because I could have left a fleece or two at home and had a little bit extra room for to smuggle a couple of penguins home.

Welcome back, everybody, to this week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel. And Sam, it's cold here in Seattle, but nowhere near as cold is the

destination we're headed today. I don't believe. So are you ready? You bundled up. You warm.

I have a sweatshirt next to me that I could put on if I get cold.

But I feel like I'm going to be okay since I am in the comfort of our home as we're recording this episode.

But I am really excited to talk about this Adventures by Disney trip, just to give our listeners a little preview.

We've got two guests here who went on a very

unique ABD itinerary. So we'd love to welcome Hara and Gene to the show for the very first time.

Hi. Thanks. Thanks for having us. Excited to have you both. And we're going from the blue-footed boobies

of the Galapagos all the way up to, I suspect, the penguins of the Antarctic. Is that right?

That's right.

Before we dive into your trip with ABD, we always like to get our guests cruising background.

So have you cruised before and what kinds of cruises have you taken?

I have only taken one cruise before and it was a five-day carnival cruise in college. Very different

experience than this one, and that was really it. Yeah, and I had never taken a cruise before,

so I definitely made sure to get my patch, but ended up not being a big deal. How did you decide to go

to the Antarctic? We'll talk about how you got to ABD to take you there, but how did you decide that the Antarctic is where he wanted to head next? Because that is drastically different than a five-night carnival cruise. So how did you land on Antarctica? Well, I turned 40 and my wife asked me, where, you know, where do you want to go? We can do a trip. Where do you want to go? And I have always just been fascinated by Antarctica since I was a little kid. And when I first learned that you could actually go there, that just seemed amazing. It just seemed like it was something that would be totally out of reach to an average person. So the opportunity presented itself. And I jumped on it. It took her a little bit, a lot bit of convincing,

I guess I should say. She's from New Orleans originally. So going to Antarctica seemed a little

much. I got her on board and I think we're both super happy that we did it. Yeah. And by the way,

when I asked him where he wanted to go, he said Antarctica and then explained that he had always wanted to go there.

And this was the first time he'd ever told me that.

So I was a little bit surprised because in the, you know, 10 or 11 years that we've known each other,

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