#61: An Epic Road Trip Through Northern Arizona

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

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this episode, we talk about our recent 700-mile road trip through Northern Arizona, the perfect week-long tour of some of the most iconic sites in the American Southwest. Starting in Sedona, we worked our way northeast, visiting a couple of national parks, a half dozen other National Park Service sites, and a few Navajo Tribal Parks. Join us as we take you to stunning overlooks, one-of-a-kind cultural treasures, slot canyons, a petrified forest, and many more jaw-dropping public lands. Please 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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0:20.6	And we were all by ourselves.
0:21.7	There was no one else in the park and we had walked out, I don't know, maybe 100 yards
0:25.6	to an overlook.
0:27.2	And we heard race cars and I'm not kidding, we heard race cars and I kept looking back
0:32.7	at the park road thinking who is in the park driving really fast and finally we realized
0:41.2	it was, were they falcons?
0:43.6	I don't know.
0:45.1	There was some kind of bird that would shoot down these canyons and they would buzz us
0:50.6	right over our heads.
0:52.2	It sounded exactly like NASCAR.
0:54.5	We don't know our birds, it had wings.
0:58.0	We're not bird people, if we have nothing against birds, but we're just that.
1:07.6	This is the Dear Bob and Sue Podcast, stories from our journey to all the U.S. National
1:11.6	Parks and other public lands.
1:13.6	I'm Matt Smith.
1:14.7	And I'm Karen Smith, we are the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books.
1:19.2	On this episode, we're taking you on a road trip through Northern Arizona, a 700 mile
1:24.8	circle tour that begins and ends in Sedona.
1:28.3	More than 6 million people a year visit the Grand Canyon, but there are many other incredible
1:33.0	public lands to visit in the same area.
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