Exploring Australia's Outback: Off-Road Adventures on the Plenty Highway

What happens when you hit the road less traveled in Australia's rugged outback? Join us as we navigate the Plenty Highway, a stretch that offers a blend of rocky dirt roads and awe-inspiring vistas. Reflecting on past escapades like the Cape York adventure, we talk about how perceptions of road conditions vary from traveler to traveler and the key role adaptability plays in the wild. With practical tips on using community app charts for planning and a nod to infrastructure changes that may soon alter these iconic routes, this episode is a must-listen for off-road enthusiasts itching to explore Australia’s wild side.

We dive into the essence of outback travel, where isolation meets beauty in the vast expanse of Jervois Station. With stories of transitioning from basic tools to advanced iCheck tyre management products, we capture the unique charm of life on the road. Discover the surprises of the outback as we highlight the vastness, emptiness, and unexpected joys that punctuate our journey, making every kilometre an adventure worth savouring.

We also meet Henley and his family at a remote station campground, where self-contained camping becomes an essential part of the quintessential Australian experience. With ample daylight on our side and convoy friends Ben and Deanne, we embrace the challenges and rewards of the road, including spontaneous tyre resolutions at picturesque and very unique spots like Dinner Table Rock. As we recount roadside adventures and outback camping, we leave you with a reminder to dream big, cherish the journey, and value the people who make these adventures unforgettable. Check out the Gear we love on our website - https://thefeelgoodfamily.com/gear-and-discounts/

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• 17:26 Roadside Adventures and Outback Camping
• 28:48 Cross-Country Road Trip Insights

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Speaker 1: 0:00

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Speaker 1: 0:33

Welcome to season nine, episode two of the Family Travel Australia podcast. We are Paul, Katie and Jasper from the Feel Good Family. Join us as we explore this great country, Australia, its people, places and cultures.

Speaker 2: 0:55

Yes, welcome to the Family Travel Podcast, where we share the latest in RV industry news road trip travel, caravanning and camping, product reviews, where to go, what to do, and so much more. Thanks for joining us this week.

Speaker 1: 1:10

we tackle the most remote highway in Australia 480 kilometres of rough, rocky dirt roads, stunning sceneries and plenty of flat tyres. Here we go.

Speaker 2: 1:24

Oh yes, when we said we are hitting the plenty highway, we had plenty of people. Give us all the reasons why maybe we should reconsider our route. That's true. It was really interesting actually, and you know we've learned after five years of traveling the country that everybody has a different meter, a different gauge of what is considered rough or corrugated, or don't take that road because of the conditions, and it varies for everybody, and that is totally fine, and you drive to your conditions as much as you do to the environmental conditions.

Speaker 1: 2:06

That's really well put, katie. The interesting thing is that when we went to the Cape Cape York you know the rite of passage for every Australian we went up there and we were very, very nervous. And the interesting part of this is that we were with a group of maybe eight other vehicles and everybody had a different experience. Everybody had varying degrees, as you say, of what was rough and what wasn't. Look, I do think it changes from day to day as well.

Speaker 2: 2:41

Oh, absolutely Particularly. Somewhere like Cape York, when there are a multitude of vehicles going up over a three-month high season, you know, across the winter months, and it can definitely be different from day to day. I mean probably even from the start of the day to the end of the day, traveling along those same roads that are intensely corrugated. Well, what a surprise we had awaiting for us on the Plenty Highway.

Speaker 1: 3:11

Yeah, look, in the main we would say a gift, like from what we had sort of you know Built up in our heads.

Speaker 1: 3:19

Worked ourselves up to this epic road condition, and there certainly were parts. No, it was, it was amazing. All right, let's take you to our start of this journey. It's 140 kilometers north of alice springs, where we left you there last week in gem tree, and today's journey is a couple of hundred kilometers. It's going to be 100 kilometers, kilometres of bitumen, yeehaw, then a hundred kilometres of, as we said, very good condition, but very sandy, a heavy road, I call it.

Speaker 2: 3:54

A heavy road. And look, I have to just give a little shout out. But to a fellow caravaner who placed a post up in one of the wiki camps campground apps along the Plenty Highway and it was a little chart of the bitumen to dirt gravel kilometres along the stretch, because like all of these outback roads out here in the middle of Australia, parts of them are slowly becoming bitumenized, if that's even a word.

