizen girlfriend, lover
(21:25):
and and our our euchrecompanions.
And so one of the things we did, um in our sorrow, in our just
drowning and wallowing in oursorrow from our losses.
Well, you know, uncle Steve,you guys want to hop in a
pontoon boat and go for a cruise, I guess.
(21:46):
So I guess we could do that.
I guess we could do that.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
This will bring our moods up.
Do you want to use the littlecanoe that you can go canoeing
down the river and just enjoythe water?
Yeah, that seems like a greatplan.
Oh, by the way, there aresometimes alligators in that
water and two Californianshearing that there are
alligators in the water, westarted and we canoed a little
(22:10):
bit but we thought this isstupid.
Now, looking back, I thinkalligators don't care.
Stupid.
Now, looking back, I thinkalligators don't care.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But how confident are you that they don't care?
Because I don't know how longthat canoe trip lasted, but I'm
pretty sure from the moment weset off from shore in that
little fiberglass half circlething that we were like.
You can't really see them thiswater is murky.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
They're here, for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
They're looking at us like all they have to do is
slightly nudge.
We're not like expert canoeist.
It's not like we're the moststable or steady people on the
river there's nobody else in theriver no one would have, uh,
mistaken us for expert canoeists.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
No, I I think that they just truly don't care.
I think that they're like,we're not going to attack that
thing.
In our minds we had all thevideos, like the movies, of
alligators.
We didn't have real alligatorslike eh, I don't want to chase
after that thing.
You know what I mean?
We could probably be swimmingin there and if we don't tie
states around our neck, we'regonna be fine.
That's my guess.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, I'm not about to find out if your guess is
right or not anybody else wantto go on a canoe trip with scott
, and this is probably theconversation we're having down
the river, though this is likehow, how sure are we?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
we're're probably okay, right, yeah, right, but do
we need to be doing this?
No, I guess we don't have to bedoing this right now.
We could go back.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Are we enjoying ourselves at all?
Are we enjoying ourselves?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Or do we just feel?
Like we are literally walkinginto the lion's den.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, that's definitely a gator.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Whatever that is, that's a gator.
I see bubbles, bubbles that's.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That's our death coming right at us.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I don't want to die in florida what's my favorite,
most favorite line of you don'thave to run faster than a bear.
You have to run faster thanyour buddy.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Don't have to swim faster than andrew I'm a pretty
speedy swimmer, I think you are.
Yeah, I'm just kind of a bonycreature, like I don't know if
I'm the most appetizing.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I think they would definitely choose me for
appetizing this, but I thinkit's going to go.
Benders can't be choosers, soit's just going to go for what
it gets Death roll Death roll.
You're up underneath there.
I would try to help you.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
No, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't, says the guy whoput a chip that has been in his
mouth in front of me because heput the dangerous, far away from
himself.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I think it's exactly the same?
I don't see any differencebetween you are making unfair
comparisons there.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Nope, I think this checks back by putting dangers
far away from yourself directlyin front of me.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
This translates to alligator attacks as well I, I
think I would be in there, Ithink I'd be there going, and
then like in my head, you're,you're up under some bank.
You know how they make thoselittle holes and wake up, which
to me that's like the mostterrifying thing in the world.
Like you've heard about thatright, like people wake up
sometimes they make these likethey don't eat you right away,
(25:25):
they drown you and then they putyou in this little place.
People have woken up in thislittle place, yeah, so they make
these like under the bank.
There's like water Under thebank.
There's water they swim up into, but there's a little platform
that they lay on.
They put people up there, oh mygosh.
And then you wake up and you'relike, oh no, you have to swim
out from alligator helm, get upunder the bank, run away to do
(25:51):
it.
That would be like that wouldbe.
I don't think there's enoughtherapy in the world to get you
over that.
You're just permanentlytraumatized.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That's the most horrible thing.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You're just, oh my.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
God, I'm going to get about it right now.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I need to talk to that with somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let's let's talk to that, oh my gosh, I kind of want
to look it up and I also don'tever want to know that.
Oh my goodness, could youimagine?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So we're, so we're in Florida, so we are enjoying the
things that we should enjoy butthe trip has changed and we're
trying to figure out.
What does it mean?
