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  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    For the last 5 years (since my daughter - in the middle here - was 3), we've taken a big summer trip to one or more national parks. This is her with our friends from Georgia at Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone two years ago. Last year was Acadia and…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    When I was 13, my mother feared that as I grew up I would not want to spend time with her, so that summer was our grand tour of the West's national parks. It was just the two of us, over three weeks, driving backroads and seeing the sites, together.…

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    I had just graduated highschool in 2012 of last year. My graduation gift, A cross country trip through Nebraska, to Colorado. My father had us stopping to camp throughout the country, Rocky Mountain national park, boulder Colorado, Into Utah where we stopped by the dinosaur museum and monument, to salt…

  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    Our parents began bringing us to Sequoia since we were all in utero. It became our second home. Bringing things full circle, this is where we spread our father’s ashes, honoring his long life and deep appreciation for our nation’s wild places.

  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    Here I am with my daughters on top of Morro Rock.... exactly where I stood as a child with my Mom and Sister. How lovely to be able to share Sequoia with my daughters as my parents shared it with me.

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    Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    In 2009, I traveled with my sister and her family to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. Hiking, whitewater rafting, wildlife watching-it was such an incredible trip, we will treasure it forever. Here, I'm with my sister and nephew in the Tetons, with a fellow moose chilling behind us.

  • Greetings from Arches National Park

    When I was a kid my dad and mom would pile us in the station wagon in Wisconsin every summer and we'd barrel west to the National Parks that we'd dreamed about all winter: Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon, Arches, Dinosaur National Monument, the Bad Lands, Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone, Glacier, Rocky…

  • Greetings from Arches National Park

    In 2008 my son and i took a road trip in Utah going to Zion, Bryce and Arches NPs. Of course each of them have beauty that is incredible and unique. One of my favorite experiences though was waking up one morning in the Arches tent camp. I was outside…

  • Greetings from Arches National Park

    When my daughter was moving from Twenty Nine Palms, California to Richmond, VA, she asked me if I would help drive her across the country. I said, yes, if we could stop at any close Nat'l Parks on the way. While finishing touring Arches Nat'l Park in Utah (which was…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    My sister and I visited the Grand Canyon in June of 1964 right after I received my Bachelor's degree. We were naive and did not understand that the hotel on site was booked many months ahead (they did find an odd space for us to sleep that night). We spent…

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