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This is Veronica from Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, checking in from a nude beach in Sipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico.

I'm on a birthday trip, celebrating my 34th birthday and my trip happened to coincide with a nude beach festival, yay.

I've had a fun time and now enjoying the beautiful view as you can imagine.

Saludos y bonita vida a todos, adios.

Well, here's hoping that my birthday doesn't coincide with any nude beach festivals.

I'm going to be 60 years old in a few weeks. Such a weird thought.

Anyway, I'm back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry for the delay. I've gotten some annoyed emails from people saying,

what the fuck happened to you, dude? I guess I should be flattered. I am. I am flattered. Thank you for giving a shit.

What happened to me was that, yeah, well, we were in LA for a frenzied five days or something.

After cruising around the desert for a while, coming back from Guatemala, cruising around the desert, going to Crestown to see our buddy just in there,

then cruising around down in New Mexico and Arizona, then we went to LA, did some stuff in LA quickly, dropped the van with the great Oliver and Cheryl,

and jumped on a flight to Thailand after getting PCR tests and insurance and jump it through all these hoops, you have to jump through to get into Thailand these days.

But we got here. We made it. I was like a 28 hour journey, something like that.

And then you go through all the stuff at the airport, you have to get tested again and they check all the papers and it's like a process.

But once you get through all that, it's this bizarre kind of utopia-slash-distopia situation because the utopian part is that this is normally high season in Thailand.

We're at Patong Beach right now in Puket, which is for those of you who have not been to Thailand, one of the sort of most crowded, commercialized, crazy places where you normally wouldn't go,

because the beach would be full of just the worst kind of tourist nightmare you can imagine.

But right now, there's nobody here. It's bizarre. We're staying at this really nice hotel with a balcony, overlooking the beach, swimming pools.

We're doing it because Anya has lots of marriott points. Honestly, we wouldn't pay for something like this out of our pockets.

But if you were paying, it's only like 40 bucks a night right now. Everything is very cheap and empty.

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