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.

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.

Down the River and Up the Road

I started this blog to accompany my book, Down the River and Up the Road. For now, I'm doing my book a chapter at a time, formatted for Amazon's Kindle reader. The book is based on the experiences I had as a river guide on the Salmon River when I was in college. While the story is imagined, many of the places, names, and locations are real. When content I have fits what the story is telling, I'll post it here and make notes that fit with and support the Kindle book.

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.