CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati man is kayaking the "Great Loop" for a great cause. On Monday morning, Joseph Solomon took off from Cincinnati’s Riverside Park for a kayak trip that’ll take him over a year to complete.

It’s a nearly 7,000-mile journey Solomon is starting here on the Ohio River. He'll then go east to the Mississippi, down to New Orleans, through Alabama, into the panhandle of Florida and around the entire state. Then, he will go up the entire East Coast seaboard towards the Great Lakes, down the Illinois River and finally back to the Ohio River.

But it’s not just for fun or exercise. Solomon is doing the entire trip to raise awareness for mental health.

"Mental health is something that we all have to deal with at this point, since COVID happened," said Solomon. "You know, so I

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