#sunshine

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…

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&...