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Leaving Friday and taking the next week off: cure for the cubic workaday. James is being repositioned from Georgia to Anchorage (all the rage) and I get to share the Cleveland-Seattle leg of the trip.
Learned a lunchtime lesson in manual transmission to prepare for our vehicular wrangling, a-automatic. (a being the negative particle.) (a being, the negative particle.)
Fly back here Sunday, pre-Independence.
I'll have a few days on my own in Seattle. Loose plan is to spend some Rainier days hiking, or if really rainy, perhaps buzz around citywise. I've cut way down to one coffee/day (was killing me; now filling the gaps with T) so should be spotready to spin.
I'm all ears for suggestions: active attractions, attractive actions, cafés, soundwave-weaving havens, natural wonders, bridges under which to sleep...
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Natural Wonders Suggestion:
Kelly and I were in Olympic National Park 3 weeks ago. I highly recommend it, especially rainforest and wilderness beach sections. Most mountain trails were still snowed in at that time, but maybe it has melted off by now.
~jon
-- jgellin (June 24, 2005 9:35 AM)
For hiking, I'd second both Mt. Rainier and the Olympic Peninsula. If you're going on a weekend, I'd steer you more toward the Olympics.
In the city: Elliot Bay Books, The Smith Tower observation deck is 1/2 the price of the Space Needle, the new Public Library, kayaking on Lake Union, Discover Park.
If you'd like a tour or lunch, let me know.
-- Jeff (June 25, 2005 6:48 PM)