A group of cyclists took to the open highway and rode across the Sunshine Skyway bridge in Florida. [via]
A new bridge being built at the Hoover Dam
July 17, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
Photo via The Daily Mail
Check out this amazing photo of a new bridge being built across the Hoover Dam. The bridge will be named the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge and will serve primarily to relieve the traffic going around the Hoover Dam (which you can see in the picture above). The bridge will be an extension of US Route 93 and will be a new connection between Arizona and Nevada.
Right now, the bridge looks like a suspension bridge, but by implementing some new bridge-building techniques, it will actually be supported only by the concrete arches beneath (the suspension cables will be removed after construction is complete). Construction on the bridge began in 2005 and is said to be completed sometime in 2010. This should be a site to see the next time I visit the Hoover Dam. :)
New Year’s fireworks in Sydney
January 22, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
New Year’s Day is a few weeks behind us now, and I’m sure that by now you’ve been chugging along in 2008 like I have. Yeah?
Anyway, in continuation of my photos from Sydney, here are some pictures I took of the fireworks on the Sydney Harbor Bridge as the first few minutes of 2008 were celebrated by thousands of people along Sydney Harbor.
It was my first time in Sydney watching the fireworks and they were pretty amazing. Standing amidst a crowd of several thousand is a great way to spend New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Flo and I were able to witness first-hand a crowd fight between a drunken Irish man and a local and what it was like to stand in the SLOWEST MOVING LINE TO THE EXIT ever. Also, we both had a pretty good laugh at the hundreds of people unknowingly stepping into horse poo (from the police patrols) and then realizing it as they were already ankle-deep in it. It was the funniest thing ever watching this happen, and I can only hope that I’ll get another chance in the future to watch people unknowingly step into horse poo. Nothing is funnier, believe me.
The place was jam-packed with people literally shoulder-to-shoulder. And although I’ve never stood in Times Square for the New Year’s countdown, I reckon the experience in Sydney is very similar to it. Flo and I stood a few streets away from The Rocks (where most people go to see the fireworks) simply because there was no more room to stand. Our view wasn’t the best, but it was decent, and it gave us a good view of the fireworks in front of us AND behind us. In fact, towards the end of the show, fireworks were just going off in all directions around us. It was pretty spectacular.
Check inside to see some of my photos from the event.
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