And the Hello? I feel like we're going to. Oh, God.

I feel like we were just sort of a game of chicken of who is going to say hi first. We were in a game of chicken for at least 15 seconds because I can see it on my recording.

Like who is going to start this episode?

Hi everyone, welcome to another TrailTales episode where we are here to read stories from you,

back to you of all of the crazy trails and fun adventures people have.

Yeah, that's what these are all about. trails and fun adventures people have.

Yeah, that's what these are all about and I am so ready to hear your first one.

But first, before, we just want to say real quick that

surprise we're going on vacation next week from episodes so next week we will not have an episode coming out.

We just want to prepare you all for next Monday when nothing shows up, but that's I think this is the only we took one other

Monday off ever and we ended up releasing an episode anyway so we're actually

taking this one off for real there will be nothing coming out next Monday but the following Monday will be back on

our normal schedule yeah we really mean it this time okay guys we're not allegedly

releasing an episode yeah so, so every year, we, every year like we've been doing this forever.

The last couple of years we plan to have two weeks of vacation, quote unquote, vacation time, which we usually spend preparing other episodes.

But either way, it's on paper, it's a vacation.

So allegedly, next week we'll be on it.

But I think we'll really be on it next week because we are done

our N-P-A-D group trips next week.

We'll be back from Madagascar and closing out the year.

Closing out the year.

So you can find me probably in a coma somewhere.

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