Mile Markers: A Childs Perspective on Travel

Embark on a whimsical journey through the eyes of Brad's daughters. On this episode of Changing Roads, we're not just sharing travel tales; we're unveiling the transformative power these experiences hold over the heart and mind of a child. This adventure is about more than just sightseeing—it's about growing up mile by mile.

They uncover the quirky truths of travel, such as the misleading jingles of bear bells and the finesse required to conquer the subway system. They celebrates curiosity and learning, intertwined with advice and safety tips for other young explorers and even their adult role models. Their shared love for nature and urban discovery paints a picture of the world as an endless classroom.

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A Child's Perspective on Travel

Speaker 1 0:00

Welcome wanderers, dreamers and fellow seekers of the open road. This is Changing Roads, a sanctuary for explorers of the world and the self. Imagine being a kid again, perched on the edge of your seat, eyes wide with wonder as you embark on a new journey. The magic of travel through the eyes of a child is not just about packing bags and visiting new places. It's an expedition into the unknown, a treasure trove of experiences waiting to be discovered. They learn that the world is vast and diverse, yet shares their same laughter and joy. To them, travel isn't the destinations. It's about the thrill of the unexpected, the joy of discovery and the sheer delight of being immersed in a world that's different from their everyday routine. Every turn is an opportunity to unleash curiosity. It's like flipping through the pages of a colorful storybook where they become the adventurers. It's the little things too the joy of chasing chipmunks in a national park, games played in the back of the car, the excitement of learning to navigate an underground subway, or even the fun of discovering that, no matter where we are, ice cream still tastes like pure happiness, and sometimes their parents let them eat dessert before dinner. Travel also teaches something profound adaptability. They learn to adjust to new surroundings, to embrace change and to find joy in the unexpected. It's a lesson in resilience and flexibility that stays long after returning home and oh the stories. They bring back, the treasures to proudly share with friends and family, each memory, a spark that ignites a wanderlust from more adventures.

Speaker 1 1:52

So when we talk about travel from a child's perspective, it's not just about the places they visit. It's about the emotions, the lessons and the kaleidoscope of experiences that shape their worldview. It's about savoring the journey not just reaching the destination and cherishing every moment of being a tiny explorer in this vast and beautiful world. Hi, welcome to Changing Roads. I am your host, brad, and I am sitting here with my co-host, ranger, my loyal travel companion and service dog, and we are so happy that you are listening today, because this is going to be the best episode Changing Roads will ever have, and that is because I'm joined today by my two beautiful daughters and we are going to be talking about a child's perspective on travel. They're looking at me crazy right now, like they're not children. They're not. They're young ladies. Would you like to introduce yourself?

Speaker 2 2:55

Hi, my name is Ashlyn and I'm like 11 years old, basically.

Speaker 1 3:00

Basically 11. What do you mean?

Speaker 2 3:02

Because my birthday is in less than a month.

Speaker 1 3:04

It is. My name is Kira and I am 9 years old 9 years old Basically 11 and 9 years old they have been to seven national parks. They have been to Glacier, yellowstone, grand Teton, rocky Mountain Arches, the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest Seven national parks, it's amazing. And they have been to many states, including Texas, new Mexico, arizona, utah, colorado, wyoming, montana, oklahoma, kansas, missouri, new York and Pennsylvania. That's crazy that you guys have been that many places at your age. What is your favorite place that you've been so far?

Speaker 2 3:53

I really liked Grand Teton.

Speaker 1 3:56

Yeah, why.

Speaker 2 3:58

I don't know. I really like the mountains.

Speaker 1 4:00

It's beautiful, huh.

Speaker 2 4:02

I like Yellowstone.

Speaker 1 4:04

You like Yellowstone?

Speaker 2 4:05

Yeah.

Speaker 1 4:05

Yeah, why?

Speaker 2 4:07

It's really nice there. And yeah, it's just really nice there with all the animals and stuff.

Speaker 1 4:14

The animals are cool, huh yeah, what was his name? Carl?

Speaker 2 4:18

Yeah.

Speaker 1 4:18

Who was Carl?

Speaker 2 4:20

He was a buffalo. He was a buffalo bison. Yeah, we were having chili one night and Dad said that we were going to eat Carl for dinner.

Wildlife and Travel Experiences

Speaker 1 4:28

It was buffalo chili. Yeah, carl was pretty cool. He walked right past the window at the lodge and you guys were like three feet away from him. You were inside, you was outside, but that's the closest anybody will probably ever get to a buffalo. That was pretty neat. Yeah, we're going to talk a lot about wildlife here in this episode, because you are little wildlife experts.

Speaker 2 4:53

I think we almost ran into a bear once in Grand Teton.

Speaker 1 4:56

Yep, we heard it rustling in the bushes all along.

Speaker 2 4:59

Yeah, they were like berries down there.

Speaker 1 5:01

It was time to go.

Speaker 2 5:02

Yeah, and there's still people down there too, yeah.

Speaker 1 5:06

They didn't have bear spray either. Huh, nope, ashlyn, you're a bear expert, aren't you?

Speaker 2 5:11

Yeah, I had one and a half books about bears.

Speaker 1 5:17

One and a half books about bears.

Speaker 2 5:19

And I stole one of my. Well, I didn't steal it, but I started reading it out of his camper.

Speaker 1 5:26

Yeah, you didn't steal it, you borrowed it and I let you read it. It was about bear mollings, wasn't?

Speaker 2 5:31

it yeah.

Speaker 1 5:33

Most 10-year-olds don't read books about bear mollings. I like it. What advice would you give someone on bears?

Speaker 2 5:42

Like just don't, if they're chasing you, then don't run.

Speaker 1 5:46

That's true, yeah, and what should you always have on you?

Speaker 2 5:49

Bear spray.

Speaker 1 5:50

Yep, and what should you do while you're walking down the trail?

