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TRAVELING OVER FIFTY AND WHY WE LOVE STAYING HOME · Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50

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  Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
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  you to let it go and don't look back, with nationally acclaimed
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  professional organizer Christine Stone and self-proclaimed Hot
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  Damn Mess radio and TV personality Eden Kendall.
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  Welcome everybody to Uncluttered and Unfiltered.
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  We are the podcast for women over 50, and who better to do a
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  podcast for women over 50 than me, Eden, and Christine?
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  Because that's what we are. She's back, everybody.
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  She's back from her European vacation.
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  I felt just devastated and sad and lonely with you gone and out
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  of the country, even though we rarely see each other in person
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  anymore. It's just, I was like, lost.
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  OK, that's funny because my husband heard me mention your
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  name quite a few times while I was on vacation, so that's
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  great. Anyway, you were thought of by
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  me. Good.
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  I'm so glad. Good.
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  So today's episode, we're going to talk about why a lot of women
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  would prefer to be at home and not out gallivanting across the
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  entire world like you just were. And we're going to get to that,
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  but first, and not without us hearing all about your vacation
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  because I'm sure you had some moments there, especially if you
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  said my name came up. I have to know why that was the
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  thing. So tell us first of all, tell
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  everyone where you went and then we'll talk about.
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  So I'm going to start off by saying this is not a down Debbie
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  Downer episode, just being real with my ladies out there because
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  I'm not a fake person, so I'm telling the truth.
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  OK, so first of all, I went to Italy, which was amazing.
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  I went to Sicily and I went to the Amalfi Coast, very
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  wonderful. And at the end, I went to the
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  South of France, which was amazing as well.
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  We met some friends for her 50th birthday at the very end.
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  So it's not that it wasn't wonderful because it honest to
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  God was probably the most beautiful places I've ever seen
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  in my entire life. OK, now that we got that out of
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  the way, and the Italian people were absolutely amazing,
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  wonderful. Same with the people in France.
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  They couldn't have been lovelier.
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  So now that we have all that out of the.
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  Way. We will get into the start to
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  the end of my vacation. OK, I don't.
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  Like to leave my house? All right, OK.
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  So leading up to it, you and I had talked already on a prior
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  podcast about just I packed three weeks ahead of time.
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  And so for this, because I was gone for two full weeks, I felt
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  every day leading up to it, I was having to run out and get
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  something else. OK, That was the first thing.
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  So every day I'm like, oh God, I have to go run out and get this.
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  I have to do that. So it just was stressful in my
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  opinion, leading up to it and then packing.
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  And then you keep checking the weather and other countries and
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  you don't want to dress like a tourist, but you don't want to.
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  It just, it's really hard heard I went on social media to find
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  what people wear. But I have to be honest, it was
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  all young girls. It was all young 20 and 30
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  somethings. And how am I supposed to relate
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  to that? Because they were like midriff
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  tops. And so it was, I don't know.
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  I went with what I always go to, which is j.crew.
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  I'm a big j.crew fan. You can't really go wrong with
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  that. And so anyway, we I pack, I'm
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  all ready to go and the first thing that starts out our
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  journey is we get to the airport.
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  Of course I have TSA pre-check. I've had it for years and my
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  husband forgets to put it on my ticket and he's in the TSA
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  pre-check line because he didn't forget to put it on his ticket
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  and I'm waiting for an hour in the non TSA pre-check line.
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  I have to take my shoes off. I've got it like the whole 9
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  yards, which I haven't done in a long time because I've had TSA
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  Pre-check for so long. Did you know that you can put it
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  back on on the at the kiosks before you get on the plane?
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  Wait, do what? You can add your TSA Pre-check
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  at the airport. Oh, I know, but we had already
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  gone down, that's why, yes. We had.
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  Already gone down and so I go through and then they lost my
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  shoe. Your shoe.
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  I lost my shoe in the conveyor belt.
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  OK, this is a true story. I couldn't make this stuff up,
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  so they lost my shoe in the conveyor belt.
