Ron Barbish

It’s been about ten years since I was poisoned by pesticide from crop spraying while riding my bicycle in near Hood River, Oregon. Not too far from my house, I rode over one of the many hills and was showered by some kind of chemical from a crop sprayer nearby. Thankfully, I was wearing glasses, … Read more

Checking in at ronbarbish.com after a few months since the last blog post. A lot has happened, for sure. I spent most of August running from forest fires in the Pacific NW. Most of the places I ride my mountain bike and go camping have burned. Then, the long drive from the Columbia River Gorge … Read more

I’m up in the summer pasture dealing with suddenly very hot weather, closed bridges and a tense situation that’s probably just about everywhere in America. I’ve been riding my mountain bike as much as I can, because I have the feeling that, one way or another, me riding a bike through the beautiful forest will … Read more

Changes in latitude as I head north from Arizona to Washington with a stop in Oceanside, CA. This is the fifth year since I’ve made this annual trip north and it’s always a little different. The kayak fishing at the end of the winter long term camping season was cut a few weeks short with … Read more

May 4, 1970 was the date of the Kent State massacre. I was a senior at Euclid High School. I know people who went to school at Kent State and had been there several times. I’ll always remember how small the dorm rooms were. It felt like the college campus shootings happened right down the … Read more

It’s that time of year to leave the desert and heading north home to Washington, although these days I wonder where home is or if I have a home at all. All the mostly elderly people who spend winters in the desert, the local fishermen I’ve met here and my friends all asking the same … Read more

Stormy weather and working on the watermanatwork.com website are pretty much what’s happening right now. The enjoyable content production here on ronbarbish.com is slow right now because I am working on the watermanatwork.com website and my other website dealing with what happened to me and five years living on the side of the road. This … Read more

Not much to report on at this time. Waiting for the desert wind to stop so I can get back on the water. A few photos from the desert, mostly morning and evening when the wind is not blowing as hard. Hoping the wind dies tomorrow so I can go kayak fishing. It seems to … Read more

It is winter in the desert. I first started coming here to go fishing during the Pacific Northwest winter and it has become my winter home because, at seventy one years of age, living outdoors during the Cascade Mountain winter is just not possible. Injuries I suffered during the semi truck accident in 2018 make … Read more

It is a cold and very windy November 11 in the Sonoran Desert. In an area near the Colorado River and not far from Mexico is a wind blown group of older RVs, campers, cars and tents flapping in the strong desert wind. This is an area once frequented by substantial numbers of winter visitors … Read more