In late 2009, Jake Stachovak embarked on his "Portage to Portage Paddling Project," a journey that took him from Portage, Wisconsin, down the Wisconsin River to the Mississippi, down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, along the Gulf coast around the tip of Florida, up the Atlantic coast to New York City, up the Hudson River to the Erie Canal, up the Erie Canal to Lake Erie, across Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan to the Fox River, and up the Fox River to his starting point at Portage. The whole thing took about ten months. A website that contains a log of his journey is still up here.
Jake arrived in Memphis the day before Christmas, 2009. The photo above shows him landing at Harbortown Marina after a perfectly miserable day of paddling from up near Randolph, Tennessee. Martha and I had a wonderful visit with him over Christmas Day, and then I accompanied Jake on his next leg of paddling down to the Tunica River Park in Mississippi on the 26th.
I post this picture today because this past weekend I saw Jake in person for the first time since we parted company at the Tunica River Park. His business travel schedule allowed him to attend the Battle On The Bayou race at Ocean Springs. It was great to catch up.
The results from the race are now posted here.
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