Hello and welcome to another episode of the Gray Native, a loose discussion of travel,

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please visit the grayneto.com for more details. My name is Jason Heaton and I'm

joined as ever by my friend and co-host north of the border James Stacy. James welcome back to

to further north than you were last week. Yeah I was down and away for the last

six nights or so in as far south as I've ever gone. I was in

Costa Rica for a family sort of wedding and a little mini vacation with my wife and

my father and it was good we got back last night and technically I'm I'm off for today which gives us a little bit of time to record this and

Get a few other things in order before jumping back into what is kind of the start of my 2024 you know I took a good

portion of this month off yeah that's and came back to watches and wonders invites

and a lot of you know booking meetings and that kind of stuff ahead which is

daunting but I'm feeling pretty good feeling pretty well kind of rested got a

little bit of a tan and I'll give a little bit of a report on that and some

other stuff throughout the show how have you been? It's been considerably quieter

here than in your world. We are amazingly headed into a bit of a warm up here in fact quite an extended heat wave at

least for this part of the world coming up and guessing it's going to swing your

way as well and it's it's been a weird winter anyway but it's I and as much as I enjoy skiing in winter it has been a particular boon to my

Fan dance training you know we talked about I signed up for the the event over in Wales that's coming up in in mid

June and it involves a lot of a lot of kind of outdoor running around with a backpack on and so this warmer weather and the lack of ice on the ground has been

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