Hi this is Outside In and today I'm here with producer Barbara Paulson and Barbara

I have to confess that I no matter how many times we've talked I have yet to actually

figure out where you are like what side of the country we're talking to you from.

Oh, I'm in Washington, D.C.

Okay, all right.

Yeah.

So what's this story that you've brought for us?

Well, this story starts with this woman named Donna.

Hello my name is Donna Camille Davis.

So on a November day a few years back Donna and her boyfriend got in their car

and they drove north from their home in San Francisco.

So if you can imagine on the coast of Northern California, you've got some fog, things are

dewy, everything smells like the earth.

Feels like you're going to run into some elves and fairies up there.

This is not a real place.

This is a made-up place.

I know, right?

It is pretty magical. We were finding the most amazing mushrooms

They I think we counted seven different types of

varieties of edible mushrooms from hedgehogs and trails trumpets

black trumpets bluettes matsu takies no porchinis because it wasn't the time

a year but okay so Sam do you know the difference

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