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Downriver

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

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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Downriver: A Mississippi River Canoe Journey

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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to travel the Mississippi River like Huckleberry Finn did. In  1980, I canoed from the Mississippi’s headwaters at Lake Itasca, MN to the Gulf of Mexico. This is the story of that journey.

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