Seattle–the evening we arrived

Just back from the best Mexican meal we’ve ever had. Found a great and very popular cantina 5 mins walk from the hotel. Hotel is in a great location, a couple of minutes walk from the bus into town. Very comfortable with freshly brewed, good coffee available all day. Should we just stay at the hotel for the day to have good coffee?

The flight from LA to Seattle was in a small plane, 2 seats on either side of the central isle, so of course one of us had the window seat. Thanks Gill. The ride was very smooth and it was clear for most of the way and we had some great views. We were surprised to see a lot of mountains with snow, hadn’t really thought about what we expected. There were some individual mountains that stood up a bit like Mt Fuji. Seattle has a great link train service from the airport to the city and we used it for one long stop, then changd to the bus that dropped us off at the stop mentioned above.

It’s now 9:30 and starting to get dark. Time for a shower and a good sleep. Tomorrow we pick up a hire car for the day and will visit the Boeing factory, north of Seattle, for a tour, then back to the northern edge of town to look at wooden boats and the general maritime area, then on a boat for a 3:30 cruise through a lock, past houses on water and back to the wharf in the western edge of town. Public bus back to the start of the one way cruise then back to the hotel and drop the car back the following morning.

Things are feeling pretty good and impressions of Seattle are good already.