GLOBETROTTERS WRITING PROMPT
February Monthly Challenge — Bridges
Interesting, funny or challenging crossings you have encountered
Bridges. A construction as diverse and complex as our human brains, their appearance has quite literally changed the lives of many people wherever they appeared.
If leading across a deep and wide valley, guiding across a busy highway or connecting tribes from different countries, bridges have a lot deeper meaning than just the simple and superficial sign of a solid connection between two points.
The earliest bridges can be traced back to the Neolithic times when fallen trees and stones offered the native people some kind of boardwalk to get through marshland.
With time and age, the development and designs of bridges have increased and diversified considering all kinds of challenges and requirements. Today, they don’t only guide humans across but some examples are built to bring animals to safety.
“A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross.” —…
