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Published: November 10th 2008
Since arriving here on election night I've been feeling a bit lethargic, I don't now if I'm coming down with something or if it's just the previous six weeks catching up with me. The weather hasn't helped much either, it rained almost all day every day up until today. I've spent a lot of time just hanging around the hostel chatting to the other travellers, watching movies and sleeping, lots of sleeping.
When I did venture out I found Seattle to be a really cool place where people can be themselves, it seems like every other person in the street is covered in tattoos and piercings with pink and green hair.
Being the home of Hendrix, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, it was unsurprising that most of the bars here are slightly on the rockier side, which suits me. One in particular stood out called Shorty's on 2nd Ave. All the tables in the bar are made from pinball tables with another room out the back with around another 30 tables. Apparently the bar hosts international pinball tournaments as well.
I didn't really see many of the attractions around Seattle, but one placed I did really enjoy was the
Pike Place Market which was handily situated across the road from the hostel. I think it's mostly famous for the fish stall where people shout and throw fish a lot in front of crowds of tourists, but if you venture a little deeper inside there's a myriad of cool tiny little specialist shops selling bizarre things like old movie posters, magic tricks wind up toys old Indian herbal remedy's an trippy little action figures.
The thing I'm enjoying most about travel is the totally random things I end up doing at the last minute. Last night I ended up in a bar at 1am with the 2 people I was sharing a room with (both of them in their pajamas) ordering a cup of tea, just because. Then tonight I was just settling down to watch the movie they where showing in the hostel, when I got invited to a radiohead laser show in the imax theatre in the science museum. Turned out to be one of my favourite things I've done so far.
I'm supposed to be leaving for Japan in the morning, but it looks like the connecting flight I was supposed to catch from LA
Skyline
You can just see the stadium on the righthas been moved forward an hour and a half which doesn't leave a lot of room to deal with any delays. I need to speak to the travel agent I used and try and get booked on an earlier flight down to LA, otherwise it's going to be a bit of a mad dash through the airport. Hopefully my next blog entry will be from Tokyo and not from the departures lounge of LAX.
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Gayna
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Hey There Traveller
Hey Doug hope you tiredness wears off soon....me thinks it is becuase you are a party animal. Seattle looks coll very your thing