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Love on the River, Fishing

Love on the River I have a confession: I love to fish. I learned to cast to rising trout with a fly rod and a dry fly from a moving boat on the Yakima River, with Chuck Cooper, guide. I swear, fishing...

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Etna Green, Indiana: America’s Heartland

Etna Green, Indiana , a pretty little town of just under 600 inhabitants, sits along the south side of old Route 30, about 40 miles south of South Bend. Chicago is a distant thought, three hours to the...

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The Fort Smith, Big Horn River Montana Chronicles

  The Fort Smith, Big Horn River, Montana Chronicles Part One Extended road trips, with uncertain agendas are rare and surprising. This month I found myself wandering between Ft. Smith, Missoula, Twin...

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Fall in the Pacific Northwest

  Fall in the Pacific Northwest. It’s raining outside. Of course—some would say—this is Washington the Evergreen State. How do you think it stays this way? But I know it does not always rain here....

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Fishing Adventures in Man Camp

Adventures In Man Camp Although fishing season seems far off from where I sit, I know spring is headed this way. And once again it will be time to think about fishing: the mental preparation required...

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Powell’s Books—the Greatest Browse On Earth

  Portland Revisited: Powell’s Books—the Greatest Browse On Earth A few months ago an esteemed former writing teacher of mine wrote an op-ed piece about the Bolinas, California Library’s decision to...

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Perfect Paris Part 1

  Finding Paris Perfect is not impossible if you lead with the belief that no one spot is inherently perfect. As in larger life, if you make the most of where you are it can become perfect. Well, you...

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Fishy Business

  Looking through old family photos can be fishy business. I mean those little black and white, bordered-with-white-wavy snaps of a moment eons ago. The kodak kind, now gone forever. The sort your mom...

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Cuba, the new tourist frontier

  Cuba, the new tourist frontier Cuba, is brimming with optimism. Fidel is still living but in seclusion, Raul Castro (Fidel’s brother) is pushing the edges of allowable economic entrepreneurship, and...

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Western Lonely: Montana to Washington

Western Lonely: Montana to Washington: the Real West.   Robert Fletcher sums up my travels through the beloved West this past week. My range is from Montana to Washington, west to east and back again,...

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Thinking Southern: In France

Collioure, France sits in a Southwest corner of France, along the Mediterranean Sea, three train stops east of the Spanish border. Tucked into a bay, between some other little village-sized towns, it...

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In St Malo, seeking All The Light

I have read All The Light We Cannot See again, here in St Malo, holed up in my room on the 3rd floor of the Hotel France et  Chateaubriand, facing the sea. It is nighttime—dark and cold tonight....

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Paris, City of Light, November 2015

Paris, City of Light, recently under siege. November 2015 Three weeks ago I was in Paris, the City of Light. Life was calm, there were musicians on the streets near the numerous Gilbert Jeune...

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A Traveler’s Home

A traveler often wonders about home. Depending on the journey the thought may be wistful, or full of gratitude for the chance to be transported. The location matters–domestic or foreign or strangely,...

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Back Home Again in Etna Green, Indiana

Etna Green Cafe Some places are worth revisiting–others not so much–but in the world of small town cafes, the Etna Green Cafe is a good one. I hold some eateries close for reasons not entirely related...

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The Mo Club

I walked into the Mo Club hungry. Well, not so hungry— but in need of something—and a burger, grilled the old fashioned way, in the dive-looking bar seemed right. It’s a friendly place if you are with...

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