What rivers have you crossed in your life?

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Riffing off this thread. I’m talking the watery kind of river, not some philosophical transition. As a help, here is a list of major rivers of the world. Here’s a longer list.

Feel free to list smaller ones, along with where they are for the geographically challenged.

In the major river category, I can list:

Nile
Yukon
Mackenzie
Peace
Mississippi
Missouri
St. Lawrence
Niagara
Thames
Seine
Rhine
Danube
Zambezi
Columbia
Potomac
East River
Willamette (Oregon)
Red
Ohio
Platte
Colorado
Rio Grande
Okavango (Botswana)
Fraser (BC)
Liard (BC)
Ogilvie (NWT)
Blackstone (NWT)
Yellowstone
Vistula (Poland)
Tejo (or Tagus, in Portugal)
Douro (also Portugal)
Copper (Alaska)
Moscow (Russia)
Snake
Sacramento

I guess it’s pointless to list smaller rivers, as there are just too many of them.

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Does flying across the river count or do you only mean by bridge or boat?

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Australia:

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[li]Murray River[/li][li]Murrumbidgee River[/li][li]Darling River[/li][li]Molonglo River[/li][li]Lachlan River[/li][li]Todd River[/li][li]Diamantina River[/li][/ul]

India:

Ganges

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I can’t think of any major river in the contiguous 48 states that I have not crossed.

I’ve crossed the Tiber in Italy, and the St. Lawrence in Canada.

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Excluding minor rivers and creeks: Rio Grande, Columbia, Snake, Yakima. Obviously all but the first are in the NW.

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Bridge, boat, kite board, swimming. I don’t think flying would count, as it would be like saying flying over Ohio and saying you’ve been there.

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I have a relatively limited list because I’ve only traveled in the eastern part of North America.

So looking at the list in the OP, I’ve crossed:

Allegheny
Altamaha
Arkansas
Atchafalaya
Ausable
Black (Arkansas)
Black (New York)
Black (South Carolina)
Black (Vermont)
Brazos
Canisteo
Cattaraugus
Chemung
Chenango
Cohocton
Colorado (Texas)
Connecticut
Cumberland
Delaware
Genessee
Great Egg Harbor
Green (Kentucky)
Hudson
James
Kanawha
Licking (Kentucky)
Missisquoi
Mississippi
Mohawk (New York)
Mullica
Muskingum
Neches
New (Virginia)
Ocmulgee
Oconee
Ohio
Oswego
Ouachita
Passaic
Pee Dee
Potomac
Rancocas
Raquette
Raritan
Roanoke
Red (Louisiana)
Sabine
St. Francis
St. Lawrence
St. Regis
Santee
Saranac
Schoharie
Sulfur
Susquehana
Tonawanda
Tennessee
Trinity
Wallkill
White (Vermont)
Winooski
Yazoo

And there are a hundred more.

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Some ones that I know I’ve crossed on the east coast of the US:

Hudson
East
Delaware
Susquehanna
Ohio
Conestoga (where “stogies” come from)
Shenandoah
Potomac
Bull Run
Occoquan
Rappahannock
New
James (crossed on the pole ferry!)

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Oh geez, too many to count. I’ve driven coast to coast and border to border several times, so I guess I’ve crossed most of the “major” rivers in the US.

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Of the rivers listed in the Wikipedia link (over 1000 km), I’ve crossed:

Danube
Colorado
Green
Loire

Including some shorter rivers:

Arno
Delaware
East (New York)
Gila (Arizona)
Potomac
Rhone
Sacramento
San Joaquin (California)
Seine
Thames
Tiber
Willamette (OR)

I believe we went under the Hudson on on our way into New York; not sure if that counts or not…

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The Delaware, The Rio Grande, the Guadalquivir for sure. Probably the Ohio, Pittsburgh, and the Monongahela as well.

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Umm, I dunno. Certainly the Ohio, a bunch of times. I guess the Scioto by now. The Neva in St. Petersburg. The East River, the Hudson, and the Harlem [del]Creek[/del] River. Many an other un-named river.

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Too many to count by car. In no particular order, I’ve walked (on bridges) across the Seine, the St. Lawrence, the East River (if that counts, I think it’s really an estuary), and the Schuylkill.

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The most interesting one recently that I crossed is the Skagit River just north of Mount Vernon, Washington. Went over the bridge there just a few days before it was hit by an idiot over-sized trucker, with this result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:05-23-13_Skagit_Bridge_Collapse.jpg

As I-5 is the main interstate route between Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC, this has caused quite a disruption. The Highway Department had a contractor throw a Bailey Bridge over the river replacing the span that collapsed, and I’ll be using that in a few days. Should beat a 45 minute detour thru Mount Vernon.

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Do I get extra points for crossing the Patapsco on horseback?

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All of these but none overseas except by plane.

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All the major ones in the US plus:

Danube (plus other major rivers in Europe), Mtkvari, Zambezi, Nile (in Uganda and Sudan)… plus lots of little ones nobody has heard of… I’ve been to 85 countries. These were all crossed by ferry and/or on foot.

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The only big ones I’ve crossed have been the Missisippi and Rio Grande. I’ve also crossed probably all rivers mentioned in theTexas River song, as well as many other creeks and streams. Do I get extra points for traveling down a river by some form of watercraft? Because I’ved canoed the Colorado (not the grand canyon one, the one in Texas that bifurcates Austin) and floated the Frio. Also a texas river. With the exception of the Missisippi, all the rivers I’ve crossed are Texas rivers.

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Let’s see…

Columbia (on a bicycle)
Mississippi
Missouri
Colorado (on foot in two different locations)
Danube
Rhine
Seine
Vltava
Spree
Charles
Merrimack
Potomac
Thames (U.S.)
Hudson
Susquehanna
Willamette
Fraser
Alleghany

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Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure I’ve walked on a bridge across the Charles River.