Obama in Paradise

Obama in Paradise

When Barack Obama was 11, his mother and grandmother took him and his half-sister Maya on the most American of family vacations -- a road trip that included Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. Last week, Obama passed on that gift as he took his wife, daughters Malia and Sasha -- as well as Maya and her family -- on a four-day trip to two of America’s most breathtaking national parks.

"It was nice the entire family was there," National Park Service spokesman Gerry Gaumer noted -- not just the immediate family, but the extended family. "Rather than a presidential...