[Rhodes22-list] Knox to Mobile in a 14 foot john boat

[elle]

Brad,

Thanks for some excellent winter reading suggestions...Next time I'm at the library (it's only 22 mi away...!) I'll see what they've got. they'll probably have to get 'em on interlibrary loan...

Ah, the virtues of living in the boonies...;^)

elle

We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Knox to Mobile in a 14 foot john boat
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 10:30 PM
> Elle,
> 
> For a couple of good reads on a similar journey, read
> "Mississippi
> Solo" by Eddie Harris and "Old Glory" by
> Jonathan Raban (an excellent
> sailing author who also wrote "Passage to Juneau).  My
> favorite of all
> river journeys remains "River Horse" by William
> Least Heat-Moon,
> author of "Blue Highways".
> 
> BTW, Harris did a "Roots" type adventure through
> Africa a couple of
> decades ago and shared his experience in "Native
> Stranger", another
> book worth the investment of a few evenings.
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, elle
> <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Must be a guy thing...
> >
> >
> > elle
> >
> > We can't change the angle of the wind....but we
> can adjust our sails.
> >
> > 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"
>   (Lady in Red)
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 11/20/08, TN Rhodey
> <tnrhodey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: TN Rhodey <tnrhodey at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Knox to Mobile in a 14
> foot john boat
> >> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 9:52 AM
> >>
> http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/nov/16/here-to-mobile/
> >>
> >> Two man and a dog plan on cruising down the TN
> River and
> >> Tom Bigby from
> >> Knoxville to Mobile, and onwards down ICW. They
> are going
> >> in a 14 foot John
> >> Boat and oh yeah....they are taking their dog. It
> is about
> >> 900 miles to
> >> Mobile. Link take you to my local paper and story.
> >>
> >> Wally
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