Rafting from KCMO to New Orleans
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Artist:
Laura and Joe sent me a message asking for more information about July's river expedition, and I realized that the word may not have gotten to everyone I want to invite (you.) I've included some background on the trip that i wrote for the Pistols, but will give you a brief summary as well. (too late!)
The first week of July we will make rafts in Kansas City from free materials (including the styrofoam factory's dumpster). Friends will arrive from afar and we will teach each other camping, rafting and computer programming skills. July 7th we float out from downtown KC down the Missouri River to the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans. Everyone is welcome to join up to the minute we cast off, (even a little later if you can swim.)
If you have any questions give me a ring, or figure it out as you go!
Stay so strong.Jamie
831-425-3740 (sc)816-931-4507 (kc)jamie@kc.rr.com (∞)
About the trip...When i was in town over the winter i got really into researching the city's history and transit. That got me dreaming about kansas city without highways. Which! Made me think about the river not as something to pass over on a bridge, but rather a connection to the rest of the world!
I had always only thought of the river as dividing line. A person can either be 'north of the river' or 'south of the river.' The river in kc is a wild borderland where the serial murderer dumped his body and I scarred my shin with Ian Correa in 2003. I think Joe showed me a photo of when City Hall used to be right on the water, when we were so proud of our river. You may have had a different experience, but for me the only action i knew actually happening on the water is 100 years old and on display at the river market (it sunk).
The casinos are trapped in moats and I am free! I walk from my house to the water! I push out and let the current take me! Which way does this wise old river pull? I give myself to it! It found a path from the city's doorstep to the Gulf of Mexico. Every moment downhill! What grows on the water? I have! Our city has! And, what do I have in common with everyone, everything connected to the shores? July 7th and after.
We may have never seen the water before, but we are young, smart and strong.
Jamie
whew! that got my heart pumping! I hope that wasn't out of hand.
If you guys or anyone you know wants to have a river experience together and with me, together, that would be so good. I look forward to leaving preexisting social configurations behind, so strangers will make good friends. (It's more than ok if someone i don't know wants to come, and also exciting to know old friends as new.)
<3
The first week of July we will make rafts in Kansas City from free materials (including the styrofoam factory's dumpster). Friends will arrive from afar and we will teach each other camping, rafting and computer programming skills. July 7th we float out from downtown KC down the Missouri River to the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans. Everyone is welcome to join up to the minute we cast off, (even a little later if you can swim.)
If you have any questions give me a ring, or figure it out as you go!
Stay so strong.Jamie
831-425-3740 (sc)816-931-4507 (kc)jamie@kc.rr.com (∞)
About the trip...When i was in town over the winter i got really into researching the city's history and transit. That got me dreaming about kansas city without highways. Which! Made me think about the river not as something to pass over on a bridge, but rather a connection to the rest of the world!
I had always only thought of the river as dividing line. A person can either be 'north of the river' or 'south of the river.' The river in kc is a wild borderland where the serial murderer dumped his body and I scarred my shin with Ian Correa in 2003. I think Joe showed me a photo of when City Hall used to be right on the water, when we were so proud of our river. You may have had a different experience, but for me the only action i knew actually happening on the water is 100 years old and on display at the river market (it sunk).
The casinos are trapped in moats and I am free! I walk from my house to the water! I push out and let the current take me! Which way does this wise old river pull? I give myself to it! It found a path from the city's doorstep to the Gulf of Mexico. Every moment downhill! What grows on the water? I have! Our city has! And, what do I have in common with everyone, everything connected to the shores? July 7th and after.
We may have never seen the water before, but we are young, smart and strong.
Jamie
whew! that got my heart pumping! I hope that wasn't out of hand.
If you guys or anyone you know wants to have a river experience together and with me, together, that would be so good. I look forward to leaving preexisting social configurations behind, so strangers will make good friends. (It's more than ok if someone i don't know wants to come, and also exciting to know old friends as new.)
<3
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