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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Arrows Across America (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

An adventurous couple sets out to document and unearth the arrow’s of America’s past, once used to help pilots find their way across the skies. GET MORE You can learn more about Charlotte and Brian’s journey – and see photos of the arrows they’ve documented – at their website: dreamsmithphotos.com WATCH THE ECLIPSE WITH US! The Great North American eclipse is April 8, and we're throwing a festival to celebrate. This is the last one in the U.S. for 20 years! So, we're inviting you to Hot Springs, Arkansas (which will be in the path of totality) from April 5th to April 8th. There will be bands, stargazing, panels and more. For information and tickets, go to https://ecliptic.atlasobscura.com/

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0:00.0

Hey, I hope you enjoyed the Over Our Heads Theme Week.

0:07.0

We got one more episode to go, and this one introduces you to an adventurous couple who chronicles relics of America's

0:15.1

past that were once used to help pilots find their way across the skies.

0:19.2

If you've enjoyed our theme week we want to to know about it, and if you can't get enough of

0:26.0

gazing into the cosmic wonders, then you should really join us in a few weeks at Atlas Obscera's Ecliptic Festival. It is our crazy wild gigantic

0:36.2

Eclipse Festival from April 5th to April 8th in Hot Springs, Arkansas. You will find a link

0:42.1

in the episode description. It will be a truly once in a lifetime experience.

0:47.0

Okay, back to the show.

0:50.0

My name is Breyer Smith. I'm retired from the California by we

0:56.6

children now for 17 almost 18 years and I'm his wife Charlotte. We've been married for 53 years now and we're old.

1:06.0

53 years. He's 75. I'm 72. It's been an adventure. We met at the drive-in movie and

1:17.0

She was in a two-tone 58 Chevy. He was in a canary yellow mistake.

1:22.8

Charlotte and Brian hit it off.

1:24.8

Six months later, they were married.

1:27.5

And with that kind of origin story,

1:29.8

they were bound to have some adventures. We've been to Egypt, we saw the pyramids.

1:35.1

We've been in West Gulf, Hawaii a couple of times.

1:38.8

We've driven, what'd you say, 40 states? 42 states? We've been to 41 states. They rode motorcycles together,

1:47.2

bought an RV, saw the world. And then one day, Brian got an email.

1:53.8

I originally got the email from a friend of mine

1:57.5

that I used to work with.

1:59.0

He sent me this viral email with a couple of pictures on it as I forwarded it to Charlotte, which he opened up.

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