I thought the first couple posts here could be just some scenery pictures of the city I (or people who visited me) have taken. Then it will be mostly just updates. I plan on weekly updates to the site, so you can bug me if I'm not keeping up my end of the bargain.
Seattle's favorite mountain, Mount Rainier as seen from Adrienne & Jessica's plane.
Seattle from the ferry boat to Bainbridge Island.
Coming back from Bainbridge with mountains in the background.
Let's start at the beginning. Here are a few pictures from when Dad and I drove out to Seattle from Indy. It was 2,600 miles and took us 3.5 days. We drove mostly straight through, but stopped at some fun stuff along the way. Here are the highlights of that trip. How I came to be a Seattle Hoosier.
Before the trip. Look how low the car is sitting! There wasn't room for so much as one more bag. It was packed tight.
My dad at Uranus (world's largest solar system model) in Pekin, IL.
Field of Dreams in Dyersville, IA was probably my favorite part of the trip. That was really fun.
Just outside of the Badlands in South Dakota.
I think this is where they filmed the moon landing. The Badlands were awesome.
More Badlands.
We went to Wall Drug in Wall, SD. I rode a Jackolope (which they seem to be obsessed with).
Dad belongs on Rushmore (also at Wall Drug).
The real Rushmore.
Devil's Tower, Wyoming was pretty cool, but not that tall. Look at how far I squished it down.
This is Big Horn mountain. The Hyundai Accent had some serious issues with this part of the trip. It smelled like burning and we had to pull over several times. It might have been worse than the Rockies.
But man, it was cool when we got to the top. Driving through the mountains was so much cooler than I thought it would be.
We got to Yellowstone that night. It was cool, but I didn't think the scenery was as good as some of the other places we went.
The cool part of Yellowstone was the wildlife. We saw a huge group of elk in a clearing. There were probably 20 of them. I really wanted to see a bear, but we never did. However, we ran across this big guy. He was just strolling across the road. Didn't seem to care about us at all. I'm pretty sure I could have ridden him, but we needed to get back on the road.
The next day we saw another one and I got close enough to pet him!
Then we were on the last leg of the trip. We hit Ol' Faithful. It was cool, but not as impressive as I'd hoped. Worth doing though. Then totally exhausted and sick of sitting in the car, we decided to drive straight through to Seattle without any more scenic detours.
Mt. Rainer, we're almost there!
And we finally made it. 2,600 miles in 3.5 days, but it wasn't wasted. It was an awesome trip and something everyone should experience.
So this is my first blog post from my iPhone. This blog is to be used to post images from my Seattle experiences. Examples would be interesting buildings, cool sculptures, street art, grafitti, etc. Most of these will be from my evening constitutionals. Because this will be set up for mobile blogging, please excuse the inevitable typos.
-Tim