What's up guys? I'm Lexi Lombard, the host of the Alexi podcast. Happy Monday if you're listening on the day it comes out. I had a really fun week. Whatever energy

that I'm using, that I'm channeling in 2023, or whatever energy that 2023 has running through me feels good so far.

There's been a lot of peace and a lot of fun and I love that. It's been a good several weeks and the thing that I like about

being a freelancer in Los Angeles is that there are so many other people that don't work typical

nine to five jobs and the windows of time for social life is much larger than other places I've been before. I mean in New York I was

one of the few that didn't work in 9 to 5 so there weren't opportunities on random Tuesdays to go somewhere.

So for example, one of my friends who's a musician and a model wasn't booked on Thursday

and I needed to go shoot content for a brand.

I was like let's go to Big Bear.

So last Thursday we drove to Big Bear and we spent the night there

and my god talk about one of my favorite hobbies. I love taking a road trip. I love a day trip. I love a weekend trip. This was one night and we had left in the afternoon. We probably left around

noon and Big Bear is only an hour and a half two hours outside of Los Angeles. It was a very easy drive. Essentially you take the highway until you start climbing up the mountain and that's also so gorgeous.

And I have so many photos, so many photos that I'm going to post on Instagram because they're so fun. I was just living my life.

Yes, we were going with the purpose of taking photos, but I enjoyed myself the entire time the joy from this trip was so high

Just was living exactly how I wanted to I honestly feel like I've been living exactly how I want to for weeks now. It just

feels correct. It just feels right. So we're driving up. We're jamming out to the best music,

singing at the top of our lungs in this really scenic route.

I book us this sleazy cabin motel. It was a lodge where you could rent out

these little cabins and they all had female

names so there's the Natasha cabin when we stayed at the Katie cabin and there's a

little porch it's big enough for a bistro table and two chairs.

You walk in and it's just the room, there's a little kitchenette on the left,

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