 talk a little bit about maybe we'll pick up from where we left the last time we did a live stream on on YouTube we were doing our live streams in preparation to climb Kilimanjaro and that's been going on for every week probably for two months leading to the actual climb if I remember yeah maybe even more I know we were going out hiking every weekend or we had some other activity weekends were they were not ours they were the mountains yeah so yeah so hello Turkish delights oh that was a good restaurant actually we went there more than once but to like wreck they harken back now I'm like try to remember an exact dish so I had the the lamb the lamb chat shank the lamb shank lamb shank shank shank the lamb stuff was good the lamb was good their food was really good the tea the baklava I think yeah the lamb right now I think everything that we saw on their menu looked looked looked good and also seemed like it was a pretty typical menu in terms of your kebabs and your keftas and your lamb and your beef and your chicken etc it seemed like you had a pretty well-rounded menu there and you could pick whatever you wanted we had some desserts from there though too that we like to pick it up like you're saying the baklava the baklava was good and the the lamb shank was really good um anyway so Alaska is amazing so have fun enjoy Alaska that was before Kilimanjaro that was that that was the most previous big thing so so anyway so just kind of catch you up on what we've been up to after the climb we I don't know if you guys some of you follow us on Instagram some of you don't but we pretty much keep things up to date on Instagram at least in the stories and such we did Kilimanjaro we submitted successfully and then we spent eight days on a safari in Tanzania exploring some of the national parks and then spent a week in the island of Zanzibar so all of the content I put out a video about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro if you guys haven't watched it already go check it out I think you will really enjoy it and well there's a hummingbird anyway so that safari content is still being worked I I really just have to make the time to get to it Zanzibar is a beautiful island I still have content for that and then what did we do after Zanzibar we made our way to mainland Dar es Salaam on the bumpiest ferry ride ever everybody had a bucket everybody yes and and then after that we flew to Amsterdam Amsterdam a few days there on layover yes and then we made our way back to the States so right so Amsterdam there's also a video that I have to put out there I had some falling behind with content but Amsterdam was definitely a place that I did not really enjoy Amsterdam the city though we took a day to the suburbs or the countryside and I was really pleasant but other than that I didn't like Amsterdam at all yeah Amsterdam itself was definitely touristy tourist heavy and as a result of a lot of the cultural things that you associate with Amsterdam a lot of that was pretty prevalent it was kind of hard to escape it there are plenty of nice things I liked about it I love the biking aspect and I do love their interconnected system of public transit but I do agree that if we were to go give the Netherlands another chance we would probably want to go check out some other places other than Amsterdam sure because it does look like it's a beautiful country but it wasn't one of the countries that we walked into and said we should live here right that that didn't happen when we necessarily walked in there we walked out of the train station in Amsterdam so yeah and for me it was my introduction to Europe it's the first country that I've traveled to in Europe I mean other other than Turkey Turkey is kind of like half some of it is in Europe some of it is in Asia but oh my god Amsterdam was not a good introduction but anyway I will put the video explaining why I don't like Amsterdam so that's that's just to kind of catch you up on the previous trips that we had going on shout out to our friend Chris by the way you gave us a wonderful windmill tour yes so yeah so that's that have we done what other travels since then we've also been to we went back to Idaho oh yeah and we spent a weekend or so there I'll let you get into the specific song but we were looking to get to the snow and play around because obviously we live more in the desert area and it's just kind of nice to go out and entertain that but we also had another agenda sure so with the trip to Idaho it was one of those trips where I wanted to try house and pet set seating for the first time and there's this platform called the trusted house sitters and I talked about it in some videos that I published few weeks ago and really the way it works you would travel to to to specific destination you're spending time someone's house and then you get technically free accommodation in return of you taking care of their pets so we traveled to Idaho for that we it was a very nice house sit their house was really beautiful surrounded by the mountains and we had the easy access to some snowshoeing and cross country skiing trails as well as some hot spring so that was really nice and then we would take care of their pets for I think it was four days or so yeah they had three dogs and they were all various levels of age and excitement and then they're different breeds as well but they were they were very easy to take care of actually it's very nice and our hosts were gracious enough to like invite us to a little dinner party that they had