 Oh, what was your favorite moment in Alaska? Yeah, yeah, what was your favorite moment? No, no, no, he's asking, they're asking you. You're asking me? Okay, so I don't know if you guys know about this, but we got engaged in Alaska, so obviously that's my favorite moment. Damn straight. Okay, so outside of being engaged in Alaska, what was your favorite moment? Almost dying in the car on the highway. I'm joking. I think the HIT was really cool. There were a lot of really neat things, like Alaska had a lot to offer. I'm sure I didn't want to steal your thunder with yours, but I thought the Harding Eyes Field Trail was great. And just going through like the different stages of that hike, all the way down to the bottom, seeing the front of the glacier, then moving up through, what was it, there was like the field of lilies or whatever it was. And then kind of up through that garden area, and then you got to like this void plain where it's like the glacier had been just scraping back the earth over the past couple hundred years. And it was just empty. It was just rocks. It was like being on the moon. And then getting to the top and seeing this just plain of ice. It's just something you would have never known. That was my, I was pumped up about that. It was mind-blowing. For me, I said congrats. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, the Harding Eyes Field, I can't compare it to anything that we have experienced before. So definitely it was really mind-blowing just to look at how much ice, and you just look at the ice field and to a point where I don't know where's the sky and where's the land and where's the ice. And it's just amazing. My favorite moment, wow, everything. Yeah, the Harding Eyes Field. If you guys, I mean, there is a video that I shared just about the whole trail. And then on the Harding Eyes Field Trail, we had our first very close bear encounter, like literally just steps away from where we were. And you will see if you go and watch that video. And I was so very scared. Not only was she scared, Habiba reverted to some like primordial bear training, where all of a sudden we realized there was a bear there. And she's like, start clapping, start singing bear. And we were having a ho-down for this bear. And meanwhile Habiba's like dancing and doing bear stuff. And like this like six-year-old kid's just like, I know, he just walks right by the bear. And I'm so, like it's not, it wasn't my first time seeing a bear ever. I saw the first one grizzly in Glacier National Park. But that was like, we were by our car and then we can see it right there. Right there. But this one we are hiking. And we are like in the heart, in the middle of the hike. And then the bear is just right there in the bush. And I'm just so very scared. And he's like quiet, we're making enough noise. And then there's this family behind us. I think mom and dad and then two teenagers and then the little guy. And I'm the only one who's making a scene out of everyone. I'm like, I'm waving at the family, I'm waving at the kids. And I'm like, what's wrong with her? We're over here. Please stay on the low end of this switchback. But it was so close. It was so close. I think that was one of our favorite moments in Alaska. There's definitely a moment where pulled like the bear sprouts. Like, okay, wow, we're like, it's there. It's preoccupied, but it's there. Ashraf Sabri. I can't see the... You had to hit the comments thing right there. Top chat, some messages. Live chat, live chat. I am Hasnah. Hasnah, Ashraf Sabri. Hello, Bint Bladi. I'm from Safi and I live in New Mexico. Is that NM? New Mexico? Live chat. Hasnah. And yeah, nice meeting you, Hasnah. Nice having you here. I'm trying to think... Bint Bladi, if she were from the same country. There were some other less hiking related exciting moments. We were the moment where we were driving the car. Not that time that I'm telling you it was my other... We had a bear spray. And Habiba was primed and ready for this bear that we encountered on the Harding Icefield Trail. And she took the safety off of her bear spray. And she didn't put it back on. So we put it in the car and it set it down on the back of the car. And we made a turn rolling around. It must have hit the side like just spray it some out. And we start coughing and dying right... In the car like... Did we hit coronavirus in the past 20 seconds? Like what happened? Because it was like in the beginning of the pandemic. When our beginning was in July. And then we just like hit a turn and then we're choking. We're literally choking. And I'm like, oh my God, did corona just hit us out of nowhere? I was like, that can't be possible. But we figured it out after a bit. But we definitely had some laughs at the fact that it was strange. Yeah, so when we did the hard turn, just the bear spray sprayed and then we almost choked. But that was actually a good experience because we learned that it's really effective. It works because we were coughing, coughing so hard. Especially if you get mugged, I mean by a person, you know. If you get mugged by a bear, I guess that's also something to talk about. Yeah. Mark Nelson, any thoughts of trekking on East Coast's Smoky Mountains? So I've wanted to do the East Coast for a while. Originally from back there. But the Appalachian Trail had a lot of appeal to me earlier. Just because it's got a lot of connections to a lot of cities and towns. You don't get too far away from the world. As you may on the Pacific Creek Trail in some spots or in the Continental Divide Trail. I can't say I'd picked out the Smokies as anything. I think I was more excited about Pennsylvania where the Poconos were. But I don't know if you go through there on the AT. And then cotton stuff would be always fun at the top. I have actually a friend who invited me about two, three months ago and she was actually going to adventure in that area with her boyfriend. And they invited the two of us and I was like, oh, I really want to go. But I think we had something else going on. But we talked at some point. At least I've been thinking about, you know, because we're still working from home. Both of us are working from home. And I was just thinking what it would be like to just take a six months or four months road trip in the East Coast. Because there's so much to see up there. And I'm not very familiar with that area. I lived in Chicago for a little bit. I know that's not the far East Coast. But still, I feel like there's so much hiking to be done there. Maybe we, I don't know. Maybe in the future we can consider just, I would love to do a road trip. Just work from home or Airbnbs or camp or something like that. And then just see all of the states in that area. I think it would be some nice culture to get exposed to. All that to say, I don't think we've picked out anything with the Smoky mountains yet. We certainly have nothing against the Smoky mountains. And maybe we'll go look some stuff up here and be able to talk about it next time. I was looking for hikes. Awesome. I'm so happy to see that we have a lot of new friends here. Priyomf across America. Hi there. This is Raphael. I'm cycling across America. Ever considered bike packing? Dude, so this little wristband on me is Ride Idaho. My family loves to cycle. There's a lot of long state rides and such. So we did a bike ride around the upper peninsula of Michigan, just as our family over the course of six days. And we did Rack Bride a few times. And this is Ride Idaho. I think we had two Cat Ones on this