http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Washington , Seattle en-us Wed, 14 May 2008 01:07:27 BST Wed, 14 May 2008 01:07:27 BST Airport in a few hours SeattleLondonParisSt Jean Pied de Port. What to take Most importantly what to leave behind. My daughterinlaw Hannah suggested I cut my toothbrush in half to reduce weight. Voice of experience. My Pilgrim BlessingMay you be supported by the grace of God on your journey so that you may overcome and be strengthened by the travails of your pilgrimage and safely re http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-273166.html Getting to Yellowstone from Great Falls was far simpler than we imagined staying in Yellowstone on the other hand was far more difficult than we imaginedhellip For some ridiculous reason we decided that given wersquod arrived in Yellowstone and had planned to camp thatrsquos what we had to do regardless of the temperature. Yep you guessed it it was freezing wersquore not talking http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-272624.html On our way to Seattle Lauren recognized a little town called Kalama WA which was half the setting for one of the best episodes ever of reality show Split Ends. We got this picture with Susan Summers she's been on TV From what I hear she's just like she seemed on the show. Then a stop in state capital Olympia. Just a quick visit but we loved the place. They had a free bus the Dash. We http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-270707.html All God is one GodAll Creation is one CreationAll Life is one LifeAll People is one PeopleAll Faith is one FaithAll Tradition is one TraditionAll Love is one LoveAll I have isA body A mind A soul A patch of Earth A Bible A drum A family A community A history A future A Prayer. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-268768.html San Francisco Well we arrived into mighty San Francisco and I think I loved it the minute I saw it from when we were crossing over the bridge from Oakland. We got into the Greyhound station and searched for a motel. I rang on the courtesy phone for the 'Ram Inn'. I said Hello have you got any rooms available tonight the guy on the other end was a maniac. WHAT I tried to talk a little slow http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-267514.html The final day of a long ride is often predominated by a sense of urgency to get home. I think of it as the pull of the tractor beam. Stable nags yearn for the barn. I was ready to be home.There are some circuitous twisty routes home from Oregon but today evening plans with Dana had me in the beam. I'd go home directly over Status Pass on Hwy 97 then slab it home on I82 and I90. A warm and http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-266935.html Leaving Vancouver we decided to go home via the United States since there were many places we wanted to visit along the way. We stayed in Seattle one night. Considering the area's rainy reputation we were lucky and got a fine evening in which to take a stroll on the waterfront. There was a Japanese tall ship docked in the port and two of the sailors were kind enough to allow us to take a pho http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-266108.html Traveling is a choice and it is a choice to make traveling sacred. Travel can be more than an eyeopening experience into a new culture of relics ruins history and tradition. It can be more than a destinationoriented expedition from Point A to Point B. The way of the traveler can transform into a heartopening pilgrimage. From this point onward we choose to travel as a force of inner disc http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-262522.html We spent one last weekend with our mate Thomas doing a big road trip in and around Washington. The first day was to be spent at Vantage for some rock climbing hiking and then head off to Stevens Pass for a bit of skiing the following day on the way back. Our trip to Vantage took much longer than expected. A 5 hour drive turned out to be like 7 hours and we ended up getting to the rock early http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-260399.html Finding yourself in solitude. Everybody hears this time and time again. From the fruition of youth when sent on ldquotimeoutrdquo to the isolation every individual needs in order to hibernate with onersquos emotions. Even through days of work locking the mind and body behind concealed doors in order to cram a semesterrsquos final paper or spurn a creative project. Isolation solitude http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-259765.html A few days out from departure and the weather has become centerstage in the run up to launch.This year's big ride combines business with pleasure. Five days of the 2008 AORN Congress in Anaheim is the excuse to ride south for a Spring trip. The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses is holding it's annual Congress on the West coast. Several thousand OR nurses and I will convene is sunn http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-259462.html So today Craig and I officially celebrated the purchase of our plane tickets by taking a long bus ride out to the Rainier Valley and having Malaysian food. I had eaten at the restaurant Salima previously with coworkers. It was very good we had roti fish and lemak a kind of seafood curry with coconut milk. Itrsquos delicious so if any of you are ever in the Seattle area and have a crav http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/Chinatown/blog-258758.html Another cold gray day in the Emerald City but everywhere signs of spring. The sun even made a brief appearance in the afternoon and all over the city flowers are emerging and trees are blooming. I have been voraciously reading travel blogs for the past several weeks and spent the better part of this one with my nose buried in Lonely Planet scheming. My feet started getting itchy within months http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-258756.html Tomorrow the moving truck comes along with angelic volunteers to help us pack it up. Everything is in boxes and we are getting ready to head out to the open road. