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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Dylan’s Mailbag: Traveling With Kids, Girls’ Trips, and Pedal Pubs

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Dylan has just returned from a month-long trip with his family, and he and the gang answer listener questions about traveling with kids and more. Have a question for Dylan? Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message. You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at Hello@AtlasObscura.com, or simply email your question.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, Amanda? How's your weekend? It was great. We went to Coronado yesterday, which is like this really touristy kind of island in San Diego Bay. We rented a tandem recumbent bike.

0:14.8

Oh my God.

0:15.8

For like an hour and a half. And we were thinking of first, have you seen those bikes that are called like Surrey's? It's actually like a four person kind of bike. It has four wheels and a half. And we were thinking of first, have you seen those bikes that are called like Surries? It's actually like a four person kind of like has four wheels and it has like an onig on the top. Yeah. And you're all pedaling. Yeah. I've done the Surrey. But with a group of my lazy, I'm friends where like I was pedaling that Surrey. It's like a tragedy of the commons and bicycle format. Fair enough. You ever done one of those pedal pubs? Oh, yeah. 16 people and everyone's like drunk. Yeah. The cruise ship of bicycles. Have you? No, but weirdly I've always kind of wanted to. Like they're awful. I've done it like three times. I absolutely would do a pedal pub. I think that would be so much.

0:54.5

I'm kind of shocked that neither of you have gone this.

0:55.6

The team retreat?

0:56.9

This is our team retreat.

0:58.7

This is it.

1:00.7

Petal pop.

1:01.4

Tell Doug and Camille, you're going to see a questionable expense on the show credit card.

1:10.4

All right, let's do the intro.

1:12.5

I'm Dylan Theris.

1:13.6

I'm Yohanna Mayer.

1:14.9

And I'm Amanda McGowan.

1:16.7

And this is Atlas of Skira, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

1:21.8

Today, we are doing another listener mailbag episode where we try to answer your most unusual and esoteric

1:29.5

questions.

1:30.1

That is after this.

1:32.4

I like that word specifically soliciting esoteric questions.

1:36.7

That's our niche, baby.

1:38.4

Yeah, yeah, Dylan.

1:57.1

We're all here. Hello. Hello. Hello. It's good to be back. I'm glad to be home.

2:01.8

Well, so for people who are listening, this is like your first day back at work. The day that

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