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Downtown Seattle
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Pike Place Fish Market
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Final day in Seattle before I catch the 4 hour flight and give back the two hours I gained flying west. My friend Rich and his mother offered to entertain me on my last night in Seattle and it was a hoot and a half.
As it turns out, another long lost childhood friend of mine […]
This 20 acre point on Lake Union was cleared in 1906 to construct a plant to manufacture gas from coal - later converted to crude oil. Import of natural gas in the 1950’s made the plant obsolete. The city acquired the site for a park in 1962. The park was opened to the public in […]
Let’s say you were a travelling Rock and Roll band called the Vanilla Fudge
Closed Published by Jay Lee July 12th, 2007 on The Bald HereticI can think of maybe three people who read this blog that might understand the amusement factor of actually seeing the Edgewater Inn Motel…
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Rich Davis and I pose for the obligatory tourist photo…
You know, food tastes much better when you’re revolving
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The ultimate destination on Tuesday was the Seattle Space Needle.
Built for the 1962 World’s Fair, The Space Needle is 605 feet (184 m) high and 138 feet (42 m) wide at its widest point and weighs 9,550 tons. In other words it quite large. Not Eiffel Tower large, but large enough.
The building […]
My friend Rich and his family took me on a whirlwhind Seattle tour before dinner last night and one of the “must see” attractions is, apparently, the Freemont Troll.
The troll is located under the under the north end of the Aurora Bridge and you just don’t fully grasp the enormity of the sculpture when […]
As you may have heard or read about, many 7-11’s around the country have been remodelled to look like The Kwik-E Mart from the animated television show The Simpsons.
As you could probably guess, this is part of a nationwide promotion for the upcoming Simpsons movie.
Sadly, the closest one to home is in Dallas. There is, […]
Arrived in Seattle with no problem. Got checked into the hotel and had some time to casually look around a bit.
I’m happy to report the whereabouts of all the missing Texas sunshine.
Yay for being in an environmentally conscious blue state!
Cab from the airport was natural gas powered, company office uses real coffee cups and does […]