On the Road Again
Ten years after the Ocean Lake trip, Bruun, Simms and Montgomery head out again, this time to Argentina. There were many trips in between, of course, and there’ve been many since. But it’s apparent from the stories that this was a special journey.
“We had a really good time in Buenes Aires,” Simms said of their three-week South American odyssy.
“But I think it was a little hard on Tom because he was the only one of us who spoke any Spanish at all.
So he was put in the position of being the responsible party and we had some hilarious times.” When asked of the Argentina trip, Montgomery simply gives the response of many a reminiscent angler:
“I think it’s time we go back.”
Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.