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02-25-2010, 02:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | | Mississippi river
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This summer/autumn im going to travel the mighty mississippi by kayak. Im going to make a documentary about the trip, for Norwgian tv. Any fellow tbers who live close to the river? ..if so. Are you interested in meeting and perhaps say a few words about you and your town, city, farm, pueblo to me and my camera? |
02-25-2010, 02:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | If you can make the Mississippi bend over to the Colorado and from there take access route #33 to the San Gabriel River I will stand waiting for you with 2 frosty cold mugs of delicious Stone beer and speak at great lengths about the town of Hacienda Heights, and how our people settled here after roaming 7 miles from the West Covina.
Ok, sorry, Im no where near the Mississippi.
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02-25-2010, 02:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | I am about a mile from the Miss. Let me know when you get here
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02-25-2010, 02:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hdracer  I am about a mile from the Miss. Let me know when you get here | Great! You are on my list |
02-25-2010, 02:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Pearl, MS | | | When you get to Vicksburg, I'm about 40 miles away. May not be close enough for the documentary, but certainly be glad to buy a tb'er a beverage of their choosing!
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02-25-2010, 02:59 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | Cool concept. I'm not from the area, but I had family that kept a house boat on the river. I spent a few weeks one summer early 80s between Saint Paul and where it was docked somewhere north east of Cedar Rapids Iowa. It was one of the coolest summers of my youth. We started from NJ via car to Niagra Falls, west through Canada and around the north side of the Great Lakes and down through Minnesota to Iowa. We spent a week on the family farm near Cedar Rapids and ended with the river trip. We left days after school ended and made it back just in time to start again that fall.
The generation of Family I was connected with have all since passed and I really don't know any of the distant cousins  |
02-25-2010, 03:01 PM
| | | Is you trip sponsored or are you doing this freelance? Sounds exciting!  |
02-25-2010, 03:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | Im not sponsored (yet  Freelance. Its going to cost a buck ot two. But the tickets are already bought...and hey im halfway trough the Mark Twain books |
02-25-2010, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by odin70 Im not sponsored (yet Freelance. Its going to cost a buck ot two. But the tickets are already bought...and hey im halfway trough the Mark Twain books | LOL I thought those were outlawed.  Where will you sleep each night? I doubt you can just hop ashore and pitch a tent. |
02-25-2010, 03:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | Tent. According to others ( who have done the trip ) its no problem...so i trust them |
02-25-2010, 03:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Winnipeg,Siberia | | | theres a guy from here who did a canoe trip with his dad starting at the upper mississippi,and going down to south america....maybe google dana starkell,and see if anything pops up....i remember they wrote a book,but it's been a while.....i googled it and it turns out the guy is a well known classical geetar guy
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02-25-2010, 03:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Campbell theres a guy from here who did a canoe trip with his dad starting at the upper mississippi,and going down to south america....maybe google dana starkell,and see if anything pops up....i remember they wrote a book,but it's been a while | Thanks, i will check them out. I have bought a bunch of books about and by Mississippi travelers already, but more is more when it comes to preparation for a trip like this. |
02-25-2010, 03:17 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Well, 10 years ago, I lived in Baton Rouge, just a few minutes from the river, and I would have been very happy to have you come visit and treat you to some good Cajun cooking, as well as some good beer.
Unfortunately, I now live about 1000 miles east-northeast of there now.
Sounds like a great trip, one that I've actually considered a time or two. Enjoy!
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02-25-2010, 03:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: :noitacoL | | | Ooh, cool! What kind of kayak? Are you bringing one over or buying it here? I have an Impex Assateague (but don't live near the Mississippi). |
02-25-2010, 03:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | | It would be way to expensive to bring it over, so the plan is to buy one over there. The prices are also much lower in the US, then here. How much did you pay for your Impex? |
02-25-2010, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: :noitacoL | | I honestly don't remember - it was about 3 years ago, and I got a really good deal. I'm going to guess around $2600-2800.
Here's a good place in the Midwest to check out: http://www.rutabaga.com/ |
02-25-2010, 03:34 PM
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02-25-2010, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Oh black water, keep on rollin'
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02-25-2010, 03:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania Oh black water, keep on rollin' | He jes'keeps rollin' along! |
02-25-2010, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: St. Louis, MO. | | | I live about half a mile from the river in St. Louis if you want to stop by here. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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