In three years, I’ll be seventy years old, God willing! If She allows, I am inspired to spend the next three years immersing and offering ceremony, blessing and being blessed by the magical, mystical, amazing waters of this planet.

My goal: 70 bodies of water by the time I turn 70.

I get to make up all my own rules (which is a huge deal having grown up in Catholic schools K-12), so I’m excited about that aspect of this adventure. For example, I can swim in the Dana Fork and the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River and count that as two! Can I swim in different swimming holes in the same fork? Hmmm…maybe! I’ve rowed at Ellery Lake on the Tioga Pass Road twice in the last few days. Really not sure about that rule yet. 🙂 Oh, just thought of something. I should swim where I row. That will definitely count as two. Fun!

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Water Tracking–beginning June 18, 2022 (age 67)

June 2022–Tenaya Bowls (swim), Keoughs Hot Springs (swim), Tuolumne River (dunk)
July 2022–Elizabeth Lake (swim), Ellery Lake (Row x 2), Tuolumne River Lyell Fork swim (2 pools)

Strict total: 6. Count ’em all: 7