An update from Juliet

Greg is camping in the wilderness tonight, so this update comes from Juliet.

Greg paddled from Sandy Lake to Aitkin today in perfect kayaking weather with blue skies and a breeze.
He'll pass the 300 mile mark tomorrow, thereby completing stage 3 of the journey.

Greg has manged to keep in touch in a variety of ways, sometimes by direct phone-calls and emails to New Zealand, but more often by phoning our daughter, Jane , who lives in New York.( Thank-you for relaying news in both directions, Jane.)
Sometimes an email arrives from a kind stranger who has been given a business card with our email address .
Thanks to Joe Thompson who emailed from the Four Seasons Resort to say Greg was enjoying warm pizza before setting off across Lake Winnibigoshish on a windy day. We heard later that the trip took 5 hours, after which Greg spent a free night at a riverside lodge where he was still finishing his lunch-time pizza!
Thanks also to Matt Purdy from Grand Rapids, who emailed on June 2nd to let us know he had helped Greg with a portage . He told us Greg was looking well, was in great spirits, and appeared to be a "very interesting man":)  Joe Muller of Minnesota Power lent Greg a computer, and we received the news that Greg had spent the night before camped in a primitive campsite after getting lost in the wetlands and losing some time.Joe gave Greg a Google map and directions so he could find Cohasset to buy supplies and a hot meal.
People Greg has met on the river have been extremely kind.. Meals are shared, beer and coffee are offered, and places to camp provided as well as much companionship. This paddle through Minnesota will surely remain one of the highlights of Musselman's Mississippi Kayak Adventure.