Sep 22 - Cousins' kayaking comes to an end

I've already mentioned my cousin and her husband a few times in this blog. Their names are Barb and Pete and they spent July and August kayaking the entire length of the Mississippi River.

Well they finished! ..... Just as Katrina bore down on New Orleans and the Mississippi.

They were just upriver from New Orleans when a barge backed up (rare behavior for a barge, as they point out) and cautioned them to get off the river before the hurricane hit. They heeded his advice, and pulled out.

Turned out, however, that they pulled out at the dock of a state penitentiary and were almost arrested. They got that cleared up, and even managed to get a rental car despite the evacuating masses. Then they got out of Dodge.....on bumper to bumper evacuee-filled freeways.

Here's a photo of when they passed their 1000th mile in their kayaks, after 37 days of paddling. (Hey, isn't that Robinson Crusoe?)



Cool eh?