Have you ever wanted to escape your daily routine and embark on a thrilling solo adventure?
In this insightful conversation, we dive into making independent decisions on the go, to embarking on unlikely adventures at Airbnbs, we've got stories that will both entertain and inspire. Whether it's striking up conversations with locals or enjoying some alone time with a good book or a martini, there's so much to gain from solo trips. We even extend an invitation for you to share your dream solo vacations with us. So, tune in for an episode packed with wanderlust, self-discovery, and inspiring tales!
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Have you ever wanted to escape your daily routine and embark on a thrilling solo adventure?
In this insightful conversation, we dive into making independent decisions on the go, to embarking on unlikely adventures at Airbnbs, we've got stories that will both entertain and inspire. Whether it's striking up conversations with locals or enjoying some alone time with a good book or a martini, there's so much to gain from solo trips. We even extend an invitation for you to share your dream solo vacations with us. So, tune in for an episode packed with wanderlust, self-discovery, and inspiring tales!
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This is last piece of pile Poppers. I'm Jen, I'm Mel and we're both back from our vacation, woo-woo, rested and refreshed, yeah. So it gave us the idea for this episode. Solo travel yeah, I love it. So I went to Brazil. So I actually went to go visit my friend who actually lives there. So it wasn't technically a solo travel trip, but that kind of gave us the idea to do this episode. Brazil was amazing. I highly recommend it. It's safer than everybody thinks it is. I got questions about how safe is Brazil? It's actually pretty safe. They don't speak a lot of English, that's the only thing I would say. Bring your Google translator, yes. And then Mel just went to Nashville. Woo-woo, how was your Nashville?
Speaker 2:trip, Amazing, you know. My favorite thing is is Airbnbs.
Speaker 1:Oh yes.
Speaker 2:I don't think I'll ever stay in a hotel ever again in my whole entire life.
Speaker 1:No, not if I can help it.
Speaker 2:No, why? I mean, really it's the same price. I mean $300 a night. Right, I mean I wouldn't put Abby in a motel but she'd kill me. And, by the way, I have done that one time and she hated it. And she yells at me about it still to this day.
Speaker 1:Oh, my girlfriend and I that went to go visit. We took a spontaneous road trip to Atlanta to go see a concert and we left at night and we stopped in Tennessee and we just picked some random area to stop. They didn't have any hotels available so we had to stay at a motel with like a jacuzzi cub tub in the middle of the road.
Speaker 2:That's where I tell Abby these are your neighbors. They don't leave. These aren't people that are here for the night. These are your neighbors.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love Airbnbs. It's kind of you get to see where local people live, because you're living in a condo or your house or whatever that you're renting out for the week or weekend.
Speaker 2:The house was adorable. It was only 800 square feet so it was two cute bedrooms, bathroom in between, adorable kitchen, Nashville decor, pink couch. It was so Abby and I it was stupid.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's awesome, I know so.
Speaker 2:I'm happy I found it. I'm sure most they were amazing.
Speaker 1:I had a good time. Did you meet Mr Wright down in Nashville? Did I save a horse or?
Speaker 2:ride a cowboy? Yes, I didn't either. You know what I chose this time to just be selfish and it was good. I needed to take a minute. I've been busy and working too much, as you know, and the break up last month, and so I just wanted to chill. I didn't want to talk to any humans, especially boys.
Speaker 1:I was like, yeah, no, yeah, I didn't meet anybody on my trip either, but that wasn't the reason I was there.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:But we're always hopeful. Yeah, I mean I might have had a vacation, no cup before Shut up.
Speaker 2:Are you kidding me? No, oh, my God, honey, that's the shit you write in that book You're supposed to burn. You don't air that out on podcasts. Girl L Popper, she has your back with honesty, Good Lord, that was perfect, I love you for that.
Speaker 1:We were out, met him at a bar, had a good time, holy shit yeah, made out with him on a couch.
Speaker 2:This is awesome. This is why Jen likes to solo travel. Now I know why. It's not the reason why, Uh-huh, she's hooking up. Now I know the purpose of solo travel. I thought it was just like to read meditate go for a long walk, get to know yourself.
