My wife has a collection of prehistoric implements.
As a child, I was underwhelmed by the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop when I was finally allowed to stay up late and watch it. I had somehow assumed that (1) everyone in attendance would be dressed in formal attire, and (2) the ball would actually drop - as in, someone would push it off a platform high above the square so it plummeted fifty feet and crashed into the blacktop below.
Does she like photography? Snap Snap? Could be taken on Holiday! Nudge Nudge Wink Wink!
IMHO, to really appreciate it you need to walk or bike over. The Golden gate is pretty impressive.
That is something I want to do sometime.
I have a feeling that in the end, the whole drone thing will be underwhelming, especially to some of the conspiracy theorists and doomsayers.
I’ve driven over lots of times & walked across a few times.
It’s a pretty setting. The world is full of those.
It’s also a bridge. Humanity has vastly surpassed the GG’s scale in every way since it was built when my Dad was a toddler. FTR I’m old & he’s dead.
So impressive in the patronizing sense of “Wow, those primitives were really a credit to their benighted condition.”
I don’t get the worship, I really don’t. Not that you specifically were, but lotta folks do.
My family visited Watts Towers when I was about 8. So, the early 1960s. I still remember it, very cool indeed.
Generally a bad idea to revisit your childhood high points, I guess.
Wow, I guess you’re pretty hard to impress!
I would disagree that walking or biking across is the way to “get it.” But if you can look out from the Marin headlands and not feel a deep sense of “someone had enormous balls,” you must drive a Tesla.
Yes, it’s ballsy. So are another hundred other sites. IOW …
Impressive? Yes. Unusually impressive? Not really…The more of humankind’s works you see the less each of them stands out.
Across and back?
No one can ever say you didn’t give the old bridge every opportunity.
San Francisco is just one of many places in California that I miss.
As long as we’re talking Golden Gate Bridge…
I took a cruise to Hawaii leaving out of SF, and I’ll tell ya, that ship just barely fits under that bridge. I was as high up as I could get as we passed under it, and I think I could have hit it with a rubber band. That was pretty cool, I thought.