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Seattle Slideshow
Seattle
Travel Blogs from Seattle, United States
Is it a little cold or is it just me!
Where to start... You probably didn't know this, but I have only warn my jacket for about 6 days during the last 2 months, you can probaby guess where I was going with this, so I won't even say it. I got to drive my car today, I sure did miss it. ...
Fun Scams from Around the World
... - This may sound paranoid to some but we can't stress the rule enough. Strangers don't just walk up to us on the streets of Seattle and start talking to us all friendly, doling out unsolicited advice. Why would it be normal for them to do it in Shanghai? ...
5th day - Yay America!!
Prince George to Seattle 699miles Well this leg of the journey was maybe the most stressful as far as a mantra of "GET TO AMERICA, GET TO AMERICA!" We sped all the way to the border than sat for almost 45 minutes until they let us in to Washington, ...
Staying with Jules and Emily in Seattle
Sunday 18th May Alison: After a great time at the ball game, Paul dropped us off at Jules and Emily's gorgeous classic Seattle house in Capitol Hill. Their little girl Lucy who is almost 2 took a great shine to Rachel and they played very nicely ...
Meeting up with the Bro
We left Toronto really early and flew over the Rockies to Seattle. Travis, Virginia's sister-in-law’s step brother (who we had met skiing a couple of year’s ago) came to meet us as we were going to be staying with them - Travis, Laura, ...
Seattle Arrival
... there are approximately 86 Starbucks down town and some are just across the street from others, kind of crazy. Starbucks bought out "Seattle's Best" another coffee shop. We also had coffee at the very first Starbucks near Pike's Place. A walk ...
4 Nights in Seattle!
... a shop front that looks like a fish and chip shop, and inside it smells like oily burger patty. One thing I loved about Seattle and the surrounding areas is the beautiful houses – they are similar to what you see in Canadian photos – with ...
Seattle, USA
... ik wel zou kunnen wonen. Vancouver heeft de Olympische Winterspelen van 2010 toegewezen gekregen. Vanuit Vancouver zijn we naar Seattle afgereisd. De laatste etappe met de camper. De camper hebben we ingeleverd in Everett, een voorstad van Seattle. ...
Pike Place Market
We really enjoyed going through this market, because it is so different from the high desert we are used to. I am really impressed with the gorgeous flowers, but the fresh vegetables and fruit are pretty impressive too. Check out the ...
Sipping in Seattle
... I ate for dinner: Fresh seafood How much we had to pay in parking for 2 days: $62 At first, I was a little upset at Seattle with its expensive hotel, crazy parking fees and the amount of traffic because of the Seahawk pre-season game, but I got over ...
Going home after the best week in Amsterdam
... time. It was great to spend time with locals instead of tourists and learn about the differences between the Netherlands and United States. I was reminded that where we sat drinking beers Thursday night that we were doing it at 30 feet below ...
Seattle to Victoria on the Clipper
Greetings all, We have arrived in Victoria, Canada. We arrived yesterday from Seattle, Washington on the Victoria Clipper, a jet propulsion ferry. The crossing took us through Puget Sound, it was calm and cool. We saw a few Dolphins but ...
Old Salty!
Greg made a "friend" on the plane. The aisle seat in our row was empty. We dreamed of room to stretch out, feet space, a place for books, jackets, etc, we've got this nine and a half hour flight made! Literally 4.23 minutes before the flight was ...
Hurricane Erin
... we visited the first REI store with Jesus, the famous fish market with Erin, and even spent a day with Erin at South Seattle Community College where (among other places) she works as a Spanish professor. The grad schools I applied to in December ...
Day 1 - From Seattle To Bangkok
... T-shirts and teddy bears with hockey sticks that I thought it should, and the place was crawling with mostly pleasant Canadians. By 1PM Seattle time we were on our flight to Seoul, Korea in route to Bangkok. We had heard good things about Korean Air ...
The land of grundge / starbucks (May 11th)
... 11:30am but the mission wasn't over yet. We had to lug all of our luggage to the hostel. The planet recommended 2 hostels in Seattle, we phoned one and secured a reservation but decided to walk into the other one too to weigh up our options. It turned ...
Family matters
... family! this time its my dad's cousins and kids. i cant keep up myself! after food we went for a wonder in downtown seattle and pikeplace market. its a really nice place, full of character and old charm. a mix of the market and high rise buildings ...
Seattle and Ship Boarding
... city as we waited to embark. We also stayed on our balcony for sail-away, which offered us gorgeous views of the Seattle city skyline. The rest of the evening was uneventful, we had dinner by ourselves and just retired to our room for the ...
Seattle, Washington, USA
Visiting a friend. On arrival the summer weather here was colder than what we left in Sydney winter. By Sunday the sun had come out and it was warm and clear. Took the ferry on Sunday to go bicycling on San Juan Island. Some "Only in America ...
Heading home, via the land of ice and mist
... be short, sweet and probably not very accurate! After Vancouver we hired a car for just one day to take us back to Seattle to catch a flight to Iceland. The journey to the airport was uneventful and passing though the boarder, for the umpteenth time ...
Going back to CA (Central America that is)
... has done it again. She is the master of the frequent flyer program. This time she has managed to obtain two round trip tickets (Seattle-Houston - Panama City/ Return Managua, Nicaragua - Houston- Seattle) for $60.00 each! She used our One Pass and we ...
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Well, of course there are no reindeer running around Seattle in THIS heat. But after all the goldfish planting, and yard watering, with Sam juning around in his Kid's Garden Gloves helping to pull weeds and rake up trash, well, grandma FELT LIKE she'd ...
Seattle and it's not raining!!!!
... feck up the States, they only have to kill all chickens and all Americans wouldn't know what to do without their eggs!!!! Seattle wasn't far away now and I was looking forward to a long hot shower. Problem is getting to the damn hostel!!! Seattle ...
Seattle Lite
... the stranger. Fortunately, I was accompanied by those who knew their way around better than me: John (who lived in Seattle for 5 years), and Alex (a longtime resident and friend who generously turned over his apartment to us for about a week). ...
And the plane takes off....
ĻI Wake to Sleep, I Take My Waking Slow. I Learn by Going Where I Have to GoĻ -- Theodore Roethke. Richard drove me to the airport for my first solo trip abroad. I was exited about finally venturing off on my own, fullfilling my fantasy, my ...