{"id":88,"date":"2014-05-23T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T21:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2014-05-27T21:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T04:51:38","slug":"list-44-see-the-golden-gate-bridge-from-battery-spencer-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"List 44: See the Golden Gate Bridge from Battery Spencer (#33)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_8581\"<\/a>The first time I\u00a0saw this bridge I was smitten. That was 18 years ago at least. And all these years later she still takes my breath away every time\u00a0\u00a0I catch site of her. I’ve seen her from every possible side now. From Baker beach, from Land’s End, from Chrissy Field and from the visitor center. This was the first time seeing her from this angle and I think this may be my favorite. A few years ago I actually walked across her during an impromptu trip to the city (another one of those “life list” items completed) and despite my absolute fear of heights I made it all the way across. And back again.<\/p>\n

I headed up to the viewpoint by myself while Nate parked the car. I wanted the extra time this would afford me to just stand and take in the view without worrying about Nate or if he was having a good time. After 13 years we travel well together, he the driver and me the navigator + planner, but there are always going to be letdowns and stress involved with traveling and this was one of those days. Initially I’d planned for us to bike the Marin Headlands area and take in the views but upon reading through stories and reviews of the ride the night before, I came to the conclusion that there was no way my foot or I was going to be able to handle the hills. So heading into the day we were both already disappointed. I consider myself a pretty healthy person but this injury has sidelined me quite a bit this year. It’s healing but I’m still only about 35-40% better and the wrong move could take it back to zero again. So I appreciated this few minutes to myself to allow some quiet reflection on the day and how it was not going according to my plan. And for a few minutes I did forget my disappointment with the day. I stopped worrying about Nate and the 2+ hour car drive home and my stupid foot injury and I just took in the view. You could see everything<\/strong>. The city, The Cliff House over in Lands End Park, Alcatraz, Sausalito waterfront. The bay had cleared up from earlier and you could now see a 180 degree view of all of San Francisco and the bay. And it was breathtaking. And no matter what Nate was feeling, I was suddenly okay with how the day had unfolded because this is what I came for. This had been my only real goal of the day and I was there. It’s good I had this extra time because Nate arrived, took a photo with his phone and then said “you ready to go”.\u00a0 Shaking my head at him I said “sure” and onward we went.<\/p>\n

2 down, 42 more to go:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time I\u00a0saw this bridge I was smitten. That was 18 years ago at least. And all these years later she still takes my breath away every time\u00a0\u00a0I catch site of her. I’ve seen her from every possible side now. From Baker beach, from Land’s End, from Chrissy Field and from the visitor center. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DIk5-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferpaddackhyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}