#39: Mailbag!

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

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

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for our monthly mailbag episode again, where we answer questions about national parks and other public lands, as well as gear, camping and a broad range of travel-related topics. Some of the questions/topics we discuss in this episode: What NPS sites turned out to be more than we expected Whether or not you need a campsite reservation in Olympic NP in the summer Have we been recognized by fans during our travels In which parks did the cost to get there outweigh the experience How many days does it take to see Congaree NP What are some ways to visit the ocean parks What has been our most difficult day hike These questions and more on this episode of Mailbag! Links to more information: Link to boat tour to Channel Islands NP Link to boat tour to Dry Tortugas NP Link to boat tour Biscayne NP Where to learn more about our books and travels Join the conversation on Facebook - we want to hear from you! Check out our Instagram account Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And luckily we were in the same canoe.
0:02.3	Yeah, luckily for you because I kept paddling and wondering why we weren't going faster
0:10.5	and I would look back and you would have, you had your paddle dragging in the water.
0:16.3	Not only were you not paddling, you were slowing us down.
0:20.8	Well, here's the thing, I believe you said I was the rudder, so isn't that what the rudder
0:24.8	does?
0:25.8	Anchor, anchor.
0:26.8	I would never call you a rudder.
0:49.4	This is the Dear Bob and Sue Podcast, our stories of adventures and misadventures as we travel
0:54.0	to all the U.S. national parks and other public lands.
0:57.2	I'm Matt Smith.
0:58.3	And I'm Karen Smith.
0:59.3	We are the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books.
1:02.6	Today's episode is our monthly mailbag episode and we have some really great questions in
1:07.9	store for you.
1:08.9	Do we ever not have really great questions?
1:12.0	Are we ever going to do a mailbag where the questions suck?
1:14.6	No, never.
1:15.6	They're all really great all the time.
1:17.5	Okay, good.
1:19.3	In this episode we'll be discussing some of the parks that turn out to be so much more
1:23.2	than we expected, as well as parks that we thought the cost to visit outweigh the experience.
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