My canoes name is Wild Oak. I have many hopes and dreams for my canoe once I launch it. I hope it will someday reach Grand Forks on the way to Brazil. When I launch Wild Oak into the Red River from Fargo I hope it will enjoy a warm sunny foggy ride on the river in May of 2024. I hope my canoe sees a muskrat running in a sugar beet field with a bald eagle flying over it. I hope a gold eye and catfish run into my canoe. I hope a morning dove lands on it for a break. Along the way I hope it goes through Polk County and Marshall County. Then within six weeks of traveling I hope it sees a blue bell duck in a spring wheat field. I hope it sees a forest of willow trees swaying in the wind then sees a moose with a pigeon on its back in the forest. I hope it goes through a choke cherry forest. In six months I hope it makes it to Winnipeg to Hudson Bay into the Labrador Sea to the North Atlantic Ocean all the way to Brazil. That is my dream.