Speaker 2 5:54

I'll listen to your surroundings and use your senses.

Speaker 1 5:58

That's true, yep. What do you think about bear bells?

Speaker 2 6:02

What.

Speaker 1 6:03

What do you think about bear bells? They're the bells that people attach to themselves to make little jingles.

Speaker 2 6:10

No.

Speaker 1 6:11

No, no, bear bells are bad, we call them dinner bells.

Speaker 2 6:16

Probably.

Speaker 1 6:19

You have both seen mini bears. You've seen black bears and grizzly bears. We've seen grizzly bears, yeah.

Speaker 2 6:27

And we were on our horses and we saw fresh grizzly footprints.

Speaker 1 6:31

Yep, and you saw grizzlies up close in Glacier, didn't you? We were in the car, so that was good.

Speaker 2 6:38

But I don't know how I did it, but one time we were hiking and there was this grizzly on the side of the mountain, so far away from us and my dad couldn't even see it. I just spotted it with my eye.

Speaker 1 6:49

Yep.

Speaker 2 6:51

I don't even know how, because I have horrible eyesight.

Speaker 1 6:53

You're going to be a wildlife biologist, a wildlife expert. You're natural at it. That's so cool. What about you, Kira? Do you have a fun wildlife story?

Speaker 2 7:04

No, not, really, Not really.

Speaker 1 7:06

That's funny, that's okay. What's your favorite animal you've ever seen?

Speaker 2 7:11

Probably a fox.

Speaker 1 7:13

That's a good wildlife story. Where'd you see a fox?

Speaker 2 7:17

In. What's the name Yellowstone In Yellowstone.

Speaker 1 7:22

Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's pretty cool. There's lots of wildlife, isn't there? Yeah, so you've been to all these places. That's so cool. You've been to all these national parks and you're so well traveled. Is there a place that you'd want to visit again?

Speaker 2 7:37

Like again, or like just in general, or like both.

Speaker 1 7:42

Again and in general, it doesn't have to be a national park. It can be anywhere that you've ever traveled.

Speaker 2 7:47

I really wanted to go to Big Bend, mm-hmm. And then I also want to go back to. I want to go back to the Rocky Mountains.

Speaker 1 7:55

National park Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's a very pretty park.

Speaker 2 7:58

Yes.

Speaker 1 7:59

What about you, Kira?

Speaker 2 8:01

I want to go to Big Bend too, and also I want to go back to Yellowstone, yeah.

Speaker 1 8:07

Yeah, you guys are definitely my daughters. All your answers are national parks. I love it. You know what my favorite memory was? Traveling with you.

Speaker 2 8:16

What.

Speaker 1 8:17

One of them All my memories. Traveling with you are my favorite, but I loved going to New York City with you guys.

Speaker 2 8:23

That was my favorite, that was your favorite.

Speaker 1 8:25

Yeah, you guys learned the subway system so quickly and they have rats the size of dogs, huh.

Speaker 2 8:31

Yeah.

Speaker 1 8:33

What was your favorite part about New York?

Speaker 2 8:35

The cereal hot chocolate.

Speaker 1 8:36

Yeah, yeah, that was really good, yeah, they have cereal milk there, it's like, except I can't have it anymore. Yeah, I know Milk makes Ashland sick, but it's okay Every once in a while. If it's milk that tastes like cereal, then yeah, we have to have that sometimes. Actually, I was going to ask you about that, like trying different foods and seeing all these different things that you're not used to at home. What do you think about that?

Speaker 2 9:03

It's really cool, because if you're at a different place and then you try a new food when you get back home, you miss it because you want to eat it again but you can't, because there could be. It could be in some other place where you can't get it in there, and then yeah.

Speaker 1 9:19

Yeah, like cereal milk.

Speaker 2 9:21

Yeah, you can't get it in where we live.

Speaker 1 9:24

What else?

Speaker 2 9:25

What do you mean? What else?

Speaker 1 9:26

What other food do you miss?

Speaker 2 9:30

I didn't try this yet, but I want to try the fluffy bread.

Speaker 1 9:34

The Japanese fluffy bread.

Speaker 2 9:36

Yeah, the Japanese fluffy bread.

Speaker 1 9:37

Oh yeah, I want to try it, yep.

Speaker 2 9:40

Yes.

Speaker 1 9:41

Eating food from different cultures is a really neat thing. And these girls know all about it. So what does travel mean to you guys? Why is it important to you?

Speaker 2 9:52

Because you get to see new places.

Speaker 1 9:54

Yeah, what about you Kira?

Speaker 2 9:56

You get to see new things and learn stuff from it. You get to like meet new people, like sometimes you could meet Like a new friend and stay in touch with them From somewhere you aren't familiar with.

Speaker 1 10:11

Yeah, that's one of my favorite things about traveling is meeting new people mm-hmm. And then, kira, you said you learn new things. Yeah, what's the coolest thing you've learned from traveling?

Speaker 2 10:23

probably how to Know what to do when a bear is coming after you.

Speaker 1 10:29

Yeah, that's a good thing to know. That was a big lesson. We had a whole. We had bear school. Huh, yeah, yeah. No, you guys are Wildlife experts and you're good hikers. You, you guys, know everything about that. What are some of your favorite memories that you have from traveling? Let's start with, let's start with, kira. What's your favorite, one of your favorite memories?

Speaker 2 10:54

Probably when we saw the bison like so close up to the window. That was really cool.

Speaker 1 11:00

Mm-hmm, that was cool, I was special, yeah, yep, what about you, ash?

Speaker 2 11:08

When we were in Glacier National Park we were hiking like up in the mountain area. And Well, of course we were. We were hiking and we were hiking and these people were like saying that there was a bear down, like at the shore of the Shoreline. So we started walking closer down there, but like not too close, and we we didn't see one and we started like still hiking and that's when we saw the bear on this Side of the mountain. We kept going and then we all had lunch at the yeah, that was on the avalanche trail to avalanche lake.

