Hampton Inn Seattle - Southcenter Tukwila

Today was a long day. We started off in Vancouver, stopped in Seattle, and ended the day back home in the Bay Area. Before we started our drive south, we wanted to stop by a suspension bridge - after all, it's listed as one of the mus-do's in Vancouver. Signs for the Capilano suspension bridge can be seen all over, including tourist brochures and tourist information kiosks. However, this is not ...

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... out interesting and obscure facts about the city. Apparently the residents of Seattle drink on average of 4 lattes per day, the average age of a resident is 34 years old and the most popular occupation is lawyers. We saw the market and several squares from land, then launched into Lake Union to see some pretty (and expensive) houseboats including the one used in the movie Sleepless in Seattle and one owned by a Microsoft billionaire (the company started locally) which had a ...

... Locks which are locks that let the boats go upstream. Ashton thought it was funny when he walked over the bridges that there was not alot of water on one side and heaps on the other. On the other side of the locks they have an area where the Salmon can swim up these water ladders to get back upstream to spawn. You go under the water to viewing platforms to see the salmon swimming against the current. Ruby liked watching the big fish. Apparently ...

... was a difference through, the last drive was up to the top and down, this drive was through the mountains... for 45 minutes. And for the whole 45 minutes, the snow somehow got worse. Maybe it was because we were gradually going up for about 70% of the drive. It didn't let up and it didn't end! I feared that the trip would end here because I had no traction on the road and the cars around me insisted on driving faster than even I thought was okay (that's saying something). I was ...

... some.) Bea missed the HD support group gathering at the Admiral Theater in West Seattle prior to Don leaving the city limits. Loretta got a good photo of the group she called the "NWHDSA Crew". With all of the hoopla of last night at the Mariners game, Don decided to take a light day and walked only 16 miles today, stopping in Tukwila and getting a ride home for the night. That won't be possible on every night of this trip!

less than 48 hours to go!! in the midst of massive mutlitasking i've now put food on the stove or toast under the broiler and then walked upstairs to do a quick project only to do 10 quick projects and be reminded of the food once the smoke makes its way up to the office...those incense sticks someone gave me two years are coming in handy... Susan came over last night and spent hours getting music from my desktop to my laptop so I can get ...

... months using 67 gigabytes of space on our laptop. We were very concerned before we left the US that we might hit the 10k mark and wondered what the right equipment would be. We were happy with what we took and that was a HP laptop that Ryan's neighbor let us have and it turned out to be an essential item for our journey. Ryan lugged it around and while it was heavy at 8 lbs, it was well worth the weight as we were able to download our pictures every ...

... a strange one. It is cheap, reliable and easy to use. For a moment I thought I was in Canada or somewhere else. The natives seem friendy - chatted to a guy on the bus and checked in ok the hostel is more like a laid back hotel - just as the guidebook promised. However there seems to be far too much German for me to overhear for my liking... Decided the place was a bit quiet for my liking and had an early night hoping it would be more fun tomorrow.

... lunch stop on your way into the Jemez Mountains for some hot spring action. There are two sets of springs, the San Antonio and the Jemez springs. The ones to the NORTH of the road (the San Antonio?) are way better and require a bit of a hike to get in, thus discouraging some of those who might otherwise not go in. Great place, loved it there. I traveled around the Southwest a while back and still remember vividly a night I spent at White Sands, NM. There was a full moon on the ...