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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Rita’s Place

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Co-host Kelly McEvers doesn’t usually return to places – she always wants to go somewhere new. But there’s one place that makes her break her own rule over and over again.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My thing about traveling is I always want to go somewhere new.

0:04.3

Like, I never want to do the same thing twice.

0:07.0

But there is this one place that makes me break my own rule.

0:11.8

I recently went there five times in a single year.

0:15.3

I will do my best to describe where it is.

0:17.4

But to me, it's just the place where Rita is.

0:26.3

Yeah. describe where it is. But to me, it's just the place where Rita is. Rita is one of my best friends. She used to work in public radio. We actually met working on a

0:31.8

story together. Now, she worked for the U.S. Forest Service. So she lives in this beautiful

0:37.4

part of southwestern Colorado and a town called Bogosa Springs.

0:42.5

And she's from just a few hours away in Taos, New Mexico.

0:49.5

So this place, this kind of upside-down triangle that has southwestern Colorado on the top

0:55.9

and northern New Mexico at the bottom, is a place I keep going back to over and over because

1:02.6

it's amazing. And also because of Rita. You could call it two corners, because it's really

1:09.4

close to four corners,

1:15.3

or just call it the place I go to and spend time with a really good friend,

1:18.7

a place where I was able to get through some hard stuff.

1:25.9

I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Atlas Obscura,

1:30.9

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

1:39.2

And here at the show, we ask people a lot of questions, and sometimes we like to turn the tables and ask them of ourselves.

1:48.6

Today's question for me was this, what is a place you never get tired of visiting over and over again?

2:10.3

That's after this. A couple years ago, I was having a hard time.

2:14.1

My job situation had changed in kind of a big way.

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