Tilikum Crossing....
No cars can cross this bridge...
It is for the Max, buses, trolleys, bicycles, and people...
We Red Hat people crossed it on Thursday,
Our adventure started out at 10 on a beautiful morning, leaving the park and driving to the Max station in Oregon.
Validating our tickets
Donna, Nola, Nancy, Jo
Grandma G, Carol, Caroline, Julienne
Horse patrol....horsing around on the sidewalk...
Here comes the new Orange line to Tilikum Crossing....
Oregon Ducks car....Portland Opera House/Classical Radio
Tilikum Crossing Bridge...
Bridge of the People....
Name selected from 9,500 entries
Runs 1,720 feet east and west across the Willamette River, connecting downtown Portland and its cultural area
(There is a billboard near Milwaukie that advertises changing the name to Jean-Luc Picard. At least one citizen is a Trekkie.)
"Tilikum" is Chinook for "people"
We rode across it on the Max
Strolled back across.....
Jo misbehavin.....
Ain't misbehavin....
Dredging the Willamette River
Setting up home camping
Four of Portland's 12 bridges across the Willamette...
Heading back to downtown Portland.....
The "orange Line" opened
Sept. 12, 2015
A seal encounter in downtown Portland
Party balloons, anyone??
'Tis the season...?
And then it is time to go home on a wonderful autumn afternoon
They don't come that big in Wisconsin.....
This has been a good Tilikum Crossing day in the life of Grandma G.
"The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground." (Joshua 4: 17)
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