Washington, United States Travel Blogs

Seattle
Dec 15, 2002 (2 photos)

Ahhhh... ...a computer that works. I'm back safely in the states now. Oddly enough, NOW I'm facing culture shock! After a week, I can finally keep down American food without getting nauseous. Time is a funny thing to me. A few of my friends may ...

Mobing the boat
Dec 3, 2008 (10 photos)

Seattle is where this journey begins. This job is also for Williamson and Associates, our company has been doing a lot of work with them lately. Donny is up in Seattle as well doing a NOAA survey in Oak Harbor for these guys at the same time as a matter ...

Seattle
May 19, 2005 (1 photos)

Hello again. I'm back home now. The first five days I woke up, I thought I was still in Asia. It's surreal for me making the transition between two very different continents. Thank you for coming along on this trip. I hope you enjoyed my attempt ...

Heading back Eastbound across the Northern US
Aug 5, 2008 (13 photos)

... we could get there in one day, how we came to this conclusion we don't remember anymore, but we never made in out of Washington let alone across Idaho... It started badly with the phone call and proceeded to get worse, we pulled over to get fuel and ...

Seattle
Jan 28, 2004 (2 photos)

Hello again, Ever read "The Diary of Anne Frank?" I was never interested in a little girl's book before. But I read it after coming home. Incredible and captivating. After visiting Amsterdam and Auschwitz, I could picture the whole story vividly. ...

Museums, more famous stuff and shopping
Jun 18, 2008 (11 photos)

... Actually it was Union Station. It has stores, Amtrak, and the Metro. I also found the first real food for a decent price in Washington DC. So far all I'd really seen was museum food, which is not very good and is way overpriced. Then I decided that it was ...

Olympic Ring
Jul 30, 2008 (48 photos)

Today we drove the Olympic Loop around Mt Olympus and the Olympic National Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_National_Park. We visited the only temperate zone rain forests in the world and walked a few of the trails. And yes it rained some but not ...

Sleeping in Seattle
May 2, 2008 (23 photos)

So we got up in San Fran at some ridiculously early hour (you know 6am or something like the time we used to get up EVERY day when we had jobs!) and made our way down to the airport to catch our flight with Virgin America. It was a great flight as Virgin ...

Prework to China
Feb 24, 2006 (1 photos)

I was selected for this trip because I did a good job in Hungary last year. The players are pretty much the same, a group of engineers and workers in an electronic manufacturing plant. This plant is Dongguan, China. The flight leaves Seattle tomorrow, ...

The big unstructured plan.
Aug 22, 2004

Maybe I'll drive from Seattle and up to Alaska, sell my Japanese car for gold nuggets and catch a flight south to Guatemala City. Or Oaxaca, Mexico, or... Maybe I'll drive to LA or Houston, Texas instead. I'll probably find a cheaper flight to Central ...

Lake George Here We Come Roadtrip-A-Rama, DAY 1
Jun 13, 2004 (13 photos)

Day One of our first real roadtrip. Tris and I are accompanied by our friend Chris. She is running late! Crazy people with their late packing and so on. We arrive late because she said on the phone how if we arrived on time she would not be ready. Ha ...

USA - Bound for Seattle
May 8, 2006 (4 photos)

... We stayed in Vancouver for one more night. Then we were US bound again the next day. Our destination was Seattle (in Washington State). Dan booked our tickets through Amtrak (the train company). Dan was excited about the prospect of a journey on one of the ...

Eb's U.K Update
Oct 7, 2007 (10 photos)

Hey all! Eb here. Okies, Liam had his turn last time at bloggin' 'bout Blighty, so now I'll have a crack at it, even though it's late and we're now in the USA, I just had to get this one out. There'll probably be another US update soon. Here goes: ...

Rainy Days, are we in the North West?
Jul 30, 2008 (16 photos)

... Beast around a bit on the slippery surfaces. So we drove and drove and it rained and rained, we crossed into Washington over the Columbus River, a magnificent bridge, but the visibility was so bad that we could not see either Oregon or Washington ...

Among My Souvenirs
Mar 5, 2006 (2 photos)

... bucks. And the pirates do their best to stay current. The Bruce Willis thriller "16 Blocks" went into wide release in the United States on March 3, 2006. I could have purchased the DVD from a sidewalk vendor in Dongguan, China on March 3, 2006, but I'm ...

