National Parks Then & Now

Sharing my love and memories of National Parks. My family vacations were filled with camping at Yosemite, hiking trails at Yosemite, and visiting any National Park my parents could afford to take my sister and me. Fast forward a few years, okay maybe more than a few, I had two children that I shared my joy of the outdoors with. My daughter now hijacks my itineraries scheduling me for class IV rapids and making me go on harder hikes than planned. Visiting the National Parks today reminds me of so many memories of the times I spent with my parents and sister and how the parks have changed through the past 50 years.

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