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  And so we're sitting there and I have one shoe on and my
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  husband's. What's taking you so long?
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  I'm like, I'm sorry, I wasn't in the TSA Pre-check and I had to
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  take my shoes off and they lost my shoe.
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  So I'm waiting for my shoe. And of course, no one really
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  wants to help you because they're trying to do their job
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  of looking through your stuff as it goes through the thing.
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  So they weren't in a hurry to get my shoe.
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  They had to stop the conveyor belt, go in and dig and get my
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  shoe out because it got stuck in there.
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  Fine, OK, we get there. My husband and I are two totally
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  different travel companions. He likes to go to those in
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  airport places that you sit and eat all you can eat, like a
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  buffet and whatever. And I'm not into that.
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  I don't. First of all, I don't like to
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  eat at the airport. I'm just whatever.
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  So we're sitting in there. We finally take off to go to
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  JFK, not Newark, and everything goes fine, we're on time.
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  But then you forget when you live in a smaller city like we
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  do that to get any connection, which I had totally forgot
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  because I really haven't traveled a lot except to
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  Nashville nonstop. You have to take a bus, a tram,
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  this that to get to your next gate.
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  I didn't tell you we packed 4 suitcases.
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  We packed 4 suitcases, by the way, which nobody told us and we
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  used a travel agent because this was a two week trip.
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  Don't pack 4 suitcases, OK? No one told us that.
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  So we had four suitcases. And when we got to JFK, we had
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  to go collect our luggage off baggage claim and go back
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  through security again and recheck our luggage.
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  OK, fine. I'm like whatever.
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  So that right there at my age was very annoying because even I
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  think for my husband it's just a lot of schlepping.
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  We finally get to our plane that's going to take us to
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  Italy. That OK.
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  So I've already mentioned also in a previous podcast how I do
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  not sleep on airplanes. And this was an 8:00 at night
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  flight. We were leaving out of New York
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  and my husband was asleep maybe an hour into the flight.
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  And I literally didn't sleep the whole entire time because I told
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  you I don't sleep on airplanes. I just, I don't, it's very, it's
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  I think because I was a flight attendant, I just cannot sleep
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  on airplanes because I was trained in my body or you
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  couldn't sleep when you were a flight attendant.
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  So I just can't sleep on airplane.
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  So I stayed up and watched everything I downloaded and
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  stayed up the whole entire six hours.
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  What did you watch? What did you watch real quick?
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  I watched Sirens on Netflix. I did too.
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  I watched that while you were gone.
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  I watched that and there was another show.
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  I downloaded a bunch of things. Now I can't even think about it.
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  I'll remember it though. So I downloaded a bunch of shows
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  and so I would not have to worry about watching with those big
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  headphones on the airplane. So then we get to Italy and of
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  course we have to go through, get our luggage, 4 pieces of
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  luggage. And then we had someone pick us
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  up at the airport because that was another fear of mine.
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  And I don't know if anyone else has that fear.
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  When you're in another country, you don't speak their language.
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  So you'd, I'm, I wouldn't have been comfortable just trying to
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  get an Uber in Italy. It would have made me insane.
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  So I I prearranged someone coming to pick us up and they
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  spoke English and Italian both. So we get to the hotel.
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  Now I'm tired now I'm exhausted because I haven't slept all day.
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  But my husband wants to rally through and go and look around
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  and eat dinner or whatever. I'm like practically sleeping in
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  my food. He's I'm like no conversation
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  whatsoever because I'm so tired. So we go to bed and we both look
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  at each other the next morning and we're like, oh, we have to
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  go eat breakfast. It's 11:00 AM in the morning.
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  We have never. I'm not surprised by that.
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  How could you possibly have gotten up any earlier than that
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  after not sleeping 6? Hours later there, so it would
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  be 5:00 in the morning are so sleeping six hours later.
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  Anyway, we missed breakfast because we had slept so long and
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  both of us couldn't believe it Anyway, So we in Italy,
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  everything is counted by stairs. So when they when you ask them
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  how to get somewhere, there they go.
