River Trips: Canoe, Kayak, Raft

Hello. I paddled a canoe from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in the summer of 1973. Everything was sort of primitive back then. The wind in my face day after day caused me to do a lot of paddling at night. This was not a great idea due to the barge traffic. I had all sorts of wild adventures, including a guy trying to shove me off a cliff somewhere in Kentucky. Then he tried to shoot me. Bad aim. But the big problem was hurricanes in the lower Mississippi in September. To make time, I ended up ditching most of… Read more »