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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
November 29, 2004
It takes about a day to downshift into river gear.
It goes like this. You're working, then you're packing, then you're attending to the last-minute stuff that life inevitably throws at you. Then, all of a sudden you're afloat and the world is reduced to basalt canyon walls, sun, clouds, wind and....