We are foolishly looking aroundfor someone that fits our motor
home and everyone's laughing atus because it's not going to
happen, right?
We are wondering then well,what do we do?
(26:36):
We discover that your mom hellolinda dare is an owner of many
timeshares, right?
Um oh, not like that no, I.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
you have a network, yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But she could get discounted hotel rates for us.
That's what, yep, that's right.
And so then we said, okay, ifwe have a plan, then she can
help us make reservationsthrough the network of
timeshares.
And so we had that happeningand yeah, and that kind of
(27:21):
became our plan Like, okay, weknow this Tallahassee church
which we meet some of our veryfame favorite people.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh yes.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
That's a family we should try to find.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I think they are in South America or or central
america you know them I.
I get a newsletter um from them, still so I will reach out to
them, yeah yeah, the monroes,they're great talk about them
next time.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
They're amazing.
And so then we have thatplanned and we had, um, this
trip right, and so they're likewell, we have to get home.
We're in florida, I mean,almost as far away from home as
possible.
No pooper, no shower.
Here we are, yeah, yeah so well.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
So we went on a bike ride and we swam in the pool
some more so, but that's wherewe're at, that's where we're at
sometimes, folks, the takeaway,the big, the big lesson of this
all is sometimes you plan thingsout and yep, life gives you
lemons.
Or, in our case, life gives youa swift, uh smash in the rear.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I was, I was trying to work that out of my head of
how I could sit.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
You get in a car accident and your plans change
and you have to pivot, and wheredo we go from here?
So we'll tell you where we wentfrom here, because the
adventure is not over, friends.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Could you summarize what you just said by saying
that life gives you lemons andyou have to make lemonade?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Lemonade Sure.
Thank you for guiding me allthe way to the end talk to you
later.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Bye, okay.
Welcome to the best 30 minutes of your week.
Yep, here it goes.
We're started, we're ready.
We are going to journey to wellin Florida and discover can we
go on, can we continue?
You are at the Kings of theRoad podcast.
We are here with you.
My name is Scott Hawkins.
That's Andrew Gere podcast.
(00:45):
We are here with you.
My name is scott hawkins,that's andrew gear, and we are
looking forward to um coming upwith a plan on what to do after
an accident in florida.
So, uh, we have a break becausewe both had some traveling to
do.
Um, you win the travel game, asit is called well, depends on
definitions.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I did travel to places that seem cooler well and
are cooler.
Like well are cooler but yes,but not like vacationing, you
know.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But you got to go and experience them where, like my
work, lord sent me northeasterniowa, that's right, I hear it's
lovely in october yeah rapidcity or something turns.
We are close orange and yeahyeah, I was like, oh gosh,
flying it out of that city.
So that's where my work sent me.
(01:39):
Where does your work send you?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
andrew.
Well, okay, it's um, it's aninteresting thing because you
see what I mean.
Well, but here's the thingabout business travel that
people don't often understandunless they do it themselves is
you hear about these greatplaces and it's like, wow, you
got to go there.
And you're like, yeah, but Iwas in an office building in
(02:03):
that place.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So was that an applause or is that just oh?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
are you?
Oh, I thought Really oh wow, Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It sounded like either applause or water was
coming to a boil.
I couldn't decide.
Maybe you're just so excited inyour head.
I didn't hear the theme musicin my ears.
Also, I didn't hear the thememusic in my ears.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh, I didn't hit the live button oh no, okay, oh, can
we fix that in?
Post.
We'll fix it in post.
I'm pretty sure I can fix it inpost.
Oops, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
All right, everybody.
Sorry, the magic fix it in post.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
These are things that we say so I went to.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I went to munich, germany, which is a little
different than northeast, Isuppose.
Yeah, um, I didn't get to seemuch of it because, as I said,
you know, I, I sat in a bigmetal tube for many, many, many
hours.
I got out of that tube and, uh,you know, went into an office,
did some things for a few days,got back in a big metal tube and
(03:07):
you also, but you like, went tosome Oktoberfest thing that
they planned for you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So don't just totally no, no, no, it was cool, I mean
, we were, we were, oh no,that's fine yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It wasn't like actual Oktoberfest in Munich, but we
did like a company thing whereit was.
It was hilarious to me becauseit was this meant to be.
