title: Hero's Loop: Stories of Boating and Adventure
author: Mike Liles
description: The author has spent a lifetime in and around boats from sailboats to tow boats and tells the adventuresome and many times laughable stories played out on the water. After changing careers from a aircraft pilot to a business owner he later serves 2 terms in the Tennessee General Assembly and five years as Director of the Tennessee OSHA program only to take an early retirement to return to his true love of boating. Along the way he acquires a USCG rating of Master Captain and makes plans for the Great Loop.
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  Free Story: HEARTS AND TAILS
   
   
  Chapter One
   
   
   
  “Bet I can beat you to the end of the trail,” Gabe egged Mika on,
  eager and itchy for some fun. They were at the Catwalk in Glenwood, New
  Mexico. The moon was rising and casting the beautiful mountains and foliage
  in shades of silver and grey, and the night air was cool and dry. The Gila
  River was gurgling alone merrily, the cheery sound deceitful to Gabe because
  that water was just cold as fuck.
  Just like he’d be if he didn’t shift soon.
  Mika eyed him suspiciously. “And what do I get when I win?”
  “When you win? Don’t you mean if?” Gabe scoffed and Mika
  snickered. Damn it, he wasn’t that slow! Gabe elbowed Mika hard enough to
  knock the snicker right out of him. “Teach you to laugh at 