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  It's 285 stairs. And you know me, I'm like, what?
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  What does that mean? That that means because you have
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  to take stairs everywhere in Italy because it's so old and
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  they're like old stairs to get anywhere, a lot of the times you
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  have to climb a lot of stairs. So then she goes and you can
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  climb up there and it's 2000 stairs.
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  And I said I'm not Eden, I am not going up 2000 stairs, no
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  how, no way. So I did do the 285 and let me
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  tell you, that's not even for old people.
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  But anyway, so it's a lot of that your body isn't used to.
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  You're doing a lot of stairs. And thank God I didn't have to
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  schlep the four suitcases up and down those stairs.
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  So anyway, I think for me, it's you do a lot of drinking that
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  you don't normally do, meaning like all the Italian wine, which
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  was great because it doesn't have the sulfate, so you don't
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  get the hangover. So that was a perk.
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  But you're eating a lot of dessert because their desserts
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  are amazing. You're doing a lot of things you
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  your body just normally doesn't do.
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  And my husband's probably a lot like you.
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  He doesn't want to go sit by the pool and have an umbrella drink.
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  It's OK. We're going to get up at this
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  time. Then we're going to go, and then
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  we're going to go here. And then we're going to do that.
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  And then at 5, we have this. And then at 6:30, it's like
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  there's no relaxation. You are just go.
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  No napping, by the way. No napping, which when you're
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  used to a nap, that could be very difficult.
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  Sure, it's exhausting going on vacation.
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  That's another thing. I'm exhausted.
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  Just listening. I'm exhausted just listening.
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  So you have the culture also, which is different because they
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  eat at different times, they take, they do things differently
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  and you just have to you respect the culture and whatever.
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  So I also had to get a seasickness patch for the back
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  of my ear that I had never used before in my life.
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  But my doctor said it really works because my husband wanted
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  to go on a boat of the Amalfi Coast and I get seasick.
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  Of course, leading up to that, I was really nervous because I'm
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  like, I don't want to get on this boat and be violently ill
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  in front of this like driver. So we get on the boat and the
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  whole time I'm like, is it working?
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  Is it working? I think it's working and my
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  husband's just enjoying. I'm like, wait, I'm seeing if
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  it's working working. You can't even.
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  Enjoy yourself, you're so busy trying to check in.
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  Right, I'm checking in with my body going, is this working?
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  So anyway, everybody out there who suffers from sea sickness or
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  motion sickness, this worked amazing.
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  OK, your doctor prescribed it, right?
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  Doctor prescribed, it's a patch. And also when you're traveling
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  to places like Italy, there's a lot of roller coaster roads to
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  get to the places you need to go.
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  It's just like you're on a roller coaster.
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  So I needed that also for that because it's so it can be very
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  nauseating. Traffic.
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  Did it make you tired? No, not at all.
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  Oh. Not what was it called?
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  All scopamine scopes that. Sounds.
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  Familiar scopamine patch and you wear it for three days, then
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  change it and wear another one. But I highly do recommend that's
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  just a sidebar of if anyone suffers from motion sickness.
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  OK, so that worked. So that was good because we got
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  to go on the boat for the day and let's see eating.
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  I talked about the eating things.
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  I'm also the type of person like Chevy Chase on vacation or my
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  husband is and like we get to a site and I'm like, OK, that's
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  good, let's go. That was beautiful.
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  Move on to the and he's wait, there's a historical village 20
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  minutes from here. And I'm like, we've seen
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  historical. OK, we've seen.
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  One historical village, you've really seen them all.
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  And we went to Pompeii, which is the ruins which made my husband
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  the happiest man on the planet and made me with a million other
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  people schlepping through the ruins of Pompeii, going, OK, I
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  don't know. And there's, and then back then,
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  they slept on concrete and they had prostitutes all the time.
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  And like, it was this stuff. And I'm like, wow, slept on
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  concrete and had prostitutes. This is interesting.
