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Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life
When as a child she first saw a canoe gliding on Lake Alexander in central Minnesota, Sue Leaf was mesmerized. The enchantment stayed with her and shimmers throughout this book as we join Leaf and her family in canoeing the waterways of North America, always on the lookout for the good life amid the splendors and surprises of the natural world. The journey begins with a trip to the border lakes of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, then wanders into the many beautiful little rivers of Minnesota and Wisconsin, the provincial parks of Canada, the Louisiana bayou, and the arid West. A biologist and birder, Leaf considers natural history and geology, noticing which plants are growing along the water and which birds are flitting among the branches. Traveling the routes of the Ojibwe, voyageurs, and map-making explorers, she reflects on the region’s history, peopling her pages with Lewis and Clark, Jean Lafitte, Henry Schoolcraft, and Canada’s Group of Seven artists. Part travelogue, part natural and cultural history, Portage is the memoir of one family’s thirty-five-year venture into the watery expanse of the world. Through sunny days and stormy hours and a few hair-raising moments, Sue and her husband, Tom, celebrate anniversaries on the water; haul their four kids along on family adventures; and occasionally make the paddle a social outing with friends. Along the way they contend with their own human they run rapids when it would have been wiser to portage, take portages and learn truths about aging, avoid portages and ponder risk-taking. Through it all, out in the open, in the wild, in the blue, exploring the river means encountering life—good decisions and missed chances, risks and surprises, and the inevitable changes that occur as a family canoes through time and learns what it means to be human in this natural world.
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First published October 15, 2015
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November 10, 2017One a road trip along Minnesota’s North Shore earlier this month, I impulsively bought a copy of this book at a local bookstore. It felt like a collection of essays about a life on the water would be a good choice for reading in that particular place. I was surprised at how much I feel in love with this book, in which Sue Leaf writes about different canoe trips she’s taken throughout the United States with her husband, her children, and her extended family. The book is a really great mix of different things – a look at a marriage, a guide for canoeing, a story of a family, and a meditation of wildness and the importance of wild places. Reading it made me want to hop in a canoe to start seeing the place I live in a new way. It was just so, so good.
— Kim Ukura
from The Best Books We Read In June 2017: https://bookriot.com/2017/07/03/riot-...
— Kim Ukura
from The Best Books We Read In June 2017: https://bookriot.com/2017/07/03/riot-...
October 31, 2021
I like the way it’s broken down almost as if it’s a journal. It’s not a flowing story other than somewhat following the growth of the family. Each chapter is a short but engaging synopsis of a different trip. Everything from a couple hour float on a city river to week long trips in national parks. It’s why it took a little longer to read. I’d read the chapter and then stop because there wasn’t cliff hangers pulling me into the next chapter late into the night. If you’re from the Midwest it can be appreciated more since many of the shorter trips are taken right in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. It’s a book I intend to keep for possible ideas for my own adventures.
February 5, 2016
This is the third of Sue Leaf's books that I have read and I have enjoyed them all. One of the reasons I have liked them is that in her books, she brings out her connections to different professors at Gustavus Adolphus College, which I also attended a few years after her. The camping and canoe professor she mentions in her book was my cross-country coach, something he liked doing much less than camping or canoeing. I remember taking a class with her sister-in-law. I liked this book because these essays highlight different canoe trips over 35 years of marriage on different rivers and lakes in Minnesota, surrounding states and in Canada. They give me a sense of those places, are usually built around a certain theme, and show how she and her husband change over time as they raise four children and see them leave the house. A very satisfying book.
November 18, 2017
This was a very satisfying read. I picked up Portage because, as a homeschool mom, I wanted to read a book for my own benefit about the Great Lakes area as my children studied it’s geography this fall. This was the perfect blend of contemplating some of the natural history and human history of that area through the eyes of a woman seeking to pass on an appreciation for both. Sue Leaf’s recounting of many of her life’s paddling adventures was broken up into perfect bite size sections I could digest a bit of each day.
This quote from near the middle of the book is the perfect summation of what I took away:
“I hoped the kids had learned to love the world as it is, whatever face it presents. Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present.”
This quote from near the middle of the book is the perfect summation of what I took away:
“I hoped the kids had learned to love the world as it is, whatever face it presents. Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present.”
