When Amanda Hoenes last spoke with the Springfield News-Leader, she was about two months into her 3,300-mile journey to canoe the Missouri River. The 1999 Branson High School graduate finished her adventure in Jan. 18, 2022 along the Louisiana coast after starting about six months prior in Montana.
Now, the military veteran has a book titled "Digging Deeper" detailing the adventure that took 186 days to complete.
The Cedar Creek resident said she hadn't planned on writing a whole book, though she kept a journal for data and updated an ongoing blog, "A River Adventure.