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  Anyway, did the whole Pompeii thing interesting.
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  And then we got to the airport to go to Sicily, which is
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  another part of Italy of course, and 4 suitcases, had to recheck
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  them in, go through security, which by the way, no to everyone
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  out there. Security in every country is
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  different. So what is allowed in the United
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  States or in another country could be totally different.
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  I had to take out my iPad, I had to take out my laptop.
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  I had both of us constantly had our luggage stopped, had to get
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  everything checked through security.
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  They are so lacking employees in that area.
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  So it takes forever to get through security.
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  There is no pre-check or anything like that.
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  You have to go through security. And so that was a nightmare.
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  And I'm going to tell you because everyone was different,
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  but we get to Sicily, the same thing.
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  We check in after a ride. It's crazy.
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  But we get there the same thing. He's let's go do this.
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  I'm like, I am in a coma at this point.
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  OK, So just so you know, it's not relaxing.
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  Sometimes when you go on vacation, the relaxation is when
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  you get home. But we did do the Godfather tour
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  in Sicily, which I highly recommend if you're a Godfather
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  fan because we went to the original house where they shot
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  the Godfather in Italy. The owner was there, we met him,
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  he has all the Godfather memorabilia.
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  Nothing has changed since they did that movie in the 70s and
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  not one thing. It is been in his family for
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  over 200 years. It was amazing to go see that
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  and then they take you in town so you could see where they did
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  the wedding and they were walking down the streets and
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  where he asked the father if he could date his daughter at the
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  restaurant, same restaurant still there.
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  Nothing has changed so it was amazing.
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  We saw the wet, the church where they got married, everything was
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  the same. It is still during a time
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  capsule. Nothing has changed.
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  So it was so beautiful. Now we're going to talk about
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  the fun part that I have been told.
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  I haven't even told you this. So now my husband wants to go to
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  the volcano of Mount Etna. Because he had such a great time
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  in Pompeii, I'm like. OK, we will go to Mount Etna the
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  volcano now. Meanwhile I had watched a
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  documentary and I can't remember the name of it but someone out
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  there I'm sure has watched it. Where this couple goes on their
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  honeymoon or something to a volcano in Hawaii, Everyone's on
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  the boat. You have to take a boat to get
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  out there to see it. So they had tons of boats going
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  out there. While they're out there, the
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  volcano erupts. They have no way of getting back
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  because she had to get there by boat anyway.
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  It was harrowing, that documentary.
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  So I'm not a big fan of going to see volcanoes.
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  So we get there, it's raining, it's nasty, it's high up, it's
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  bumpy, rocky roads that aren't paved.
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  And I'm like, Oh my God, this is unbelievable.
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  So we get there and the guys like trying to take us through
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  caves and I'm like, I'm good, I'm not going in a cave.
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  And he's like, why? And I go.
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  I just am not going in a cave, but I can meet you guys.
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  And he goes, you're going to have to walk and get around.
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  I go, I'm good. So I shoot a video of me to my
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  daughters saying I have seen Dateline episodes.
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  So if I disappear, I want you to know I would never have
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  voluntarily gone in a cave, jumped off a Cliff, done
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  anything like that. And I had to document it because
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  it was that weird. OK.
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  When we're walking, there's these geologists and he's OC.
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  These are safe men who are here because they can gather all this
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  data so that they'll know at least two weeks ahead of time
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  when it's going to explode again.
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  And I go, I don't know, I Are you sure?
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  And he goes, oh, 100% sure. I go, so it's not going to
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  explode while we're here. No, no way.
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  Like I'm some crazy loony bird. OK, so then he goes, let's go up
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  to the top where the crater is up high.
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  I go, I'm not going. So my husband's you don't want
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  to go. I go, no, I'll sit down here on
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  the bottom of the hill. He goes, what are you going to
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  do? I go, I'm just going to sit
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  here. I'll wait for you.
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  He goes up all the way to the top and I'm like, if that thing
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  explodes, I'm going to have to run by myself.
