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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

The epic saga continues for the boys as Missouri is just off in the distance. Since we’ve last posted, the boys have cruised a solid 75 miles, hunkered down in a ridiculous storm and putted in on fumes to our last marina. With a strong northernly wind and our trusty Evinrude motor, we flew through the […]

The Epic Saga of the BarrelRaftBoys

This entry was posted in Illinois Iowa Mississippi Journey Survival Water Weather and tagged motor control storm yacht club on August 6, 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

Dubuque Iowa is fun place that we are glad we didn’t miss. We listened to music at Rock the Dock, biked up Mount Carmel for some overlook scenic views and walked through the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. After spending a couple hours fishing in the marina, Rob ended up with only one silver fish…he fried […]

Wind, Water and Wriver snakes!

This entry was posted in Illinois Iowa Mississippi Journey Water Weather and tagged birds sail wind on July 28, 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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