Sunday June 14, 2015

A short ride today into Seattle. We are staying in a hostel right down town.

As we were coming into the industrial side of the Town we noted a marked difference between Seattle and Portland, very few cycle lanes.

Seattle is the home of Starbucks, Microsoft and is currently building a large oil rig about to be shipped to Alaska. There are a lot of protests about this rig and a couple recently locked themselves to the rig.

The hostel is on Pike Street, opposite the famous Pike Market. After we had settled in to the hostel we went to explore the downtown area.

Seattle is a big, dirty city and a lot of panhandlers. Seattle was the city where the grunge music scene started, I can see why.

We were thinking of staying an extra night, but decided to head out tomorrow. We will see the Space Needle on the way out. We have secured warmshowers hosts for the next three nights.

This is the first hostel that we have stayed in that has Queen sized bunk beds. Our room has 2 bunk beds which could conceivably house 8 people. There were only five people in our room, the other three people had their own beds.   The showers were all newly renovated and very clean. The hostel had a free pasta dinner and free breakfast, so we had a cheap stay in Seattle. As dinner was served, they asked for volunteers to help with the clean-up. Ralf and I and two young girls volunteered, we were told we could have our dinner first, instead of having to wait in line.

We were in bed early, although tomorrows ride is only going to be about 60 ks (ish).

Sorry Seattle, you didn’t impress us.