You Can Always Live on Rice and Potatoes
I Dislike Golf
I had a pleasant revelation this morning while leaving the house. The weather was cool and I pulled on a jacket as I went out the door. As I did, I thought, "this would be the kind of day when it would be good to have a jumper in your ...
Missinaibi River Conclusion - The Facts of Life are Soggy
- Posted on July 3, 2009 at 4:45 PM
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“Let’s play a game,” I said, trying to lighten the mood. We were bobbing on Brunswick Lake at the end of a six hour rainstorm. Everything about us was wet – our skin was pruny and seemingly every piece of gear, from our sodden campsite dripped with moisture. We had ...
Missinaibi Days 7 and 8 - Where we've been all this time
We have taken yet another rest day and are not apologizing to anybody. Our residence (and I think we've been here long enough to call it that) is an island in Brunswick Lake. Its granite shores slope steeply up to a flat campsite bristling with Red Pines. The height allows ...
Missinaibi River Day 6 - The Best Intentions
I know. I had you all psyched for my fireside rest-day musings. And certainly, I had many: the nature of life, why we seek the wilderness, leeches. I planned to share all of this with you, dear reader. But there's something about a rest day. The rest just gets its ...
Missinaibi River Day 5 - A story about Sean
Sean is our 13 year old nephew, accompanying us down the Missinaibi. His parents - specifically his mother - have been harassing me via text messages on my sat phone, demanding that more information about him appear in the blog. Very well. Here is a Sean story. It was an ...
