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Meenakshi

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Meenakshi is a designer by profession and traveller by heart. Photography is something that she cherishes and goes on a Click! Click! Click! spree wherever she goes.

I’m a big fan of Dolly Parton. I remember her being one of my favorite characters from Hannah Montana, and that quirky nostalgia stuck with me longer than I’d like to admit. Then we ended up watching Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash biopic, and it hit differently. The raw honesty of country music, the stories behind every song, the way it doesn’t pretend to be anything it’s not. We looked at each other halfway through and said, “We need to go to Nashville.”

Every August, I do the same thing. I check the smoke map, throw a headlamp and a fleece in the car, and point it toward a mountain. Five years of living in Washington have taught me one stubborn little truth: if you can only visit the state’s national parks once, do it in August. That’s not a tourism-board line, that’s just my honest take after doing this, badly and then well, for half a decade.