Speaker 1:Well, it could be both. I mean, solo travel can be about peace and quiet. It's definitely about finding yourself, and you learn a lot about yourself solo traveling, because you have to make decisions, you have to be uncomfortable being uncomfortable Right, and you have to learn how to navigate stuff on your own. But it's also. You can meet a lot of people, meet strangers, meet new friends, or you can just sit in your tranquility and find your own peace. It depends on what you want to do.
Speaker 2:I met a great girl in Nashville. Did you see? She is on our Instagram, yeah she gave us a shout out.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was a beauty queen. We did pictures together and we just had a great time. So, yeah, I do like that aspect of getting to know new people and the photographer. She was adorable and they were laughing at some of my comments I've said on the podcast Like, yeah, sometimes there's not a filter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it happens. That's life. Life does not have a filter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is true. So we chose to drive to Nashville because I wanted to do kind of like a little road trip and with Ab and we just I loved it every minute of it. Great story. Okay, I'll embarrass myself, since you probably just aired out your dirty laundry. You want to know mine. So we all know that I was in a very bad spot for 20 years, married to somebody that wasn't a good choice, and so there was a lot of fear in my life and yeah, so my parents at the time lived in Tennessee and they were like we hadn't seen the kids yet. My babies were like four and six and they were like bring them down. So I asked my husband if I could go and he was like yes, which I really was surprised. He said yes, I was surprised he was going to allow me to do this, and I think the reason why he said yes because he thought I'll scare so much she won't go. Well, he did put a lot of fear into me of all the bad things that were going to happen.
Speaker 1:Like on the drive down, on the drive down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jen, I was so afraid I made my four and six year old and myself wear diapers. Yep, no-transcript. We wore diapers, we peed in diapers because I was so afraid to pull over and go to the bathroom with my kids in public.
Speaker 1:What would you think was going to happen?
Speaker 2:Oh, he had us kidnapped, he had us mugged, he had us murdered. I mean every scenario. All these things are going to happen to you.
Speaker 1:So you made a humor on diaper. That's like okay, from Michigan to Tennessee, that's what like eight hours, girl.
Speaker 2:That thing leaked everywhere. They don't work. They do not work. That's all I'm going to say is my diaper days are done. I didn't want them done. Yeah, your poor kids might be yeah.
Speaker 1:What did you, six year old, think of being in a diaper?
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know yeah, I don't even know if the kids probably did fine, because they probably slept. I remember leaving like at three o'clock in the morning, ok, so they probably slept through it, but I didn't, because I was drinking, you know, 12 cups of coffee. Maybe I should have doubled up. So this time around, it was so freeing, it was so unbelievably freeing, and that is like one of the lessons for me this last week and my healing journey is that I need to do the things that I was afraid of before, because that is so freaking powerful, that amount of like, energy and fire that I felt in my soul to do something that I was told I'd never be able to do, and to do it well and without fear and pay for it. Girl, I was like high five self. I drove the first six hours never six hours. Jen killed it.
Speaker 2:Abby woke up. She's like are we almost there? I'm like, yeah, and you want to drive? I was so happy. I was like I pee four times. And now, by the way, I'm being at rest areas. We're not even doing McDonald's fancy shit, I'm like. I'm like oh, I got to tell you this too. I was waving to the truckers because I couldn't figure out the rest area.
Speaker 2:I went the wrong way, so I'm hanging out with the truckers. Do you know that?
Speaker 1:truck drivers can travel with their dogs. Yes, they have. Some of them have sleepers in their cab, but there's sometimes the nicest people.
Speaker 2:But I didn't know they could travel with their dogs and they were so cute. It was like all these men like in their semis and these dogs next to them and I was just driving around waving. I was like thinking, oh, have I come so far?
Speaker 1:They're probably on their CBB like brunette and the terrain.
Speaker 2:Lost Driving around circles. She might be a killer of prostitute we're not sure yet, folks, but she friendly, yeah. So that is my one huge embarrassing story, but more importantly, it was really sad. It just goes to look back at how bad things were for me and how I just dealt with it. Like I'm still fascinated by the amount of strength that I have to endure that for so long.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm glad it's over and I'm glad I got to push through this weekend and do something that was so awful in my mind set before, and to do it well. It was powerful. So I'm all for solo travel now.
