These national treasures -- often overlooked by travelers in favor of government-managed national parks -- offer nature lovers, eco-tourists, birders, and travelers alike an undiscovered haven of natural beauty. This guide is packed with four-season observances, information on hiking trails, and notes on migratory bird patterns, flora, and fauna. Information on natural wonders, directions, activities, and nearby creature comforts for each park are included.

The world of finance is made unnecessarily complicated - especially for young people. Setting a strategy to retire before you are thirty can be very straight forward and involve only a few simple tools and strategies. In "Playlife" the author sets out in plain language (targeted at his own children) how to design the life that you want to be living and exactly how to achieve that from both a financial and a practical lifestyle perspective. This book covers not only the financial side of becoming wealthy through property and stocks, but also a range of life advice. From getting promoted to engineering a redundancy, living in happiness with a life partner to getting a divorce; Playlife de-mystifies and simplifies the basic steps needed to achieve the goal of living a fantastic and financially free life. Everyone seems to have advice for young people. The difference with Playlife is that it tells you HOW to achieve what you want. The subtitle is "how to retire before you're thirty" but it's never too late to start. Put these ideas into practice and anyone (no matter how old) can stop working for someone else much sooner that they think