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Please pose any questions you have below in the comments and we’ll answer them as quickly as we can…Thanks:)   Q: What the hell are you going to do with the raft? A: We we’re able to sell it! We needed the money to rent a car to drive back home with all of our […]

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Have the BarrelRaftBoys made their final destination or have they failed to raft from Minnesota to New Orleans?   We’re There! Rafting the last 20 miles of the river and through a 5 mile canal to Lake Pontchartrain, we faced every river challenge on the last day:  heat, traffic, lock, draw bridge, rain and wake. […]

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So-long upper Mississippi River, rafting past the last mile marker: 0.8 we’ve joined up with the large Ohio River. The confluence has tons of commercial traffic and industrial areas as this fork in the river connects 15 States. Discovering that the Ohio River accounts for 75% of the rivers’ water outflow, we assumed this would increase our […]

Sunsets, Birds, Arcus Cloud, Heat Wave and a ...



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Sleeping on a sand island just north of Cairo, IL the boys are saying goodbye to the Upper Mississippi today. When the Ohio River joins up with the Mississippi, we switch over navigational books and restart milage indicators. 958 miles lay ahead, snaking and bending its way through Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. **Since […]

Lower Mississippi Beckons