Blogs from Seattle, Washington, United States, North America - page 97

Hi everyone! Welcome to my travelblog! I'm leaving on March 22, so, a week from today. You've gotten an email to come to this site and view this entry for a reason. You're on my subscriber list! (I put you there). Every time I make a post on this website, you'll get an email that says I made a new journal entry... or something like that. I'm not quite sure how this works yet. I'm allowed to put as much text and upload as many pictures as I want, so you'll be able to see everything! Now, if you don't want to be part of this list, tell me! You can check this site periodically to see what I've written, if you're interested. Anyway, we'll see how this goes! Talk to you next from Eastern Europe! ... read more

Wow... I don't even know what to say about this. We did a 4 mile trek up a mountain, at the top was the most beautiful lake called Melakwa Lake.  Melakwa stands for Mosquito, luckily for me I didn't see any, must've been a little chilly for them.  We picked a spot under some trees to have a little picnic as it started raining. Oh man... this was just it!! So peaceful and serene, cool, beautiful, ice still floating in the lake... it was just amazing! Then fog, or clouds, just starting rolling in across the lake, we just watched it engulf the mountains in front of us, and as it hugged it's way around the lake and all around us.... it was amazing! I have no idea how to describe it, I hope the pictures ... read more

A little background on this trip. One of my best friends, Dave, and his wife Carina had come down to Las Vegas for my wedding that never happened (a whole other story!). After a week and a half of partying hard with them, I decided I'd take the time and money I'd put away for the honeymoon on a little holiday, and go back to Seattle, Washington, with them. So I did. Please keep in mind, I've been stuck in a desert for 7 years by this time, the color green was but a distant memory. The following has been extracted from my personal blog. Well then... Dave & Carina sure know how to make for an interesting first night, thats for sure. We arrived at SeaTac airport to beautiful 64 degree weather, a far cry ... read more

The Los Angeles Geographical Society's 1962 trip to Alaska began with a Western Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Seattle. Before heading to Alaska, Valene had scheduled a day's stopover in Seattle to visit the 1962 World's Fair, the Century 21 Exposition. I was very excited to ride the World's Fair Monorail from downtown to the fairgrounds (now the Seattle Center). The Seattle monorail was built by the same company that built the Disneyland Monorail and was very similar to it. The Space Needle had been built as the fair's theme structure and became Seattle's icon. Among the things I remember most was visiting the World of Century 21 Pavilion, where librarians from around the country demonstrated advances in the nascent field of library automation under the auspices of the American Library Association. They produced on-demand ... read more