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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Unusual Date Spots with Eden Dawn

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Today’s show is all about unusual dating spots. And to help, Eden Dawn, co-author of The Portland Book of Dates and The Seattle Book of Dates, joins Dylan to answer some of your questions about travel and dating.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Eden, I wanted to start by asking, what is the date that you have planned that you are the most proud of?

0:07.6

I'm in Portland, Oregon, and out on the West Coast, we have Tillamook.

0:12.1

So out in Tillamook, which is a pretty little town, one first step as to many good dates, stop for Mexican food,

0:19.5

because almost every day is made better with chips and guac and a

0:22.2

margarita. Then you go to the Tila McBay and you go nighttime moonlit kayaking. And so my husband

0:30.9

and I upped at a level based on a tip we had heard, I don't even remember where, because I wish I

0:36.3

could credit them, of taking a

0:38.2

bunch of glow sticks with us. So you go out at sunset into the bay and you're paddling around

0:45.2

and you, it's so calm, you have to, you can have zero experience in a kayak. You do not have to do

0:50.4

anything. But you're getting into the water. We were paddling around. We were looking at

0:54.7

like the beavers had put all these little homes together. There's lily pads. The sunset goes down.

1:01.0

It's absolutely stunning. Then the stars come out and you break all your little raver glow sticks and

1:07.5

you put them around your wrists and your head and your boat. And so then you're just paddling in total darkness where all you can see are your little

1:15.6

glow sticks moving around underneath the stars.

1:19.6

It was one of those days where I was like, if that was our last day on Earth, that was like a good day.

1:33.9

I think this reveals maybe Pacific Northwest versus Midwestern difference, but I fully thought you were going to be like, go to the Tillamac creamery and like try all the cheeses.

1:38.6

And I was like, yes, best date.

1:41.9

That's just like a Tuesday.

1:43.5

That's the Midwesterner in me. I'm like, yes, cheese tour, best first date. That's just like a Tuesday. That's the Midwesterner in me.

1:45.0

I'm like, yes, cheese tour.

1:47.0

Best, first date.

1:49.6

I'm Doolan Thurris, and this is Atlas Obscira,

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