My Trip To Yosemite National Park

My love affair with the West started early since I was born and raised there. However, foreign or not, everybody knows about the American West and what it entails. Whether you have a personal connection or just heard stories, the American West is known to most people around the world. My point being, everybody has had a taste of the West, where most people call home. In early September, we were asked to write about one of our most prominent Western adventures. I immediately thought about the most recent adventure I had. Visiting the Yosemite National Park. I chose this adventure for two reasons, the vast beauty of the Western figure and the fact that I was old enough to make the resemblance between the park and what we had been briefly discussing in class. Now, more than half-way through the semester, I have some different thoughts on the previous essay I wrote. I still do agree that Yosemite National Park, along with other National Parks, are all excellent wonders that define the West to what is has become today. I defined how the West was a place of open land and promise to the people who have lived here. The big problem is that I went off my education that was passed down to me ever since I was a child. When teachers talked about the

Especially compared to Yosemite National Park. Now, based on what I have learned in the class so far, I realize so many parts of the West have such a big impact on its history and growth as a region. As they are both great examples, the theme park shows so much more in which I would have never thought about before entering this class. The theme park show the nostalgic retrograde of tourism in the West. “The nostalgic retrograde refers to a range of recreational activities based around frontier staples and a classic popular vision of the nineteenth-century West.” (Jones and Wills,