The Adventure Has Come To An End...

            I have really enjoyed writing these few blogs for the past weeks. I have found myself loving the world a lot more. There are so many things out there I have yet to see. I really wish I can continue writing these blogs but as of now there is just too much on my plate. I don't have enough time as it is to do my own things. So I had to make a big sacrifice and pulling a plug on my blogs. These blogs has taught me a lot and helped me realize I am a traveling person. I really wish I can go travel to the sites I have mentioned in my blogs and hope that one day I will actually be able to. Like I have said there are so many things out there I have yet to experience, the world is a big and scary place but there are also wonderful features of our big blue world. If I have time later I will come back and start researching and do more blogs about more famous sites. There are so much to talk about still. Sadly I don't have the time to sit down and write about everything. Some people might not get why I have chose to do a blog about tourist sites, that is because they don’t see the bigger picture! They probably don't find the world as interesting as I am. I was trying to reach those people who don't really care and try and convert them to actually caring for historical landmarks and what not. I don't know if it works or not but it was worth a try. With that off my chest, I have to say good bye for now. I will miss writing blogs a lot and it was a great new experience for me. It's so much easier than writing formally so much stress is taken off. Thank you all for reading my blogs and hope you have enjoyed reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them! Until next time my friends! Take care!

                                                "Maybe… just maybe I will come back…"

                                                                                                "Bang."

Golden Gate of the Modern World

            I have talked about lots of different places around the world. Now it's finally time I write a blog that is more of a travel distant to all those who live by my area. The Golden Gate Bridge is not like the other places I have talked about in my other blogs. This bridge is not technically a tourist site rather it is more of a way to cross the Pacific Ocean. This uniquely colored bridge links the northern part of San Francisco to the Marin county located in the north San Francisco Bay Area. There are many ways to actually cross the bridge whether it is on it or not. Some of the ways to cross it is of course by car, walking, biking, or ferry. I prefer to bike across the bridge myself because I really love biking! Taking the ferry across seems like it is really fun too since there's no work that has to be done to cross it and I can enjoy all the scenery that is there for people to see.

Golden Gate Bridge at dawn

            Let's get this boring history part out of the way first. First thoughts about crossing with a bridge came up in 1872 by a railroad entrepreneur by the name of Charles Crocker. But no one really had the idea or any motives to actually work on the bridge until a newspaper editor brought it to attention in 1916! That's a really long time until someone finally decided to bring back up this plan for a bridge in my opinion. In 1919, the head engineer of the case O’Shaughnessy started having meetings with engineers across the country to see how much building the actual bridge would cost and in the end they came up with a total of 30million dollars. It took around nine years from the beginning of construction to the end for the bridge to be actually completed. The opening celebration for the bridge took place on May 27th, 1937 and the people partied for one whole week! I wish we had festivals like nowadays. Everyone is like too serious now, not enough parties and celebrations to hold. Both the official Golden gate bridge website and a traveling fact site states that the bridge is one of the seventhWonders of the Modern World!

Strauss design

            Alrighty now that the lame and boring part of the blog is over I can talk about some neat facts about this superb bridge. Even though the bridge is named "The Golden Gate Bridge" it is not actually gold, why? The answer to that is because the name didn't come from the color itself but instead it came from what it was referring to at the time it was being built. It was referring to the Golden Gate Strait that connects the pacific ocean to San Francisco Bay. Not many people know this but the Golden Gate bridge is the top suicide place in the world! More than 1,500 people have committed suicide on this bridge! That is way too much for one location and for that to be the pride and joy of San Francisco too! It's really shocking to see so many people died on it. The last interesting fact I am going to name since there is so many and I don't want to put anyone to sleep is that it is the second longest suspension bridge in the nation right after Verranzo Narrows Bridge in New York City.

Golden Gate Bridge

             I have only been to the Golden Gate Bridge once and it so happen to have been this year too. Like I said earlier this was a bit different than what I have been normally writing but I chose to do this bridge because I seen how beautiful it is myself and for all who live in this area they have a better chance to see this amazing site first hand too and wouldn't cost as much as going to the other places I have mentioned. So please if anyone has time go check out this bridge! Please don't go there for suicide though! It would give me lots of regret because I'll think it's my fault. So please go somewhere else to end your story not that I want people to die anyways. But yea anyways Bye!

            

Eiffel Tower of Japan

            So from my earlier post of The Eiffel Tower, I have mentioned that it was recreated several times around the world to display on their own turf. Well Japan was one of those countries to pretty much made a replica of the Tower in Paris. Japanese were inspired by the Eiffel Tower so they recreated one and it is located in Shiba Park, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The name of this beauty is called Tokyo Tower and it stands the second tallest man made structure in all of Japan at an amazing 1,093 feet. This tower was colored Orange for that is the international color and White so it will satisfy regulations of air safety. The colors of this tower is much more catchier and stands out more than the Eiffel Tower in my opinion.

