2.07.2009

This does seem like the hard way to get there...


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month....



The original plan was for her to swim to the Bahamas — a distance of about 2,100 miles (3,380 miles) — but inclement forced them to change their plans and she arrived at Trinidad on Feb. 5. She now plans to swim from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands, ending her odyssey at the Bitter End Yacht Club in late February.

[From 56-year-old becomes 1st woman to swim Atlantic - USATODAY.com]

...but the Bitter End Yacht Club is a great place to have dinner, as our Midwest bureau chief and others will attest.



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