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  And I don't know where I am or what I'm doing, but I'm just
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  going to start running. So I'm sitting there all by
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  myself. I go to get on my phone, No
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  signal on the top of Mount Aetna, everybody, just so you
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  know. So I had nothing to do.
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  So he comes back down. Now it's pouring down rain.
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  OK, pouring. We get in the car, I'm like, and
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  he shows me all the burned out buildings from the last time it
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  exploded and they had to rebuild everything because the lava
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  destroyed everything. And I'm like OK, let's go back
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  to our hotel now. PS Yesterday Mount Edna exploded
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  it. It erupted.
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  OK, that was not two weeks notice.
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  By the way, just to those gemologists out there, that was
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  definitely not two weeks notice. And everyone kept making fun of
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  me going this. You're being ridiculous.
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  It's not going to do that. It's I am not joking.
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  It it erupted yesterday. People were running for their
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  lives. They said running because there
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  were so many tourists up there. OK.
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  OK, I have a question. Yes.
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  Did Mitch drop something into the volcano that caused it to
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  explode? Did he check his pockets when he
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  came back down? We want to make sure he had.
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  Right. Like he didn't do a Greg Brady
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  where he took something and it was bad luck and then it
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  exploded. OK, Anyway, no, he did not.
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  Needless to say, he he will never live this down.
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  Because I kept saying I'm really not comfortable doing this.
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  And what I realized, and all the ladies out there might know
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  this. I've been married 37 years.
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  And yes, I know you have to compromise and I understand all
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  that and I get it. And it's part of being married.
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  But is part of being married risking your life by a volcano
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  erupting when, you know, sometimes you don't listen to
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  what you really feel because you want to do something to make
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  someone else happy. But you're like, I really don't
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  like this. This is not comfortable for me.
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  Do you feel that way with Steve? I think he feels like that with
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  me, but I wonder if, wow, this volcano erupted just would
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  yesterday, you said, or this week.
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  Yesterday. Yesterday I wonder if there was
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  some wife saying I told you so to her husband on their way
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  running away. I'd be like that.
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  I would be. I'd be like, he would say run
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  and I'd be like, I fucking told. You.
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  I know, I told. You this could happen.
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  I know my husband this morning is thinking to himself, she's
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  never ever going to do anything that she doesn't feel
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  comfortable with. Now I'm toast.
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  I have no say in the game. There's 100% going to be a
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  remember the volcano time that comes up in your relationship
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  again. 100%. Like that volcano is in your
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  pocket and you're going to whip it out in the next argument.
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  Exactly. Remember when you said the
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  volcano had two weeks notice? Remember.
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  And how about the gemologist who I met?
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  Like he goes, you're really lucky to meet them because
• 26:11
  they're not here, but every few weeks.
• 26:14
  So you're lucky to meet the people who save other people
• 26:19
  from it exploding. They give them notice so they
• 26:22
  can prepare. I'm like, do they have my Wi-Fi
• 26:25
  up there or something? Like my home Wi-Fi because I had
• 26:29
  the worst Wi-Fi in my house. What kind of system do they have
• 26:32
  that it erupted with no notice anyway.
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  OK, so that was Mount Aetna. Then it was time to leave to go
• 26:41
  to France. It's a whole nother thing
• 26:45
  because that's a different country than Italy.
• 26:48
  Yes. Social Security is totally
• 26:50
  different too. Everything is different.
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  And the word on the street is they don't love us Americans
• 26:56
  there. Is that true or?
• 26:58
  Not that is the word on the street, because I had heard that
• 27:01
  too, but I have to tell you, they were really lovely, really
• 27:04
  lovely and very sweet and very helpful and very it, it totally
• 27:10
  surprised me. Good.
• 27:12
  But anyway, so now we're going to France.
• 27:16
  Everything goes fine. We get it.
• 27:19
  But they're planes. It's all in French, like
• 27:23
  everything. The flight attendant like
• 27:24
  nothing was in English. So we just went with it.
