The River Of No Return is an environmental song of sorts.  It's about the desire to live alone in the wilderness.  I've always wanted to try it.  I grew up with woods in my backyard where I spent a lot of time in my youth.  It was like a sanctuary for me, a spiritual place.  I have a love and strong appreciation of nature and the earth's wild places, and have loved camping, hiking, and wilderness experiences as an adult as well.  I know I'd get tired of trying to live off the land and be in the middle of nowhere for a long period of time like Henry David Thoreau or that guy from the PBS documentary who built a cabin by a remote lake in Alaska and lived there for decades.  Still, it's something I'd like to do for a while to see what it's like.  Anyway, I started to write this song after I was checking out Google Maps where you can zoom in or out on anywhere in the world.  Online exploring, I guess, and trying to see where there might be some interesting places to check out in person some day.  I worked one summer on Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior, and ever since have had the desire to visit more national parks and government-protected wildlife areas - one of the greatest things about our country.  I couldn't help but zoom in on the state of Idaho, a place I've never been to, because as I say in the song - on the map it's mostly green.  This is what intrigued me and inspired the song, and of course, as one does in this day and age, I checked out wikipedia to research some factual info as well.  If I do go there someday, I'll be sure to blog about it.  That green area is called out in the map displayed below.