Speaker 1:Where do you want to go? I love it and I love that you brought up, because I think a lot of people have fear in doing something like that alone Right, because you're going to a different city or you're going to a different country. That's not a comfortable position for people to be in. I think there's like a lot of fear of doing something actually alone like that, instead of traveling with a friend, or you're traveling with your family, or you have guilt about leaving. If you have kids or a family, or if you have guilt about going on a solo trip. It could just start as a weekend, because I think people need to get out of their comfort zone and explore this world.
Speaker 2:Amen. It's so beautiful out there. There's so much to see, so much to do, so many people to meet there. Really aren't that many bad people out there. No, that's one thing I've learned is there's a lot of good freaking humans out there that are willing to help and be kind and give tips.
Speaker 1:I think it's keeping your expectations and fear in check when you travel and doing research on where you want to go. So if you're starting small, maybe it's a city you've always wanted to go to and see museums or whatever your vibe is Just do your research, tell people where you're going.
Speaker 1:Tell a friend, tell family hey, this is where I'm going, so I'll be for the weekend. So you have that sense of comfort and you're by yourself. So you can plan whatever you want, do whatever you want. You can change your schedule. You can not change your schedule, can eat Doritos in bed.
Speaker 2:Praise God.
Speaker 1:You can Netflix and chill in your Airbnb bed all day if you want and not be touched. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. So bye. Have I really traveled alone? Alone, I think my answer is going to be no. I drove a lot. You know I've drove with the kids just twice then Nashville, and then, right before my divorce, I drove the kids to bear hunt. I took the kids on the last bear hunt, I went on and that was like 20 hours but I was traveling like I was following my dad, so it doesn't really count. So I'm really wanting to. I'm going to put a goal by the end of the year maybe my birthday, because my birthday is in November and to do a solo travel trip. Because you know me, I love my black church and I want to go see Michael Todd and he is in Oklahoma, tulsa, oklahoma and I was thinking I just need to get my butt on a plane, get a hotel, go down, stay Saturday night, wake up and go to church on Sunday morning, have brunch and come home Like that sounds amazing to me.
Speaker 1:Who's? How do you know this guy, or how do you?
Speaker 2:like I found him at first I found him years ago on tic-tac and then he wrote a book called Relationship Goals and then he blew up and now he's like on YouTube and now he has his own like podcasts. His sermons are on and he travels and him and his wife are both pastors. They're beautiful human beings. Like the church is on fire, like it's so cool and you know me and I know that's not probably PC to call it black church, but I'm a really white girl and I love me. Some black church Like I want to find one. Like local. Like even if I have to drive two hours, like that is my thing. Like the way they love Jesus is like so moving and powerful to me and the way he preaches Like I just I love it. So that's my goal.
Speaker 1:A lot of passion. They do have a lot of passion. What about driving there To Oklahoma and stopping at certain destinations? And yeah, why not drive?
Speaker 2:That would be so far.
Speaker 1:What is it like 10-12 hours Girl? I don't know, but I would totally make a road trip out of it. That makes me nervous.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah yeah, let's just start slow here. Jen, jen, baby steps. Let's put my ass on a plane, get me in a hotel, get me an Uber, get me, you know, bed and breakfast.
Speaker 1:My first solo trip was after my divorce. I did a trip to Tennessee like, did a little cabin, did it by myself. And then the next time I did a solo trip actually it was right after I moved here to Michigan, during COVID I was like I am sick of this apartment, I am don't know anybody here. I had lived here for six months. I had met somebody right after I moved here. We dated. He broke up with me in June during COVID Fitten boy, that's all Sorry and I was like I am tired of this freaking apartment, I am tired of being in this apartment by myself. I like didn't really work for two months because we couldn't go into the hospital and I was like, fuck it, I am going to go see Northern Michigan by myself. Oh, we went to the UP, yes. Did you go to like picture racks? No, I didn't go that far. Okay, I went to Petoskey, oh, nice For two days.
Speaker 2:Petoskey is not in the UP, but you're cute, I said.
Speaker 1:Northern Michigan. Oh, I heard UP. Oh, sorry, okay, northern Michigan.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I went to Petoskey and then I stayed a couple of days at like Boyne Mountain and took the dog, took Maggie, oh up, boy, that's cute, I love boyne. Yeah, we hiked, did you see?
Speaker 2:their new bridge they built.
