"Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation ?" - John Muir, one of the main inspirations for the U.S. N ational Park system Opening Note My short trip to California, USA was in the card for quite some time, as my visitor visa is to expire short while from now. The open invite from Ramesh, my brother’s son to visit his family at Scott’s Valley, Santa Cruz was long standing though. The last time I travelled to his home from Chicago for a very brief spell of 10 days was eight years ago in 2015 winter. Other than taking me on some trails in the nearby Henry Cowell state park to feel the mighty redwood trees and the Ano Nuevo state park in the Ano Nueva bay of the North Pacific coast to look at the ubiquitous elephant seals, my nephew drove me for a three day sojourn to Yosemite, one of the oldest national parks of the country, protected since 1964. The harsh November weather of Yosemite Valley didn’t permit us to take any long tre...
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