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By Ken Robertshaw

this can be the tale of a normal bloke who in addition to a chum determined that they'd take on the 4th longest river on the planet - The strong Mississippi. vacationing unsupported for the complete trip subscribe to them as they suffer the loneliness and crushing boredom of the 'green hell' of the higher reaches, throughout the lock structures and hydro electrical energy plant dams, fending off the massive barges and, within the reduce reaches, ocean going ships. stick with them as they camped on organised websites within the desert components and dust banks or sandbars within the reduce reaches.
With no prior event of kayaking, Ken and his paddle companion Grace, make an not likely pair. he's a fifty nine yr previous grandfather and he or she is a 22 12 months previous activities trainer yet they either percentage an analogous ardour for adventure.
Undertaken to elevate money for the Theodora kid's Charity so we can provide entertainers to young children in hospitals and hospices round the united kingdom this day trip diary may have you giggling and crying as you go back and forth besides them

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