Work in Progress Post: Travel Podcast

Hey its Himanshu and I am working on an autoethnographic podcast on travelers. In this except from my interview I talk about my experience traveling through the National parks. The National parks were a huge part of my travels within the US and therefore i chose this section for this post. I expect this to be talked much about in the final product.

Brandon:

 “…. Back to the national park idea what were your favorite National parks and why do you like going to them”

Me:

”Yeah so about national parks. I was in the BSA so i kinda already had a love of nature from the many camping trips and stuff i did as a kid. In kinda started as a family thing as everyone in my family loves nature and we used to go on many family hikes in the local parks. That pushed us all towards visiting these national parks. One of my favorites which i visited really early on was yellowstone national park. It was Awesome to see how well preserved nature is there. You can like actually watch wolves hunt other animals and stuff like that and one time he saw a bear with her cubs and probably got too close to her but we were with a bunch of other tourists so we were fine but, yeah common silly tourist mistakes. Other places we went to were well. When we went to Nevada i got to go to the Grand Canyon National Park which was probably the most disappointing of the parks i have been too. For some reason it didn’t really stand up to the other ones i had seen so it didn’t impress me so much. the hikes there were also pretty dull because once you start going into the canyon all you see are red rocks and there is no shade from the sun at all.. But near the grand canyon was a park called Zion which was really awesome. Its pretty much like the grand canyon but smaller and much more pretty. You get to go straight through the canyon and there some cool water hikes you can take there. Another one, well yosemite was really nice park and also really pretty. Than there was olympic national park which is probably another one of my favorites. It was a real surprise since i never really heard much about that park till i was in seattle but the park was really incredible to go through . The mountains were awesome and the beaches were really cool. there were like sea anemones on the beach and stuff and it was a really rocky beach unlike any beach i had seen before. In North Carolina itself i personally like the outer banks state park just because i really like seeing the light houses and stuff and i kinda want to sail in one of those old sail boats. But um yeah those are probably my favorite national parks.”