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Sarah Davis joined me on the podcast almost two years ago to share her plans to become the first woman to paddle the length of the Nile river. A journey of 6,853km / 4,200mi from the source of the Nile in Rwanda, all the way to Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt, at the time we first spoke Sarah had anticipated the expedition would start in January 2018 and take 7 months. (You can find the show notes for that episode here) So Sarah returns to the podcast this week to share how it unfolded! Spoiler alert! Things didn’t all go according to plan and two key decisions meant that Sarah wasn’t able to achieve her original goal to paddle the length of the Nile. However, she has become the first woman to lead an expedition along the Nile. In this conversation, we discuss: - how she made the decision where to start her expedition; a harder decision with more options than you might think, - what she felt visiting the source of the Nile in Rwanda after 3+ years of planning, - the very angry hippo tried to fl