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A long driving day was ahead of us, making a distance of around 600 km. We left Ellensburg, WA in the morning and hit the interstate, passed through the Idaho panhandle to get into Missoula, MT in the evening. On … Continue reading
The tour started in the early morning; Kelly our tour leader picked us (a total of eight from the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Germany) up at the airport and we were heading South – with the first destination closeby -Mt. Rainier National Park.
We got into the park – after stops at a supermarket, a REI (outdoor shop), a liquor store and a gas station – around lunch time. We did check out the visitor center, did a walk nearby to then move on to a trailhead for a short hike – before continuing to Ellensburg (WA), where we stayed for the night.
I flew up from San Francisco to Seattle, arrived there around midday.After dumping my luggage in the hotel (literally on the other side of the street from Seattle Tacoma Airport) I made my way by commuter train into town. Here I changed to the monorail – a left-over of the 1962 world fair, built to move the masses from downtown to the Space Needle – now also my destination.
Taking the monorail had a Jetson feeling … back from the atomic age, with endless and risk-free (remember … duck and cover) energy for everyone … and arriving at the Space Needle kind of confirmed that feeling … amazing – considering that this is how they – 50 years back – pictured us living today.
After coming down again from the Space Needle I visited the nearby Science Fiction and Music museum (EMP … Experience Music Project) before making my way back to downtown (for a tea at Starbucks in the city where Starbucks actually got started) and – later on – the shores of Elliott Bay.