• 27:27
  We're like, OK. And they're like puddle jumper
• 27:29
  kind of planes, which it was a little nerve wracking because in
• 27:33
  my mind I'm thinking I'm in the middle of nowhere.
• 27:38
  I don't even know where I am really technically.
• 27:41
  And if this plane goes down or anything happens, I don't even
• 27:44
  know where I, if someone would have asked me where are, I would
• 27:47
  have said, I don't know, somewhere in France.
• 27:49
  I think like you really, when you travel so much through
• 27:53
  countries, you start to forget where you are, what language
• 27:56
  you're speaking, what you're doing.
• 27:58
  Like we kept speaking Italian in France and I'm like, like the
• 28:02
  thank you and the please. It's like different language,
• 28:06
  different food. I'm going to be honest here, I'm
• 28:10
  not a big French food fan. Compared to Italian, there is no
• 28:15
  better food in my opinion, than the Italian food we had in
• 28:18
  Italy. French food I think is a
• 28:20
  definite acquired taste and I don't think I've acquired it
• 28:24
  yet. It doesn't mean someday I won't
• 28:26
  acquire, but I don't think I've acquired.
• 28:28
  It I don't think you will. When are you going to acquire
• 28:30
  it? When are you going to put in the
• 28:31
  work? I won't, but I did the pastries
• 28:37
  and stuff. They're very good bread and
• 28:39
  pastries in France. Of course, I don't normally eat
• 28:42
  that stuff, so my body was in a stated shop.
• 28:46
  Now we're going to talk about another fun thing in Europe and
• 28:50
  France. They're pharmacies and I will
• 28:54
  talk in a future segment when we talk about our favorite things
• 28:59
  on something I bought there that is out of out of this world.
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  Amazing. You can't get it in the United
• 29:06
  States yet. I think there it's coming here.
• 29:08
  It's just I don't know when. OK, So my husband made fun of me
• 29:12
  because I had to stop at every French pharmacy, everyone, no
• 29:16
  matter where we were because their sunscreens are different.
• 29:20
  They don't have the chemicals we do in the United States.
• 29:24
  Everything is different and you can get things over the counter
• 29:27
  there that you can't get here that you can't.
• 29:29
  It's by prescription here or whatever.
• 29:32
  So I did enjoy going to all the French pharmacies and stocking
• 29:36
  up the we had a wonderful time in the South of France.
• 29:41
  It's beautiful. It was during Cannes Film
• 29:44
  Festival, Didn't see any celebrities, although I kept
• 29:48
  thinking everybody was a celebrity just because it was
• 29:51
  con and I kept saying I think that sounds, but it looked
• 29:54
  nothing like them. So then we're leaving to go back
• 29:58
  to the United States. But before we leave, the last
• 30:02
  night of our trip, I had been all dolled up and wore makeup.
• 30:06
  And I get back to the hotel and we're leaving the next morning
• 30:09
  and I'm like, God, my eye is sore.
• 30:12
  That's weird. Why is my eye sore?
• 30:15
  I take off my makeup and I have the largest stye in my eye you
• 30:22
  could imagine. Now we're leaving at 7:00 AM the
• 30:25
  next morning, so I can't go to a pharmacy.
• 30:27
  I can't get anything, but I did pack some of those hot masks
• 30:31
  that you can put on your eyes because everyone knows by now I
• 30:35
  have dry eyes. So I packed those anyway.
• 30:38
  And I used my hypochlorous acid spray continuously because I
• 30:42
  knew it was like some sort of bacteria or whatever.
• 30:44
  But I had to fly for a day and a half because that's how long it
• 30:49
  took back to get here with a stye in my eye.
• 30:52
  They kept getting bigger and my husband tried to be nice and go.
• 30:55
  It's getting worse, like with his facial expression, knowing
• 31:00
  it was getting really bad. Anyway, this is where you were
• 31:04
  mentioned again. So we get to our connection to
• 31:08
  go to JFK, but our flight was delayed.
