Originally posted by Doc Holiday
reply to post by muse7

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Funny how things just happen..like your thread for instance.

Myself I have been working up to this for a few years, in my experiences, unless you plan on hustling=danger...I found that by staying with the native river/creek systems was the only way I could travel in the USA for free, without getting labeled a bum or vagrant, and staay well fed and hydrated..

As far as your choice of destinations, I guess everyone needs an end place or just a destination...so yours is EU...cool with me.

If you would be enterested in a trial run or the likes here in the states...presuming thats where you now live..I will be traveling south along the western edge of the mississippi delta, from just south of KC and head towards the gulf...hitting the Mighty Mississippi at Shreveport....and ending my journey there.
I "in the past" keep a slow pace..average just over 1 mile per hour.. over the duration of the trip...some days I may not move at all...thus creating my low MPH average.
You know even in the wilds you need a day off, and if supplies are plentiful and you have fresh fish caught and ready to cook/eat..
Thats the best time to vent..take a little time off, and is when most of my critical decisions get answered.

As for me other than the travel time and/or loss of it, due to boating and such to get to EU....
I do not think it would be any different once there.
As long as you stay in the rivers/creeks and keep your health, wits, and don't let yourself grow a sasquatch beard "I'm quilty of that ATM"

My Journey start in a few weeks, and will last until late summer or early fall.
I've never traveled with a companion.....I see emmediate benefits and dangers, IE...more calories needed...
Myself I take NO food with me, and rely on my BOB, well a "cut back/reserved packing of it" its not packed for armogeddon!
I rely on fish, squirrels, and small game for food through trapping, and I have an old beater junk .22 thats just as faithful as a good dog, and it would not be a loss, if I had to loose it, to get on a boat, just throw it over board or sell it, for $10

Anyways, now I'm ranting on and on....see if this helps ya..
I was wanting to do the same thing, as far as travel goes, many years ago, and after finding how much adventure was right in my own back yard...I found no reason to completely leave the country.
So if a trial run in the states is to your liking, I'm game, as long as the start point and some minor conditions apply.
PS I'm 38 well traveled and very serious...