[OT] Bridges

[Kurt Wall]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Alfrey" <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net>
> vu Pham wrote:
>> [ no, not layer2 or layer3 bridges ]
>>
>> About two years ago, I posted an email about some novovirus in Moscone 
>> Center, San Francisco where I attended a conference, and because of that 
>> the last morning there I just walked sight-seeing along the Embacadero 
>> street instead of going to the Center. And I bragged about I walked under 
>> the Golden Briddge ...
>>
>> This week I also attended another conference there and on the way to SFO 
>> to fly back home, I just knew that that bridge is *not* the Golden Gate, 
>> it is the Bay Bridge. Haa ! So I still not see the Golden Gate in real. 
>> Anyway next month I 'll have to fly to SF again. I will walk onto the 
>> Golden Bridge this time, for sure !!!
>
> The Golden Gate is the one with the reddish-brown paint.
> ;-)
>
> We walk across all the time.
> It's a pretty substantial distance from Moscone (about 7 miles as the crow 
> flies) so if you are stuck in town w/o a car, you might consider renting a 
> bike and riding along the Embarcadero around to the Golden Gate (like in 
> the movie Vertigo).  You will possibly be surprised to find quite a mob of 
> people on the bridge at almost any time.

Quite so. The walk from Moscone to the bridge is much longer than
the walk across the bridge (and back). This is the time of year to do
it though, because the omnipresent fog lets up for a couple of months
in Fall.