Pipe Helps My Fear of Heights (While Driving). You?

[anotherbob]

Reminds me of Gail Bigbie, an old fella long since passed on. He kept a single cigar in his glove box. He said "I don't even have to light it. I just chew on it and it keeps me awake on a long drive." I don't know whether it helped him get over tall bridges though. I guess he never mentioned it. He was funny that way.

with a name like that you would hope the guy was a bit funny. The other option with a name like that is that you don't want to talk about what he keeps in his basement and the nightmares it causes you since you found out.

 

[captpat]

Grew up in Michigan with many uneventful trips across the mighty Mac, the bridge in MD and the Ashley River bridge in Charleston both give me the heebe jeebes.

 

[Trainpipeman]

I’m not a fan of extreme heights, but I’ve never felt out of sorts on any road bridge. However, this sumbitch worked my nerves over:
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I’m not sure exactly how high above the bottom of the ravines these bridges got, but it was enough to make me want to get right with the Lord, plus a hundred feet.
Narrow gauge railroad between Durango and Silverton, CO. I’m sure some of you have been there. Kind of crazy looking out the window and you can’t see any bridge structure, just a long long drop.

I’m not a fan of extreme heights, but I’ve never felt out of sorts on any road bridge. However, this sumbitch worked my nerves over:
View attachment 85476
I’m not sure exactly how high above the bottom of the ravines these bridges got, but it was enough to make me want to get right with the Lord, plus a hundred feet.
Narrow gauge railroad between Durango and Silverton, CO. I’m sure some of you have been there. Kind of crazy looking out the window and you can’t see any bridge structure, just a long long drop.

That is a beautiful photo.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

That is a beautiful photo.

Not mine, I pulled it off the web, but that is the exact same train. The scenery is amazing, no photos do it justice. It’s not a cheap train ride, even coach is probably over $100 round trip, but the scenery is well worth it if the high bridges don’t freak you out.

 

[mso489]

It's magic. I only mean, like sleight of hand, the pipe provides a slight distraction that uses up the mental space otherwise given to dread of heights. Good magicians are always misdirecting the audience so they miss the moves that make the tricks work. A good nurse once made conversation when I went to get stitches pulled, and she finished before I knew she'd started; she obviously knew the art of distraction.

 

[saltedplug]

I’m not a fan of extreme heights, but I’ve never felt out of sorts on any road bridge. However, this sumbitch worked my nerves over:
View attachment 85476
I’m not sure exactly how high above the bottom of the ravines these bridges got, but it was enough to make me want to get right with the Lord, plus a hundred feet.
Narrow gauge railroad between Durango and Silverton, CO. I’m sure some of you have been there. Kind of crazy looking out the window and you can’t see any bridge structure, just a long long drop.

What I want to know is who is maintaining the trains and bridges. Something goes wrong over a ravine and there's no solution to be had, particularly with the bridges, where the only way out is down, way down!