Awesome Sauce: The Most Amazing Kayaking Journey Ever

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Awesome B ninety three, Awesome sauce. Start your day on
a positive note. Awesome sauce right around six to ten
weekday mornings with the B ninety three Morning Show, brought
to you by Modernistic. This is such a tremendous, incredible journey,
and it is now complete, really, after thousands of miles,

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countless setbacks, and a whole lot of grit. Peter Frank,
a twenty three year old from Michigan, has officially paddled
the Great Loop. I didn't even know what this was.
I don't know that I know what it is, either
six thousand mile waterway that runs from Canada through the
Great Lakes, down the Mississippi River and all the way

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around to Florida before you loop back and go north again.
Holy cow. He did this in a canoe. That's it.
How do you go north on a river? Exactly? Holy cow? Exactly?
And he did it counterclockwise because that was more challenging. Oh,
so he went the opposite where you're supposed to go
for the whole entire thing. So he was against the

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wind the whole time. No, thank you. It takes people
years or a yacht to make this trip. But he
took a paddle, a purpose and an unstoppable will. He
did not pick the easy route. He went clockwise, the
harder direction, just to push himself further. But for Peter,
this wasn't just about the adventure of a lifetime. This

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was about resilience. For him, nearly a decade ago, he
was in a car crash that shattered his spine and
doctors were not sure if he would walk again. Wow.
Now he has paddled across the continent. He said, I
think the most important thing I can do on this
journey is keep true to myself and just lead by example.
We are all stronger than we think. His trip wasn't

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without danger. He fought dehydration, endured hurricane winds, and once
canoed through a fifteen mile chain of islands for one
hundred and twenty five hours straight just to stay safe
during a storm. Through it all, he says, gratitude kept
him going. Wow. Each stroke of the paddle a reminder
of what the human body and spirit can overcome. He said.

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Every day I paddled, and I did it with gratitude.
It proves that as human beings we can stand up
and achieve so much more than we believe now he
is back home in Michigan and his story isn't just
a record setting adventure. It is literally a living reminder
that even after life knocks you down or shatters your spine,

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you can still find your way forward, one paddle at
a time. That's incredible. Twenty three years old, six thousand miles,
just him and his canoe. Yeah, and going upstream on
any of that has got to be a challenge. Wild
holy cow. That's how you start your day on a
positive note. The awesome Sauce six' ten Weekday mornings with

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