Speaker 2: 4:33

Bitumened. It is now, and it was really great to have that as a reference so that we could look at our day and go okay, we know we've got 100K of bitumen, then we hit the dirt, then we know we've got 237,.

Speaker 2: 4:48

I don't know if that's the correct number I'm just pulling numbers out of my head right now kilometers of dirt before we have oh, look at that 20Ks of bitumen, and that was a really fantastic reference for us to be able to look ahead, particularly when we were getting organised to leave January, because we had no idea of what the condition of the road was going to be in.

Speaker 1: 5:12

Yes, I love that too. We had a similar chart that was posted in the Cape York group as well last year when we were travelling up there. It is really fantastic. You know we get a lot of comments of well, this road, it just ain't like it used to be. You know it was dirt road. It is part of, you know, the world's longest shortcut.

Speaker 2: 5:35

Yes.

Speaker 1: 5:35

Which basically goes from, I think, somewhere up near Cairns, all the way across to Perth.

Speaker 2: 5:40

WA.

Speaker 1: 5:41

It's kind of like this diagonal cut through Australia, right through the centre, and it was, yeah, completely off-road. You know they are bitumening, or bitumentising, shall we say, the entire route over the next 10 years. And so we, yeah, we would recommend that. You know, you, if you do want that little bit more of an adventure, but, uh, you know a a relatively easy version of it, then then get out there. Now you still got, you know, 480 kilometers of dirt along this stretch, um, split up, as you say, probably across 700 odd kilometers. Uh, but it it will be bitumen at some point because they seem to have been able to fund it at federal and state level. And so, yes, I don't know, I don't think it's going to happen all that quickly. You know what I love Not a lot happens quickly, no, no, that is true.

Speaker 2: 6:38

That is true for various reasons. I love it when we run into I'm totally digressing now, by the way when we run into other caravanners on the road and they say to us gosh, we remember we first drove the Nullarbor when it was unsealed. It was all dirt road and I just think how cool would that experience be to cross that Nullarbor on an unsealed road back in the day. You know, the rules were totally different back then too.

Speaker 1: 7:06

Yes, there was the Nullarbor Nymph. Look that up, that'll give you some good entertainment. We did a podcast on that, I believe. Some good visuals. We did do a podcast on that. Look, the interesting thing okay about this sort of travel is that you dry clean your memories and the reason we say that you generally do that across your life is that you know the most crazy, even stressful, travel scenario in five years' time is your best story.

Speaker 1: 7:38

You know, and if you've survived it, you sit around the campfire and you go. Oh my gosh, remember when that was.

Speaker 2: 7:43

Yep, Absolutely Well. As soon as you mentioned Cape York, I just got this flood of emotion. And wasn't that the most amazing trip? And, oh, we really should do. Like all of these emotions that conjure up inside of you, we should do this again. That was brilliant, Even going over those corrugations, the red dirt. The reality was there were days we got out of the car and we thought, if we drive over one more corrugation, that'll be the end of us.

Speaker 1: 8:12

Chopper me out of here, macgyver, please.

Speaker 2: 8:15

Yes, but you do dry clean your memories and you hold on to the best of anything. I think that's in part a little bit of self-preservation too, isn't it? I mean, we don't want to hang on to all of that excess baggage.

Speaker 1: 8:28

If your vehicles had a voice, I think they'd say no thanks.

Speaker 2: 8:32

Yeah Well, yes, I definitely think so. Hey, a little shout out. That's a good point, Paul. I mean, we have taken our van, this Zion RV, and the Land Cruiser, the 79 Series, bless you To some of the most incredibly remote places in this country, and we were only saying the other day, like haven't we really put these vehicles to the test in the two and a half years that we've been? Can you believe it's already been two and a half years we've been in this new setup and like we've dragged them up to Cape York and we've taken them out into the middle of Australia and on you know, some roads that a lot of people don't even know exist, and haven't they just performed incredibly well?

Speaker 1: 9:18

Amazing, and if you were standing here with us now looking at our vehicles, they look like they've been through that.

Speaker 2: 9:24

Oh my goodness, they're the filthiest they've ever been. Thank you very much, plenty highway.

