Deep Water Passage

Don't read this book as a way to relax before going to sleep.  It's too intriguing and you will stay up way past your bedtime and suffer for it the next day.  Ann Linnea wrote about her adventure kayaking around Lake Superior.  She started in Duluth and headed up the north shore on the Minnesota side.  She was fit and motivated and determined and she still had a hard time making it around.  She wrote about moments of despair and feelings of failure.  Most of the time she paddled with a companion.  Several days she was on her own.  Ann is a spiritual person who burns sage and throws tobacco into the water in thanksgiving.  She calls Lake Superior by other names such as "She who is the biggest" or "She who changed my life."  Ann writes about the physical exertion and the mental toll this trip took on her.  She writes about her husband, her children, and her friends.  This trip was a life-changing time for her.  Deep Water Passage is an intriguing yet quick read.