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That's acrobat wine.com. This is the outside podcast. So I've got these two friends, Dave and Kira, they're a couple. But they hadn't been together that long when I met them.

This was the summer of 2022. David gotten a trip permit for the Grand Canyon.

And he was friends with some of my wife's co-workers and somehow like a game of reverse

survivor we'd gotten ourselves voted onto the trip. Dave was the trip leader and had

tons of Whitewater experience. In fact most of the people on this trip were in their mid to late 40s

and knew each other from having been sponsored kayakers and going to competitions in the early 2000s.

There was a former Grand Canyon River Guide, a currently professional fishing

guide. His girlfriend was a former Whitewater Guide, and there was a paramedic who did search

and rescue for the Air Force. Basically a ton of experience and

relevant skills in the group. Then there was Kira. Kira worked for an equestrian nonprofit.

Our 16-day river trip would be her first time camping, ever.

She brought French imported aerosolized water,

which is like a can of spray paint full of mist.

So she could wet her skin before applying moisturizer.

Apparently this is important.

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