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Patrick Dowd has returned from Peru. Read the Peru travelogue from the beginning.
Monthly Archives: July 2007
House on River
A house on a river is somewhat of an American archetype, especially for a fisherman. You awake and just as the coffee makes its way through the filter into your cup, you notice through the kitchen window that the trout … Continue reading
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Fishing, Rio Grande, July 9-11
Fished the Rio Grande from South Fork to Del Norte for three days. Wonderful experience. Dawn and I joined Ron and Fritz in their rafts. We caught many large browns and some rainbows. Caddis dry flys like Elkhorn Caddis, Stimulaor, … Continue reading
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Fishing. Rocky Mtn Natl Park
Since 1969 the fishery management philosophy at Rocky Mountain National Park has been to restore the greenback cutthroat trout, the original native fish. Rainbows, browns and brooks are harvested; the cutthroat is catch-and-release only. Dream Lake had a fair number … Continue reading
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Rowdy and the Seven Brides
7-7-7 is auspicious as a date. For Dawn and I, it was our seventeenth wedding anniversary. So, we returned to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. We visited the church where we were married in 1990 and the Music … Continue reading
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Colorado
Clouds in the West. The fields around me look like Kansas–flat, alternating green corn and golden wheat, gray grain silos in the distance. But the sign twelve miles back said, Welcome to Colorado. The clouds in the west obscure the … Continue reading
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4th of July
We crossed the Mississippi at St. Louis in the morning. Missouri came and went. A major thunderstorm blew across I-70 just west of Kansas City. I pulled off the road for awhile because the fastest speed on the wipers couldn’t … Continue reading
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START: USA 2007
After a day of driving, I am somewhere in Illinois, about 493 miles from Charleston and not quite to St. Louis. I can’t wait to see the mountains of Colorado poking above the long plains of the Midwest. Driving directions … Continue reading
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