We did like this BavarianOlympics thing where we competed
with you know, we broke up intoteams and we did these
different activities that were,you know, traditional.
We came in second place, so so,pretty good, like we had to
(03:44):
build sort of this bridge thingout of sticks.
We had to fling a boot at atarget.
We had to put, um, oh, what wasit?
Something, something in betweenour legs and then fling it into
a bucket.
So, uh, yeah, like, walk a fewfeet.
So that was fun.
And then they had, you know,the the traditional sort of like
beer mug holding contest, whichI did not participate in.
(04:08):
I know my limits, I wasn'tgoing to win that.
But then there was a band inthis little hut that we were all
sitting in, you know, andobviously all the food is, every
meal, everything is just likeschnitzel and potatoes.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's all they eat apparently, and some cured meats
.
But there's a band playing.
I'm like, oh, this is cool,it's like traditional, you know
bavarian music or whatever.
And then they just startedplaying like american, like top
40 from like the 70s, 80s, 90s,ands and I'm like, what's that?
(04:44):
Were they good at least, though?
Oh, they were great.
Yeah, they were great.
So it was good.
And then, you know, one of thenights we drove through kind of
downtown Munich on the way todinner, so from a bus I got to
see some cool stuff.
So that was fun.
And then last week I was inBoston, which is just a
phenomenal city, but it did takeme back.
(05:04):
I told you, scott, I hadflashbacks of the motor home
being towed, yeah, and I got tohear some of that thick new
England accent again.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I had?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I had a lobster roll, but you know what it?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
wrecked me.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh no, oh no, it wasn't like like I had a
gigantic mountain of lobster forlunch.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to eatall of it, because this is
what's in front of me and I'm inNew England.
I'm going to eat lobster.
So I go out to dinner thatnight and I'm in the midst of,
like, the executive team of mycompany and some very important
(05:43):
customers.
So there's, you know, 30 of usin this room, or whatever, and
your belly says hey we have, wehave that lobster.
Yeah, we have, like you know,the first sort of dish and then
the salad, and then I look atthe guy next to me and I'm like
I have to leave and I just gotup and I left.
I just left.
Oh, you didn't come back.
(06:03):
No, I didn't come back.
No, I didn't come back I went Iwalked straight to the hotel
and went to sleep.
Yeah, no it.
I just I thought I was gonna besick and so yeah, and so I just
I had some tums, because that'sall I had, and then I just got
into bed and I just laid thereall night going oh boy, am I
(06:24):
gonna be able to make it to thebig all-day meeting the next day
.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So oh, bad decision, yeah, and then, like in the
morning, luckily I felt a littlebetter.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So then in the morning everybody was like at a
distance, like how are youfeeling?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
yeah, you I don't want to be near you, yeah, so
luckily, luckily I, I think itwas, I think it was a labster
maybe I think it was a lot, butthey do say that you tend to
blame the previous meal whenreally it's been like 24 hours
you should blame.
That's what I've heard.
But you always tend to say, oh,is that last night?
Because that's like what youremember throwing up and being
(06:58):
like I'll never have, like lastwell bj's.
And yeah, I have recentlythrown up b BJ's pizza.
I just don't enjoy it at all.
Oh, that's a bummer.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm sorry.
I still enjoy a pizookie, sodon't feel that bad about it.
Yeah, okay, those arephenomenal.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, whatever it was , I don't think, luckily, I
didn't get sick in that sense,but I was I I don't think,
luckily, I didn't get sick inthat sense, but I don't think
it'll be.
It'll be a while it'll be.
I mean, you know, we talkedabout when, when you and I were
in maine just a few episodesback, not a huge fan of lobster
but here I am, I'm like it'sjust not your thing, it's just
(07:38):
not.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Maybe it's just not my thing.
We should just own that I think, think from now on.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, I'm just like you're the scallop guy.
I'll pass yeah.
And I was upset because I thinkI was going to have scallops at
that dinner but I had to walkout before I got them.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So thanks a lot.
I've heard that a lot of peoplethink lobster, which is great,
but that you should really thinkscallop as well.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So I'm proud of you for the scallops, well, I always
.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Again we've covered this.
