Kayaker finishes solo trip

NEW YORK (AP) — A solo kayaker’s 1,700-mile journey to promote prostate cancer awareness has wrapped up at a Manhattan pier.

Dozens of kayakers and well-wishers greeted Skip Ciccarelli on Saturday as he paddled down the Hudson River. He set out from Chicago 54 days earlier following a route through three of the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal. The 60-year-old kayaker teaches at a vocational high school in Massachusetts.

He is a prostate cancer survivor himself.