Spokane and the Grand Coulee Dam

[pdedse]

Great pics pdedse

Thanks! I enjoy getting to a place where they are worth taking...

Must have pulled the helmet off and put back on about a dozen times while at the dam, putting on reading glasses to see better, take a break, drink some water, eat, etc...


I just missed the 10am tour of the dam, and the 12noon and 2pm tours were cancelled, and they wanted one to know that the cancellations were a result in lack of funding. The next tour wasn't until 3pm, but I didn't feel like waiting around. At least the visitor's center had the basics of construction.


You can't drive across the dam, so the bridge below gets one to the other side:




Downriver, after the dam:


Took the time to cross the bridge walking and every 10 meters there were photos of different periods of construction. No surrounding town existed before the dam was built.


Looking down river from bridge:


By 11:30 I had seen all I wanted to see and it was time to continue south on hiway 155 towards Coulee City.


The forecast called for rain in the Gresham area for today Thursday, so I thought since I still had the greater part of the day, that I might make it home OK. Still, lots of beautiful riding ahead of me.