Speaker 1 11:47

Yeah, that was a fun hike.

Speaker 1 11:48

Yeah everyone else was trying to go on that hike and they were sitting down on the side of the trail and they were all tired and Struggling to get up there and you guys were running up the hill. I Couldn't keep up with you guys. That was crazy. So you've traveled a lot with family. Obviously, right, you guys haven't done any solo trips yet by yourself. That's good. That's called running away at your age. Don't do that. So you, you, you travel with your family everywhere. What do you think about that?

Speaker 2 12:24

I like it because then you can spend quality time with your family in a new place.

Speaker 1 12:28

Yeah, absolutely. What about you, kira?

Speaker 2 12:33

Everybody gets to hang out with each other and like they, if they haven't known, like know something, then they could learn it too with you.

Speaker 1 12:43

Yeah, you're sharing experiences, but you're also learning things together. Yep, that's really, that's a good answer. So we, when we're traveling together as a family, what are some of your favorite things to do?

Speaker 2 12:59

I really like um, like if you're camping, I Really like getting up in the morning and cooking breakfast. I like waking up before everyone, like when camping, and Then just being able to hear, like outside. Yeah, like the sounds yeah, getting to know stuff around, mm-hmm. The part where Kira said waking up early in the morning. That always happens before everyone. She's the first one up in the house. She's always up before Ranger too.

Speaker 1 13:35

That is true. Yep, yeah, kira will wake you up at three in the morning on Christmas morning.

Speaker 2 13:42

She's actually done that before.

Speaker 1 13:45

Kira's not making Santa coffee. Huh yeah, we have some traditions we do while we're traveling to some fun things we do in the car.

Speaker 2 13:54

We like to play these games like um. We play the animal guessing game, where you one person thinks of an animal and then the other, and then you give them clues to what they are Like is it a male? And then you have to answer them and then to yes or no question, and if they've guessed animal, then it's their nice turn.

Speaker 1 14:14

Yeah, that's actually. I told you we're gonna do something fun at the end of this. We're gonna play the animal game. Yeah so keep an animal in the back your head because these girls come up with some crazy animals.

Speaker 2 14:26

One time it took the whole ride for them to cast guess my game.

Speaker 1 14:29

Do you remember what it was? It was a Crocodile crocodile, mm-hmm, you've come up with some crazy ones like meerkats, things that no one could ever guess. But yeah, we're gonna play that game because it's fun and it's fun to do things in the car and it's fun to have traditions and.

Speaker 2 14:47

There's another tradition. Yeah we always have dessert before dinner, so that that is a family tradition.

Speaker 1 14:55

Yep, that's not just traveling.

Speaker 2 14:57

I think that happens every time that we're on vacation. Which is traveling?

Speaker 1 15:00

It's true, so I'm. It's supposed to be fun. It's an adventure, right? So it's okay to eat Dessert before dinner every once in a while, especially when you're traveling, what are the most adventurous or exciting things that you've ever done traveling with us?

Speaker 2 15:18

um craziest thing probably when, when we got that close to the bear in the car Because it was not, it was like not even that far, was like 20 feet away.

Speaker 1 15:29

Mm-hmm, that was pretty adventurous.

Speaker 2 15:33

Yeah, or when, when Carl came up. Mm-hmm probably that time and glacier when we rat that Haunted Like the haunted lodge. Yeah, the haunted lodge, and the lights were flickering everywhere mini glacier.

Speaker 1 15:55

Yeah, yeah, that's one of the most haunted places in America. I forgot about that. The lights were flashing. Let's talk about ghost lighting. That was pretty exciting.

Speaker 2 16:03

Okay, well, we were in glacier Glacier National Park and it was really late at night like me and dad were the only ones awake and we wanted to let. We went outside and we started going ghost hunting and we were like walking up close to the Woods and we heard on screaming, like right near us in the dock, so we didn't go near the woods anymore. And then we also like caught frogs and then we looked through the, we went to the other part of the woods and we heard like these rustling reeds.

Speaker 1 16:41

Yep, it was pitch blackout because it's glacier, huh.

Speaker 2 16:44

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 16:45

Yeah, like three in the morning.

Speaker 2 16:47

Yeah, it was like day in the morning.

Speaker 1 16:48

Yeah, we stay up late when we're traveling, huh.

Speaker 2 16:51

Yeah, like now.

Speaker 1 16:53

Here, do you have the sneeze? Go ahead trying to keep her sneezing right now because he's on the microphone you can cough, so in it, in, you can cough, I can just edit it out. Yep, so traveling it's not always easy, huh. Yeah, sometimes like you run into some really difficult things that are hard to go through, or you run into challenges on the road, right, what? What are some of challenges that you've come across in your travels?

Road Trips and Dream Travel Memories

Speaker 2 17:24

like sometimes when you're driving your tire could like your tire pops and then you have to like, like either get it towed for a new tire if you don't have a, yeah yeah, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 17:43

Do you remember when we were driving from Colorado to Texas and your mom's car almost caught on fire? Yeah like a 45 minutes into the trip. Mm-hmm, we got stuck in tiny.

Speaker 2 17:55

Place on the side of the road for like four hours, and I also remember One time we were driving back home I don't know where, but we lived in color colorado somewhere and we had this like I I think it was the car that grandma drives and one of those and it the tire popped on the bridge and we had to, like, get out. And then this, this Car stopped by and it was like these kids, but their parents and they like drove us home and the next day we had to go back and get our car towed.

Speaker 1 18:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:34

I think we were so like 30 minutes out.

Speaker 1 18:37

Yeah, the road can be a crazy thing. What do you think about that, Kira?

Speaker 2 18:41

um, I think that's true. And also like, if you're in that like the middle of nowhere and your gas is low, then you need to. If you have like a gas, like Gallon, in the back of your car, you probably need to go get in and put gas in your car.

