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folks, Steve is surviving his trip with good health and lots of stories
to tell! Steve Savile, a 25 year old debonair swashbuckler from Monterey,
CA enroute from Ft. Peck, MT to New Orleans, LA. Total route 2856 miles,
3.4 months solo in a canoe. |
Missouri River Adventure.
Jim Thompson
of Boise, Idaho and Joe Humphreys of Amelia, VA left Fort Benton, MT
on June 1 and arrived at Cooper's Landing, MO on July 1. Jim and Joe
are going to the Gulf of Mexico. They are going by 16 foot Sea Ark aluminum
Jon boat with a 25 hp Yamaha four stroke motor, carrying 6 six gallon
gas cans. Their range is about 240 current aided miles. Jim and Joe
are 63 years old with arthritic knees (one each), so anyone can do this.
Trip highlights so far are all the helpful and friendly river people
we've met.
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| Scott
Mansker and Russ Payzant's Kansas River Keeper from Olathe
KS. Boating from the Fort Osage access to St. Charles. In March they took
this boat all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. |
Bruce
and Darlene Reuser with their 30 Ft. Maxim, on their way to New Orleans
from California. |
Wayne
Willkomm from the upper Mississippi with his boat SeaCatcher |
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Think Tank Crew:
- Milton Schaefer
-Winchester,
TN
- Tom Dodd-Mobile
AL
- Roger Wallace-
Nashville, TN
- Dan Callahan-
Nashville, TN
- Plato Toulotus-
Memphis, TN
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Gary
Lucy
from Washington, MO visited Cooper's Landing. Gary is well-known for
his Lewis and Clark illustrations and has a gallery at Washington, MO.
He did the illustration of the front of the new Corps of Engineers,
Lewis and Clark navigation charts. These charts are available at Cooper's
Landing for $10, and worth every penny! Visit Gary Lucy at:
www.garylucy.com
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