I lived in my s-shirt, boardshorts and weathered straw lifeguard hat. For my first 4 months I never wore shoes. For 6 months, I never touched cash or wrote a check. I caught, grew or bartered for whatever I needed. It was downright glorious. But, the nights were the most spectacular...
The hotel manager who checked us in said the decor was the brainchild of Johnny Morris, themultibillionaire founderof Bass Pro Shops. “He just took the idea of Branson,” she told me, referencing the famously over-the-toptourist townin the Missouri Ozarks, “and then his story, and said...