December 10, 2019
Two and one half stars. I had high hopes. I wanted to read about the romance of canoeing around with family. The adventure, communing with nature and how it changes your life. This book gives you the dry, bare facts about canoeing all over the Minnesota lakes and surrounding rivers. Add in a few out of state adventures and, well... it is still a buttoned up, dry account of canoeing on a bunch of lakes and rivers. Cooking over a coleman stove, eating gorp ( a homemade granola,) getting wet, picking a campsite, and how to get from point A to point B.
This is like looking at someone's vacation slides- a snooze.
This is like looking at someone's vacation slides- a snooze.
November 18, 2015
Sue Leaf grew up in a Minnesota family that was risk-averse when it came to water. But she taught herself to swim, then learned how to canoe from another family. She married a canoe enthusiast from her hometown and from the same small private college. Soon they had four children, who also became canoe people.
Thus does a conversion take root.
The "A Family" part of the subtitle is a tad misleading. While certainly some family trips are chronicled, most are either BC (Before Children) or EN (Empty Nest) trips. Most of the canoeing is in Minnesota or Wisconsin (where they have a summer home), but they travel as far as Nova Scotia, Montana and Louisiana for the sake of paddling adventures. They have mixed feelings about Minnesota's famous Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The portages, mosquitoes and black flies don't bother them all that much, but what they consider the wilderness area's overuse does. They continually seek out lesser-know venues.
My favorite of the 28 canoe trips (if I counted right) recounted here is an early husband-wife paddle down the Upper Missouri River. They were following -- in reverse -- a short portion of the expedition by Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery. Leaf skillfully mixes her account of their own journey with bits and pieces about Lewis and Clark and what they reported seeing along the way.
Leaf does this throughout the book, telling the reader about the history, geology and flora and fauna (especially the birds) of the river being visited. She does it in bite-sized pieces, and it's always interesting.
She made me want to visit many of the places they paddled, including the Upper Iowa River for the chance to see yellow-billed cuckoos. "The ones we encountered were all sitting on exposed branches near the river, taking in the sunshine in a slow cuckoo way, all easy to see and tally," she writes.
I like how she and husband Tom often pick out a book related to their destination and read it aloud to each other as they drive to get there.
There's also plenty of product placement. The makers of Duluth Packs ought to be pleased by the frequent favorable mentions.
When it first came my way, I thought "Portage" looked interesting, but it turned out to be much better than merely interesting. It's a delight from cover to cover.
Thus does a conversion take root.
The "A Family" part of the subtitle is a tad misleading. While certainly some family trips are chronicled, most are either BC (Before Children) or EN (Empty Nest) trips. Most of the canoeing is in Minnesota or Wisconsin (where they have a summer home), but they travel as far as Nova Scotia, Montana and Louisiana for the sake of paddling adventures. They have mixed feelings about Minnesota's famous Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The portages, mosquitoes and black flies don't bother them all that much, but what they consider the wilderness area's overuse does. They continually seek out lesser-know venues.
My favorite of the 28 canoe trips (if I counted right) recounted here is an early husband-wife paddle down the Upper Missouri River. They were following -- in reverse -- a short portion of the expedition by Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery. Leaf skillfully mixes her account of their own journey with bits and pieces about Lewis and Clark and what they reported seeing along the way.
Leaf does this throughout the book, telling the reader about the history, geology and flora and fauna (especially the birds) of the river being visited. She does it in bite-sized pieces, and it's always interesting.
She made me want to visit many of the places they paddled, including the Upper Iowa River for the chance to see yellow-billed cuckoos. "The ones we encountered were all sitting on exposed branches near the river, taking in the sunshine in a slow cuckoo way, all easy to see and tally," she writes.
I like how she and husband Tom often pick out a book related to their destination and read it aloud to each other as they drive to get there.
There's also plenty of product placement. The makers of Duluth Packs ought to be pleased by the frequent favorable mentions.
When it first came my way, I thought "Portage" looked interesting, but it turned out to be much better than merely interesting. It's a delight from cover to cover.
