Day 14: Seattle

Today was our last day with Lekha, and we spent it by performing typical tourist tasks. Ingeniously, Kelly cooked up a plan to take the hotel’s free shuttle to the airport, from which we took the light rail downtown.

We ate breakfast at Pike Place Market, combining a few unusual pastries from Piroshky Piroshky and Le Panier before we walked around the city. Stopping by Olympic Sculpture Park, we clambered up to Kerry Park, which is a popular spot for its sweeping views of Seattle. The weather was a bit hazy, so we could only make out the silhouette of Mount Rainier in the background, but we did enjoy the grandness of the view. Afterwards, we walked to the Space Needle and took a cab to the Asian quarter of the city. We ate noodles at Chinatown, bingsu at the city’s unofficial Koreatown, and relaxed at Kobe Terrace of Japantown before seeing Lekha off for her ride back to Vancouver.

Meanwhile, Kelly and I returned to our hotel by public transport and drove to our next accommodation – a hotel in Kelso, Washington.  

St 112 miles, our drive today was shorter than usual, bringing our total to 4989.

The sign at Pike Place Market
A totem pole at Victor Steinbrueck Park
Two engineers behind a steel sculpture called the Split
Wake
Some kind of archway on a Seattle street
The Church of Scientology building
Doubtlessly expensive houses with immaculate gardens right above Kerry Park
The view from Kerry Park
The Seattle Space Needle
Neototems of Whales
International Fountain
The Space Needle again
A Japanese-style park gate
Another Japanese-style structure
The Three of us in Kerry Park

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