Places like Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite,
etc. are just one step away from being as bad as Disney Land. To argue that
aircraft, of all things, are what are ruining the peaceful experience is
just ridiculous.

Perhaps at the visitor center, but you go out a ways and you can find
peace and quiet. There is a self-filtering going on - those who want to
experience peace and quiet badly enough can do so. It involves getting
away from people, and that is what the national parks are all about.

Alas, the hoi polloi don't know the difference, and stay at the
visitors' center and think they've been to Yosemite. Those that care,
hike away from the crowds and get to see the park the way nature
intended it to be expereienced. (*)

It's not meant to be easy, otherwise they'd put a freeway through it.

Jose
(*) ok, a little poetic lice... er.. certificate.
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