I'm pretty sure that a woman riding to us from Arizona and her hiking girlfriends are not going to throw me in the trunk of a car under the pretense of taking us to the way. This is the Dear Bob and Sioux Podcast, Our Stories of Adventures and Miss Adventures as

we travel to all the U.S. national parks and public lands.

I'm Karen Smith, still Karen for now.

I appreciate all the new name suggestions you sent in and I'm giving each one of them serious consideration.

And I'm Matt Smith, still Matt, but I'm thinking about changing my name to Bob since everyone thinks I'm Bob.

We're the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books. In today's episode we're talking about our visit to an amazing rock formation in Northern Arizona called The Wave.

Yes, after trying for years and years to win permits to visit the wave. We finally got to see it in person in January this year.

And the way we ended up getting permits is a bit unusual, so we'll discuss that in our episode,

as well as our experience hiking to the wave and our thoughts about it.

But before all that, we reflect on a couple of our highlights of the summer, and the end of the episode we'll answer a question from a listener in our mailbag segment.

You know what's been one of the highlights of this year?

Unexpected highlights that I would have never thought of?

Finding bacon beef jerky bacon jerky.

Baken jerky.

That's never seen you so excited.

That's life changing. Alelujah.

For a moment I thought of buying every package of baking jerky.

I was surprised they had at the target,

but then I felt that was being pickish.

Oh, that's right.

We don't want to be hoarders because we've seen too much of that hoarding going on.

Right, so I left one package there, but that's, yes, that's life changing, but no, that wasn't

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