Hello and welcome to another episode of the Gray NATO, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and

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This is episode 53 and we thank you for listening.

So James, it's been a while since we talked, I think our last time we talked was the kind of the post-S-I-H- episode and then you had your interview show with Jason from from Raldorf, which is which is really cool.

Yeah, it went well. Yeah, so what's been up with you since a few weeks back?

So travel started to kind of spin back up for the new vogue gig so I was in Winnipeg for about two and a half days.

Yeah. With Mercedes-Benz they do, they do like an Arctic winter driving course

on the frozen lake Winnipeg. So AMG is the

performance division of Mercedes and they do something called the AMG

driving academy which is courses all over the world at

racetracks at all sorts of different scenarios where an AMG vehicle would be suitable.

So it could be like off-roading in a G or a racetrack in a GTR or in this case they have two locations in the world where they do winter ice driving so studded tires and we had CLA 45 so just kind of the small

sedan that AMG makes with Mercedes and then the C63 the kind of classic used to be their small sedan but it's now a slightly bigger

sedan and then the big guy the E63 yes.

You got to drive all three?

Yep yeah many times it was basically just it was all car time I mean for one of these

courses it's not cheap I mean I think if you want to do the full thing which is I got about one and a half

days of the three- program in this press sample.

Yeah.

And I think if you want to do the full thing, it's a little over 5,000 Canadian.

Holy cow.

But if you're really into this, yeah.

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