Goodbye, Summer

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

As the summer travel season officially closes, we share our favorite memories of the warm months – from minor league baseball games with unique traditions, to surviving travel with kids. Plus, we want to hear your stories about traveling with your own kids – the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful. Give us a call at (315) 992-7902 and leave us a message. Or, you can record a voice memo and email it to us at hello@atlasobscura.com.

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0:00.0	I am sitting on the top of, I guess you'd call this a small mountain, in Olisand, Norway.
0:12.0	You hike up about 418 steps to get up here.
0:18.0	It's a good workout, everyone got tired. So now we're looking out across,
0:23.4	we're like way up high, and we're looking down. You can see the whole city of Olasant, all of the
0:28.8	like cute little Art Nouveau buildings. You can see these giant kind of islands and some of them
0:35.3	seem totally uninhabited and some of them have little, little villages and cities at the basis of them.
0:42.3	Oh my God.
0:44.9	Okay. As you can see, it's very hard to find time to record basically impossible.
0:49.6	It's like traveling with wild, feral raccoons.
0:55.1	You're just barely able to like get breakfast, get out of the house.
1:00.2	You know, you're trying to go grocery shopping so you're not spending so much money.
1:05.2	Your kids are, you know, it's quite an affair.
1:09.3	This is only the second time I've managed to record on this whole trip.
1:13.3	We can hear you.
1:15.1	Yeah, it's beautiful here.
1:16.7	I really, really like it here.
1:18.3	What do you guys think? Do you like it?
1:20.0	Sure.
1:21.1	Definitely!
1:23.0	Okay.
1:32.7	I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas Obscira.
1:34.9	It is the end of summer.
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