“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible” ⁣
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📍 #MaryMcLeodBethune #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll #OptOutside #HumansOutside365 #JuniorRanger #NationalParkGeek #ParkChat #December2019 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽

Peak 🌸 ⁣⁣
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Sunrise gathering with friends to catch the blossoms 🌸⁣⁣
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📍 #NationalMall #FindYourCherryBlossoms #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll #JuniorRanger #NationalParkGeek @ginaonajetplane.bsky.social @expeditionswithevelyn.com #ParkChat

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 8, 1965, Selma, AL ⁣⁣
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#BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll #NationalParkGeek #ParkChat #February2021 #MLK #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣⁣
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🌿 #Piscataway #Nacotchtank

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”⁣
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― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography⁣

#BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #ParkChat #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽

“There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.” - Harriet Tubman

#BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #ParkChat #August2022 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣⁣⁣⁣

Banana Slug at Redwoods NP

📍 #Redwoods #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll

You are on native lands 🌿

📍 #AfricanMeetingHouse #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #ParkChat #NationalParkGeek #April2019 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣
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🌱 Native Lands of the #Massachusett, the #Pawtucket, and the #Naumkeag 🌿

Throwback to Quinn exploring Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore last summer!

What is your favorite National Park Service unit in Michigan?

📍 #PicturedRocks #FindYourPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #JuniorRanger #OutdoorsForAll #HumansOutside365 #NationalParkGeek #ParkChat

Thinking of this beautiful place and looking forward to getting back here! 🐻🐻 🔜

📍 #SleepingBearDunes #NationalLakeShore #FindYourPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #JuniorRanger #OutdoorsForAll #OptOutside #HumansOutside365#NationalParkGeek #ParkChat

You are on native lands 🌿

Before emancipation African American slaves used the floodplain of Congaree as a place of refuge and a place to find liberty. ⁣
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📍 #CongareeNationalPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #iBrakeForBrownSigns #OptOutside #OutdoorsForAll #NationalParkGeek #May2021 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣ #ParkChat

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”⁣
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📍 #CarterGWoodson #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #NationalParkGeek #September2019 #ParkChat #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽

Muir Woods ☺️

📍 #MuirWoods #NationalMonument #FindYourPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll #NationalParkGeek

Your are on native lands 🌿

Mesa Arch

📍 #Canyonlands #MesaArch #FindYourPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #Utah #OutdoorsForAll #NationalParkGeek

You are on native lands 🏜️

Protect This Place

📍 Dark Hollow Falls #ShenandoahNationalPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #WeAreShenandoah #OutdoorsForAll #JuniorRanger #NationalParkGeek

🌿 Native Lands of the #Shawnee, the #Manahoac, and the #Monacan 🌱

“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”⁣
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Frederick Douglass⁣
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#BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll @rei #OptOutside #JuniorRanger #NationalParkGeek #January2018 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣
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🌱 Native Land of the #Anacostan and the #Piscataway 🌿