Food

survival techniques on how to eat while floating down a river

Pulled our raft over in the INDUSTRIAL section of the Mississippi River at mile 115, hiked up the levee wall and down the street to a truck stop to grab some real food: fried chicken and potato wedges 🙂 Hundreds of barges, a bunch of ocean liners, 3:00 storm and a wakey river challenged us […]

Fried Chicken at a Truck Stop

This entry was posted in Food Louisiana Mississippi Journey Survival Water Weather and tagged food moon sunrise on September 9, 2014

Been on the river so long we are all going crazy! Skinny, sunburned, koo-koo and straight-up rugged at this point in the journey, we are in Cajun Country now. Rainbow during a quick moving storm, we pushed right on through it to make it to an island for camping. Sunsets seem to be more brilliant after […]

Left MN with 2, entered LA with 3

This entry was posted in Food Louisiana Mississippi Journey and tagged birds cow kayaker rainbow Skully on September 5, 2014

After 1,400 miles, 10 states and almost 8 weeks of living on our little raft, we are close enough to finally start counting down! In less than a week we will be arriving in New Orleans, which has been our ultimate goal since we started this journey. A month ago, we were at Lindsey Park Yacht […]

So close we can smell it!

This entry was posted in Food Louisiana Mississippi Mississippi Journey and tagged family gasoline mural Skully Vicksburg on September 3, 2014

The Barrel Raft Boys dedicate this post to how we live, eat and survive. This unique lifestyle proves to be challenging and fun. Stripping down to the core essentials, we’ve had to balance Needs/Wants with Weight ratio. Our floating home is estimated to hold 500 pounds of supplies. About 450 of that is dog food […]

A Day In The Life

This entry was posted in Boredom Food Mississippi Journey Survival Temperature Water Weather and tagged day in the life food navigation survival on July 29, 2014

Rob couldn’t understand why he wasn’t hungry this morning, until he pulled a wing and tail from his mouth. After hatching late last night, mayflies have plagued our vessel!These insects, Mayflies or shadflies, have a very short adult lifespan living from a only few hours to a day. Some consider this good luck, others use them for bait, BarrelRaftBoys use […]

Who Needs Breakfast When You Have Mayflies?

This entry was posted in Food Minnesota Mississippi Journey Wisconsin and tagged marina may flies Winona on July 20, 2014

SAS Survival Handbook

This entry was posted in Boredom Food Survival Temperature Water and tagged book guide survival on April 15, 2014

We need to compile a list of items needed to help us survive as float the estimated 60 days on a river. Survival can be broken down into three basic parts: food, shelter, protection. Food and Water Keeping food cold is out the question as we have no way to produce ice. A cooking […]

Research Needed on Float Survival Gear

This entry was posted in Barrel Raft Boredom Food Research Survival Temperature Water Weather and tagged gear survival on February 26, 2014

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