The Green Goblin Blog

It's a small world after all. 95 mph winds in Seattle and my blog goes off-line. Sadly three people died in the storm so it's difficult to be overly light-hearted about it (I must be getting old).

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Huge red fire engines!

Steaming man-hole covers!

Fire hydrants!

Racing down back streets!

But where are all the cardboard boxes? Crash through a row of those green wheelybins and you would be history very quickly. There have to be cardboard boxes as otherwise the car chases on TV in Starsky and Hutch must have been FAKES!

Labels: Seattle

My first American pub :-)

After our meal at the Space Needle, we met up with Aaron Grady and Neil "MVP" Pike with the intention of chatting over a few beers. Sue was flagging fast so we dropped her off at the hotel and went cruising in Aaron's Land Rover. The first place was sold out and required ID anyway - oops, no passport on me. So after a quick trip to the hotel safe it was on to the Barca for my first alcoholic drink in the US that wasn't bought in a hotel or restaurant. Nice place and would have stayed for a while - definitely beyond a couple of pints of Samuel Adams - if my poor body hadn't started to tire. Pah.

Labels: Beer, Seattle

Highlight of Seattle #1

As a kid I used to have a model of a DUKW landing craft and here was a chance to ride in the real thing (admittedly converted to take civilians and not in camouflage colours).

 

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