Priceless places,
priceless memories.
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Greetings from Yosemite National Park
Living in California, we visit Yosemite National Park often. We feel so lucky to have such a wonderful treasure so close to home. While there, we hike, enjoy the river, make new friends and solemnly undertake our Junior Ranger duties.
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Greetings from Yosemite National Park
When I was a child, my father and mother often took the family to Camp Curry in the Yosemite Valley. We stayed in cabins and took walks to see Yosemite Falls and Bridle Veil Falls. We also waited on many an evening to see the "fire falls." This was an…
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Greetings from Blue Ridge Parkway
This me with my daughter, Rachael. It is the summer between graduation from high school and leaving for college (on the other side of the country). We decided we need to take an Epic Trip together, just the two of us. We thought maybe Maine, but we'd been there with…
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Greetings from Virgin Islands National Park
Virgin Islands National Park is already my third National Park, and I just turned two. Parks provide opportunities for brand new life experiences. It's not every day that I get to build sand castles in powdery white sand, see a grizzly taking a bath in a lake at Glacier NP,…
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Greetings from Bryce Canyon National Park
Two years ago, my family and my sisters' family embarked on a trip through Bryce, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. It mirrored a trip that our grandfather took my sister and I went on when we were seven and four. We know that we made memories in those magical places that…
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Greetings from Canyon De Chelly National Monument
When my son, Aaron, graduated from Montana State University in 2005, I asked him if he'd like an all-expense paid vacation to the Four Corners area as his reward for a job well done. It had been a 'bucket list' item of mine for many years and the time seemed…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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.
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