Seattle

7/1 -- 7/3/2022

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Seattle, a city on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, is surrounded by water, mountains and evergreen forests.  Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska. Growth after World War II was partially due to the Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing.  Today, it’s home to a large tech industry, with Microsoft and Amazon headquartered in its metropolitan area.  Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities.

Getting there ...

This trip was originally planned before the pandemic to attend Joe Hisaishi's concert in April 2020.  The concert was delayed for more than 2 years, and the trip plan was extended from a weekend concert to a 2-week vacation including Mount Rainier and Wrangell-St. Elias.   Our flight arrived in Seattle before noon, and we took the light rail (officially called "1 Line", or formally Central Link) to Seattle downtown.  After checked in to our hotel (it's great that our room was already ready at 12:30PM), we walked a block to a famous Taiwanese dumpling restaurant Din-Tai-Fung (鼎泰豐) to have a nice lunch as our first meal for our trip.

   

 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

   

 

7/2 (Day 2) ... 

   

   

   

   

   


   

 

 

 

 

7/3 (Day 3) ...

After lunch,  we walked a little bit around the waterfront and to the Gum Wall.  Since it started to rain hard, we decided to retire back to our hotel and had a relaxed afternoon (e.g., watching Netflix, playing games, etc.)...

7/4 (Day 4) ...

We checked out our hotel before 8AM, and took the light rail back to the Sea-Tac Airport to pick up our rental car.  It's time to move to our next destination:  Mount Rainier

 


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