Speaker 1: 9:31

We should get back to the show notes Katie, all right, so that trek then, once we finished that incredibly good bitumen road like the best bitumen road for its location that we've ever been on, that bitumen road was better than the East Coast roads of Australia.

Speaker 1: 9:51

Oh, hands down. Better than the Bruce Highway? A hundred percent, most things are, though, and we pulled over and we thought, righto, let's air down, and really great, and a definite plug for a product range that we, hand on heart, think is the best you can get. Uh, the tpms from i-check, we've got our tire pressure monitoring system. We've got our automatic tire deflating system. We've got our digital uh pressure readers.

Speaker 1: 10:22

You know that these guys have got so many great products, and we, through a partnership with them, have a 10 feel good discount code, so if you go to their website or go to ours and you use the discount code feel good, you get 10 off, which is pretty cool, and we get a little clip as well, so you can keep our wheels rolling. So, so thank you, but they are awesome products, so we deflated our tyres. Now, a word of warning here for anyone out there who's doing this kind of thing, where you're inflating, deflating tyres is that We'd already done 100 kilometers on the bitumen at full tire pressures, so the tires were already hot, and then I had preset our tire deflators to 25 PSI. They're like really cool little gadget, and they screw on, and you've predetermined the pressure that you want them to deflate to and I hadn't considered that the tires were hot, so I put them to 25 PSI.

Speaker 1: 11:19

What our aim is to get all of the tires 30 PSI or under hot. Okay, and this is not really from any of our own testing, although we've tested this plenty of times and it's survived and never had a flat tire in these conditions. But our good mate, tony Davies, an Australian 4x4 treks. He does tag-along tours. He's done 80 of these and had two flat tires across his entire years of doing these tag-along tours, that's, his two of his customers have had a flat tire.

Speaker 2: 11:54

It's remarkable, isn't it?

Speaker 1: 11:56

It is remarkable when you think of just the hundreds of vehicles that he takes on tour and so that 30 PSI is a really great rule and we've tried it and it works. Okay. So that's. We got it from an expert, not from ourselves, really. And so then I went ah, hang on, if we're putting them to 25 PSI and they're hot, then there's always a four to six PSI change in the heat of the tyre. So if the tyre's hotter, then there's going to be actually more pressure in there than when they're cold, and so I probably should have put them at 30 PSI straight away.

Speaker 1: 12:32

Anyway, kate went around and topped them all up. Yeah, that was fairly quick and easy. It is fairly quick and easy. We fortunately have two compressors. We have one on board that's built into the 79, and we have one that's built into the zone, and so what's great is we divide and conquer Katie does the van, I do the 79, and we are ready to roll. But then we had to go around and top them all up. So just a bit of a tip there.

Speaker 2: 12:55

Yeah, really got to love this gear from iCheck. I have to say, though, I've been so fond of my little stick that I've used over the years, paul, when we've been doing tyres, prior to finding these iCheck products that we now run, and they obviously they make our life so much easier, but I've lost my stick. My stick's become redundant, letting those air pressures down with my little. I had a Kakadu stick, I had a Litchfield stick. I was collecting all of these neat little gadgets along the way.

Speaker 1: 13:26

Basically it's a stick. We've had a lot of people over the time write in and say what's that special tool you're using to deflate your tires? And we're like it's a stick. Probably not the best thing to use because you don't really want to get gunk in your valve. But yeah, no, katie's had a collection of sticks around the country.

Speaker 2: 13:46

Yeah, we've gone all professional now Darl with our iCheck product.

Speaker 1: 13:50

Look out. Okay, so hitting the dirt. Now, what was a huge surprise for us was how sandy it was. What was a huge surprise for us was how sandy it was. And I want to say the Plenty Highway you're seeing on the maps, you know heart range and this range, and it is so flat there's barely a rise in it. So if you're, you know, thinking about traveling this year, you're wondering well, is there any major climbs up mountains or nothing? It is flat. Okay, but the surprise was that it was so sandy this first 100 kilometres, not the whole way, but some of it really soft sand.

Speaker 1: 14:25

I think, we were travelling at about 65, 70 kilometres an hour as an average across our entire time. On the Plenty, that'd be about 65, 70 kilometres an hour for us.

