Priceless places,
priceless memories.
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
In 2010, Alan and I returned to the Chapel of the Transfiguration. We were married there in 1970. A few days after this photo, we climbed the Grand Teton. We met in Glacier National Park in the summer of 1969. We have visited 38 other National Parks and they were…
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Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
As a child summer vacation trips were a rare and special treat for our family. One of the best was the year we traveled to Tennessee to the Great Smoky Mountains for a week of camping fun. Coming from the rolling hills of southern Indiana I had never seen a…
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Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
I have taken many trips to the Smokies. Fall is my favorite time to go. The colors are breathtaking! I love Cades Cove and imagine what it might have been like to live in this remote place. We were able to watch sorghum molasses being made on one fall trip.…
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Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
I have taken many trips to the Smokies. Fall is my favorite time to go. The colors are breathtaking! I love Cades Cove and imagine what it might have been like to live in this remote place. We were able to watch sourgum molasses being made on one fall trip.…
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Greetings from Crater Lake National Park
In 2009, my wife Terry and I visited a financial planner who turned out to be more of a life planner than financial planner. Mary’s comment was “how can I create a financial plan for you if I don’t have any idea how you would like to live? What is…
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Greetings from Fort Stanwix National Monument
My Boy Scout Troop just did volunteer service work at Ft. Stanwix National Monument in Rome, NY. We cleaned the old straw bedding out of the Soldiers' Barracks. We learned that each wooden platform would hold 12 - 14 soldiers, and the straw provided their bedding, We filled seventy-two 42…
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Greetings from Acadia National Park
Finding My Ten Year Old Self at Acadia National Park My husband and I recently had the pleasure of sharing some time in our favorite playground in all the world, Acadia National Park. We biked the carriage trails for hours and had the chance to paddle on Eagle Lake, Jordan Pond…
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Greetings from Crater Lake National Park
Both my daughters have grown up with the National Parks. I wanted to give them the same experience of awe and stillness that I found as a child on family vacations….but in the case of my daughters, the entire trips were built around the National Parks. My eldest visited her…
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
It's September 1986. I'm walking toward the Ranger Station in Grand Teton National Park beside a small elderly man. Osteoporosis has bent him into shrimp-shape. He takes determined steps, one hand on a cane, one arm through mine. But through his body may be frail, his mind is robust. His…
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Greetings from Cape Hatteras National Seashore
I retired in April 2014 and some of the folks I worked with gave me a National Park Pass. Over the past 2 years Parks have been a huge part of my retirement. Last week I went to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore/The Outer Banks and volunteered for the Beach…
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