Jessica’s Reviews > Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage > Status Update

85 days in the SE Alaskan coast, traveling 850 miles in a tiny inflatable kayak. In the 1970s. At age 60. While female. Solo.

“If you had a year to do anything you wanted, and had all the money you needed, and could come back to where you are now, what would you do?”
….
“Why aren’t you doing it?….”
“When can you do it? Can you do part of it? How can you plan toward it? We all need to ask those questions every 5 years, then act on the answers.”

Beautiful descriptions, delicious food (somehow prepared from nothing but the land & her minimal stores), great ingenuity in terms of creating shelters by using existing material (as well as fixing countless decrepit cabin woodstoves). I am enjoying the narration of Aud’s adventures. This book about paddling Alaska feels slightly more technical than Hawaii, but still absolutely beautiful and incredibly inspiring.