I am making a very brief pilgrimage to the Seattle area with a couple of friends to see Jason Webley. We will be there Wednesday and Thursday. If anyone wants to meet up and perhaps buy me a drink since I'm travelling on absolutely no money, let me know. PM me and I'll give you my contact information.

Ohgodohgodohgod. I just found out that my friends who are going with me on this trip are forcing me to go to the actual coast. We're driving to the -ing beach on Thursday. I've never touched salt water before, and I have this irrational fear of the ocean. This might not end well. :/

Haha. First time in the sea is sure to be awesome Enjoy!

Awesomely horrifying, perhaps! My grandma used to tell me about getting stung by jellyfish. My dad used to tell me about how, when he was stationed in Hawaii prior to being shipped off to Vietnam, he would see surfers hit their heads on the seafloor and drown, get crushed by massive waves, or, once, get bitten by a shark. I think I will stay well on the beach, away from the water.

No massive waves in Seattle, no sharks, no deadly jellyfish, no bad currents. Water is cold as hell.

We aren't sticking to the Sound-- which, by the way, has the largest octopi in the world-- we're going to the actual coast. I have no idea -where- on the actual coast, but we're going to be on the real ocean.

I live in Seattle


There are PLENTY of jelly fish, and as she said, home to some of the largest octopi in the world.

Exactly. It's terrifying.

If it's clear skies for you though, like it's looking it might be. There are FEW things I've seen in this world that match the beauty of a sunrise/sunset in Washington, especially if it's by Mt. Rainer which is VERY visible from Seattle if the skies are clear.

I love it, it's why I'm staying here after the military. I wish I could offer to meet up with ya because I've met some pretty cool Achaea people, BUT I'm in tactical training the next 2 weeks and unfortunately it's only on weekdays, should of came on Saturday .

Aren't the jellyfish mostly harmless? At least you don't have to worry about box jellyfish and irukandji.

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I am never coming to Seattle.

Proceed.

I lived in Daytona Beach for 10 years, and I can honestly say the ocean is over rated. Fish spawn, - and eat in there... The rip currents suck, and jellyfish annoy the hell out of me.
Now I live in Washington... octopi you say? Screw that.
We should all get plastered on dry land and laugh at the people trying to swim in there.

The weather was gorgeous, and the sunset was amazing. Very rarely do I get to see the sun set over -actual- mountains...I think it's the Olympic range visible west of Seattle, right? All we have over here is the glorified hill known as Mount Spokane, and the rest of the southern Selkirks. The Selkirks don't get interesting until you get up toward the Canadian border.

I love Seattle, but God, is it expensive. We found out that hotels in summertime are ridiculously expensive, so we ended up sleeping in the back of our driver's Pacifica for three days. The concert was amazing, but I can't say anything positive about the venue. The Triple Door is very nice, but not to people who buy the last few standing room tickets. The waitstaff was rude-- even aggressive-- to anyone who was unable to reserve a table. It took forever to get drinks; said drinks were incredibly weak even after a two dollar tip, and to the little douchebag of a busboy who scolded me for -brushing- against an unoccupied table when trying to find the restroom after intermission: Go - yourself. Fortunately, the show made up for most of the venue's shortcomings.

Thursday, the day after the show, we spent a grand total of $40 on parking. We walked from the Seattle Center, where we got to see the EMP/SFM, the Space Needle, and the Science Center (and managed to nearly bankrupt our funds in the process), down the piers along the water to the Aquarium, back up through Pike Place Market, then wound back and forth through the streets of downtown Seattle all the way up to Queen Anne Hill, where we finally found a 7-11 so I could use an ATM (for some reason, Seattle was not fond of my Spokane Federal Credit Union debit card). We went back down to a parking garage on Vine to retrieve the car, exhausted-- we probably covered 30 miles or so in the twelve hours we spent walking around, and those hills are unforgiving. I thought Freya hill here in Spokane was bad. Still, for being a pudgy chain-smoker, I managed to hold my own well enough.

We decided it would probably be in our best interest to start back for Spokane after last call. Our driver doesn't drink, and the rest of us had to work today. We struck out toward Spokane, figuring that there would be a Denny's or something in North Bend. There wasn't. We hit up the drive-through at McDonald's, much to the chagrin of our vegan traveling companion, and spent the night in the parking lot. We started home around 8:45 this morning and got home around 1:00, giving me exactly two hours before I had to leave for work. Needless to say, I'm exhausted.

It's a shame I couldn't meet up with anyone, but since I work retail, my weekends tend to be in the middle of the week. Still, hopefully some other time!

Sounds like an adventure, even if parts of it did stink. Seattle can be expensive and the Pacific NW isn't exactly the best places for beaches anyways. I'd rather eat seafood off a pier or something. I used to live in Seattle and then moved up to Bellingham, WA for a few years. If I was still around over there, I might have met up for drinks and chat.

I'm on the east coast now, in a boring college town. If you're ever over here, Philly and NYC are awesome.

The only thing that really sucked was the way we were treated at the Triple Door. I'm used to being just a bit destitute, so the lack of cash and the sleeping in the car didn't bother me much. I guess if I lived in a bigger city, I'd be used to being treated poorly for my assumed economic situation on the grounds that I wasn't able to reserve a table at a dinner theatre, too.

So you're in Spokane? That's not too far, I've thought about doing a bike ride out that way from Seattle before summer is over. We might have another chance at least. We should do a Seattle meet, Erhon is in this area too.

I -am- in Spokane. You'd only ride your bike out this way if you were a masochist, however. Not only is there nothing between here and Seattle, there is nothing once you arrive here, either. Our city slogan may be, "Near nature, near perfect", but our version of nature pales in comparison to what you have in the Cascades. I already miss it.

Yeah, your side of the mountains in WA is the part WA tourism never shows

I think you're pretty much spot-on. That was my impression of my trip to Spokane once too. It was a boring uneventful trip over the mountains and through the woods to absolutely nothing with not much waiting for us.

I miss WA though, it's totally different from PA in so many ways.