Bridges connect people and places. Like bridges elsewhere, northwest bridges span waterways, railroads, and other spaces. In the Pacific Northwest, bridges sometimes move from one place to another. Washington State Route 20 begins at US 101, 13.2 miles southwest of Port Townsend, on the northeast top of the […]
The Columbia River rises in Windermere Lake in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The Columbia flows north through Kinibasket Lake, then buttonhooks south, past Castlegar, and into northeast Washington state where if forms 150 mile long Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake. Some 90 miles south of the Canada border at […]
This is a blog post about bridges. Wood and steel and concrete bridges. Bridges for people, bridges for vehicles. High, soaring bridges like the Astoria-Megler Bridge crossing the Columbia River, four miles wide at its mouth. Bridges crossing narrow creeks and rivers that can be leaped by one athletic jump, like the Grande Ronde River crossed by the Upper Perry Arch Bridge, a few miles north of La Grande, Oregon
After exploring Salem‘s Riverfront City Park in the rain, I drove across the Marion Street Bridge, westward on Oregon State Route 22, and south on SR 99W to Corvallis, the home of Oregon State University. OSU is a public research university with over 31,000 students. That includes nearly […]
I left Everson on January 19, 2019, headed for Oregon. Early January was often rainy, and I was itching to hit the road. Saturday was better than a weekday, because I could avoid the I-5 traffic. Heading south, pockets of heavy traffic show up on weekdays. Everett, WA, […]
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