Seattle

Today is Wednesday, so we must be in Seattle!

We left Yellowstone on Tuesday morning bright and early for the return drive to East Glacier. As soon as we were out of town, we noticed that it snowed on some of the mountains tops.  We ended up putting 1600 miles on our rental car in the 6 days we had it.  Lucky for me, Than did a majority of the driving.  

the train to Seattle was about 2 hours late picking us up.  Since it was about 10 pm, we didn't get to see much of the scenery crossing the Rockies. i woke a few times because my ears were popping.  it was strange to wake up this morning and finding the landscape so changed-from the glaciers in the mountains to rolling, grass covered hills. 

 Eventually, the scenery again changed when we were crossing the Cascades.  That also included a few tunnels, one of them 7 miles long.  not much to see there.

it is really enjoyable watching the world go by, and all the different sorts of land formations.  the tracks leading into Seattle ran parallel to the Puget Sound, not to mentions many rivers, ranches and other interesting land formations.  i will have to read up on some of these odd land formations.  there's nothing like this in Pennsylvania.

we arrived here weary, so ended up only going to the Pike Place Market and then dinner at a downtown restaurant serving Vietnamese food.  Very good.   tomorrow we plan to paint the town red, or maybe just see some of the sights.  Friday morning we're back on the train, headed to Fresno.