Hello, everyone. I'm Clay Jenkinson with this podcast introduction this week. I met these two

extraordinary Brits, Nat, a woman, Matt Rogers, and Mikey Lear, a man, partners, a couple.

I met them at Fort Union up near Williston, North Dakota. They were floating down the Missouri

River from Three forks in

southwestern Montana. They didn't really know much about Lewis and Clark. They're British

teachers at Brighton in England, and they got this notion that they were going to float

some giant American river, and they chose the Missouri, Mississippi, and they're heading all the way

to New Orleans. They're now just north of Pier, South Dakota, in the middle of Lake O'ahi, which is a giant

reservoir on the Missouri, one of the six mainstem reservoirs between Fort Peck, Montana and

the bottom of South Dakota.

They're really a lively, lovely, lovely, funny, quintessentially British couple.

He's quite a bit older than she is.

They bought a canoe in Montana, and they've been floating ever since.

They've had good adventures, but only overturned the canoe once, and that was just two days out.

They both are weathered by this extraordinary story,

writing a blog. Amazing. I just loved meeting them and I said I wanted to interview them three

times once soon, and that's today. So now they've gone from tree forks all the way across

Montana and through North Dakota, they're in north central Montana, South Dakota at the moment.

I wanted to interview them a second time when they reached the mouth of the Missouri at St. Charles,

St. Louis.

And then I want to interview them a third time when, if, when, if, when, if they get to New Orleans sometime in the spring.

So they're in it.

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