Speaker 1 19:01

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 19:01

That's why I like jeeps. Why because they have wheels, for they have an extra, they have a spare wheel for your Tirepops and they have space to put, like if you have gas tank or something they have Like room.

Speaker 1 19:17

Yeah, you think like strap it to the side. Is that what you want to drive? Mm-hmm, that's a good adventure vehicle. What color Jeep would you have? Black black Jeep cool, I love it. What would your perfect adventure vehicle be, kira?

Speaker 2 19:36

I'm probably Like that Explorer um like my old Ford Explorer.

Speaker 1 19:43

Yeah you like my Explorer, yeah, so you've been all these places Already and you guys are talking a lot about the national parks, which You're definitely my daughters, that's for sure, and I love that. But it's a big world and there's so much to see. What are some places that are like your dream to go to. Where would you love if you could have, if you could go anywhere in the world? Where would you go?

Speaker 2 20:12

Paris. I go to Paris. Why? Because Paris is the best place to go.

Speaker 1 20:18

Why.

Speaker 2 20:19

I don't know, I just love it. You just love it yes.

Speaker 1 20:21

Yep, you go to the Eiffel Tower. Mm-hmm, you need French food. Mm-hmm, yeah, pugets, escargot, yeah, you know what escargot is. No it's nails.

Speaker 2 20:33

Oh no.

Speaker 1 20:35

You're gonna climb the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 2 20:38

You're allowed to do that.

Speaker 1 20:39

You're not allowed to do it. Some people do and they get in big trouble.

Speaker 2 20:42

Unless I have permission.

Speaker 1 20:44

I don't think anyone gets permission to do that, mr.

Speaker 2 20:46

Beast, did you got permission to go at the top, that very top?

Speaker 1 20:51

Yeah.

Speaker 2 20:51

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 20:52

Well, you, you get permission and you go. Climate that's probably the best view in Paris probably. Mm-hmm. What about you, kira? If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

Speaker 2 21:04

Probably Hawaii.

Speaker 1 21:06

Yeah, I love Hawaii. Why? Why would you want to go to Hawaii?

Speaker 2 21:13

Cuz why is such a nice place and I could go to the beach and it's not so like cold and it's not so hot there All the time?

Speaker 1 21:21

It's true, yep, and you can go snorkeling and see sea turtles and you can go to the volcanoes up there. It's pretty, it's a pretty neat place. Yeah, I love Hawaii, yep. What would you tell other kids that want to travel? What advice would you give them?

Speaker 2 21:45

Be adventurous.

Speaker 1 21:46

It's a good answer have fun. Have fun, be adventurous, anything else? Stay safe stay safe and bring your bear spray huh.

Speaker 2 21:56

Yeah, yeah, our school went on. Lockdown ones for a black bear.

Speaker 1 22:02

Yeah, didn't like because?

Speaker 2 22:04

because on the Door key, the key door thing was broken, so anybody could just open it.

Speaker 1 22:11

Yeah, so they went on. That was in Colorado Springs.

Speaker 2 22:14

Yep, the bears just come down and hang out at the elementary it was right there, like right next to the door that was broken.

Speaker 1 22:20

Mm-hmm, that's crazy. Yeah, bring your bear spray, but don't bring it to elementary school. Yeah, that's why you don't let your parents carry, and if you don't, understand why they went on lockdown for a bear.

Speaker 2 22:30

Bears are really smart, they have. They have bear proof trash cans like you have to push a whole button.

Speaker 1 22:38

They're one of the smartest animals in the animal kingdom.

Speaker 2 22:40

We went to this bear and wolf and there were these like trash cans of stuff that were just torn.

Speaker 1 22:46

Yeah, they didn't even have the other half. Yep, just so there were actual ones that bears had ripped into home.

Speaker 2 22:52

Yeah, and they didn't. Some of them like they had like full-on Coolers that were like bear, proof they were still like their proof, yeti's that were ripped in half. Yeah, yeah, they don't have the other piece.

Speaker 1 23:04

They're smart, Mm-hmm. Yeah, you guys climbed into a real bear trap too. Yeah, yeah, it was Cool mm-hmm, that was a good photo op. I love that picture. What would you tell an adult About traveling? What advice would you give? What advice would you give me or your mom?

Speaker 2 23:29

The same things I gave the kids and it's good advice.

Speaker 1 23:34

What if you're sitting in the back of the car and you just wanted to tell us something about traveling that we didn't know?

Speaker 2 23:39

So that buggies please mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 23:42

Always stop at the roadside attractions.

Speaker 2 23:45

Including puggies.

Speaker 1 23:47

Yep, what? What is something that you would tell Artificial intelligence about traveling?

Speaker 2 23:55

don't go traveling, don't go traveling.

Speaker 1 24:00

You know that I'm actually gonna interview an AI chatbot about travel for one of my interviews.

Speaker 2 24:06

Why.

Speaker 1 24:07

Because I want to find out what artificial intelligence thinks about travel From what app?

Speaker 2 24:13

thing?

Speaker 1 24:14

Chat GBT.

Speaker 2 24:16

Why.

Speaker 1 24:19

Because we have to see where we're at in the world. Do you think Elon Musk likes to travel?

Speaker 2 24:25

Yes.

Speaker 1 24:26

Yeah.

Speaker 2 24:26

I mean, he went to space, that's traveling, that's very true, yep, and he's gonna travel to Mars. Yeah, he's traveling. I think he really likes, traveling.

Speaker 1 24:36

Yeah, I would agree with that.

Traveling to Mars and Favorite Places

Speaker 2 24:38

Yeah.

Speaker 1 24:39

Would you travel to Mars?

Speaker 2 24:41

Yes.

Speaker 1 24:42

You would.

Speaker 2 24:42

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 24:44

Kira's shaking her head no, you wouldn't travel to space.

