Hello, and welcome to another edition of
Travel Tuesday! In honor of
National Park Week (which ended Sunday), this week's topic is:
Which is your favorite national park? What parks have you always wanted to visit? What are your favorite activities to do in a national park? As always, you are free to write about anything travel-related; don't feel obligated to answer my prompt. And, of course, don't forget to link up below!
My favorite national park is, without a doubt,
Yosemite. I mentioned it a little
last week, so this week I wanted to share some photos from when I climbed Half Dome two summers again. It was also No. 43 on my
to-do list.
(I added it after I had already made the climb, but hey, it was something I had always wanted to do! So I wanted to cross it off my list.)
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This is Half Dome! Pretty cool, huh? |
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Gorgeous views on the way up. (And if you were wondering, yes, all of the park is this pretty.) |
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There are a few different ways you can go up, but we
elected to take the Mist Trail, which meant we basically got drenched
hiking right up the side of a waterfall for a couple miles. |
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Chipmunk friend! |
These are the cables you have to climb up at the very end to reach the top (left: view from the bottom, right: view from the top). Honestly, I thought going down was way scarier. It probably didn't help that a small thunderstorm started when we were on the top, so it was windy and a little wet going down.
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Oh, but the view from the top is so worth it! |
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My mom about had a heart attack when she saw these pictures later. Oh well! We're safe. :) |
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The whole crew at the top for lunch: Joey and Richard
(family friends who live near Yosemite and had done this before), my
sister, my sister's college roommate, me and my brother. |
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Stopping for a little rest to put our feet in the water on the hike down. |
And, in anticipation for
Oh How Pinteresting Wednesday with
The Vintage Apple tomorrow, here are some gorgeous pictures from national parks
I have yet to visit (visiting all 58 is also on my to-do list):
On the schedule for next week: Traveling with kids. How do you feel about it? If you're a parent, how do you decide what trips your kids get to go on? If you're not yet a parent, at what age do you think you'll start taking your kids on vacation with you? This is just something I've always wondered about when I see babies in places like Las Vegas, for example, or hear about people who traveled internationally when they were too young to remember. So spill! What's your philosophy?
2 comments:
Definitely on our bucket list before we leave cali!
Wow. Amazing! We had a scary climb up Angels Landing in Zion, but it was NOTHING like that. And in rain? It's on my list, definitely
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