A little video of the fun...
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Tower Tour
We have a cool friend who happens to work for the Golden Gate Bridge Authority. One day she mentioned that if we were interested, she might be able to get us a tour of one of the Golden Gate Bridge towers. We were immediately intrigued and we finally found a day that worked. There are no public tours for this and we felt very special (and kids under 16 are not allowed). We took about a zillion pictures of the experience. To see all our favorites, including tons of panorama photos, click here.
On our way.
Walking to the South Tower for our tour.
Looking up at the tower. We then entered a secret door.
Inside we got in the tiniest elevator that you could imagine. Todd, our wonderful tour guide, and I were squished extra close together for four minutes. We didn't get a picture of the elevator (the video shows it a little more clearly), but I promise it was very, very, tight.
We got out of the elevator (still in the interior of the tower) and then climbed up a couple ladders.
Here we are waiting to go up the last ladder.
We came out that little hatch with the yellow at the top.
This was our view! Looking toward Marin.
Looking toward the city.
It was absolutely amazing. We are standing on the top crossbar of the tower. You can see the North Tower in the distance and the top part of the tower that spans the roadway matches where we are. In fact, at the same time another private tour was going up the other tower and we could see them (not in this picture).
Even though you are so far up, it feels surprisingly safe.
This one shows you the moat around the base of the tower.
Can't stop taking pictures.
Us with our tour guide, Daniel.
Queen of the world.
Cool dude.
What a truly amazing experience!
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