Note: The contents of this blog are entirely my own notes written at the end of each day of the voyage. However, on a whim, I asked Claude AI to re-write it in the style of one of my all-time favourite authors - Robert Goddard. I had no idea if this was even possible, but here is the result. Afloat on the Kennet & Avon A Narrowboat Progress from Bath to Devizes and Back August 2015 K. Copeland · De Twa Buken · Wijnjewoude, Friesland I have thought about that week more often than I expected to. Not obsessively — I want to be clear about that — but in the way that certain journeys stay with you, surfacing at odd moments, in the particular quality of a grey afternoon light or the sound of water moving through a confined space. What I could not have known at the time, of course, was what the journey would come to represent. That is always the way of things. We do not choose which memories acquire weight. The canal, I suppose, is a good place to discover this. Everything about it c...