one. You know, biking to the top of the ski slope and such. Habiba met my family on the bike ride, Rack Bride, across Iowa. It wasn't much of a cycle or until then. No, I actually, even when I was a kid back home, I didn't have a... I had the bicycle when I was a kid, but growing up, I didn't have a bike. I didn't bike to go to school and stuff like that. So I wasn't comfortable riding and sharing the road. And then when I met Alex, he was like, oh, actually no. So he tricked me into this. When we met for my birthday, for my first birthday when we were together, he said, I'm going to get you a gift. I got her a gift. So he got me a gift and I was like, what is this gift? So he got me a bicycle and I was like, oh boy, this is not going to go so well. So I didn't know his intentions. He got me a bike. It was a nice, fancy bike. And I was like, oh my God, this guy, he must be crazy. He's putting so much money into this bike. He's a giant avail. So I was like, whatever. Because to me, I never had a bike. I didn't even know how much a bike cost. But anyway, so he got me the bike and then later on he said, well, now it's time to meet my family. I'm going to introduce you to my family. It's like, yeah, that would be so lovely. So it turned out the way he wanted to introduce me to his family is by riding across the states of Iowa. And that's like 400 miles? 460. If you do the 70 miles over seven days. If you do the carousel, which is 485 or something. So it was a long bike ride. And I'm like, oh my God, I don't know if I can do this because, you know, it's not easy. But we did it. And we bike across Iowa. Yeah. After I bought her the pedals where I have to clip in, she realized things were getting serious. And that's when she realized I really bought that bike for me. Yeah, I know. So Rafael, I feel like we talked much about ourselves here. But good for you for biking across the country. I think it's such a great achievement. And we certainly wouldn't think about it. Don't get me wrong. We don't have to get bigger seats. I think I ride on like a bomb guard. I remember the name of the seats, but they're pretty thin. We probably need to get a couple of different setups with some peneers if we wanted to do real long-term biking like that. Yeah. But it's a great way to see a lot of, like to cover a lot of miles. So certainly not against it. That seems like that would be a blast. Yeah, so we bike a little bit. The last bike ride that we did, we biked in the Petrified Forest National Park here in Arizona. So it was a really nice bike ride. We biked from south to north and then north to south. It was around 50 miles. We did it in one day. So that was really fun. I would love to do more biking. I don't really like sharing the road. The organized ride in Iowa was nice because there are like thousands of riders with you. But when I have to dodge my way through with cars and then clip to the bicycle, I'm still not super comfortable with it. Yeah, I've been biking for a while. He's the biker. He's fast. He's more comfortable on the bike than I am. So who's that just said hello to us there, by the way? So we have so many messages. Oh my God, I'm so pumped. We have so many people today. So that's... Okay, so Ashraf Sabriyes. Formats. Definitely check out NC. North Carolina, right? Yeah, and then Ashraf Mitu. Northern New York next on our list. Mark Nelson, Maine and Northern New York next on our list. Sun is stationed at Fort Drum in New York. Beautiful country. New York's got a lot to offer. I remember, I grew up in Pennsylvania, and I remember thinking that I was impressed that for me, New York was just like right around the corner, even though it felt like Pennsylvania was such a big state. But New York's actually huge with that T-shape. You know, if you're over by the lakes and such, you might be able to shuffle through pretty quick from south to north, but New York's got a lot of hiking in it. We also heard that there's some good ice climbing up in upstate New York. Oh yeah. One of our friends, when we went ice climbing in Alaska, I mean the guide kind of became friends. Another good moment in Alaska. Yeah, ice climbing was really fun. So he told us that he's from New York, or he was living in New York before working in Alaska as an ice climbing guide. So he told us that he used to ice climb a lot in New York. What's up, Arnie? By the way, shout outs. Yeah. Okay, we have the word. Hi, I'm a Moroccan guy. How are you guys? We're doing good. We're doing so good. By the way, it's the end of Ramadan. Let's see. Triumph Across America. That's great. You guys are awesome. Love the content. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. I'm going to check. If you have a YouTube channel, I'm not sure Triumph Across America would love to see the bike ride and if you ever share anything about it. Yeah, I'd be curious how you deal with battery power and storage when you're on the road like that. You just put everything in the cloud if you're recording stuff, I guess. Yeah. But we've been debating for one of our longer upcoming trips. So we're going to Kilimanjaro in mid-August. And we debated taking our home NAS with us. We have a smaller one and we just bought a bigger one or whether we're just going to take just a really big solid state. But we just hate to run out of space while we're there or just make things so... Yeah, I'm just curious what you guys do for your storage solutions. Yeah, I'm going to keep the notes of your name and then just look up your... I think I'm Triumph the dog all the time, which is what I think. The word, are you visiting Morocco? Are you a Moroccan girl? Yeah, I was born and raised in Morocco. And I'm living here in Arizona. We are not visiting Morocco anytime soon. I was in Morocco in December. Just over Christmas holiday. I went there to see family. And then, yeah, so not anytime soon with the state of the word than with what we already have planned for today. Triumph, it's really hard to read because the sun is so strong. I take a lot of trips from you. I put something together. All right. Looking forward to see that. Yeah, so what was I saying? Morocco, Morocco, not anytime soon. I don't think, maybe next year. So, it would be nice to go to Morocco. I think it's not been to Morocco yet. Not yet. I can't even, I feel like it's a sin for me. I was excited with our trip. I'll stop talking about Kilimanjaro in a moment. But going to Kilimanjaro would be my first time in Africa. The first time I was south of the equator is when we went to Peru a little bit ago. But really, we were originally supposed to swing through Istanbul as well. I don't know if that's happening now. But it's going to be my first time in Asia as well. Or at least in... Well, Istanbul age, some of it is in Asia. Well, the thing, I forgot to share that. Actually, with our upcoming trip to Tanzania, we booked with the Turkish Airlines. They actually canceled the flight. So, right now we don't have a flight ticket. And we talked to them and basically said, we can give you a refund or you can wait until they reschedule the flight, which is not a guarantee. But I think at this point of time, we're just going to go ahead, get the refund and then book with someone else. These things are great tickets. And that's why we're thinking they're like, oh man, like business is booming again. We got to cancel, let it die for a month, because there's probably some expectation or some professional thing, and then they'll probably bring one back to life. Yeah, such a bummer