I always order the scallops goback and listen to whatever
episode that was I I would,should have been true to myself
a food, like tourist, becausewhenever we go on these trips,
those different places, I alwaystry to discover, like what's
the thing from that area?
Like, yeah, I heard I could notfind it, but there's supposedly
a loose meat sandwich from Iowa.
And I was like, okay, I'll tryto have a loose meat sandwich,
but I think it's just like asloppy Joe.
(08:32):
But I couldn't find one.
So I was like, okay, this isnot you know.
So it was a bummer.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But so what else?
What else about northeast Iowa?
Tell us the highlights foranybody traveling to that part
of the country voluntarily.
Highlights.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
There's not a ton of highlights.
It's a good old suburb.
It feels like a Midwest suburb.
Yeah, nice people and a lot oftime, kind of like you were
saying about church and goinginto churches and listening to
people speak, being a lot ofpeople being around them.
So yeah, it was good.
It was good, it was nice.
But again, it's no one's bucketlist to go to Northeastern Iowa
(09:13):
.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yes, finally I made it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Aha, and I would say that's accurate.
You don't need to think thatway.
It's not far from I did not dothe drive, but it's not far from
the University of Iowa, whichis, I've heard, a great little
college town and someone did dothis drive the future birthplace
of Captain Kirk from Star Trek.
I guess he's born in a town, sothat town owns it, and I put a
(09:37):
little plaque the futurebirthplace of Captain Kirk.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's quite funny.
That's quite funny.
You know what I?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
thought that was good .
Speaker 2 (09:45):
A little, a little idea, just formulated in my head
.
On social media there are,there's that noise again.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
noise that?
Oh oh yeah, maybe it's justpicking up when you do something
with the my mouth or my coughtrap boy, yeah, I don't feel
great.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You can listen.
I'm sorry, sorry, you know,sorry, I'll have to.
Um, maybe lay off the dropswhile we're on no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Please take care of yourself.
So I'm thinking.
My thought was there's allthese travel influencers that
you see everywhere, but they'realways going to places that are
exciting.
Ooh, what if there was a newkind of influencer that went to
the places that are not excitingand real people go to?
(10:36):
Yeah, like yeah, hey.
We and real people go to yeah,like, yeah, hey we're gonna go
to northeast iowa exactly inoctober.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You wouldn't?
You wouldn't?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
yes, I would and, and you know you, I don't know if
you still wear like flowy linenclothes and you walk around and
twirl and take cute pictures ofyourself like is this what we do
?
I feel, like you and I would begreat ambassadors for instagram
I just I just saw something likethat from a comedian who was at
(11:07):
like a pumpkin patch,pretending to be like the guy
who owns the pumpkin patch, like, oh, they're not gonna buy any
pumpkins oh, they just picked it.
Oh, the foot popped up, Yep notgoing to happen, not today, I
think we should start.
That might be our next endeavor.
Scott Could be.
Somebody had a show calledPlaces Unknown right.
(11:28):
Was that Anthony Bourdain, orwas that somebody?
No, anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Remember those girls in high school.
Their dad was on a show showlike the dangerous places in the
world.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, that was like yeah, the safest places in the
world, the most.
The most intentionallyuntraveled places in the world.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What's there?
You can bowl a ball and go allthe way to the ocean.
Pretty cool.
How far is the ocean?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
200 miles.
It's that flat.
200 000 miles, yeah, 200 000,yeah.
Where we just like travel totowns where there's really
nothing of significance to talkabout, but we're just there,
people would love it and maybelike anticipate our traveling.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yes, they're coming.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
The two white guys are on their way I think we do
it and like the big thing islike well, we went to the gas
station and they had moon piesthose are good sandwiches, and
loose meat sandwiches.
Is it worth coming out of yourway for it?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
oh no is it not at all?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
but, no, but, but it's here we hey, check this
pizza hut out.
It sort of reminds me of whatpizza hut was like in 1988.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh those, are great, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Onto the next town, on to two, two, two.
We could get like a coolCadillac or something Drive
around in.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh, cadillac, cadillac, motorhome, we'll have
those.
That would be awesome.
So this is where I wouldtypically turn it over to you
and say, hey, where are we inthe journal?
But, as maybe you remember fromthe last episode or as I don't
know if we said it, but Andrewgot lazy I'm not disputing that.
