Onto the topic for today, I've been truly dying to talk about this for a year because, and people know that last June we took a road trip to Forks, WA to go look at all of the Twilight stuff, which I always talk to you about this of like we lived in Vancouver together and then like I live in Victoria which is like even closer.

Why the fuck did we not think to go to Forks sooner than 2024?

No, I don't.

I, I, I still don't know because I imagine, here's my thing is I don't think I knew the geography of how close it was.

Actually, if you did, that's on you.

That's your.

Body.

Yeah, no, like I did, but you.

Knew this, but I don't think I knew it because I definitely would have been like my one year living in Vancouver.

I would have made sure to go because it's so it's so easy to get to relatively what versus when I was living in Ontario and and we would have had even I feel like we would have even been had more fun if we did it back then because.

The the dollar was probably better.

I was a lot more unstable.

Like the one thing about being medicated is like I'm like not fun anymore.

Like I like literally like my like my mental health is so stable because of Wellbutrin that like I'm it was like a fucking snore bore.

So funny.

We did.

We were not snoreboards.

We had a lot of fun, did we?

We didn't.

We didn't party Hardy, but we did in our hearts when we went, when we went.

There also, I want to say that like I've lived in Victoria for, you know, a billion years at this point.

My apartment is when I tell you, 12 steps away from the Port Angeles ferry.

Like 12 steps, Literally, literally 12 steps.

Like it's like we didn't even need to get into your car unless we needed to drive, actually, except we needed to drive once we got there.

Where do we even begin?

Because I have so many.

You're gonna have to steer us because I have so many like recollections and feelings things about this trip.

Where do you want to start?

Like we took so like Victoria to Port Angeles.

You can take a ferry.

It's like an hour and a half, two hours.

And like if people don't know the history of twilight or you're like not like crazy like as Port Angeles is where they go like shopping for prom dresses and like it was Bella and Edward's first date.

So it's actually pretty far.

It's like an hour ish, an hour and a half away from Forks proper.

But like from me it's like 0 minutes like I can see it like when I go for walks every day to the ocean I can literally see it with my eyes across the like straight or whatever.

But the.

Biggest thing that happened to me, like when we got there was the surreal like gasp, which could only come from girls who were 14 who picked up these books and were obsessed with them at the time that I was like, Oh my God, this is where they had their first date.

Oh my God, this is.

And the big one was again, I didn't realize quite how like windy and long the drive.

You loved the drive and we put on the soundtrack and like we.

Put on the soundtrack.

You were like, no, you literally said to me you were like Bella and Edward would be driving down this road to their first date.

And if you still are not gobs backed by that, I don't know what to tell you.

I was so emotional.

I was like, this is where he was speeding when when when they were coming back from Port Angeles.

But but it was so first of all, it's a beautiful like what, the Olympic Peninsula?

Stunning.

Stunning.

And so I was like, wow, I also didn't realize like quite how beautiful and like, oh, I'm like, This is why there are so many campers and hikers.

And that's why Mike's family has a store for hiker and the crashing reality of of that and being so excited.

And then we drive up to fucking.

Forks, WA.

I want to tell you guys the high.

Yeah, like, Speaking of high highs and low lows, like the absolute, like even telling this story, like our energies up here, we're gonna have to bring it down for when we talk about like forks, like I was riding a high that I've like that I could only assume is like taking a hit of cocaine or whatever.

And and The thing is, is that the first like, photo stop is the fork sign.

And it's the sign that they use in the movies.

Yes.

And it was like so easy to find.

We just like pulled over, did like a 10 minute photo shoot.

Wait, wait.

Before you wait, hold your thought because I have to, I have to tell everyone how you were like the entire time we're going there, you're like, I think there's gonna be there's gonna be lineups of people.

You, you kept being like, I think there's going to be like 50 people at the sign.

We're going to have to wait.

And I kept going.

I don't think so, Tori.

I think it's not that popular anymore.