especially, because I always fly... When I go to Morocco to see my family, I always fly with the Turkish Airlines and then there's a layover in Istanbul and they give you free hotel and you spend one night if you have the time you go out and explore. So I told Alex, oh my God, it would be really fun to spend one day or two in Istanbul, but then they just cancelled the whole thing. There are a lot of families and kids here, so you might hear stuff in the background. Yeah, I'm excited to go to Africa. I really am. But at the same time, there's just going to be so much culture that I've not... I've done a lot of European travel when I was younger and Iceland is one of the things of the effect of that. But as an adult though, it's a different perspective. And I'm sure I'll find Alaska to be quite entertaining. I think I didn't know about Turkish Airlines though and you'd said it. But apparently they'll give you free hotel if you have a layover that's anywhere more than 12 hours but less than 48 I think is the way that they said it. Yeah, they have a rule around that, yeah. So no more than two days or I guess max two nights, I'm guessing, of a hotel if you have a layover. But we were like, give us a layover. Yeah, we'll take a long one. We'll just cruise around the streets. And so there are like few airlines. We want to go with a good airline because right now with the pandemic, you at least want to know... And I think this is a tip if you're traveling probably. You want to make sure that the airline you're going with is reliable and has good standing so that if you have to cancel or you're stuck somewhere in the word they can back you up, you know. I'd love to get travel insurance for that too though. I'll double down on that. Yeah, so with travel insurance. So we didn't want to go just with some hobo airline. You made the point earlier too about like if they lose your bags and such too you want a good airline that has that infrastructure to find your stuff. Yeah, and the Turkish Airlines is one of the star alliance airlines and there are some of the best airlines in Europe. So that was the reason behind the choice. But yeah, Morocco, we would love to come and do some hiking in Morocco. Honestly, I've never... I've done... When I went back in 2018 I went up hiking in Northern Morocco but it would be nice to go and do some more hiking. I know that there are some fabulous mountains in Morocco. There is Mount Tupqal, the highest... swag. There's Mount Tupqal, the highest speaking... What's the highest speaking North Africa? Yeah, Tupqal. You said how many countries have we been to? I feel like the chat's going by faster. Yeah, what is your favorite... No, okay, so let's go one by one. How many countries you visited in your life? We both have different numbers there. Yeah, I honestly, I think that's one thing that people... A lot of people just by way of seeing that we make content about adventure travel... Okay, I'm going to talk about myself. So by way of... A lot of people see pictures and they see that you make content about adventure travel and they think that I'm a well-traveled person. I don't think I'm a very well-traveled person. I've only been to less than six countries and actually I can even count them. I've been to obviously Morocco, the US, Istanbul, Mexico, Peru, and that's it. So I've not been around many areas, many countries in the world and just started traveling around the US back in 2017, so... Yeah, I've done a lot of traveling when I was younger. So I've been to most of the states, or not most, but I'd say probably about 38. A lot of the Northeast, there's a lot of small ones that I just haven't snuck in, but we're going to get there. In terms of countries, though, again, I guess a lot of Europe stuff. There's this board that I bought in Romania outside of Dracula's Castle, and then obviously I've been up on the Eiffel Tower. Twice been to Louvre, been to UK. Our family got lost and separated in like Piccadilly Circus. Been to Iceland and traveled around there, and we did a lot of driving around Europe as well in order to get from a lot of these places. So when I was young, you know, we drove to Romania in that regard, so we swung. I know we took the ferry across from UK to Ireland, and we did that and kissed the Blarney Stone, and then I think that was a different trip, probably started in France. I don't remember. I was pretty young for some of those trips, so I guess I can't really recite them. I'd say I've probably been to somewhere about 25 countries, though, just because there's a couple that we've just touched on in good regards, though. But like I said, a lot of Europe and a lot of North America, obviously Mexico can't. I've been to Canada. Yeah, which is pretty nice. We talk always about what it's going to be like for Alex to go back to these countries as an adult and what is the experience going to be like? I'm excited most for Iceland, because they had like this crazy stuff. I could dip my hot dogs in this crazy ketchup mayo mixture thing. I was like, Iceland had some hot dogs. I remember that was my key takeaway. That in Pokemon Red. I had Pokemon Blue, actually. So what do you do in Iceland? I play Pokemon. Okay, next one. What is your favorite meal while out on the trail? Fair enough. So I'm going to answer two different ways then. If we're camping and you're talking about like backpackers, sort of meals and such like that. I usually like the lasagna. Where's that back house? Mountain house. Mountain house. I like their lasagna. I like their lasagna. Everybody likes the lasagna. I can't stand some of their other ones where it's like make potatoes and such where like I have to open the bag halfway through and like dump something else in this trailer. No, that's crazy. In terms of snack food on the trail, I'm content with cliff bars. I like trail mix because I usually find that if I'm hiking too long, I'll get the full spots. And we've started like in my eyes or such if I'm like moving around too much. And they say that's from like sweating out all that salt but not putting it back in. Yeah. So we started using the noon tablets. Yeah. I would say for me to give you a hard answer, I like cliff bars. They're my go-to. You can say they're glamorous, but I'm pretty much a functional person in that regard. Mixed with the noon tablets for hiking and then the backpackers or mountain house. I feel like I'm mixing two. Mountain house meal. I think you're mixing two brands. Mountain house and backpackers kitchen. Backpackers meal or whatever. Mountain house is the one I like the most. So next thing. Okay, for me, the snacks. I like, it just depends. So if we're going just for a day hike or like couple of hours hike to one of the mountains, I like taking fruits. I like taking some peach or some oranges or something like that. But then if we are going on long hikes, I like to snack on dried apricots and I like to snack on dried prunes. So prunes and apricots, I like the fact that they are still dry, but at the same time, they have some moisture in them still. I don't really like the usual nuts and stuff like that, but I like dried fruits and what else. And my, ooh, I like Pringles. I love Pringles. Oh, the cheddar cheese ones. Oh my God, the cheddar cheese Pringles. That's, when we're hiking, especially like long, stringy hikes, that's the only, that's my guilty pleasure. Oh, that Pringles feels so good. I tell you, here in New York State, I do like the peanut butter ones with chocolate. I will say Habiba's hidden snack. She likes those