Sentence of Dave

In the past few years, the phrase "yeah . . . no" has become a bulwark of conversation-- SlateRadio concludes that the phrase crea...

When you carry too many things, chances are you will drop one . . . but you will avoid the dreaded "making of two trips."

A light year attendance-wise for the Outer Banks Fishing Trip XXI, but no other complaints . . . the water was clear, the beer was cold, the...

Just because you can't see a rattlesnake, doesn't mean it isn't there (this goes for fish, spiders, and serial killers too).

Bob Dylan doesn't make any sense.

It's better to endure the pain than the alternative.

When you pretend things are made of lead, many of your friends will desert you . . . but not your true friends (I dimly recall that my frien...

When you put yourself under great pressure and time constraint, it's harder than you think to write a sagacious aphorism.

After completing an epic cross-country journey, I'm sure I have some sagacious wisdom to dispense, and so I'm declaring it "aph...

After two mammoth driving days, we made it home . . . and the house was still standing . . . so a big thanks to all the folks who made this ...

Some places we visited on our trip that I'd like to live: Des Moines, Hot Springs, Minneapolis, Emigrant, Pittsburgh, Rapid City and Alt...

Minnesota is the "land of 10,000 lakes" and this means: 1) that you have to go ahead and name all ten thousand of these lakes . ...

We made our way from Bismarck to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, where we stayed with our friend Sabine in her cabin on Lake Vermilion; th...

We stumbled upon two great things in Bismarck: 1) the Best Western Plus Ramkota hotel has a mini-waterpark, with one large and two small sl...

My family and I are morning people, and so driving west to Montana was a pleasure-- the sun at our back, gaining hours as we passed throu...

Though I have already issued a warning about the size and scope of Yellowstone, we did not heed my own sage advice yesterday, and after crui...

We floated a beautiful stretch of the Yellowstone yesterday-- and though the trout weren't biting, the time passed quickly-- as our rive...

My favorite moment in Homer's Odyssey  is when Odysseus-- after twenty years of adventuring-- finally returns home and finds that his...

We drove back into Yellowstone today, and: 1) we took a hike on the Howard Eaton trail into the Hoodoos-- and though the roads and main pa...

If you are going to visit Yellowstone National Park, I recommend: 1) staying at the cabin we rented in Paradise Valley, though it is thirt...