The Green Tortoise Hostel Seattle

Welcome to Seattle.. cold, miserable and raining, yay! First thing we did was go to the Northface store and buy some water resistent/wind proof jackets as Ally is a wuss :P Our backpacks which we paid about A$450 in Sydney were US$205 here.. which is about AUS$250 :( This is why we waited until we got here to buy our jackets! We spent the day walking around and just looking at stuff and familarising ourselves with the place. The bus is $1.50 expect if you go out of a big zone then it is $2. T...

Sunday 21st Today we had a sleep in then went for a wonder. We went to the REI (recreational equipment in) which is a huggge store with all sorts of stuff. We got covers for our backpacks to protect the straps when they go through the airports and a thermal singlet thingy for ally to keep her warmer :P Were back in time at the hostel for the free dinner which tonight was Mexican. It was big servings and very tasty. We met some Americans from south of the San Francisco area who were really nic...

Today we went on 'Washington State Ferry' to Bainbridge Island. The ferry takes about half an hour to get there. The day started off really nice weather but later turned into rain once we were over there. The ferry ride over was a really good way to see Seattle from another angle. We came back and Jason worked for a few hours. On the Thursday we had a sleep in and went to the Columbia tower which is located not far from the waterfront. It cost $5 to get to the skyview level (level 73)! It was...

So today I travelled from Vancouver to Seattle, it took about 4 hours and was quite uneventful, apart from the driver who could not seem to find the clutch and nearly stalled at every single stop. It was the first time I really listened to my iPod and had it on shuffle, so it kept making me laugh when I would hear Frank Sinatra, followed by Queens of the Stone Age, followed by some classical, followed by something else quite random. I like the fact that it chooses the next song for me - I hat...

Checked out of the hostel this morning after breakfast and headed off to Vancouver bus station for the last time to get the bus to Seattle. Arrived into Seattle about 4 and checked into the Green Tortoise Hostel where I meet up with the other girl in my room Charlene. She was about to head off to the space needle to I tagged along.

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 America is a little different to Virgin Blue in Australia in that you get some stuff like a packet of pretzels, soft drink, juice and some TV channels for free. So after a flight that left on time, our first one yet (we have had delays on eve...

It took us 20 hours to get to Seattle from San Francisco on Greyhound. Our legs and our bums were like lead after the journey. We checked into our Hostel and took advantage of the nice day and took a walk. Stores were closing as we ventured out. There are lots of cool funky coffee shops in Seattle - so what did we do? We visited the first ever Starbucks cafe. We are pathetic. It's not on any of the city maps - says it all! One good thing though - there are no seats so there ain't nobody tryin...

The hostel seems nice..but what place with free net isn't? A small flight of stairs to climb. But that's ok, coz it's cheap. We're near a farmers market and a few other things.. heading off to explore places now. I'll try and write more tomorrow. Woot! Saturday means heading to LA but b4 then we have a science fiction museum to explore!

So, I ended up just kind fo wandering in Portland on Wed and then I got a free haircut at Ziva, a salon by complete randomness. Shannon spent like 2.5 hours washing, cutting and styling my hair because she had a cancellation for another appointment? Anyway, it was fun! Then I met up with Matthew, the guy who is moving to Partland and we went out to dinner, wandered around, had some beer from one of the ridiculous amounts of microbreweries in the city. After finally getting to bed, I woke up p...