Fishermen are a superstitious lot. While I don’t consider myself superstitious, I will admit to having a lucky hat and favorite fishing mugs, fly rod, etc. But I don’t get bent out of shape or blame my luck when the fish don’t bite. It’s called fishing and not catching for a reason (see blog post…
Leaving Rapid City (see post) for a fall fishing trip in Wyoming, I purposely drove through this isolated northwestern corner of Nebraska to experience one of the largest intact grasslands in the upper midwest. Here you’ll find the expansive landscape of native Grasslands with forested streambeds and steep, worn, formations created by water and wind…
Video blog based on the recent post: Don’t Eat Yellow Snow and Other Water Purification Techniques (see the original post here). To see JTLF videos first, please subscribe to our channel, not all videos posted on Youtube make it to the blog or are published here a week or so later.
What takes off like a torpedo and is relentless and full of teeth … a barracuda … check out the video with underwater footage. To see JTLF videos first, please subscribe to our channel, not all videos posted on Youtube make it to the blog or are published here a week or so later. See…
Alec relives two very hostile border crossings in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
The canals in miami’s southwest suburbs provide a wide range of native and non-native fish. None is more sought after then the aggressive Amazon native, Peacock Bass. Typically I go out to the Everglades backcountry to fish for them but every now and then I hit the local canals. February is when they spawn and…
This is second post on a series of hostile border crossings (see post 1) where I was detained or otherwise questioned by armed border guards while legally crossing international borders. Bulgaria / Yugoslav Border (1984) After spending a delightful few weeks along the Dalmatian Coast in the former Yugoslavia, in late 1984, we started off…
To celebrate President’s Day weekend I decided to do a post about Rapid City, South Dakota. Rapid City is known as The City of Presidents, a designation earned both by its proximity to Mount Rushmore and the downtown public art project comprised of 40-plus life-size bronze presidential statues on various corners throughout downtown. I came to…
The Romans believed it to be an end of the known world. The name Finisterre in latin means “Land’s End.” I spent three days there because I misread a bus route, but came to fall in love with this little fishing town at the end of the earth. I was living in Spain at the…
Watch How to video on building different first aid kits for home, car, travel, gear bag, adventures and anything life throws at you.. It’s not one size fits all when it comes to first aid kits, so customize as you and your family need and learn how to use what gear you have before you…