Tokyko Tower Afterglow

            This Tower has been proposed for several purposes. The Japanese government had thought of this idea because they had feared for an overpopulation of lesser communication antennas that would crowd city's living spaces. The only solution was to build a bigger tower that has the radius of covering the whole region. This Tokyo Tower is also an symbolic icon to show that Japan is now one of the big economic power in the world. The owner of the Tower had hoped that this Tower would be taller that the United States' Empire State Building so it can be the tallest structure in the world, but due to not enough resources and funding, that idea did not become a reality. Tachu Naito was the person chosen to design the Tower because he was famous for designing really tall structures in Japan. This Tower has been built higher than the Eiffel Tower but it nearly weighs half the tower in Paris' weight.  Although it is no longer the tallest structure in the world due to other buildings and towers being built higher, it still stands as the tallest self-supporting steel structure worldwide.  The Tower was finally completed and opened to the public on December 23, 1958. It took about 2.8 billion yen, around 8.4 million US dollars, to construct this structure! Looks like that huge amount of money didn't go to waste other wise who knows what would have happen to this beautiful tower.

Tower's Base Construction

            Tokyo Tower pretty much has two jobs ever since t was built. It is to be used as an antenna leasing source and letting tourists come visit this landmark. This tower is now a family member of the World Federation of Great Towers broadcasting more than it was meant it. Radio antennas were attached in 1961 because it was able to support radio frequencies also, so ever since then it stopped only showing television shows, but also broadcasted radio channels. I think it's pretty neat for it to be a radio station too because now it has more than one functions and it can make more profit then ever!

Bent Antenna

            Since it's opening, more than 150 million people have came to visit this amazing structure. What is there to do at this Tower? Well there of course is a place to go for food and resting places at the bottom of the tower called FootTown. This building has four stories to it and each stories has different functions. At the first floor, there is a restaurant capable of holding 400 people and an Aquarium Gallery. Second story is pretty much a shop for snacks and water with a food court of four eating places including a McDonald  Third and Fourth floor is pretty much more tourist attractions. Then of course there are observation decks at the top to oversee the city which has pretty good views. I have been there only once but that was a long time ago when I was four years old. I don't really remember much about it but I would love to go visit it again to see what it looks like now since I can remember things more clearer as a grown up! 

      

Tower with FootTown

First Wonder of the World!

            Now we have arrived in Egypt. Because Egypt was one of the world's oldest Civilization, it has always fascinated me  on the living styles of such early civilizations. My attention has been drawn towards the Great Pyramid Of Giza! Just by the looks of the structure dazzles me. It looks really old and ready to crumble at the touch of it but it actually very sturdy and wouldn't break unless it was forced to. This Pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of The World. It is also the biggest and early built than the other three Pyramids in its family. This wonderful structure is located in El Giza, Egypt and has been there ever since 2560 BCE. That's a really long time ago! I am surprised it has been kept so well that it hasn't collapsed over time like other structures built several thousand years ago.

Pyramid

            Many Archaeologist believe that this Pyramid was built in dedication to the Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, Pharaoh Khufu. Because this structure was made so very long ago there is no real way of telling who was the actual constructor of this pyramid. Many historians have said to believe that Khufu's vizier, Hemiunu was the engineer of the tomb. Because the pyramid has gone through such a long time span, people have said that originally it was suppose to be taller but due to natural causes, it has shrunk to its present day size. This exact pyramid had been the tallest man made structure in over 3,800 years! Pretty neat for a civilization that was fairly new to living.

Pharaoh Khufu

            This pyramid is pretty much made up granite, mortar, limestone and casing stone. Just a lot of stones! So many tones of materials were used to build this thing I wonder how strong the people had to be in order to lift it up to the top of the pyramids to place the stones there! Once all the limestones were in place, the Egyptians added another layer of casing stones for the pyramid to give of a little shine. But as time went on many of the casing stones eroded away leaving only the limestone layers for us to see nowadays. Many historians and archeologist fought over the facts about how the Pyramid was actually constructed. People have said that the blocks were dragged, lifted, or rolled into their places by many workers while others think Egyptians used slaves to help build this structure. Around 40,000 workers at maximum came to aid the construction and almost 15,000 people were the average amount who stayed to work on it. That is a very large number of workers consisted their civilization was new and life was pretty much new to everyone. I am surprised that there are so many skilled workers available to help build such a thing.

Casing Stone

            I need to go visit Egypt and see this Pyramid myself because the artwork really intrigues me. I have always been fond of ancient civilizations and this is definitely one of my favorite civilization to study along with Greeks and Romans.