swimming in the mississippi

[nibot]

I enjoyed this story: "Swimming across the Mississippi river" (Outside magazine, October 2007).

I wonder, how poisonous is that river? I put my toe into it last week, and am still here...

Comments

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention this. O is planning a major swim of the Catalina channel. (20+ or so miles) He was reading about some guy from some place like Ohio who was planning to do the same swim. This brought to my mind the idea of how awkward it would be to plan something like that. "Yeah," I said, "Why don't YOU plan a swim across the Mississippi?"

[indomitability.livejournal.com]

20+ or so? Haven't you heard the song (http://www.mtv.com/lyrics/four_preps_1/26_miles_santa_catalina/425261/lyrics.jhtml)? :-)