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A Look at the title of this newspaper article. What do you think an odyssey is?
a. a long journey full of adventure b. a trip that someone does alone c. a voyage done only on water
B Scan the article. How long did Dave and Amy take to complete their journey? Scan the article again. Underline all the ways that Dave and Amy traveled.
NORTH AMERICAN ODYSSEY
Dave and Amy Freeman traveled 18,744 kilometers across North America.
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ROUTE OF DAVE AND AMY'S JOURNEY
Kayak
Dogsled
Canoe
Dave and Amy Freeman are teaching people about the outdoors while exploring the world.
The North American Odyssey was their longest trip. They wanted to use this journey to get people to protect North America's waterways and wild places. Also, they wanted to teach schoolchildren about these wild areas. Therefore, they run the Wilderness Classroom, an online platform where schoolchildren can follow their trips and learn from their experience.
They made the Wilderness Classroom interactive and fun by posting videos every week and online updates every Monday. Students could help them make decisions about the trip by doing surveys and suggesting routes they should take.
On April 22nd, 2010, they started their journey by paddling their kayaks north out of Seattle. They spent the next three years kayaking, canoeing, dogsledding, and backpacking up the Inside Passage, across the Northwest Territories, through the Great Lakes, and down the East Coast.
On April 4th, 2013, they paddled into Key West, Florida, completing their North American Odyssey. Since then, they've been going on other adventures and sharing their experience with schoolchildren. For Dave, raising kids' awareness of the wild is "a first stepping stone" to getting people to protect wild areas.
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