Deborah Ann Cathey and Mel Richards are an influence couple in the case of national-park journey, and people of us who love visiting these outside locations can solely hope to be similar to them some day. Why? As a result of Cathey and Richards lately introduced that they’ve completed visiting all the U.S. nationwide parks—in the identical 12 months they each turned 70 years previous.
Cathey shared the couple’s feat to the Fb group US National Park Travel, and her submit has over 50,000 likes. An analogous submit to her private Fb web page exhibits photographs of the pair visiting their last park: Isle Royale.
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“My husband and I simply completed all 63 nationwide parks,” Cathey wrote in her submit dated July 9. “We’ve been engaged on this for about 9 years, actually devoted to it since 2018. We’ve had an incredible journey, seen locations we’d have by no means imagined going to. This 12 months we turned 70, and our final 8 all this 12 months have been: Virgin Islands, Maui, American Samoa, badlands, wind cave, voyageurs, and at last at the moment isle royale. After we began we principally tent camped, driving in every single place together with Alaska (from Texas), we flew in lots of sea planes and boat journeys. We hope you’ve gotten loved our journey. Now on to the subsequent one.”
See the 70-year-old couple that simply completed visiting all of the U.S. nationwide parks right here:
Congratulations to this adventurous couple!
Header inventory picture of a small island from the coast of Isle Royale Nationwide Park by Sanya Kushak/Getty Pictures