the day before they left and they housed us the day after before we took off in the morning to go to the airport they were so beat from their ventures trip that they got back to we didn't get to say bye but we've chatted with them since via text message so yeah so definitely even the plan for this year I want to try more of these type of travels that are you know just different than normal vacationing I want to do a little bit more house sitting pet sitting and I want to also eventually try some of the opportunities on a work away where you get to go on a working vacation so I will be talking more about these things in the future and then we will film a video about our experience with trust houses sure then looking to the future now right yeah future I can talk about the near future my travel plans okay so very very soon by very soon I mean in the next few days I'm going to be traveling to Canada as a new country on the list and my first time traveling to Canada and I'm gonna be traveling there to to meet up with a friend and then just do a little bit of exploring it's not going to be you know a lot of outdoors activities I don't think so but just a quick introduction to to the country and food culture and things like that and then from there I'm going to be flying to Morocco to see some family that's not going to be for long and then from there I will be flying to Europe I'm not gonna say where yet okay but then Alex is going to be most likely joining you I can tell you where I'm going in Europe though I will say Habiba I think left out the train ride that she's gonna be taking while she's in Canada yeah it's not necessarily supposed to be the most glamorous like like you know luxury dining finally but I've always wanted to go on train rides even in Alaska I wanted to take the Alaska line even at some point even just past Denali A is a little expensive and B is a time commitment that that we didn't have but I think riding the train like that would be so so cool yeah so anyway yeah so we talked about you know just the importance of probably trying different modes of transportation instead of flying all the time maybe trying some train rides buses and walking biking whatever it is sure and that there's a movie that we started watching yesterday until I fell asleep planes trains and automobiles this is Steve Martin and John Candyfield from a little while back where the guy tries to get home to see his family for the holidays and ends up having to take all sorts of different modes of transportation to best the weather in order to get home in time to be his family for Thanksgiving yeah so that was I fell asleep at some point so we'll have to finish that up we started the Amazon rental so we got 40 hours or whatever okay I talk about where we're aiming to go in the future then yes all righty so we have ambitions to travel internationally still and it almost is to that point where we're looking for about one major trip a year at the very least for the sake of you know some sort of hiking or some notorious location and this year our goal is Mount Elbers and I believe we brought this up before in the past this really shouldn't be a surprise it's a reasonable next step big mountain or one of the one of the seven summits in the sense that it is priced reasonably compared to some of the more expensive mountains it's not as high as Kilimanjaro but it does present us with a good introduction to what it means to be in a snowy environment Kilimanjaro had many porters that had to bring our stuff with us from location to location to location which came with extra cost extra risk and and we needed to factor that into the adventure but Elbrus has fixed stations where we just go to and from them and we don't have a necessarily a team of porters with us which is why some of the price is a bit more approachable so our goal is to go there however whether it be in government shutdowns or COVID or just the global sort of relationships with the Russia with Russia Mount Elbrus is there is in Russia yeah and I just mean over the years though too like there's always been something that's kind of like challenging but right now the relationships with Russia and such are in a spot where it might be unreasonable that we go and I say might right there it might still be very reasonable even if relationships are rocky and it might be unreliable or unreasonable even if things are okay we're very much trying to react to things and it's hard to plan very far in advance some of these things and commit to them yes when there's so maybe maybe not either way I broke the ice the long way go go now I was gonna say it's important because even for training you kind of have to know that okay this climb is booked we're going for it we have to start training because you know we will have to start going out getting on the trail long distance hiking and then just going regularly to the gym but for the planning we are set on the company that we're going to be climbing with which is already a very big step although I feel like with this mountain and we didn't really have a lot of companies to choose from because I've been researching about climbing Mount Elbrus way before we did Kilimanjaro so I kind of knew what company we're gonna climb with so right now it's just a matter of you know putting the down payment to book our spots and then also getting the visa getting the visa yeah in order to travel to Russia you will have to get a visa if you're American and then right now if you guys have been following the news