Blogs from Seattle, Washington, United States, North America - page 90

It has been a while, and a number of corners of Seattle have been explored. I sit here sipping a Vallerosa white at the Hotel's Wine tasting. Free wine tastings when I hit the streets traveling for pleasure wont be in abundance. In the past month since my updated, I have been to Safeco Field - scored free baseball tickets with Jay. Second game of the season, cool field. Garlic Fries were awesome there! Did the Pike Street Market area with Bruce/Elizabeth - we hit up Brooklyns which has a oyster paired with different voodka topped with caviar sampler. Exquisite! We ate woodfired pizza in Captial Hill which was good, but Cibo in Phoenix is still my favorite Top Pot! This is a seattle mainstay now. Very cool architecture at the one we went too. High ... read more

April 12 - 15 We decided to take a side trip from Boise over to the Tacoma, Washington area. It is a 1,100 mile version of a side trip. But since Scott was further delayed with getting the airplane to Idaho, and visiting a fellow retired airline friend of mine had been a possibility from the beginning of the trip planning, we decided to take in the Columbia River drive. I had never spent much time in Oregon. In fact, only a few airline layovers in Portland. Maria, of course, is seeing a new state each time we cross a state line. The drive along the Oregon shore of the river affords some truly spectacular views. With just a few exceptions, all along the river you could easily convince yourself you are in another country. Denny ... read more

After a well appreciated sleep, we awoke to low clouds and rain. Looks like the dismal weather had set in for the day! Today we were meeting an old school friend of Liisa’s, Kim, who she was in high school with her eons ago at the hotel and then heading into Seattle for some sightseeing. As Kim was familiar with Seattle, we decided it would be a good idea for her to do the driving. Our first port of call was the Space Needle after driving around trying to find a place to park. Luckily not many people were out and about quite so early in the morning, so we didn’t have to compete with throngs of tourists. The view of surrounding Seattle as we shot up in the lifts in the Space Needle was amazing, ... read more

Portland was the next stop after Eureka, and just in time to experience Portland's record low temperatures. It was cold, VERY cold and Portland will forever be etched in my memory as the place with the freakish weather. We stayed with Theresa's friend, Scott, in his house that instantly felt like home. Scott was cool and Portland was a cool place, not only because of it's weather, but also because it seemed like a really young city with lots of musical and artistic happenings. We didn't indulge in any of these happenings, instead, we hit the gay bars for a trashy night and then felt crap the next day. We gave ourselves some time to recover and then motored on up to Seattle and met another of Theresa's friends, Bruce, and his fiance Renee. They were ... read more

Just an FYI. After sorting through all my photos I've finally finished my photo website. I divided them up into sections from the beginning of my adventure to the end. My edited travelblogs are included below the photos. New Zealand Photo Journal For those of you who wanted photos from our trips let me know and I can send you high resolution photos. Backyard Adventure Girl Lisa... read more