CALAIS – A Texas man who walked across the country last year has returned home in a Washington County-built kayak.
On Jan. 28, Jason Jamar paddled into his hometown, Marble Falls, Texas.
In 2000, Jamar left San Diego, walked across the country, and arrived in Calais on Jan. 2, 2001. While in Calais he enrolled in the Washington County Technical College boat-building program. While at the school he built a 20-foot customized kayak. He decided to return to Texas by water.
“It’s been an awesome, whirlwind, fairy-tale adventure,” Jamar said when he landed in his hometown. Hundreds of local townspeople had turned out to shake his hand.
Last May 18, Jamar and his dog BJ left Maine on the final leg of a 3,700-mile trek that carried him into the harbors of Boston and New York City. They headed into the Hudson River, and from there, into the Erie Canal, which carried them to the Allegheny River. They paddled to Pittsburgh, then picked up the Ohio River.
The Ohio carried them to the Mississippi and from the Mississippi they picked up the Atchafalaya River. The Intercoastal Canal carried them to the Galveston Yacht Basin. From there Jamar made his way into the Colorado River and home.
His arrival ended an 8,000-mile trip of walking and paddling across America.
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