• 31:11
  And while we're on the flight in Paris, the flight attendant
• 31:14
  comes up, we haven't even left the runway yet and says you're
• 31:18
  going to miss your flight. We're like, how do you know
• 31:20
  she's? I know you're going to miss your
• 31:22
  flight. And I've never had that happen
• 31:24
  where someone says you're going to miss your flight.
• 31:27
  I go, OK, what does that entail? And she goes, you'll just have
• 31:31
  to get another one. When people say that I was the
• 31:33
  flight attendant, it's not easy like that.
• 31:36
  It's terrible. OK, so now we're delayed.
• 31:43
  We're going to miss our flight. So we land and she goes, you can
• 31:47
  make it if you run. OK.
• 31:51
  And she goes and when I mean run, I didn't know that we had
• 31:56
  to go with four pieces of luggage, pick them up, go
• 32:00
  through security again. OK, pick up this one, go through
• 32:04
  security and go to through a tram, a train, a escalator, like
• 32:12
  5 million of those walking as it was a hall.
• 32:17
  So of course we get stopped at security and there's a line of
• 32:22
  people who they stopped. So I go up to the lady, I go, is
• 32:25
  there any way you can grab those two that are sitting there and
• 32:28
  go through them? Because we're going to miss our
• 32:30
  flight. No, just like that, No.
• 32:36
  So we're sitting there and me and my husband are both like,
• 32:39
  we're missing that flight, we're missing that flight, we're
• 32:41
  missing that flight. They finally felt bad for us,
• 32:44
  took the luggage, looked through it and then said run.
• 32:49
  Now I'm like Mitch, I am not eating, I can't run.
• 32:53
  I go, do you think we should get a wheelchair and wheel me?
• 32:57
  What should we do? He goes, you're going to run.
• 33:01
  I am schlepping A humongous carry on my everything and I am
• 33:07
  running when I tell you running like sprinting.
• 33:10
  What were you wearing on your feet?
• 33:12
  Those Doctor Scholl's we met last time?
• 33:14
  No, I actually had my athletic shoes on for running.
• 33:18
  OK. I'm writing, I'm running.
• 33:20
  We actually make it with four minutes to spare before they
• 33:25
  shut the door. I get on the plane, the flight
• 33:28
  attendant looks at me and goes, are you OK?
• 33:31
  I couldn't breathe, I was hyperventilating, I was
• 33:34
  profusely sweating. I couldn't even stand up.
• 33:38
  My knees hurt so bad. I am telling you, I was like,
• 33:42
  I'm never doing this ever again ever.
• 33:44
  I was like how does she run the way she runs?
• 33:48
  I couldn't understand it. I was so winded I thought I was
• 33:51
  going to have a heart attack. OK, so we make it now.
• 33:56
  We have 6 hours to fly and we get back at midnight.
• 34:00
  The whole point of this is it's exhausting when you're 62 years
• 34:05
  old to fly this much, to travel to different time zones, to be
• 34:10
  gone for two weeks. And I didn't even talk about the
• 34:13
  plugs. We had every plug we thought we
• 34:15
  needed. None of them worked.
• 34:17
  I swear to God, we had 10 plugs for European, for Italy, for
• 34:22
  London, you name it, none of them worked.
• 34:24
  None of them. It was the most it's we had to
• 34:27
  borrow one from the front desk and we had so many.
• 34:31
  You don't realize how much you appreciate your electric plugs,
• 34:34
  so you don't have. Them.
• 34:36
  Oh yeah. So that was a whole nother
• 34:38
  thing. I'm back, I'm happy.
• 34:42
  God bless the USA. I'm just so happy to be home in
• 34:46
  my own house. And I have to tell you one thing
• 34:49
  I realized by being gone. I think This is why I do what I
• 34:52
  do for a job. Because when you create a space
• 34:57
  that is so peaceful, so calming, so happy, it's really hard to
• 35:03
  leave and you just can't wait to come back to it and you
• 35:07
  appreciate it so much more. So there's my travel.
