Hello friends welcome back to my solo road my name is Sydney I do still live in a van and this is still my podcast. I know. Shocking information to start off with. But I am I think in roughly the same place I was last week. I can't remember where I recorded it last week.

But I am sitting outside the east entrance of Yosemite. I did just stumble upon this particular

campsite.

I actually found this place and I loved it,

so I decided to stay an extra night.

And because I stayed that extra night,

they closed the east entrance, which is is the only way I could get into

Yosemite. They closed it right as I was going to go in. So that hour drive that it was going to be has now turned

into a seven hour drive, which I just don't feel like doing.

So I'm going to head to the Alabama Hills instead and hang out there for a bit.

And then I will be going to Tahoe to visit Lee and the rest of the Pups.

I only have Ella and Pearl right now, so things are a bit quiet and quieter than I am used to, but enough about kind of where I am and what I'm doing.

I hope that it is sunny if you are walking your dog right now.

I know some of you walk your dog to the podcast so I hope it's a beautiful day outside.

If you are listening to this in the car, then I hope you're not sitting in like stand-still,

sucky traffic, especially if you're in like a big city, then that's probably exactly what you're doing.

Anyway, I think that's pretty much what else is there really to talk about at the beginning of this.

I'm actually so excited to talk about the topic that I didn't. Usually I take little notes on some stuff and

like what I want to say in the intro or just not like a very different than a script but

like bullet points right and I didn't bullet point anything for the intro

because I'm very excited to get into the topic of the week,

which is gonna be loneliness.

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