I paddled the Dismal River in Sandhills of Nebraska three times in 2001 covering the stretch of the river from the highway 97 near Mullen to as far as the Whitetail campground in NE National Forest (photo reports). I always paddled solo in my Sea Wind canoe. It was training for my first Texas Water Safari. Me and Connie used to travel to Mullen together with Worf and stayed in Sandhills Motel. In the next few years the traveling with two big Newfoundland dogs was more challenging and we didn't travel to Nebraska, although, each year I was planning the trip.

Finally, this year we returned to the Dismal River with our Newfie girl, Dax. Most of the spring and summer I spent paddling Sisson Nucleus kayak and X-treme canoe. The Dismal trip was a start of my training in Sea Wind for Ultimate Florida Challenge.