4,152 miles, 7 states, lots of outdoor adventures…oh, and lots of fly fishing. By the time you read this column, school will just about be open, again! That is hard to believe as school seems to start earlier each year; right now my focus is on as much fishing as possible. June 22 found me […]

Our second week of vacation found us putting Nebraska in our rear view mirror and dead-heading for Northeastern Iowa’s driftless area. When I say that Nebraska was in our rear view mirror…I might add that one very large and ugly super-cell was also bearing down on us from Sioux City to Waterloo; I was driving […]

It was at about this date in my column that you should have got more information on The American Prairie Reserve; I wrote about it a few weeks back. Things don’t always go as planned…sometimes you just have to go with the flow. As I said in last week’s Journal, we had experienced car issues […]

There are two kinds of people in the world…those who have been to and seen Mount Rushmore, and those who haven’t; up until just recently, Vickie was the latter. We had finally arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota and taking the 30 minute drive up Highway 16 was high on our to-do list. First, I […]

I just recently had a birthday…no big deal now, each year past 50 is just another number. Many of you know what I am talking about; what is odd however is that as each year rolls by I feel like it’s the simpler things in life that have value. My good buddy, Kenny Williams, and […]

Last week I told you that me and dad were in northern Illinois…camping at Kankakee River State Park; I thought the first day on the river would be the worst, truth is-the river conditions my first day out were indeed the best. The second morning found the Kankakee River running at 11,000cfs (cubic feet per […]