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Article: TRAVELING LIGHT.(General News)(Eli Andersen sets off in his handmade kayak to paddle the Inside Passage and through the Puget Sound)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2005
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Byline: PEOPLE By Mark Baker The Register-Guard
This is the tale of The Young Man and the Sea. At least it's going to be, because today Eli Andersen is arriving in Juneau, Alaska, and if all goes according to plan, he'll be in the water on Wednesday. And Thursday. And Friday. And every day from now until sometime in September. Maybe longer.
"I've been told I should take a shark-beating stick," says Andersen, 24, a recent University of Oregon graduate who grew up in Eugene with dreams of becoming a surfer. He did that at 18 on the Oregon Coast, and when the day came two years later that the wind and surf blew him up on a jetty in Florence and smashed his ...