Beginning the Adventure

Several months ago I came up with a plan. I have always loved sight-seeing, traveling, and visiting new places. It doesn't really matter where it is, it is more fun to go out and see the world than sit back and play StarCraft on the computer. One thing that I have always loved to do is go camping. As a kid, I was in Boy Scouts and got to go camping many times in the Arizona wilderness. Since getting married and having kids of my own, the opportunity has never presented itself. Part of this is because Stacy had no childhood memories of camping in various parks, cooking smores over an open fire, hiking up to see breath-taking sites, and all the other great experiences that are part camping.

So I came up with the idea of visiting at least one National Park every year. When I told my idea to Stacy, she was very nervous at first. After all, how fun could tramping through the woods and looking at yet another tree be? What possible enjoyment could anybody get out of sleeping in a sleeping bag when there was such a comfortable bed waiting at home? But after much discussion, we decided that it would be a lot of fun and an exciting adventure to go on.

Currently, there are 58 National Parks in the United States. Each one has been designated as such because of its unusual beauty. They are all over the United States, but mainly concentrated in the Western half of the United States. Since we live in Alabama, only the first couple will be within easy driving distance. These will be considered the warm-up to Adventure.

This blog will be a journal of our adventure, not just of this particular journey, but any vacation that we take, so our extended family can enjoy it with us, and years later we can look back and remember the fun we had going out and seeing the world.