Gatorade, like goo tablets. She just pops them, like they're like a roll of candy sometimes. She's like, I don't know what I'm feeling like. Is the elevation getting to me? I think my heart's hurt. I just ate a whole pack of goo tablets. They're so good. And I'm aware of the fact that you shouldn't be consuming that much, but sometimes like, oh, that's so good. Just one more, just one more. Not the squeezy goo things, but they're like little like gummy tablets, like chewy fruit sort of things. Yeah. All right. Dinner time. All right. Take care, Mark, if that means heading out. Unless they're talking about us referring to dinner. Oh, no. Oh, one second. Yeah, we're good. Cool. So that's that. I see it now. Yes. So, yeah, that's meals. What time is it right now? It's 6.26 here. We're probably going to end up going to the food truck. Snack trucks. Yeah, I think that the po-boy wants probably going to speak your language. Yes. Or English. Which means all of your language. Cool. Cool. So yeah, that's that. So we, maybe, I don't know, I don't know what else to talk about, but we have made the reservation. Can we share with them the protocol? Of course, yeah. Okay, go ahead. So Habiba's been working more with some of my family, in this case my dad, to square away some of our practice hikes for Kilimanjaro. I'm going to go try the malaria pills and some dimox for you. They might make you a little queasy. But also to get some hiking as a family since we're a little separated right now. We're going to head to Pike's Peak in Colorado. I don't think you guys know that Alex is dead. Yeah, my dad. So we started bragging to our family that we were going and my dad jumped in and he's like, Well, I'll do that. I'm going. Definitely. I just came out of like three surgeries. He's the bionic man right now, which is great too, but putting in the effort. I'm excited. So excited. To do that with him. Yeah. It will be really neat. So Alex's dad is joining. And our friend Doug is coming with us. And our friend, I don't think you guys saw. I don't think. Yeah, one of our hikes, we had our friend Doug in there. I'm just trying to remember in which video we had Doug with us. He was in for like a brief moment in the ridgeline trail. The ridgeline trail. He ran ahead. Yeah. He just, he did his Doug thing. He hikes fast. Faster than me. Anyway. Anyway, so yeah, so it's going to be the two of us and then Alex is dead and our friend. And anyway, so I interrupted you. You were talking about Colorado. Oh, no, no. So yeah, we're going to go to Pike's Peak. I guess it's technically, are we doing three days that we're going to be there? We're going to get there the first day, hike six miles. Then the next day we're going to go up to the peak and back down and stay. Then the last day we'll hike out and then roll out. I think it's like 612-6 are the miles per day. So we have a long day in the middle but we're going to camp twice. Yeah. And that'll be a good thing for altitude, for change of altitude. And I remember when we did Humphreys peak the first time and we went, we live at about 1600 feet or so and Humphreys is 12,336 or 23 or something like that. The altitude really got to us when we got to the saddle. And I think this would be a good practice for us too, especially for some family and such for us to all see what it's like to do that again. It's going to be hard to acclimate for Kilimanjaro. You might do Colorado stuff a bit but I think really we're going to have to trust on the hike giving us a lot of the right profile to acclimatize. Yeah. So hopefully that's going to be a good train in hike, foam mat, jealous that you get to hike with family. All my family is like, no solo trips for me. Well, every time our family would come out here, mine would. We would take them on a hike and they started catching on. They were like, ooh, slow down. Yeah. Everyone's going to Camelback with us now. Yeah. I mean, with my family, no one is a hiker obviously. I didn't grow up a hiker either. So, yeah, I think when my mom came here, my mom came to visit me in the U.S. back in 2019, I think it was. So I took her to like a very, very easy hike in Papago Park. It's a beautiful scenic hike, but it's so easy. So she did that one. It was less than a mile, not even a mile to get to hold in the rock. Oh, I thought you were going to say hey mountain. So that was... Yeah, hold the rock. You walk around on the other side of a big mountain. It was really easy. So she did that one and my mom thought and the second one, I took her to a mountain near Arizona State University, which is, it's an easy hike still, but it goes all the way up to, you know, it's high up. So she was very afraid of heights, but she did it and I was trying to push her all the time. So my family's not the type that would hike anyway. And a mountain's pretty neat too because it's right in path with the airport here in Phoenix, which means if the planes are coming into one of the runways actually, they'll fly right over your head and sometimes they're no more than a couple hundred or above your head it feels like. Yeah. So that's usually pretty exciting too. I saw somebody ask where we met the first time. I'm putting my finger in front of the camera. Sorry. We met in Arizona for the first time. Yeah. Am I married to her? Maybe we will make a separate video or a live chat where we answer all of those personal questions. Yeah, yeah. As far as how we met, where we met, how are we related to each other by any means? I guess the first time we went to chop shop is actually where we went for... I'm getting off topic. Another video for that. We'll tell you about chop shop and all the fancy. What do you think about? Hood hood? Isn't that a bird? No, we live in a hook with content creations. Come back next time. Come back next time. Press like and subscribe in the next video or next week. No, I'm not trying to do that, but I'm not trying to get off topic either. Yeah, so that's that. What else? The big thing for us right now with our travels is insurance and just international travel or travel in general. Have you guys gotten any COVID vaccines? Oh. We're in a spot where... Let's talk about vaccines. Yeah, where we're split on that right now in terms of where we are right now. I have the vaccine. Hi, Mike. Hey, Mike. Good to see you again. I was wondering where you were. I have it. And I get the feeling it's going to be helpful when we're doing some traveling, but it seems like still a lot of places in Europe are shut down and we're trying to figure out with our travel insurance. We want to get it before we fix up our flights again. We might not be so lucky with the next one giving us stuff back or get partway through. So that's the stuff we're trying to figure out right now are just logistics and how they play with the status quo that COVID has brought around. You have both those? So much. You have both those with the vaccines. Good job. So the vaccine, Alex got... Are you comfortable sharing? Yeah, so he got both of his doses of vaccine. Thanks for being specific. I didn't get... I think I did. Whatever they put in me, they shot me in the arm place. I didn't get mine yet. So I'm going to... I don't want to start that conversation. You know, I feel like this is not going to go so well. I think... I think the vaccine is important, especially with travel. It's going to be necessary right now in the travel... in the travel world, there are even passports or travel passports that you will have to... to have with you to show that you got the vaccine