OLD WORLD---NEW WORLD

The Arthur Ravenel Junior Bridge, a cable-stayed design, has the third longest span of its type in the Western Hemisphere. Replacing the old cable cantilever style bridge, it towers over the city of Charleston connecting it to Mount Pleasant. The span reaching a distance of two and a half miles from shore to shore hovers over the Cooper River and the Port of Charleston. It's unique design, although eclectic with historic Downtown, seems totally at home with it's surroundings.

Before I left New York I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and had the thrill of a lifetime, or so I thought. The idea of hovering over New York and the East River is exciting in itself but when compared to the new world design of modern bridges, it's a totally different experience. Today was unique esthetically architecturally, and physically. Both bridges tower over downtown cities spanning estuaries to the Atlantic, but one is Old World and one is New World in design.  

Today I walked about ten miles, from Mount Pleasant to downtown Charleston, and back agaIn. The beautiful Arthur Revenel Junior Bridge was amazing, although I have an issue with the name. In New York everything is shortened. The RFK Bridge, the Belt, the Hutch, the LIE, and of course the Northern and Southern are all shortened. We don't have time to say the full names of things, we're to busy. We even call the Martin Luther King Junior Parkway the MLK. So Charleston, since I've walked the five miles across The Arthur Revenel Junior Bridge twice, I official rename it the ARJ bridge for Blog purposes only and of course whomever else wants to join me. OK, now that that is out of the way I also walked an additional five miles after the doing the  ARJ. I went downtown and did some exploring, mostly around the docks and piers. Take a look at the ARJ from as many angles as I could get.

Old world.

New World.

One leg.

Two legs.

A giant harp- I feel as though I could strum it !

Three angles.