Vietnam Veterens Memorial Bridge

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We finally cross the James River on the Vietnam Veterens Memorial Bridge! Hooray! .75 for a 2 minute drive, lol! Well it is impressive feeling like you are way up in the air… because you are way up in the air! Well I admire this structure greatly! It is as much a piece of architechtual art as it is a functional highway. Hhhmmmm, maybe that’s why they call it a highway! Okay, I’m recycling jokes now. What I may do, time permitting and another .75 to toss in the bucket, is to go back across the bridge from the other side to this side, the Interstate 95 side (opposite direction from where we went in this video). I just want to see this thing from as many angles as possible. I’d love to stop somewhere while way up there, and video from the middle of the bridge. But it’s probably illegal to stop, so that might not happen! One other thing I’ll say about it, the expense of this bridge was mostly covered by private investors. Otherwise such a structure would never have been built, at least as it is, so extravagantly, rollercoaster sized, monorail futuristic lookingly high up in the air as this bridge is. And in tough economic times it is sometimes difficult to see how you could justify such an expense. And not just because it is a memorial, although that is a big part of it! But I am happy to see this sort of structure existing as it does, in a country mostly numb to art or asthetic beauty, art and beauty for the sake of being beautiful! It transcends its function, becoming something else entirely! It is almost mythical, or on the scale of great monuments such as the pyramids of Egypt or Mexico, the Eiffel Tower, the Colliseum of Rome, the Parthanon, etc. It gives us a moment of awe that does feed the soul. “Man does not live by bread alone.” It reminds us that being alive is not just seeing to keeping the body alive. It is so much more, if we are open to those experiences and joys!

Blah, blah, blah, blah! I can imagine the trumpeting teacher in a Charlie Brown movie, going on and on, and all Charlie Brown hears is the, “Bleah, bleah, bleah”, trumpet sounds, HA! Sorry to go on so. I hope that you can get the idea I am struggling to describe. I hope that you can see things like this which can inspire you, which help you transcend the boring mediocrity of everyday life, and to experience the sublime. Maybe these videos will help some folks to see [...]

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