Travels

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I love to travel. I have taken several car-camping, canoeing, backpacking, or bicycling jaunts on which I always take a microcassette recorder,a notebook, and a camera so I can construct accounts of these trips. Until recently, I generally took slides with my Canon Rebel 2000 with a long and short zoom, but in December 2001 I got an Olympus C-2100 digital camera with the SLR equivalent of a 38-380 mm optical zoom. Here are a few trips I've written up:

• The Great Southwest—1998 trip to Texas (including an article on dinosaur footprints), New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. Many images in thumbnails and blow-ups.
• Backpacking the High Winds—A trip I took with my UW-Eau Claire colleagues Richard Bell and Tom Browne in 1991 to the Wind River Range of Wyoming. Narrative with 8 photos.
• Up the River and Back, or, Ten Crazies Afloat, being A Tale of a Week on a Houseboat—Yeah, well, this is just what it says, and before word processing and laser printers and all that. Vintage 1978 on the upper Mississippi River.