Original sentence: He ends up at the Colorado River and when he is told that he may not go down by canoe without a licence, he acquires a Perception Sundance 12 open-water kayak and, followed by the river police, padddles downriver eventually all the way into Mexico.There his kayak is lost in the river (again a warning as to what is to come) and he crosses back into America, thereafter travelling via freight train to Los Angeles
Edited sentence: He ends up at the Colorado River and when he is told that he may not go down by canoe without a license, he acquires a Perception Sundance 12 open-water kayak and, followed by the river police, paddles downriver eventually all the way into Mexico.There his kayak is lost in the river (again a warning as to what is to come) and he crosses back into America, thereafter traveling via freight train to Los Angeles