Seattle Stories


Day 16

Sun. Jul. 24, 2011: Vancouver, BC ~ Seattle, WA We set out in Van and went to Dr Sun Yat-sen Chinese Garden, then did not go to Stanley Park, as planned, because of gridlock and a late start. The garden was kind of overrated, but the pictures we took are lovely. And it gave us a chance to go into Chinatown, which was pretty cool because I do dig the ...


Day 2 – Space Needle & Duck Tours

I love being a tourist. Today we visited the top of the Space Needle and took an “amphibious” Duck Tour. We had a fantastic guide and highly recommend this tour for great history and views you wouldn’t likely see otherwise. We went around on the monorail and visited a Starbucks – not THE Starbucks, just A Starbucks (“Cha-Ching” for those of you who h...


Week 2

This week starts in Seattle. Seattle is best known for its Space Needle Tower and it is the home of Starbucks. When we first arrived in Seattle our guide took us to a a tiny alley way called Trolls Way. Here they have a giant troll structure hidden under a bridge. It was funny and scary at the same time. Next we went up the Space Needle which is ...


Seattle

We travelled north up Route 101 to Seattle, home of the Fleet foxes and Jimi Hendrix. our group took the Space Needle to the top floor, which was built along with a monorail for the World Science fair at the beginning of the 20th century. i then visited the first starbucks on the harbourside and sampled some of the Clam chowder and scallops which is a l...