And you're like, no, no, no.

I tell you, pull up.

There's nobody at the sign.

I was like.

There was like 3 people in the town and two of those three people were us.

Like I, I don't know, like I like low key and like, yeah, OK, my bad.

Because it's like, it's just, it's so important to me that I just assumed that it would be important to other people.

But it's like, I thought it was going to be kind of like Disneyland or like I'm trying to think like what?

Like, I feel like in New York people go to like, I'm trying to even think like, I feel like they go to Cat's Deli for like When Harry Met Sally.

And like, like, I just thought that it was gonna be like that.

And it definitely was.

Like there were people there to see like Twilight stuff for sure.

Like when we went to the treaty line, when we went to the museum, like there were other Twihards there.

But like, I, I swear to God, like I just pictured in my head that like there would be like, like I was like, Oh my God, there's gonna be people in the like background on my picture like.

Oh, you definitely thought that, but I but I will say it was still a high when the sign came up because it's so iconic.

We got an yeah.

The rest of this podcast is just us singing this Twilight soundtrack because that's the only, that's the only good thing left is US.

And the magnet that I got.

And there was a dad and I think an adult daughter who came and took us picture of the sign.

And I was like, do you want us to take a picture?

And they were like, no, we were like, can you take a picture of?

And so we got that, and then we start driving into town.

Again, I'm flying high like it again, it's like going to Disneyland for me.

And so we're like, hey, we're starving because it's like lunchtime at this point.

So we're like, we'll go to the diner.

So it's not the diner that they filmed him that's in Oregon, but it's the diner that Stephanie Meyer would have envisioned Charlie and Bella like eating dinner at.

And when I tell you actually like my burger and like it was actually like fine.

That's funny.

I mean, you know how I'll.

I was, yeah.

You were like physically I'll that night.

So it's like, yes, the diner food was probably rancid, but it's like at the time I was like, it was very like classic diner food, but like they had like the Bella Burger and they had like, was it like a milkshake?

I think they had it was they had a couple things.

I mean, the biggest thing for me and this is my Canadian like mostly living in the suburbs and big cities bias showing was I haven't spent a lot of time in America.

I know that there is just like a different vibe and feeling especially like small, especially small towns.

And when we got there, it was just, first of all, it's a very, very small town.

And so it's not kind of the big city that you're, I don't know, like I guess I know I knew it was a small town, but I was still thinking that it had maybe more infrastructure or more things.

So like the smallest towns that I've been to have like, yeah, like 2, like Main Street, like like maybe 2 streets that are there, like downtown or whatever.

This was one and like honestly kind of 1/2, like it wasn't even like a full city block, I think.

And also you're right, like I feel like a lot of this is so rude, but like whatever.

A lot of Canadian small towns do have like kind of charm.

I'm sure there's fucking fugly towns out there.

But this was like the towns that you see in like, in like horror movies that take place in the States where it's like their car breaks down, they get a motel, and then they get murdered.

It just felt very.

Like there is more gas stations than there was where it's like, I feel like in a lot of, again, Canadian small towns, it's like there's like actually like thriving like small town businesses because.

People.

Don't have options like I'm thinking of in Vermeer in the Kootenays of BC.

Like it has like really good bakery, a really good coffee shop, like that type of stuff that makes it cute.

But like, this was I actually, and like I told Megan this too, like multiple times, but I was like, I actually feel like like I felt deeply sad.

Like, yes, you were.

I'm telling you, you said we were flying high and then guess what?

Icarus flew too close to the sun and we burnt to a crisp and fell to the ground.

A profound sadness.

You kept kind of looking around and we're like, is this really it?

Because you were, bless your heart.

You kept taking pictures of everything.

And I had already made peace with.

I was like, I don't need to remember.

I don't need to remember this with photos.

And you were like, no, I'm gonna take a photo like we were here.

And I'm like, no, we got the sign, babe.

Like anything else to remember this.

Thank you so much for listening.

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