Seattle impressions
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:28 pm
I did a quick visit to Seattle last weekend, and it was a lot different from around here.Did a bunch of driving and saw only one Vibe, in passing. There were thousands of PT cruisers though, everywhere I looked there was another one. Place was crawling with them. An infestation. What's up with that?You all must really like your coffee. Every quarter mile there was another little drive up expresso shop. Maybe if they sold bigger cups you could go a little farther down the road before you needed another one. All those coffee shops, and never a public restroom. You'd think with all those coffee shops the people would be really wired, but everyone seemed to take the speed limits seriously. Here on the east coast a speed limit is a minimum if you don't want to get rear ended by a semi. Out there, running up and down 5 and 405, speed limit 60 was like a speed that people just might try to get up to one of these days, but 50 was pretty nice, if you're in a hurry. I don't want to hear about how rainy it is out there. Rain for your all is what we on the east coast call "humidity" a little drizzle here and there. I've got a tropical storm's remnandts blowing over me tonight, supposed to get 6 inches of rain between noon and midnight, when you can do that out there then you can call it "rain".highlight of the trip was taking the ferry across the sound and getting out into the national forest. Beautiful country. worst part was the freakishly long lines to get through the ariport on the way home