MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A 39-year-old stay-at-home mother has embarked on a canoe trip that will take her from Miami Beach to Maine.

Margo Pellegrino began her solo journey Monday morning from the Miami Beach Rowing Club.

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Pellegrino will paddle nearly 2,000 miles along the eastern seaboard in her 20-foot outrigger canoe as part of her Miami2Maine project to raise awareness about man's impact on the oceans.

She will make about 74 stops along the way and expects to arrive in Camden, Maine, in late July.

Pellegrino, of Medford Lakes, N.J., has spent the last year training for the trip, but so has her family.

"I spent a lot of time with the kids without her in preparation for the past year," said Carl Pellegrino, who will now take on the role of Mom and Dad for the next three months.

She'll solo paddle 25 to 65 miles per day spending 90 to 95 percent of the trip canoeing along the Intracoastal Waterway.

Surfrider Foundation, a volunteer ocean conservation group, has arranged for Pellegrino to stay with members from various East Coast Surfrider chapters along the way.

"I'm just hoping to get enough awareness going so that we can put some pressure on the guys at the top to do some ocean conservation measures," she said.