As COVID-19 plays capriciously with the minds and hearts of travelers, summer demands full attention and decision-making when it comes to leaving home. Is it safe? Is nothing about travel safe yet? What steps must we take to ensure travel is safe enough? Questions like these are burning throughout the world, much so in my head. As June slowly comes into vision, I feel I’ll be making the safest, most correct decision to do something. But I don’t want to focus on debating safety just yet. No matter what happens, national parks of the USA are top on my priority list for future travel. In other circumstances, I’d love to be hopping on a widebody jet (say, Delta’s shiny A350s! ✈️) to visit Lisbon and Porto, the French heartland and down to Provence, or Asian charms like South Korea or Singapore (or every other country in the world). But it’s wise for every traveler to choose to put trips abroad on hold. I see the vast, incredible country of the United States at my doorstep—easy to access, and easy to socially-distance within national parks I’ve had on my bucket list and always wanted to visit. And I hope you accept my apparent bragging rights for my admission to federal lands: I get free admission to every park due to my disability, as do all disabled travelers! At the end of this post, I’ll share the link to info about the lifetime parks pass I’m referring to. I wanna try to list some of my highest-priority and soonest-planned parks on my radar. Please, any and all my readers, let me know your favorites!!
PC: Dave Logan, Sunset Magazine
PC: National Parks Foundation
PC: National Park Service There are just so many more I’m imagining; it’s super difficult to list all of them. Because I could end up listing the 62 of them. In any case, Olympic NP is on my immediate radar for June 2020, as I outline in the next few days a trip I’ve designed (excited!!). It’s a worthy challenge to cross off all the parks, because they all truly receive less value than they should. While I’ve been more invested in traveling to major and up-and-coming cities in my travel past, the pandemic situation is making me rethink (aptly so). Many more travelers will be opting for parks this summer over urban areas, looking forward to socially-distancing AND having fun. I really encourage everyone to think nature this summer—you won’t be disappointed! Link to NPS Disability Lifetime Access Pass: https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm#CP_JUMP_5088581 STAY HEALTHY, HAPPY, AND ADVENTUROUS!
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