Don & Shelly

Still my friend Adam Noll (@ThatOutdoorGuy) on Twitter suggested that I would enjoy the quality, fit and warmth of a Stormy Kromer hat. The quality of the Stormy Kromer cap is obvious. If your Stormy Kromer cap is lost, stolen or destroyed, no worries. The quality, fit and warmth of the Bergland Cap motivated me to endorse this terrific American company.

A new National Park book introduced this year Lassoing the Sun by Mark Woods took four years to write and publish. We have identified three areas about our 59 National Park journey that are important to us. Ben Kieffner (@flow397 on Twitter) and I developed #ParkChat which has become one of the most successful outdoors chats on Twitter. Just last night Lauren Danner (@WildWithinHer on Twitter) suggested that #ParkChat folks write the book prologues and the blurbs on the inside flap of the book cover in 140 characters or less.

The south entrance to Yellowstone National Park was closed due to forest fires. Plus #Arch2Arch also followed each of these National Park Service managed trails for significant parts of the adventure: Like all National Park trips I have taken, this one was about people more than anything else. I can’t think of a more fulfilling way I could have celebrated the Centennial of the National Park Service.

He said that he and his wife Elizabeth were planning a year long trip to all 59 of the National Parks. A trip to the National Parks is more about the people you meet and share the experience with than it is about the Parks themselves. As far as we can tell via Google and social media, the first two couples to visit all 59 National Parks in about a year were Cole and Elizabeth and us. In our humble opinion the Missouri Way (AKA funding the trip ourselves), like the Switchback Way, was the best way.