Speaker 2 24:47

Definitely not, I would. Mars might be our new planet.

Speaker 1 24:52

It's true.

Speaker 2 24:54

That's what they're going to Mars for. And that's kind of another good thing about travel Is that you can go to another planet if they have the resources.

Speaker 1 25:05

Well, I'm excited for your journey to Mars, Ashlyn.

Speaker 2 25:08

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 25:09

Yep, what's the craziest place? You?

Speaker 2 25:12

want to go Kira Probably.

Speaker 1 25:15

The craziest place.

Speaker 2 25:17

Just around the world.

Speaker 1 25:19

Just a big circle around the world.

Speaker 2 25:22

No, it's like those movies, like those animated movies. We're like I want to go around the world and they show this little stick man and then the human and they just like put a circle and then they're there.

Speaker 1 25:32

Yep, that's funny.

Speaker 2 25:35

I want to go to Germany.

Speaker 1 25:36

You want to go to Germany.

Speaker 2 25:37

I want to go to Germany.

Speaker 1 25:39

I was. I just went to Germany.

Speaker 2 25:40

Germany sounds so fun.

Speaker 1 25:42

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was a really amazing place. I'll take you to Germany someday. Yeah yeah, kira, did you even tell me a country you want to go to?

Speaker 2 25:52

She said uh, what did you say?

Speaker 1 25:55

Anywhere in the world.

Speaker 2 25:56

Remember I said Paris. Yeah, what'd you say? You said something Pennsylvania, pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 26:04

You've already been there. You've been there, yeah, I know Back to Pennsylvania. You just want to go back to.

Speaker 2 26:10

Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 26:11

Yeah, you like Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 26:13

Me and Ethan. You went to Philly. Huh, Me and my brother got sick from the Philly dogs.

Speaker 1 26:18

Yeah, be careful which hot dog stands you go to in Philly.

Speaker 2 26:21

Yeah, I like like 5 IB profanes.

Speaker 1 26:25

Yeah, you've got to be careful which hot dog stands you choose.

Speaker 2 26:31

I don't like hot dogs in general.

Speaker 1 26:33

Do you like to drive, fly, walk or be on a boat better?

Speaker 2 26:41

I like all of them.

Speaker 1 26:42

Which do you prefer?

Speaker 2 26:44

To be honest walk.

Speaker 1 26:48

Yeah, that's the healthiest option, mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 26:52

I would choose walk too.

Speaker 1 26:53

You choose walk too.

Speaker 2 26:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:55

What about driving or flying?

Speaker 2 26:57

Well, driving costs all the money. Flying also costs a lot of money and if you fly you could experience. Also a boat. You could get stranded if there's a storm.

Speaker 1 27:12

That is very true.

Speaker 2 27:13

Yeah, Like one time there was we just learned this in school and it's true there was this person that was on his boat. He was trying to go across the Pacific Ocean and a really, really bad storm and everything flew off of his boat and all he had was his shirt and stuff and he was on his boat just like drifting in the water for one year and the only thing and he collected rainwater with his buckets for water and I'm pretty sure he said he ate raw fish for food.

Speaker 1 27:48

Well, it's not bad food.

Speaker 2 27:50

Yeah.

Speaker 1 27:51

Rainwater and raw fish. I could live off that.

Speaker 2 27:53

And he dripped it off for a year.

Speaker 1 27:55

That sounds scary.

Speaker 2 27:57

Mm-hmm. It's a good survival story yeah it's true, though I don't remember what his name was.

Speaker 1 28:01

Yeah, that's. Another thing about travel is sometimes you have to survive in survival situations.

Speaker 2 28:09

The Titanic. That's a good story for you.

Speaker 1 28:14

The Titanic.

Speaker 2 28:15

Yes, that is a good travel story, the Titanic.

Speaker 1 28:17

Yeah, that is a good. I mean, it's a sad travel story, but they were traveling.

Speaker 2 28:22

Yeah, on a boat too. And then like almost everybody died. Yeah, walking is the healthiest and probably the safest option.

Speaker 1 28:32

Okay, I cannot argue with that rationality. Yep, you guys love flying though. I know about it Every time I say you're going on an airplane, you get super excited.

Speaker 2 28:43

I know, but walking is also good.

Speaker 1 28:45

We're gonna stick with that. Everybody walk, don't drive, don't fly, don't take a boat.

Speaker 2 28:52

You waste so much money when you're diving. You pay $50 for gas.

Speaker 1 28:58

For like one tank, huh.

Speaker 2 29:00

Yeah, grandma's gas was $50.

Speaker 1 29:03

That's true. Yeah, gas is getting expensive. You also, you should be so cheap.

Speaker 2 29:10

In a plane, you could ask if there's like something in the sky that's like causing the plane to land, like causing the plane to like Like Emergency yeah, emergencies. You could crash or get stranded in the ocean too, or like in the yeah, that, barely.

Speaker 1 29:31

That doesn't really happen. Your grandpa is an airline pilot.

Speaker 2 29:37

He's probably never had one of those before he's had emergencies, he hasn't had to crash land in the ocean.

Speaker 1 29:44

Grandpa will be the first person to tell you that flying is very, very safe. So don't be scared of flying. But Ashland's right, walking's better.

Speaker 2 29:54

Probably he's healthier too.

Speaker 1 29:56

Would you ever walk the Appalachian Trail?

Speaker 2 29:59

Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:00

You would Do. You know what that is.

Speaker 2 30:02

Isn't it like a steep trail?

Speaker 1 30:04

No, it's a long trail.

Speaker 2 30:06

I would still walk that I'll go backpacking it goes from Georgia to Maine, I would go backpacking.

Speaker 1 30:12

Thousands of miles.

Speaker 2 30:14

I've always wanted to go backpacking.

Speaker 1 30:16

I'll take you backpacking Even.

