Part one of this episode is dedicated to a very special little nut: the filbert, also known as a hazelnut. In the second half, Mikaela will trace the origins of Colorado's breakfast burrito and reveal the best places in Denver to get them, along with a little ode. 

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Welcome to Mikaela and Topher's 2022 Christmas letter. This special edition is a little shorter than normal and shares all the highlights of 2022. Merry Christmas!

If you want to see 2022 photos, head over to Mikaela's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themillennialoutside/

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*This episode contains music so if you're listening on Spotify, pick the Spotify version. If you're listening anywhere else, go to Spotify for the best experience!*

In this episode, Mikaela reflects on why we love going to the mountains for the weekend with nothing but our backpacks and trying to survive so much, before she takes you on a pop culture journey to an establishment near and dear to so many of our hearts: Waffle House.

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Welcome to Season 3 of Sea Salt & Parm! In this episode, Mikaela's doing something a bit different and welcoming her first podcast guest: Vince Ruland, aka her dad. In this episode, they recount their summer 2022 climb of Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro, cover a sample of Vince's mountaineering career including Denali and Aconcagua and discuss what it means to leave the objective behind and mourn for something that never was. 

Season 3 will continue to mostly feature the essays you know and love in the same format as previous seasons, with some of these special guest episodes sprinkled throughout. Let Mikaela know what you think of this episode by dropping her a DM on Instagram @themillennialoutside.

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In the season finale of Sea Salt & Parm's second season, Mikaela takes you with her to France where she tastes a lot of wine, many, many strawberries and the world's best butter to better understand the word "terroir."

Then, she shares an essay more than a year in the works on loss, grief and healing. If you're not in the headspace to hear about grief, you may want to stop listening after the coyote song.

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In this episode, Mikaela reflects on knowing a place through all of its seasons and knowing herself through all of her life's seasons. Then, she shares her journey so far training to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and how incredible the human body is, and how fickle the human mind.

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In this episode, Mikaela explores fika, a Swedish coffee tradition that revolves around one of her favorite substances in the world: coffee. Then, she follows the geese to her local retention pond and waits for the elusive winter snows to arrive, reflecting on change.

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Welcome back to Season 2 of Sea Salt + Parm!

In the first half of this episode, Mikaela reflects on the importance of rest, saying no to the hustle and being present. Hence the unplanned six month hiatus. In the second half of this episode, she finally covers her very favorite food: pasta. From those blue boxes of childhood to weeknight cacio e pepe pici, there's an invisible string made of semolina running through her life. 

Read The Summer Day by Mary Oliver.

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It's been over a year now since the pandemic changed everything. In this episode, we'll take some time to mourn all the things Mikaela misses from the Before Times.

But first, she'll take you along for the ride on one of her favorite pastimes, both before the pandemic and now: road trips. Bonus (or minus, maybe) you'll get to hear a road trip song from her childhood. 

This episode is dedicated to my dad, who first introduced me to the road trip and yet to be discovered naturally occurring phenomenon (but not like new variants) 

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I'm really digging deep into the theme of simple things I find extraordinary with toast: so simple, so extraordinary. Then, bear with me through a horrible recorded, very short middle segment to get to one of the most random travel stories I have. A backpacking trip on Japan's sacred Kumano Kodo, where we checked into a "poison" hotel and learned about the kindness of strangers.

This episode is dedicated to my toast loving pals Ben and Natalie who were very insistent that I make a toast episode and, of course, Marian, who introduced me to the piece of toast that changed my life. 

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