“We’re messaging you because we think you’d be fun to do the “all the Great Lakes in one day” challenge and we’re confident we can stand being in a car with you for that long
Thus began a message from a friend asking me to be part of their adventure to swim all five Great Lakes in a day.
Now apparently this is a thing! And my friends on the swim team wanted to do this challenge. And yes, I accepted. We had a planning session over dinner. We’d drive from London to Sault Ste. Marie, MI the day before (a 6 ½ hour drive). So we booked a hotel, planned which beaches to go to, and we were set!
The Olympics swimming events were still happening so we streamed it all during the trip, along with a bunch of other sports we only watch every 4 years….We also compiled a Great Lakes playlist! Here are some of the songs:
- Lake Superior: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot
- Lake Michigan: Lake Michigan, Rogue Wave
- Lake Huron: any song by Lord Huron
- Lake Ontario: Hasn’t Hit Me Yet, Blue Rodeo
- Lake Erie: Lake Erie, Wild Pink. Also Erie Canal, Bruce Springsteen
It was a wild and fun road trip with my swimming friends. Maybe next time (!) I’d choose some nicer beaches that we could actually swim in (the beach at Lake Superior was too shallow, Lakes Michigan and Huron beaches were too rocky, Lake Ontario was just gross and it was too dark to swim in Lake Erie). But it was tons of fun. Enjoy my slideshow! And check out my reel: https://www.facebook.com/reel/284661034217761
