UPDATED: February 5, 2022
This is the second of a
series of posts dealing my fifth trip to Seattle and second of two trips that
year. I’ve made minor corrections to these reports. Also, I’ve added additional
thoughts with the hindsight of three years later or to add further
clarification. I’ve decided to delete
references to an outdated contest which probably wouldn’t be of too much
interest to people who don’t know me.
Took a bit of time to
get to sleep: there's a light directly above my bunk that only gets turned off
just after 11 (bright and I can feel the heat from it), the sound of people
talking travels, and while I'm used to car traffic, the sound of train traffic
is a bit new to me. But I shall
persevere.
[NOW: As per my last
post I was in Hostel Seattle, located at the time in Ballard]
Today: back to Everett
and Lynnwood plus an eve parade which isn't the Torchlight parade.
[NOW: The above was
written in the morning; the rest I wrote in the evening.]
They do have a partial
breakfast before 8 so I grabbed a bite before heading to the bus downtown;
chatted a bit with a guy from Hong Kong heading to Vancouver BC.
[NOW: Can’t recall exact bus number, but it was
King County Metro Transit.]
Entered the downtown
transit tunnel and put some more money on my ORCA (transit) card. A guy was hovering over me to see if the
machine was working, occasionally chiming in, so I finally politely told him i
was uncomfortable and he left.
I then visited the Washington
State Convention Center then Freeway Park, where I learned that there's
renovations on the waterfalls there which is why they weren't on in May and
still aren't on.
I visited Pike Place Market
and bought a magazine from the newsstand.
I visited Borders but didn't buy anything.
[NOW: First and Pike News and Borders are now closed.]
I took a bus to
Everett Station and from there Everett Mall (visited Sam Goody's), Everett Mall
Plaza (across the street from Everett Mall; bought a DVD at Half Price Books
there), then back to the mall proper where I visited Borders (bought 2 DVDs and
book), Comic Stop (no purchase), Sam Goody's again (bought DVD), then took a
bus back to Everett Station.
[NOW: The bus to
Everett was the 510/Sound Transit. There’s
a few buses run by Everett Transit that go to/from Everett Mall. Sam Goody’s is closed, and both Comic Stop and Borders are defunct.]
In downtown Everett I
bought a comic from Everett Comics for a buck then son after to a bus to
Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood.
[NOW: Everett Comics has moved. It was either a 201
or 202/Community Transit.]
There I visited
Borders (no purchase), FYE (ditto), Charley's Grilled Subs (ate lunch outside
and watched pigeons and another bird I didn't recognize fight over food). I explored the fancy outdoor area then walked
to a nearly Barnes & Noble (no purchase, though I was tempted by a
hardcover).
[NOW: Alderwood Mall has a nice outdoor section as
you enter, including a horse statue. Once again, Borders is defunct.]
Between walking and a
bus made it to Lynnwood’s Big Plus (bought Vanilla Coke) Half Price Books
(bought a DVD), Re-Read Books, Blockbuster (no purchases latter two places),
then Edmonds.
[NOW: the bus was Community Transit. Re-Read Books became Spangler Books in Edmonds before closing. Blockbuster
is now closed. Edmonds is right by it. Given the next stop below, I’m sure I
dipped into Edmonds there, returned to Lynnwood, and took a couple of buses to
a different section of Edmonds.]
I visited World of
Collections Comics (no purchase) plus a Blockbuster that was there in May but no
longer.
I took a bus to a
place in Aurora Ave, Shoreline, where another guy and I tried to connect to a
358 that took off on us. Another arrived
and I took it to Aurora in Seattle.
[NOW: The 358 bus is King County Metro
Transit.]
There between walking
and bus visited Blockbuster (the one I was going to visit in northeast Seattle
last trip but caught a bus instead), K-Mart (bought a pop), Aurora Pawns, Pawn
X-Change (no purchase either; in between I passed a cemetery and cooled down a
bit due to a sprinkler).
[NOW: Blockbuster, KMart, and Aurora Pawns are now closed. if still around, the Pawn X-Change is now a Cash America.]
I visited the Elephant
on Aurora which was still fenced off but no longer covered so the renovations
must be almost finished.
[NOW: The renovations
are now complete.]
On 85th I tried to
visit Book Wearhouse (I think the whole franchise is gone), then visited Squirrel Buy & Sell (supposed to be closed for the sale but was open), Dreamstrand
Comics next door (supposed to be open but was closed for the day). On Greenwood Ave walked/bussed to Balderdash
Books (open this time but no purchase), Island Video (existed but closed),
Santoro's Books (no purchase), Walgreen's (bought more vanilla Coke).
[NOW: Squirrel Buy & Sell,
Balderdash Books, Island Video, Santoro's Books, and that Walgreen's are now gone.]
Greenwood was having a
parade so I watched that starting around 6.
Lots of candy thrown; didn't take any but could have gotten enough to
feed me the rest of the trip.
Highlights: during the first lull a guy wandered along the route talking
on a cell phone, looking like he was part of the parade; stunt police bikers;
Pat Cashman (whom some of you may remember from the comedy series Almost
Live!), clowns, dancing horses (real horses), a pirate ship that shot a cannon.
[NOW: I’ve since
learned something interesting about the clowns at the Seafair parade, but I’ll
save that for the summer 2010 and 2011 reports.]
Due to the parade the
next bus I needed was delayed. I found
myself near a sketchy pub and finally decided to carry own, thus missing the
bus. As it turns out I may have caught
the same connecting bus after all.
[NOW: I took the 5 bus/King Count Metro Transit and then
transferred to another in Ballard -45?; also King County Metro Transit]
I ate at a pizzeria
before finally returning to the hostel.
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