My wifey Lynndee has actually posted here about our current summertime holiday which took us to the state of Georgia. On that journey we went to Atlanta to humor my love of baseball and took a little side trip to Covington, Georgia, to humor Lynndee’s love of the television series The Vampire Diaries since that’s where the series was recorded with Covington then being dubbed Mystic Falls.The next leg of our journey took us to Savannah, Georgia to go to the city which was completion point of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea during the Civil War. We invested a wonderful weekend in that historical citythat included in fact seeing your house General Sherman utilized as his headquarters. While in the city, something that was always catching my eye was a big bridge. Anywhere you found yourself in the city, if you looked north, on the horizon you ‘d see a big arc of steel and concrete. The first thing that entered my mind was wondering if we ‘d cross that span on our way house. Much to my pleasure, when I got out the roadway atlas, I discovered that was the very first action we ‘d handle the long journey homeward.Talmadge Memorial Bridge Theoriginal Talmadge bridge
, integrated in 1953, was a cantilever truss structure. It eventually became a risk for large ships going into the Port of Savannah. A cable-stayed replacement was built and opened in 1991 under the name of Talmadge Memorial Bridge in honor of a previous governor. When we drove over the bridge en route to Hutchinson Island and after that to a two-lane bride-to-be over the Black River into South Carolina, the view we had was remarkable. Off to the left we could see the port and all the substantial trucks unloading their goods. And to the right was the Savannah river, snaking its way to the Atlantic.Famous American Bridges This bridge is just one of the numerous famous ones I’ve crossed in the journeys
of my time. My very first memory of one is from back
in the early 70s when I crossed the Mackinac Bridge over the Straits of Mackinac that link Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. The bridge connects the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan, a span of 4.995 miles, making it the longest suspension bridge in between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere. And what a view it offers!Other popular American bridges I have actually crossed are the Hernando de Soto Bridge of Memphis, Tennessee, crossing the Mississippi River into Arkansas; the original Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River, on a journey to Ithaca College taking my daughter for a see; the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia; the Verrazzano Bridge connecting Staten Island to Brooklyn; the Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge, covering the Ohio River, linking Covington, Kentucky, to Cincinnati, Ohio; and the George Washington Bridge, taking a trip from New Jersey to New York City throughout the Hudson River. Ahead, is the Black River, and in the range is South Carolina.As you can see, I’ve taken a trip many-a-mile by car across this country.
Certainly, I love a road trip, however just recently I’ve finally required to the air passages, finally flying after years of having a great fear of flying. And now I actually like to take wing!But when it comes to among those journeys, the one that took me throughout the Tappan Zee Bridge, I’m definitely happy I never ever had to duplicate it. Though my child liked Ithaca College, their musical scholarship offer was restricted and she got a better deal from Elon College, which ended up being a university simply a month before she entered. And seeing that Elon was just 190 miles from Asheville, NC, as opposed to 727 miles to Ithaca, I was totally happy she selected Elon, for I was able to take a trip to all her musical occasions. And aside from acknowledging Elon as a consistent answer to the crossword puzzle hint– a college in NC– I knew absolutely nothing of it until she went there.Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Crossing the t he Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was actually a conclusion of among my container list wishes
. I initially became aware of it back in the
early 70s when Iread a fantastic book by the Gay Talese, Popularity and Obscurity. The book focuses on New York City and consists of the fantastic story The Bridge, narrating the building and construction of this famous bridge. I still have the old, run-down copy of that paperback which cost me the grand total of$ 1.25; I have actually most likely read it a minimum of a hundred times! And if you’ll observe the spelling, Verrazzano, for several years the bridge was understood as Verrazano-Narrows Bridge with only one z, taking away from the honor provided to Giovanni da Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who discovered what is now called New York Bay. That mistake, however,< a href=https://www.amny.com/transit/verrazzano-verrazano-bridge-cuomo-1.21345852 > has actually now been fixed, and for the first time because 1964, the bridge will be appropriately known.George Washington Bridge However the one bridge crossing that will always hold an unique place in my heart is that of the George Washington Bridge
. It was from that viewpoint that I got my first take a look at the horizon of New york city City, seeing the iconic Twin Towers for the very first time. And it’s so paradoxical, now that I’ve made several trips to the Big Apple, that I still can not put down that I’ve crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. Definitely next time, though! However up until then, I’ll be stuck in traveling over a not-so-famous crossing, the Major General Albert Boyd Bridge over the French Broad River, a not-so-famous river. They ‘re my own, right in my own back lawn, so they’re popular to me.Reader Interactions Leave a Comment
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