It is a national custom in Finland to travel by boat either to Stockholm or Tallinn. Actually the destination does not matter too much as long as you have an opportunity to have fun and relax. There are big ferries full of entertainment on the routes and the cruises are relatively cheap. It was a must to me to check out this phenomenon during my stay in Finl...
On the night before hunting season, I was going out to my cabin to stay so I would be able to get up bright and early and be in the woods already. The cabin is about a mile down an oil road on some property my family owns. The road becomes impassable around the time of deer season every year, which is just as much a help as it is a hinder, because the rapid...
[In September 2017, after the splitting off of the West and Northeast of the US and them joining Canada, Chinese agents in the guise of Siberian separatists declared Siberia independent of Russia. When Putin declared war on the new independent Siberia, China announced they were sending their troops in to defend it from Russian aggression. A day later, Putin...
Friday morning arrived and John Marlin, 32-year-old owner of The Wildwood Cabins Resort, was ready for a busy Fall weekend. All five cabins at the forested resort were reserved through Sunday. Yesterday afternoon, the first couple arrived and occupied Cabin 1. The pace was about to pick up, he told himself. It was just before noon that a SUV pulled into the...
A Ford F-150 pick-up truck drove down a lonely stretch of road flanked by nothing but trees. I was relaxing in the back seat looking out the window, thinking about how my parents decided that we would be spending time at the family cabin. The drive to the cabin from my house is two days drive, far away enough that you don't have to worry about people disturb...
I had spent two whole days hiking up the side of the mountain when a snow storm suddenly popped up. I knew I had to get to shelter and fast! I remember a buddy of mine telling me about an old cabin from a previous trip. I realized that I was close to the spot he described and I went in search of the illusive shelter in the woods. I found the old broken down...
A few weeks ago T came home from work and mentioned that one of the people where she works had posted a cabin for rent notice and would I be interested in getting away for a weekend sometime? We checked into it and found the price reasonable and the drive not too far so we booked it for a weekend. The owners had told us that it was quite remote, and there w...
In 1967, I was living with a girlfriend, 10 miles north of Aspen, Colorado, in a little cabin on Elk Mountain, high in the Rocky Mountains. We were attending a dance at the Aspen Inn. I had been living with Sherry about three years off and on and our relationship had not always been smooth sailing. Sherry was twenty-four, hazel eyes, brown hair, and light...
About the middle sixty's I was in my second year of college and home for the summer. I had taken a part time job with the neighbors to help Lenny fix up a cabin he and his wife, Bertha, had bought in northern Wisconsin. (If you read the two stories, Lawn Work Rewards you will remember Bertha) Lenny and myself were to be up at the cabin for the next three we...
Jordan was shocked when a lawyer called and told him that he had received something from his uncle's estate. He had barely known his uncle and did not know that he had died. Uncle Ira had been strange; actually Jordan's great uncle on his father's side, he had only met the man a few times. As a child Jordan had been scared of the old man. The last time Jord...