Anyway, it's really fun for us to meet people and talk to people because, you know, we feel sitting behind these microphones in Matt's office, just the two of us, is somewhat isolating.

Yes, it's very isolating. and we only have each other not that that's

a fan too that's a great thing yeah Welcome to the Dear Bob and Sioux Podcast, stories from our journey to all the U.S. National Parks and other public lands.

I'm Karen Smith.

And I'm Matt Smith.

We're the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books.

This is our monthly Mailbag episode, where we answer questions from listeners about the national parks,

road trips, hiking, camping, gear, and other travel related topics.

First up today is a question about Petrified Forest National Park and what to see and do if you only have two hours.

Plus, we'll explain why some visitors think they have a curse after visiting this park.

And we'll be giving our opinions about where a family should go for spring break next year.

What month is best if you're visiting Death Valley and Yosemite in the same trip?

And which Lodge in Yellowstone has the best location?

Plus a random question about toilets in the national parks, which is why we love mailbags so much.

Stay tuned, lots of fun coming up. All right, good morning everyone.

Thanks for being here.

We have been AWOL for a while.

That's right, for all of you who've been asking why we've scaled back our regular episodes well we've been traveling

a lot over the last couple of months because that's what you do when you create travel content you have to go

travel. That's right and contrary to what it might seem the weekly episodes we do actually

take a lot of time doing the outline and producing it and

editing it. It's not just you know slap and dash. You mean slap dash?

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