It Was Epic

It Was Epic

This article was first published as Das Boot in Nr. 40, the October 2018 issue of International Sidecar Traveller   It took us almost a week to get packed, after work and in our spare moments. It took longer than that to convince my brother, Andy, and my good...

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Unsettled Weather

Unsettled Weather

  The end of summer is collapsing into a cycle of unsettled weather. A hot day with clear blue sky will suddenly cloud up and let loose a torrent of rain. The night will go black and crack open in streaks of lightning, thunder echoing and rolling across the...

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Moss Creek

Moss Creek

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Not A Bad Weekend

Not A Bad Weekend

I had Friday off. Robert came up and we worked on the dugout canoe. Rob went home Saturday. Before he did, we rode the Triumph up the hill and hiked down to the Big Rock for a beer. On our way back, we collected some ironwood for future cooking projects.    ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/3/25 6:00 34F (1.1C)  A lavender mist is swirling around my face.                                            ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/2/25 5:30 36F (2.2C) Calm, cold, relatively  dry. The moon has gone to bed. It is a dark morning. Above me the broken clouds are flecked with stars.                            ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  12/1/25 6:30 28F (-2.2C) Silvery-gray freezing fog ebbing and flowing, sometimes dense and enveloping,  sometimes retreating to the shadows of the surrounding trees. It hit freezing early  last night and the temperature has dropped since then, making the first...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    11/30/25 5:30 34F (1.1C) Cloudy, dark, still. It rained a little last night, but seems to have dried out. A car drives by. I see a couple of stars poke through the clouds low in the west. To the east, a neighbor's paranoid light rends the cloak of night...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    11/29/25 5:30 32F (0.0C) Calm, cloudy and dark. The half moon was setting behind the oaks when I went to bed last night.  This morning is dark and still, with a coat of ice. Fog is rising from the creek and creeping through the briars and rank grass. The...

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