#skyway

As of today, the walk on the Bay Bridge is but a little more than a week away. So now I've had some opportunity to put some mental effort into the factors that might cause some bridges (and other structures) to seem evil, creepy and sinister. These unknown factors stand separate from any dark his...

But what of those invitations? Why do some bridges become epic scenes of carnage while others do not? For some, like the Golden Gate, its location is likely the main attractant that draws the mortality minded. For the New River Gorge Bridge, the extreme height probably has a lot to do with its po...

Have you ever taken a walk outdoors, perhaps as a child, and decided to pick up a rock just to see what is under it? The top of the rock is just a surface, exposed to sunlight, wind and rain. What apparently exists is what is there front of you out in the open, seemingly…

The other day today I spoke to my mom and we were discussing a trip we both made to Florida a long time ago, to visit with a family friend. That trip was made when I was five years old, and that was also the time I first went to Disney World. We were there…

Speaking of the malevolent monarch of all dreadful bloodstained monsters, that foreboding, fear inspiring mega structure of the south that is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.... Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I was to wake up tomorrow and find myself in its neck of the woods. If I was nearby,...

But this mini Skyway isn't on my path to and from my destination in New Jersey. It isn't too far from an alternate path back into Maryland, but I'd still have to detour a few miles to see it. I'll have to see if I can find an excuse to cross it on the way…

In the mean time, I am still going ahead with my plans to walk the length of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge this fall. Doing so isn't cheap, but neither was walking the New River Gorge Bridge. Such experiences are pretty rare to come by, and in the scheme of things even a seemingly high price…

Then there is the question of “why” with regards to this one bridge I've never seen in real life. Yes I did know some of its history when the dreams began. Specifically the accidental ship strike decades ago and the deaths that resulted from that incident. But the Skyway is far from the only brid...

Ironically the Sunshine Skyway was one of the first of that kind to be built in the US. It was the real start of that design “fad” here in North America. I don't know what it is about that particular bridge, but I keep having nightmares about it. Never had any about the Key or…

I wonder what will happen once the new bridge is completed a few years from now. Strangely enough the state is expecting that at least some people will need to cross it but will be too afraid to do so. Apparently officials have asked the business that now drives the fearful across the Bay Bridge&...