Hello and welcome to a meathead hippie podcast. I am your host, Emily Schram, and I am living in a van

and so stoked about it. It's like exceeding my expectations. So it has been the best time. Last night,

I found the darkest place in North America, which is Marathon, Texas. And although it was a full moon where I saw Mars a millimeter away from the moon,

and it was so fantastic, it is going to be the place that I potentially stay for a bit just so that I can

see how dark it gets. There's astrology, astronomy, galore telescopes all over. Full beluga medicine

is in effect here without the water.

So I am having the best time just taking the turns that I feel like I should take and following my

intuition, which in human design might be your spleen or your sacral, but what I will say is it's not

your mind. Our mind is

useless when it comes to how we make decisions and not just like, yes, I mean, it's great

and it's good that we use logic, but in the flow of things and how things are changing,

it's more important right now than ever to get your mind to

settle, to get your mind to calm down and to listen to your body signals about taking that turn

or turning here or not staying there or saying yes to that or saying no to that and trusting that.

And that's what Van Life has really expedited or really exasperated for me.

And I really just love that whole entire process.

So today is a different type of podcast.

I am going to just take you on a journey with a national fish hatchery, a deep dive into nerdy facts about conservation efforts and visiting this place that was so

random and out of the blue. It was called Nyosho, Missouri, the town, very Gilmore Girl-like,

and Niosho means cold, clear spring in Native American, or it's translated as that. So it's a town

of springs, and there's just nothing

that goes wrong when you are around water. So just so excited about this episode. I hope you

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