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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

150 150 Survival Common Sense Blog | Emergency Preparedness

    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, and installments of  the tale will be posted here! Enjoy the trip! There is just something about…

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