"You paddled across the Atlantic?" Exclaimed a French villager upon learning that this young American couple had just paddled up the raging Rhone River.
For most French it was their first encounter with a canoe, and they.
They paddled their Canadian Canoe Through France and Switzerland.
It was 1931, and they were on a four-month-long Paddling adventure Through Eight Countries in Depression-Era Europe.
Stannard Baker (Stan) and his wife Fran.
This was a typical encounter for J. "You paddled across the Atlantic?" Exclaimed a French villager upon learning that this young American couple had just paddled up the raging Rhone River