Speaker 1:Yes, it looks amazing, I want to do that yeah, the fall bridge tour, that's beautiful, yes, like the skywalk bridge.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we should do it. We'll go alone, we'll drive separate. You walk one way, I'll walk the other.
Speaker 1:No, that's a, you know, I there's. Oh man, that's maybe the second part of this episode is traveling with friends, because there's some friends you can travel with and there's some friends you can't travel with.
Speaker 2:I learned that over there. Yes, yes, yes so.
Speaker 1:I. I booked an Airbnb. I went up there, I hung out. I mean, it was July of 2020. So there wasn't a ton of people up there, but I loved that time. Yeah, I hiked, went to a bar, hung out, talked to bartender. The bar in boyne. The bar in boyne it's so cute, it's so little. Yes, and then the little pizza shop. I can't remember what it's called. Their old man sitting next to me told me his whole life story.
Speaker 1:His family's been going there forever. They didn't want to come up with him this time, so he came up alone.
Speaker 2:I was like I'm here alone too, hey, that might have been your sugar daddy. That could have been the first one, jen, you blew it.
Speaker 1:Damn it, I did.
Speaker 2:You blew it, I get a place at Boyne Mountain, dang it.
Speaker 1:And then I met this other young couple. They bought my dinner because they were like are you here alone? I'm like, yep, somebody broke up with me. I decided to finally see Northern Michigan, made friends with them. It was amazing. I loved it. I was like I got to see Northern Michigan. I got to hang out by myself, hang out at the pool, have a million people be like we love your dog. She's so mega doodles.
Speaker 2:I love it. All right. So you were really off on your timing of the driving new Northern Michigan girl, which no one says that it's either up or the lower, Like we're two peninsulas. That's it, girl.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I know you indeed, I've learned all the lingo here.
Speaker 2:I know Upper or lower.
Speaker 1:Well, what's Detroit? Because that's just a city, baby. Oh, either you're in Detroit or you're in lower Michigan. No, you're in a different city.
Speaker 2:They have names like Fenton, Grambling. These are cities, love. Ok, it's 14 hours oh to Oklahoma, but you drive through Missouri, and so I could go see the Kansas chiefs play. Fuck, yeah, right, so then I could go watch football, go watch church, Actually be a church, then football. What if I can do the same? Oh yeah, girl, that would be my ideal Sunday. Driving might be the key I could get some football and church. My little happy heart would be good. So we'll see. I'll let you know.
Speaker 1:I feel like you feel so empowered after you do a solo trip Because A you have to make decisions on your own. There's things that are going to come up that you're going to have to deal with. I had a situation where, when Maggie and I were hiking, I missed the trail marker, oh shit, and it ended up taking us a really long way around and I ran out of water and it was getting really, really hot and she was panting pretty badly and I was like, oh god, am I going to have to carry her? If I yell for help, there's like nobody else out here.
Speaker 1:I passed like nobody on this trail for like an hour. So I was like, oh shoot. So I'm like trying to get my phone out. I'm like, ok, just stay calm, this is going to loop around back eventually. I'm like you're just going to have to take breaks when she needs it. But note to self bring more water when you're hiking with a dog.
Speaker 2:Learn to lesson and watch your trail markers.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, learn to lesson Bring more water than you need. Grab an actual map of the trail. Just don't rely on your phone?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, because GPS and Wi-Fi and all that go south. But in defense of you, I missed a very important marker Once in my life. It was on a 5K and I ended up running my first half marathon, oh my god, that's a huge mess.
Speaker 1:Were people wondering where you were at?
Speaker 2:And then I made it to mile eight and I was like I'm going to die and finally I had a runner next to me. I was like I missed the turn, didn't I? And he was like the 5K turn. I was like, yeah, and he's like, girl, you still got a lot.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh, but I finished. But it was amazing Because I was like I just did my first half marathon so it didn't kill me. But yeah, I know how that goes Missing the mark. I miss the mark a lot in live, Jen, that's. I need that on a t-shirt.
Speaker 1:But that's when you really learn about yourself and you learn to handle an obstacle. And how mentally can you go to get where you need it to be and not just have a freak out moment and just quit and I think sometimes it's beautiful to miss the mark because then you don't psych yourself out of it.
