Ep. 546: Part 2 of Paddling 2,300 Miles Down the Mighty Mississippi Revisited - Will Collins
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Originally Published January 15, 2018.
Will Collins, the BuffaloRoamer, dreamed of paddling the full length of the Mississippi River in a canoe from its origin in Minnesota all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Will was kind enough to join Curt at the end of his journey to give us the scoop on how it went.
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| 0:00.0 | I was really just in front of peak colors up in Minnesota and Iowa and Illinois and Wisconsin |
| 0:05.7 | and even into Missouri. |
| 0:07.6 | So that was just really gorgeous seeing all those burnt oranges and reds. |
| 0:12.7 | It's like somebody melted crans into the trees. |
| 0:18.3 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:24.5 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. Today is part two of Will Collins' trip down the Mississippi River, paddling down the |
| 0:49.0 | entire Mississippi. Last Thursday, we replayed part one, which was about a year and a half ago it came out this |
| 0:57.3 | week we're replaying part two the second half of the Mississippi Kurt is doing the interview |
| 1:01.9 | and this one's you know from about a year and a half ago and wow paddling the entire |
| 1:06.6 | Mississippi is just one of those things I've always wanted to do. I'm sure a lot of you out there do |
| 1:11.0 | do as well. So here what it's really like to do that in this episode. And also I just wanted to say thank you for tuning in today. We really appreciate when you choose us. We know that there's only so much time in your day to listen to podcast. So it's, there's a lot of choices out there. So thank you. I like to think we're |
| 1:27.8 | pretty entertaining. But it's also affirming when tons of people start writing in saying how |
| 1:31.9 | much the show means to them, which has happened a lot lately. So that has inspired me to ask you |
| 1:37.3 | before we get started. Please make a commitment. Share this show with one person this week or |
| 1:43.1 | this weekend. Just one person. Doesn't have to be. I'm not |
| 1:45.4 | going to say 10 or 20. One person you can think of. Just send them a text when you get to work. |
| 1:51.1 | Please don't text and drive. Or if you're at home or at the office right now, just pull out your phone, |
| 1:55.8 | send them a text, call somebody, whatever. Tell them about the show. We know there's tons of you |
| 2:00.4 | that are listening in offices or at jobs you don't really love |
| 2:03.6 | dreaming about doing these adventures. |
| 2:05.5 | And we know there's a lot more out there that can benefit from these stories. |
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