TC travels, 2014 TR, Pg 904, 2015 TR pg 964
Table of Contents Our 2009 travels started here on March 1, 2009 The first pictures appeared at page 15. We couldn't get our data card to work with our new computer. New Orleans and the Bayou c...
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JumboJet wrote:
Thanks for the Silver Bridge pictures. I did a Google search and read more stories.
Thank you... that makes me feel good... that I got you interested.
I get out maps when I read books and Trip Reports... and now that we have laptops and very smart cell phones we can quickly look up anything.... fast, and usually pretty accurately. It pays to read more than one source if the information we want is important. Our (my) memeories are "failable". (spelling on purpose)... We tend to remember things grander, bigger, nicer than they realy are.
I occassionally see someone in cyberspace post information about something.... for example places to see and things to do in their "home" town. When we travel there we find that things have changed over the 25 years since the writer that we referenced actually lived there.
It's hard to believe that 1985 is a quarter of a century ago... isn't it? That the Viet Nam war has been over for a third of a century (1975)...
Places change, and sadly... often for the worse. Blight and Crime creep into places that we remember as nice. Urban renewal changes things to the point we don't recognize anything that we knew... we can't find our way around.
Most people crossing the Ohio River at Pt. Pleasent are across in less than a minute... if they were asked... they would assure us that they didn't notice anything... nothing at all.
And the bridge that I tell you about from almost a half century ago isn't there.. it actually disappeared completly in seconds. (Dec 1967)
