I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

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Amateur Traveler episode 799. Today Amateur Traveler talks about a UNESCO site that is also a U.S. national park and the first of U.S.'s parks to be protected as we go to Yosemite National Park in California.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about Yosemite.

I'd like to welcome back to the show Jill Robinson, travel writer from danger Jill Robinson.com and Jill has come back to the show to talk to us

about Yosemite Jill welcome back to the show thank you much. And Jill has been on before talking about the

wine country in California and New Orleans at least. Those are the two that I can come up with on top of my head.

The only other one is San Francisco, which I talked to you about with Kimberly Lovato,

because we both wrote a book together, a hundred things to do in San Francisco before you die.

Excellent.

There's gonna be a lot less pressure

on this particular episode

in terms of dimensions of of death one would hope.

Oh I might mention it once. I feel like this may be a silly question but why

should someone go to Yosemite? Well I think someone should go to Yosemite because well first of all it's one of the most

iconic national parks in the US for very good reason it's got about 1200 square

miles and that's packed with huge granite walls, plenty of thundering waterfalls, domes and peaks carved by ancient glaciers and volcanoes.

It's got kind of extreme elevation

from about 1,800 feet at its lowest point

and going to more than 13,000 feet at its highest.

It's got more than 400 species of wildlife from as small as

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