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Hey guys, what is going on?

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My name is Lily Monroe and you're listening to Escort Confessions.

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Thank you so much for tuning in today.

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Today I will talk about my birthday California coast trip to California coast.

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So I decided like a birthday present to myself.

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I'm gonna visit all of the Fast and Furious locations because I really have been enjoying

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this movie in like the last year or so.

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Actually since the beginning of 2023.

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And yeah, I became quite a fan.

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So well actually no.

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Oh my god, it's been actually a couple of years since I've been like on and off.

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Yeah, so here we are.

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So basically went to California for almost a week, left my cats with my mom because I

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cannot stand for them to be alone all by themselves for like more than a week.

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So yeah, so basically took a flew to LA, rented a car as usual.

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And the first thing I did was to visit the market at which the first Fast and Furious

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movie was filmed.

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And then I went to their house which is little like two-minute walk if not less.

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And their house, the Toretto's house is basically like fenced in.

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So like you can't really see the entrance, but you could see it's the house and it says

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like private property, stuff like that.

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Because I'm guessing a lot of people come there every day and whoever owns this house,

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they just get tired of it.

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And they're like, you know what, we're just gonna put really tall white fence around it.

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But you can tell it's the Toretto's house, like I could just tell.

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And then people were around it.

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So yeah.

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And then after that, I drove through Malibu.

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Malibu is freaking beautiful if you have not been.

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You should go and just drive through and you know, enjoy the Pacific, enjoy the surfing

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if you are into surfing.

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And yeah, I visited like a bunch of parks, visited Neptune's net which is like a basic

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cool spot for surfers.

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And had my last drink actually, Corona.

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Corona and a Hatuna sandwich.

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Yeah, if you can guess why, you get 5 points.

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10 points for yeah.

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Yeah, so I had my last drink and been sober ever since and it's been pretty good.

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Pretty good.

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Like yeah, I occasionally, like I was cut off like since last year and then I started drinking

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more and more and I'm like, God damn it, I need to quit once and for all.

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And I bought a bunch of alcohol like a week prior before I left just to be like, okay,

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is this worth it?

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And it was not worth it.

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Like my time, it did not take it.

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And yeah, so basically I've been sober ever since.

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But yeah, like drove through Malibu, drove through really, oh my God, the coast is so

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beautiful.

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Like I can't, I cannot praise it enough.

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And if you guys watched 90s Day Fiancé, Big Ed, like it's one of the like characters and

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stuff, it's a reality TV show.

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And I'm pretty sure I saw him by the Neptune's net.

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So like I'm pretty sure I saw him by the Neptune's net, except he didn't have a weird neck and

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he was surfing.

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Like he had the same tattoos, he was the same fat ass dude and he had long hair.

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And I'm like, should I say hi to him?

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Like I know who it is.

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I'm not a fan or anything, but I'm like, should I?

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Should I?

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I didn't, which is fine.

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And I'm pretty sure I saw one of the cast members from SNL surfing.

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I mean, it's Malibu, like celebrities live there.

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So it was quite possible.

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But yeah, I visited a couple more beaches that night and went.

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I drove, oh my God, I don't even remember where I drove to, but I remember before doing

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further drive that I should probably get in the ocean.

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The ocean was cold, but it was just so gorgeous.

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It was pretty hot weather and I'm just like, you know, I just need time to cool off after

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all this road, just to like rinse off and stuff and probably going to sleep in the car,

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which I drove to Santa Barbara and slept there, tried anyway.

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It was a pain in the ass to be honest, because I tried finding restroom.

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All the rest stops were closed at 6 PM or 8 PM.

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It was either 6, no, it was 7 PM.

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It was 8 o'clock.

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So like I did not want to go in the stores.

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Actually I did go to the store.

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I went to one of the grocery stores in Santa Barbara and they did not have any restrooms.

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They were closed.

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Actually, now that I remember, closed restrooms.

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I'm like, I really don't want to go in the ghetto.

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So I peed on the beach basically.

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Yeah.

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And there were still people walking by.

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I'm like, what the fuck, guys, get the fuck out of here.

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I just have to pee for like three seconds.

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And so I did.

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I did that.

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I felt like a cave woman, but it's fine.

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And yeah.

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And then I stayed in the car.

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I started falling asleep.

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Like I covered myself with this tiny ass green screen blanket that I brought.

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And around 11.58 or so, I hear a knock.

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My window.

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And it's the police.

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And they told me to park somewhere else.

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And he was nice about it.

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And I'm like, fuck, okay.

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So I parked.

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It was freezing.

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It was like in sixties, a little bit below sixties actually.

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And turned on the heat.

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And it was the sign that I should probably not sleep in the car because it gets really

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cold.

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I was not expecting it to be that cold, but whatever.

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And yeah, so I slept in the car.

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It was horrible.

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I was like, I'm just going to get a hotel.

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So I spent a bunch of money on hotels since then for like the next week or so.

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And yeah, went to Santa Barbara.

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Had a nice morning walk around its downtown.

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Ate some figs from the biggest fig tree that they have.

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I walked on the wharf.

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Went to a couple of beaches.

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Went to see a thousand steps.

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Those thousand steps were in a really nice neighborhood in Santa Barbara.

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And they basically led to the beach, small beach.

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I couldn't really tan there because I didn't really have space because everything was like

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stones, stones, bunch of stones and a bunch of water.

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And it was kind of private property-ish.

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So yeah, couldn't even put a towel anywhere.

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Saw a really cool church.

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And then another church.

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And Santa Barbara is really pretty.

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Oh, especially the city hall.

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City hall is like, ah!

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I didn't get the tour just because I didn't feel like it.

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But like just the city hall itself is gorgeous.

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Beautiful architecture.

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Like go to Santa Barbara city court.

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You will know what I'm talking about.

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City court and city hall.

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And yeah, and just like the downtown itself.

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I love mornings because that's not when a lot of people are walking downtown.

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And yeah, I met this Mexican dude.

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He's like, I started a small talk with him.

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And then I don't know how it led to it, but he's like, can I get your number?

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I'm like, I actually don't use the number.

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Like my signal sometimes doesn't work, but you have a great day!

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And he understood the hint.

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He's like, yeah.

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Yeah, even though morning is, you know, I looked like shit that day, so I don't know

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why he even flirted with me, but that's okay.

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Yeah, so Santa Barbara is like a touristy town.

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There is stuff to do, but probably not a good place to live.

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Just because it's expensive and shit.

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But yeah, Santa Barbara is pretty nice.

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And it looks like I need to break this podcast down in a few episodes because the next stop

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after Santa Barbara, I drove to Yosemite Park.

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And that is coming up in the next episode.

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Thank you so much for tuning in.

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I will talk to you guys next time.