Relationship to place is an interesting thing.
In our younger years, we did a lot of hiking and backpacking. We happily embraced the approval offered by an NPS ranger: we were park visitors, not just park tourists. We had guidelines for what purchases we allowed ourselves at park stores: we could only make a significant purchase—a park-branded t-shirt or Nalgene bottle—if we had actually hiked a trail in said park.
Yosemite was our go-to park…