Speaker 2 30:17

Toby's going backpacking. He went backpacking.

Speaker 1 30:20

I'll take you backpacking. That'd be fun.

Speaker 2 30:22

He's five years old and he's already went backpacking.

Speaker 1 30:25

Where would you want to go backpacking the mountains? Somewhere, cool yeah, maybe like Wyoming or Colorado.

Speaker 2 30:34

Colorado.

Speaker 1 30:35

You want to go backpacking in Colorado? We can do. That Sounds good. You went to my whole. Nope, go ahead.

Speaker 2 30:43

One time we were hiking up this trail with my aunt and my mom and Kira and Ethan, and my aunt said watch out for the cactuses, they look a lot like rocks. And my whole hand stabbed into a cactus and there was like pine needles in my hand, like my whole hand. Ouch yeah.

Speaker 1 31:03

That's not fun.

Speaker 2 31:04

Like the cactus ripped out of the ground.

Speaker 1 31:06

That's not fun.

Speaker 2 31:07

Yeah.

Speaker 1 31:07

Your uncle fell into an entire cactus patch once.

Speaker 2 31:10

I know.

Speaker 1 31:12

Yeah, we were picking needles out of him for quite a while.

Speaker 2 31:17

Not fun. And then it was like a super steep hill that we were hiking up when that happened and we had to go all the way down and we just had to make it to the top right when that happened.

Speaker 1 31:27

Yep.

Speaker 2 31:28

And then we had to go all the way back down.

Speaker 1 31:29

I'm sorry that happened to you. Yeah, that's not fun.

Speaker 2 31:33

Yeah.

Speaker 1 31:33

What's the worst thing that's ever happened traveling. I mean that's pretty bad.

Speaker 2 31:37

That.

Speaker 1 31:38

We've been talking about all the good things. What's the worst thing that's ever happened?

Speaker 2 31:41

Like when I practically sprained my ankle, when I broke my ankle, yeah Well, that's not traveling. Yeah, you didn't break it traveling.

Speaker 1 31:51

You traveled off the porch.

Speaker 2 31:53

Yeah, off the porch. You traveled off the porch.

Speaker 1 31:56

Yep, you jumped two feet and broke your legs. That's traveling. Traveling is going from one place to another, and you went from the porch to the lawn and then the hospital. That's quite the adventure. Do you remember when I broke my ankle when I was hiking?

Speaker 2 32:15

Yeah.

Speaker 1 32:16

Yeah, and I had to call you guys and I crawled out of the woods.

Speaker 2 32:20

It was. Yeah, where was that place that you lived in? And it kind of sounds like Fort Worth, but it's not. But it's a name.

Speaker 1 32:29

You lived in that apartment when that happened.

Speaker 2 32:32

No.

Speaker 1 32:33

The Air Force Academy.

Speaker 2 32:36

You lived in a small city and then we went to the restaurant and you had friends there.

Speaker 1 32:41

Salida.

Speaker 2 32:42

No, it wasn't Salida. It was a small little city place and we went, not Salida, but we went downtown to the restaurant and you had friends there, and then we went to the roof.

Speaker 1 32:55

Was it Vale? No, was it Fort Collins?

Speaker 2 32:58

Yes, fort Collins, I was thinking Fort Worth.

Speaker 1 33:03

Yeah, fort Collins, that was fun.

Speaker 2 33:05

Yep, that's when we watched the dog movie.

Speaker 1 33:09

What dog movie.

Speaker 2 33:10

Beyond, I don't know. We watched Beethoven there.

Speaker 1 33:15

That's true. That's a good dog movie.

Speaker 2 33:18

And we watched the one with only Bobby Brown. We watched the first one.

Speaker 1 33:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2 33:24

But I forgot the name.

Speaker 1 33:26

Do you know what? There's a lot of good travel stories with dogs, huh.

Speaker 2 33:29

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:30

Like Homeward Bound.

Speaker 2 33:31

Yeah, that's the one I was trying to talk about.

Speaker 1 33:34

I don't know why I said Beyond. Yep, we learned all about Jade and Yellowstone. The dog that got lost for like 60 days.

Speaker 2 33:44

She has two books. She has the Trapper book and the Picture book.

Speaker 1 33:47

Of Bring Jade Home. Yeah, that's a good story. Yep dogs love traveling. Ranger's a travel dog, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 33:54

We literally looked through so many gift shops to find the mark of the Grizzlies books. We went through like five.

Speaker 1 34:02

Yep.

Speaker 2 34:03

And then we found it at the Grizzly in Wolfcum.

Speaker 1 34:07

Well, we were determined to get you that book.

Speaker 2 34:09

Yeah, because I literally every time that we went back to the lodge, I was always stealing it from your nightstand and reading it. That's true.

Speaker 1 34:17

I tried to tell you it was too scary.

Speaker 2 34:19

No, it was not.

Speaker 1 34:20

Nope, you just. You love bears and love wildlife. Yeah, but we found it Mm-hmm. Thank you for watching what's your favorite travel movie like the movie that has like traveling it.

Speaker 2 34:35

Yeah, I like the dogs journey. Yeah, that has so much travel in it.

Speaker 1 34:41

That's a good one.

Speaker 2 34:42

Yeah, it's literally my favorite.

Speaker 1 34:44

Yeah, that's a good one. What about you? Qe?

Speaker 2 34:48

She stole my answer. She literally we had a movie marathon with the, a dogs journey and a dog's way home, and With mom, and she, literally, curious, started crying for like both of them.

Speaker 1 35:07

Is a sad one, sorry, we love dogs. Yeah, let's talk about something happy You're gonna make me cry if you could listen to any song over and, over, and, over and over again While driving on a trip, what would it be?

Speaker 2 35:21

Willow by Taylor Swift willow by Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 35:24

Yeah that's a good one Um.

Speaker 2 35:26

Um.

