MRT ’23

The InnerTuba Mississippi River Tour ’23.

19th April to 15th September, 2023. WE DID IT! InnerTuba pedalled the entire itinerary of this ambitious tour !…..

Celebrating at the Headwaters of the Mississippi River, Lake Itasca Park, Minnesota. supporters of InnerTuba Nick White and Dave Hendrcks of www.cypbikes.com joined me for a few final miles !

Please consider donating money or getting involved in support of this proposed journey – The InnerTuba Tour – from MidWest to NorthWest USA.

Following a couple or 3 years of Covid setbacks, InnerTuba and its generous tour sponsors TerraCycle, Icetrikes and Connecticut Yankee Pedaller decided to shoot for touring again in the USA during the spring and summer 2023….. this time InnerTuba pedalled and performed along the entire length of the Mississippi River.

This was the successful plan……

Everything along the Big River is big ! One of the many petro-chemical plants between New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana…
3,000 miles in 150 days…..

InnerTuba pedalled and played along two Adventure Cycling Association routes:

– The Great Rivers South route runs from from New Orleans, Louisiana to Muscatine, Iowa. It included a detour from the Mississippi to ride 405 of the 444 miles of The Natchez Trace….

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– I then joined sections of the The Northern Tier route. From Muscatine, Iowa to Bemidji and Lake Itasca, (the Mississippi River’s headwaters) in Minnesota.

I visited and performed in tiny rural settings and detoued into towns and cities which lie close to the Adventure Cycling Association routes. These included:

New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Clinton, , St Charles, O’Fallon, Keokuk, The Quad Cities, DeWitt, and the Twin Cities.

House-concerts added a new dimension to this InnerTuba tour. Find out more about them by viewing this lovely video, which was put together with lots of help from Gary Solomon of The Laidback Bike Report …..

Fire departments up all along the 3,000 InnerTuba Mississippi River Tour ’23 were unbeiievably kind and helpful. Thank you all so much ! Here stand the fine men of Station 1, Kosciusko, Mississippi.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain.