Listening to great podcast and looked down at shirt i have on today. Polebridge shirt and reminder of or family trip. Lovely area to visit, snack and sit outside and people watch. Great podcasts!

I just discovered this podcast and have started at the beginning. I have enjoyed everyone so far (up to #21). You two are a delight to listen to and as a former full time RV’r I’m enjoying your travels (and learning about the places we missed).

I absolutely love listening to your podcast. It is entertaining and so very helpful at the same time! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and laughter with us. Best wishes to you both ✨

My wife and I love traveling to and hiking in our public lands. This podcast is our top “go to” to learn about particular places. Matt and Karen are so entertaining too. Goofy but fun!

I enjoy this POD cast so much I’ve listened to them all twice!!! I listen in the car as I drive around town and to my appointments and meetings. When I was done with all 100+ episodes I missed hearing my friends talk and laugh about their adventures so I started over from number one! I look forward to Thursdays now when they drop a new POD! Thanks Matt and Karen! You guys are great!!! Always listening. Mark

This is by far the most entertaining podcast to listen to! Matt and Karen are both pure joy!

I love this podcast! Love your books!! I love listening to you to get your suggestions within the parks. You two are great!! Couple goals!!

I like to listen to this podcast all the time!! But it is super helpful when I am in the early phases of planning a national parks trip!! I like to listen to the episodes about the park I plan to visit and it really gets my mind ready for what I may want to try while there!! From there, I watch YouTube videos and read guidebooks to make an itinerary. Thanks so much to Matt and Karen!!

Matt and Karen make my long commute so enjoyable! I find myself driving down the road with a big grin on my face. I love Matt’s sense of humor and Karen’s laugh and thoughtfulness, plus I absolutely love hearing about all the wonderful National Parks and lands! Thank you!

We are in Capitol reef currently and I decided To search and see if there were any podcasts on Capitol reef. So glad I came across these guys were an awesome show. So informative, professional and fun. I will be looking forward to listening to more of their shows! Update….been listening to them for well over a year!! I subscribed right away and have automatic download of the newest show! I’ve listened to all the shows!! Now listening to some episodes again as research our spring trip. They are just as fun to Listen to again! And such a good source of information as I research! Thank you guys for great info! And still funny as ever! Love the joking! You guys are awesome!! Oh and not only do they have fabulous info but the sound quality is fantastic!! That can make all the difference! It’s a wonderful show and I am always recommending them to people!

I recently discovered dear Bob and Sue and I am currently listening to all the podcasts. I just love their storytelling, and I think they are so funny. I look forward to using their guides on some of my upcoming retirement adventures.

My wife and I have read all of Matt and Karen’s books and we’ve listened to all of the podcasts. They’re interesting and informative. Highly recommend!

If you are a fan of the National Parks, this will become your go to listen each week. Matt and Karen provide extremely helpful information, a healthy dose of humor, and practical tips and recommendations that have been life savers for me on numerous occasions during NP trips. Couldn’t recommend more highly!

This is such a great podcast. Matt and Karen are so knowledgeable and funny. They even answered a question of mine in a mailbox episode last year when our family was planning a spring break trip to Canyonlands, Natural Bridges, and Monument Valley. Their recommendations were awesome and we had an amazing trip.

I’ve read all the books, but these are so enjoyable to listen it. Lots more details! I “made” my husband listen to the one on Carlsbad Caverns after he said he wanted to go there. I am with Matt, he’s with Karen, on that one! Keep them up! Sue (and Bob)

I love this show and have listened to all the books.

I started out just listening to a specific park’s episode due to upcoming travel, and now I’m working my way through them all. It feels like having dinner with friends while they humorously recount their vacation adventures-and sometimes mishaps. Long married couples may also enjoy the familiar back and forth- at least for us, the dry wit, and loving sarcasm and eye rolls are very familiar. Can’t wait for the next episode.

