You definitely should make the trip. Well worthwhile, even without ghostie pics. 😉

Rhonda, I totally understand. All I can tell you is other than the push back I got at intake and tripping 3 times on the stairs, the worst of it was heavy feelings. And then I got the picture and both hubs and I were having a moment.

I’ve always wanted to visit “The Rock” because I’m fascinated by history. Unfortunately, like you, I tend to be extremely sensitive to…well, everything…and that can make exploring places like Alcatraz a bit of a sticky wicket. My hubs is always torn between wanting me to push the boundaries of what that sensitivity means (like can I learn to control it and fine tune it) and wanting to protect me because he knows that the heavy, negative emotions that hang in places like that can be extremely invasive and difficult to shake. I’m not one to necessarily want to push the boundaries but it’s kind of like having a sore spot in your mouth and you have to keep pushing at it with your tongue to be sure it’s still sore. I half don’t believe what I experience in these types of environments so I have to keep poking at it to see if I can figure it out.

I totally understand why you’d put off going, Heather. One of the things they stage at 5PM is the locking of the cells so you can experience what the inmates (and guards) heard every day, but the audio tour had the sound as part of it as well, so we did not stick around for that portion. I think that would have been a bit too disturbing to hear. It was disturbing enough on the tour with the sound of a single cell.