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They don't like off roading, they have wierd rules like you can't bring wood in from another state to build a campfire, you must stay on the trails, you can't let your poodle lose at twilight to possibly be eaten by a cougar, you cannot climb or jump up and down on rock formations during a thunderstorm, and you must sign the trail registers.

The National Park Service is worse than a strict parent who never lets you have any fun. Everytime I visit a National Park, it's all I can do to refrain from staking out a poodle in cougar country at twilight, scatter catnip around and call "Here, kitty, kitty." I sign trail registers "Edward Abbey," and I long to do a war dance on a promisingly high rock formation as soon as I see a stroke of lightening hit.

I salute you.

Take copies of your resume. You never know when you might chance across that half-open door that you just need to get your foot in.