Monday, July 14, 2014

The Wilely Willamette....Post Views 12,039

The 11 Bridges of the Willamette River,
through the Port of Portland.....
Traveling...sailing from north to south.....
 Heading home, Maties!!
ST. John's Bridge....(1931)


Fremont Bridge....(1973)
(Observe the layers of bridges)


Broadway Bridge...(1913)


 Steel Bridge....(1912)



 Burnside Bridge...(1926)



Morrison Bridge....(1958)


Hawthorne Bridge....(1910)



Marquam Bridge....(1966)


 Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge....
(Still under construction)


Ross Island Bridge.....(1926)

Sellwood Bridge...(1925)
(Website photo....I did not see this bridge...
it is scheduled to be rebuilt)



    That is the wet and wonder of the 11 bridges of the Willamette River.  We didn't even enter the Columbia River.   There are 3 bridges on the Columbia connecting Portland and Vancouver.  Up until now I thought all the water around here was the Columbia.   I am learning the geography of my region.  I bet you thought it is all play for me and no study.  Wrong.....
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   I am admitting this is Monday evening.   All that exploring was last Thursday.  Just to bring this blog up to date,  the past days have been spent studying all this bridge stuff, working on a photo album of the Jude and Grandma G Indianapolis adventure, exercising, cooking a turkey (yep), cleaning up the kitchen, staying out of the heat, and today enduring a sick stomach....flu, I guess.  
    Keep coming back for more updates on Grandma G's recent adventures that have not been bragged--oops-- blogged yet.  Ya all come back now, ya hear.

     Trivia: What man made structure is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible?   

    This has been a good 4 "recalling the Willamette" days in the life of Grandma G.

     "The waters were divided and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left." (Exodus 14: 21 & 22)
    

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