Speaker 2: 14:36

Yeah, absolutely, and we were surprised at this first section. It wasn't really rocky at all, more soft and as you said, paul Sandy. But oh my goodness, the scenery. It is just spectacular out here when you look at your location. You are just north of those East Macdonald Ranges and and it truly blew us away. I don't know what we were expecting to see. I think we were expecting to see a whole lot of nothing, and then this was one of the prettiest outback drives we've ever done.

Speaker 1: 15:11

Exactly the heart ranges. The colours in the ranges and the landscape that rushes up to meet the base of these ranges is stunning. And look, let's not, you know, paint the wrong picture. Here there is a lot of nothing. You are in the middle of the country Out here, but there's some really stunning highlights along the way as well. Okay, so we continued on our first station. Stay along the Plenty Highway is Gervois. Continued on our first station. Stay along the Plenty Highway is Jervois, spelt Jervois, but I don't think you'd hear any Aussies especially in the outback saying oh, I work and live on Jervois station.

Speaker 2: 15:49

No, I don't think so. And look, this was actually a recommendation from Alex. At Gemtree he said to us why don't you just go a couple of hundred K up the road tomorrow when you're leaving? Stop in at your voice. They're great people. And so we took his recommendation. As you do when you're out in these parts, you listen to the locals.

Speaker 1: 16:05

Absolutely should.

Speaker 2: 16:06

And that was a great overnight stay. Now, look, we didn't pull in until very late in the day, which kind of goes against how we like to roll. Generally, we like to be somewhere by about four o'clock at the latest, so you've still got plenty of sunlight. You can get yourself set up. There's no stress, there's no rush.

Speaker 1: 16:26

There's no kangaroos.

Speaker 2: 16:28

There's no wildlife You've missed the golden hour. Yeah, but look as it was, we were pulling in fairly late in the day and we were greeted by the family who own and operate this station. It is a working breeding cattle station From memory Paul.

Speaker 1: 16:47

They have about 8,000 head of cattle out here on their small parcel of land 1.2 million acres, and it is so large this property, and certainly nowhere near the largest in Australia. That's, I think, Anna Creek Station is over 5 million acres or something Largest in the world, actually Anna Creek Station, but here at Jervois, 1.2 million acres, they have 120 kilometres of plenty highway frontage.

Speaker 2: 17:18

Yes, 20 kilometres of plenty highway frontage. Yes, it's quite incredible when you're getting your head around these figures and the size of these stations out here. Well, we rolled on in and we were greeted by Henley, this lovely young man. He was Jasper's age. Very official, righto, who's camping? Come on, I'll give you all the details. Give me your cash $20 cash.

Speaker 1: 17:43

thanks, yep. Can I interest you in any soft drinks lollies?

Speaker 2: 17:48

chips, ice creams yes, he did interest us in ice creams. We purchased a couple to enjoy a little bit later on the trip. But a great family here that are operating this station. They live out here, they work out here and they've opened it up for campers to come in. Now, of course, given where you are, you do need to be fully self-contained as far as your power and water go, but they do have bathroom facilities out here that they put in for campers. There's also fire pits and cooking barbecues out here in the campground area.

Speaker 1: 18:26

Very cool.

Speaker 2: 18:27

It is. It's really cool. You can even get fuel out here if you need it, and that's a really good point, paul, there's fuel everywhere along this Plenty Highway stop.

Speaker 1: 18:38

Yeah, a lot of questions coming around how many jerrycans should we take? We found, even in these remote places, that really, as long as you've got a jerrycan as your backup, you know, 20 litres it's probably going to get you out of trouble, you know. And the other rule would be, once your fuel gets to halfway, be seeking out a fuel station and you shouldn't go into any sort of issue, you shouldn't run into any problems.

Speaker 2: 19:04

Yeah, absolutely. So you can top up here at Gevoice. We paid our 20 bucks to Henley, had a nice chat with him and his mum, Claire, and then went and got ourselves all set up.

Speaker 1: 19:19

We bought two ice creams as well. We supported Henley's own fundraising plans, yeah absolutely so.

Speaker 2: 19:26

in we go to the campground. It's a pick your own spot kind of deal. There were maybe two or three other campers there that particular night. Plenty of space and it's just beautiful. It is out here in these parts of the country. I always feel like we've just been transported into the pages of a Banjo Patterson poem.

