National Parks on NPR

Have just been listening to a discussion of funding problems of the US National Park service on NPR which totally renewed my desire to go back and hike around the parks there. They are just about the most beautiful places I have ever been in my life, and to go for a few days wandering the back country in Yosemite or the Tetons would be just so wonderful. There are gorgeous places to hike of course in Scotland and Ireland, but nothing quite as awe-inspiring or beautiful.