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using paddle and sail by day, and camp at river’s edge at night. “I grew up in Mobile, and am descended from the original founders of the Louisiana colony. Part of my reason for this journey is to paddle the same waters explored by my French-Indian ancestor Jean Baptiste Baudreau de Graveline in the mid-1700’s. Back then, Cuba gave assistance to both my ancestors and to Mobile itself. Now I believe Cuba needs and deserves American help.”
Over the past several decades, Allan served in the Vietnam-era military, worked as a journalist, carpenter, textbook dealer, and prep school English teacher. For 25 years he operated SacredSource.com, a handcraft distribution network benefiting rural artisans in India. In addition, he has spent six-month or longer periods as a dugout fisherman with Ecuadorian Indians, a
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