Reaching the stairs, she felt the concerned gaze of a white-haired man who saw her predicament, but she hesitated to ask him for help until she saw a younger man walking down the bridge steps.
"Are you strong?" Pat asked with a big grin as she flexed her arm muscles. The man smiled back and swung into action, along with another man nearby and the white-haired gentleman. Within a few seconds the threesome, all fellow tourists, had swept her up and over the bridge.
"People really like to help out," she said as she wheeled through the narrow, dark passageways toward our hotel.
"I get to see the human heart when I travel," said Pat, who in her other life is Patricia Broderick, a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
On the road, it's the kindness of people that she usually encounters, she said. "You get to see that all the time."
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