ShareTo get the context for this story, read Colorado whitewater rafting story first. Then come back here. – Jo
by Jo Schaper
I mentioned earlier that our whitewater hosting company provided motel shuttles.etting around town proved not to be much of an issue: Glenwood Springs, for now, has free bus service running up and [...]

ShareIt’s spring and an outdoors person’s fancy turns to thoughts of river gages.
Since many Traveler readers have the same obsession Jo does about river and lake water levels…whether for floating, floods, to know if you can get into your own driveway or sheer curiosity, I’m listing a few online river gage pages:

ShareIt was the first time Virginia and I had been away from home by ourselves in four or five years. We ran my Traveler newsstand route July 1-2, which gave me a chance to introduce her to some of my favorite people and places in Traveler Country.
I usually make advertising calls along the route, but [...]

ShareEvery so often, we get tidbits which Traveler readers and friends might like to know. These have been fact-checked enough that we believe them enough to pass along, though they might be considered mountain telegraph or coffee shop chit-chat rather than our usually well-documented and attributed news items. Just as we clearly mark our [...]

Sharehere isn’t really a name for it. Those first few days, usually in March, when the weak sun is warm, but the wind is still cold. Peepers and the first birds (and starlings…ugh) gather in the bare branches, and sing, “Come on, hurry up, Spring!”
It was such a day last Tuesday. I had errands [...]

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You gotta love the people who live in southeast and south central Missouri.
Oh, sure, like people the world over, they work and play, love and hate, “get ‘er done” or sometimes fail miserably. But there is a “can do, I’m gonna show you, I’m from Missouri and you gotta show ME” spirit that I’ve [...]