• 35:10
  That was a fantastic recap. What you said about your home is
• 35:17
  your your place and leaving for two weeks or leaving for two
• 35:22
  hours sometimes just isn't what you want.
• 35:27
  So you came across a video explaining and really focusing
• 35:32
  on that very concept, that home sweet home baby.
• 35:37
  It's why more and more people are saying they just don't want
• 35:40
  to leave their homes. Some of whom we know we're
• 35:43
  actually a little bit relieved during lockdown, but.
• 35:47
  What's funny that you say that? Because I was driving in the car
• 35:50
  the other day and I thought what was the worst thing that
• 35:54
  happened to other people was the best thing for me because I'm a
• 35:58
  homebody. So during COVID, I didn't have
• 36:01
  to go anywhere. And both my kids for the last
• 36:04
  time. And I knew it was going to be
• 36:05
  the last time. I knew it in my heart I said
• 36:08
  they're never going to be living under my roof ever again
• 36:12
  together without significant others or kids, whatever.
• 36:16
  And of course, I was right because my daughter got engaged
• 36:19
  a year later. So I thought about that.
• 36:22
  I thought sometimes what is terrible for some people, it's
• 36:27
  not so terrible for other people if you're a homebody.
• 36:31
  Sure. So did you have a list or do we
• 36:33
  want to reserve that list for another episode?
• 36:36
  The list of what's? Keeping this is from a guy on
• 36:39
  TikTok and he said I was thinking about this because he
• 36:45
  said it so well and it's people. 11 reasons why people lose
• 36:50
  interest in leaving their house as they get older.
• 36:53
  And I just think that people that are 25 or 35 or 45 or even
• 37:00
  55, it's different than when you're 62.
• 37:03
  It's a different and you and I said, we're even doing an
• 37:06
  episode because you're about to turn 59 and I'm going to be 63.
• 37:12
  And we, I was telling you how people don't believe it, but
• 37:16
  there's such a difference in just a few years.
• 37:20
  And I have someone that's a few years older than me and they'll
• 37:24
  always tell me this is what you have to look forward to.
• 37:26
  And sure enough, I'll get to the age that she was when she told
• 37:29
  me that I'm like, she told me that that's weird.
• 37:32
  She's right. So we can go over those next
• 37:36
  time, but they're really good because I'm telling you, I'm I.
• 37:40
  It made me feel like I'm not alone out there, that there are
• 37:43
  other people that don't like to travel as they get older because
• 37:48
  it's just disruptive. It's just hard to do when you're
• 37:52
  older. You don't have the stamina that
• 37:55
  you did when you were young anyway.
• 37:58
  I'd love it if everybody would share a travel Horror Story they
• 38:01
  may have with us. We'll post it in our ladies only
• 38:04
  group. So if you've ever had motivation
• 38:06
  to join our Facebook group, that is the ladies only version.
• 38:10
  We do have a regular uncluttered and unfiltered Facebook page,
• 38:14
  Instagram, YouTube. You can watch more and more of
• 38:16
  these videos on YouTube. Not all of them, but but some of
• 38:19
  them. And we have this private group
• 38:21
  that you have to be admitted into where it's really a safe
• 38:24
  space and you can share things you might not ordinarily.
• 38:27
  So it's uncluttered and unfiltered.
• 38:30
  Ladies only. And I'll put a post up asking
• 38:33
  everybody to submit their travel horror stories if you have.
• 38:38
  Not that yours was a Horror Story, but we'll have the.
• 38:41
  Horror Story, but the Mount Aetna thing could have turned.
• 38:44
  Into yes but yeah but you know what maybe someone in our group
• 38:48
  is going to say I actually was there the week it went off they
• 38:52
  have a legit Horror Story they. Have a legit run for your life
• 38:56
  Horror Story. What we would love to, though,
• 38:57
  is if you would tell one friend about our podcast.
• 39:01
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• 39:03
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• 39:06
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• 39:11
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• 39:20
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• 39:22
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• 39:27
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