Along the Edge of America Book

Along the Edge of America was my first Peter Jenkins book. I've heard good things about his first book, A Walk Across America, which was one of the main motivating reasons for me to read this. Along the Edge of America is set approximately 22 years after Jenkins walked across America and opens with a man on top of the world. Money was good, wife was fine, children are intelligent and healthy but then It all comes crashing down around his ears with the arrival of the divorce papers. From this deep depression Jenkins finds that it's time for him to go on another adventure. Faced with the obstacles of age and obligations to his family he has to find a non-pedestrian mode of travel. His research and desire for the challenge of conquering a new medium he decides to purchase and travel by boat from the Florida Keys along the Gulf of Mexico. What ensues is a journey of personal growth, reconnecting with his father, and discovering the more subtle history of the south as told by many colourful figures ranging from alligator hunters to former drug smugglers to old southern belles.

Along the Edge of America is a eventful and riveting read filled with adventure and peril that comes with the big blue sea. I'd like to read more by Jenkins but I feel like it's a solid first impression of this well established travel writer.