At Home on the River: Diary of a Floating Home.

This memoir offers a captivating glimpse into the world of living on the water. Set against the backdrop of the Columbia River east of Portland, Oregon near the small, picturesque town of Troutdale, the author welcomes readers into a world of changing seasons. Lorene Whitman highlights the challenges and joys of life in a floating home community in a collection of journal entries, which includes whimsical pen and ink sketches. Trading a large, newly remodeled home on three acres for a small home floating on logs was a hard decision, but the author and her husband stepped away from the ordinary. "As we drove away, the familiar landscape faded away in the rearview mirror," she writes. The author's journal entries chronicle the joys of watching animals in their natural habitats, confronting the problems that go along with living on the water, and meeting all sorts of interesting characters along the way. Find out what it is like to untether yourself from the land and embrace a new life on the water in At Home on the River.