Amtrak Adventure - Day 25 - Seattle

Day 25 brought rain. Given it was our first major wet day in the whole trip, we couldn’t really complain, but of course it had to happen on the day when we planned to visit the Olympic Sculpture Park, an outdoor exhibition near the river. 

We abandoned our first attempt to get there in favor of tea and donuts in the Top Pot Café on 6^th Avenue and our second by dropping back into Pike Place Market, each time getting a little closer to our destination before the skies opened up again.

Amtrak Adventure - Day 24 - Sunday in Seattle

Day 24 started with a trip up to the top of Colombia Center, the tallest building in Seattle, to get a bird's eye view of the city. Seattle's Great Wheel looks more like a satellite dish than a ferris wheel 175 feet tall.

Amtrak Adventure - Day 23 - Portland to Seattle

Day 23 and we were on the move again. This time from Portland to Seattle, a mere four hour journey on the Amtrak Cascades. The scenery out of Portland was mostly industrial at first and then farmland, not particularly interesting until we reached the expansive Tacoma Narrows which has twin suspension bridges across it, which when they were first built were the third longest in the world.

A little later, we got our first awesome glimpse of the snow-covered Mt. Rainier.