things are a little bit weird so we will have to coordinate here with the embassy of Russia in the US or the consulates of Russia in the US and reach out to them and say hey we're planning on climbing the mountain this is the time frame are you guys going to be able to provide us with visa and then once they do usually with these companies that we're going to be climbing with with the companies that we will be climbing with they have to provide you with an invitation before you get a visa from the consulate so it's kind of weird you have to get approval here and then the company will give you invitation and then you apply for actual visa so the process is not straightforward but we will give it our best and see if we will be able to make it this year and this is where we were saying that in the event that we don't get a visa we can't go and in the event that we do get a visa we still might decide not to go depending on how things change over the next few months from a windy UK hi where in UK I guess I'm curious I my dad spent a lot of time working in in the United Kingdom when he was probably I was 20 20 years ago I don't need to reveal my dad's age but he lived there for a while and we would travel over and spend a lot of time we would take the ferry over to Ireland we got lost in a Piccadilly Circus went down to France etc we traveled to in and out of the UK several times when I was younger if I may with the the Elbers thing though we are hoping to get a little bit of ice stuff we've got four members of our team that would likely go with us the friend that you're going to visit in Canada is one of them yes and then our friend Doug who kill him and draw with us would come as well so I think really the next goal is visa and just kind of take the temperature of that and if that plays out training but yeah I think booking it because like you said booking is kind of that hard commitment even though a lot of these companies you can make a booking by putting a deposit down very early and then you pay the rest of it like really really close to the hike date and in the event that something happens and you can't go usually those companies provide or they have affiliate companies that provide services around the world that you can use that deposit for a different adventure so it's not like you're throwing your money into a big blazing fire but but it doesn't you do narrow down the areas of commitment but you can use that money for something else yeah well except that for this company that we're going with this local company the one we did Kilimanjaro was an international company they have a lot of tracks around the world but this one should anything go wrong like visa is declined the the area is not politically stable we would have to wait to climb the exact same mountain with them or if they offer other adventures in the area but the deposit would persist for these folks so again it depends on the company you're right as that what the scope of their affiliation is but we could climb in two years still and the deposit would hold we wouldn't need to pay it again yeah so that's the big climb for 2022 it's a it is compared to Kilimanjaro it's a technical climb in a way that you will have to have skills of you know using the ice axe using the crampons and the glaciers traveling and such but it's nothing complicated and usually during that time frame they will teach you all of the basics that you will need before summit day all right so let me Warrington's where he said where they said in Manchester I don't know if I've ever actually been to Warrington but I feel like I recognize it from a train line but huh well that's wonderful what time is it even in the UK right now we're at seven so that's five hour six seven seven hour difference probably seven or eight it's five o'clock for you I think if I had to guess awesome I think that's is that it for updates I think that's all I mean just wanted to see if people had any questions but really just the updates for the big adventures that we have planned that's the the big solid adventure and I think just like last year by way of wanting to train we're gonna probably pursue some high peaks here in the United States I have Mount Hood in Oregon in mind that I want to go and climb it's I think 11,000 feet less than 12,000 feet for sure and then we could see if there are some peaks in California and Colorado that we want to pursue sure and then beyond that as well I think we had the opportunity to to look at Whitney again yes I think it's the other one that you'd kind of thrown out there and other adventures that we might have would include other road trip like elements and such as well really waiting for that REI dividend to come back and then we'll roll the dice and we'll see what we can do but that'll be fun I'm looking forward to that yeah but for me I would love to do some long distance not long long distance long time traveling like traveling for an extended period of time that's probably not going to fit into this year's schedule so it probably have to wait yeah and then other than that I mean I think that we've slowly started to want to do some of the seven summits so eventually Australia would be in the lineup because that one's a freebie when you say that I'm too afraid that folks are going to hold as accountable let oh no you're going for the seven summits obviously like there be ones that are more intimidating than others but we were just watching videos on people climbing Denali and climbing Vincent and for those of you that