Instead of facing head on into the wave and going over it, I try to take it from the stern, from the back of the boat, and got caught almost sideways.

And there was definitely a split second there that I thought I was going over.

Luckily, I was able to keep her upright and took on a little bit of water.

But, yeah, that one definitely got the heart

pumping a little bit. Episode 321, paddling 2,300 miles down the mighty Mississippi with Will Collins.

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Now here's your host, Kurt Linville.

Hey friends, I have a special announcement for you before we start today's show.

I'm really excited about this.

Travis and I have been putting together a little surprise.

We are going to add an additional episode on Saturdays most weeks. And I say most because it probably won't happen every single week. Our Monday and Thursday shows are every single week. As you know,

you can rely on that. That is important to us to make sure that you get those episodes dependably.

But the Saturday episodes are bonus episodes,

and they're completely different than the Monday Thursday versions.

I actually am a writer, and I wrote a book over 20 years ago,

and I thought it might be fun to read segments from the book as kind of a Saturday story hour

or story 30 minutes.

It's something for you to hear that might add some perspective and be kind of fun.

The book is called 8240, One Family's Life Above the Clouds.

And it's about living, obviously, at 8,240 feet, about the

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