August 10, 2016
Part memoir, part history lesson, part nature guide. If you enjoy Henry David Thoreau you are in for a treat. Like a modern Walden without the politics, this book focuses on the author's love of the outdoors especially canoe trips throughout her lifetime with her family. If you have a passion for paddling, the outdoors, bird watching, natural history, or plant life this would definitely interest you. I thought the book was at its best when it discussed historical explorations of the rivers that they paddled on centuries before. Leaf also touched on topics of the importance of a balance between modern civilization and the ever shrinking true wilderness.
It started out very well with exciting trips and life-stories but lulled along later on as there was little character description which earlier kept the story going. The later canoe trips were rather uneventful and focused more on describing the landscape. The character development was minimal throughout probably to protect the privacy of her family which is respectable but not exactly good for telling a story. There was also an ever-present hint of agitated environmentalist rants. They spawned from the deep desire to protect the wilderness that she so dearly loved but she always seem perturbed that other individuals might want to enjoy the wonders of nature also.
It started out very well with exciting trips and life-stories but lulled along later on as there was little character description which earlier kept the story going. The later canoe trips were rather uneventful and focused more on describing the landscape. The character development was minimal throughout probably to protect the privacy of her family which is respectable but not exactly good for telling a story. There was also an ever-present hint of agitated environmentalist rants. They spawned from the deep desire to protect the wilderness that she so dearly loved but she always seem perturbed that other individuals might want to enjoy the wonders of nature also.
October 30, 2015
While this is a collection of memoirs about Susan's family and canoing, it's also a book with lots of descriptions of paddling spots in the upper midwest. I enjoyed both aspects of the book. I will be using the book as a useful reference when choosing paddling locations with my own family. Each chapter of the book features a different river/lake adventure over the course of 30 some years, ending in 2014. I'd recommend this to anyone who likes canoeing, birding, or stories about family. Also lots of local history included about each river they visit.
January 18, 2016
The author was very descriptive of their canoe adventures and I enjoyed recognizing quite a few of the places they visited. The most interesting piece to me was how she tied their canoe trips to local history, whether it was Minnesota history or early Explorers.
Definitely a good read to cure cabin fever on a -12 degree day in Minnesota.
Definitely a good read to cure cabin fever on a -12 degree day in Minnesota.
December 25, 2021
I will never give up on outdoor adventure memoir books, despite rarely enjoying them. I feel as though half of them are miserably and intolerably boastful, and the other half are unprepared and uneducated people getting into situations they shouldn't.
While the Leaf family is prepared and experienced, the misadventures that they run into are really quite boring.
This book reads more as a collection of journal entries written by an avid birder, trying to cross birds off her list, while filling in the gaps left by an uninteresting collection of adventures with natural and cultural history.
I get where she was going with the book, as a reflection on the good life and the pursuit of quiet, nature-based lifestyle and how it is all subjective and interconnected, and humans are destroying the Earth and nature, blah blah blah. And we are all hypocrites (including her, who at one point says we can't all enjoy the good life of reproducing because the world is overpopulated while she herself has 4 children?) Honestly, I agree with a lot of what she says, but her complaints about the inundated public spaces (again, I get it) are whiney.
Overall this book is a huge miss for me. The title suggests (at least to me) a story about a whole family going on adventures with their canoe to find the good life. 90% of the book are adventures taken only with her husband, 5% if the remaining trips are when her children are pretty much grown. It is about HER search for the good life (that's fine and valid, but let's refer to the title of this book again), which I'm pretty certain is completing her "life list" for birding. Which is not at all what I expected and wasn't what I wanted to read about.
I honestly couldn't get into the natural and cultural history aspects of the book because 1. I was expecting this to be more focused on a family's story, not the geological features of some river in Minnesota and 2. It felt incredibly piecemeal. The rivers are randomly thrown in there (I believe since she ordered them chronologically), and are mostly in the Midwest, but also randomly one is in Louisiana..
I would have preferred she completely remarketed/renamed the book and focused on the history of Midwestern rivers. I would have loved some map visuals to reference, especially in reference to the cultural history of the rivers. Her personal experiences could have just served as little intros to the river she was speaking on, because often the stories were that short and didn't bring much to the table.
It was a total snooze fest for me because of the expectations of the title.
While the Leaf family is prepared and experienced, the misadventures that they run into are really quite boring.
This book reads more as a collection of journal entries written by an avid birder, trying to cross birds off her list, while filling in the gaps left by an uninteresting collection of adventures with natural and cultural history.
