Food or stuff to do!
Arrive March 5th around lunch and leave the 9th.
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I last lived in Seattle '94. For 3 years I traveled there quarterly for meetings. Mainly went to places around the old Safeco Tower. But it has been 8 years.
Watching Gemini Man on Blu-ray. The camera view is weird. It isn't a TV view but it doesn't really feel like a typical adataption from a standard movie camera production.
So many dead bodies...
Tons of stuff to do in and around Seattle so I'll throw out a coupe of themes ---
If you like music (the kind Seattle is famous for)...
You can hit up London Bridge Studio for a tour, the unofficial memorial park near where Cobain used to live, Jimi Hendrix is buried in Renton. There are a few music museums I've never visited. Catch a show at the Showbox or any other number of Seattle music venues. Tons of interesting music spots. Pike's Market will appear elsewhere but Soundgarden's Spoonman was inspired by a street performer at Pike's. I'm sure there are music-specific tours you could take that would hit all these spots.
If you like nature...
Do something on the water. Even if it's just a water taxi ride, try to do something that gets you a view of the Olympic Mountains. Better yet, go see them and OlympiacNational Park --- it's on the far side but Hoh is a rainforest and it's damn cool. Bainbridge Island, an Orca tour up into the San Juans. Pop out to Mt. Rainier over to the Snoqualmie Valley and see Snoqualmie Falls. Not sure if they'll be blooming in March but Snoqualmie Valley is where a lot of the flowers for the city markets are grown. Very pretty area when in bloom.
If you like corporate stuff...
You can visit Microsoft, do a tour, and arrange for a tour of the Boeing factory. Both are cool.
If you like city tourist stuff...
Seattle underground takes you to some old basements, good for history BUT it's not like a European city underground tour so don't expect that. There are Seattle ghost tours, etc.
On food, I'll just say to go visit and eat at Pike's. Winter is also great time of year for local seafood. Lots of shellfish and crustaceans are being harvested so, if you like that sort of thing, find some spots serving right-out-of-the-water-that-morning seafood and chow down. Yeah, yeah, the first starbucks and crap. Plenty of wine, breweries, that sort of thing.
That's what I got for now.
Thanks! Would spork, but apparently I'm not allowed :(
Cold and rainy - welcome to the work week
Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day.
Seattle summer isn’t much different from Boston summer. Except that you have to wait for the morning cloud cover to burn off in Seattle.
It's raining right now in the Boston area. We have had very little snow this year. I've probably just jinxed it.