and so on. So I think with the type of activities we want to do and traveling, international travel, I have to get the vaccine. It's just a question of time. So I'm working on it. I'm getting there. And it's weird to think about it. I'm like, you'd have to get it again in a year or something, right? Yeah. So... But I'm guessing it would kind of help after you've done it the first time, maybe that you just... maybe they got a booster at some point. But... Yeah. Either way, we got to hook up for some other stuff, too. We can't decide if we're going to travel to another country or not on our trip or not. And some of the countries in Tanzania require you to have just certain vaccines and some of the surrounding countries require a couple more. I think Yellow Fever is the one that we're juggling right now. So we got to figure out if we're going to get a couple more, but we're going to use passport health. If you guys have any recommendations as to... Good ways to get vaccines. Yeah. We've heard that GoodRx is a good place to go to get some discounts on a lot of prescription stuff like that or vaccines for that matter. We're not just talking about COVID vaccines. There are like a lot of the... Hepe, Hepe, Hepe... Playfoid. Typhoid. Malaria pills. They are pills and vaccines. A lot of things that we have to look into. I actually don't get excited when I start just thinking about all of the vaccines and pills that we need to acquire. It's not that I don't have like one of these giant horse pills that I got to stick up my nose in order to take it today. Which is funny. I want to show you guys this actually. The other day... Oops. I'm going to end this chat by mistake. Oh, don't do that. So the other day I was actually wearing this dress yesterday and Alex was like, what is this thing? So I don't know. Can you see it? I have a little scar right here. Wait, those are for powers. Can you see the scar? It's a little dot. Maybe if I put like... I know we're outside. Yeah, there's like... There's a little scar that I have right here and this scar... Alex was like, this is from vaccines when I was a kid. And it's not just me. I feel like every single Moroccan person that I know, they have a scar right here in the left arm. I don't know if they used an elephant shot to get us vaccinated, but pretty much every... like all of my family members, my siblings, everyone has a scar here. I was like, what? That's funny. Okay, so let's see... Okay, do you have any children? We don't have any children. Hike with Mike. I don't do any overseas travel, but I do go out into some dangerous areas to hike with many even animals and venomous animals. So through work, I get the helicopter rescue insurance. Oh, there you go. It's good to have. That is awesome. Especially with the canyoneering stuff that you do. I could definitely see that being helpful. Did you say canyoneering? Well, I remember Mike saying that I thought he did canyoneering back in the day. So that's really interesting. And who's that? FOMA? I was saying that you think you were wishing you turned into a superhero? You're on the fence? Yeah, I know. You were talking about a friend that you had that some works and such were requiring it for you to come back into certain offices and such, too. And I didn't know if the stigma matched up to the amount of things they could impose upon you. Some people picking not. I didn't really know how passionately people were about that yet, but it seems weird for companies to say that you must. Yet. But I'm guessing eventually maybe they could. Either way, I'm comfortable having got the vaccine. I don't feel any worries. Yeah. I just, sorry. I was still reading through FOMA's message. Yeah. I think I should just go for it. That's right. They put the microchips. And it's, you know, you get all the shit yet. There you go. Exactly. Maybe I have a microchip. I'm just kidding. No, I think I just, I was kind of just waiting together. It's not about courage. I don't know. I'm just thinking about it. I will get there soon anyways. Oh, swamp hiker. I apologize, Mike. That's where they put the microchips. Yes, yes, it is. Nothing wrong with solo trips. Always remember when you are alone you are in good company. That's true. I'm a swamp hiker actually. I think solo hiking is the, it has its own It's a different type of experience, I'd say. Yeah. And I used to take city hikes. I never went out in the wilderness just by myself, just because I'm not comfortable. And we talked about, you know, it would take for me to go on a solo backpacking trip at some point, just by myself on a familiar trail. And Alex's grandpa saw my post on Facebook where I'm expressing that I want to do it solo. And he messaged Alex and said, no, no, it's not worth it. Don't let her do it. And I thought it was so sweet. I feel like with the lifeline stuff that you can get on all trails or just like personal GPS, that stuff's okay. A solo hike, but still depending on where you are and what areas of, areas of the world, or versus if you're urban or rural or out in the middle of nowhere versus city hike. So many things that go into play. How do you, Baron? I'm gonna butcher the name. I don't know how to say it. Unpurchase. In the 80s, in the U.S., they used to stick you with a time test. More between. What's a time test? For T.E., which I remember left a scar. I guess that's what they used on me. Oh, is that where they do the little... No, I remember there's one. No, I guess I'm thinking more of like a glucose thing, but it looks like they literally just pulled up some of your skin and just took like a little snip off is what it looks like. But it looks more like a puncture. I have no idea. I'm really enjoying this chat. I was telling Alex that I, we missed the last Thursday because I was not feeling well and then this one, we were late. So I'm so happy that we got so many of our YouTube friends here. So happy to chat with all of you guys. You are awesome. The good thing about being recluse like me is you never have to worry about peer pressure. Yes, especially when your peer want to run up the mountain and doesn't want to take pictures and videos. Hey, just sometimes I want to work out and other times I don't mind the photo stuff, too. But we ran up Camelback a little while back and by we, I mean... You. So it wasn't much of a run. It's steep enough. I see these people running on the trail and I get it if you're running like up a thousand feet over a bunch of miles and such, but there are some spots in these trails that are so steep. I see these people running and jogging and doing everything. I'm just like, all right. You do that. I'm a hiker. That doesn't mean I'm the fastest hiker in the world. But I like doing it and I can get from the beginning to the end as long as there's enough daylight. Yeah. But I could not yet run uphill. That's just... Man, that just takes it out on me. I really got to work on that. But I don't know if a treadmill's a good way. We definitely have some indoor training prepared and then other stuff's just really going to be hiking hard every week. Like we're not picking cutesy hikes. These hikes are meant to make our legs hurt on Monday. And I'm kind of torn because I still want to document all of these hikes. And I know that I'm not going to be taking my Sony camera. So I think my plan for right now, the quality of the content is not going to be great. I'm just going to take the GoPro, just film and show you guys briefly what's going on. So it's not going to be any epic hiking videos. I'm not