Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, co-host of the Atlas Obscura podcast. And today, we're going to play something a little different for you. It's an episode of a new show called The Detour. It's produced in partnership with Toyota Trucks. And the tagline is a podcast about going places that actually goes places. That's because in every episode you will hear a

literal road trip to a place that is worth a detour, like they're actually getting in a car and

visiting the place. It is so fun and it's something you don't often get to hear on the radio

or in a podcast, so we thought we would play it for you today. Here's the detour.

If I were on a dating show in search of my new favorite rock, what traits should I be looking for?

No, just like with dating, it's a very personal thing. And you've got to find your rock and shiny

armor. Yeah, a rock soulmate. Yeah.

But really, like, the more you learn about rocks and the things that you find you connect with,

where you were like, ooh, I want to learn more about that.

You kind of follow that like a map until you find a rock where you're like, whoa.

I'm Sam O'Brien, and this is the detour. to rock where you're like, whoa.

I'm Sam O'Brien, and this is The Detour, a podcast about going places that actually goes places.

This episode was produced in partnership with Toyota trucks.

Today, we're getting in a Toyota land cruiser and heading just a couple hours north of New York City to the

Shaw and Gunk Mountains, better known as the Gunk's.

I'm here with Becky Nessel. Becky's a geologist and a science communicator who finds

and shares amazing things in nature. She's lived in the Hudson Valley almost her whole life,

and today she's going to show me what makes these mountains unique,

including an incredibly rare ecosystem that might be the only one of its kind in the world.

That's after this.

You hear that?

That's not just a Toyota truck.

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