EBS STAFF
GREAT FALLS –
Mark Juras, 32, is on a quest to make it to the Gulf of Mexico in New Orleans
by paddle. The Great Falls man has rowed more than 2,250 miles from Montana to
Missouri and in a Sept. 5 article he told the Great Falls Tribune he thought he
was about six weeks away from completing his 3,500-mile journey.
Overall, he says
his voyage, while fraught with flooding and closed campsites in the Midwest, is
giving him a deeper appreciation of the U.S. as he meets new people along the
way.
Juras is
traveling in an 18-foot rowboat he built himself, having launched from Three
Forks on June 9.
