I have been very quiescent this summer on the QUIETJOURNEY website: that is, I have forgone my constant Skip-Bashing in hopes of gleaning some valuable backwoods insight and pleasant stories of the Quetico experience from the participating readers. I must now, however, break my months' long silence to intervene: do you all realize what a mere few recent letters could do to our beloved Quetico? Don't you all realize that Skip regularly reads the letters? Can you imagine (No. Only those of us who have traveled with Skip can rightly even begin to imagine) Skip's next foray into the Wilderness? The trip from Indiana alone would be enough to wither a Spartan General, what with Skip's practicing diatonic scales...on a HARMONICA, no less.....as he bobs and weaves Terry and Dottie's van through Wisconsin traffic. The very thought of turning up at a Canadian Ranger station with Skip in tow, wearing a ball cap with half a Deely-Bop hanging from the bill, makes me shudder; but, the next thought is even more frightening as I wonder how Skip will explain the contraption to Old Mike at Prarie Portage. Of course, the prospect of Skip reading Carlos Castenada as he gargles the lyrics (!) from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" is just too absurd to put much mind to it.
So, please, spare us any more of these speculations on this site....or you may be driving North with Skip as he practices heightening his peripheral vision.
Rockhead.

Posted by ROCKHEAD on August 13, 2000 at 11:49