Recalling the hieroglyphic narratives of Pharaohs travelling west to the “Two Lands”, they described it as “going down” to the West, because they follow the current which goes both south and west.

Pre-Columbian maps describe “up” as going “towards the sunrise”, or East.

The Jordan river in the mid-east is “only a stream. At most, it is still a very passable river.” p. 122

It cannot be so hard to cross as is described in the Bible. Yet if this “river” is actually an Atlantic Ocean current, then it starts to make sense.