![]() ![]() Our kayaks are very stable, seaworthy expedition single and tandem models. The guides appreciate help getting boats and equipment on and off the water. Early starts also get us to our daily destination early enough to stretch our legs and visit the area. We get on the water early enough each day to avoid headwinds that usually pick up around noon. This is flat water paddling with a very little current. We paddle together as a group and our speed is determined by the slowest paddler. Our groups often include paddlers in their seventies. Our 5-night trips are more relaxed.Īge should not be a factor. On our 9 night trips some days we will be covering rather long distances on the water so we expect all participants to be reasonably fit. We would like you to have done wet exits, and if you haven't, we can do that the first day. ![]() However, they are not for totally inexperienced paddlers. Our expeditions are vigorous but not excessively rugged. Please bring proof of your full vaccination cycle. Covid vaccines are required on all our tours. ![]()
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, a novelist and essayist, set much of his early fiction at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. ![]() The Satanic Verses (1988), novel of Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie led Ruholla Khomeini, the ayatollah of Iran, to demand his execution and then forced him into hiding his other works include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker prize, and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I just felt that her being the Alchemist was kind of convenient. Maybe it was because it turned out that Jules WAS the Alchemist. Maybe it was because she DIDN’T love Liam even though it was SO OBVIOUS that he was good. I can’t quite put my finger on it, maybe something to do with the characters who had so far been really interesting and had a lot of development, maybe it was the fact that she was STILL into Roan despite talking to him like 3 times for the whole book. Somewhere around the 250 page mark I stopped loving it. 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Pearson and Gonzalez’s take on the iconic figures offers good fun, especially for young readers who are just discovering the DC universe.” - Publishers Weekly For kids who enjoy suspenseful adventures about saving the world and superhero-adjacent stories.” - School Library Journal “This adventure mixes several popular elements, such as superheroes, mysteries, and global warming. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street My kind of story! I want to see more, more, MORE!” -R.L. “As the breathtaking action unfolds, the mysteries pile up-and there is danger on every page. I hope you packed a lunch, because you’re not gonna want to put this book down.” -Joey Bragg, actor from the Disney Channel’s Liv and Maddie ![]() ![]() “Ridley Pearson knocks it out of the park with this supersonic tale.” -Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series ![]() |