Friday, November 20, 2009
Success on the Kindle
Thank you for those purchases! If any of you read this, I would love to hear or read what you think of the chapter(s) that you purchased.
The goal is to publish the entire book. If I can get in touch with you early purchasers, I would be happy to send the entire copy to you, when it becomes available.
thx
Jeff
email address is the blog name plus the "@gmail.com"
Friday, August 14, 2009
the beach landing below Moore's cabin on the Main Salmon
This is a small, two boat, fall trip going down the Salmon. Great time of the year on an unbelievable river. Just above this beach is a small bench on which James Moore built his homestead, which ultimately ended up as quite a place, serving all sorts of things to the local mining and farming people.It's all quiet now, but it is something to imagine life on this river a hundred years ago. From what I've read it was a pretty lively place.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Chapters of the book -
Down the River Up the Road Chapter One
Down the River Up the Road Chapter Two
Down the River Up the Road Chapter Three
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
River dinner
This is a river dinner setup. Tall tables, dutch ovens, and old-school coffee.
The tables double as benches in the gear boats. And the peach cobbler makes a good pre-breakfast snack if there is any left over. It was always a treat to see vacationers expecting fairly nasty camp food turn out pleasantly surprised with the food that we made as part of these trips.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Chapter Two is now live in Amazon
This is a Kindle-only book for the foreseeable future. At some point, once I have the chapters written and solid, I will join them together for a book. But for now it's exclusively Kindle!
Given the chapter at a time nature of the book, the characters might seem slow to appear. This book is about fatherhood, it is about active healthy teen and pre-teen girls, it is about Idaho. Horses and dogs are here in the story. Surfing even makes an appearance. Those topics will all reveal themselves as the chapters roll out.
But our first character's love of the Salmon River runs through the whole thing, or at least the chapters that are devoted to him. Idaho is truly a wonderful place and the Salmon River is certainly part of what makes it such a nice place. It inspired this book.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Shoebox Warrior - Banjo
Down the River Up the Road is about many things, rivers, mountains, people, horses, etc. It is also a dog lover's story about one small dog in particular. This dog, or at least the fictional version of her that fits in a book.This is our shoebox warrior in one of her favorite places.
Monday, July 20, 2009
A great run through Rubber - Middle Fork July 1988
One of the biggest drops on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River is known as "Rubber". I imagine some big sweep boat left a chunk of itself on one of the rocks in this drop and that is how it was named. Needless to say it is a big drop for the Middle Fork. Most of the rest is technical. This one is big and to my memory it gets bigger as the water gets higher. Many of the other drops wash out. Not Rubber. This picture is the leading end of an 18-foot Chubasco gear boat, blasting its way through the wave and making its way out of the main drop. Big fun. Great river.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Rhett Creek on the Main Salmon
At the end of the season, usually late August/early September, guests would go back to reality and the guides could take a trip, if they had a nice owner and the gear was still local. I did. Vuerle Duerden owned the company and was great to work for. At the time, the gear stayed at our warehouse in Salmon year-round. So here we are on a late season trip. Dave and Laurie (pictured) were two guides from the American River that came up and floated the Salmon with us. Great trip as I remember. The beaches on the Salmon and on the Middle Fork are stupendous. By the way, the only other place I have seen beaches rivaling the Salmon River are on the Lower Wisconsin River, from Sauk City on down to the confluence with the Mississippi. I suppose the Colorado has some nice beaches but I have never been down that creek.
Monday, July 13, 2009
a wavetrain on the Main Salmon
Friday, June 5, 2009
one more serial note
fun example of serial publishing
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Rafting the Salmon River
A day on the Salmon River, with three clients about 20 years ago. Part of the memories that my book, Down The River Up the Road, is based on.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Laissez le bon temps rouler!
I have always looked back on my time as a river guide in Idaho as a great time in life in one of the superb spots on this planet. It wasn't just the river, it was the small forgotten towns with the Main Street cafe, it was the ranchers in their plaid shirts, it was the mountain passes and the old gravel roads. IT was the sense of history that you felt when stumbling upon an old long since abandoned cabin, knowing that someone had lived in that desolate spot a hundred years before you.
I got lucky and made it out of the Midwest and saw some of this first hand. It inspired this book. But I really hope you all can get out and see it for yourself.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Down the River and Up the Road
Kind of an experiment in serial reading supported by multi-media and memories, if you will.
The Salmon River, which is in central Idaho, and the country it is in, is absolutely stunning, at least to me. Aside from wife and kids, the time I spent on that river was phenomenal and continues some 20 years later to provide some very pleasant memories.