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This is simple. I'm chatting with my friend and co-host Crystal Ellifson as we do what we usually do on the show she and I I are talking about what we wrote about this week.

Crystal wrote about the value of family road trips and why she and her family with young children

make it happen even when it's challenging. They spend a lot of time camping

and hitting up national parks so she has a lot of experience dealing with the

little crowd both in the car and outdoors. In fact Crystal is nursing her youngest baby violet as we record this, so you'll

hear a bit of baby noise as we chat, which is completely fine with us on the show. We are very

pro-baby around these parts. And then this week I published a piece about a girlfriend getaway. I went on last week with friends I hadn't seen in almost two decades. So in this chat I talk about the value of getting together with other adult

friends beyond just a dinner out as well as the practicals of putting together an

overnighter with friends when the ultimate goal is to reconnect, reminisce, and make new memories.

And then in the third segment, I am talking with my friend Haley Stewart about what's on dock,

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