Another version of the last photo in the preceding entry, this view of the Omaha end of the Kerrey bridge shows the beginning of the short corksdrew down and the NoDo (North Downtown) section undergoing gentrification-redevelopment where the baseball stadium will be, already becoming an upscale area with the Hot Shops nest of artists and the new venue and small concert hall for Saddle Creek Records of Conor Oberst's Bright Eyes and other indie rockers' fame, with Filmstreams and trendy businesses. (Curiously, the old Czech social-gymnastics center, Sokol Hall, has become nationally famous for indie rock concerts farther south.) Zooming in will also show the zebra effect on the wind-twisting cables.
At left, looking southwest, is the I-480 bridge between the river cities, the popular Old Market in the center beyond the bridge, the Heartland of America Park and Con Agra campus, which cousin Mike Ellingson and his son Scott helped lay brick for, at the left also beyond the bridge. In the foreground is Rick's Boatyard, an upscale restaurant with a big parking lot one could possibly use for bridge seeing.
In the foreground is the regional headquarters of the National Park Service, the Quest Center behind it.
Moved from Lincoln, this is now the international headquarters called Gallup University because the organization has education and research added to its famous polling. I don't know what the new building at left is, but Freedom Park is to the right and Eppley Airfield in the far background.
The views upstream are cut off by the bend, but here are two on a murky autumn day that alerted my sinuses to all the wind-borne molds, pollens, dirt. The second one shows the scenic Loess Hills in the distance across the floodplain on the Iowa side (I've done an entry on those earlier.)
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