This week we travel with Sandra Gail Lambert to the Florida Everglades, where she finds out if her complex solo kayaking plan will be worth the effort –or even possible.

Sandra Gail Lambert writes fiction and memoir that is often about the body and its relationship to the natural world. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated memoir A Certain Loneliness and The River's Memory, a novel. Her writing has been widely anthologized and published by The New York Times, The Sun Magazine, Orion, and The Paris Review. Lambert is an NEA Creative Writing Fellow.