This was a dangerous place for me.

Not because I thought the bridges made of simple bamboo canes were unstable, but because I immediately started imagining ways I could maybe somehow have a series of awesome bamboo bridges like this in my backyard. I do this every time I travel, I start thing of ways I could possibly BRING COOL THINGS AND IDEAS back home and incorporate them into my ALREADY FULL backyard.

Bamboo ideas are the most dangerous for me, since I have a BAMBOO FOREST of my own. And I immediately start having delusions that perhaps I could somehow harvest some of my bamboo and construct these bamboo ideas myself.

A WARNING: Bamboo is much harder to work with than you might think. It’s like it involves, I don’t know, a skill passed down through generations or something.

In case you are wondering, no, sadly I do not (as of yet) have a complex series of bamboo bridges spanning my backyard. I was able to make an upsetting, strange, lattice creation that looked like a wonky grid of giant popsicle sticks (and which disintegrated almost immediately, when you tried to do things like move it or touch it), so I feel like there are some kinks I need to work out before I start attempting weight bearing structures.

This is around the time I was designing my house, so I know I'm looking at those twig walls and thinking, "Is there any possible way at least a few of the walls in my house could maybe like these? I need to call Scott and ask..."