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Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

64: 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 December 2021

⏱️ 46 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 answer questions about Wrangell St. Elias National Park in Alaska, Indiana Dunes National Park in Indiana, and Great Basin National Park in Nevada. We also talk about some of the travel-related non-fiction books that have inspired us to travel. And more!   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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And you know, he just thought we'd want to know that we laugh way too much and it's

0:43.6

it's annoying and he might give us another chance and listen to another episode.

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I hope so. I hope we got another chance. I wrote him back and I said no, it's not going

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to get any better for you. Do not listen to any more episodes.

1:15.2

This is The Dear Bob and Sue Podcasts, stories of our journey to all the U.S. National

1:19.3

Parks and other public lands. I'm Matt Smith. And I'm Karen Smith. We are the authors of

1:24.6

The Dear Bob and Sue series of books. Today we're excited to be back with our mailbag

1:29.8

episode and we have some really great questions that we'll be answering. What are those questions

1:35.5

Matt? Really great ones, Karen. We'll be answering questions about Wrangles Saint

1:40.1

Elias National Park in Alaska as well as Indiana Dunes National Park in Indiana. And

1:45.5

Alistair was wondering about where to stay when visiting Great Basin National Park in

1:50.2

Nevada. We'll also talk about a few international national parks that are in my wish bucket

1:57.0

and then switching gears completely. A listener asked us to share some of the nonfiction

2:01.7

adventure books that inspire us. All this and more coming up next on mailbag.

2:10.1

Can you believe that 2021 is almost over? Yes, I can believe it's been a long year. But

2:25.8

it was a good year. We had some really great adventures, new stuff. We saw new stuff

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