Sherri and I spent a couple of days in Redding, California to visit the beautiful Sundial Bridge.

It's a pretty amazing piece of architecture. The bridge has no right-angles. It has no parallel lines (except along the deck itself). The entire weight of the bridge (and up to 3 million pounds of force) rests on a single 12-inch-wide bearing at the base of the 217 feet high pylon.

Behind the pylon is an arc of tile-covered cement with brass markers showing the time as the shadow of the pylon passes them through the day. I found the sundial to be accurate within 10 minutes.

There is also a museum, gift shop, and small restaurant with coffee drinks, sandwiches, beer and wine. Most of the seating is outdoors. After sunset, the restaurant had a live band playing some decent dance music. So, we got a bit of dancing in to top off the trip.

I've added some pictures of me at the bridge to my gallery. If you want to see more pics of our visit, try this link: http://www.mindstation.com/sundialbridge/