During the 1960s, the shipping industry in the Great Lakes was on the threshold of immense change, faced with stiff competition from the newer Canadian fleet. For Patrick Livingston, it was also a time of adventure, and in this colorful memoir he shares here how he fared during the Detroit Riots and the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, working the mailboats on the Detroit River, and setting sail for landlocked Nepal to work with the Peace Corps.