Welcome to Older and Wilder with Joy and Claire and we're in Peru.

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Hello!

That's when we come in.

We are in like a pool house?

We are in a spa.

We're in Peru. We have planned this trip for over a year and it's finally here.

Just to give a visual for the listeners out there who did not make this trip. We are in a room,

like a spa room with 20 plus people who are on this trip with us and we always record on these

trips. We record a live episode. So that's what we're doing. If you're new to the show,

this is something that we've done with every trip. And I'm so grateful that we get to do it again, because these trips are so action-packed. It's kind of hard to fit these in, but here we are. We are in the Sacred Valley, which is in the Andes. We're about, what, an hour outside of Kusko. The scenery is unreal. The whole situation, there's like a million hummingbirds, all these flowers. In the States, when we think of high elevation, we also think of like a very arid climate. Not the case in Peru. We're at 9,000 feet right now. And we've been at about, this is great. I have my fact checker to the side who you will meet in a moment.

And when we think of like 9, 10, 11,000 feet in the States, it's so, it's like gravel and snow and grapple and nothing.

And here it's so lush and birds.

Yeah, amazing.

But I think the thing that comes to mind when we actually start packing and getting ready for this trip is

we kind of like have a light idea of what's going to happen but you have no none don't even know

zero and this trip has just been amazing so i can't wait to share we're going to hear from some

of the listeners we're going to hear from our guide who's a little nervous but we're going to just like

get over it because

He's I think he's my favorite person in the world. I'm sorry Scott, but like I think he's kind of like

I think he's kind of like my new favorite person

I think he's yours too. So you know, we're even

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