Hey, producer Amanda McGowan here.

If you listen to this podcast pretty frequently, you might know that last summer I went on

a cross-country road trip, East Coast to West Coast, in a car.

Now I thought that was pretty exciting, but turns out it's nothing compared to driving

across the country in a 26-foot-long peanut-shaped vehicle.

Oftentimes you'll be driving down a highway, you'll see someone speed up, pull in front

of you, slow down, pull out the camera, take some pictures of the side, take some pictures

of the back, man is that stressful, but it's pretty fun.

People would hold out jars of peanuts out the window on the highway, I do not recommend

doing that, it was brightening.

Why were there peanuts in the car?

Yeah, there's the peanuts in their cup holder and they would shake them above their car

as they were driving.

There is no road rage for a giant peanut.

This is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the road's strange, incredible, and wondrous

places.

Today we're taking a trip around America, in the planter's peanuts nutmobile, which

just might be the greatest road-tripping vehicle ever created.

Don't believe me?

Well, you're in for a real shell of a time, after this.

I would first tell you that this large legume is 26 feet long and weighs 14 million peanuts,

which is about seven tons.

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