T.S. Eliot (East Coker from the Four Quartets) put it this way:

Old men ought to be explorers
Here and there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion

K-1: Nov 2007 In the Beginning (Courtesy of SCDOT)

K-2: January 13, 2003 (Courtesy of SCDOT)

K-3: May 10, 2003 (Courtesy of Alvin Swails, East Tower Crain operator)

K-4: Approaches and Mainspan August 23, 2003

K-5: November 23, 2003

K-6: July 4, 2004 East Tower

K-7: July 4, 2004 West Tower and approach pylon

K-8: May 9, 2004: West Tower and first stay cables

K-9: July 21, 2004: Fog and the mainspan

K-10: October 17, 2004: Completing the east approach

K-11: May 23, 2004: West approach skeleton

K-12: July 21, 2004: Freyssinet Team building a stay cable

K-13: February 11, 2005: The last cable wedge

K-14: February 11, 2005: The last cable

K-15: January 28, 2005: Marvin Tallent: QA and QC (PBC and Flatiron)

K-16: January 23, 2005: Closing the Mainspan gap

K-17: January 28, 2005: Placing the last shark fin edge girder

K-18: February 6, 2005: Waiting for the last edge girder

K-19: March 5, 2005: The alignment of east and west mainspan segments (far middle left)

K-20: March 8, 2005: A 250 ton hydraulic jack for pushing the mainspan into alignment

K-21: March 8, 2005: 3 inches to go, aligning the mainspan splice plate

K-22: March 8, 2005: First pin in the mainspan splice plate

K-23: March 10, 2005: Filling the gap with roadway section

K-24: March 10, 2005: Peo Halvarsson, Mainspan superintendent

K-25: March 12, 2005: The end game: filling in the last gaps

K-26: March 12, 2005: Pouring into the last gaps

K-27: July 15, 2005: A signature bridge, atop the west tower

K-28: July 12, 2005: A gift from Wade Watson: A clean bridge and helicopter ride

K-29: July 16, 2005: Show time, the first sunset

K-30: July 16, 2005: Evening