Speaker 2:No, I had no anxiety about running my first half marathon because I didn't know I was going to do it Right Isn't that crazy? I didn't even train.
Speaker 1:And now you can say you did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. I did a few of them after that because I was like I got this Nice, yeah, so well. I'm glad you had a good time in Brazil. I'm glad you're back. I'm glad you didn't fall in love with some Brazilian men and I'd lose my bestie. So welcome home, thank you. I'm glad you had a good time. I'm glad we didn't run out of gas me getting you there for it. So you're welcome for that. You made your flight, you made it home safe. All is well in your world.
Speaker 1:You know, what's funny is, when I landed this first thing, I asked my friend. I was like do you have gas to get us home? And she's like why? And then I told her this story and she was like oh my god, I'd be freaking out. I go yeah, girl, that's why we're friends.
Speaker 2:Exactly yeah no. I was like I will figure it out, but you know there's always faith or fate. What if that guy that came and rescued me was him?
Speaker 1:Maybe, Maybe that's how you meet Mr Right. Yeah, I mean, my vacation hookup did not turn out to be Mr Right, but we talked for a couple of weeks afterwards.
Speaker 2:Right now I can hear my dad going no, the tow truck driver's not your. Mr Right, get your shit together and get gas before you take gender day report.
Speaker 1:next time, yes, dad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:Perfect.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, so I want to know your next goal for solo travel.
Speaker 1:I have a pretty big one that it's been on my like agenda for like a year and actually I was supposed to do it with a friend, but we could just never get it right. So I actually want to hike Mount Kilimanjaro and then do a safari afterwards and at this point I'm gonna have to do it alone. Nobody else wants to do it with me. So I'm like you know what? I'm gonna do it alone, let me get a guy and I'm gonna do it. I probably end up being with a group of people, like put with a group of people.
Speaker 2:Maybe we should take you on a bear hunt first. I feel like we should toughen you up a little bit.
Speaker 1:I mean, mount Kilimanjaro is just a lot of walking honestly. It's not like crazy Everest hiking. You can do it in six to seven days. I've done my research, man.
Speaker 2:Good, good, good Bring water.
Speaker 1:Well, they have water for you, but and like the back of camels. No, no, they care, like they have porters that carry all this stuff and they carry all the food and they make your food the whole entire trip. Wow, yeah, so there's solo travel, and then there's there's now these things that are like group solo travel, so where you join a group of other single people.
Speaker 2:They're so cute, the women ones. I love them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do look like a lot of fun. And I would say, if you're trying to ease into maybe solo travel or just traveling by yourself is, start with a weekend, yeah, or start with a group solo travel with people who want to do something similar interest to you, because I've seen when, where they do like hiking and stuff the women Like they'll hike out in Utah or go to Yellowstone, which I think that would be amazing, beautiful. Yeah but my big bucket list is Kilimanjaro.
Speaker 2:Alright. So when is this going to happen? You know me, I love dates. I like to put the pressure on us.
Speaker 1:Well, it was going to be next year, but I also have a trip to Hawaii for my niece's wedding, which, by the way, I need to decide if I'm going solo to that or bringing a plus one.
Speaker 2:Can we start taking resumes, please, el Poppers? Should we have a contest? Send me your damn resumes for Jen One she's officiating the thing which is badass, and the dress is beautiful. So once again, jen is just a superstar, and yeah. So if you know any boys that need to be in Hawaii, let's say men.
Speaker 1:I don't need boys.
Speaker 2:Yes, I know.
Speaker 1:Men who can pay for their own flight, because I'm not paying for your flight.
Speaker 2:You're not a sugar mama.
Speaker 1:No, so my prerequisites are that you have to pay for your own flight. You must like to dance, because we're going to be out on the dance floor of this wedding.
Speaker 2:Tearing it out.
Speaker 1:Yes, and have a sense of adventure, because we're going to do some snorkeling, we're going to do some hiking to waterfalls.
Speaker 2:Alright, so send your resumes to lastpieceapiepodcastgmailcom. I will comb through them. And yeah, let's get Jen set up. When's the wedding? June of 2024. June Next year You're going to miss Abby's graduation, then When's her graduation? It's going to be end of May, early June.
Speaker 1:Their wedding is like the 13th or 14th.