I look forward to every new episode-and I listen to Matt and Karen on Patreon as well-the only podcast I pay for, lol. This is my second review and have been listening for years and just felt compelled to reiterate just how entertaining and informative Matt and Karen are. Please keep making new ones! We love you guys!!!❤️

I am in love with this podcast! Not only do Matt and Karen give lots of very useful advice, they do it with humor and a chatty style that makes me feel like I’m talking with good friends. I also enjoy the interplay that comes from being in a long term relationship. I love the history and geology channel segments. And I LOVE Karen’s laugh! It’s bubbly and infectious and always makes me laugh too. The mailbag segments are fun and again, packed with wonderful nuggets of information . We plan to attempt at least some of the easier hikes, but even if we don’t, this is the best kind of armchair traveling. Please don’t stop!! I’m a huge fan - Bookerspaw

Our family is on a quest to visit all 63 U.S. National Parks and we listen to this podcast before we visit every new park. It’s informative, educational, helpful and I always hear some hidden-gem I hadn’t read about before. They’re a wealth of knowledge and just the sweetest couple. Can’t recommend enough!

I seriously am loving these podcast. I love the humor, the banter, the information. I’ve only started listening a few days ago. I started at episode #1. I am now on episode 34. I just can’t get enough. I loved to hike, but unfortunately it has gotten too difficult. I enjoy your stories and can actually relate to some of the mishaps, like our tent flying off in the wind. Or being on a very narrow ledge where I was sure I was going to die. Or being sure that we were going to freeze to death camping out. All the while thinking it was the best day. There really is nothing that compares to be out in nature. You have made me laugh out loud. I really recommend these podcast to anyone who loves nature, loves to hike or just likes to have a good laugh.

I am enjoying your podcast and the fact that you are experiencing the National Parks and sharing those experiences. You definitely keep me entertained especially Karen and your giggles. Thank you!! When researching a park and things to do. Where do you find your source? I am new to this and have started with my state parks but would like to visit the National Parks as well.

I’m binging all the episodes since I discovered this podcast. I love Matt and Karen’s dynamic and I’ve learned so much especially about different hikes to try!

Everglades is our ‘home’ park. We go frequently. I listened this morning to your Everglades podcast and I have a python story. We were riding bikes at Shark Valley and saw an alligator who looked like he had a small tree trunk or a huge stem in it’s mouth. It wasn’t vegetation, it was a huge snake!! It was one of those moments where your eyes can’t believe what they are seeing! Wild!

These guys are so great!! (So good that I actually bought their books as well). Their podcasts are not only incredibly thorough & informative but their delivery is delightful (I often find myself laughing out loud in the car as I listen). So useful that I’ve saved more of their episodes than any other podcast.

I just love this podcast. I have learned so much and planned a few trips based on recommendations or explanations. I knew this was such a great podcast when I listened to your episodes of places I had already visited, and agreed completely with your recommendations or thoughts on the parks. I actually painted the entirety of the first floor of my house listening to all the podcasts and LOVED it! It made those many, many hours not so torturous and the time flew by!!!! It would be so nice to run into you guys on a trail or in a pizza place grabbing a beer one day!

My first podcast subscription, so that’s saying something I guess. A bit slow to adopt. Heard about them while we stayed at New River Gorge and we were asked if we visited because of the podcast. So we listened. And it was okay. Ha, ha. Might be the episode with the most laughter ;-) Then after our American Samoa visit last month I sampled that episode. It contained great information that we should known before hand such as, “bring your passport.” Since then I bought the first book and have been listening to the podcast while doing yard work and driving. Mostly mailbags and info on the 5 parks yet to be visited. Overall it is great. Not every episode is wonderful but you can say that about Ted Lasso or any show, so let’s not be haters. They deftly addressed the laughing and that made me laugh. Now I am hooked. Just signed up for instagram so I can follow them there and will join their Patreon account. Thank you Karen and Matt!

I discovered Matt and Karen recently and have binge listened to almost every podcast episode now. They do an excellent job with giving very helpful and useful information about all the places they go. Love the history channel segments, i always learn so much from them. The humor and banter between Matt and Karen is so sweet, I literally laugh out loud with every episode. Tune in, you won’t regret it!

Started listening as part of my "prep" for our Grand Canyon trip and now I'm hooked. Love the banter and practical advice. Very much enjoy the "history channel" aspects. I would definitely listen if you decided to branch off into more of those.

I came across this podcast after returning from a trip to Grand Canyon, Zion, and Bryce Canyon this spring and I can’t stop listening now. I love the humor, laughing, and misadventures as much as the great facts about the parks. I have found myself laughing out loud several times at their banter. Highly recommend this podcast to anyone with an interest in the National Parks and travel to all the amazing public lands around the country.

We love Karen’s giggle - always makes us laugh! Their tips on Olympic Nat’l Pk and Hwy 20 to North Cascades Nat’l Pk were wonderful.

