Long long time ago, I can still remember…..I had a student exactly thirty years younger than I, and a colleague exactly fifteen years younger than I. We went on a college canoeing trip to the BWCA once, then twice, and now it has morphed into an every year activity. We paddle one year, bike the... Continue Reading →
Taming the Mississippi
Jim Post singing Mighty Big River In 2004, two of my college friends and I decided to paddle canoes from the headwaters in Itasca State Park in northern Minnesota to the Twin Cities. We all had experience canoeing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, so it wasn’t a stretch to think we could paddle the... Continue Reading →
Triple Whammy
TRIPLE WHAMMY Think about your experience with crossing an international border into another country. One always needs lots of paperwork and lots of time. Now think about what travel has been like for the past two years. Covid has made it nearly impossible to get anywhere without jumping through countless hoops. Now think about trying... Continue Reading →
3-Month Countdown
Welcome to March! Welcome to Spring! We have three months to get ready for the first of our three long legs on the way to Hudson Bay. Although we paddled the Mississippi for thirteen years, we never paddled over 18 days at a stretch, so this will be a little different for us. We expect... Continue Reading →