My Favorite Nephew Jason, also known as FNJ, went walking with me in Walmart, late, this afternoon. Jason had multiple items of interest to me to impart.
One item of interest is that Spencer Jack has his learner's permit and is currently learning to drive, but finds the relentless heavy traffic to be daunting. The Skagit Valley is no longer the laid back low traffic zone it was when I was Spencer Jack's age.
And then there is Linda Lou, who sent a text to my phone today, asking "Where in the PNW is Linda Lou?" with a photo included as my PNW clue.
Well, this one is easy. Linda Lou is at the park, with tall evergreen trees, under the shadow of LaConner's Rainbow Bridge, part of which we see through the trees.
La Conner is the Skagit Valley's number one tourist town.
La Conner's Rainbow Bridge is one of three bridges connected to Fidalgo Island. One is the Highway 20 bridge, a few miles north of La Conner. The other is the Deception Pass Bridge, which connects Fidalgo Island to Whidbey Island.
These are real islands, not imaginary islands like one finds in Fort Worth, Texas. And these three bridges were built over actual water, with one of them, the Deception Pass Bridge, built over fast moving, deep water.
Built in less than one year, almost a century ago.
Fort Worth builds bridges over dry land, taking many years to do so, and then hope to one day dig a ditch under the bridges, and fill that ditch with Trinity River water and then pretend they have created an island, and a tourist worthy waterfront attraction.
People reading about Fort Worth's bridges and imaginary islands in saner locations in America, and the world, think I make up this stuff, but no, it is totally real. Hard to believe, but true...
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