Moving to Alaska: Day Sixteen

I am a tourist. Ryan is taking me around town and showing off the city. Well, eventually. First thing I did was catch up some blogging, photo uploads and worked on my logbook. But once morning rush hour died down we caught the bus into downtown and started wandering. I am not sure I remember everyplace we went but we walked a lot of miles and saw a lot of things. We went to the Boring Museum. It is a little more exciting than it sounds. They are currently in the process of drilling a big tunnel to replace an existing old road. However, the huge machine digging the hole is stuck. And has been for a while. So right now they are working on getting to the machine so they can fix it and start digging again. The museum is about the status and goal of the dig.

We did an Underground Tour. That is a very uniquely Seattle experience. Apparently Seattle was built on VERY hilly land and they had lots of issues with tides, sewage and water flow in the early days to the point they actually started filling in streets to change the slope. So you have many building in the city what actually have a "first floor" that is completely underground. Yet you can tell it used to be the street front since they have window frames and doors and such. It is cool to think about the fact that there was fill dirt from 10 to 32 feet added in some places!

We walked along the water front. It was pretty much that, walking along the water and going through a couple of parks. One is a sculpture garden, and I still don't like or get most modern art, especially sculpture. I don't understand how they pay someone to randomly weld chunks of metal together and call it "Experiencing the World" (made up name, but proves the point). It is just a random assembly of metal, nothing more.

We walked over through Freeway Park (a park built OVER I-5 in downtown. We walked to the Space Needle. We walked to Chinatown. We walked through some building with art inside that Ryan had previously found so wanted to show me. Notice a trend? Ryan walks, a lot, so he had a lot to show. It was a long, tiring day but I am sure I have seen more in Seattle than most people ever do.

Start: Seattle, Washington

Stop: Seattle, Washington

0 Miles Driven

~13.1 Miles Walked
1 Letterboxes Found

0 Letterboxes Not Found

1 Letterboxes Planted

Pictures will be posted on Facebook in this album (and the link will be included in all future posts for this trip):

Moving to Alaska Photos