Elizabeth & Cole Donelson

If Ireland and Hawaii had a baby, they would name it Azores and plop it right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, is a 9-island archipelago located about 850 miles off the coast of mainland Portugal

From the island of Zanzibar to the Western Cape, we experienced some of the best views and outdoor experiences of our travel lives. If you have any questions or comments, please leave a voicemail below about anything related to travel or the national parks — favorite hikes, your questions for us, or tips you have for our listeners — to be potentially featured on a future podcast. If you enjoyed the podcast, we’d love for you to share us with a friend, give us a rating on iTunes, find us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. We’ll be back next month talking all about our favorite destinations in southern Africa for outdoors-minded travelers like us.

Today we celebrate the women who, despite unequal opportunities and mistreatment in the national park system, persisted to make significant contributions to the preservation of our nation’s treasured natural, cultural, and historical areas. May we learn from them, seek inspiration from them, and continue to share their stories and fight for equality even when it isn’t International Women’s Day

If you missed the big news out of the National Park Service a few weeks ago, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was renamed Indiana Dunes National Park, making it the U. S