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Visit America's National Parks with the Lopez Family
The Lopez family set a large goal: visit all of the American National Parks before their son turned eighteen. Join them on the road trip of a lifetime as Antonio chronicles the challenges, the beauty, and the wonder of traveling across the most beautiful places in America.
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National Parks + A Family Travelogue Adventure
Antonio lopez had an idea...
Book Synopsis
In 2015 Antonio became a father. After reading a few books on fatherhood, a panic set in that now time was more valuable. As an avid marathon runner and hiker, Antonio incited a shift in family time. The new family goal was to adventure to all the National Parks. Now, Antonio, Liz, and Logan would adventure to every national park to slow time down.
National Parks is a travel memoir, part National Park biography and part adventure with the Lopez Family. This first of two books takes the Lopez family on the road trip of a lifetime over 7 years to 31 or our ever expanding 63 National Parks. In a time of rapid change for their son, they also see the change of mother nature. She in part helps the family find love, religion, and turn the grief of a dying mother into a natural conversation amongst the parks.
Whether the Lopez family is finishing a half marathon in Zion, snorkeling in the Dry Tortugas, or talking to a Marmot in the Grand Teton, Antonio weaves together the type of stories you’re not likely to find in any guidebook. Along the way, this small family from Santa Fe tie all of us to Mother Nature-and reveal how their grad adventure changes the author’s view on everything from a dying mother, the COVID Pandemic, God, and family.
Filled with intriguing facts about our parks and reflections on their fragile future, this first book of two is both a celebration of and a passionate case for the natural wonders that all Americas share.
America’s best idea turns this family’s purpose into the land amongst us. The reader now has valuable insight to the many National Parks they can drive, fly, and adventure to. Sometimes in our busy society, we forget the valuable time with family in the most preserved nation on the planet. As global warming is amongst us, isn’t now the time to hike up that mountain to a waterfall?
In National Parks, Lopez shares historical and entertaining episodic dispatches in on ongoing search for self, life, lost ones, on the road trip of a lifetime. Whether the Lopez family is finishing a half marathon in Zion, snorkeling in the Dry Tortugas, or talking to a Marmot in the Grand Teton, Antonio weaves together the type of stories you’re not likely to find in any guidebook. Along the way, this small family from Santa Fe tie all of us to Mother Nature-and reveal how their grand adventure changes the author’s view on everything from a dying mother, the COVID Pandemic, God, and family.
Filled with intriguing facts about our parks and reflections on their fragile future, this first book of two is both a celebration of and a passionate case for the natural wonders that all Americas share.