Angle to Key West: Two Paddles (2/28)
Broad River – February 28, 2013 I found the green paddle lodged in a rapid eight months ago as I crossed the Boundary Waters. It isn’t much to look at, […]
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Angle to Key West: Left Turn (12/18)
Bayou Savage – December 18, 2012 Dan and I walked through New Orleans and pulled the Looksha behind us like a two-man parade. Cars stopped to stare, people crossed the […]
Angle to Key West: Trudge (9/20)
Seven Island Camp, Mississippi River – September 20, 2012 Today should have been different. It should have been about the bright smile on a man’s face that I met in […]
Angle to Key West: Mississippi Sucker Punch (9/19)
Mississippi River north of Little Falls, MN – September 19, 2012 Grey clouds covered the sky, their edges black and cold. Wind raced up the river, twisting and turning through […]
Angle to Key West: Finding the Edge (9/10)
“At last we saw a clump of tall birch-trees, for which we steered and found ourselves on a small circular island, which afforded a comfortable resting place, and from which […]
Angle to Key West: Hell’s Playground (9/9)
“To describe the difficulties of this portage would puzzle a Scott, or a Knickerbocker even…Neither language nor pencil can paint them…The rain Saturday evening and the Sabbath has rendered the […]
Angle to Key West: Long Walk to the Gates of Hell (9/8)
“It is generally considered the worst ‘carrying place’ in the Northwest, and judging from the great number of canoes which lie decaying along this part of it, having been abandoned […]
Angle to Key West: Midnight Train To Cloquet (9/5)
St. Louis River above Cloquet, MN – September 5, 2012 Cloquet is a ghost town at 2 am. The streets are empty, no more than a car or two an […]
Angle to Key West: The Hardest Portage (8/10)
North Shore of Lake Superior, MN – August 10, 2012 “So what’s the hardest portage?” someone asked a man decked out in voyageur gear, red cap and all. For one […]
Angle to Key West: Short Portage and Partridge Falls (7/22)
The bus ride back from South Bend isn’t very eventful so while I make my way back to the Looksha (who is undoubtedly upset with me for leaving her), check […]
