I've been on the bridge maybe a dozen times in my life. It's a good one to avoid if at all possible.
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I need a small boat, but there's no way I can afford one. I'll probably never afford one because I'll always have a more pressing need for the money. Perhaps what I need is to see if there are any people in my area who would take me out on theirs for a half hour every now and then.
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I never had a problem with heights until the day in 1999 when I got to climb to the top of Huntington's East End Bridge. We must have been two hundred feet above the river, and the only thing protecting us from falling was a small railing that maybe came up to my waist. I can't say for sure because I didn't want to go near it.
Having said that, four years ago the folks at the West Virginia Division of Highways said they would take me up to the top of the new Blennerhassett Island Bridge. I made several inquiries afterward, but they never returned my calls. I'd still do it, despite a mild case of fear of heights. My sense of balance has been off slightly since 2000 when I came down with an ear infection on a flight to Seattle to visit the Amazon.com headquarters at the personal invitation of (name dropping here) Jeff Bezos.
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In my life I've been to Israel, Jordan, Austria, the former Czecjoslovakia and Japan. I've been to San Francisco a couple of times, and I've driven the coastal highway from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Mexican border. Now in my silver years I rarely travel more than three hours from home.
But that's fine with me. After seeing the world, I'm now more interested in learning more about a smaller part of it, particularly the Ohio Valley. There are some really nice places in the countryside along the Ohio River, and those are where I want to visit.
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