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From a professional guide in the Salmon River Wilderness Area of Idaho, to shoeing horses in Denmark, Mikel W. Dawson also completed a distinguished 23-year military career with the U.S. Army Reserve, seeing service in many countries around the world. Guide’s Life chronicles the author’s various adventures.

 

This book is written in three parts.  Part I covers the years Mikel worked as a professional guide in the Wilderness Area in Idaho taking clients on summer pack trips, fall hunting trips and float trips on the Salmon River.  Follow Mikel in the day to day work, adventures and sometimes life-threatening situations and how he dealt with them.

 

Part II covers his military career beginning in 1983 and ending in 2006.  During this time Mikel went from a trombone player in the 25^th Army Band to being 11B(infantry) and 12B(combat engineer) qualified.  Being deployed to many different countries, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Iraq, Ukraine and serving in many different positions while obtaining the rank of Sergeant Major, this section describes how he dealt with the many different leadership situations he encountered both in Europe and the United States.

 

Part III tells how he came to live in Denmark.  How he reached the decision to move and begin a completely different life.  Find out how he learned a different language and the trials and tribulations of fitting into a society completely different to a country boy from Idaho.  While living in Denmark, Dawson married his wife Jette and established his own farrier business shoeing horses.

When you’re on the downhill side of life, what things do you think about? This is one of the questions crossing the mind of Mikel W. Dawson. The author has experienced many facets of life, and now wants to raise questions and give a little advice on how to approach the turns in life’s road.

 

Thoughts of a Crazy Old Man also answers a lot of question that readers have asked since his previous book Guide’s Life.

 

This book doesn’t just cover one subject, but many things common to us all. Life, weather, work, women, politics, religion, and kids are just a few of the topics Mikel expounds on and gives some advice, telling what he’s learned over the years and the things he’s done.

 

Thoughts of a Crazy Old Man isn’t meant to provide all the answers, but rather give insight on how one man has dealt with the things common folk experience every day.

 

If you want to find out how a guy growing up in Southwest Idaho in the late ‘50s and who graduated high school in the 70’s figured out his own answers, grab a drink, pull up a comfortable chair, and put on your reading glasses. Get ready for Thoughts of a Crazy Old Man.

Although writing has not been Mikel’s career, it has come easy.  Drawing from the vast amounts of past life experiences and the ability to relate these experiences in short story form, Mikel has been related to Forest Gump by some of his readers in his story telling ability.

Mikel grew up on a farm west of Caldwell, Idaho during the late ‘50s and ‘60s.  In 1968 his family sold the farm and moved to Greenleaf Idaho where Mikel graduated high school in 1974 from Greenleaf Friends Academy.  Mikel attended Boise State University’s Vo-Tec mechanics course and after entered the working world.  In 1983 Mikel began a military career as a Citizen Soldier with the Idaho National Guard playing trombone in the 25^th Army Band.  Later he transferred to the Army Reserve becaming a Infantryman and later a Combat Engineer.  Mikel retired as a Sergeant Major after almost 23 years of service.

In 1992  , Mikel departed his job as a professional guide in the Salmon River country in central Idaho and moved to Denmark where he lives with his wife Jette and runs his own business shoeing horses.  Mikel’s life as a guide, military career and how he moved to Denmark is all covered in his previous book Guide’s Life.