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Partial to Home: The peripatetic paddler


Partial to Home: The peripatetic paddler
Neal Moore paddles at Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area near Helena, Montana in this courtesy photo. Moore, who has been in Columbus for nearly two weeks, is 5,194 miles into a 7,500 mile cross country canoe journey.
Courtesy Photo
Birney Imes
Look up the word “peripatetic” in a thesaurus and take your pick: nomadic, traveling, wandering, roving, roaming. You can’t describe Neal Moore without using one of them.
Moore, 49, grew up in Southern California; attended college in Hawaii and Utah; fulfilled his mother’s dying wish by becoming a Mormon missionary in South Africa; joined a childhood friend in Taiwan where he taught English; worked on a presidential campaign in Iowa with his half-brother and canoed the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to New Orleans. ....

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