At age 33, Mikah Meyer is believed to be the youngest person to visit all of these parks and historic sites.
At the Lincoln Memorial, Mikah Meyer completed a three-year-long quest to visit every National Park Service site in the United States. By Julie Zauzmer Julie Zauzmer Reporter covering religion, faith and spirituality Email Bio Follow April 29 at 3:28 PM Mikah Meyer has spent the past three years hiking, rafting, flying in planes, riding on trains, sailing on boats and mostly driving, driving, driving across every corner of America. He has followed the trail of U.S.
And he achieved a goal inspired by his father, whose death when Meyer was 19 spurred him to not put off his dreams for later. His dad never got to take those road trips he envisioned for his retirement. Standing atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Monday, Meyer wiped his eyes. “The day I lie on my deathbed, whether it’s 60 years from now or six days from now, I can say I did something,” he said, shaking his head in awe.
“The National Archives are the repository for our most important documents. The Smithsonian museums are our repository for our most important things. The National Park Service is the repository for America’s most important places,” Calvert said. “These places define America. It’s like the soul of the nation. It is our story, our land, our history. It defines who we are as one people.”
Mikah Meyer at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site in Washington in May 2016. Jill and Grace Nowadly, sisters who live in Richmond and Arlington, arrived wearing “Pride Outside” T-shirts for LGBT-affirming parkgoers they bought from Meyer’s website. Meyer has become one of their favorite Instagram figures over the years of his trip. “We’ve been texting each other, ‘Oh my gosh, do you see where Mikah is today?’ ” Grace said.
Those sermons, in more than 100 churches, helped Meyer drum up the money he needed to pursue his travels. He said church members often wanted to support him because he was attracting positive news coverage of a gay Christian.
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