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Greetings from National Mall and Memorial Parks

In 2013 my sister Kim and I took a really fun Segway tour of DC. We got to see all the highlights, most of which I'd seen before but at the end of this day my feet didn't hurt from all the walking.
Greetings from Golden Gate National Recreation Area

I have been to San Francisco several times and love the Golden Gate Nat'l Rec Area.
Greetings from Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine

My cousins live in Baltimore and I'm sure I went to the fort when I was a kid, but I appreciated it much more as an adult in 2010.
Greetings from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

My partner Keith and I at Hoover Dam in 2008.
Greetings from San Juan National Historic Site

My partner Keith and I took a Caribbean cruise in 2011 and we really enjoyed our stop in San Jaun.
Greetings from Antietam National Battlefield

As the youngest of four kids, growing up in the 60s and 70s, my parents loved to take us on cheap entertainments - such as those offered at Civil War battlefields. We had numerus slides of the four of us sitting on a canon. I later got my BA in…
Greetings from Gettysburg National Military Park

Even as an adult, I can't resist getting my photo taken with a canon. My parents used to love to do the photo op of us four kids on a canon when we'd tour Civil War battlefields in the 1970s. This was in 2006, long after I got my BA…
Greetings from Badlands National Park

We have been visiting the National Parks for more than 40 years. We were married at the botanic garden on Haleakala. Most recently we visited the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore and Devil's Tower on a road trip through the West. The stark beauty of the Badlands was more breathtaking than I…
Greetings from Carlsbad Caverns National Park

My mom has been sitting at the table reading about the Caverns. She told me all about the bats and how amazing it is to be there when they fly out of the cave. When we are free to travel we are going to go. I bought her the parks…
Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

As I read your story "The Voice of Glacier" about ranger Follett working 50 years at Glacier, I thought that you should do a story about Jenny Lake ranger John Carr at GTNP. I think last year was John's fiftieth summer (one was at Denali as a bear guard). John…