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Following in My Grand Fathers Foot steps.

Photo by: Patrick  Lynch This is a very LONG story takes about an hour to tell . But will try to give the short version. Last year a wonderful . . .
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Yellowstone romance.

How does a lonely boy from the Upper Pennisula of Michigan meet his soul mate who lives in Oregon? We were both working at the . . .
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Engagement Proposal in Shenandoah National Park

I was proposed to in the most wonderful way during the Spring of 2010. My fiance and I took off work on one of the . . .
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Mesa Verde National Park

My family didn't go on trips to National Parks when I was growing up; but I have with my children. Here is our documentary style . . .
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One Magical Summer

http://www.publishamerica.net/product87963.html The first time I traveled across the country from California to Ontario, Canada, was 1956. My sister and I slept in the back seat and . . .
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The Old Midnight Bacon Trick

My grandfather, J.C. "Kid" Nichols, in the early 1900's, was the blacksmith at Buffalo Bill's Livery and Barn, across from his Irma Hotel, in Cody, . . .
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It was called the WILD CAVE TOUR...and they meant it!

I have a passion for national parks and my goal in life is too see all of them before I die! With that, for my . . .
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Grand teton national park

one day in gand teton nationl park i saw or hird a cyote holling then the wolves pack chage after but the cyote got the . . .
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Family Vacations

Many family vacations in the late sixties and early seventies were spent camping in state parks. Mom, Dad, four kids under ten, and an old . . .
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THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA is a co-production of

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