Speaker 2:Oh, we'll be done by then.
Speaker 1:Okay, good, alright. So I was going to do it next year, but Hawaii trip. So depends on my budget if I can do both. If not, then I'll probably do a local solo trip I thought about the Smoky Mountains or maybe out to Montana.
Speaker 2:So the one thing I want our listeners to get from this, right now that I'm getting, is that you've done this for a while, right, so your new trips are longer, more extravagant. Mine, since I haven't did it, are going to be simpler and smaller to get my feet wet, which is totally normal. So, wherever you're at, whether you've done it before or you haven't, start where you need to start, the important thing is just to get started.
Speaker 1:Yes, I think everybody should do it at least one time. I love it One time. And the best quote actually, a friend of mine that's doing a solo trip right now he is in Scotland. We'll call him Captain Indecisive. He did a solo trip, Finally, and he did it because he saw a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt saying do something every day that scares you. And that's the reason why he decided to take the trip. I love that and he's going for 13 days.
Speaker 2:Good for him. Yeah, you know, what I would love is to do a hunt then by yourself. Yeah, well, I mean I would need a guide, like if I went out and did like a moose hunt or an elk hunt.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah, or like a sheep hunt or something.
Speaker 2:Oh, who Sheep? Oh, I thought he said cheap. I was like oh, honey, honey, it's not cheap. No like in Idaho or wherever. You want me to kill you a sheep, you want a sheep in the house.
Speaker 1:I'd actually just track along with you to just see that happen. I'll play, just be in the background, take a video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll put you in the stand this fall. Can you watch me bring home some, some venison.
Speaker 1:See, that sounds boring to me.
Speaker 2:My ADD would be like I love sin in the woods. It's so darn peaceful so that's kind of like a solo trip. It's kind of like my idea. Like I walk alone in the woods, I climb my own tree stand and I sit by myself for about four hours with the owls and the squirrels and the deer, and that is it. And then I climb down and it's pitch black and you got your headlamp on and, yeah, if I shoot, I got to go track and so yeah, I guess I do have a little solo in me. Look at me, you do.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's kind of like solo time, but a trip trip, though I think you need to do it.
Speaker 2:I'm ready. I think it's going to have to be Tulsa, oklahoma. Yes, I need to go see my preacher man.
Speaker 1:I think you should drive, I think you should map it out. Give yourself like five days and do it.
Speaker 2:Oh right, I have five days free. Sure, we'll get right on that I'll clean some houses.
Speaker 1:Thank you, that night I'll be like. Sorry I can't do it during the day, but I'm going to be your evening house sleep keeper for the week.
Speaker 2:And then you're going to be like well, how many do I have to do? Can you come home? Oh, that's awesome, all right. Well, you know what? Cheers to solo travel, cheers. I'm in. Thanks for convincing me and, once again, thanks for walking out life. You're doing great. I'm proud of you, thank you.
Speaker 1:I'm an extrovert, so meeting new people does not scare me. I mean my parents. They're here this week. My parents would say I've never been a stranger. Aw, I love that. So for me, when I go on a solo trip, sit at the bar, talk to the bartender. They love telling people about their city and the local places to go. Or if you're too introverted, bring a book and just sit at the bar.
Speaker 2:People do that?
Speaker 1:Yes, no way. Yeah, I've done it before too, where I'm like ah, I'm a long day.
Speaker 2:I'd be so embarrassed.
Speaker 1:No man, Really Bartenders don't care.
Speaker 2:If I sat and run.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:And drink cucumber martini.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, you look very sophisticated lady down there.
Speaker 2:Girl, I'll get my blue light glasses.
Speaker 1:What is she reading?
Speaker 2:Jay Shetty. How to get my shit together. How not to die alone. Or at least, if I do it happily, that's going to be my book how not to die alone. But if I do, I'm going to do it fucking happily. Hell yeah, that's great, all right.
Speaker 1:Cheers I'll let you know where I head. Cheers, ladies and L-poppers, tell us your dream solo vacation. We want to hear it. We want to see pictures of you out there living your life on your solo trips.
Speaker 2:For sure. Tag us on Instagram. Tag us on.
Speaker 1:Instagram at Last Piece of Pie podcast, or email us lastpieceofpiepodcastatgmailcom. Peace, peace.