saying that my videos are epic anyways. It may be more like Craig Adams asks like silent ones where you just stitch it together. Yeah. Oh my God. Craig Adams is amazing. So what did I say? When you were saying... What did I say? He said if you see me running, you should probably be running too because something's coming. My dad told me that joke a long time ago. It's like two guys are hiking in the woods and they come across a bear and they both get ready to quiet and they start backing off. And I'm like, what do we do? What do we do? And the one guy really slowly starts to set down his bag and he takes his running shoes out of the bag and he starts kicking off his boots and his friends are like, what are you doing? Like you can't outrun the bear? And friends like without breaking eye contact they're like, I don't have to outrun the bear. I only have to outrun you. I remember... I always like that joke. It's a fun joke. It's an off-kitch. It's a good joke. Anyway. So we've got a lot of kiddos in front of us right here. I remember rolling down the hill like that when I was young. Let's see if I can turn to scream. Copyright. There we go. Oh my God, no. Am I going to get in trouble? No. Fulfilling kids in my live stream? All right, let's do it. Let's sneak again. Three, two, one. There we go. Here's a runner. I loved it. I missed a lot. I need to get back into it once. Things in life slow down. I used to run five miles every single day and loved it. So we did a Thursday challenge. Wait, wait. How much do you run? Five a day. Five miles a day? Every day. That's awesome, man. What caliber? Wow. Let's change topic on me quick. What caliber? So wait, let's talk about the running every day. Let's see. So back when we went to Alaska, we were in the middle of a 30-day running challenge. And we actually continued our challenge while we were in Alaska running by the... There was like an ocean side trail in Alaska. Oh, that's beautiful. Which is actually really nice. And we were running on it. And we were doing... We were doing two miles a day for 30 days. We went up to three toward the end a little bit, but it was just... It was difficult. I'm telling you. I don't like running, but I know that running is necessary if you want to do like high, you know, difficult climbs. Cardio's good. Yeah, Cardio's good. And it's healthy too. But man, five miles a day, Mike, I applaud you. But still, like, I feel like if I started doing that anymore, I would need to spend some money on some running shoes. Like, I'd need to treat my shins like kings. I need my heels to be on, like, a bed of flowers. I don't know what a bed of flowers is. A bed of flowers. I don't think the problem are shoes. The problem... Really, the problem's my brains, apparently, what the problem is. Oh, God. All right. All right. So that's the best funny shot you got in quarantine. I don't understand what that means. Somebody... Somebody asked what caliber pistol do you need for bears? 357, 44 magnum? No, just a little... 357. Okay, okay. You need... You need caliber 3652. 55. That's what you need. Do they have bear grenades? That sounds like a thing. Bear grenade. I'm just kidding. Fire in the bear. We understand... I understand. Nothing about what you need for... Okay. Suheil. Selam. Selam. Selam. Broccoli. Eid Mubarak. All right. These things are like climbing trees, rolling down hills and lying in a field and watching the shapes of clouds. This seems like a Calvin and Hobbes fan to me. It's what this seems like. That's really beautiful. And that's totally true. I don't know about climbing trees. I don't do that. But that rolling down hills and... Oh, I just like... I just imagine right now, just watching the sky and... Isn't the cloud in our sky right now? No. It's starting to get hot here in Arizona. We were at the special place. Yeah, it was really hot. How about you guys tell us where everyone is from or where you are right now? Where are you joining us from? Obviously, we are in Arizona. All you need is bear spray and keep an attitude that you are at the top of the food chain. I had a couple of bear encounters before. That's a great tip from Mike. Mike, I don't know if you were in the live when we just joined, but we were talking about our bear encounter in Alaska. Okay, let's do a recap quickly for Mike. We are bear spray drawn just because we were close. After we figured it out, it was so into its berries. We calmed down a little bit, but at first moment, we were like, ooh, a bear, this is a real thing. The bear was just right there. It was so very close. It's like very, very close. We got Florida. We got North Carolina. Let's finish about the bear real quick even though we talked about this just a couple of minutes ago. The bear was really close and then I was just acting or overreacting because we had the bear spray. He had the bear spray. There were people behind us. The bear was quiet. He knows that we are there because we were making enough. But I was the only one making a scene behind me, a family, a mom and dad, teenagers, and a young boy. They are hiking with no problem. The only one waving at everybody Don't turn your back on the bear. And they're looking at me and I was like, what's wrong with this lady? I was thinking the same thing. Don't worry. I mean, I'm not allowed to say that a lot of the time. But they said make enough noise, you know, not scream, but talk with the strong tone. So I was following the rules. I'm trying to follow the rules. I feel like if it's on you like that mountain lion was to that guy, like, yeah. But if he's like sitting there like scratching his butt and eating his berries and I had to let the man be. He just shuffled past. But I remember we were close to the bison in Yellowstone as well. Yellowstone. And you were definitely just as excited. But I tell you. This bison was probably three feet away. Yeah, the bison was three feet away. And it was even. There was no bushes between us. And you were like, wow, that could kill me right now if it was so chose to. Yeah. And I followed the rules. I always followed the rules. If the rules say don't go hike off trail, there's a reason. If they say stay this much distance away from an elm, there is a reason. So I tried to follow. But then the bison was only three feet away. And then so I waited. I waited. I waited. It's not going away. And then people are just going. Everyone is going. It's going. No problem. Like they don't have any fear in their hearts. Hey, baby. And I'm like, how's everyone just going with no issues? So I said, okay, fine. I'm just going to go. So I just walked by. The bison was three feet away. And then later I was like, that was dumb. That was stupid. If the bison had chosen to attack me or charge, that wouldn't have been, you know, a nice story to tell. You know what I mean? He's not like a pure vegetable like grass died. I wasn't worried about him charging. I was worried about him farting at the time. Because Lord knows, I've been next to a dog. That probably would have been dangerous. You would have found me collapsed on the side of the trail. Okay. So the word best funny shots I ever got at confinement. I don't understand. Yeah. I don't think I understand that one. Can you elaborate a little bit more? And then we have Suhail. So you type it. Suhail. And we are very charming. Thank you. Let me ask people where they were. So Mike's in Florida, right? In North Carolina, taking antibiotics with direct sun warnings in the sun for 45 minutes start to burn. Oh, wow. And then we got Triumph