For spring break last week, we went on a tour of Southwest Virginia, which was a lot of fun, despite there being very little in Southwest Virginia, but we found what there was to do and did it. Now we're going to hear from all four people who live there. Yeah, right? And I say that as someone who went to school in Southwest Virginia. And actually, I wasn't planning on talking about this, but it occurred to me in the hotel in Blacksburg. The hotel room had the unthinkable within it, and it made me exceedingly happy.

What do you think was in that hotel room?

Ethernet port. Correct. Nailed it. Not only was there Ethernet Jack, but it was connected

and worked, which was incredible. So I was very, very happy using my little Unified Travel Router to connect to the Ethernet. But anyways, that's not actually why I'm bringing this up. I'm bringing this up because there's a trail, like a hike, about half an hour outside of Blacksburg, which I had heard about so many times when I was in school that, oh, you know, we're going to go hike the Cascades.

We're going to go do the Cascades. The Cascades, Cascades, Cascades. And I'd never actually done it when I was down there. But the kids in Aaron and me, we all did some hikes a couple of spring breaks ago in the Shenandoah National Park. really enjoyed that. And so during this three-night vacation slash tour, we did a trio of hikes as well.

And the biggest one was, really enjoyed that. And so during this three-night vacation slash tour, we did a trio of hikes as well.

And the biggest one was this first one at the Cascades Trail. And you basically drive from nowhere to further nowhere and then drive through a neighborhood and spontaneously just come out at like a parking situation and like a little

hut with a bathroom and then you start on this hike that goes to these really beautiful

waterfalls and the waterfalls you know have the water cascading down them i presume that's the

genesis of the name right well anyways on the way out of uh on the way out of the hike you you know, we did the two miles out, two miles back,

kids were absolute troopers, you know, did a great job.

And then I was going to get in the car and I was wearing my beloved workout shorts and one of my ATP exercise t-shirts,

which were sort of, we're not really going to talk about in a second.

And what do I hear as I'm

getting in Aaron's Volvo for the second time in the last whatever it is, seven months, I hear

clunk, clunk, clunk, crash. I just want to pause here for a second and ask the long time

ATP listeners, how long into that story did you figure out the case he was going to tell us that

he dropped his phone again?

That is a great measure. Obviously, Marco and I are cheating because we see the show notes and we know where he's going with this. But I'm just curious for the people listening. You're listening in Casey's winding up. He's got a big wind up on his pitches. He's going along. When did you figure out, oh, Casey dropped his phone again, didn't he? I think as soon as I said hike is probably one.

Was it hike?

Was it hike? Was it just like going on vacation? Was it middle of nowhere? Oh, it's so true. I want to be so mad at you, but you're absolutely correct. But yes, so at the end of the hike, I'm getting back in the car and I hear the thunk-thunk crash. And sure enough, my phone had fallen out of my workout shorts, which has happened from these same shorts once before. You'd think I would have learned, but no, no, I didn't. Get some new shorts with bigger pockets. Get pockets with zippers, something, anything. These shorts actually do have zippers, but the zipper broke, unfortunately. And so here we are. Again, this is a problem of my own creation. But anyways, I looked down and sure enough, the pop socket had yeated itself halfway across the parking lot. Are we allowed to say yeat? We're not too old to say that? Oh, no, we are, but we... No, I think that's actually your generation. No, no, it's... Yeah, I think it's...

Isn't that millennial thing?

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