February 2018: Remembering Camping, Landlocked by a Singe Word

WHITE water....Terminator Rapid (at high water) is just upstream of my winter home. Terminator was originally named TKO (technical knockout) by my Dad and his cohort who ran the first raft expedition of the Futaleufu river in 1984. In 2014…

WHITE water....Terminator Rapid (at high water) is just upstream of my winter home. Terminator was originally named TKO (technical knockout) by my Dad and his cohort who ran the first raft expedition of the Futaleufu river in 1984. In 2014 my Dad brought our family to Futaleufu to revisit his past and raft the section of river downstream from Terminator, at last completing the Futaleufu river after 30 years.

A brief note for a brief month,
 

The shortest of the year
February feet finally
adapt to the dry Austral air.
This time next month I'll be stateside
shedding southern skin 
on the road again.


See you then,

Jenner

PREILIMINARY BUFFALO RELEASE TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED BELOW

Spring & Summer Tour Dates

April 6 - The Lost Church - SF - 7:30pm - Official CD Release Show!!!
April 7/8 - Berkeley and Palo Alto (details TBA)
April 13 - Woody Guthrie All Stars - Freight and Salvage, Berkeley -Tickets
April 14 - Woody Guthrie All Stars - Freight and Salvage, Berkeley -Tickets
April 20 - Washington DC (details TBA)
April 22 - House Concert - Charlottesville, VA
June 7 - River of Song Benefit - Freight and Salvage, Berkeley 

Stay tuned for more tour dates in North Carolina, West Virginia, Bend, Portland Seattle, LA, Santa Barbara, and New York

Fox Recommends

  • A dam good cabbage recipe: Make a fire. Cut slits in a cabbage (so it opens like a flower). Add generous amounts of butter, salt, pepper, and any other spices of choice in the slits. Wrap the whole thing in foil. Throw it into the fire for an hour or so. Viva la cabbage renaissance!

  • B is for Bob. My current favourite Bob Marley record. Different tasty arrangements of a lot of his most beloved tunes. 

  • Go camping. Sometimes you forget why you like camping. Then you go. And you remember.

  • Writing all emails and online postings before getting online. I've had to do this by necessity here, and it's a GAME CHANGER. 

PS. 

I was out at sea for seven years
I got your letter in Tangiers
I thought that I'd been on a boat
Till that single word you wrote
Single word that landlocked me
Turned the mast to cedar trees
And the wind to gravel roads
Idaho, Idaho

-Josh Ritter, Idaho

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