1. Trestle Bridge in East Texas
  3. One of my favorite pictures of my trip through Wyoming. Freckles was born Warren Granger Brown in Wheatland, Wyoming on January 18, 1921, the youngest of 10 brothers and sisters. He got the nickname “Freckles” from a dairyman he went to work for in Tucson Arizona when he was 14. Years later someone noted the freckles were all gone and Freckles replied, “The bulls knocked them all off!” In 1937 Freckles, at the age of 16, entered his first rodeo in Willcox, Arizona. His rodeo career would span 37 years, from age 16 at that first rodeo in 1937, to age 53 riding in Tulsa at his last rodeo in 1974. But it wasn’t until 1941, after riding his horse 50 miles from the ranch where he worked to the rodeo in Cody, Wyoming, that he won his first bull riding trophy. After his win, he rode the horse the 50 miles back home. Through his rodeo career he competed in bull riding, saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, team roping, and bull dogging. Freckles’ wife Edith was by his side through it all, when he was stationed at Fort Sill in W.W.II, and when he rode in rodeos in Europe, and when he returned to Oklahoma to raise cattle and hay.
  4. Bearpaw Expeditions: One of the best trips I have ever had.
  5. Dad and I traveling Idaho
  8. “The Lochsa is the wild man of the Middle Fork Clearwater Wild and Scenic River system. The Forest Service lists 63 rapids in the run from Crooked Fork Creek to Lowell and more than half are pushing Class IV or V! This stretch covers 57 miles so don’t expect much respite between the whitewater. Four sections each make great day trips, or string them together for an extended outing. The floating season normally extends from May to August. Permits are not required for non-commercial floating. Throughout the floating season, the Lochsa is fed by melting snow in the surrounding mountains. Water temperatures are in the 30s and 40s. Danger of hypothermia is always high. Wet suits are a must for early season floating. Weather in the Lochsa area is often cool, cloudy, and rainy during the whitewater season. Flow gauges have been established on bridges at Lowell (milepost 97) and Eagle Mount Pack Bridge (milepost 135-1/2) to aid you in determining flow rates. Gauges are correlated. Professional boatmen consider the Lochsa a hazardous river requiring heavy equipment and much technical maneuvering. They cancel trips or alter runs to avoid certain parts of the river when the water level is above six feet on the bridge gauges. Below three feet on the bridge gauges, many rocks begin to appear, and some sections are difficult to float without dragging. If you have light equipment, little experience, or are unsure of your ability to handle your equipment under extremely difficult water conditions, you should not consider floating the Lochsa without competent accompaniment. Commercial outfitter guides are available to conduct float trips on the Lochsa. Food, phone, gas, lodging, and camping are available at lodges near Powell Ranger Station, at Syringa, and at Lowell. National Forest campgrounds are located at a number of places along the river. The Middle Fork Clearwater River, of which the Lochsa is tributary, is a larger, calmer river. It is better suited for lighter equipment and later season floating than the Lochsa. Several rapids on the Middle Fork can be difficult at certain flows, however, and need to be scouted—especially for open canoes and lighter rafts. Both the Lochsa and Middle Fork Clearwater Rivers parallel U.S. Highway 12, making it possible to scout much of the river from the road.”
  9. Toledo Bend Reservoir is a reservoir on the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana. The lake has an area of 185,000 acres (749 km²), the largest man-made body of water in (or partially in) Texas, the largest in the South, and the fifth largest (surface acre) in the United States.
  10. Clerk: “Oh, I am going to put you in a real nice room… (thinking aloud) “Well, it won’t be Room 105, but it will be close to it… You probably won’t be able to notice the smell from Room 110”

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