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National Park After Dark

275: Trail Tales 62

National Park After Dark

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Today’s stories include acts of love, stiff pants, angry neighbors camp ghosts, Gila monsters and cougars in Maine. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another trail tales episode. And today we have a lot for you. But before we get started, I actually have a trail tale of my own that I want to share. Okay. Well, we're just jumping right in. I would love to hear it. Is it from your recent endeavor? Yes. It is. It certainly is. And I

0:41.4

it's so funny because so I recently traveled to Death Valley National Park and it was my first time

0:47.2

there. And while this particular incident was happening, I was like, oh no, I have a trail tales now.

0:53.8

So I thought I would tell it today.

0:57.5

Okay, please do. So we went, I didn't write this down either, so I'm just like riffrapping off

1:03.2

of my own experience. So I apologize if I stumble around a little bit. So my friend and I basically,

1:09.6

we planned a trip to Death Valley and we were there

1:13.3

in the region for about six days and we planned four days in Death Valley and then two days in Vegas.

1:18.6

And we decided to rent a camper van. We just did it off of Chura. We did one of those Mercedes

1:24.7

sprinters and when they're huge. I didn't realize how big sprinter

1:30.4

I mean, I've seen them in real life, but I've never driven them before. And they are massive.

1:35.5

So we pick up this rental. We're super excited. We pack all our stuff in. It has a bed. It has a kitchen.

1:41.0

We're so stoked. And my friend starts driving first, and she's a little nervous because

1:46.8

it's so big. So we go to a parking lot to practice. And then we have to go to a drive-through because I was

1:52.6

hungry. And we thought that it was, we thought that we could walk up and she wouldn't have to go

2:00.0

through the drive-thru with this massive thing.

2:02.1

And anyway, we go through the drive-thru, and the first thing that she does is she doesn't take the turn wide enough and she hits the wall of the building.

2:09.7

Oh, my God.

2:10.3

I'm just a girl.

2:11.1

I'm just a girl.

2:12.0

That was our whole theme for the whole trip.

2:14.4

But I just wanted to preface of how our driving is going from the getco.

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