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Seattle: A fun trip to see a different part of the country

September 18, 2015

It’s time to start talking about Seattle.

In August, I had the chance to take a trip to Seattle, mainly for geocaching. It was also a chance to see other parts of the area, take a road trip to Portland, and catch a baseball game.

All in all, a pretty solid trip.

The Seattle Great Wheel was pretty cool to ride in.

The Seattle Great Wheel was pretty cool to ride in.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to sprinkle some posts about the trip on the blog. There will definitely be some geocaching posts, but there will also be some posts about other things I had the chance to do.

If you remember, I already did one about Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland. I also had a post about visiting Geocaching.com HQ as it was part of my Day Zero project.

There was so much more on the trip though. From seeing a different part of the country for the first time to walking through a 2.5-mile tunnel to good food to going up the space needle, it was a really cool visit. I’d like to visit there again one day if the opportunity came about.

Before getting into a few of the individual posts about specific things, allow me to give some of the overall “statistics:”

  • Three new states grabbing a geocache (Colorado, Oregon, Washington)
  • 73 geocaches found (includes five events)
  • Found the original caches stash plaque, visited geocaching HQ
  • Went to Voodoo Doughnuts
  • Went up in the Space Needle
  • Found the perfect spot for photos of the skyline of Seattle
  • Saw a minor league baseball game
  • Took the tour at Safeco Field (home of the Mariners)

The trip was interesting. It was my first time out to the western part of the United States. The flights were somewhat long and all the planes were full, which kind of stinks because it’s nice to be able to stretch out a little bit.

The weather was good, too. The one day it really rained in Seattle (historic, from what people were saying), it was the day of heading down to Portland, where it sprinkled a little bit at worst.

I got some pretty good photos, too. I used the phone, obviously, and had the main camera as well, which was nice. It was good to be able to take in some of the scenery.

The one regret was not going after one of the historic caches in the Portland area (weather worries, time etc.) as it will be hard to get that “placed month” in other spots. I’ll either get back out to Portland to do it or find one elsewhere.

Outside of that, it was a pretty fun time. I had the chance to meet some cool people, run into somebody I know who lives out there and find a lot of geocaches. I also really upped the step count for the weekend and found some great places to eat.

I’ll cover a bunch of these topics in future posts. It’s a trip I’m glad I made, though, as it’s a pretty cool area of the country.

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  1. Paul says

    September 18, 2015

    Glad you had fun. Now you need to come to the southwest. 😉
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    • P.J. says

      September 22, 2015

      That’s in the plans, Paul. I’d like to try and figure a way to hit most of the MLB teams out there in a trip!

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      • Paul says

        September 24, 2015

        There’s three within 150 miles of each other and you could possibly get a fourth or fifth or sixth in if you were willing to do a two or three day road trip. All in all, I’m within 6 hours of 6 MLB parks. You’re probably closer to more of them, but that’s actually a pretty good ratio for our west.
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        • P.J. says

          September 25, 2015

          Yeah, my plan would be to hit as many as I could over several days. The issue is hoping the schedule lines up so that they are all home at some point during that span, which is sometimes hard to plan. And then, of course, worrying about weather etc. I’d like to eventually hit all 30 stadiums (which means I need to get to Atlanta this year as it’s supposed to be the last year of Turner Field).

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