I am still hanging out on the edge of the lake, waiting for the ice to go out. This is a picture of my boat this week. Once the snow in it disappears, I will pick my way through the ice floes to my cabin. What a spring!
Happy May Day!
I Don’t Own an Ice Boat
I am all packed and ready to leave for northern Minnesota for the summer. I start work at the forest service on April 25th, so I thought leaving right after Easter was a good idea. I asked the guys who work at the boathouse to get my motor on my boat so I can tear... Continue Reading →
Follow, Follow, Follow
How? I personally have never followed someone on a website, nor have I read other people’s blogs. I didn’t even really know what a blog was. Some friends have told me that they don’t know how to follow me on my website. This is how to do it: Go to annesherveose.comClick on the farthest left... Continue Reading →
Three Stooges alias Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka
Last night the three of us who will be paddling to Hudson Bay gave a presentation in Iowa Falls, Iowa. I have done quite a few of these programs by myself, as have they, but this was the first time we did it jointly. It was really fun for me, and I think it gave... Continue Reading →
Exhale!
The Canadian Border Patrol finally got back to me, after I wrote an email, an online request, a letter, and called several times. The first time I called, they said crossing the border on the Red River couldn't be done. This time it was good news for us! Instead of giving the impression that Canada... Continue Reading →
AMT Excursions
Long long time ago, I can still remember…..I had a student exactly thirty years younger than I, and a colleague exactly fifteen years younger than I. We went on a college canoeing trip to the BWCA once, then twice, and now it has morphed into an every year activity. We paddle one year, bike the... Continue Reading →
Goodbye, Maestro
I have an old old dog named Monkey. Last year I thought he was not long for this world, so I wanted to get a new puppy. This was for two reasons: to keep Monkey company as he wound down and to enable Monkey to teach a new dog some of his old tricks. So... Continue Reading →
Taming the Mississippi
Jim Post singing Mighty Big River In 2004, two of my college friends and I decided to paddle canoes from the headwaters in Itasca State Park in northern Minnesota to the Twin Cities. We all had experience canoeing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, so it wasn’t a stretch to think we could paddle the... Continue Reading →
Triple Whammy
TRIPLE WHAMMY Think about your experience with crossing an international border into another country. One always needs lots of paperwork and lots of time. Now think about what travel has been like for the past two years. Covid has made it nearly impossible to get anywhere without jumping through countless hoops. Now think about trying... Continue Reading →
Thailand
I taught school in Thailand for six months in 2005. It was a teacher exchange program through AFS, with which I was familiar before this opportunity arose. The students had all taken English lessons since kindergarten but their spoken English was atrocious. I had an after school guitar club however that was quite rewarding. There... Continue Reading →
Anne Sherve-Ose: Island Girl 