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5 Years Ago: Monwana Lodge
For a long time, my favorite fishing hat was a black ball cap with the California Republic bear on it that I bought at the Laguna Seca racetrack sometime in the mid-2000s. I’d forgotten to bring a hat to work, you see, so was forced to pay track-side concession prices to keep my pale bald…
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Five Years Ago: Revisiting an African Adventure
I realized the other day that five years have passed since Mom invited me to go with her on an African adventure. It was just about as amazing as you might imagine, just from those two words, “African adventure”. Back then, I posted photos to Instagram at the end of each day’s exploration, but Instagram…
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Southbound Again
I hesitated as I approached the main junction. Salt Lake City is the turning point, if one chooses to go to California. Or you can continue south on I-15, with Las Vegas as the next major intersection. As it happened, I decided to keep going south. In October of 2018, I went to the Colorado…
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Exiting Montana…
…Without winning the big fish lottery, AKA, fishing the Madison River in the Fall for lake-run browns and rainbows. This year, I picked a losing ticket. I caught a few nice average fish, but nothing special. Last year wasn’t great, but it felt better than this year. A guy I chatted with at Barnes Hole…
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2020 Has Been Crazy
I’ve covered a lot of miles in this crazy year of pandemic and perdition. As terrible as 2020 has been for so many around the world, I haven’t got too much to complain about. I had enough work to keep my gas tank full and I had enough free time to travel, fly fish and…
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A Thousand Miles, Thirty Days
1010.16 miles at 1.4 mph. That’s what Garmin’s track has to say about my travels since I turned it on leaving Reno on June 21, 2018. Not including the prequel spent in the high Sierra of California or the week in Reno waiting for news about my Dad. He died on on Father’s Day, back…
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Starting the Fourth Year on the Road
It was April in 2015 that I left my job and headed out on the road towards unknown destinations. As I am getting ready to take off again for new unknowns, I thought I’d take a look back at those first weeks on the road. It took longer than I had anticipated to prepare my…
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Favorite Places
Out of all of the places that I have visited on this journey so far, there is one spot that want to return to again and again. I spent most of August and September of 2015 driving around the Tetons, looking for the ideal boondocking spot. It took me a while, but here it is: …
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Merry Christmas
Near the end of my journey in 2015, Mom booked a cruise for the family to the Caribbean for Christmas. Here’s a lovely memory of the full moon over Saint Martin as we departed on Christmas Eve. Here’s wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Colorado Elk
Summer, 2016.