I’ve walked thousands of miles from the Pacific Ocean to reach North Carolina’s Research Triangle– a grand mileage total approaching 4,400 since leaving home. My intention while walking across America has always been to connect 100% of the steps. That said, after running across far too dangerous a bridge one evening in Orange, Texas, I promised myself that I wouldn’t brush so closely with doom & gloom just to connect every last step across every dangerous bridge. There are many dangerous bridges across America, and throughout the miles of the Walk, I’ve crossed all but two of them on foot. As it turns out, the very day I left Orange, I encountered a bridge in Vinton, Lousiana, that was even more dangerous than the one I crossed in Orange. After finding no other way to cross it, I called upon the Louisiana State Patrol to assist me. After getting off the phone with a dispatcher who told me he’d felt was an incredible sensation of déjà vu in be speaking with me (I’d never before spoken to him), an LSP trooper came out to drive me across the treacherous, speedy, 1/8-mile span.

The second of these deadly-dangerous-to-the-human-foot bridges was the mile-long bridge from Westlake to Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Click on this pic to see the video link of how I made it from Westlake to Lake Charles: