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If you were to plan an extended trip through the National Park System, how would you do it?  Where would you go first?  How would you prepare? 

In this week’s podcast, the Traveler’s Lynn Riddick talks with Cristian Garza, who recently returned from a four-month jaunt through the parks. He clocked some 300 hours of driving across 17,000 miles of the U.S. and Canada and shares some of his experiences and perspectives with Lynn.

0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
0:28 The Road Scholar - Bill Mize - The Spirit of South Dakota
0:47 Interior Federal Credit Union
1:11 Potrero Group
1:37 Yosemite Conservancy
1:59 The Everglades Foundation
2:13 17,000 Mile North American Road Trip
14:47 Wabanaki - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
14:54 NPT Promo
15:06 Friends of Acadia
15:33 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
16:02 Great Smoky Mountains Association
16:23 Washington’s National Park Fund
16:57 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
17:22 17,000 Mile North American Road Trip
31:19 Otter Point - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
31:45 Episode Closing
32:22 Orange Tree Productions
32:55 Splitbeard Productions
33:05 National Parks Traveler footer

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