[speaker001:] well have you taken any vacations that you enjoyed lately
[speaker002:] yes took one in October and uh drove flew into Los Angeles and drove up the coast to uh through Monterey and San Francisco and over to Lake Tahoe and flew out of Reno
[speaker001:] okay so you went up like the Coast Highway for a way and then then went inland there
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh was really great
[speaker001:] is is that was that a new area for you to visit
[speaker002:] most of it was because I had uh seen parts of northern California and I'd been to San Francisco but never along the Coast Road
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] it was quite exciting
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] my husband said he didn't know whether he wanted to ever drive it again though
[speaker001:] it's the
[speaker002:] have you been
[speaker001:] it's scenic I guess I I've I've been to a part of that on a trip to San Francisco I I went up just a short ways up the coast to I believe it was Point Raid uh National Seashore I think it was
[speaker002:] um I don't remember that
[speaker001:] and I only had about a day so it was just a short drive up from San Francisco and back when I was out out for business
[speaker002:] oh well we went uh we liked Monterey very much and uh it was just kind of a relaxed pleasant town with a lot of things to see and do and and then uh the Muir Woods on the other side of San Francisco um that's another really bad drive but it's it's worth going to
[speaker001:] uh the the Redwood forest there
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] what part of the country are you from
[speaker002:] originally from Texas I was raised up in Dalhart so uh anything that doesn't look like flat plains is uh like I told someone once I always thought Dallas was real green because it was the greenest place I'd ever been
[speaker001:] are you currently living in Texas
[speaker002:] oh yes live in Dallas
[speaker001:] okay see I'm in Texas too but
[speaker002:] where are you from where do you live
[speaker001:] in Richardson
[speaker002:] okay well you're just a a suburb of Dallas
[speaker001:] that's right well we uh my family and I moved here about three years ago we lived in Colorado and
[speaker002:] oh oh my
[speaker001:] uh and that's a good vacation spot too but it was nice living there
[speaker002:] yes yes well we uh when our children were young we used to go to Estes Park
[speaker001:] yes I I didn't live too far from there in fact I bicycled from my house to there a time or two uh
[speaker002:] oh how fortunate you were
[speaker001:] uh from Boulder I lived in Boulder Colorado
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh that's that is one beautiful place
[speaker001:] uh I I uh didn't probably take advantage of it as much as I probably would if I moved back you kind of take it for granted when you live there but
[speaker002:] no yeah
[speaker001:] I did enjoy the skiing and and the and the winter sports that that was available there
[speaker002:] um well I've never skied my husband keeps saying we need to go but uh we have never done it yet but uh everyone who does says it's great
[speaker001:] yeah it's enjoyable if you do it more than once or twice so you get past the learning stage so you can start enjoying it it's a little bit frustrating when you're falling a lot but after after you get past that it's a lot of fun
[speaker002:] uh-huh  you have to enjoy the cold snow in your face huh
[speaker001:] well it sometimes can be yeah it it uh you can get some nice days skiing as well though if if you're not falling you can stay pretty dry and
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] and uh it can be pretty nice the dry climate doesn't feel near as cold as as it does here in the winter time to me
[speaker002:] yeah well I think that uh no the dampness course our humidity is sort of medium compared uh well where I was raised is extremely dry
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but my brother lives in Houston and
[speaker001:] it's the the other extreme
[speaker002:] yeah so we're kind of in-between but uh my mother always said that Dallas was extremely humid to her
[speaker001:] yeah it's I I agree with you it's sort of in between yeah after having lived in Colorado a lot that was a little dryer than was probably comfortable it's a bit little too dry and
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and this is actually a pretty good climate humidity wise in in the Dallas area
[speaker002:] uh-huh have you gone on any vacations lately
[speaker001:] last uh uh summer we uh we went uh and took the family to Cancun in Mexico and uh we really enjoyed that trip
[speaker002:] oh yeah have they uh we were we were there when it one of the first times it was open they were just building the hotels and
[speaker001:] well it's pretty built up now
[speaker002:] I was afraid it had become so commercialized
[speaker001:] yeah it probably was more enjoyable when you went before it was too too built it's it's a real strip hotel strip now out out on that island
[speaker002:] uh-huh did you go over to the Isle Mujeres
[speaker001:] uh yes we we took a sailboat uh catamaran ride over to Isle Mujeres and they took us around let us shop a little while and then took us to some snorkeling uh
[speaker002:] um yeah oh did you get to go out to that reef
[speaker001:] spot