Tag Archives: travel

“Fishing and Eating in Saloons”

Posted on September 12, 2020 by rivertoprambles

[Part 4, the last in my Rocky Mountains series for 2020.] The sportswriter Red Smith and his small son were fishing in the north woods long ago and would customarily break for lunch in a local tavern. At one point, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bears, birding, camping, Devils Tower, eating, fishing, Gallatin, Medicine Wheel, native culture, nature, rock formations, Rocky Mountains, saloons, Shoshone River, travel, writing, Yellowstone | 18 Comments

Feral Thoughts, Wyoming

Posted on August 28, 2020 by rivertoprambles

[Part 2 in a 4-part series on a Rocky Mountain tour & camp-out with my daughter.] We immersed ourselves for a much needed bath in the cool waters of the Snake River, near our Station Creek campsite. Our next move … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alpine, bears, cutthroat trout, feral mind, fishing, freedom, Greys River, nature, Snake River, Tetons, travel, writing, Wyoming, Yellowstone | 12 Comments

Mountain Times, Colorado

Posted on August 24, 2020 by rivertoprambles

[The first in a 4-part series that reflects a recent road trip, camping with my daughter through the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. I hope you enjoy the ride.] Our first Colorado night was spent in Monument at Terry’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arkansas River, birding, camping, Colorado, Crystal River, fishing, Frying Pan, Garden of the Gods, nature, Roaring Fork, Rocky Mountains, South Platte, tenting, travel | 20 Comments

The Hemlock Grove

Posted on July 31, 2020 by rivertoprambles

Preparing for a long road trip into western places where I like to believe that a fly-fishing spirit can really soar at times like this, it’s good to remind myself that one needn’t go far in order to find a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birding, hemlocks, hermit thrush, In the Hemlocks, John Burroughs, naturalist, nature, poetry, solitude, song, Spirit, travel, writing | 28 Comments

Transitions

Posted on July 17, 2020 by rivertoprambles

Anticipating an August road trip out West, I recalled several earlier trips taken with my wife and kids– one trip just two years ago, and others, oh, way back… Perhaps the highlight of one westward transition occurred as we stopped … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ecology, exploring, family, Firehole, fishing, Gardner River, Greys River, nature, road trips, Sand & Sage, transitions, travel, Walt Franklin, writing, Yellowstone | 18 Comments

Narragansett

Posted on July 10, 2020 by rivertoprambles

My quest for saltwater species taken with a fly rod continued to elude me, defying all odds, on coastal Rhode Island. There were no fish seen or caught in my pleasant trials along Quonnie Pond, at the sand bar on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bay, birding, fishing, high hills, hiking, Independence Day, Narragansett Bay, nature, perfect skunk, poetry, Rhode Island, travel, Trustom Pond NWR, writing | 15 Comments

Halfway Lake

Posted on May 28, 2020 by rivertoprambles

The small seven-acre lake was a good choice for a meeting of the clans. My son and his wife would drive north from Arlington, VA to meet us at Halfway Lake, a feature of Raymond B. Winter State Park in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged environment, family, fishing, Halfway Lake, hiking, natural history, nature, Rapid Run, social distance, travel, Winter State Park, writing | 19 Comments

Between the River and the Rail

Posted on May 13, 2020 by rivertoprambles

Railroad fever gripped the nation during the latter decades of the nineteenth-century. As the New York and Pennsylvania timber and tanning industries burgeoned from dreams of endless forest and mineral wealth, many towns in the region clamored for a train … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Baltimore & Ohio, economy, fishing, Greenwood, history, local history, nature, New York & Pennsylvania, railbeds, small trains, The NYP, travel, writing | 21 Comments

An Early Canisteo Cabin

Posted on May 7, 2020 by rivertoprambles

[On the first white settlement in this watershed– a place that became my permanent home two centuries later… Understandably, no photo of original cabin is available.] The American Revolution had ended. General Sullivan, acting on the orders of George Washington, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cabin, Canisteo, Canisteo River, history, migration, nature, pioneers, sense of place, settlement, travel, wilderness, writing | 14 Comments

Thinking Like a Creek

Posted on August 26, 2019 by rivertoprambles

1. Stumbling from the lean-to late one night, relieve an aching bladder. Stars shine brightly through the broken canopy of Baxter wilds. I think of The Maine Woods by Thoreau: “In the night I dreamed of trout fishing.” Silence, like … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged fly-fishing, home, nature, ocean, philosophy, poetry, reading the water, small streams, Thinking Like a Creek, travel, Walt Franklin, Water, writing | 11 Comments