It all began at a young age with the knowledge that my Father built Bridges for a living.
As a toddle & onward I have visited his job sites with a keen interest in the massive and magnificent beast that would enable millions of people to travel to their desired destinations.
Here are few pictures of my travels and pictures of those Marvelous Bridges.
One of the benefits of hitting the road is to further my love and addiction to photograph of bridges.
Crew & Crane much like the days that my father created that engineer marvel we call a "Bridge."
The Christopher S. Bond Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri (often referred to as the New Paseo Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge across the Missouri River. It carries I-29/I-35/US 71. The bridge opened to limited traffic on September 27, 2010 and all lanes opened on December 18, 2010.[2] The ond bridge is a replacement for the Paseo Bridge.
he bridge is named for Christopher "Kit" Bond, the former Missouri Governor and United Sttes Senator.
Ten-span through truss bridge over Little North Fork White River (arm of Bull Shoals Lake) on US 160 near Theodosia, MO.
Through truss bridge over Finley Creek on Smyrna Road northeast of Ozark, MO
Built 1912 by the Canton Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio; rehabilitated 2004
Truss bridge over Table Rock Lake (White River) on MO 39 near Shell Knob, MO. Built 1958.
Golden Gate of the Ozarks. Built 1949 by the Pioneer Construction Co. of Malvern, Arkansas Suspension bridge over White River (Table Rock Reservoir) on AR 187 at Beaver, northwest of Eureka Springs, AR.
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, USA, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The eight lane bridge satisfied the capacity of U.S. Route 17 when it opened in 2005 to replace two obsolete cantilever truss bridges. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet (471 m), the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere. It was built using the design-build method and was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the American city of San Francisco, California – the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula – to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers
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