Back-country camping at Pukaskwa National Park on Ontario’s Lake Superior coast. Image: Moheb Soliman
The shorelines of all five of the Great Lakes add up to almost 11,000 miles.
That’s about the same distance between Lansing and Perth, Australia.
Or to visualize it another way, if you took a piece of string as long as the Great Lakes shoreline, you’d be able to wrap it around 44 percent of the Earth’s circumference.
Traveling that much ground in just four months might sound a little intimidating.
But that’s exactly what Minnesota-based poet artist Moheb Soliman set out to do this summer for his project HOMES. Moheb is back in St. Paul now, where he works for Mizna, a small non-profit focused on the art of Arab Americans.
This segment was produced by WKAR’s Current State with support from Michigan State’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.