Pacific Northwest Trip: Seattle, WA

• Seattle, Washington
• Vancouver, British Columbia
• Butchart Gardens, Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC
• Olympia, WA and Washington State
• Tillamook, OR and the Pacific Coast
• Portland, Oregon

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Seattle Central Library

The Seattle Central Library is a neat place. The architecture kicks ass and was designed by Rem Koolhaas. It is a very cool house.

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A few shots of the building.

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Outside the building but under the gridwork.

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There are funky yellow-ish escalators.

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Kind of one of the main areas.

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My friend Neel on the escalator. Chronologically, this was a few days later...(more)

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There's another escalator that goes up to a few more floors.

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Alternatively, there are stairs too. Technically, I cheated a little on this...(more)

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A few from the top floor of the ceiling-windows.

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The view of downtown from the top.

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And looking down to the stacks below.

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Neel too a few pictures of me at the top.

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Another one of me at the highest (public) viewpoint in the building.

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Elsewhere, instead of yellow-ish escalators, there is a very, very deep red...(more)

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Everything on this floor is reall, really red.

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A porthole in the wall opens onto one of the yellow-ish escalators. Trippy.

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A board had Shakespearean magnetic poetry on it. I added a line using...(more)

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A semi-random picture of downtown Seattle looking towards the water.

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A few more shots of the outside of the library.

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A (semi) panorama shot of a weird building that has a tapered bottom that's...(more)




Pike Place Market and Vicinity

Pike Place Market is a large are that is a farmer's market and lots of other stuff, stores, shops, restaurants, that's by the water, Elliott Bay, that opens into Puget Sound. I wandered around there for a bit, both with Neel and my last day in Seattle.

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A view of Elliott Bay.

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Another from the continuing series of Frank Reacts to Signs. I don't know what...(more)

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A neat fountain.

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Pike Place Market from the back side.

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I don't know why there's a bronze pig theme, but I remembered seeing another...(more)

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The front side of Pike Place Market.

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And the other pig I mentioned. I have been on that pig before (in 2004).

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A shot of the inside of the market (holding the camera over my head). It was...(more)

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From a shop in Pike Place Market, I had a view of a tower crane. I took a...(more)

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A view of Elliott Bay, with a large ship there, mountains in the distance, and...(more)




Downtown Seattle

After Pike Place Market, I walked further north mostly following the water, eventually heading to the space needle.

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A guy on a lift was waiting, rather bored, while his co-worker refueld the...(more)

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Art!

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There was a herd of goats in a fenced in area by the highway. They were from...(more)

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A Frequently Asked Questions sheet on "Why Goats?"

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The goat had a lot of burs on its beard. I don't think it cared.

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Marijuana is legal in Washington State. This was a place called "Herban...(more)




The Space Needle

The Space Needle is probably the most recognizable and iconic structure in and of Seattle. The area around it has various musuem-like things, including the EMP (music and science-fiction) and a Chihuly Garden and Glass. I walked around the area a bit, though I didn't go inside any of the buildings.

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I had been walking north along the water and then started to head east, uphill....(more)

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There's a sculpture in the park by the Needle called Olympic Illiad. A bigger...(more)

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Information about Olympic Illiad

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The Chihuly Garden and Glass with some cool large glass sculptures.

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The base of the Space Needle with the elevators visible.

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A sort of greenhouse with Chihuly glass in it.

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Some real flowers in front of a poster of Chihuly glass flowers.

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Lots of pretty white flowers.

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Looking up at the Space Needle.

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A vertical panoramic shot of the Seattle Space Needle.





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