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-257528.html Comment aurais je os vous prsenter ma vie et les fetes avant de vous prsenter l'endroit ou je passe la plupart de mon temps ne nous le cachons pas L'universit de Washington de Seattle ou UW a prononcer youdeub pour les non anglophones Allez je vous fais une petite description en attendant d'autres photos plus belles encoreUniversity of Washington SeattleCree en 1861 cette universit s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-255960.html Un semestre dtudes l'tranger sans soires c'est pu vraiment un vrai accord d'change nan Alors ici on ne se pose pas trop de question quand l'envie nous prend party at our place sur divers themes meme si pour l'instant c'est pas trs suivi... Le public prsent se rsume pas mal o internationnaux et d ricains potes des collocs. Bref d moments fous a chaque fois Je vous laisse admirer les ph http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-255937.html Voila Aprs avoir quitt ma chre Ccilia je rejoinds la nouvelle maison dbut Fvrier. Situe 5 min de UW luniversit j'ai eu l'immense chance de trouver une maison parfaite des colloc gniaux une grande chambre salon ping pong et jacuzzi bref vous voyez tt sur les photos. en plus la place permet d'organiser un nombre de soire plutot consquents....sympa caAlors petit profil des occ http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-255935.html Arrived in Seattle safe and sound after a long flight from Heathrow. After spending a few days taking in the sights of Seattle Downtown Pike place market the Space needle and of course the first ever Starbucks we headed on up to Mount Baker.Steve hired the biggest car in America for our drive up to the mountains it is literally 3 times the size of the 106. The heated seats rock though. I http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-255817.html Yoga is the art of release. It is the study of onersquos concentration upon the diverse layers of the body exploring deeper with an advanced focus into the mind until eventually delving and settling forever within the spirit. This ancient tradition of breath movement and meditation developed within the Hindu culture of the Indian subcontinent becomes the practitionerrsquos sacred ritual. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-250416.html 6 months and I am finally comfortable enough to miss home and crave food from home without going into any sort of panic. And then it is time to go back.The flight home is quiet and uneventful. My last glimpse of the UK was the Isle of Skye a place I felt oddly connected to maybe the winter quiet of the island reflects what is going on inside of me. I am leaving a different way of life of tr http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-249008.html Obfuscator writes The last part of our stay in Seattle was a bit less eventful than the first part. We began to feel as if we had already done most of what we wanted to do around Seattle and that we were able to do in daytrips. We did still however have tickets for a few places and a few options on the table. First on our list was the Boeing Museum of Flight. The Boeing Museum of Flight i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-248482.html The first four days we spent at a place called Red Mountain. We skied there Saturday 22 and Sunday. The first day we didn't take any pictures because it was snowing pretty hard and was quite cold. The first pictures are from Sunday. On Monday we drove to Whitewater Mountain about 1 12 hours away. That was a smaller mountain but they had a really cool logo. I'm still mad I didn't buy a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-246769.html A day of love. A day dedicated to that special someone who makes your body whimper your mind rest at ease and your heart flutter with freedom. It is a day for love.All we need is love and here comes February 14th Valentinersquos Day. And of course love is the last thing on peoplersquos mind. This might sound crazy but take a second to stop and look at the world at large. Look not only at http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-246694.html Obfuscator writes Well I know it's been a while since we updated and that's because we've been in Seattle since around the 27th of January. We left Roseburg that morning and drove toward Portland. The whole drive from Roseburg to Portland was in the mountains and it was a heck of a snow storm which of course meant that everyone was puttering along the interstate at 40 MPH. After quite an http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-245313.html The Roadrsquos ConsistencyHome and settled now travel boundmdashit is a constant push and pull between the nature of yin and yang. A traveler is a traveler for life and to be home is equally a journey as it is while on the road but therersquos a vast difference a change in perspective. And itrsquos from this new perspective the traveler takes to the road yet again. Last week I spent http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-245309.html As you know by now I am leaving next week to go to Australia for about 5 months. I will be in school at the University of Sydney for a semester from March June and then hope to do some other traveling around Australia and New Zealand while I am down under. It seems unreal that I am actually leaving next week as I have been researching programs and doing lots of waiting to hear back about accep http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-244327.html EnglishThe rout is in three month segments and goes like this 1st three months Well head out of Sevilla on March 2nd going south until we reach the coast. Then we hang west and then north up the coast of portugal all the way up back into Spain again. 2nd three months We will fly out of Santander into Dublin Ireland and then bike southwest down to Cork County. 3rd three months We fly from http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-243704.html We had a very nice train trip to Seattle. The next day was a little cold but we walked around Seattle a bit and found a nice bakery serving breakfast. Then we walked over to the football stadium for the boat show the biggest on the Pacific coast. We toured a boat that costs 800K and could have saved 200K if we bought it because it was reduced for the boat show. It had 2 bathrooms. We almost go http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-240519.html