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Outdoors with Don Q: A two-year anniversary at Carson Now

Today, Feb. 9, marks a special day in the life of yours truly. It is my two-year anniversary writing about the Great Outdoors at Internet websites Carson Now and South Tahoe Now.

Time certainly flies when you are having fun, and it has been both a totally enjoyable and a totally memorable two years of writing about all kinds of activities in the Great Outdoors, both near and far away.

Best of all, by writing for an Internet website rather than a printed publication, there have been no restrictions on how many weekly articles I can write, there are no restrictions on the length of those articles and no restrictions on how many photographs to run with the articles.

When I previously wrote for a printed publication (AKA a local newspaper), I was restricted to the day of the week, the length of the articles, the number of articles that could be submitted and to one photograph (not more than two photographs every once in a great while) per week.

Thank God for the Internet: At my parent site of www.carsonnow.org the sky is the limit. That is a big, big difference.

Being biased, I also have a strong intuitive feeling that at some point in the future, those printed newspapers as we know them today, will join hula hoops, dial telephones, tail fins on cars, dimmer switches on floorboards, slide rulers, manual typewriters, home visits by doctors, glass milk bottles, drive-in theaters, etc., as interesting things of the past.

Thank God for being associated with a classy and well-run Internet website.

Plus at the two websites there is the personal pleasure of working with two highly-dedicated “Five Star” individuals, who make it a fun-filled work environment, week in and week out.
I would be remiss if I did not name Kirk Caraway of Carson City and Jeff Munson of Carson City as those two co-workers. They are the best. The absolute best!

Kirk and Jeff are very talented professionals, who are making those two websites bigger and better all the time.
And, they are succeeding beyond all expectations!

During this past year, I wrote about a multitude of outdoor activities, and I thought that it might be fun to list some of my weekly articles to demonstrate the wide-ranging areas that they covered.
So here are some selected Internet articles from the past year:

January:
Jan. 04: My resolutions for the year 2012

Jan. 18: Barrow, Alaska – sunlight returns to Barrow, Alaska

February:
Feb. 22: The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway

Feb. 29: Our vacation trip to Indio and La Quinta, California

March:
Mar. 21: Fishing for Lahontan Cutthroat Trout at Pyramid Lake

Mar. 28: Wiggin’s Trading Post in Chilcoot, California

April:
Apr. 11: The annual John Riordan Invitational Fishing Derby

Apr. 18: Opening of the 2012 California fishing season

May:
May 09: “Fishing The California Alps” annual newspaper

May 16: Vacationing in the Ely area

June:
June 13: Davis Lake, California Wildflowers

June 27: Where to go for the Fourth of July

July:
July 11: Yukon train ride

July 25: Yukon fishing

August:
Aug. 15: 10th anniversary of the Nevada 10-in-10 Challenge

Aug. 22: Go prepared when in the Great Outdoors

September:
Sep. 05: The people, accommodations and meals at Mitchell Lake, B.C.

Sep. 12: The fishing at Mitchell Lake

October:
Oct. 03: Stunning fall colors and fantastic trout fishing west of Bishop

Oct. 17: Apple Hill, California

November:
Nov. 21: Mackinaw Trout fishing at Lake Tahoe

Nov. 28: Ideas for Christmas gifts

December:
Dec. 05: Top memories of 2012

Dec. 26: The annual Don Q Awards for 2012

Finally, there you have it:
A sampling of things that I wrote about last year.
And, guess what: 2013 promises to be even better and more fun than 2012.
Yahoo!

Bet Your Favorite Pigeon
Bet your favorite pigeon that he can’t tell you which of the above is my favorite article for the year 2012.
If he grins and says, “Heck that’s easy. It is all of them," he could be either a relative or a close friend of mine.

— Writer Don Quilici is the Outdoor editor for Carson Now and www.SouthTahoeNow.com. He can be reached at donquilici@hotmail.com

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