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Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

#51: Mailbag!

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

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

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In our mailbag episodes, we answer questions from listeners about traveling, hiking, public lands, outdoor gear, and whatever else is on their minds. In this episode, we’re talking about road trips, train trips, bears, and ticks. If you have a question you’d like us to answer on a future episode, email us at mattandkarensmith@gmail.com. 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, on Twitter at @mattandkaren, on Facebook at dearbobands, or check out our blog at www.mattandkaren.com.   To advertise on The Dear Bob and Sue Podcast, email us at mattandkarensmith@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If you get a tick embedded in your skin, this is what you're supposed to do.

1:04.4

You're supposed to use a tweezers to grasp the tick as close to your skin as possible.

1:09.2

And then you pull steadily, you pull them out, you don't twist it or turn your tweezers because

1:15.3

according to the website, this can cause the tick's mouth parts to break off in your skin.

1:22.8

We just lost all the listeners. I'm reading this going, the mouth parts are in your skin and

1:30.3

then it goes on to say, it says if this happens, remove the mouth parts with the tweezers.

1:38.4

What? We're never hiking in April ever again. What does mouth part of a tick look like? I don't

1:44.7

even get that. This is the Dear Bob and Sue Podcast. Stories from our travels to all the US

1:57.6

national parks and other public lands. I'm Karen Smith. And I'm Matt Smith. We're the authors of

2:02.9

the Dear Bob and Sue series of books. This is our monthly mailbag episode and we have some really

2:08.9

great questions in store for you. We sure do. Today we'll be answering questions about road trips

2:14.4

and train trips and we'll talk about some of the train excursions in and around the national parks.

2:20.8

We'll also discuss questions about wildlife encounters on the trails, both bears and ticks.

2:27.6

And have you ever wanted to get married in a national park? I have. Have you?

2:32.8

Where are you? I know. We'll talk about that as well. All of this coming up next.

2:44.6

So Matt. Yes, Karen. On last week's episode, I did a quick gear review at the beginning of our

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