Some of my earliest memories were stories about Uncle Otto and his trip to the Klondike. calling themselves, The Enterprise. The travel from Detroit by train and freight wagon to the Athabasca Landing, Alberta, where they built a steam-powered paddle wheeled York boat for the trip down the Backdoor Route, down the Athabasca and Mackenzie Rivers, to Fort McPherson. Porcupine Rivers to the Yukon. at Ft. McPherson.

Carl Lahser is a resident of San Antonio, Texas. He founded Pretense Press (San Antonio, Texas) in 1984 as a hobby and is its sole owner. He travels and writes about his trips. Lahser also writes poetry on a variety of topics. He is retired from the federal service and US Air Force, and he worked in environmental engineering, sanitation, and natural resources management.

Total Tripping: Europe is just one of the collections that spans the years 1979-2006 and consists of Carl Lahser's travel diaries, short stories, and poetry collections. The collection is arranged into two series: "Publications" and "Photographs and Notes." The "Publications" series is arranged into three subseries: travel, poetry, and other topics. The travel subseries consists of descriptions of his trips with his wife, Carol Lahser, to Canada, China, Europe, Mexico, the United States, and Panama, and one early trip to Hong Kong in 1979. However, most of the travel took place between 1990...