Now, don’t be put off by the whole it’s-on-PBSKids.org thing. Wee ones will enjoy it but you, you smart funny travel-loving thing you, you’ll looooove it. Wilson & Ditch Digging America is the best travel show ever. Created by The Jim Henson Company, it’s Up meets Ken Burns’ The National Parks blended with a dash-and-a-half of a Mel Brooks musical. But, really, Ken and Mel have nothing on the gopher brothers. The GoBros are from Eastern Europe. And they don’t wear pants.

The show began with a quote from John Muir: “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.”

I thought back on some of the beauty I’ve experienced in the National Parks. The day at Denali when, with just a few other people around, I watched a moose taking a midday bath with her newborns. The afternoon a foghorn broke through the quiet of a hike in Acadia National Park. And the hundreds of images I focused on during a three-day photography workshop in Yellowstone National Park. Here, some of the photos I settle into when I need to pull back from daily life. I hope you enjoy them.