Senator Smith's time in Everly Heights comes to a close, and the last stop is one of my favorite locations in Everly Heights: The Walking Bridge. This bridge connects the urban side of Everly Heights with the rural side and is based on a very real walking bridge in Wheeling, West Virgina on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University. It's a short walk from Wheeling Coffee & Spice (the inspiration for The Koffee Shop in Kids Like Us that will become more important in a couple weeks).

When I was a young punk wasting my days playing hacky sack and drinking Highlander Grog, after the coffee shop closed we'd usually head down to the walking bridge to party, talk, and do other things kids get up to in the middle of the night. The shared wisdom was that the cops couldn't bust us there because it was technically not in the city limits, but that was probably wrong. Still, we never had any issues with cops or anything. Just good times and good conversation with great friends, many of whom I've lost in recent years, sadly.

Enjoy the Senator's last stop, and come back next week for a whole new serialized adventure where we get to see Mr. Matheson's entrepreneurship in full bloom. It's hard to survive on a math teacher's salary, after all.

Latch on to learning!

Bill Meeks
Creator, Everly Heights