You're Not Lost if You Can Still See the Truck

by Bill Heavey

  I’m indebted to all the editors I work with at Field & Stream, who—while they pretty much know that I usually have no idea what a given trip was about until well after I’m back—continue to send me anyway. Thank you, Anthony Licata, Mike Toth, Jean McKenna (mentioned here again to make up for the fact that her name was misspelled in the acknowledgments for my last book), Dave Hurteau, Colin Kearns, Donna Ng, Kristyn Brady, Alex Robinson, Maribel Martin, and Nate Matthews. I promise to find those missing receipts.

  I thank my great friend, Jack Unruh, an amazing illustrator, who did the cover of this book, as for my first collection of Field & Stream stuff and for It’s Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It. He has to draw eleven caricatures of me annually and somehow makes it look like he actually enjoys it.

  I thank Slaton White, the editor who first allowed me onto the pages of Field & Stream. I thank Sid Evans, the magazine’s editor from 2002 to 2007.

  And a special thanks to the people at Grove who have devoted many hours into the planning and realization of this book. I thank Morgan Entrekin, Jamison Stoltz, and Allison Malecha, who tracked down things so obscure that I don’t even remember writing them.