Somewhere in this mass of bicyclists wearing T-shirts and "beer-cooler" helmets you can find my friend Bruce and me.We're riding our bicycles across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge as part of Cycle Across Maryland -- a wonderful event that petered out in the latter part of this decade.
As you can guess from our cycling gear, this photo was taken in the early 1990s. It was 1994, in fact, the first and maybe only time that the 4.3-mile-long eastbound span of the Bay Bridge on US Route 50 was closed to everyone but bicyclists.
The photo was taken by Bob Gilbert, a former colleague at the Annapolis Capital newspaper who loved shooting pictures from anything up high. I just stumbled across this photo ....
Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/12/26/4965939.html
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