I get where she was going with the book, as a reflection on the good life and the pursuit of quiet, nature-based lifestyle and how it is all subjective and interconnected, and humans are destroying the Earth and nature, blah blah blah. And we are all hypocrites (including her, who at one point says we can't all enjoy the good life of reproducing because the world is overpopulated while she herself has 4 children?) Honestly, I agree with a lot of what she says, but her complaints about the inundated public spaces (again, I get it) are whiney.
Overall this book is a huge miss for me. The title suggests (at least to me) a story about a whole family going on adventures with their canoe to find the good life. 90% of the book are adventures taken only with her husband, 5% if the remaining trips are when her children are pretty much grown. It is about HER search for the good life (that's fine and valid, but let's refer to the title of this book again), which I'm pretty certain is completing her "life list" for birding. Which is not at all what I expected and wasn't what I wanted to read about.
I honestly couldn't get into the natural and cultural history aspects of the book because 1. I was expecting this to be more focused on a family's story, not the geological features of some river in Minnesota and 2. It felt incredibly piecemeal. The rivers are randomly thrown in there (I believe since she ordered them chronologically), and are mostly in the Midwest, but also randomly one is in Louisiana..
I would have preferred she completely remarketed/renamed the book and focused on the history of Midwestern rivers. I would have loved some map visuals to reference, especially in reference to the cultural history of the rivers. Her personal experiences could have just served as little intros to the river she was speaking on, because often the stories were that short and didn't bring much to the table.
It was a total snooze fest for me because of the expectations of the title.
September 14, 2017
"Portage" is a beautifully-crafted memoir of one Minnesota author's search for the "good life" through the classic American pastimes of camping and canoeing. Building her story from childhood to the present, Sue Leaf entertains readers with various stories from her life that are surrounded by nature, self-discovery, and of course, the canoe. Not only does she take readers through the natural Minnesota landscape of the BWCA, she expands her setting to the west along the Missouri river, sharing self-reflection and raw honesty in a way that captivates her audience. Readers will find they identify with Leaf in her explorations and personality, making this memoir a classic read, time and time again.
August 14, 2020
I read this book on the recommendations of my daughter and my wife. It's EXTREMELY light reading, but I enjoyed it very much. Using each chapter as an individual story, author Sue Leaf describes many of the canoe trips that she has taken with her husband and kids since the early 70's. Among others, the BWCA, Lake Superior, northern Wisconsin, Iowa, Canada, and many locations in the Twin Cities and outstate Minnesota are described with flowing, descriptive writing. She's also a birder and naturalist, and does a wonderful job describing flora and fauna of her adventures. I recommend this book if you like to canoe or just enjoy easy to read descriptive writing of experiencing nature.
July 13, 2021
In Portage, Sue Leaf details her life inside a canoe exploring lakes and rivers with her family in Minnesota and elsewhere. Interspersed with these adventures are historical accounts of other famous portages, observations of environmental degradation, philosophical musings, thoughts on marriage and parenting, etc. She ends her story reflecting on what it is to live the good life and while it's nothing incredibly profound, her message of connection and quiet solitude in the outdoors resonated with me. It's a nice read where each chapter moves along at a quick enough pace, just like a canoe heading down a river in good conditions.
August 29, 2018
This was a book that went along with our bookclub kit. At first I didn't get pulled into it, I had a hard time relating to the (honestly) much better vocabulary and grammer than I use. I didn't even finish it in time for book club. However I was lucky enough to meet the author and after speaking with her and hearing the passion for her work, I finished the book with a much different perspective and it pulled me in completely. It was almost as if I could hear her reading it out loud. I'll be catching up on her previous works soon!
December 9, 2016
A great book...Sue Leaf's book brings back memories of some of the same or similar places that I have paddled with various members of family or friends. The book whet my appetite for more Conroe trips in the future, yet I find myself facing some of the same issues in growing older...how much risk to take, how to mitigate known risks, yet still live ones' dreams? Good, thought provoking questions were asked, which will serve to make me ponder on the future life choices I make.
October 18, 2019
This is a lively collection of essays that has inspired me to explore more of Minnesota’s rivers, as well as other rivers and lakes in North America. She connects her love for wilderness with past and current environmental issues while also linking each place with their historical context. I’m inspired to get our my bird book and binoculars the next time we are on the water. Also planning trips to several places from her essays thanks to her descriptions and stories.
