As some of you may remember, Animated Meat first came to life in 2008 as a way to document some sights that managed to slip through the cracks of most popular travel websites. You may also remember that the original website was built on Apple's now defunct iWeb. From there, it migrated over to WordPress where it met an untimely demise at the hands of Russian hackers. Many of those old, pre-2012 entries have found a new home here in the Before the Now section. I would consider these posts as my starting place as a writer, probably comparable to a musician's first demo tapes. They are very rough, but I took them all seriously and wrote each one with passion. While I would like to believe that I have matured in my abilities as a writer, it is my hope that I carry this same blind passion into all of my new efforts.

Mail Boat River Trip - Originally Published 2008

May 5, 2019

In the coastal town of Gold Coast, there are two companies that run tourist up the Rogue River. We went with the Mail Boat because you actually deliver the mail on this trip.

The boat makes a quick loop through the mouth of the Rogue and then it’s up river.

The Mail Boat trip offers an opportunity to see some of the local critters close up. This is largely and undeveloped river and it looks like the good people of Oregon intend to keep it that way.