Almost there, yeah!!!
Sep 24, 2004 (2 photos)

... RTW trip. I've had two friends over from Norway and they basically just left. We had a very good time, being Norwegian tourists in Washington. There so much stuff to do and see around Seattle (one of the main reasons I'm a bit sad to leave), so it's ...

Let the Road Trip Begin, But First We Need a Car
Apr 9, 2006 (5 photos)

From Hawaii we flew to Seattle to visit our friend Jamie and start planning our trip back across the United States. Allison, though, had to leave almost immediately to go visit some law schools on the other side of the country, so Jamie and Jeff had the ...

Hello Seattle...........we're listening
Jan 12, 2007 (12 photos)

... became completely irrelevant as the flight was delayed which meant we would have missed our onward flight to Washington DC.  So they kindly moved us onto a United flight direct next morning.  Meant being late to meet our friend, John, and paying ...

A Weekend in Seattle with friends
Aug 2, 2008 (21 photos)

Paul and Dustin from Umpqua's Last resort invited us to Seattle their hometown. We arrived on Thursday evening and were treated to a lovely dinner of home made sushi and mizo soup. The gated community they live in has a RV Park on the property so we set ...

Chao
Feb 8, 2005 (1 photos)

Hello again, Well, I made it back home safely to Seattle. Now for the adjustment. The first morning I woke up it took me several minutes to figure out where I was. Five mornings in a row now. I hope you've enjoyed the travelogues. I'm glad ...

simon's short piece of advise
Jun 16, 2005

Tourist tack, If your short of time in a big city but you want to see a lot then take a duck, not a real one but a boat that goes both on water and land, what fun. It helped that we had a crazy captain for a driver who really didn't care what the ...

Border Run
Aug 18, 2006

Theres something so fun about living right near a border, its great fun saying "Im off to another country for the weekend" and doing that. Even if its just because I forgot to hand my visa waiver form back in last time and so we had to do a border run.. ...

Washington Wonderland
Jan 14, 2007 (23 photos)

... unkind to him.  After a brief catch up we went for a walk and saw the White house, Reflecting pool, Lincoln, Washington Monument, Korean and WWII memorials.  All very impressively lit up at night.  Really couldn't believe we were here, yet ...

Lest we forget!
Nov 11, 2007 (27 photos)

... the Veterans, the Pledge of Allegiance and then an Introduction of Guests. We hear from the guest speaker, the Vice-President of the United States, and then all is over with the Retiring of the Colours.   What did I think of all this? I felt ...

Sc'rollin with my Homies
Dec 10, 2006 (4 photos)

I drove for a while once we crossed the border, which im excited to report makes the US the sixth country I have driven in. The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit was amazing, fascinating.  Ten of the scrolls are displayed, unfortunately not the treasure map ...

LABOR DAY, OUR SUMMER ENDS
Sep 5, 2003 (5 photos)

Adam was so happy to be back in the United States, he ran. We were in an intimate college town in Washington state. The bars had just closed. And frat-boy Adam, as he did best, was drinking. He revealed to us that when he drinks, one of the ...

I'm outta here!!!
Oct 5, 2004 (15 photos)

Tonight around midnight Pacific time I'm heading south for Guatemala City. Yeehaa! It's finally starting to dawn on me, I think... It's somewhat been a hectic last few days organizing the remaining bits and pieces. Doyle and Hans (HK) hosted my leaving ...

Hangin' with my homies
Aug 10, 2004 (8 photos)

You'll be pleased - hopefully - to know that I haven't had my ass capped in a drive-by or been bored to death by the Presidential campaign race (although my waiting for Bush to to make an idiot of himself once more on the news has piqued my interest a bit ...

The Final Countdown
Aug 1, 2007 (14 photos)

... Cockney rhyming slang using a book written by my first cousin Ray; I've been on an 18-mile bike ride along the Potomac in Washington DC with the unlikliest triathlete you're likely to meet (Zak for those of you that know him from SMC); I've met up with a ...

Seattle
Jul 12, 2008 (4 photos)

Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to fly into Seattle. You can stand on the pier and photograph the Olympic Mountains, but nothing beats flying over them on a clear VFR day.   My time in Seattle was short and sweet. I flew in from ...