Maverick wrote on Mar 21^st, 2007 at 2:54am:

SW Jimbo, where the heck do you work?    How long of a commute do you have?

Hey, Mav-

Sometimes I'm a little slow on the reply (uh, say 4 months worth) but here you go.  

I work in Le Sueur, Minnesota, for a company with the same name.  My commute to work is exactly 60 miles.  My commute home is 70 miles, mainly because no sane person would travel I-494 North between 5-7pm & I return home another way.  I cross the Minnesota River at either Belle Plaine or just south of Belle Plaine most of the time & take the back roads home.  Longer, yes, but far more interesting & I keep moving.  I'm starting to give names to the cows & pigs I see on my route home.  It beats inching along in traffic ANY day.

No icebergs bombing their way down the Minnesota River this month.  Still haven't paddled it, though.  Nor have I knowingly eaten fish from it.  Some would say I am warped enough without complicating matters with consuming those mutations.

Polluted or not, the river still looks appealing.  I hope we can clean it up.

Jimbo   8-)