(13:09):
I don't know if that's whathappened or if really the wheels
came off the bus on the tripand that event was so important
that you just listened to.
I guess, to be more accurate,the pooper tank came off the
pooper tank.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, the wheels stayed on.
Luckily the pooper tank didcome off the bus.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So we don't have the journal.
We have a couple of highlights,like where we go.
This happened, that happened.
Then he wrote down events.
But as far as daily ditchingyou've been giving us, which has
been phenomenal- it's done,it's over.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Folks, we are mourning the loss of more than
just our pooper tank.
We are mourning the loss of my22-year-old written wit.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Sometimes, a little dark.
Sometimes a little crabby, yeah, which stays accurate to 43
year old andrew.
So I am who I am yeah, so youare.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So from here, where the journey is, is sadly coming
to a close on the road trip.
However, that is not the end ofour journey, because, as we
just decided we're going toleave it all behind and travel
to places.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Nobody would really want to travel to sell the house
already up on Zillow Go.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Look Perfect, but yes we do have some notes, like
Scott said, so we're going tokind of chunk it up and it's
basically what do you remember?
From here on out, yeah, it's,it's true it's.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We could open it every time with that theme song,
and I do think that there wassomething about the fact that
your writing stopped and thetrip just turned Because we did
not have a return home date.
We did not have a return homedate.
We got home before Christmas,but I don't think that was our
(15:02):
plan to be home before Christmas.
The only thing that I'mremembering is we had to be home
before Allison's wedding, whichI think was February.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay, I thought probably before Christmas, but
maybe not.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean, I think we ended up.
Sorry, go ahead.
We ended up being home a littlebit before Christmas, like a
couple of days we were closealready.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
The 11th.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I don't think.
Oh, it was the 11th.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We got home on the 11th of December.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I thought it was more like the 18th or 20th.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah now, but we might have gotten closer to it,
or yeah, maybe we would haveflown home and gone back or
something, I don't know.
I don't know.
We didn't really have much of aplan, did we no?
But it did kind of mark a turn,and we'll explain why.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah well, go ahead Because there was.
Yeah, well, go ahead Becausethere was yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So here's the deal, folks, I did not intend to just
do like a Joe Biden thing rightthere.
Here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Here's the deal, folks.
Hey, I'm serious right now.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Shouldn't do that.
This isn't a political podcast.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You're pretty good, I don't know.
I don't know.
The impression's not great,especially by the fold.
Shouldn't do that.
This isn't a political podcast.
You're pretty good at that.
I had a Donald Trump I would do.
You know me.
Impressions Not great, right.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Might be good.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
That could be better maybe.
So we got back to the murderhome, we drove back to Janet and
Janet's house, Uncle Steve's,and we are kind of like, well,
what do we do now?
That's where we are.
So now go with your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, so you know, I'm sure there's a lot of Scott
calling his dad, me calling mydad.
What do we do?
What are our options?
You know we had insurance, sowe started.
I mean, we probably called theinsurance and we started calling
around to.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
RV.
I actually remember I remembercalling their insurance and they
had Geico.
The people who had us yeah, Iwas the one who called it.
I just thought of the callingin our relationship interesting,
and they were so easy to workwith.
They're like, oh great, okay,and they're trying calling.
I think we had state farm.
It was significantly worse.
I'm like man, oh, we should allget geico.
(17:18):
Like they were just like on topof it with all their questions
and they do everything, whereasour search is like, yeah, we'll
call you back in.
Like I don't know two weeks orsomething.
They're like okay, we'll havesomeone call you back in 24
hours.
Sorry, do you need anythingright now?
Wow, geico, thank you, littlelizard caveman.
What else?
Yeah, they have a couple ofother spokesperson.
They're great, thank you.
(17:39):
We future.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Proudly sponsors.
Kings of the road podcastpotential sponsors of guide.
So yes, yeah, we'll, uh, we'llhave our people reach out to
them.
So so we started calling aroundto all these shops, and this
was one of those times where,you know, in our naive, um, uh,
(18:02):
optimism, we're like, okay, wejust have to find a shop that
can fix our tank like that.
That's all we need, right,because in our minds what we
thought was well, we'll get itfixed.
At least we have a place tostay.
