On that 2004 cross-country one-way road trip I’m always talking about (just mentioned again in my January 20th blog), after weleft our disposable car in Omaha, Nebraska, we raced across Iowa to the Bridges of Madison County – trying to get there before sundown. (Again – a story for another time.) With that theme in mind, I was happy to find out about the Bridge of Kent County, the Ada Covered Bridge, built in 1867, across the Thornapple River. It’s 14 feet wide, and 125 feet long. I’m not sure why I’m drawn to covered bridges, but I’m not alone. There is a “National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges”, which publishes a World Guide to Covered Bridges, a quarterly magazine, and a newsletter (http://www.coveredbridgesociety.org/). And, for me, it’s not because of the movie (“Bridges
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