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Happy New Year my friends, I have missed you these past few weeks as I took a break not

only from airing episodes of the podcast, but also from checking and posting to Instagram.

I've missed you, but the reset was much needed. I feel like I have more clarity and a

calmer mind right now than I have in over a year. And that feels amazing. So thank you

for coming back to 3 in 30. I'm so excited to head into 2020 and there's so much in store

for us. I'm actually recording this about a week in advance of winter air because my

family and I are about to take off on a crazy two week road trip in a camper van. And

I'm trying to get everything for the podcast prep in advance so I can be really present

with them during the adventure, but also because I don't even know when and where we will

have reception during this whole thing. So for those of you who are interested, here's

a quick itinerary of where we're going. We're starting in Phoenix, Arizona and we're traveling

through New Mexico to White Sands National Monument and Carl's Bad Caverns. Then we're

heading south to Texas and we're going to spend a few days in Big Bend National Park.

We're going to go to San Antonio, probably Houston and then along the Gulf Coast. We're

going to visit some plantations in Louisiana, spend a day or two in New Orleans and then

head to Alabama to meet up with one of my favorite former podcast guests, Dr. Katie

Penry and see her neck of the woods for a few days and we'll end our adventure in Atlanta

and hopefully we won't have killed each other by then and we can fly back to Idaho with

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