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And what is going on you guys? My name is Lilly Monroe and you're listening to

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Escort Confessions. How's it going? Hi! Thank you so much for tuning in today.

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Today I will talk about my trip to Yosemite Park because it has been quite a

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fantastic journey and I actually spent my birthday there. So on my second day I

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drove to the park and it was so freaking gorgeous! It was one of the most

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beautiful parks I've ever seen. The mountains, just everything.

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Even the people were nice, even the people were pretty. So to go to Yosemite

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Park you basically have to like go to the eastern side of the California

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California state so like close to you know Nevada and whatnot and in

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Colorado. Yeah it's like there, close by. So I thought I was gonna see Yosemite

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Park like oh I'll make a stop here, here like this stop, this stop. Yeah no it was

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huge. It's a huge park so it took me two days to explore everything. So I had to

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stay the night and apparently September is also a high season even though it's

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cold as fuck at night. So I had to... I went to first hotel, could not find... they were

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all fully booked with seniors for some stupid ass reason. And then I went to the

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next hotel they were also booked and then the third hotel was a lodge and I'm

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like hi I'm having trouble I really hope you have a room I don't care how shitty

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the room is, where it's located at. I just I just need a place to sleep because I've

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been driving that day for 14 hours. I've walked so much that day like I was just

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like passing out in the lobby. I was exhausted. So yeah thankfully they did

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have a room and it was like 300 something but I'm like you know whatever

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it looks like a regular room it's a little bit nicer and it's a lodge and

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they have like the pool and you have to like couple of restaurants you have to

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pay for breakfast separately they have game rooms they have jacuzzi and what

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not and I'm like you know fuck it it's fine. So I spent the night there probably

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slept until like 10 in the morning until the time I had to check out but I did

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ask for a later check out which was fine and then I went to explore the rest of

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the park and then the park just mmm there's so much so many trails to

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explore but I probably took the most picturesque one and kind of you know

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got close to the cliffs and people told me I'm crazy and I'm like haha thank you

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yes and I met really two cool I met two cool chicks from Texas and yeah they

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took a bunch of my pictures which was super nice of them I took some of them

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and yeah they were also solo female travelers I'm like yeah so I kind of

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hung out with them for a while and yeah then I drove to the couple of Airbnb's

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which were I could not find any people at those Airbnbs and Airbnbs in bed

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and breakfast because I don't know apparently you have to reserve it and

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there was no signal at all in those mountains I'm not sure why because a lot

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of people are there and people could get lost without their GPS and I am not

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talking about myself so yeah so I explored bunch of Yosemite Park but yeah

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let's just say Yosemite Park is like one of the top three of the parks that I

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ever went to so far so after Yosemite Park I drove to back to the coast I

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think I stopped at Santa Rosa and it was pretty nice pretty nice sound they had

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like the whole they had like roller coasters there on the beach and I think

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it was Santa Rosa I honestly cannot remember because like with every new day

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I woke up I'm like where the fuck am I and California has all those like San

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Diego San Antonio Santa Rosa Santa Lucina and Lucia and yeah yeah but yeah I did

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go to a lot of like national parks and state parks and state parks are pretty

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cool because you just like pick random state park that looks picturesque and

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yeah and I was lucky because I went to a lot of them they were pretty picture

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perfect and yeah took bunch of pictures and yeah let's see where else did I go

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after that I went oh yeah Yosemite Park has a couple of waterfalls and my mom

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told me do not climb anywhere where it looks dangerous I still climbed

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everywhere where it looked dangerous and somebody actually tripped while they

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were climbing and it was not me it was some older guy and it looked like he

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broke his arm or just actually no it looked like he dislocated his shoulder

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and for the first time ever I asked people do you need some help they said

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no they were Russian I'm like oh well never fucking mind I didn't say that to

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them but I'm like well I am NOT helping anybody else right now not helping

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anybody ever it was like my first time asking to help somebody and yeah they

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were like oh I'm like okay yeah basically I climbed everywhere took shit

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ton of pictures had a bunch of fun drove to see some really cool lakes again lots

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of pictures it's it's like I don't know if heaven is real it looks like Yosemite

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oh that would make a really cool yeah cool logo on the shirt something to put

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on to put on the shirt so after Yosemite I and after all those Santa Santa towns

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I drove to the town called weed it's an actual town and they have a small

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souvenir shop and the guy is super nice there and yeah the town is called weed

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go check it out drive there it's pretty nice drive I went to another park where

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there was an active kind of volcano ish but it wasn't active at the time it was

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just active like then I drove to the coast tried driving to the coast until

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I got lost in the woods and for about 30 minutes I kept no actually sorry for

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about an hour I kept going the same road over and over back and forth I'm like

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where the fuck is the exit because my GPS was not working again California such

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a big fucking state no signal anywhere like I started like just having mental

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breakdown ish ish but yeah then I finally found a way I think oh that's when I

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stopped in Santa Rosa yes all these towns are getting mixed up in my head and

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I stopped at this really cool hotel where breakfast was actually free and it

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was right next to this like an airport type of thing and yeah and I had the

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best sleep of that month that night and then the morning after that I drove to

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the most awesome wharf I have been to and I forgot the name of the wharf so

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it's called Monterey the town of Monterey such a beautiful wharf I don't

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know what it was about it but like all those little shops and the Marina was

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right next to it and everybody was super nice and maybe like the Sun I don't know

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everybody seemed happy and I just kind of wanted to stay there longer I didn't

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want to leave and like the city itself was really cute and whatnot and just

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everything everything and yeah so then I had to go back to Santa Barbara and to

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Malibu and I stopped at the Malibu Hindu temple unfortunately it was closed again

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because they have really weird schedule it's like 6 a.m. until 2 p.m. and then

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they open at 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. super super weird um but yeah and I drove back

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to LA from Malibu and I stopped by Paul Walker's Memorial at the Forest Lawn

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Memorial great sight thing it's called Forest Lawn Cemetery there we go and

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yeah his memorial was super easy to find because I googled it and just by the

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pictures online I'm like that's where it's at because so there's two Forest

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Lawn cemeteries there's one I was at the second one I've already been to the

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other one and I liked this one better just because it was more open and I don't

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know because it has Paul Walker in it well it kind of doesn't have him in it

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because yeah but he has his memorial so I was like went to his memorial I finally

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like I don't know I've been blocking the tears for like two months and I just

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kind of bawled my eyes out at his recent place so um yeah I guess I was writing a

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poem there and I kind of provoked it and I left like a poem and then a couple of

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bracelets I guess that I made for him and yeah and that was like a kind of a

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conclusion to my trip and but it was a nice trip it was like I started with

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Fast and Furious locations ended up with his memorial which was like a nice end

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of story I guess um I don't know what to explain it but um yeah but it was a

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really good trip even though like I didn't go surfing I just didn't have

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time I didn't really have time to do anything and I didn't even grab my laptop

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which was a good thing because again didn't have signal didn't have time I

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drove throughout like most of the way so you know like what's the point of grabbing

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laptop if I'm just gonna drive can't really use it so but yeah it was a good

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trip just yeah hope you guys enjoyed this podcast and if you have not been

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to California you should definitely go just stay the fuck away from San

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Francisco cuz cops are stupid and just the city itself like bunch of

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assholes like you're gonna get robbed and shit like that so California is nice

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just if it had it would be nice if it did not have San Francisco in it so I

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think almost the population would agree with me so yeah thank you so much again

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for listening to this podcast and I will talk to you guys next time