We'll go back to yeah and janAunt Janet's house and we'll get
it fixed.
It'll take a couple of days,we'll be on our way and the road
trip will continue.
Yes, but as we called, we gotsort of laughed at and saying
(18:30):
there is a two-year wait list toget an RV fixed, because I
don't know if you know this, butas scott just looked up and
told me before we hit record,yeah, we were, florida was just
coming out of sort of a weatherphenomena yeah, phenomenon
hurricane season like fivehurricanes ripped in the state
(18:51):
tore up.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You know, trailers tore up all the things in
florida, including motorhomes.
So we're not getting ourmotorhome fixed in a week.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah.
So we were like oh no, whatdoes this mean for us?
Because we can't use thebathroom, we can't use the
shower, we can't like.
Our kitchen and bathroom aregone.
And we can't like.
Yes, our kitchen and bathroomare gone and we can't get our
(19:22):
car.
Now we're just in a really hugecar, yes, that we can sleep in
comfortably, very comfortably,very, but but so so they kind of
changed the tune for us, so itdid.
So we kind of had to deal withthat realization that like this
changes things significantly.
We can't continue on the waythat we've continued.
(19:42):
We cannot do Walmart parkinglot anymore, right.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We can't do church parking lot, Walmart parking lot
.
We were so self-sufficient andthen we became a car.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I don't even.
Could we have even done acampground?
Could we have?
I don't even think we had a wayto directly connect.
No, because when you flush thetoilet you can see the ground.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh no, I'm just saying we would have had to use
a bathroom at the campground.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I thought that's what she meant.
Oh yeah, that's true, that'strue, that's true, but
absolutely it was.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
we were in a horrible gas mileage vehicle at this
point.
That's what we got into, yeah,and so it was a what do we do
now?
Question, because it's a biglike we had our plan Walmart's
churches.
It's worked, it's been great.
The only problem we've ever hadwas up in Maine where it
stopped for a moment.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Everything else like she's been doing awesome Until
bam, all of a sudden, sudden,it's all over.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Right, it's all, it's all it's all over, and so
that's where we're like well,what do we do?
I think, right, I think wealready had it, we'll get there.
I think we already had arelationship with the
tallahassee church through yourmom, so we were heading up there
and that was already scheduled.
Other than that, we were reallylike what do we do?
Where do we go?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah.
So I mean, first thing you dois you just you know you settle
in to you what you've got, whichin our case was a beautiful
community we go back near thebeach, back to your favorite old
ladies.
We had to go back to my mysenior citizen girlfriend, lover
(21:25):
and and our our euchrecompanions.
And so one of the things we did, um in our sorrow, in our just
drowning and wallowing in oursorrow from our losses.
Well, you know, uncle Steve,you guys want to hop in a
pontoon boat and go for a cruise, I guess.
(21:46):
So I guess we could do that.
I guess we could do that.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
This will bring our moods up.
Do you want to use the littlecanoe that you can go canoeing
down the river and just enjoythe water?
Yeah, that seems like a greatplan.
Oh, by the way, there aresometimes alligators in that
water and two Californianshearing that there are
alligators in the water, westarted and we canoed a little
(22:10):
bit but we thought this isstupid.
Now, looking back, I thinkalligators don't care.
Stupid.
Now, looking back, I thinkalligators don't care.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But how confident are you that they don't care?
Because I don't know how longthat canoe trip lasted, but I'm
pretty sure from the moment weset off from shore in that
little fiberglass half circlething that we were like.
You can't really see them thiswater is murky.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
They're here, for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
They're looking at us like all they have to do is
slightly nudge.
We're not like expert canoeist.
It's not like we're the moststable or steady people on the
river there's nobody else in theriver no one would have, uh,
mistaken us for expert canoeists.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
No, I I think that they just truly don't care.
I think that they're like,we're not going to attack that
thing.
In our minds we had all thevideos, like the movies, of
alligators.
We didn't have real alligatorslike eh, I don't want to chase
after that thing.
You know what I mean?
We could probably be swimmingin there and if we don't tie
states around our neck, we'regonna be fine.
That's my guess.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, I'm not about to find out if your guess is
right or not anybody else wantto go on a canoe trip with scott
, and this is probably theconversation we're having down
the river, though this is likehow, how sure are we?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
we're're probably okay, right, yeah, right, but do
we need to be doing this?