October 31, 2020
A nice, calming read. The book took me a while to get through because I was content to read a chapter here and a chapter there. It wasn't compelling -- just nice to sit down and read about various canoe trips and natural/historical stories once in a while. I'm still confused as to why the book is called "Portage" though when few of the trips the Leafs went on involved any portages. Most of their trips were on rivers.
February 27, 2018
Interesting to see the Gustavus tie in and also some of the stories completely relatable from camping in the bwca. This was a book club book, but unfortunately I did not go.
At the time of reading this, I was more in the mood for a fast-paced mystery/thriller kind of novel.
Maybe if I re-read at some point, I would rate it higher.
At the time of reading this, I was more in the mood for a fast-paced mystery/thriller kind of novel.
Maybe if I re-read at some point, I would rate it higher.
August 29, 2019
The author does a great job with short chapters really describing their adventures along with some information on the areas they do each trip in. It covers pre marriage to married with kids, so some of their trips are adult only, other's include young children, or older children. It was just a really good read even if you are not an avid canoer.
December 20, 2020
You know it is a good book when you need to keep an atlas nearby. I finished reading the book with one summer trip in the early planning stages, a sense of contentment in Wisconsin outdoor travel, and a topic for further reading. All good.
December 28, 2025
Sweet story of a couples paddles, mostly around the Midwest with a few other add ons. Descriptions of lands along the various rivers as well as bird life and a few larger animals discussed. Each paddle is a chapter.
August 1, 2020
I immensely enjoyed these essays.
Each essay combines nature, history and family dynamics to create a completely enjoyable reading experience.
Each essay combines nature, history and family dynamics to create a completely enjoyable reading experience.
September 10, 2023
I really enjoyed this book! Both the adventurous nature of the canoe trips as well as the historical, ecological and cultural information that tied it all together. I’m inspired to hit the water!
March 8, 2024
Portage is a wonderful collection of dream-fulfilling canoeing adventures commingling with nature and spiced with tidbits of historically enlightening information.
Sue Leaf and her husband Tom chose a good way of life...very satisfying and immensely rewarding while ecologically living with nature.
This is a great lesson plan for humanity to follow while reaping gratifying returns with positive self-sustaining rewards.
I loved all the chapters, but my favorite was when Sue shared her experiences canoeing the Bois Brule River in Douglas County, Wisconsin. I grew up near the Brule, and some of my earliest adventures were in a canoe on Brule.
EXCERPTS from Portage by Sue Leaf
Mr. Ito had packed a book and a lawn chair and would spend the time on shore, but Bob and Joanne and I could paddle about to our heart’s delight. I rushed home to change into my swimsuit and get permission. I can still hear my father’s voice. “Oh, I don’t know, Susan Jean. That sounds like not a good idea. Too dangerous. Those canoes are tippy. What if you capsized?” “I can swim,” I pointed out. “I’d wear a life jacket. The Itos have life jackets. They’re required by law.” “Yes, you can swim,” he countered. “But can you swim in deep water? No, no, you can’t go. It’s just too dangerous.” My temper flared. This made no sense! The Itos weren’t foolish. They were very smart, in fact. All sorts of people paddled canoes without fear, without endangerment. I was not going to lose this opportunity. “Well, I don’t care. I’m going,” I declared.
I had the skill to be on the water, that normal people went out in canoes every day, that risk was involved in everything one does.
What amazes me even now is that this time there were no consequences. No one yelled when I got home. No one clobbered me. I wasn’t grounded. I lost no privileges. My parents and I must have reached a kind of détente that day,
How fortunate we sometimes are, the blind and naive young who operate without the benefit of experience. I realize now that I myself had been a canoe that day, cutting with ease through the water, swiftly gliding into my future.
Sue Leaf and her husband Tom chose a good way of life...very satisfying and immensely rewarding while ecologically living with nature.
This is a great lesson plan for humanity to follow while reaping gratifying returns with positive self-sustaining rewards.
I loved all the chapters, but my favorite was when Sue shared her experiences canoeing the Bois Brule River in Douglas County, Wisconsin. I grew up near the Brule, and some of my earliest adventures were in a canoe on Brule.
