#169: Our Most Excellent Northern Arizona RV Adventure

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Places & Travel, Nature, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by GO RVING™ Nothing says “All American Road Trip” more than loading up an RV, hitting the road, and having an adventure. And that’s exactly what we did recently with the help from our friends at GO RVING™ In the spring of 2025, we rented an RV in Phoenix and drove up to Page, Arizona where we spent five days and four nights enjoying the Roam America Horseshoe Bend campground and exploring this incredible part of the Southwest. The trip was an epic adventure, and in this episode, we’ll discuss our experience as newbie RVers, the activities we did in the area, and some of the camping recipes we enjoyed cooking at our site. All this and more, coming up next! Activities we discuss in this episode include, · Touring Cardiac Canyon (part of Antelope Canyon), · A visit to the Navajo Bridges on Highway 89A, · Kayaking the Colorado River from Petroglyph Point below Horseshoe Bend to Lees Ferry, · Seeing petroglyphs at Petroglyph Point on the Colorado River, · Hiking in Waterhole Canyon, · Viewing the dam from the Glen Canyon Dam Overlook, · Visiting the Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, · Hiking the Beehive Trail, (also known as The Wave 2), · Snaping our pic at the Shell Sand Cave, · And a few more suggestions for activities on Lake Powel! Links to organizations and activities we mentioned in the episode: · GoRVing.com (our sponsor for this episode – check them out!) · RVShare (the site we used to rent our RV for this adventure) · Taadidiin Tours (for the Cardiac Canyon hiking tour) · Kayak the Colorado (for the kayak rental and backhaul taxi service on the Colorado River) · Roam America (we stayed at their “Horseshoe Bend” campground in Page, Arizona) · Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas (for the Rainbow Bridge boat tour) · Carl Hayden Visitor Center (at the Glen Canyon Dam) ----- If you would like to support our podcast, please consider becoming a member of our Patreon account. Follow this link to check it out. Subscribe to The Dear Bob and Sue Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen, and if you’ve enjoyed our show, please leave us a review or rating on Apple Podcasts. Five-star ratings help other listeners find our show. Follow us on Instagram at @mattandkarensmith, TikTok at @mattandkarensmith, or on Facebook at dearbobands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And you know what I loved, Matt?
0:01.7	What?
0:02.6	When we returned to our RV in the parking lot at Lees Ferry, we were soaking wet and we were starving because we'd been out all day.
0:11.3	So we go into the RV.
0:12.9	We changed our clothes in two seconds because, again, everything is right there.
0:17.3	And we stuffed our faces.
0:19.1	Yeah, because we had all the conveniences of home right there
0:21.6	with us. Yes.
0:29.7	This is the Dear Bob and Sue podcast, stories from our journey to all the U.S. National Parks and
0:35.0	other public lands. I'm Matt Smith. And I'm Karen Smith.
0:38.3	We're the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books.
0:41.3	Today we're taking you with us on an all-American RV trip to northern Arizona.
0:46.8	We've been wanting to do another RV trip, and late March turned out to be a great time to head to a campground in Page, Arizona, where we relaxed
0:55.1	at our campsite, cooked fun meals over the campfire, and headed out in our RV every day for
1:01.1	incredible invigures. We'll dive into all the details about what it was like spending five
1:06.7	days and four nights in our rented RV, as well as a list of amazing things to do in and around
1:13.1	page, including two new bucket list adventures that we finally crossed off our list. All this and
1:20.8	more coming up next. You know, after we visited all the U.S. national parks, the question that we got most often was, did we travel to see them in an RV?
1:36.4	It's the first question everyone asks.
1:38.3	I know. You would think it would be which park was your favorite. That was the number two question.
1:43.5	Yeah. And also, my first reaction a lot of times
1:46.0	when they would ask that question is, well, we didn't take the RV to Hawaii or American Samoa or
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