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Hello gang,

Just checked into the Tukwila, WA - Hampton Inn. Hello Seattle! 🙂

Man, that was some traffic between Portland, OR and here. :Q

Three different wrecks turned I-5 into a parking lot along the way. Ugh!

We visited Mount St. Helen and learned about the Cascade Mountains and the "Fire Beneath". Man you guys are living dangerously out here. I'll fight a hurricane anyday rather than mess with one of these mountains blowing up! 😛 😀

Yesterday, we just loved the drive on I-84 along the Columbia River between Boise, ID and Portland, OR. I got some neat pictures of steelheads being caught by a guy that had just enough Indian in him to make it legal to use a trap made of a net hanging from a long pole from a rag-tag platform. He had a nice little business going selling the steelheads.

There was one spot where all you could see at one bend in the river were sail-boards and kite-boards filling the sky ... looked like everyone was having a ball. The Columbia River is just beautiful ... nothing like my Muddy Mississippi. 😉

We are going to stay put here for a while ... there is a lot to see and do. 🙂





 
Greg, one of my best friends lives right around where those sailboards were - it is a very cool area.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.

 
Originally posted by: wirelessenabled


I just heard on the news that the fires are once again raging in Glacier National Park and that the road through may be closed. I'll have to check the web and make a phone call to determine the actual conditions up there. If we can't get through the park then we will have to decide on something else. So I might be in the WA area sooner than expected. Take note WIZ and WIRELESSENABLED. 😀

🙂
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Slow down Smoke! We didn't make it to Seattle last weekend so we are leaving on Weds. and coming back on Saturday. You need to dawdle a bit longer in Glacier and the Flathead Lake country so that I am home when you pass through.
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Man, it looks like we may have missed each other. I'm in Seattle and it is Friday night. Sounds like you are headed back home tomorrow. 🙁

We ended up heading south from Helena, MT because of the fires in Glacier National Park.

If you happen to see this and you are still in Seattle, give me a ring. (425) 228-5800 Room 235. 😉
 
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Not Alaska? 🙁 Come on, it doesn't get more North and West than Alaska. 😛
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Ha, I'm trying to talk my wife into getting a cruise to Alaska right out of Seattle but she says she didn't bring the right kind of clothes. So maybe on the next trip. 😉
 
Originally posted by: cavdraco
too bad you arent going way up north you could have stopped by and visited Bgod and myself

Cav
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We were considering going up that far but those darn fires made us change our plans. Right now we are thinking about heading south from Seattle to see Lake Tahoe. Wish it would have worked out.
 
Our 1st day in Seattle was a busy one.

We are staying about 9 miles south of the Space Needle (Downtown) and we drove north about 42 miles to get tickets to tour the Boeing plant later in the day. After getting tickets for the last tour of the day (and week), we drove back downtown and went up in the Space Needle.

That gave us a pretty good prespective where most things are located. After messing around there we had to drive back the Boeing plant for the 3:00 PM tour. That place is really something. The largest space under one roof in the world. :Q

It was really sort of sad to see so little work taking place. We toured the 747 assembly section and learned that they are only turning out 2 747s @ month where prior to the recession and 911 they were turning out 7. There are now 35,000 people that are layed off at that facility. The place really looked almost deserted. 🙁

Rather than fight the traffic again during the "go-home" period, we decided to visit a little festival and eat at a nice restaurant overlooking the ferry at Mukilteo. Those poor people had to wait over two hours to just get on the ferry to Whidbey Island. That is one hell of a commute. :Q It is really hard to believe that people go through that every day.

Wiz and I are getting together for breakfast in the morning. I'm really looking forward to that. 🙂
 
😉 ... looks like it may be a late breakfast ... 😉

Greg, tell your wife there's plenty of new clothes available in that big mall there (South Center Mall). I'm sure she could find something appropriate for Alaska 😉
 
Originally posted by: Smokeball

We were considering going up that far but those darn fires made us change our plans. Right now we are thinking about heading south from Seattle to see Lake Tahoe. Wish it would have worked out.
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My sister & brother-in-law have a house in Tahoe that they used a few times a year, till they retire. It's a beautiful place in the summer. It's hard to believe it's concidered "off season" :Q



Originally posted by: Smokeball

Ha, I'm trying to talk my wife into getting a cruise to Alaska right out of Seattle but she says she didn't bring the right kind of clothes. So maybe on the next trip. 😉
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Again, my sister & brother-in-law took a cruise a few years ago from Vancover up to Alaska & said it was quite beautiful.
 
Originally posted by: Smokeball
Originally posted by: wirelessenabled


I just heard on the news that the fires are once again raging in Glacier National Park and that the road through may be closed. I'll have to check the web and make a phone call to determine the actual conditions up there. If we can't get through the park then we will have to decide on something else. So I might be in the WA area sooner than expected. Take note WIZ and WIRELESSENABLED. 😀

🙂
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Slow down Smoke! We didn't make it to Seattle last weekend so we are leaving on Weds. and coming back on Saturday. You need to dawdle a bit longer in Glacier and the Flathead Lake country so that I am home when you pass through.
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Man, it looks like we may have missed each other. I'm in Seattle and it is Friday night. Sounds like you are headed back home tomorrow. 🙁

We ended up heading south from Helena, MT because of the fires in Glacier National Park.

If you happen to see this and you are still in Seattle, give me a ring. (425) 228-5800 Room 235. 😉
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[edit] Guess I should have finished the thread before I replyed. We ate lunch at the Space Needle on Friday. You must have been walking around there somewhere. [end edit]


Darn it Smoke. We were staying in Bellevue but the hotel my wife booked charges $9 to use the data line. I am too cheap to do that so I haven't checked this thread since Weds. Back home near Spokane again. Let me know if you come anywhere near Spokane on the way back East.

Having said that, if I were you I would go up to Vancouver, BC and drive up the Fraser River to Lake Louise, or maybe turn north to Jasper. The scenery over the spine of the Rockies is absolutely stunning!🙂
 
Originally posted by: Smokeball
Our 1st day in Seattle was a busy one.

We are staying about 9 miles south of the Space Needle (Downtown) and we drove north about 42 miles to get tickets to tour the Boeing plant later in the day. After getting tickets for the last tour of the day (and week), we drove back downtown and went up in the Space Needle.

That gave us a pretty good prespective where most things are located. After messing around there we had to drive back the Boeing plant for the 3:00 PM tour. That place is really something. The largest space under one roof in the world. :Q

It was really sort of sad to see so little work taking place. We toured the 747 assembly section and learned that they are only turning out 2 747s @ month where prior to the recession and 911 they were turning out 7. There are now 35,000 people that are layed off at that facility. The place really looked almost deserted. 🙁

Rather than fight the traffic again during the "go-home" period, we decided to visit a little festival and eat at a nice restaurant overlooking the ferry at Mukilteo. Those poor people had to wait over two hours to just get on the ferry to Whidbey Island. That is one hell of a commute. :Q It is really hard to believe that people go through that every day.

Wiz and I are getting together for breakfast in the morning. I'm really looking forward to that. 🙂
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Hey Greg,

You're out near DanC, have you met any ATer's on the trip yet?

 
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I didn't realize that you were in the Seattle area, Zeruty. 🙁

That's too bad for I would have loved to gotten together for a visit. Wiz came by the hotel and we chatted for several hours over coffee.

We have since headed south and are now in Las Vegas. Kathleen loves those casinos. /me shakes me head/

The trip has been a lot of fun though the driving has been a bit on the hard side. Right now we are thinking about heading back home. Really starting to miss the grandchildren. 😉
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