EXCERPTS from Portage by Sue Leaf
Mr. Ito had packed a book and a lawn chair and would spend the time on shore, but Bob and Joanne and I could paddle about to our heart’s delight. I rushed home to change into my swimsuit and get permission. I can still hear my father’s voice. “Oh, I don’t know, Susan Jean. That sounds like not a good idea. Too dangerous. Those canoes are tippy. What if you capsized?” “I can swim,” I pointed out. “I’d wear a life jacket. The Itos have life jackets. They’re required by law.” “Yes, you can swim,” he countered. “But can you swim in deep water? No, no, you can’t go. It’s just too dangerous.” My temper flared. This made no sense! The Itos weren’t foolish. They were very smart, in fact. All sorts of people paddled canoes without fear, without endangerment. I was not going to lose this opportunity. “Well, I don’t care. I’m going,” I declared.
I had the skill to be on the water, that normal people went out in canoes every day, that risk was involved in everything one does.
What amazes me even now is that this time there were no consequences. No one yelled when I got home. No one clobbered me. I wasn’t grounded. I lost no privileges. My parents and I must have reached a kind of détente that day,
How fortunate we sometimes are, the blind and naive young who operate without the benefit of experience. I realize now that I myself had been a canoe that day, cutting with ease through the water, swiftly gliding into my future.
March 16, 2022
A quiet and gentle memoir of the many trips author Leaf has taken canoeing with her husband, family, and eventually husband again over the course of fifty years in the greater Minnesota area. Each chapter is a depiction of a trip Leaf took and are representative of where she was in life at the time - for some, she was dating her soon to be husband, others she is newly married, later various children join the parents on these journeys. Eventually she comes full circle as her children become adults and their lives take them on their own journeys. At that point Leaf finds herself with her husband once again, exploring the many lakes, rivers, and other waterways of the midwest by which they can can enjoy via paddle.
I really enjoyed the gentle pace of the novel and the stories surrounding each trip. Leaf kept fairly good journals and these are the basis of this novel so each chapter is a good reflection of who she was at various points in her life but the joy of canoeing centers all the chapters. It is a novel which can really inspire one to enjoy the simple pleasure of seeing nature via canoeing and it provides not only a wonderful travelogue but also a trail guide of sorts, should one wish to also see this part of the US by paddling. Recommend to those familiar with the area as well as to those who enjoy the quiet solitude of the great outdoors.
I really enjoyed the gentle pace of the novel and the stories surrounding each trip. Leaf kept fairly good journals and these are the basis of this novel so each chapter is a good reflection of who she was at various points in her life but the joy of canoeing centers all the chapters. It is a novel which can really inspire one to enjoy the simple pleasure of seeing nature via canoeing and it provides not only a wonderful travelogue but also a trail guide of sorts, should one wish to also see this part of the US by paddling. Recommend to those familiar with the area as well as to those who enjoy the quiet solitude of the great outdoors.
March 7, 2016
The descriptions of canoeing trips were great, especially since it's still late winter in Minnesota, the best time to dream (and read) about summer plans. I've definitely added a few of the author's trips to my mental list of rivers to paddle this year.
My main reason for reading this book was the canoeing information and outdoor descriptions. I was less interested in the memoir side of things, but I found myself intrigued by the connection between aging and how it changed the author's canoe trips. Past trips seemed to provide a constant comparison to current trips in terms of what they were willing to put up with, or how their bodies and minds reacted to a long portage. That was interesting.
My main reason for reading this book was the canoeing information and outdoor descriptions. I was less interested in the memoir side of things, but I found myself intrigued by the connection between aging and how it changed the author's canoe trips. Past trips seemed to provide a constant comparison to current trips in terms of what they were willing to put up with, or how their bodies and minds reacted to a long portage. That was interesting.
July 14, 2016
This is a good book to keep for a canoeing guidebook.. lots of ideas for fun. I was surprised that i enjoyed it as much as I did as I thought there was going to be too much cheese to it.. maybe too many birds but ..meh.. some people like that. Its a good book to keep at the cabin or in the camper as you can put it down and pick it up again without confusion.. I enjoyed the adventures of this family and probably will reread the book and visit a river or two.
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January 18, 2017LOVED IT!
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