Hello, welcome to the Effortless English Podcast. This is AJ. No lesson today and also I'm not going to talk about English learning.

Oh my God.

Today, just a little chat about a trip I'm going to take.

So this is very relaxed listening practice only for you.

So that's all. No big English lessons or philosophy of learning or this time.

Okay, so, and this is Hiroshi's suggestion by the way. He is an effortless English member

Hiroshi is Japanese

he is currently traveling in Argentina he is in Buenos Aires right now

and i think he's going to Brazil next. So he's one of our

members he travels a lot he always gives me great suggestions about improving the Effortless English Club and one of his

suggestions was that I do commentaries about my travels and my experiences because I travel a lot and I also like

to try lots of different strange interesting things and

Hiroshi thought it would be good listening practice

for people to listen to me, chat about my trips and chat about my experiences.

Might be interesting for you, something interesting to listen to in English.

Okay, so that's why I'm doing it, and I think it's a good suggestion.

So today I'm going to talk about a trip I'm taking next week.

In fact I will be gone for one week traveling. I'm going on a hiking trip, a hiking and camping trip. When we say

hiking in English it means walking, but it means walking outdoors usually in the mountains and usually also camping.

So I'm going on a six-day hiking trip in the Sierra Mountains of California and the high Sierra Mountains.

The Sierra are very tall mountains in California.

They run along the eastern side of California from the bottom of the state,

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