Unspun

Unspun must admit that he is flummoxed. How can a Californian breeze into Bali, persuade do gooders in the UN and the World Food Program to sponsor him to swim a Walk the World program, not once but twice in a row?

You’d think that those do gooders would have cottoned on that swimming and walking are different physical activities.

Still, Monte takes the cake for chutzpah. This morning Unspun, a frequent awestruck observer of Monte’s antics, found in his e-mail inbox  message from the spinswim meister”sharing” a video of his latest swim. Once again, he’s sweet talked some well-meaning do gooder to sponsor him (he’s managed also to get full page endorsements by the Java/Jakartakini magazine, which makes this whole thing curiouser and curiouser. he’s also started a blog!). Why him and not some Balinese? is there some conspiracy afoot to promote people from Bush’s own country over the Balinese?

What next? Fly the walk? Crawl the Walk? Cycle the walk? Run the walk? Maybe even…walk the walk?

clipped from www.fighthunger.org Monte Monfore Swims Again for Walk the World   Watch the video of Monte’s swim As part of Walk the World 2007 ocean swimmer Monte Monfore achieved another world first, swimming from Lombok to Gili Tranwangan Island in Indonesia. His 7-kilometer Lombok Fight Hunger Swim follows last year’s Bali Fight Hunger Swim, where he swam a double-crossing of the 4-kilometer Bali Strait. The 46-year-old humanitarian swimmer began his swim at Malimbu Beach in northwest Lombok under the predawn darkness at 5:45am. Prior to the start he spoke about the goal of the World Food Programme and the United Nations Millennium Campaign to end child hunger by 2015.