Destinations

Is it where you go, or how you get there, that really matters?

I have my own little destination debate going on, regarding my Lake Ontario swim crossing: Destination Oakville or Toronto.
The "traditional" swim is into Toronto.  Legend, Marilyn Bell, the 1st to swim across Lake Ontario, swam to Toronto in 1954, and this finishing point is now named Marilyn Bell Park (MBP).  In the last few years, Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL) to MBP have been the typical route.  But oddly enough, if the argument is to follow in Marilyn Bell's footsteps (or armstrokes) the starting point would actually need to be Youngstown, NY.
Marilyn Bell is pretty amazing, and swimming into MBP would be pretty cool!, so why change tradition?
Answer: Oakville. Swimming in Lake Ontario in Oakville is where the idea for my Lake Onatrio crossing was born.  It is where I fell in love with Lake Ontario.  It is also closer to home and where the Lake Ontario Swim Team (LOST) base is so it has a home team advantage feeling to it.  I will love looking up and seeing the old familiar lighthouse, and hopefully lots of team-mates and friends!
Coincidentally, Port Dalhousie to Oakville measures in at 42.2k, "marathon" distance.  Now I just have to swim in a perfectly straight line - lol. 
The neat thing about open water swimming, there is the traditional swim (like the English Channel - from Dover to Calais) and there is finding a new challenge/adventure/swim.  Most swimmers do both types, one is no higher prestige than the other in the world of marathon swimming, just different.
Well, it was determined a long time ago that I'm different, and maybe even a non-traditionalist...
So, I'm 99% distination Oakville.
And the FUN will be in the "getting there".