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Originally Posted by hwlester
I agree. I went to Portland several years ago on business and when I found out one of my wife's conferences was there a couple of years ago, I tagged along with her. I love that area. I'll actually be tagging along with her to Seattle for another conference in late February, early March. Never been to Seattle before.  |
Seattle's great; but expect cold, rainy days that time of year. Be sure to visit
Pike Place Market and watch them
throw fish. It amuses the tourists. Depending on how much free time you have and the weather, there are lots of cool places to go and neat things to do.
Seattle has a metro population of about 4 million people and is a major shipping port, located about 100 miles south of the Canadian border. It sits between
Puget Sound on the west and
Lake Washington on the east. Snow-capped mountains to the west (
Olympics) and east (
Cascades) further frame the city.
Mt Rainier, a 14,411 foot snow-capped active volcano, looms on the SE horizon 54 miles away.
I'm obviously prejudiced, but it's an outdoor paradise - mountains, forests, lakes, rivers, and ocean - that's Seattle; and that's why I live here
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