Huckleberry Finn has always been one of my favorites...probably my first "favorite novel". While this was enjoyable to browse, and I had several fun little mome

Huckleberry Finn has always been one of my favorites...probably my first "favorite novel". While this was enjoyable to browse, and I had several fun little moments of, "Oh, yeah! I remember that!", I was hoping for something a little more technical than artistic. Something one could literally follow in the real world. It's one of my odd life goals to actually float the Mississippi river on a raft (probably more of a house boat), and has been since I first read Huckleberry Finn. I've been traveling in RVs off-and-on for several years (I'm back on the road in an RV after a couple years sitting in one place), and doing it by boat is my next big plan, or series of plans, since traveling the Mississippi and traveling around Central and South America or island hopping the Caribbean are very different processes requiring different preparation and, most importantly, very different boats. Anyway, while I know the Mississippi has drifted some over the years, and visiting some of the little islands in Huck Finn is probably impossible today, I still think it'd be a lot of fun to follow the river, stopping in the same major towns. Surely someone has done it and documented it. But, I guess one really doesn't need much guidance. You just get on the river and float, stopping in the right places. Maybe the book itself is documentation enough.