Regarding the Seattle end of thingsmrvelocipedeJune 12 2009, 05:47:13 UTC
Ooh!
Any time between April and late September is likely to be wonderful here. In mid-to-late August, we have our required four days of hot sticky Pittsburgh-summer weather, and it's generally rainier on the edges of spring and fall, but mostly the summers are relentlessly nice. Not sure about the passes through the Rockies, but the Professor and I didn't have any difficulties when we did the cross-country drive after the wedding.
You should see...gosh, I kind of don't know where to start. Pike Place Market. The Frye and the Henry. Some of the galleries in Pioneer Square, and some of the stuff along the waterfront, and Zeitgeist and Ladro and the tea place with the tiny manic ladies, and some gelato.
Oh, and the Space Needle and the Monorail, or course. Because this is the City of the Future.
Re: Regarding the Seattle end of thingsmrvelocipedeJune 13 2009, 03:08:16 UTC
By October it's getting into the beginning of the rainy season. Sometimes it's still clear, and warm, and wonderful, and sometimes it's chilly and drizzly. Which is beautiful, and full of soft soothing shades of grey, but less good for going out in. And definitely bad for visibility. You can go out on the deserted beaches, and only see ten yards out onto the water, instead of amazing distant-mountain panoramas.
I really like fall here, but it's definitely a gamble.
And, of course, spectacular mountain scenery. You should definitely see some of that. But really, it's hard to avoid the stuff, because it's everywhere.
Because I am a nerd, and because I grew up next to Chicago and then Pittsburgh, my idea of tourism equates to museum full of rocks and bones + museum full of paintings + museum full of levers and buttons to push/pull + aquarium/zoo/aviary/place of critters. So. I wouldn't worry about monuments and stuff; I am otherwise entertained.
Also do not discount the fact that I would be going there to visit people, yeah?
Lately 'tourism' has expanded to places to eat food that will not kill me + places that sell string. Books are pretty nice, but I'm on something of a book diet until another bookshelf magically appears in my house.
My car has room for a bike, too but I seriously need to go in to Free Ride and see if they can swap out my handle bars &c.
Hm, I should do a little investigation of food availability. Nearly every restaurant in Seattle specializes to a certain extent in seafood, what with being on the coast and all. Then there's lots of stuff like Thai, which is Right Out because of all the peppers.
There are some good bakeries, though, and the cheese counter at the Market.
I have a bad feeling that all the stuff I normally eat is deadly to you in some way. Perhaps it's time for me to practice my quiche-making skills.
Also, there's some kind of steampunk convention thingy happening in Seattle in the fall. October, maybe? I don't know that this is likely to affect your plans, but thought I should mention it just in case.
Yeah, I remember hearing something about that. And while my trip to CostumeCon rekindled some of my excitement for the genre, I'm not sure I want to eat-sleep-breathe steampunk for three days just yet.
Also, they will make me feel inferior because I don't know how to weld yet. Probably.
Right now the plan is to map out all the shows at American Shakespeare Center that my mom & I want to see, plan all of her business events around them and see what time is left over for me to drive cross-country for two weeks. (Now that I come to tell it to someone else, it seems like a flimsy and improbable kind of plan.)
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Any time between April and late September is likely to be wonderful here. In mid-to-late August, we have our required four days of hot sticky Pittsburgh-summer weather, and it's generally rainier on the edges of spring and fall, but mostly the summers are relentlessly nice. Not sure about the passes through the Rockies, but the Professor and I didn't have any difficulties when we did the cross-country drive after the wedding.
You should see...gosh, I kind of don't know where to start. Pike Place Market. The Frye and the Henry. Some of the galleries in Pioneer Square, and some of the stuff along the waterfront, and Zeitgeist and Ladro and the tea place with the tiny manic ladies, and some gelato.
Oh, and the Space Needle and the Monorail, or course. Because this is the City of the Future.
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Is after late-Septmber awful in some way or is it just not as nice?
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I really like fall here, but it's definitely a gamble.
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Also do not discount the fact that I would be going there to visit people, yeah?
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My car has room for a bike, too but I seriously need to go in to Free Ride and see if they can swap out my handle bars &c.
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There are some good bakeries, though, and the cheese counter at the Market.
I have a bad feeling that all the stuff I normally eat is deadly to you in some way. Perhaps it's time for me to practice my quiche-making skills.
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Also, they will make me feel inferior because I don't know how to weld yet. Probably.
Right now the plan is to map out all the shows at American Shakespeare Center that my mom & I want to see, plan all of her business events around them and see what time is left over for me to drive cross-country for two weeks. (Now that I come to tell it to someone else, it seems like a flimsy and improbable kind of plan.)
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