Downstream

again.
We walk to an iron jetty on
the other side of the lock to
wait for the boat. I look at the
woman next to me: she seems
a bit jittery. ‘Why am I doing
this?’ she asks. At lunch she
was one of several women
who said they had young
children and wanted the
chance to do something for
themselves, to have a
challenge. I say I feel sick,
and the guides ask if I want to