It's really hard to decide which of these dam pictures I want to post. It was such an amazing thing to see!
This is the Pensacola Dam, between the towns of Disney and Langley, Oklahoma.This dam is over a mile long (I watched my car odometer as I drove across!) and is one of the largest in the country. It's a hell of a sight to see!
This giant public work made peripheral connections in my brain to a number of things. Because we'd just seen a mural of Woody Guthrie on the wall of a venue named after him in Tulsa, I thought of the Colombia River and the Grand Coulee dam that he sang about. I named my car Columbia, partly as a reference to that song, and that dam. They are both technologies that have so much to offer society, but do so much damage at the same time. (For different reasons, the name also references a space shuttle.)
I'm just fascinated by things like this. I could have spent a long time here.
I hope to write up the rest of my trip this weekend. I'll have updates from my neurologist visit too, for those of you waiting with bated breath to hear more about my health!