is coast of Mesa, California in Lafayette, Louisiana. Nice. Mike is the last, the most beautiful place I spent a month on the Kenai Peninsula. Oh my God. That's the best time of my life. Oh my God. We feel the same, Mike. There's nothing. So there is this saying from John Muir. John Muir. John Muir. He says, I don't know the exact words, but he basically says, you should not go to Alaska as a young man because you will never find any place like Alaska. And I think it's so very true. Are you sure he didn't say always carry a bear grenade? He didn't say that. I thought that was what he said. He was not sure. Oh my God. The Kenai Peninsula. I was literally telling Alex earlier that I'm looking for, I'm looking for houses in Seward. I was like, okay, I want to see. She was. I was literally looking for houses in Seward, not that we're going to Seward or buying in Seward. I was like, I'm just curious to see what it's going to be like. So I found some, some houses that they were 100K, $100,000, $200,000. And they are so big up. It's nothing like the Kenai Peninsula that you imagine. But anyway, we love Alaska too. Mark from Minnesota? Well, we have no filming. I always love. And they say, hey bear. Mark from Minnesota. Hi, Minnesota. Hike with Mike. I had one bear circle me in the middle of the night in the green swamp. I got out of my tent, banged the fire ring with the pine log and sang Led. Led Zeflin's immigrant song. I don't know this song. That's how I remember my major seventh interval. I took, I was in for music when I was in college at some point and that was my major seventh reminder was the Oh, I would have. Oh my God, I can't believe it. Like just. Okay. Can you imagine just a bear going around your tent? If the bear was singing the immigrant song, I'd be more impressed. I will, I will become an immigrant to the other life. Homer. So we have gotten over. I wanted to go out there because Homer's where the spit is, if I remember. That's where they feed all the bald eagles. We saw so many bald eagles already and bless it. We found like bald eagles everywhere. Now we were just like kayaking on the Colorado River underneath the Grand Canyon. Just the other day. And we saw bald eagle. We saw bald eagle. It was, we kayaked from the base of Hoover Dam all the way to Willow Beach in Nevada. I don't have the videos uploaded because I still have so much to edit. But towards the end of our kayaking trip I'm just looking up there and there's the bald eagle. I feel like we've seen so many bald eagles. But so, so just real quick on what happened with Alaska. I mean, we definitely wanted to go to Homer. We didn't have time. So the way, the way Alaska went, I'll explain the trip to Alaska. We went up there. The initial plan was only four days. And that's where we got engaged. So that was like his plan. We went to Alaska four days and then we were up there and we're like, oh my God. Well, we're working from home. Why don't we just work from up here? So I started looking for Airbnb's and then I found an Airbnb in Anchorage and the price was a little bit over our budget. So I reached out to this older lady and I said, hey, this is, I just basically told her our story. We came to Alaska for four days. We loved it so much and we just want to see a little bit more. We're working from home with the pandemic and everything. This is a little bit over our budget. Can you give us a discount? Which you can always, in Airbnb, you can reach out to the host and communicate with them. So I told her, can you give us a discount? And she gave us a discount. And he basically matched the price that we had within our budget. So we stayed with her. She had like a little cassira. She had like three different places at her bed and breakfast there. So she was living there and then we had like our little kitchen and kitchenette and we had like one, it's like two rooms that are separated and then there's like a kitchen, you know, dinner table where we would work. So we stayed there for one month with her and then we would just work during the day, hike every other day and then during the weekend we would go and, you know, just explore. And obviously we knew we were thinking about staying up there for a while. That's why we had our work stuff. But the best thing for us about being in Alaska was we could work a full day and with the length of the days at that point. The sun is up. Sometimes the sun would still be up at one, two in the morning, which presented us with the opportunity to do a full day's worth of hiking. I'm okay for now. And then still go out and do a full hike and not really feel like we were out of bounds. The real interesting thing was you could conceivably go on a hike and watch the sun set and rise on the same hike. It's amazing. It's really kind of neat. Ooh. We're getting some text messages. Okay, so let's see what else we have here. Yes. Uh... Crazy Shoe Production. Hope you're doing well. Nice to see you here. It works. Speaking of Alaska, I come from the land of the ice and snow. Come from the... I need to do the immigrant song again. Oh, it's the immigrant song. See, there are a lot of pop culture references that I don't understand. That's what... That's Alex's role to explain to me. Format. That's awesome. Oh, man. That was like the best... The best thing ever. The best place. The problem for me was it was so big that I felt like we only even went south a little bit like... No, none of this problem. It's not a problem. But just like we had to definitely plan each trip because like if we went from Anchorage down to Seward or we wanted to go Anchorage over to Kenai, like they were not around the corner. Like we had to definitely take a day to work from on the road or like work in the morning then drive at night in order to get places. And Highway 1 got backed up a few times when we were trying to go places. It's like a one-lane road just along the water there that you're on for a couple, like for an hour and a half even. And if somebody gets in an accident... It's a problem. You're going to be on the road for a while. You're going to be stuck for a while, yeah. So... It's amazing because when we went the flight was very cheap and then even the accommodation was very cheap. Not cheap, but it was reasonably priced. And I feel like a lot of people when they think of Alaska they get discouraged because you know Alaska is unlike any of the lower 48 states and it's a little bit intimidating. I mean, it's Alaska. But I feel like even... You can explore it by land. I mean, we flew there and then we just rented the car and then we went on our own. It wasn't as intimidating as you would think. I will say Anchorage definitely gave me a bit of a bad taste in my mouth originally compared to what I was expecting but the rest of the state was great. Everybody in Anchorage said that's just where the airport is. Once you kind of break away from Anchorage it was great. I loved Alaska. I would go back a million times. I thought it was fantastic. Yeah, definitely. I'm surprised you didn't say Reed's Lake, by the way, too. Oh my God, that's... We can talk about Alaska for a minute. Yeah, exactly. I feel like we should... Okay, so next one let me ask you when you flew to Alaska was the only car available for you to rent a Subaru? When I was there in 89 Subaru because they had all-wheel drive were the only option to rent. We had a Kia. Is that what I think we rented? So no on the Subaru spot. But it was like a four-wheel drive vehicle, right? Yeah, it was a little guy. It wasn't like