2017 Washington State Book Award finalist, based on the strength of its literary merit and lasting importance! The Ocean is calling me.
She lived her dream..
On her way from Anacortes, Washington, to Juneau, Alaska, she grappled with fear and exhaustion, forged friendships with quirky people in the strangest places, endured perilous weather and angry seas, and pretended not to be intimidated by 700-pound grizzly bears and 40-ton whales.
The expedition took her deep within herself, humbling her, healing her, helping her to discover the depths of her own strength and courage.
Her adventure took her along the western coast of North America, Through the Inside Passage-a 1,200-mile ribbon of water-in a Journey of the sea and soul.
With no sense of where she belonged in space and unreconciled feelings of a painful childhood following her, she decided that instead of running away, she would run toward her dreams.
With these words, in the spring of 2010, Susan Marie Conrad scaled her world down to an 18-foot sea kayak and launched a solo Journey that took her north to Alaska.
This is my Journey. 2017 Washington State Book Award finalist, based on the strength of its literary merit and lasting importance! The Ocean is calling me
