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  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    This summer we did an amazing road trip in an RV, spending time in Glacier, Yellowstone and the Tetons and doing our best to take a 'socially distanced' vacation. It was so meaningful to share the beauty of these places with our children. I made them all go read the…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    We love all national parks...but having a wild horses butt up against our RV door when we tried to take our dog outside at midnight, will be a story I’ll remember forever! Still laughing!

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Glacier National Park holds a very special place in my heart. In the mid-1960’s, between my Jr. and Sr. years in college, I volunteered with the National Council of Churches Ministries in the National Parks as a religious service music coordinator and was assigned to Many Glacier Hotel in Montana.…

  • Greetings from Blue Ridge Parkway

    Blue Ridge Parkway I holds so many memories from my childhood I'm not sure I can pick one so I will tell you what it meant to our family. It days together enjoying the beauty of mother nature. Having our father teach us how to track and notice small signs…

  • Greetings from Big Bend National Park

    This photo is a picture of the Window at Big Bend National Park in Brewster County of West Texas. At the Window, I have a profound family story of my Great Grandmother who was Native American was savagely taken when a brutal Native American Warfare Outbreak between the two Native…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    A friend took me there as we wanted to get our life time passes before they stopped giving them out to seniors. It was so strange to just be driving along this flat land then all of a suden there is this entrance gate and when you go through you…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    My wife and I have been to Yellowstone numerous times on our motorcycle. Every time we would go we would talk about how much we wanted to bring our 3 grandchildren when they got old enough to remember the trip. Finally at ages 8, 7 and 6 we took them.…

  • Greetings from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

    I spent the second half of 1999, driving around the US camping and hiking in national parks, watching baseball games with friends and listening to accounting tapes. I took the test for my last CPA section in November of 1999. Then stayed in San Diego with a friend and worked…

  • Greetings from North Cascades National Park

    I did a road trip to various parks in 1993, but as a woman traveling alone, I didn’t feel comfortable tent camping so slept in my Civic hatchback. I’m pretty short so it was comfortable. I did another road trip in 1999, again with a duration of several weeks. This…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    In the fall of 1999, I had one section of the CPA exam left to take (my second career – turns out my Dad was correct – history wasn’t as marketable as I thought it would be : ). The test wasn’t until November but I decided to quit my…

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