walked on The
Golden Gate Bridge |
NOTE: There is a very big menu at the bottom of this page for other places in California in 2009, plus a link to The two RV Gypsies' visit to The Golden Gate Bridge in 2015. And as on all pages, there are plenty of navigational choices by category to help visitors quickly find exactly what they are looking for. |
On the south
side of the bridge, a 36.5 inch wide cross-section of the cable, containing
27,572 separate wires, was on display. |
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Below: Signs and flowers
just before the two RV Gypsies started to walk on the Golden Gate Bridge.
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed during the year 1937, and has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and California. Since its completion, the span length has been surpassed by eight other bridges. It still has the second longest suspension bridge main span in the United States, after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. In 2007, it was ranked fifth on the List of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects. | |
Below: The two RV Gypsies
walked on the Golden Gate Bridge on a very foggy day. |
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Irving Morrow, a relatively unknown residential architect, designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme, and Art Deco elements such as the streetlights, railing, and walkways. | |
The famous International
Orange color was originally used as a sealant for the bridge. Many locals
persuaded Irving Morrow to paint the bridge in the vibrant orange color
instead of the standard silver or gray, and the color has been kept ever
since. |
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Below: Speed Checked by
Radar sign - is that a radar gun in Karen's hand??? LOL |
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Since its completion in 1937, the
Golden Gate Bridge has been closed due to weather conditions only three
times: on 1 December 1951, because of gusts of 69 mph; on 23 December 1982, because of winds of 70 mph; and on 3 December 1983, because of wind gusts of 75 mph. |
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Below: LOOKING DOWN FROM
THE SIDE OF THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE |
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Below; THE FIRST TOWER: The
weight of the roadway is hung off of two cables that pass through the
two main towers and are fixed in concrete at each end. Each cable is made
of 27,572 strands of wire. There are 80,000 miles of wire in each of the
two main cables; the total is sufficient to go around the world 5.79 times.
The bridge has approximately 1,200,000 total rivets. |
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Below: VIEW OF THE SIDE
OF THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE |
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Below: Some better views
of the bridge with photos taken from down below the bridge |
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Below: Different views
of the Golden Gate Bridge as seen from Fisherman's Wharf |
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Below: And finally, views
of the bridge from somewhere off to the side of the bridge |
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It has been reported that The Golden Gate Bridge is the most popular place to commit suicide in the United States and is one of the most popular in the world. (NO, NO, NO, NO - the two RV Gypsies are NOT recommending suicide, so DO NOT do it!) The deck is approximately 245 feet above the water. After a fall of approximately four seconds, jumpers hit the water at some 86 miles per hour, which can be fatal. Some of those who survive the impact, drown or die of hypothermia in the cold water. Listen up people - do NOT do this ever! |
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NOTE: The two RV Gypsies returned here in 2015. It was still a foggy day. To see those photos, click here, but be sure to return back here. It was a very different experience. |
Menu for the two RV Gypsies
in California - April 2009 |
California photos are in 28 separate sections found below. Some sections may have more than one page so that the photos will upload faster. You may visit these sections in any order you choose. Each section will have this menu so that visitors do not have to keep returning here in order to continue the California adventures. There is also a link to Oregon at the very bottom of the California menu. |
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Kaweah Park Resort and a bobcat |
Three Rivers and Lake Kaweah |
driving scenery |
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Sequoia National Park (3 pages) |
Kings Canyon |
Yosemite National Park |
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El Capitan |
Bridalveil and Yosemite Falls |
Indian Flat RV Park |
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The Golden Gate Bridge (this page) |
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AFTER you have enjoyed all of the above, please continue on to Oregon.
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