the biggest car in the garage. Oh, no, you're fine. Oh, no, no, it's facing us. No, you're fine. I was like, sure. But... But anyway, so the car was just... It was still... I don't know if it was four-wheel drive. It was front-wheel drive but it had a high enough clearance that we could park in a couple spots. It was worth having and a good mileage which definitely helped us out while we were making those long trips. I think definitely all-wheel drive is the way to go. So... We're from home and my kids were remote learning but my wife was in health care. If not for that, we would have been nomadding a bit. Aw, yeah. Anyone speak French? Oh wait, are you? Visit French? Are you from France? I gotta do that, like partial translation in my head. Anyone speak French? I speak French if you have a question. Are you visit French? We've never visited France before. I mean, I haven't. He had. Sorry, I keep forgetting. He's been to France. My sister... My sister actually just moved to France last year and she's going to school there. So I'm trying to find, you know, just whenever they're open, they... I think they're still in quarantine right now. It's unfortunate because she's finally over there and she's been trapped inside now that she's not at home anymore. So unfortunate. It's funny. She moved to France and I feel like her degree is gonna be almost... she's gonna wrap up all of her, you know, education, whatever, I think it's two years. She's still stuck inside. I'm trying to think, so other things that we've been doing, do you mind if I just talk about some other stuff? Uh, sure. So I was thinking, some of the other places I've been, I had been to Greece and we did a horse ride in Greece and Habib and I did a horse ride a little bit ago while we were here in the area. But this thing still that I thought was exciting was the canoe trip underneath the Grand Canyon. They dropped us off at the base of the Grand Canyon. We did a two-day trip, I think it was 13 miles down the river, dove in a few times. It was pretty awesome. Yeah. And we'd like to do it again because there were definitely, we didn't get to see everything we wanted to the first time around. Mm-hmm. But there was a place called the Sauna Cave. Oh. They talk about when you're at Arizona Hot Springs or the Sauna Cave that there is something called a neglaria. It's like a little amoeba that if you get it up your nose, it can get to the front of your brain and it just starts eating away at your brain and in two weeks, you're dead. You're dead. Not like you're kinda dead, you're dead. You're dead. And it's pretty much actually in every water source... Over 100 degrees or something like that. Over something degrees. I don't wanna give you wrong information but usually hot springs, it's something that you wanna... But either way, it was a sort of thing where one like seven million or something like that, like it was hardly a thing. So they said, don't put your head under the water and you're fine. But either way, there was a Sauna Cave where I guess when they were originally making like diversion tunnels for them to build Hoover Dam for the water to flow around while they built the dam, they were going in with just dynamite and all sorts of stuff to blow holes in these rocks and they got back and warmer and warmer because of the hot springs there and they got so hot that they had to stop eventually. So there's just this like 100 foot deep tunnel that it's not lit at all, like you need to take a light and it gets pitch dark. I whacked my head off the top because it gets a little small sometimes. And it's just, it's cooking. And the further you go back in there, it gets warmer and warmer and warmer. It's really neat. It's just like a quarter mile down from the base of Hoover Dam if you could drop it off at the bottom. Mike is saying that that amoeba is very common in Florida waters too. Yeah. I was, I was, I wasn't scared. I was just, when we came back from that trip, I was like, okay, I have to wait for two weeks. Am I alive? Am I dead? But it's, yeah, it's definitely something to keep in mind. The word, ah, okay, because I speak French and Spanish, but I don't speak English very well. Pas de problème, I know problema or I know problema. Speak to a... Don't leave me, I can help you. Eh, tu peux, tu peux nous parler en français ou en espagnol. Y a pas de problème. Va essayer de, de te répondre. De te répondre. Oh my God. Okay, so you guys must be in California. It's still, it's still sunny. Almost bad time for me. Mike, if you have to go, it was very nice chatting with you. California is great. And... I think that kid just did the thing where like the car is turning into a killer robot. I mean, that's what just happened. Yeah, so we, we will definitely come back to California. We were up there just last Thanksgiving. We were exploring Sequoia National Park. We went to Joshua Tree. That's for your birthday. Yeah, Sequoia for my birthday. Joshua Tree National Park. So we will definitely go back to California. It's, there's so many national parks that we want to see and some hiking that we want to do. But no, but we're, we're not in California. We're in Arizona. We're in Arizona, yup. Eh, freshwater, lakes, not the ocean, but spring, spring fed rivers. Oh, okay. Got it. That's where they are if it's hot enough. Seems like it. Where are you going? Cool, cool. Well, we've been going for one hour... 17 seconds, 19, 33, 20 seconds. So, unless we, we have any other questions or anything that you guys want to talk about, we will be happy to. Yeah. Otherwise, it's food time for us. Baby. Yup. We're going to get some of that Louisiana. Po-boy. Po-boy. And by the way, I don't know if you guys are, eh, okay, good, good, good. So the word is saying that I can answer or respond back in English. Eh, if you guys are on Instagram, I invite you to come and join us on Instagram. We share stories just from our daily lives and some behind the scenes and we would love to have you there as well. Let me see, kids are just running just because. You'd have to pay me to run just because. I know. There they are. Just running. Oh, man. Oh, no. A GeoGuessr guy could figure out where we lived just based off of that picture that you took. Really? Oh, yeah. Online on YouTube called GeoGuessr. If you check out his YouTube channel, GeoGuessr, he plays this game where you take pictures and then he figures out where you are and some of them you can move other ones you can't. He's got some TV or some videos too where he tries to cross countries in exactly straight lines like no more than 20 meters different and it's pretty funny. He's like crawling through bushes in the middle of an otherwise empty field. GeoGuessr, or GeoWizard is the name of the guy on YouTube and he uses GeoGuessr the website to play some of his games. It's pretty funny. That's my picture. No, no, that's fine. It's actually a funny game. I tried it too. Mike, good night. If you are still here, take care of yourself and see you next time. Thank you so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll see you next time. Bye. Yeah, you're right. You'll probably enjoy that. Okay, so let's see. Go in once, go in twice, go in three times. Thanks, guys. Thanks for hanging out with us. It was really nice having you here and nice chatting with you and we will see you next Thursday. Indeed. I'll let you say on another adventure. Yeah, we do that. Okay, let's do it, let's do it. My name's Habiba. I'm Alex. And we are Shrek Impulse. Take care, guys. Bye. Bye. Bye, FOMAT.