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My first time was in Italy.

So I'm with this guy and his two dogs, and we're in Barolo.

So it's all like castles and vineyards up on the hills.

It's cold in December.

They do it at night because they don't want anyone to see their secret spots.

It's this really, you know, this dark, misty, moonlit kind of scene.

We're trying to go through these forests and follow these

dogs in this sort of cold, drippy night, and branches are just like whacking us in the face

and stuff. But then, you know, the dogs will give a signal that they're digging, and then

we're just running through the woods, tripping, getting to the

spot, trying to get to it before the dogs do. You really start to like become super aware of

your senses because hearing becomes extra important. Your eyes are doing whatever they can do

in that environment. And obviously then your nose is the final arbiter of the whole thing.

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