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The Wait is Over

Whew, the welcomes continue in grand fashion. In Cheboksary, the team was greeted by about six paddlers on the water, all in their K-1...

A Waiting Game

West and Jeff paddled 46.2 miles today. It is the most beautiful section of the river they have paddled, thus far. It was green and...

Jeff & West Comedy Team

This is quite funny. Make sure you get a chance to watch it.

Cheboksary-Bound

Tomorrow, the team will arrive in Cheboksary. They will arrive among the festivities of Victory Day. This is a big celebration in...

50.0 miler

The team traveled 50.0 miles yesterday. They look to be making great time today, as well. There was not a lot of news to report from...

Nizhny McDonalds

Pardon the "shoveling of food" but the narrative is a little interesting. Thought I would share.

Grocery Store

Here they are in the grocery store, before the camera got shut down.

Kremlin

Just a very short snippet of the Kremlin in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Apparently, they experienced a real quick cold snap

Taping Boats in Novrogod

Here is a dialogue from Jeff before taking off to run errands in Novgorod

West Update

An update from West: We made the call this morning to stay another night after checking the weather report and assessing the need for a...

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Where are we now? Click here

West Hansen and Jeff Wueste are from Austin, Texas. Our goal for this expedition is to be the first paddlers to kayak down the entire length of Europe's longest river, from it's source in the Valdai Hills of Russia to the Caspian Sea, the 2300 miles (3700 km) will take about 50 or so days. Jason Jones will join the team in mid-May and complete the final distance with Jeff and West. Our first expediton was the Amazon Express, which we completed in 2012

www.theamazonexpress.org

Seeing as we are self-funded, tax deductible donations for the expedition and documentary are garciously accepted at the PayPal button (above).