I had a bike almost before I could push the pedal down. It was a tricycle, and how I loved riding up and down our driveway! At three, anything that moves is really exciting. In a small town one of the biggest benefits for the kids [...]
As a young outdoor lover I can to remember anything better the biscuits, pancakes and sourdough my dad would make. I remember as a ten-year-old going camping with our family. My dad would get up and fire up the fire to burn down the hot coal [...]
Learning about food from around the world was my favorite class in college. Taking the class just whet my appetite to travel. After graduation and teaching home economics at Orem Jr. High, I decided to go to Europe . Back then we followed a book entitled [...]
My all-time, most-often-cooked recipe. I love to cook it on a tin can stove. 4 slices bacon 4 slices bread 4 eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper Camp Stove & At Home In a large frying pan, fold bacon strips into "V's".Cook on one [...]
It's truly amazing what you can do on an outdoor outing if you just have the right ideas. Two favorite off-the-wall ideas of mine are Backpack Chicken and Car Manifold cooking. Backpack Chicken Cook your chicken in a backpack while going [...]
Drying is the oldest method of preserving food. Ancient peoples didn't have refrigerators, freezers, tin cans or jars. They simply used the sun to dry fruits and meat for jerky. As the food dries, its natural sugars become concentrated and the flavors intensify. You don't have [...]
In 2007 I was asked to start leading tours to China. I had been there once in 1995, and I found the country to be on the move and extremely interesting. Never did I think my path would lead me back to directing tours and visiting [...]
Going camping is always a fun and exciting experience for me. This past weekend I gathered with my cousins on my father’s side and we all went up to Wolf Creek Pass (9,500 feet above sea level) and camped out where my grandfather herded sheep a [...]
Photos by Dian Thomas and Blaine Hobbes; article by Marv Hoole Marvelous varieties of tulips, and the other principal bulb flowers of crocuses, daffodils, and hyacinths, are grown privately and commercially all over The Netherlands. Their commercial cultivation, however, takes place mainly in Holland — the [...]
On March 12, 1992, I boarded a plane that was flying from Salt Lake City to San Diego. This flight was just another one of my weekly trips to California. I had made such trips for the past several years. The airport staff made seat assignments [...]
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