Last evening, Jerry and I had found an excellent campsite just in the nick of time.  But we’d had no time to enjoy it.  So we’ll pick things up with the two very refreshed travelers awakening to the sounds of birdsong and the whisper of the river just as the light was getting strong enough [...]

Yesterday on the Wateree ended with Jerry feeling much better, which was an incredible relief.  When you’re in the middle of nowhere, an illness or injury that might not be serious back in the comforts of civilization can be life-threatening.  We’ll start our third day on the river a little before daybreak, at our lovely [...]

We left Jerry and myself sleeping fitfully under the I-20 Bridge over the Wateree, hoping that the river didn’t wake us unexpectedly in the night. When we awoke, just before dawn, the tent was still mercifully free of riverwater. But it sounded as though every semi east of the Mississippi was crossing the bridge above [...]

For our third annual river trip, my good  friend Jerry Craven and I decided to expand our horizons beyond the borders of the Lone Star State. I lived in South Carolina back in the 1990s when I was getting my MFA, and I canoed many of the Palmetto State’s rivers then.  One that I missed [...]