Kelley Frink: Big Medicine, Lemonade Trucks, and Walking the Creek

What if joy is just a thing you have to walk to the creek for? Kelley Frink joins the show to talk about big medicine in the Wyoming wilderness, the lemonade truck that's worth pausing a meeting for, and the parents who named her Kelley because Kelly could also be a boy's name.We get into the family camping trips that started when her oldest was nine months old (including the Ford Explorer night and the trout in the kiddie pool), the Medicine Bow gas station with the broken vanilla-or-chocolate ice cream machine, and her mother-in-law's phrase for what happens when you're standing on top of a small mountain with no cell service: big medicine. Kelley also opens up about the fan battles in her marriage, why she suspects she's good enough at flint-spotting to actually find an arrowhead, and the day this week she paused a 2 p.m. meeting because the lemonade line was getting long.It's a conversation about happiness as a thing you find where you are rather than where you're trying to get, why returning to the same place every year does something repeating doesn't, and how the dumb little joys (a card game called Kings in the Corner, an eight-dollar flavored water) are usually the ones doing the actual work.Plus: the hot air balloon that drew an entire neighborhood out of their houses, why Matt secretly wants to go on Survivor, and a piece of advice about taking the vacation where there's no phones.Follow us today for some weekly joy.