Ebook: My paddle to the sea: eleven days on the river of the Carolinas

Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazón, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea. Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but unlike Twain's character, Lane isn't escaping. He's getting intimate with the river that flows right past his home in the Spartanburg suburbs. Lane's three­hundred-mile float trip takes him down the Broad River and into Lake Marion before continuing down the Santee River. Along.;Cover; Contents; The Blessing; Rio Reventazón; Glendale and Little Five Falls; Pacolet Portages; Overnight at Louie's; Grindal Shoals; The Wild Pacolet; Confluence; Night on Goat Island; Lockhart Portage; Wood's Ferry Campground; Riding the Flood; Parr Shoals Reservoir; Haltiwanger Island; Approaching the Fall Line; Columbia Layover; Green Diamond; Congaree; 601 Rendezvous; Lake Marion Portage; Hill's Landing; Our Bridge Too Far; The Lower Santee; Jamestown Landing; Aiming for Hampton Plantation; Atonement; Acknowledgments.