Speaker 1 35:27

Metallica. Yeah, which Metallica song would you listen to?

Speaker 2 35:33

All of them.

Speaker 1 35:36

Those are very good answers.

Speaker 2 35:38

Um, we were listening to Metallica with Emily Cool. She just put it on.

Speaker 1 35:42

Yep, yep. So Ashlyn, metallica, kira, taylor Swift and about you. If I could listen to one song over and over, and over again, hmm, I almost want to say Taylor Swift to I do both shake it off. I should highway to hell.

Speaker 2 36:00

I should do? Um, they should make a song with Half Taylor Swift and half Metallica, so I can listen to both At the same time Taylor Swift and Metallica should do a song together.

Speaker 1 36:14

I think that that is a great idea. Yes and I think that we should get a hold of Taylor Swift and Metallica and and pitch that to them just the thought of getting hold of Taylor Swift them itself.

Speaker 2 36:28

That'd just be awesome.

Speaker 1 36:29

Yeah, would you rather hang out with Metallica backstage?

Speaker 2 36:34

Or Taylor, taylor Swift, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 36:37

I would want to hang out with Metallica.

Speaker 2 36:39

I do both. Yeah, they were they were on tour together Together, so they'd be able to see both. Yeah, cuz they got to lunch with both of them.

Speaker 1 36:49

You go to lunch with both of them, that's now Taylor Swift was four hours away from us.

Speaker 2 36:54

Yeah no three.

Speaker 1 36:56

Taylor Swift was three hours away from you.

Speaker 2 36:58

No, she was at the um at the chief's game.

Speaker 1 37:02

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 37:03

Yep and kind of silly to think about. Yeah.

Speaker 1 37:05

I was in Nashville when she was on winter vacation there.

Speaker 2 37:10

Yeah yep and you sat right where she was sitting in that restaurant.

Speaker 1 37:14

Yeah, they had. Oh yeah, she had signed her name on a napkin holder.

Speaker 2 37:18

Yeah, Wait, she was like exactly there, like at the time that you were home.

Speaker 1 37:24

She was not at the place I was at, but yeah, she had traveled to Nashville at the same time. I had traveled to Nashville.

Speaker 2 37:31

Did you see her?

Speaker 1 37:32

No, I don't think that she wanted to be around people.

Speaker 2 37:36

The celebrities are really good at hiding.

Speaker 1 37:38

They are yep, they do a lot of traveling. So if you could have any job that would let you travel, what would it be like?

Speaker 2 37:46

a traveling. Oh, that's, that's I um. One time, when we were in Thank you, who's yellowstone right? Mm-hmm? Um, I said I wanted to be a horse trainer.

Speaker 1 37:58

It's true.

Speaker 2 37:59

Horses are just so cute. They're my first favorite.

Speaker 1 38:02

Yeah and then chouser, my second horses are a good way of travel. People have been traveling by a horseback before cars or Trains or planes or anything my lock screen is literally a cow with a Santa hat. Really so cute.

Speaker 2 38:18

It's a baby cow with a Santa hat.

Speaker 1 38:19

Do you think you could travel on a cow? Yeah, if it's strong enough you, could you put a saddle on it and ride it around? Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. I mean, I bet, you can yeah, you'd be famous on instagram, that's for sure. Well, girls, we are getting towards the end of this episode and huh, oh, I know. Yep, I was about to say we're about at the end and we have to play the animal guessing game, because I told you we would and it's a family travel Tradition. So who's gonna go first? Kira?

Guessing Animals and Playing a Game

Speaker 2 38:56

I guess I will. Um Okay, I got an animal.

Speaker 1 39:01

Do you got an animal? No, it's not an animal.

Speaker 2 39:03

Is it a paper? No, it's not a paper.

Speaker 1 39:06

Okay, is it a mammal?

Speaker 2 39:09

I forgot what I was saying. I was thinking A mammal is like a, me Like it has something to have for you, yeah.

Speaker 1 39:17

Yeah, it's a mammal, does it have, so it doesn't have wings.

Speaker 2 39:21

No.

Speaker 1 39:22

Is it furry? Is it a?

Speaker 2 39:23

bear Kind of not really.

Speaker 1 39:26

Is it a?

Speaker 2 39:26

bear, oh no.

Speaker 1 39:28

Is it a big animal?

Speaker 2 39:32

Is it smaller than cooper? I bet it's like an inch taller or two inches a giraffe, no not an inch.

Speaker 1 39:41

That's like. This is like 20 feet smaller, I don't know why. So about the size of an australian cattle dog? Okay.

Speaker 2 39:51

Is it a dog? No, I don't know.

Speaker 1 39:55

Is that a coyote?

Speaker 2 39:56

No, is it a fox?

Speaker 1 39:57

No is it a wolf?

Speaker 2 39:58

No.

Speaker 1 40:01

Is it a dingo?

Speaker 2 40:03

No.

Speaker 1 40:05

Hmm, is it a squirrel?

Speaker 2 40:07

No. Is it a raccoon? No. Oh, is it a prairie dog?

Speaker 1 40:12

No you got me stumped here, Kira. Does that have a long snout or a short snout?

Speaker 2 40:18

No, it's a snout, I'm pretty sure, like Short.

Speaker 1 40:25

Short nose.

Speaker 2 40:26

Like, probably like Four or three inches, no.

Speaker 1 40:33

Is it a pig?

Speaker 2 40:34

No. Is it a horse? No. Is it a cow? No.

Speaker 1 40:39

Is it a llama?

Speaker 2 40:40

No, we saw two llamas getting out of the front seat of the car when we were camping. Yeah, we went camping one time.

Speaker 1 40:48

Does it have claws?

Speaker 2 40:50

No.

Speaker 1 40:51

No, no, like joy. Uh no does it have hooves?

Speaker 2 40:57

Yes, seabro, yes, oh, oh good job Ash.

