United States travel stories

California Dreamin

Having said farewell to the endless esculators in Vegas and the speed chasing cop from the unknown Area 51, Chris and I greeted our venture into California's Death Valley with slight apprehensi...

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Sheenjek, Part 2.

http://www.freelock.com/ Reaching down in the freezing current for the next cork, I tried pushing and yanking, but it was too cold to hold, and still wouldn't come free. With one numb hand han...

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A Gravel Bar on the Sheenjek River, August 21, 1995

http://www.freelock.com/ A huge log drifted downstream, a slow-motion arrow aimed right for what was left of our weir, three stakes with some hurricane fence tangled together. Passing over where t...

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Crew Report

http://www.freelock.com/ The clueless crew were ably led by Fearless Fred, Master of Salmon. Fred knew the ins and outs of counting salmon. He could count them forwards, backwards, sideways, and u...

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Life aboard the F/V Alaska Beauty

http://www.freelock.com/ She's called the Alaska Beauty, but man, is she ugly. The 98-foot trawler shows more rust than paint. What paint she has is thick, cracked and peeling. At first glance...

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