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I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She Explores. We were only 20 years old and both really untried by life, you might say. Yeah. We were just like, two innocents turned loose.

But we had such fun.

Everything was fun.

That idea of the ordinary adventure, you know, that's what really drew me to this story

was that it was just an ordinary adventure.

She didn't have to go to the library and get a book about how to go bike touring.

I mean, if such a thing existed, I don't know.

You just went, you know, she didn't have special gear.

She just had a suitcase.

She didn't have spandex, although I didn't ask her about her

her sport clothes. This is Taren Aiten, the blogger behind happiest outdoors and her

grandmother Carol Eton.

For Taren, the story starts 10 years ago.

For Carol, it started almost 75 years ago.

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