The first thing you will learn about the Mississippi River if you
travel the length of it, is that "Tug Boats Rule." These "monsters"
that are pushing their massive loads in barges, both rule the day
and the night and take no prisoners. For if someone tells you that
they traveled the river and do not inform you of this, then they
have done you a grave disservice. For either they hugged the
shoreline the whole way, so as to keep themselves out of harm's
way, or they didn't go at all. If you intend to travel this
majestic and mighty river by raft, canoe or kayak then you must
know this critical fact, otherwise your life will be in imminent
danger. For those of us who went the distance in the sea-lane or
center of the channel, learned quickly, that tugboats are to the
Mississippi River as great white sharks are to the oceans. You must
give them a wide berth and pay homage to them or you will pay the
ultimate price. The second thing you must be told about the
Mississippi River is that the river is alive, a living being, but
not "Old Man River." Yes, she is a living being, a woman, a mother
and a teacher who will embrace you with her love, tenderness and
beauty. But as a teacher and a mother, you must pay attention and
listen to her advice for your survival depends on it or you will
die. The third thing you must be told is that the American people
who live along the riverbanks of this great river have to be the
kindest and sweetest people you will ever meet. For from them, they
restored my faith, renewed my dreams and from their simple
humanity, I was born again. That said, come join three Detroit city
white boys, who bought a $50.00 rubber raft and a small trolling
outboard engine with a broken propeller to take on the mighty
Mississippi. We were clueless about waterways and rivers but a
gentleman's bet pushed us to the limits and outside the envelope of
what most people can only dream about. During our journey we gained
the respect of the rivermen and the twenty-nine lockmasters that
monitored us throughout our near 30-day adventure. Come follow our
true story as three young men with $150.00 each and a $50.00 rubber
raft navigate the mighty Mississippi with all its dangers at eye
level. Follow us, as we and four other teams of young men from
across the nation who met a different fate then ours, challenged
the mighty Mississippi by canoe and small rafts. Join us as we
travel through the heartland of America with just gas station maps
and a $10 dollar compass to point the way in this heart-warming
venture. Experience the dangers that we encountered as we face
broken dams, breached levees, flooding conditions, snakes, raging
whirlpools and the dreaded "four stackers" that took the lives of
our friends. See how an old black man in the bayous saved our lives
as if an angel like in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life." The
Hollywood movie, "Deliverance" is fictional and the actors play
"pretend" but our names are real and our story is true, so follow
us as we travel at wave level 2,300 miles and 29 locks down the
mighty Mississippi. I, Richard, invite you to come join my friends,
Dave and Tonsabuns, who lived the dream of the young at heart as I
recall the greatest trip of my lifetime. Lastly, as an epitaph to
the memory of my dear friends who have since disappeared and to
those eight young men who perished who will rise again to the sure
and certain resurrection to the life of the world to come when the
Mississippi River shall give up her dead. I, Richard, last man
standing, write this in remembrance of yous. Now, we are immortal.
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