The Bridge to Nowhere...how incredibly fitting, haha, nothing could describe the city of Ithaca better than this!
Its politics and its roads can be summed up by this title like nothing else. And people have tried. Because this is a progressive place...XD-😆
Where it's progressing to is anyone's guess, but if you love to always be between a rock and a hard place with no clear directions out of that spot, then Ithaca is the place for you!
Haha, this whole adventure made me grin from ear to ear!
In the land of pseudo intellectualism, having a walking bridge that makes no logical sense is just freaking perfection.
A fucking hoot really!
I've often looked up at this with a giant smirk on my face as I drove under and on my way.
Because for years we've heard that they have plans for it, and for years no one seemed to know what they were.
In the land of apartment complexes that put building A next to building J and Building B somewhere very else, or apartment numbers 1&2 followed by the next floor of 5&6, where you find apartment 3 at the top...having a bridge to nowhere is actually consistent!
And No, I am not exaggerating at all.
Imagine the computer engineer that moved to Vermont and posed for a picture in a lumberjack shirt holding an axe, yet has never in his life chopped wood- and that is Ithaca :0)
But it turns out, that despite their best efforts not to have a purpose for this bridge, I found one!
If you take a small jag away from the path through a cluster of trees, you will come upon the very back side of Buttermilk Falls.
If Ithaca was at all like anywhere else in NY state, then this would have no significance, since every other park in the state stops charging for parking on Labor Day.
But not Ithaca. Greedy contrarians, the lot of them!
So finding a back way in? Is a huge win for the variety of my doordashing break time needs.
Of course I went in the whole wrong direction initially, having to see what was on the other side...
(um..Home Depot. Home Depot and a continuation of the path that apparently ends abruptly)
So I'm a little short on time now, hurriedly writing this before I have to jog back to my car, waiting for me in an abandoned lot on the Not Home Depot side of the road.
I have to say, I'm having fun with these side quests. It gives me something to look forward to!
And one thing that can't be denied about Ithaca, is that it is a place of great beauty woven through its quirky streets.
I'm alternately charmed and annoyed by this eclectic, eccentric city. I once contemplated a particularly nonsensical apartment complex, wondering if they decided to take all of the letters and shuffle them like a deck of cards before randomly placing them on the sides of the buildings.
Though to be fair, the annoyance mostly stems from the job I've chosen to do here- (when you're a delivery driver, you're less appreciative of their strange attempt to be artsy by intentionally messing up the order of addresses XD)
It's definitely never boring, and sometimes that's all I can ask for!