Speaker 1 41:02

Good job Asha, and God, she's good at this game.

Speaker 2 41:08

Okay, I got one. No, there's two things I think of when I that's all the time we always say that yeah, coopers.

Speaker 1 41:19

Coopers the old, the old man dog. He's not here anymore. And then Rangers, the current co-host, sitting by our feet right now. Yep. Does it have wings? Okay, does it live in the snow? Is it a cow?

Speaker 2 41:42

Yes, it is a mammal.

Speaker 1 41:44

Does it live in America?

Speaker 2 41:46

Yes. Okay is it bucky?

Speaker 1 41:50

They live in Texas. Yes does live in Texas.

Speaker 2 41:54

Can you see in a farm, sometimes pig.

Speaker 1 41:59

Is it a goat? No is it a llama?

Speaker 2 42:01

No Draft, no a Draft on the farm.

Speaker 1 42:07

Hmm.

Speaker 2 42:09

Is it small? Is it a mole?

Speaker 1 42:13

No, is it fluffy? Kind of is it a bunny?

Speaker 2 42:16

No, is it chubby? Probably.

Speaker 1 42:19

Probably.

Speaker 2 42:21

Is it a rat Rat?

Speaker 1 42:28

Hmm, is it a fox? No is it a raccoon?

Speaker 2 42:31

No, is it smaller than a Box of tissues? No, is it the same size as a box of tissues. It's like a Little bigger than a box of tissues.

Speaker 1 42:46

Hmm, that's a good clue.

Speaker 2 42:48

Does it have claws? Probably, probably. Does it have paws? Yes, oh, it has paws, I think. Then it has claws. Does it roar Roar?

Speaker 1 42:59

No.

Speaker 2 43:01

What roars. That is a little bigger than the tissue box.

Speaker 1 43:06

When she was. Is it Kira?

Speaker 2 43:10

No, she's bigger than a box of tissues.

Speaker 1 43:14

Here's a good travel question. How many boxes of tissues do you think it would take to make a mile long line of them?

Speaker 2 43:24

One mile A driving. You can calculate it If you were driving and just dropped a box of tissues, like with that.

Speaker 1 43:30

No, if you lined up a box of oh square box of tissues for a mile, how many would it take?

Speaker 2 43:36

Kind of feel like it would be 150.

Speaker 1 43:39

You can calculate it. The first, the first one of you to bring me back and answer Do you have a calculator, it's a surprise.

Speaker 2 43:45

Do you have a calculator? Can we have a piece of paper?

Speaker 1 43:48

Can I have?

Speaker 2 43:48

a calculator right now.

Speaker 1 43:50

Yes how are you gonna calculate it? I need a calculator I need a calculator isn't gonna help.

Speaker 2 43:55

I don't care, yes, it will I want to try.

Speaker 1 43:56

I want to try how many feet are in a mile 100? You're gonna do some research for this math question? No, you're gonna do some research for this math question 390, 100 well you can tell us 30, 40 50, the first one of you after this podcast to bring me an answer 10, 10, 10. Yeah, you're not 10 feet.

Speaker 2 44:20

Only Kira in one mile. You know that's like a quarter of a mile, 10 feet probably less. One, one box One box 20 boxes.

Speaker 1 44:35

You all right, you're gonna have to, you're gonna have to do some research and get back to me. A mile and then a mile A mile and a mile.

Speaker 2 44:44

Like those signs, grandma said, this one shows a mile.

Speaker 1 44:47

How much is that A mile marker? Yes, to another mile. How long is a mile? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You're gonna have to do some research.

Speaker 2 44:55

Yeah, I found out that number then I need to box it up to issues and I need to go on the road Make a line get it tonight, then can we like get the price tonight.

Speaker 1 45:06

Sir, we saw have to figure out what Ashland's animal is hold on nine, nine boxes just just. Is it a badger?

Speaker 2 45:16

That was close it was close.

Speaker 1 45:18

Oh, uh, Dingo is it a porcupine? No, is it a mole?

Speaker 2 45:24

No, you want a hint? Yes, we have seen them before, all together. That helps not so. In Yellowstone in Yellowstone.

Speaker 1 45:36

Yes, Bert's.

Speaker 2 45:37

Bert, oh, it doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 45:42

It's all lots of chipmunks. I don't know what else did we see in Yellowstone Kira? Small chick mugs not chickens, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 45:52

Yeah, we never saw chickens. Yeah, definitely not.

Speaker 1 45:55

Is it a gopher?

Speaker 2 45:57

Close a groundhog close Huh.

Speaker 1 46:03

I think I know what she's talking about. I think it did. It starts with an. Is it a marmot? I thought it was. Oh man, I think you got us be ash.

Speaker 2 46:13

You wanna know? Yeah, I don't know if these are the things that we saw. Prairie dog.

Speaker 1 46:18

That's a yeah. That's like a gopher in a groundhog.

Speaker 2 46:21

That's the same thing pretty much. Well, it wasn't it so?

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Speaker 1 46:26

prairie dog. That's a good one. Okay, dad, it's your turn, and then I think I don't think that we have time for me to do one, so we might just have to wait for the next road trip. Well, thank you, ladies, so much for being on this podcast. That was so much fun. So what is one last thing that you would have to tell Everybody listening to this podcast about travel?

Speaker 2 46:53

have fun, stay safe and be curious.

Speaker 1 46:56

Be curious what about you, kira?

Speaker 2 46:58

She saw them.

Speaker 1 47:04

Okay.

Speaker 2 47:05

Kira see lots of animals.

Speaker 1 47:07

See lots of animals. I love that cool. Well, thank you girls. Happy early birthday Ashlyn and Kira. Would you like to tell everybody when they can find us?

Speaker 2 47:20

I would love to you could find us on Spotify and Apple. Thank you.

Speaker 1 47:27

Thanks, girls, all right guys, love you Bye.