Family vacation draws biblical comparisons

This past weekend I did my best Jesus impersonation by descending into the fiery pits of hell, Redding, California and and on the third day rising again, returning to the Willamette Valley.
Night/ Day One
We get in late and our room is on the ground floor.  Drunks keep Shelly awake all night stomping over and [...]

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Middle Fork Willamette River: Lit to Pop

Father’s Day, 2009

I’ll say it: the Middle Fork of the Willamette is a seriously underrated fly fishing river. That is fine by me. In fact, I think it is the best wild trout river in western Oregon. It’s probably a tough call which is better, the Upper Mckenzie above Blue River or the [...]

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Riding Out the Storm of the Century, Mckenzie River, June 4th 2009

Hyperbole aside, my dad and I have a long history of nautical misadventures. Basically, when the two of us get in a boat together there’s a decent chance of bad things happening. And so it was when we sailed out of Pictured Rocks on Lake Superior only to find ourselves about a dozen [...]

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