The concern I always have about stargazing is obviously you're out at night completely dark,

you can't see anything because that's the you know it should be a moonless night in your dark sky

area and I have no idea what's down by my feet. So you know we look at the stars for like 30 seconds

and then I'm worried that snake is going to crawl up my pants or the hair on the back of my

legs is standing up because there's a scorpion on it or something like that so I don't know let's

this is the Dear Bob and Sue podcast our stories of adventures and misadventures as we travel to all

the U.S. national parks and other public lands. I'm Matt Smith and I'm Karen Smith. We are the

authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books. Today's episode is our monthly mailbag feature

where we answer questions we have received from listeners about topics related to our public lands

hiking trails gear and a wide variety of other travel related subjects. We'll be answering some

interesting questions in this episode like should the four Colorado national parks be visited in

one trip? What kind of footwear do we suggest wearing when hiking through water and where are the

best places to stargaze in the southwest? I loved all these questions. We also talk about what happens

after you spray a bear with bear spray and we suggest some national park getaways that you could do

on a long weekend. All this plus a chipmunk story on today's mailbag.

Welcome to our mailbag segment. We have a great lineup of questions today so we're going to dive

right in. Oh wait wait wait before we do I have a question. What for the mailbag? No no for you.

Okay. Since you're the one who organizes all the questions I was just wondering how do you choose

which questions we're going to answer and like what order they go in? Well first off I organize

them in the order that we receive them so that's how we answer them by by date that they come in

and no we don't answer all of them because some of them we have no clue about. Oh

let's still answer those. You send those to me. Okay. I can answer. I can answer. I'm doing my

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