I recently had to make an impromptu trip back to the Carolinas to tie up some loose ends. This meant I was going back home to Asheville for the first time in almost two years.
Read MoreI remember my first national park: it was Big Bend National Park and I was a junior in college. It was the beginning of my lifelong passion for the outdoors. But years later, national parks and I have a love/hate relationship.
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