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  • Greetings from Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

    I visited when this used to be a National Monument and returned years later when it grew up to become a National Park. Forest, river, sand dune, mountains topped with snow capped peaks I see a natural layer cake.

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    When I came across this sight I couldn't help but yelling. "Shane, come back Shane".

  • Greetings from Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

    I first read about the battle of the Little Bighorn when I was 10 years old in 1968, since then I started to study the battle & the entire Indian War era but was never able to visit the battlefield. In 2016 my wife surprised me with a trip to…

  • Greetings from Channel Islands National Park

    When we moved to an active retirement community in July 2017, little did I know that it would lead to a revised bucket list. Our new community has more clubs and activities then time allows. When a friend invited us to join the Hiking Club for a weekend train trip…

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    This summer, I visited Sunrise to see the sunrise with my family. We crawled out of bed at 2 AM and prepared for the long drive ahead of us. At 5 AM, we finally arrived. The sun wasn’t up yet, and none of us were fully awake, but despite how…

  • Greetings from Capitol Reef National Park

    First time visit we came in the afternoon. Saw awesome petroglyph. Lovely drive. All in our electric car.

  • Greetings from Pearl Harbor National Memorial

    My two-week trip to Hawaii in June of 2000, came at the end of a three-month backpacking trip in the South Pacific (a reward to myself for passing the CPA exam). I used an Island hopper pass to tour five Islands. By the time I arrived back in Oahu, I’d…

  • Greetings from Theodore Roosevelt National Park

    My first degree was in history, but it was unfortunately a case of “really good at Jeopardy – can’t get a decent job”; so I went back to school for accounting. In the fall of 1999, I still needed to pass one section of the CPA exam. I quit my…

  • Greetings from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

    Our annual family reunion rotates between OH, MI and MD; for the 1989 Reunion we stayed near Sleeping Bear and did a great day trip there. Once we reached the top of the dunes, we launched ourselves off and took huge running leaps down to the cooling waters of Lake…

  • Greetings from Pinnacles National Park

    Spring 2021: This was the first time I've travelled to a national park with my mom since the pandemic. After nearly a year of self-quarantine at home, we have finally decided to go and take a breather in the nature. Eagerly, we packed water and a jacket on the weekend…

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