Diet And Travel

 October 5, 2013

 I am linking up with Linses Cotton's  Scenic Weekend 
 also please visit with Oh, the places I've been @ Tablescaper And Our World Tuesday

I am sharing my views of our National Parks..which are now CLOSED due to the shutdown.

Our government should be ashamed of themselves...the politicans are acting like children instead of doing the job they were elected to do..FOR THE PEOPLE..not for Corporations and not for themselves.

I hope they can come to some kind of agreement and end this silly shutdown..put furloughed workers back to work and open our National Parks. Not only is it a loss for the visitors.. the National Park System and the local economy is taking a hit...hotels, stores and restaurants will all lose business.



Acadia National Park, Maine


Arches National Park, Utah



Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah



Canyonlands Natiional Park, Utah




Cascades National Park, Washington



Everglades National Park, Florida


Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska




Glacier National Park,, Montana


Grand Canyon, Arizona



Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming



Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Big Island Hawaii


Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Sarah Fogartya


 


Lassen National Park, California




Mount Rainier National Park, Washington



Redwoods National Park, California


Olympic National Park, Washington



Sequoia National Park, California


Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive Virginia



Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming


Yosemite National Park, California


Zion National Park, Utah

Lorraine Wilsonons of people from the USA and from around the world visit our National Parks every year.. In the year 2012...280 million people visited the National Parks..As you can see hubby and I also love our National Parks...Over the years, hubby and I have visited many of the National Parks around the USA. I can not imagine being turned away and not allowed to enter. I feel sorry for the people who were made to leave, who reserved hotel rooms and planned a yearly vacation all around visit the National Parks. Hubby and I have a trip planned soon to visit Carlsbad National Park and Guadalupe Mtns Nat'l Park.. I am hoping this shutdown is over before our trip..

I hope you enjoyed my scenic weekend post.  I wish everyone a safe and happy holiday weekend.  

 Thanks for stopping by and I appreciate your comments. Thanks for stopping by to see my post and thanks to Linses Cotton for hosting Scenic Weekends. also thank to the host @ The Tablescaper
thanks also to the hosting team at OurWorldTuesday

 Do you feel like sometimes you are on top of the world? Life has its ups and downs but mostly life has been good.
For my Scenic Sunday I thought I would do a post of my views from the top of the world. Well not really the top of the world but some seem pretty close to it.  Actually these shots are from various trips hubby and I have been on, we love to travel. The 22 years we have been together I believe we have managed at least one trip a year sometimes two if we could swing it.  My hubby likes to see the views from the top of mountains so we have hiked, we have driven to the top, we have taken trains and we have taken lifts.


As usual you can click on the photos for a larger image.

                              After a hike to the top of  Mt Tallac we had a view of Lake Tahoe.

                             

   After a train ride and some fancy lifts we arrived at the top Jungfrau, Switzerland


                                  

  Jungfrau Ice sculptures

       
Above another photo of  Jungfrau.  Also, while in Switzerland we also took lifts to see a view of Mt Blanc, which is the highest peak in Western Europe. We were actually in the clouds and did not have a great view. Once a cloud broke I believe we actually see the peak for a short time. By then I was ready to go down and kiss the ground. The lifts were small and shaky. Nothing like the lifts and trains we took to Jungfrau or to see the Matterhorn.

 


        

 Above more hiking and climbing mountains, this time In Yosemite California.

                           

  Hiking to the Yosemite Waterfalls.

          

     We have driven to the top of the Going to the Sun road in Glacier National Park

                       

The Going to the Sun road is a narrow winding road and in some places has waterfalls running right under the road.

                             

     Sunrise on top of the Haleakala Crater Maui, Hawaii. We saw the sun rising above the clouds.  If you go here wear some warm clothes it was freezing cold at the top of the crater.