and there was a family trip to berchtesgaden. berchtesgaden is a sister park to yosemite and it's high in the bavarian alps. there was also a trip to the black forest. and what i'm saying is, if that hadn't happened, i would not be here speaking to you right now because i would never have become a park ranger. but a seed was planted. and when a seed is planted in, a child's mind. i think of it this way. when you're five years old. and how many of you remember being five years old? how many you remember it as it were yesterday? hey, i liked you from right off. yeah, yeah. those experiences don't just go through the visual of who we are as a human being. they don't just go in an auditory sense. what we're hearing. it just comes through us. it goes within us and it stays there like a seed that's been planted that will take time to sprout, to flower, to blossom, and to become who you were meant to be. i had no choice but to become a park ranger. it was not destiny, but it was preordained because at five years of age, you're like this