know or don't know Denali's the highest peak in the United States of North America for that matter located in Alaska and that one's that was pretty monstrous it's in a very snowy environment yes and it comes with a good handful of challenges and it's not the most comfort laden sort of trip which is fine you're dragging the sled behind you etc. Vincent is Antarctica so that won't be an exotic location for sure so anyway I will just probably give it five more minutes there are any questions or comments from anybody and then we'll wrap up I feel like we haven't done these livestreams in a long time but it's a little bit slow yeah it's fine people can look at it we'll give us a nice info it's nice to kind of know when we're aiming for something it's easier to kind of have like a line of questioning and and association with that rather than some scattered topics and such from time to time which yeah but we'll keep you posted on the El Bruce I think my next step I'm just waiting for a reply back from the company and then once that's done probably just start reaching out to the consulate or the embassy and get a confirmation and then just start the actual application process for what it's worth I believe that El Bruce is in the 18,000 foot range which I believe makes it the high 5,000 meter sort of mark maybe low six and some of the appeal to us is that they'll have the opportunity to oh said happy I said but it will provide us with the opportunity to get a little bit of snow training as well so that you just have to use an ice axe and some other stuff and in that regard it seems like a good way to kind of enter the snow world yeah so they have music in the background I might get some copyright strike on this live stream it is nice that they are it's finally nice enough out in Arizona that we can sit out in the morning and not be too cold so nice we had that problem we're like in the morning it would be so cold that you had to have jackets on and in the middle of the day be so hot that if you had jackets you had to shut them and then night it would get back to cold but now I think the whole day is one outfit that a weird thing to celebrate do you like my I'm wearing my good this is a gondor is what it is right it's a small one it's a half one but it's just the top give me the go all right I shouldn't sing along I can't sing along copyright that's a good point yeah I'm afraid to that's okay anyway if that's it I guess then that's it we appreciate everybody obviously stopping by just to kind of see her if you're watching this after the fact we appreciate you catching up on our goals for the year so and I apologize I'm really behind with the with content it's been a little bit challenging for me I don't know what other excuses I can bring up but I do have a lot of good content is just kind of sitting there waiting and I'll eventually get to it so maybe we've been talking about a hardware update to just yeah computers are slugging and slowing down with right all that creative power no idea what is the subject of this live stream touching stuff of the streaming but I would like to thank you for the video that you did about citizenship it was so helpful oh I'm so glad that it was helpful I said that wrong I apologize yeah so it's the it's actually that one video that I did about citizenship you know I don't think that it's really related to travel but when when I got my citizenship I just figured that I'm sure that there will be a lot of people out there who can you know just because I know that a lot of people would go out to to pay for a lawyer and start the process and lawyers are not cheap and you can take some money so you can most of the time just start the process by yourself so I'm so glad that you did so well and I'm so glad that it's helping people out there and even in a lot of cases with hiking or anything it's nice to kind of have a guide through an area like that where you really just kind of want to not go into something blind sure and I was impressed with the quality of your video obviously I'm born a citizen so I couldn't go through some of those but it was fun it's a very straightforward process I get some questions and comments on the on that same video that I don't reply to sometimes just because there are some cases that are a little bit complicated like I received messages from people telling me oh my my mom was a citizen but I'm not in touch with my mom but we don't have this information or that information how do I go about it's like well some I can't really you know advise on some of these right legal disclaimer yeah I don't want to be you know the cause of some problem with the application but sometimes just seeing the form seeing the way somebody experienced it yeah and again that's why we watch hiking videos right we just kind of want to get into my I remember looking back on things I've done in the past that I was anxious about at the moment whether it be applying for something or going on an adventure yeah so awesome guys well thank you so much and I hope to see you in the next live streams we'll try to you know I don't want to promise anything for right now but we'll try to do live streams once a month and then if if this climb in Russia is 100% confirmed we'll try to show up and just give you updates on a regular basis probably bi-weekly or weekly if it's possible but thank you so much this YouTube channel had grown so much and I really appreciate everyone being supportive and being a subscriber enjoying watching the content thank you bye guys