Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you would expect pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington and their whippet, Jim, to retire to a comfortable corner of their favourite public house. But no, they looked to the New World for their extraordinary new adventure. No-one has ever sailed an English narrowboat in the US before, for reasons that become clear during the nine-month voyage of the Phyllis May - including thirty-mile sea crossings, blasting heat, tornadoes, hurricanes and all manner of intimidating wildlife. But the real danger comes from the Good Ole Boys and Girls of the Deep South. Colonels, bums, captains, planters, heroes, drunks - they all want to meet the Brits on the painted boat and their thin dog - and take them home and party them to death ...