#river

Ever so often I think about my trip earlier this summer to visit West Virginia's metal monster, the New River Gorge Bridge. I was playing back a couple of videos I recorded while traversing the catwalk. I decided to upload one of these, as it is rather unlike most others I had seen. I believe&hel...

Now that my summer vacation is over, I've been thinking again about some of the other dark aspects of big, impressive bridges. Especially with regards to a pervasive urban legend that I've heard over the years, including most recently from my husband, no less. When we were planning to visit the N...

This then begs the question as to why and how some of these monsters become such an integral part of their environment, in a human sense, for good or for bad. Even when speaking of the dark and sinister side of these structures, one cannot ignore the beneficial aspects of their existence. I would...

For some reason I keep thinking back on something I saw while on a vacation earlier this summer. The first part of my vacation was a visit to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. I went there for the annual Coaster Mania event which was held on a Friday. But once that was over, it was…

There are of course many bridges that people jump from to end their lives. Some have an impressive body count, some have only a handful of deaths, and of course some fall in the middle. But I always thought that the Key Bridge was the only one that ever had the blood of a jumper…