Dear You,

Welcome to the new, new EME newsletters! If you’re coming over from the old subscriber list, good to have you back and thanks for taking the time to re-subscribe. If this is your first newsletter, howdy there! Thank you everyone, old friends and new, for following along as my life’s journey evolves with this expedition….

In 1975, my Granny bought a seventeen foot aluminum Grumman canoe from an outdoors store in Lafayette, Louisiana called Pack & Paddle.

Flooding, record flow, broken damns and swamped levees. I’m following the news; don’t think I underestimate the power of the river.

When I arrived at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers in St. Louis on October 3rd 2017, I had no desire to take a right hand turn and head south on the Mississippi towards salt water.

I sit now in a van. It is late at night, and I have lit candles because I like the softer light and the single flames move and flicker enough to give the illusion of life aside from myself inside this little home. A space heater breathes steadily in the corner because it is November in Kansas City, Missouri.