[blparent] advice for how to visit places like national parks

[Danielle Ledet]

Well though these isNOT national parks, that is the reason my family
never got to Dollywood or Disneyland! The closest I'll get now is to
go via a National convention, and I am now solo! It was too expensive
to fly to Anaheim! and no accommodations for lodging close enough to
Dollywood! We would have had to rent a car and drive and that wasn't
happening!
And Julie, my experiences researching all this stuff made me want to
go into Travel and tourism! I started making payments on a course but
couldn't finish it or take the course for the situation I am in. I
attempted communication with someone already having her own business
to find out the route she too or the best route to take, I just wanted
to work for a travel agency, but she didn't respond back. Guess this
is what happens when people make it!

On 3/19/17, Julie Johnson via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> My son and I visited Yellowstone as a part of a longer vacation.  We went
> through a tour company.  I think that particular tour was Grayline, but
> there are lots of other companies that do similar day tours.  The tour van
> picked us up at the hotel, provided all the day transportation, gave loads
> of verbal descriptions and then dropped us back at the hotel at the end of
> the day. We had a number of stops where we got out of the van and walked
> closer to particular park features, so it wasn't all just riding around in
> the van.
>
> This has been probably ten years ago.  I'm remembering the price was
> something like $80 per person for the day, plus a tip.  That included any
> entrance fees and parking fees etc.  Lunch and souvenirs were extra, of
> course.
>
> We've used other similar tour companies for a boat swamp tour in Louisiana,
>
> plantation tour, and non park, more touristy places.  Once I hired a local
> lady to pick us up at our bed and breakfast and take us clam digging.  She
> was recommended by another hotel owner.   We had a lot of adventures!
>
> Now he's grown up and has his own life.  I'm so glad we went when he was
> younger.  Wonderful memories! I hope you will be able to make it work.  It
> is so much fun to travel with older kids!
>
> Julie
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> From: dawn stumpner via BlParent
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> Subject: [blparent] advice for how to visit places like national parks
>
> Hi! I was wondering if anyone has some good tips for getting to
> national parks.  I've generally found when I try to research it
> that it's easy to fly to an airport in the general vicinity of a
> national park, say 80 miles away, but it's harder to find
> affordable options (or sometimes any options) to get from the
> airport to the national park, and there doesn't usually seem to
> be a shuttle or something to get to places that are far from each
> other (like where you sleep and eat and the park).  I'm blind and
> don't drive, and now I finally do have one son who drives, but
> he's still too young to rent a car, and I'm not too keen anyway
> on throwing him into driving, say, from LAX Airport in Los
> Angeles to the Redwood Forest.  Are there some national parks
> that are more known for having shuttles or buses? Do you have any
> other ideas? I'd really like to take the kids to Sequoia or the
> Redwoods, but I'm also interested in places like the Everglades,
> Crater Lake in Oregon, Olympia National Park in Washington, Mt.
> Renier, the Smokey Mountains, etc.
>      Dawn
>
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