Dispatches from the Wild World

Thoughts and Ramblings on Adventure and Travel

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

St. Croix River Maine

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The idea was to boldly go where no man....well you know the rest.   We wanted to take a paddling trip in Maine while avoiding the maddin...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Elk River Tennessee Canoe Run

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A version of this article originally appeared in the Huntsville Times. My son was itching for a day away with Dad.   I needed a short ...

Amicalola Falls State Park

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Georgia’s Springer Mountain means something to hikers on the Appalachian Trail (AT).   It’s either the long-awaited end to a southbound ...

Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge

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In the Spring of 1847 William Clayton and Orson Pratt, among the first white men to travel into Nebraska’s Sandhills region, gazed out ove...

Mississippi Sharks!

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A version of this article originally appeared in Mississippi Magazine . Photos by George Lee. The thrashing shark I’m holding is both ...

Paoli Peaks Ski Resort Indiana

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A version of this article appeared in SKI Magazine. Indiana? Isn’t that flatlander’s paradise, full of flat-as-a-pool-table cornfields? ...

Whitewater in the Southeast USA

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A version of this article appeared in the Huntsville Times. Let ' s try a little geographic word association.   I ' ll give...
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My Name is Tom Ress

It all started with a canoe.
Thirty years ago I bought a canoe and started paddling rivers in my home state of Indiana. I quickly realized I had found my passion. Running rivers opened up the world to me and I found myself on rivers all over the United States and then all over the world. I was hooked on adventure and travel and soon I was diving wrecks in the Bahamas, rafting in Costa Rica, skiing in Canada, paragliding in the Alps, racing motorcycles in Georgia, hiking in New Zealand, trekking through the Amazon jungle, Patagonia and the Himalayas, mountain biking in Ecuador, flying a glider plane in Alabama, kayaking in Antarctica, summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro and flyfishing in Iceland. It's been exciting and fun. And at times scary. I've been charged by a bull elephant in the Serengeti, caught in a whiteout blizzard on Mt. Shasta, bit by a bullet ant in Central America and challenged by a massive bull caribou in Denali National Park. I've been on all seven continents and dozens of countries. And I'm not ready to quit--on the contrary I've gotten worse. I head out the door every chance I get. My bucket list is long but the checkmarks are increasing.
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