Speaker 1: 19:49

Yeah, you know, dorothea McKellar.

Speaker 2: 19:51

Yes, you are literally camped by a billabong under the shade of cool bar trees. I mean, we actually were out here and it's just incredible. You've got that red dirt, you've got that massive dry riverbed in front of you, you've got the glass, you know, flying around above you and in the trees and the sounds of the Australian bush. It.

Speaker 1: 20:18

It's just awesome. And billions of stars and the quietest night's sleep you will find. I mean zero light pollution, zero traffic, noise just stunning.

Speaker 2: 20:31

Yeah, absolutely. This was a great overnighter. In fact, if you wanted to, you could easily stay a couple of nights and just enjoy being on the station and at this campground for a day relaxing.

Speaker 1: 20:42

Look, we were not in any rush to leave the next morning, so we were up early, had our coffee, sat out there, just listened to the beautiful morning wake-up songs of all of the bird life. And then we decided right, it's time to hit the road, because today is 220 kilometers and there are a couple of highlights, so we're going to share those with you as we pull out onto the plenty highway. Look right, look left still nothing coming. But this is the section of the road that is a lot rougher, and by rough we mean sharp, pointy rocks along this road and the occasional rut or pothole. So you just have to be on your game and be aware. Again, drive to the conditions. Also, drive with your headlights on. I don't know if I've said that I said it in last week's episode, I think but always drive with your headlights on out in these areas, because you need to be visible.

Speaker 2: 21:43

That's great, Paul, Great advice. And look, we were still looking for those corrugations and I have to say we didn't really find them. There were a few small sections that were corrugated along this whole Plenty Highway strip, but mostly it was just the rocky part of this day. We certainly didn't see any corrugations similar to what we experienced at Cape York?

Speaker 1: 22:07

No, not at all, not at all. And look, I think we had one vehicle the entire day. That's right, yes, which is amazing, and 220 kilometres. You've really got to allow almost four hours for that sort of travel. Today took us about seven.

Speaker 2: 22:26

Why is that Paul?

Speaker 1: 22:33

We're travelling with Ben and Deanne and their three kids in convoy and taking turns, taking the lead or being tail end, charlie. We're communicating on the radio fairly regularly and we normally leave, you know, one to two kilometres distance in between us, and that's really just because of the dust. That's, you know. It's incredibly dusty. It's, you know, as dusty as anything we've ever been on, absolutely Because it's very dry at the moment, so, which is great, it's the time you want to do the plenty I can tell you that, yes, do not attempt it after any rainy conditions.

Speaker 1: 23:04

True. Now, as we're traveling along, I get a call from Ben. Look, I think I've got a slow leak. He's got a tire pressure monitoring system, he uses iCheck as well and he said yeah, it's beeping at me here, I'm going to have to pull over. So we pull over, we're like perfect time for a cup of tea and a wee. And as he pulls over, the beeping stops, the leak stops and he's like, oh, maybe it's actually fine Anyway. So we fortunately had stopped at one of the highlights, which is dinner table rock, and it's this formation of a rock flat and then some other rocks, little rocks around it that set it to be like a dinner table with seating.

Speaker 2: 23:48

It was amazing.

Speaker 1: 23:49

Under the shade of a little tree, and there's not a lot of trees out here.

Speaker 2: 23:52

Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1: 23:55

We did. We had lunch out there and there were plenty of flies. In fact, jasper said would you like flies with that Once you get over those? This natural you know nature's table I think we referred to it as was a really interesting, unique experience in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 2: 24:16

Yeah, absolutely. I'm really keen to find out what the rock was, because when the boys tapped on the table it had this really metallic sound, not like when you hit a rock and you don't really hear any sound other than a low thud. This gave a really metallic sound.

Speaker 1: 24:37

Like you're tapping a rock on the side of a steel pylon.

Speaker 2: 24:42

It was really interesting, wasn't it?

Speaker 1: 24:44

It's exactly what it sounded like. Now I can hear it again in my head. Yeah, yeah, very strange. I'm sure there's plenty of people out there going oh, that's ironstone.

Speaker 2: 24:52

Yeah, well, it very well may have been. Now that you say it like that, that's steel rock.

