Hello, welcome to the Edmonton Tartcast podcast. I'm Matthew Motorator DeAndre here with

Alastair Weaver. Welcome back from a little Thanksgiving break. Yeah, it was great. I'm feeling

very refreshed. Obviously, you're taking, given that was take two of the introduction, you're taking a little bit of time to get it back into this, but my computer didn't want to start this morning. It's amazing. I'm like four days off, stuff yourself full of turkey, and now nothing works. Yep. Is Thanksgiving definitely something that you guys have figured out? Yeah, I mean, look, I've been here seven years now.

I think maybe more than that, right? More than 17? 2018 I arrived. Yeah, okay. Um, yeah, no,

no, I mean, Thanksgiving's lovely, actually. It's a really nice American tradition, which we didn't

celebrate in the UK, which we really embraced here. So, yeah, we had a nice little week in Mammoth as a family of four.

So it was good.

Lots of, lots of overeating, but a bit of skiing to offset it as well.

So it was good.

Okay.

Yeah, so I stayed in town and met up with some friends.

But looking forward to a couple of little road trips in December, probably Arizona and possibly Vegas again, although it was just there for the Seema show.

And starting to think about what would be a good vehicle or good vehicles to take.

But you just... I'm sorry. so it's not happening this morning jackie speaking uh if you're not watching on youtube mat's having a bit of a coffee

for you're right there buddy yes i i i i survive my eyes are watering now but i survived. You just came back from your road trip with the family.

And I want to talk about what you guys drove so I can kind of figure out what it is that I should be taking on my road trips.

Yeah. Well, the northern California, where it is, I mean, Mammoth is for American geography is sort of up near San Francisco, but obviously inland and in the mountains, proper ski resort.

And we took, we're very privileged to have the Edmunds fleet to call upon and we took the Lexus GX, which is the overtrail version, has the big off-road tires.

And actually, we thought it was perfect for the job in as much that there'd been a dump of snow

we didn't know whether it's going to snow a bit more so the ideal car really massive trunk

throw everything in fit for purpose and also like the fact that it's quite utilitarian is you know

the rubber mats everything else when you you know when you're going properly outdoors you're

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