Nice to read, John... thought you might have been to a couple more.
Here's the thing about travels.. while I have been to 49 states and all
the Canadian Provinces, the only other foreign countries I've been to
are Mexico
(deducing that wading across the Rio Grande in a remote area of Big
Bend) and France.. while I imagine most of the rest of you on the list
have been
to lots more countries abroad.. even if some were not for such pleasant
reasons - I know some of you are Vets.
ann
On 9/3/2020 5:02 PM, John wrote:
Using the checklist Ann gave me I've got my list up to 13. There are a
couple my family went to when I was a child that I haven't been able
to get back to and a couple more I haven't ... I added Sequoia
National Park to the list because we went through it on the way from
my aunts (mom's sister) house in Sylmar, CA to Yosemite.
And Saguaro National Park that wasn't yet a National Park (it was
still a National Monument) when we visited it going out to California.
Like I said, I took two trips to California with my family once in
1960 and again in 1964. The first trip we went via Oklahoma where we
picked up Route 66 and the second trip we went down through Atlanta
and followed I-20 west to I-10
On 9/1/2020 10:37:25, ann sanfedele wrote:
I cant resist giving you guys my numbers now.. with relatively brief
explaination of how I managed it.
Printed out the list of 62 NP's and checked off 45 for sure and a
couple of more with question marks
because I was likely there as a child before they were designated as
National Parks. all 45 are those that
can be reached by car and are either in the contiguous 48 or in
Alaska. Been in every state but HAwaii.
My father was old enough to be my grandfather when I wsa born.. he
was, unfortuantely, something of a boozer
and had some problems with heart - in January 1945 he was "retired"
from a sales management job
when he though he was going to be promoted and given only a few
months severance.. something I didn't know
until recently (that is, the reasons). A lot of what contributed to
my having seen 44 of the 48 states before I was
12 was our trips were , post war, partly business trips as Pop's old
cronies from the salad days gave him sales jobs
and he took my mother and me with him. Traveling before 1945 was for
pleasure and visiting family, but parents
were always interested in the parks. Mammoth Cave was a strong memory
from childhood.
I lived in Maine in the 60's - so there was Acacia.. took geology in
college which got me to Yellowstone on a field trip.
Then I met Richard in 1980 , who had travelled widely in Europe and
Asia but didn't know the USA - so road trips began..
and most of the parks on the list were visited with him, sometimes
for the second time, many for the first.
I kept taking them on my own after I lost him in 1993.. Because
Richard hit senior landmark when we were
together I got my Golden Age Passport card and I still have it,
hoping to be able to use it again one day. I think
it is supposed to be good for the National Monuments as well.
ann
On 9/1/2020 1:29 AM, John Francis wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:04:25AM -0400, John wrote:
I've been to 5 of them as an adult; 7 if you count Yosemite that my
parents
took the kids to see back during one of the two California trips that
included me.
Hmm. I'm pretty sure I've been to more than that. Let's see:
Acadia, Bryce Canyon, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, King's Canyon,
Sequoia, Yosemite, Zion.
(It certainly helps living in California; all but one of those we've
visited by driving
from home since we moved here 25 years ago. Acadia we visited when
we lived back east,
and took our local Girl Scout troop camping in Acadia one year).
I've been to Yosemite more than once. Larry and I took a quick trip
out there when I had
just purchased my K5. One of these years I'll get out there during
the spring snowmelt.
My bucket list includes Joshua Tree and the parks in Oregon and
Washington (state).
I suppose I should visit my closest one, too - Pinnacles - it's
visible from around here.
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