Full of helpful information and fun to listen to!

Thank you for your fun and informative way to tour the parks. Ran across your books on audible first, then found the podcast. Thank you for sharing your adventures.

This is my favorite podcast for sure! I look forward to every new episode. It’s fun for me and my kids to listen to in the car. We all learn and laugh so much! Thank you for the time you spend researching and sharing information and stories.

I always look forward to your podcasts! Thank you so much for covering this topic! I didn’t know much about these guys. What a wonderful organization and a gift to our country. You did an amazing job with your research and presenting all this info in the podcast! I had to Google what they did in MN. OMG- So much!

Just listened the CCC episode and loved the information. Karen and Matt shared so much good information. I always laugh and learn so much !!

I discovered this podcast when I ran out of episodes of my favorite Wisconsin Travel podcast. I don’t know that I’ll ever make it to many of the national parks but I love listening to you talk about them. The banter between Matt and Karen make me feel like I’m at home dragging my boyfriend on the next adventure. I haven’t see an episode on Voyageurs National Park but hopefully in the future. Also if you’ve visited any state parks in Michigan’s UP, Minnesota, or Wisconsin I’d love to hear about them. Keep up the great work, and the pizza suggestions! I can’t wait to read your books.

I found this podcast last week and I love it! The stories Matt and Karen tell are delightful, and they are definitely inspiring me to go to more national parks! I am still back in the 30s on the episode count… I hope my review helps Karen meet her current dream goal! 😂

I love listening to Matt & Karen’s podcast while I walk. They have peaked my interest in the NPS & their advice has been so helpful on our adventures. And they’re just fun, I’d love to meet them for a beer!

I’ve been cranking through Matt & Karen’s podcast and loving it :) all their stories make me feel like I’m outdoors while at work. I’m looking forward to listening to their audiobooks. Thanks for the great podcast!

Karen & Matt are a lot of fun & a joy to listen too! I have read all their books & was a little bummed when I finished! Then a friend found this podcast and I am halfway through listening! They remind me of my late hubby & I. We were planning a similar hiking journey when he passed. Also, Matt & Karen have inspired me to get back into hiking & camping even though I am now disabled. Thank You both!!!

Absolutely loved the books and now love the podcast! I used to try to save the episodes for entertainment during road trips and other travels but now I look forward to each episode so much that I end up listening to it right away. Definitely one of the best out there!

I come for history, and stay for the tears! This really is a great podcast for those interested in the National parks, and outdoor recreation in general. It has great info presented in a lighthearted way.

Love this podcast! So fun to listen to—but also very informative & interesting. I really enjoy looking up the parks & viewing your pictures while listening to your many adventures/misadventures. Keep it up & keep having fun doing it! 😊👍

I just listened to your interview with Grandma Joy and her grandson. You asked the best questions and brought out her sense of adventure. Great interview. Along the lines of this interview road scholar offers grandparent trips to national parks and other places. My 9 year old grandson and I went to Yellowstone this past summer on a grandparent trip. It was amazing to see the interactions between grandparents te young and old with their grandkids. My grandson and I had an absolute blast. Keep up the great work.

I found the Dear Bob and Sue podcast over 2 years ago and have been inspired over and over again to visit many incredible parks in the US! I love the humor but most importantly all the great advice from trail apps to hiking gear! My bucket list includes reading their books as well! Thanks again for sharing your travel experiences!!

Our whole family are fans of this podcast; it’s always our starting point when planning a national parks trip! Matt and Karen do their research about each park and they’ve visited most of the parks more than once, so they’re actually very familiar with the parks and various bikes, as opposed to some podcasters who have just driven through or spent an hour in a park. Highly recommend this as your first point of reference for planning a trip!

I’m a national parks and hiking enthusiast and I ran into the podcast while looking for something fun to listen to while in the final stressful weeks of my last semester of grad school. I started back at the beginning of the podcast a month ago and have already listened to podcasts 1-25 and 2 bonus episodes. Matt and Karen are great and I can’t wait to continue hearing all of their adventures and “borrow” ideas from their trips for future trips of my own! Thanks y’all!

We’ve been enjoying this podcast as we travel to the National Parks with our RV. Matt and Karen are upbeat and funny. We’ve learned a lot of tips that have helped us with our planning.

I love this podcast and I listen to it all the time. For mailbag Is dear bob and sue for kids and what is the top 5 best NP on the east coast?