Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus (A GeoEx eBook)

Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus

Up Close & Personal: A Pilgrimage to the Golden Gate Bridge

energy, too. You become a small part of this strait-spanning, time-spanning all—and it becomes a part of you. This simple rite connects the whole, the pilgrims still to come and the ones who have come before, the span under our feet and the one in our souls. It suddenly became clear to me, looking at it in this hallowed light: The Golden Gate Bridge is one of our planet’s great sacred sites, like Notre-Dame, Angkor Wat, or the Taj Mahal. It connects much more than San Francisco and Marin; it bridges a worldly wonder without to a transcending truth within.

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