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A Travel Log for Leon’s Mississippi River Canoe Voyage; a six month solo trek from Minnesota to New Orleans.

Downriver: Chapter 3 Lake Itasca to Bemidgi

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Lake Itasca to Bemidgi We started paddling the next morning from Wanagan  through a canoeist’s paradise. The Upper Mississippi is a canoeist’s paradise! (traveltips.usatoday.com photo) The scenery ranged from pine forests that infused the air with a sweet, pine woods smell, to marshes full of cattails with stalks higher than our heads. The wetlands were full of waterfowl.  It seemed…

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Downriver: A Mississippi River Canoe Voyage, Chapter 2

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Leon’s 1980 end-to-end voyage of the Mississippi River gets started at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.

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