Sounds great, glad to here it all helped you feel better. Thanks for telling us about it!
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I’m looking forward to trying this out in 5-6 years, if it gets approved and funded! 
With so much snow on the ground and in the forecast, I might not make it to Québec or Halifax this year! 
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Heading to Seattle for a long weekend 14 March, just because. Only plan is to drive around and look at terrain features.
Anything cool happening?
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I’m also planning a trip with my partner. Will be going to the Denver area for 4 days from April 21st through the 24th, don’t have anything planned at the moment besides having a reservation at Casa Bonita. Currently thinking of getting a hotel reservation or Airbnb near Golden, but I’m open to recommendations for places and things to do as long as it’s not terribly far.
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I’ll let the Seattle folks chime in here, I think @ficuswhisperer may be able to help?
When I visit Seattle, my short list includes touristy things like Pike Place Market and the Space Needle area but also more local stuff like the Wooden Boat Museum at South Lake Union and going to the waterfront at Discovery Park or Alki Beach.
Depending on what else you like to do, there’s great hiking and kayaking close by. It’s worth taking the ferry over to Bainbridge Island and walking around the quaint town there.
If you’re near SeaTac at all, there’s an amazing meadery in Tukwila called Oppegard Meadery. The owner Jon is very cool and makes the best commercial meads I’ve ever tasted. His shop/meadery is modest but he’s very generous with his expertise. Welcome — Oppegaard Meadery
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(@Axolotl since I replied to the wrong post.)
Thanks for pinging me. I’m not an outdoorsy person so I’m not a good recommender of things that involve much effort on that front. But, if you’re into scenery, we’ve got your back.
Mt. Rainier, Olympic National Park, Whidbey Island, and many other beautiful locales are all within an hour or two of Seattle proper. Leavenworth is a kind of neat tourist trap and the drive there is pretty nice. Weyerhaeuser (yes, the paper company) has a really great bonsai museum.
If you’re into Twin Peaks at all, or just want some natural beauty check out Snoqualmie Falls to see the iconic waterfall and “Great Northern Hotel” (Salish Lodge). The “sheriff station” is also close by at the DirtFish rally school. Then drive a short ways out to North Bend, eat at the “Double R Diner” (Twede’s, where they do indeed have very good coffee and cherry pie, plus lots of Twin Peaks memorabilia) and check out many filming locations around there.
Gas Works Park in Seattle is an iconic place to go, and there’s lots of pretty neighborhoods to explore there like Queen Anne. Be warned many neighborhoods in Seattle have very narrow streets combined with lots of hills.
Fair warning. Downtown Seattle is in a deep decline right now with lots of open air drug use and homelessness, and many scammers harassing tourists. Keep that in mind if you have anything planned there. It’s not what I would necessarily call unsafe, but it can be unpleasant.
Worth noting that Portland and Vancouver BC are only a few hours either direction as well.
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Speaking for Portland, I’d only make a side trip from Seattle to here if you had already burned a week exploring the Emerald City and environs.
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Just in case you are taking a train to Paris
500kg apparently.
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