When George Brinkman called me in the middle of summer 2017 to invite me to come down and fish with him in Mazatlán I told him I needed to save money for my planned 2018 Africa trip. By the end of the same phone call, during which George presented a…
The forecast for Lake Superior Provincial Park in Ontario did not excite me: highs around 55 degrees and lots of rain. So, instead of driving 250 miles north into Ontario for a long weekend of solitary camping and hiking in dreary wet weather I started my trip by traveling 400 miles…
In June 2017 I got the opportunity to complete a river restoration training (Wildland Hydrology‘s Applied Fluvial Geomorphology, AKA “Rosgen Level I”) in Seeley Lake, MT. My employer paid for the course and travel out there, and I took a few vacation days and the weekends bookending that week-long training…
I would love to return to many of the places I’ve visited but when selecting vacation destinations I tend to choose places I’ve never been before. This trip was an exception. I’d already fished in the Florida Keys and Everglades in 2011, which resulted in 22 new species to my…