Walking on Air

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I've added another item to my bucket list:  Walk across the Hudson River.  I approach the whole bucket list thing differently than the movie tells me I should.  I don't add anything to it until I've actually done it.  So when I look down the list -- win a Nebula . . . marry the most beautiful woman in the world . . .  raise a son . . . visit Finland and China . . . and so on -- I have the satisfaction of knowing that I've done it all.  How many of us can say that?
Yesterday I went onto the Walkway Over the Hudson.  Fabulous thing.  They took a 1.28 mile long railroad bridge and retooled it for exclusively foot traffic, connecting Poughkeepsie and Highland, New York.  So Marianne and I took a leisurely stroll on a perfectly beautiful day high over the river.  For most of human history, this simply wasn't possible.

Above:  The Mid-Hudson Bridge, as seen from mid-river.
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