Speaker 1: 25:12

Yes, yes, no, it was very cool. Look, I have to admit, I sent the boys out to eat their lunch outside because they were like, yeah, let's go do it. There were too many flies for stops, so we rolled on out of there after lunch. Only another 100 meters and then that tire completely deflated. So he must have just pulled up on the perfect spot which actually sealed the hole, and so a decision was made well, let's not change the tire, it's Ben and Deanne's, let's plug it Now.

Speaker 1: 25:51

I will say that Ben is in a brand new 300 series towing his Jayco family van, and they have been across the Great Western Central Highway on the other side, you know, perth, through to Uluru, and they've had a couple of flats there as well. But their vehicles have been incredible, yes, except for the tyres. And the reason is is because Ben's still running factory Toyota tyres yes, whatever comes out of the factory. But it was just one of those things. He said I've got to get these. You know all-terrain tyres. He knew he had to get other tyres. And then you and then life happens as you try to pack up and get out and hit the road and he took off anyway.

Speaker 2: 26:29

I think what they mentioned was they were only out on a three-month trip. They knew they were going to be on the blacktop for most of this trip and so they thought, nah, she'll be right, mate. And then when we put the call out and said we're looking for somebody to come along the plenty with us, they were like, ah, bugger it, let's just do it anyway. See how it goes.

Speaker 1: 26:49

So look, we'll fast forward through the next three hours, but basically, I wish we could have done that. Across the next hundred kilometers. We're about halfway along our journey. That day there were another three flat tires. So three flat tires in total, seven plugs on the same tire, because Ben was convinced I can keep plugging this thing, and he did. I've never seen anyone so good at plugging Plugger, ben.

Speaker 2: 27:18

He is an absolute legend.

Speaker 2: 27:20

I have to say and a very, very quick shout out here to both Deanne and Ben, because they're travelling with three young children an 18-month-old baby and two young kids Jasper's age and they were just cool as cucumbers this whole time. Nothing stresses these guys, and not even standing out amongst a gazillion flies. It was so windy this particular day as we were driving on the plenty, so that the dust that was just getting blown across the road into everybody's faces as they're out there while Ben's plugging this damn tyre and Deanne's out there being his best assistant, they couldn't wipe the smiles off their faces. They were so chilled and just cool about the whole process.

Speaker 1: 28:06

Look, we've taken a leaf out of there, but we're trying to be calmer people.

Speaker 2: 28:10

What did you say? Ben is zen, ding ding, yeah, and just remarkable. So we were just in awe of these guys doing what they needed to do and still rocking up into camp later that afternoon with plenty of smiles and laughs.

Speaker 1: 28:25

And that was amazing. You know, we did continue on and roll into camp and still haven't changed the tyre.

Speaker 2: 28:31

I think that last plug that he was doing. We were like 20 kilometres from the turnoff to Tobermory Station, which is where we're spending the night, you know. You could almost see it from the rise. I was like, oh my God, it's so close.

Speaker 1: 28:46

Look, it's a good tip too. We left early enough in the day. I think we still didn't roll out until maybe 9.30 am.

Speaker 2: 28:55

Yeah, it might have even been slightly later than that.

Speaker 1: 28:57

Oh, was it Okay, but we had hours of sunlight you know to travel 200 kilometres, 220 kilometres, so you wouldn't be in too much trouble If you had to. You know, pull over, as we say, there's nothing coming, so you can pull over and camp for the night and then deal with it the next day. But having all those hours of sunlight really just puts you at ease because you just think, all right, we're going to get there.

Speaker 2: 29:21

Yeah, and look, we did eventually get there, but again, we were pulling in really late in the day, yes, which is remarkable when we say late, it's still sunlight, but 5.30 when our rule is 4 pm.

Speaker 1: 29:33

So now we're going to talk about Dobomore next week, but we're going to wrap it up there for our travel on the plenty this week. I do have an awesome takeaway, though, katie. All right, this is relevant. A bad attitude is like a flat tire you can't go anywhere until you change it.

Speaker 2: 29:56

I love it and that is so true. And again, just hats off to Ben and Deanne because their attitudes were amazing this entire trip. And again, just hats off to Ben and Deanne because their attitudes were amazing this entire trip and they were an absolute pleasure to convoy with and it added to the adventure.

Speaker 1: 30:11

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