No, I guess we don't have to bedoing this right now.
We could go back.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Are we enjoying ourselves at all?
Are we enjoying ourselves?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Or do we just feel?
Like we are literally walkinginto the lion's den.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, that's definitely a gator.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Whatever that is, that's a gator.
I see bubbles, bubbles that's.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That's our death coming right at us.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I don't want to die in florida what's my favorite,
most favorite line of you don'thave to run faster than a bear.
You have to run faster thanyour buddy.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Don't have to swim faster than andrew I'm a pretty
speedy swimmer, I think you are.
Yeah, I'm just kind of a bonycreature, like I don't know if
I'm the most appetizing.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I think they would definitely choose me for
appetizing this, but I thinkit's going to go.
Benders can't be choosers, soit's just going to go for what
it gets Death roll Death roll.
You're up underneath there.
I would try to help you.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
No, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't, says the guy whoput a chip that has been in his
mouth in front of me because heput the dangerous, far away from
himself.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I think it's exactly the same?
I don't see any differencebetween you are making unfair
comparisons there.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Nope, I think this checks back by putting dangers
far away from yourself directlyin front of me.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
This translates to alligator attacks as well I, I
think I would be in there, Ithink I'd be there going, and
then like in my head, you're,you're up under some bank.
You know how they make thoselittle holes and wake up, which
to me that's like the mostterrifying thing in the world.
Like you've heard about thatright, like people wake up
sometimes they make these likethey don't eat you right away,
(25:25):
they drown you and then they putyou in this little place.
People have woken up in thislittle place, yeah, so they make
these like under the bank.
There's like water Under thebank.
There's water they swim up into, but there's a little platform
that they lay on.
They put people up there, oh mygosh.
And then you wake up and you'relike, oh no, you have to swim
out from alligator helm, get upunder the bank, run away to do
(25:51):
it.
That would be like that wouldbe.
I don't think there's enoughtherapy in the world to get you
over that.
You're just permanentlytraumatized.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That's the most horrible thing.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You're just, oh my.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
God, I'm going to get about it right now.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I need to talk to that with somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let's let's talk to that, oh my gosh, I kind of want
to look it up and I also don'tever want to know that.
Oh my goodness, could youimagine?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So we're, so we're in Florida, so we are enjoying the
things that we should enjoy butthe trip has changed and we're
trying to figure out.
What does it mean?
We are foolishly looking aroundfor someone that fits our motor
home and everyone's laughing atus because it's not going to
happen, right?
We are wondering then well,what do we do?
(26:36):
We discover that your mom hellolinda dare is an owner of many
timeshares, right?
Um oh, not like that no, I.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
you have a network, yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But she could get discounted hotel rates for us.
That's what, yep, that's right.
And so then we said, okay, ifwe have a plan, then she can
help us make reservationsthrough the network of
timeshares.
And so we had that happeningand yeah, and that kind of
(27:21):
became our plan Like, okay, weknow this Tallahassee church
which we meet some of our veryfame favorite people.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh yes.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
That's a family we should try to find.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I think they are in South America or or central
america you know them I.
I get a newsletter um from them, still so I will reach out to
them, yeah yeah, the monroes,they're great talk about them
next time.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
They're amazing.
And so then we have thatplanned and we had, um, this
trip right, and so they're likewell, we have to get home.
We're in florida, I mean,almost as far away from home as
possible.
No pooper, no shower.
Here we are, yeah, yeah so well.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
So we went on a bike ride and we swam in the pool
some more so, but that's wherewe're at, that's where we're at
sometimes, folks, the takeaway,the big, the big lesson of this
all is sometimes you plan thingsout and yep, life gives you
lemons.
Or, in our case, life gives youa swift, uh smash in the rear.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I was, I was trying to work that out of my head of
how I could sit.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
You get in a car accident and your plans change
and you have to pivot, and wheredo we go from here?
So we'll tell you where we wentfrom here, because the
adventure is not over, friends.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Could you summarize what you just said by saying
that life gives you lemons andyou have to make lemonade?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Lemonade Sure.
Thank you for guiding me allthe way to the end talk to you
later.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Bye, okay.
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