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One carryon item, check. One personal item, check.Three days on the road with just the necessities.

One carryon item, check. One personal item, check.

Three days on the road with just the necessities.

A Roadtrip to a Few of Our Parks on California’s 2012 Closure List

miles driven: 846

$ spent on lodging: $0

$ spent eating out: $3.20 on a Monster Energy drink

$ spent on park entrance fees: $16

beers consumed: 4

CA State Parks scheduled to close 2012: 70 out of 239

glasses of champagne consumed for New Years: 2

hours on the road: 50

State parks visited: 4.5

Here are a few:

Morro Strand State Beach

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Limekiln State Park

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Morro Strand

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Limekiln State Park

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Zmudowski State Beach

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Morro Strand

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Castle Rock State Park

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Morro Strand

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Castle Rock

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Favorite 11 of 2011

Scott Rinckenberger, of Chase Jarvis Photography, had a friend suggest an idea to get folks to share their favorite 11 photos of 2011. Here are mine.

20110509 092732 Alabama

Outside a home in Toney, Alabama after the tornados in April.

20110409 171104 Carrizo Plain

God rays, storm clouds and the open road. A tribute to Chris LeDoux in California’s Carrizo Plain.

20110529 183648 Parker Lake

The Eastern Sierras’ Parker Lake.

20110616 185500 Bukhansan

Climbing in Bukhansan National Park, outside Seoul, Korea.

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Cloud’s Rest, Yosemite National Park, California.

20110919 061202 Hwy 89 Roadtrip

Highway 89 thru Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, where the buffalo still roam.

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Grinnell Glacier trail in Glacier National Park, Montana.

20110928 154129 Telluride

Aspen in the hills above Telluride, Colorado.

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String Lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

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Looking back from the Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana.

Shooting Roadtrip 2-26-2011 12-54-53 PM

Scouting on foot in California’s Eastern Sierras.

Telluride in September. Forgot to post this a few months back.

Telluride in September. Forgot to post this a few months back.

Sunset in Grand Teton NP, Wyoming.

Sunset in Grand Teton NP, Wyoming.

A guy taking a picture of himself with his iPad at Old Faithful, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming.

A guy taking a picture of himself with his iPad at Old Faithful, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming.