Stephen begins his epic 2000-mile journey up the Mississippi in the
sultry, voodoo soaked streets of New Orleans during its busiest day of
the year - Mardi Gras. He meets a Jewish Voodoo priestess, an Iraqi war
veteran experiencing flashbacks in the abandoned neighbourhoods
destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, down-and-outs not living the American
Dream, and takes a tour through Angola, one of America's most notorious
prisons. In the Delta he gets the Blues with actor Morgan Freeman at his
club in Clarksdale and in Chicago drives guitar legend Buddy Guy round
his old stomping grounds on the South Side. Forsaking calmness at the
Transcendental Meditation HQ in Iowa he travels to Motown, Detroit,
where he gets to drive in a Model T and the latest Cadillac with its
designer before enjoying the rustic beauty of an Amish farm and learning
how to milk a sheep in Wisconsin. At the river's source in Minnesota he
learns how the Hmong refugees, so far from their opium growing villages
in Laos, are adapting to the snowy wastes before catching his first
fish in forty years on the frozen Lake Minnetonka.
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