If
he said it once, he said it a dozen times during the ten weeks we
spent on the Tennessee River and its tributaries in the spring and
fall of 2000: "All those years I was driving 300 miles south
to sail when this was only 200 miles north!"
In
order to find out what makes us tick, it is often necessary to look
into our ancestry (looking in our medicine cabinets or under our beds
would also help).