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Wally13	04/05/2023 11:16PM   Overland …email me. I certainly can help your friend Mike. I paddled the Mississippi from Lake Itasca to the Gulf. A “River Angel” in Bemidji stored my bigger kayak at her home in Bemidji for me, while I used a smaller kayak to go from the Headwaters to Lake Bemidji. I am quite sure she can help Mike with his kayak storage need. It will be a trip of a lifetime for Mike.
overland	04/05/2023 09:03PM   I'm writing on behalf of a Vietnam veteran I know, Mike Boehm, who lives outside Madison, Wisc., and for years has been working on projects to help the Vietnamese people in and around My Lai. This May he's embarking on a trip down the Mississippi to raise money and call attention to his work in Vietnam--work that's been supported by other veterans and by the Quaker community in Madison. He's going to be using an 18-foot wood strip kayak he built himself, but for the upper parts of the river he'll paddle a smaller plastic canoe that someone is lending him. The problem, I gather, is that he needs to find a place near Bemidji to store the wooden kayak until he gets out of the headwaters and then the plastic kayak while he continues downstream in the larger wooden one. I thought there might be someone here who could help, or could offer a suggestion on what he might do.
shaniac	04/06/2023 06:39AM   I'm in Bemidji and could very easily help out with storage in my garage. Happyfishboy@yahoo.com
Wally13	04/06/2023 08:29AM   Shaniac … thanks for stepping up with your offer. Sounds like Mike Boehm is a tremendous individual with a great cause. Between you and the River Angel I know in Bemidji I am thinking Mike’s storage need can be taken care of. Shaniac … perhaps you can send an email to Overland to get in contact with Mike.
shaniac	04/07/2023 09:44AM   Yup, we've been in contact. Congrats on your trip too, quite an accomplishment!!
Wally13	04/07/2023 03:41PM   Shaniac, Yes, it was great paddling trip for sure. It was an adventure trip following retirement. Thinking of doing a 525 mile 3 week Fall 2024 trip. The Erie Canal below Niagara Falls to the Hudson River to NYC and the Statue of liberty. I am glad you made contaact with Mike. Not many paddlers do the Mississippi River twice. His 2nd trip is for such a great cause! I will be following his trip.