Well our quest for 61 parks did not last long. Last week Whites Sands in New Mexico officially became our 62nd National Park. Who knows how many parks there will be when we are chasing our last one. This is the third park added in the past 20 months.
From Wikipedia – Located in the mountain-ringed Tularosa Basin of New Mexico, White Sands National Park consists of the southern part of a 275-square-mile field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals—the world’s largest gypsum dunefield.
Our Plans for January are to visit 3 more parks. Elizabeth has a job in Kona, Hawaii, so her travel expenses are covered to get there and back. I will join her at the end of her program. (My flight, nonstop Phoenix to Kona was only $402 round trip.) We will fly to American Samoa, then to Maui (Haleakala), then back to the Big Island (Volcano) before returning to Phoenix.
We are getting this journey off to a quick start, getting 7 parks in just over a month. This includes going from the eastern most park to the western (and southern) most park. Virgin Islands and American Samoa are 7,500 miles apart, by far, the greatest distance between any two parks. Biscayne and Everglades are less then 20 miles apart.
Gary and Elizabeth's Adventures 