ESCANABA, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – An Upper Peninsula man traded solid ground for open water and spent an incredible 479 days paddling his canoe.

Escanaba native Peter Frank arrived home on Monday, Oct. 20 after spending 16 months paddling his canoe in a loop around the entire Eastern United States.

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The 24-year-old spent the last year-and-a-half in his craft named “Fool’s Errand.” He circled the Great Lakes, paddled down the east coast, and made his way back up the rivers from Alabama to Lake Michigan.

It’s a feat doctors didn’t expect him to make after a car ran over him on Oct. 20, 2015 at the age of 14. They didn’t expect him to walk again, let alone take an across-the-country canoe trip 10 years to the day of that diagnosis.

Frank told The Daily Press his next project is working on a book about his experiences. But first, he plans to put his feet up for a while.