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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Places You Return To

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Atlas Obscura listeners share stories from places they love so much they keep going back.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I got an elk down there, right in the center of the screen, good size one too, it hasn't

0:14.1

seen me at.

0:16.0

This is Andy, just looking the other way right now.

0:20.6

He's crouched behind a bush on the edge of a meadow in Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

0:26.4

It's Washington State about 3,500 feet above sea level.

0:30.2

There's still snow on the ground and there in the middle of the meadow is an elk.

0:35.9

I have been waiting for this for so long.

0:39.6

Andy isn't a hunter, he's a photographer and has self-proclaimed outdoors guy and this

0:45.0

meadow is one place he keeps coming back to.

0:51.8

A few weeks ago we told you about some of the places that we like to return to over and

0:57.6

over again and today we are going to hear from you about all the special corners that

1:03.8

you've discovered in your own communities everywhere from Salt Lake City to France to Istanbul

1:10.4

to the shade of a gigantic oak tree.

1:13.2

All of that.

1:15.2

After this, there's something amazing.

1:21.8

The first voicemail we got is from a listener named Paula.

1:29.3

Paula moved to France a couple of years ago from Brazil.

1:32.8

The place she wanted to tell us about is somewhere that she and her dog, Georgia, went

1:37.2

to a lot when they just arrived and were still getting to know the neighborhood.

1:43.0

So the place I was returned to is called Dr. Kalmet Street here in Brittany, France and

1:53.5

I guess I don't return, I don't go back there so often anymore.

1:58.8

I usually work here at 11 p.m. and we go out for a walk and it's a place that connects

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