Anyone for a Dip?

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  • Author(s): Sides, Hampton
  • Source:
    Outside. Oct2007, Vol. 32 Issue 10, p164-172. 7p. 4 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      AUTHORS; SWIMMING; SELF-realization; FEAR; VOYAGES & travels
    • Subject Terms:
      MISSISSIPPI River
    • Abstract:
      The article relates the author's experiences when he paddled and swam across the Mississippi River with some friends. He felt a sense of fulfillment when he finally swam across the river citing his joy of having faced a natal fear and for realizing that the river did not harm him like what some people told him. Other details of his adventure in the river are described.