The content on this site chronicles a 14 day canoe trip I took with my good friend Jonathan 
Hoare in the Boundary Waters canoe area in Northern Minnesota in the fall of 1994. It was created to celebrate the lives of Jonathan Hoare and Mark Huckabay. Their lives ended too soon on a separate canoe trip they took down the Mississippi River in the spring of 1997. This site is part of a collection of work. These works were produced by the many people whose lives they touched and who are reminded of the wonderful things Jonathan and Mark had to teach us about life and how to live it.
An excerpt from a website they responded to while on their trip in 1997:
Hi! I'm enjoying your site. I came across it doing research for my own Mississippi canoe trip. Two of us, Mark Huckabay and Jonathan Hoare are departing from Lake Itaska Minn. by canoe this April 18th (blizzards permitting!) We plan to arrive in New Orleans by the end of July. Look for a web site in progress by April 20th. We don't yet have the URL address but it will be something like: www.Mississippi River Canoe@M and J's.com. Maybe we can link up!
Thanks,
--Jonathan, April 7, 1997
I plan to add an entry to this site each day and tell the story as our journal entries tell it. It was Jonathan's idea to keep a journal and I resisted at first. Now, as I dig it out of my closet and piece the sequence back together I feel the memories flooding back like yesterday.
Tom
Hoare in the Boundary Waters canoe area in Northern Minnesota in the fall of 1994. It was created to celebrate the lives of Jonathan Hoare and Mark Huckabay. Their lives ended too soon on a separate canoe trip they took down the Mississippi River in the spring of 1997. This site is part of a collection of work. These works were produced by the many people whose lives they touched and who are reminded of the wonderful things Jonathan and Mark had to teach us about life and how to live it.An excerpt from a website they responded to while on their trip in 1997:
Hi! I'm enjoying your site. I came across it doing research for my own Mississippi canoe trip. Two of us, Mark Huckabay and Jonathan Hoare are departing from Lake Itaska Minn. by canoe this April 18th (blizzards permitting!) We plan to arrive in New Orleans by the end of July. Look for a web site in progress by April 20th. We don't yet have the URL address but it will be something like: www.Mississippi River Canoe@M and J's.com. Maybe we can link up!
Thanks,
--Jonathan, April 7, 1997
I plan to add an entry to this site each day and tell the story as our journal entries tell it. It was Jonathan's idea to keep a journal and I resisted at first. Now, as I dig it out of my closet and piece the sequence back together I feel the memories flooding back like yesterday.
Tom
