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Some rivers are better left alone — like the Limpopo
By PATRICK PARKER - Roaming Parkers
Sat,12/21/24-11:00AM , 1,248 Reads
When Elise, Cady and I were in South Africa three years ago, we got to do a bit of canoeing on the Orange River, which rises in Lesotho and winds its way northward and westward to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Turtle soup story appalls teacher
By PATRICK PARKER - Roaming Parkers
Sat,12/14/24-10:00AM , 1,252 Reads
While writing last week’s story about my 10-year-old daughter’s encounter with a snapping turtle, I remembered I had my own snapping turtle story from when I was just a bit younger than she is now.
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- Grass, wildflowers grow in McComb last week. (Elise Parker)
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SW Mississippi is his idea of the best ‘winter wonderland’
By PATRICK PARKER - Roaming Parkers
Sat,11/30/24-10:30AM , 871 Reads
When we announced a few months ago that we were going to be spending about half this year in Bar Harbor, Maine, exploring Acadia National Park, people looked at us like we were nuts, because the only thing anyone seems to know about Maine is what they’ve heard about cold weather and violent winter nor’easters.
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More than one way to set out on a long journey
By PATRICK PARKER - Roaming Parkers
Sat,11/16/24-2:00PM , 1,050 Reads
Back in the 1600s, whenever the Hudson’s Bay Co. would send fur trappers out in canoes into the wilderness of Canada, they would make what was known as a “Hudson’s Bay start.”
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