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This section includes posts on travel quests, both tutorials as well as updates on my own progress.

You might also be interested in my tutorial on adopting a quest, or a listing of my own quests, or about the Questing App I helped developed.

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Visiting America’s most obscure National Monument

  • August 22, 2019
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A "daytrip" flight to San Antonio to visit the Military Working Dog Teams National Monument.
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Some 2019 travel goals for #NatureWritingChallenge

  • January 9, 2019
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A short post outlining two personal goals for 2019 for #NatureWritingChallenge, a weekly exercise to spend one hour writing about a specific outdoors topic.
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What I wish I knew before starting my national parks quest

  • March 18, 2018
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Travel quests are among the most powerful ways to get yourself out more. My personal national parks quest—visiting all 417 national park units in the country—has been the driving force…
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Why you should adopt a personal travel quest

  • August 8, 2017
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I believe that travel quests are one of the best ways to inspire more travel. In fact, the original name of this blog was originally going to be VisitEveryPark.com—an ode…
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#MyNationalParksMonth is my centennial celebration of the National Parks

  • April 28, 2016
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UPDATE: jump to a listing of what I’ve seen thus far.BIG NEWS: hear about the epic encore I’m currently!EVEN BIGGER NEWS: I’m now visiting 100 Parks in 100 Days Sorry—much of…
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2012 was among my best trip years yet

  • December 31, 2012
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While I’ve had some amazing travel years, 2012 surprisingly ranks near the top. I made it to 39 national park units I had not yet visited, took my first big…
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Pleasant surprises in the national parks

  • December 29, 2009
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One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about my national park quest is that it pushes me to visit places I wouldn’t otherwise visit. It encourages me to step outside…
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My new wilderness quest

  • January 28, 2007
Virtually everyone who knows me knows about my ongoing quest to visit every National Park Service site.  Well, I’ve decided to add a similar quest: visiting every designated wilderness area in Arizona. …
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